When Ani revealed to Jessica that she slept with Bryce, Jessica confessed what had happened to Bryce. Jessica was terrified of what would happen next, but with the help of her friends the murder was covered up. She also rekindled her friendship with Alex.
The season finale provided a three-part answer to the central question of who killed Bryce when it was revealed that Zach Dempsey (Ross Butler) beat Bryce and left him for dead on a boating dock, but that it was Alex Standall (Miles Heizer) who threw him into the water, where he ultimately drowned, after Bryce
Bryce Walker had a giant hole in his head, and was thought ti be from a gun shot to the head. They don't mention it again, and after Zach beats him and Alex throws him in the water in the final episode, we don't actually see anyone crack his skull wide open.
Zach confesses to the cops that he beat up Bryce and left him on the pier to get revenge for Bryce breaking his knee. Deputy Standall tells him he couldn't have killed Bryce because he died by drowning.
Clay ad Tony believed that if the tapes were passed down to him, he wouldn't care to take the time to listen or he would destroy the tapes. Bryce was someone who was lacking in understanding of people, he didn't really show any type of empathy or sympathy.
Jessica brought Alex with her to their arranged meeting to find a severely injured Bryce, who had been brutally beaten up by Zach (Ross Butler). Barely able to move, Bryce gave Jessica a tape of his confession and apology before asking her and Alex to help him home.
While the evidence mounted up with each episode looking at each character it turned out it wasn't Clay who killed Bryce or Tony, Jess or Justin. Bryce's killer was revealed to be Alex Standall.
Tony has a crush on Clay and we're 100% here for #Clony. It would explain a lot, mainly why he decides to spend SO MUCH TIME looking after Clay. Sure, he needed looking after, that's in no doubt. But there was something in the way Tony literally stalks Clay's every move which suggests that it went further than that.
The pressure and guilt lead him to a series of unhealthy behaviors: he gets into a fight and plummets into the pool unexpectedly. Looking back, there are more than a few warning signs that Alex is getting lost in severe, hopeless depression before he finally attempts to shoot himself.
Starting with Hannah Baker, Jeff Atkins (Brandon Larracuente), Bryce Walker (Justin Prentice), Monty de la Cruz (Timothy Granaderos), and ending with Justin Foley (Brandon Flynn), here are all five characters who died and how it happened.
Bryce Walker dies in 13 Reasons Why season 3, by drowning in the river. After Bryce gets into a fight with Zach, he is brutally injured and left at a dock near the river. Alex Standall arrives at the scene with Jessica Davis, whom Bryce had called to talk.
Justin has never met his father. When he was five years old, he was molested by one of his mother's boyfriends.
In the mystery of Bryce's death on season three of 13 Reasons Why, Jessica had plenty of reasons to want him dead — but she didn't actually do it. The show spends some time letting us wonder, but eventually, the truth comes out: Jessica didn't kill him, but she was there when the person who did kill him did the deed.
Mrs. Baker also called Clay several times before they finally met up together, including leaving a voicemail that said that she wished to kill Bryce, although she was drunk and near Hannah's grave at the time. This made the police think that they worked together to bring Bryce down, which was later proven to be false.
10. What happened to Winston in 13 Reasons Why season 4? In season 4, Winston arrives at Liberty High and immediately sets out to uncover who killed Bryce, seeing as he knows that it wasn't Monty. Throughout the episodes, Winston gets closer to the others, even entering a relationship with Alex.
Last warning for spoilers for the season 3 finale. You've been warned! In the final episode, it is revealed that Monty de la Cruz died in his jail cell following his sexual assault arrest after Tyler turned him in.
In the end, it was Montgomery de la Cruz (Timothy Granaderos) who posthumously got the blame for Bryce's death—though at least one person knows that the story Clay's friends told the police to implicate Monty was a lie.
In the third season, we didn't actually see the death of Monty on-screen - the group only learned he had died after being told by both Deputy Standall, and a local drug dealer who confirmed to Justin and Ani he saw Monty being killed in his jail cell.
In the end, multiple factors lead to Bryce's death and who was blamed for the crime in the end. Here's what you need to know. Short answer: Alex (Miles Heizer), in a steroid-induced rage, pushed Bryce into the water where he drowned. Jessica watched the whole thing happen.
Zach and Hannah have sex for the first time.As Zach put it during his testimony, their relationship was much more than the sex. They spent the entire summer together, eating ice cream, reading books, and spending time at the docks.
She left the tapes on his doorstep along with a note saying, “I know you'll keep my secret. You owe me.” Ultimately, Tony's able to get through the trial and keep both his secret and Hannah's, but he does tell Mrs. Baker the truth about how she protected him.
He has to make sure each person on the list follows Hannah's instructions. If they don't, he is tasked with releasing the second set of tapes to the whole town, thereby exposing the secrets they hold to everyone.
In 13 Reasons Why's series finale, Justin succumbed to complications from AIDS and died. This, after a battle with heroin addiction which had left fans to wonder if he would survive. Justin's death was a development that Brandon Flynn's co-star, Dylan Minnette, previously praised.
Clay Jensen doesn't hand over the tapes to Hannah's parents. Instead what he does is he makes Tony realize his mistake of hiding the truth of the tapes from Hannah's parents. Tony copies all the data of the tapes into a pen drive and hands it over to Hannah's parents before the subpoenas.
But Tony seems more concerned about his role as a witness for the school district, who will want him to talk about how Hannah blamed people for her problems and wanted revenge on her enemies. Such a testimony would force the Baker's lawyer to counter by making him look unreliable.
Clay didn't kill Hannah Baker, after all.
Likewise, Tony knew one of Hannah's biggest secrets as well: she was a bully at her old school. He burned the letters Hannah left to protect her in court, as the lawyers for the school were determined to make it seem like she left the tapes behind for revenge, which the tapes did kind of made it seem like.
