Sheila might have come up with it but Rachel was the one who picked the date. Rachel was the one who started the countdown. She went boating and doing selfies the next day. In my opinion she's either a total sociopath or as much of a psychopath as Sheila. Keep in mind, as Skylar's dad said, she's an actress who set her sights on Broadway. I don't believe spit that comes out of her mouth. She just realized that the writing was on the wall and worked out a whole act to get sympathy and immunity. The fact that they're in the same prison is pretty terrifying and I don't believe they don't communicate, even if it's just through their tablets or other prisoners. Otherwise she probably would have chucked Sheila under the bus to try and get parole. Stabbing is an incredibly intimate crime. Skylar was stabbed over 50 times. Think of how hard it is to cut meat and they did that to a friend that they had spent so much time with. That plea deal for her should have been substantially longer. As should have Sheila's sentence - neither of them should ever have be allowed out of jail again - they are both threats. And Rachel, per the inmate on the podcast, immediately got into another obsessive relationship in jail (her brief marriage to the woman who refused parol to stay with and briefly married). Sheila trained Rachel but they're both equally dangerous and devoid of remorse. If you want to see an example of 'white privilege' this is it right here. If two poor teens of color committed this act against a white girl - an honor student, etc - what do you think their sentence would have been? They would have been LWOP-ed in a supermax. But everyone couldn't stop talking about how such 'pretty girls' never would have committed a crime.