Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Grosse Pointe Garden Society season 1, episode 11.We finally know who died on Grosse Pointe Garden Society and no one could've predicted quite how it all went down. Season 1, episode 11 takes place on the night of the gala, with Birdie, Catherine, Brett, and Alice all dealing with their own personal crises. Things don't begin to take shape until recently delivered test results seem to confirm that Patty killed Alice's dog, and she plots her revenge. The group steals Patty's new quilt and prepare to throw it in a gas-powered wood chipper — so not the worst thing they could do.

Keith shows up to confront Alice about the rage text she sent Patty, and are those green sneakers he's wearing? The group gets into a scuffle over the quilt, and Keith refuses to let it go once it's caught in the machine. When it's finally free, the effort forces him backwards, and he is impaled by the gardening tools listed in the show's early episodes. As we know from the future timeline, the group opts to bury the body, rather than report what was actually an accident. How is Alice going to explain this one to her husband?

After screening the episode, I chatted with showrunners Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs about Grosse Pointe Garden Society season 1 episode 11's major reveal and where we go from here.

Bans And Krebs Teases More Twists In Grosse Pointe Garden Society's Remaining Episodes

"There's more information that we don't have that is the opening of the next episode."

ScreenRant: There are still a couple of episodes left in the season, so what made you choose this one to finally reveal who the body was?

Jenna Bans: We knew we didn't want to keep it till the very, very end.

Bill Krebs: Everyone assumes it's going to be the finale, or worse, they think that we're going to tease it and then not quite reveal it and take it into a season 2. And so we knew from the beginning we did not want to do any of that because as avid TV watchers, ourselves, we hate that too.

Jenna Bans: We have 13 episodes, which felt like a lot in of a show like this. So we didn't want to take it to 13. We were dancing between 10 and 11.

Bill Krebs: Early on, we looked at it like a movie thriller. We're at the end of Act Two, you think that everything's over, and the killer's been caught. But then in Act Three, all of a sudden, "The call's coming from inside the house, we got the wrong person," or "It's not what we thought." And so we really wanted it to be a three-parter finale in a sense where you get information in 11 that carries into 12, and then you have another twist in 13.

At what point during the show did you know that Keith was going to die? Was there ever any debate over who the body was?

Jenna Bans: No. We knew before we did the show because we love the idea that there are all of these "villains" in the pilot. There's Connor and Misty and Gary, people who deserve it. People you kind of want to see dead.

Bill Krebs: Yeah, they have it coming.

Jenna Bans: And Keith just doesn't. And we like the idea that sometimes life just works that way. The people who have it coming don't always get their just desserts.

Bill Krebs: Also, if it's someone who deserved it too much, it kind of lets our characters off the hook. It lets their conscience off the hook. The moral quandary of it—it alleviates all of that. And so we wanted this to be something that weighed on them and carries forward into the future. Otherwise, it's like, "Oh, well we got rid of that and people celebrate it." Then there's nothing to add to the tension going forward in their own lives. And so we really wanted that to be part of it.

Jenna Bans: And we also loved what it did to Alice in of her relationship with her mother-in-law, Patty, and her husband, Doug. It's obviously going to cause a lot of turmoil going forward.

Bill Krebs: She's going to be reminded of it every time she looks at him.

Patty May Not Have Killed Alice's Dog

"These answers can become shaded differently once we catch up to present day and there's different context."

I love that it was an accident. It almost makes it worse in a way, because if they had just told the truth, maybe things would've been okay.

Bill Krebs: And that's sort of what we wanted. We kept saying from the beginning, they were the architects of their own demise. Had one decision gone a different way the whole way through—had Alice not suspected Patty of killing her dog, had Brett not acted a certain way, if these characters had made different decisions, it might not have landed them in this moment at night. Even going back to Catherine, had she not given the results for the gun and the bullet to Alice that night, none of it would've happened. So they all were culpable in their own way.

Jenna Bans: But there's a twist coming in the beginning of 12, without giving too much away, that explains why they can't call the police. So there's more information that we don't have that is the opening of the next episode. So you see them about to call the police, and then they don't for a very specific reason.

Bill Krebs: It also felt real, too, because we wanted it to be just a drunken prank that went horribly wrong. You see those things happen on YouTube all the time, and they never had this intention. And then when you're faced with it and it does happen, how do you pivot? How do you make a truly life-changing decision in a moment? And why? And how do you live with it?

Jenna Bans: The opening of the next episode is very intense. We'll leave it at that. It's 10 minutes of craziness.

Alice believes Patty killed her dog. Is that confirmed?

Jenna Bans: Is something ever confirmed until it's fully confirmed?

It feels a little suspicious.

Jenna Bans: People will have to wait and see. That definitely gets answered in the last two episodes of the season.

Bill Krebs: As we know, there can be alternative facts.

Jenna Bans: What we love about this show is that, for example, the Birdie-Joel pregnancy, you saw all these scenes in the second episode of him covering up the murder for her. And now we have more context of why and how, because she's pregnant.

So you'll get to see those conversations play out and sort of fill in the blanks of what we haven't seen, catching up to this timeline. And so I would say the same goes for these things that we think we have all of the answers to. These answers can become shaded differently once we catch up to present day and there's different context.

Bill Krebs: And perspective.

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About NBC's Grosse Pointe Garden Society

Written And Created By Jenna Bans & Bill Krebs

“Grosse Pointe Garden Society” follows four of a suburban garden club who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret – a murder no one wants to talk about. As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.

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• Melissa Fumero & Ben Rappaport

Grosse Pointe Garden Society airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET and is available to stream next-day on Peacock.