Something that has been bothering me since 3x05 is the fact that people assume Arielle died when that was obviously not the case in the slightest.

We see the first scene with Rupert, and all of them interacting and we get a kiss scene between now married Quentin and Arielle. Obviously it’s been a few years, the actor playing Rupert is four, so they’ve probably been together at least five years.

However, if you’ll notice, when Quentin kisses Arielle he looks so happy. He’s smiling and content, but Arielle looks mildly uncomfortable, and she smiles like she’s upset.

The next scene is Quentin crying by himself… There’s no dead body, no sign of Arielle being sick or anything of the sort. But most importantly, Rupert isn’t crying. If his mother had died, they would have told the little boy and explained it to him, he would be in mourning. Instead, he seemed to be just casually playing on his own while Eliot comforts Quentin.

Because Arielle left Quentin, she left him and their son for whatever reason. I know most of you might say that she wouldn’t have left Rupert if that were the case but you would be surprised.

Arielle probably wasn’t happy with Quentin (perhaps because there was a difference in her relationship with him and Eliot’s, but that’s up in the air) and she wanted to start over. She didn’t want to take Quentin’s son from him, didn’t want to take away the thing that came so naturally to both Eliot and Quentin and maybe didn’t come as naturally to her.

So she left, maybe with a note or maybe she just disappeared. But she didn’t die, I can promise you that.

