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Cam’s got a very interesting arc,” Lily Gladstone says of her police officer character in Hulu’s “Under the Bridge.”

The eight-part limited series is a true-crime drama adapted from Rebecca Godfrey’s book

about the murder of teenager Reena Virk.

In the series, Riley Keough plays Rebecca, a writer who has come home to Saanich, British

Columbia, to research a book about a group of teenage girls who live at Seven Oaks, a foster home. She learns about Reena (Vritika Gupta), a 14-year-old who has gone missing after a party. Josephine Bell (Chloe Guidry), Dusty Pace (Aiyana Goodfellow), Kelly Ellard (Izzy G.) and Warren Glowatski (Javon Walton) are the last ones to see her alive.

When Reena’s dead body turns up, Cam becomes the lead investigator working the case, which leads to an awkward reunion with Rebecca — and even more unanswered questions.

When the audience first meets Cam,...

[This story contains major spoilers from the Under the Bridge finale, “Mercy Alone.”]

The final episode of Under the Bridge saw the complete, real-life events come to light around the night Reena Virk (played by Vritika Gupta in the series) was killed in Saanich, British Columbia by a group of teenagers. She was 14 when she first disappeared in 1997.

The first few minutes of “Mercy Alone,” the eighth episode in Hulu’s true-crime limited series based on Rebecca Godfrey’s 2005 book, begin with Kelly Ellard (Izzy G.) talking explicitly to Josephine (Chloe Guidry) about wanting to break Reena’s bones with a bat, burn her at the stake and bury her alive in the forest. Kelly’s mom, who is in the room, does not even flinch at her daughter threatening to kill someone in such detail.

Following Warren Glowatski’s (Javon Walton) life sentence in the penultimate episode for his partial involvement in Reena’s death, Kelly...

Hulu’s Under the Bridge revolves around a horrific incident that took the entire Canadian society by shock. A young girl named Reena Virk was murdered in cold blood, and her parents were left to mourn the loss. Suman and Manjit didn’t know why their daughter was killed so mercilessly and what she had done to deserve such a fate. Reena had a difficult childhood and called it bad luck or destiny, she had people like Kelly and Jo to make her life miserable. Reena tried her level best to fit in, but she was bullied and tortured for no fault of hers. After being ridiculed and insulted continuously, Reena decided to take charge of things and retaliate in the best way possible.

Reena got hold of Jo’s diary, and she called many people from her list of contacts and spread all sorts of rumors about her. Jo...