Kaley Cuoco Reveals Why She ‘Loved’ the Finale of ‘Vanished’ & What’s Next for Alice (VIDEO)

[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Vanished Episode 4.]

The finale of the four-part MGM+ drama Vanished finally revealed all of the truths Alice Monroe (Kaley Cuoco) had been seeking. After she and Helene (Karin Viard) found a shipping container full of people, they soon discovered the real reason Tom Parker (Sam Claflin) was associated with it and why he disappeared in the first place.

As it turned out, Helene’s suspicion about a massive human trafficking ring involving Alex Durand (Matthias Schweighöfer) and Mira Mazraoui (Dar Zuzovsky), with Tom’s employer S.O.S. as a cover operation, was almost completely correct. The only detail she got wrong was that Tom wasn’t actually in on it; he was a spy for MI-6 who’d been deep undercover to expose the criminal racket.

Alice found all of this out the hard way, as she and Helene were put into mortal peril with the group until the true Tom finally stepped in to defend them. In the end, Helene was badly injured but got the story she wanted, and Alice was reunited with Tom at last. Only, instead of accepting his offer to rekindle their relationship and move to New Jersey together for her job, she decided to give him a bit of the same medicine he’d given her and disappeared — only, she had the decency to leave a note.

With that, Alice is finally free, even if that meant leaving Tom in the rearview after everything they’d been through. So is it a happy ending? Kaley Cuoco certainly thinks so! Here, the actress weighs in on the series’ big ending.

When Alice decided to walk away from Tom, why do you think she did that? And at what point do you think she made that decision?

Kaley Cuoco: I loved that. When I was reading the script, I was unsure if she was going to stay with him, because I kept thinking, “OK, what if this happened? The love of your life has been lying to you, but it’s for the greater good. So he’s kind of a good guy, but he couldn’t have given you a single hint that this was going on? Like, nothing? How do you trust that again?”

And so then when I saw they kind of got reunited, and they have this big talk, and then she goes back with him for a second, I’m like, “Oh my God, I don’t think I could do that.” And then, flipping to the other page, it’s, “OK, she kind of got what she needed, and she got out,” which really did make me happy because at the end of the day, I kept thinking, “If they were as close as she thought they were, he could have told her something.”

I’m sure this situation has happened. There are people in the CIA, there are secrets being held, but what do you do with the love [of your life]? Does she think she’s the love of his life, and if he really did, couldn’t he have done anything? Couldn’t he have written something on his hand? Couldn’t there have been an, “I’ll be back?” Anything to get her to hold on. But he really left her in hell, and it’s unforgivable.

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Do you imagine her being at peace after this and going to Princeton and just taking that job? Or do you think she’ll have some lingering trauma from everything she’s been through?

I think she’s gonna be in therapy for a very long time. That’s a lot of trauma. I think when you find out you’ve been really betrayed — again, even though, technically, for the greater good, in a weird way, this guy isn’t technically a bad guy, but so it’s almost such an even more of a mindf*** in a way. It’s like, “OK, do you ever trust anyone again with that level of deceit and lies?”

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And especially, I think what’s also kind of scary is, she’s a pretty put-together person. She’s someone who thinks things out. She’s very thoughtful, she’s professional, she’s not a mess. And so she was really on it. So then to feel duped when you’re really kind of on it is even scarier. People I’ve been talking to are kind of comparing it to Cassie in The Flight Attendant, and there’s just a big difference for Cassie, such an unreliable … narrator, and you can’t trust her because she’s a mess. But Alice is not a mess. She actually had her life together, which is even more terrifying that she could get duped in the way that she was.

If there were a second season, would you like that? And would you want to kind of continue the adventures of Helene and Alice? And if so, where?

Yeah, I like Helene and Alice. I love the relationship. I think it’s actually really a sweet relationship, their friendship and how they really actually helped each other in the end, and it was actually kind of sweet. I didn’t expect that. I don’t think she’s ever going back to France. If I was her, I’d be like, “You’re coming to me. Maybe we’ll stay in L.A. or New York.” I’d be curious what her life would be like after, but I think she should be a lot more careful. Unfortunately, it might cause her to have a lot of walls up, but I think she learned a big lesson in this experience that you just never truly know who you’re with.

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