Nancy and the Drew Crew investigate a mysterious death which also leads to new details regarding the Aglaeca curse.
Tropes:
- Badass Boast: "I'm not fine, but I will be fine, because I'm George freaking Fan."
- Book Ends: Season 1 opened with Lucy on the bluff before it showed her falling to her death. Season 1 ends with Nancy foreseeing her own premature Like Mother, Like Daughter death.
- Cliffhanger: Thanks to COVID-19, the season ends with the Drew Crew seeing visions of their deaths. It was planned to resolve this, but the producers agreed that it was ultimately better this way.
- Forbidden Love: George calls Ryan out specifically for bringing her into an abusive relationship while she was 17, manipulating her and lying to her and causing her extreme difficulty in her current relationship with Nick, who she can't even hold hands with in public. This doesn't seem to overlap with Ephebophile or Jailbait Taboo because there's no indication that Ryan has a thing for underage girls. It's just that he used this and the status of his marriage to manipulate George into keeping it secret.
- Foreseeing My Death: The Drew Crew receive visions of their own deaths: Nick and George drown in Nick’s car, Ace is hung from a chain in the restaurant, Bess burns alive in the mansion, and Nancy falls off the bluffs, echoing Lucy’s death.
- Foreshadowing: The handprint on Owen's window is clear, but has no fingertips. They were burned off when Joshua was electrocuted.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Owen refused to be used to lure Nancy in, so Joshua killed him.
- Shout-Out: Ace's vision of his death is of himself hanging on a meat hook like in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
- Thicker Than Water:
- Ryan starts trying to forge a relationship with Nancy, referring to him as the father to her daughter, but she's not having it.
- Nancy successfully calls on blood with Josh, who realizes with horror that he almost killed an innocent man, did kill an innocent woman, and almost killed his sister's daughter.
- Wham Line: Once they learn they have a human killer to find, they have to find who he is and where.Nancy: Patrice? Where's Joshua?
- What the Hell, Hero?: George calls out Ryan for sleeping with her when she was only 17.
- White Sheep: Everyone in the Marvin family seems to be a backstabbing jerk or self-absorbed narcissist only interested in sucking up to the Evil Matriarch, but everyone seems to love Owen, who never showed those tendencies.
