Cayden KingDevon JamesJesse MartinezGage MatthewsKathryn HayesSzymon Skubisz

SUPPORTING CAST

 Julia Taylor

played by britt koth 

Summary: Julia Taylor was a beautiful, intelligent woman. She wanted to become an author and moved to New York City to pursue her dream of writing for a fashion magazine. Julia used to live in Cayden's apartment until she met her untimely demise.

Episode Updates (May Contain Spoilers)

Episode 1x01: "Except for One Little Problem, Part I"

When Cayden returns to his apartment after being locked out, Jesse is there and Jesse tells him that his girlfriend, Julia Taylor used to live in Cayden's apartment. When Cayden asks what happened, Jesse tells him that Julia was murdered and found in the bathtub. Later, Cayden finds a diary and some letters written by Julia hidden underneath a floorboard in his apartment.

Episode 1x02: "Except for One Little Problem, Part II"


After a tumultuous argument between Cayden and Devon, Devon calms down and tells Cayden that she's having a difficult time with Julia's murder and so is everyone else. Julia's apartment used to be the center of their activities and because she was so nice, Julia's door was always open for anyone to drop in and hang out.

Cayden tells Devon that he found the diary and that he's going to turn it over to the police. Devons asks him not to do that and demands that he hand over the diary because she was Julia's best friend and she knows for certain that Julia wouldn't want people to read her private thoughts. When Cayden refuses, Devon gets angry, but not before telling him the manner in which Julia died. She was stabbed multiple times. Jesse found her body in the bathtub, and because of that, he is the prime suspect in her murder.

Episode 1x05: "All This and Nothing"

We learn that Julia was a stickler for detail when Jesse tells Cayden that Julia kept an appointment book in which she wrote down every single appointment or meeting that she ever had. Jesse says, "She wrote down all of her appointments in it. I used to tease her about it because she’d write stupid things in it like who she was meeting for lunch, even though she knew exactly who she was meeting and when. She was the kind of person that didn’t forget a single thing."

Episode 1x07: "Dark Secret, Part II"

Kathryn tells Cayden that she suspects that Devon is Julia's killer because she heard someone exiting Julia's apartment the night she was killed. When Cayden asks why she thinks it was Devon, Kathryn tells him that the person who left the apartment didn't go far, they entered another apartment on the same floor. Shortly afterward, Kathryn heard Jesse screaming and ran into Julia's apartment where she saw Julia dead and Jesse crying and holding the knife that was the murder weapon. Later, Cayden decides to read Julia's diary and discovers that shocking truth that Julia Taylor was pregnant.

Episode 1x08: "Building a Mystery"

We learn that Julia used to make cupcakes for Jesse to make him feel better because that's exactly what his mother used to do when he was feeling down. We also learn that just before she was killed, Julia had a telephone conversation with someone who urged her not to reveal her secret to Jesse because he wouldn't be able to accept it. When Cayden has a conversation with Szymon, the police detective tells Cayden that Julia was an abused child who ran away from home at the age of sixteen and he suspects that prostitution was involved. He also tells Cayden that Julia wasn't pregnant when she died because she had already had an abortion.

Episode 1x09: "When the Morning Comes"

Cayden reads one of Julia's diary entries and realizes that Julia cheated on Jesse.

Episode 1x10: "Everybody Makes Mistakes"

Kathryn tells Cayden that Jesse and Julia were close but a few months before she died, they had an explosive argument in which Jesse accused her of cheating on him. Apparently, Jesse received an anonymous letter slipped under his door and confronted her about it. A week later, the two were back together, however.

Episode 1x11: "The Perfect Sky"

After being shot, Gage begins to lose consciousness, but before he does, he admits to Cayden that he had sex with Julia Taylor.

Episode 1x12: "Tainted Love"


Julia's one-night affair with Gage is witnessed in this episode. Afterwards, the two decide that what they did was wrong and Julia explains her motivations. She tells Gage that she wanted to make sure that her love for Jesse was real because she has had to fight for everything in her life, but her relationship with Jesse just seemed natural and she's not used to that. After having sex with Gage, she realizes that she really is in love with Jesse and she's not deluding herself into believing that something is really there between her and Jesse.

We learn that Julia and Gage had a close relationship where Gage was able to let his guard down and confide in Julia and tell her things that he's never told anyone else.

We also discover that Jesse is head over heels crazy in love with Julia and never misses an opportunity to show her how much he really loves her.

Julia confesses her transgression to Devon, who is shocked but ultimately decides to keep Julia's secret because she is her best friend. We watch as Julia realizes that she has to create even more lies if she wants to keep her affair with Gage Matthews a secret.

Episode 1x16: "Brand New Day"


In this episode, we learn that Julia once dressed up as a clown for Devon's birthdway when Devon told her that she never really had a birthday party when she was a kid. Devon tells Cayden that that was the kind of person that Julia Taylor was. She was thoughtful and went out of her way to make people smile.

We also learn that Julia Taylor received a letter before she died that warned her to break up with Jesse Martinez, but Devon told Julia to ignore the letter. When Julia decided to come clean with Jesse the day that she died, Devon tried to talk her out of it.

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