While the mystery of why Ruth Wilson wanted to exit The Affair remains open, how Wilson would have liked to have seen Alison leave the show has been solved.
The Affair’s choice to have Alison die has spawned further mystery into how exactly she perished.
While the police investigating her death ruled it a suicide, the show posited two scenarios in the time leading up to her death.
In the first sequence, she and her boyfriend Ben reconcile after he confesses he is married, leaving the possibility open to suicide.