- Despite being on mandatory leave, Ralph continues to scrutinize the circumstances surrounding the night of the murder; Jack has a hair-raising experience at a remote barn where key evidence and a mysterious substance have been found.
- Yunis arrives at the barn, and the police have already secured it say he can go inside. The GBI agent and his men bag the discarded goo-covered clothing.
At the cemetery, Ralph cleans up Derek's gravestone and wishes he could tell his dead son about the last week. Two gravediggers laugh as they walk by, and Ralph walks over to the Peterson graves they were digging. The detective looks at the family's four graves.
At the station, the officers welcome back Tamika, who is on crutches after her leg was broken by Ollie's shot. Jack is surprised to see her there, and Tamika says that she's there to pick up some things. Her superior says that he's going out to the barn because the State police found clothes that they think belong to Terry. Jack figures everything will be wrapped up by the time he gets there.
Ralph is going over his files when Jeannie comes in. Her husband says that he found out which senior center Terry's father was at, and that the father was arrested for aggravated assault in 1985. Jeannie reminds Ralph that he's on leave because of post-shooting protocol and suggests he take the time off. Ralph asks how her day was, and they both chuckle.
At the Peach Crease, Jack is drunkenly telling a stripper to dance to humpback whale music. He insults the dancer and she storms off. Claude asks Jack if he's working, and Jack says that he's taking his time getting there. When Jack tries to provoke Claude, Claude doesn't rise to the bait. Jack tosses money on the stage and leaves.
A bus arrives at the prison and the guards take a new inmate, to his cell. The man glances briefly at another prisoner as he goes past his cell.
Jack arrives at the barn that night and finds the place closed up. He urinates and then goes in, using his flashlight to see. Someone moves in the darkness, and Jack jumps and calls out that he's a police officer. Something stings Jack in the back of his neck and he curses.
Ralph watches news footage of Terry arriving at the courthouse, and remembers hooting ollie.
Jack finds a medical cabinet and bandages his neck. When he touches the reddish skin, he moans in pain.
The next day, Yunis meets Ralph at a diner and shots him photos of the clothing. The horsehead buckle is the same one they saw on Terry in the surveillance tape, and Terry's fingerprints were on it. Some of the fingerprints were solid, while the weaker prints were like an 80 or 90 year old. Yunis confirms that they all belonged to the same person, but the forensic account couldn't account for the discrepancy. The fingerprints matched the ones in the van,, but there was one set that the techs thought was too degraded to check.
Ralph wonders what's going on, and Yunis says that they first thought the substance on the clothing was semen. However, the liquid was in other parts of the barn, and nobody has been able to identify it. Ralph thinks they should let Howie and Alec know what's going and see if they have any ideas.
In prison, the newcomer watches the prisoner. The prisoner takes a lens out of his eyeglasses.
The school principal, Theresa Ogletree, calls Glory in and the other children and their parents have a growing hostility toward Jessa and Maya. Theresa says that she's going to have to release Glory's daughters. She offers to help Glory with home schooling, and says that it's outrageous when children have to pay for the sins of their parents. Glory insists that Terry was innocent and leaves.
Ralph and Yunis meet with Howie and Alec, and Ralph insists that they're just trying to get to the bottom of what happens. Ralph says that he's trying to get justice for Terry and Frankie, and isn't going to apologize for fucking up. Howie insists someone else had to drive the van, and Ralph wants to find the real killer because no one else will go through it and nothing less will do. Alec figures someone has to retrace Terry's steps to Dayton, and Howie suggests they send Holly Gibney. Ralph has heard of Holly and figures that she's... unique.
Holly is in her apartment identifying cars as they drive by, going by their engine sounds. Alec calls and asks her to retrace Terry' movements in Dayton. Holly wants to meet with Ralph in person but refuses to fly there because she's afraid of flying. She goes to the bar below her apartment and complains that one man is sitting in her seat. He irritably moves and Holly sits down, continuing her conversation with Alec on the phone. Alec agrees that she doesn't have to fly, and Holly hangs up and orders a drink.
The next day, Ralph meets with his therapist, Herb, and figures that Herb is outwaiting him so he'll go past his rehearsed answers. Ralph says that he's been gardening since their last meeting, and things are good with Jeannie. He talks about how things were rough when they lost Derek. Herb offers his condolences, and Ralph tells him that they're good. The therapist asks how things were for Ralph when they got rough, and Ralph remembers drinking and getting involved in bar fights. He then tells Herb that they should just focus on the courthouse shooting.
Jessa sits outside her house and stares off into the night.
Later, Alec takes Ralph to meet with Holly at a bar and they watch a baseball game on the TV. Holly pieces together the date and stats of a game Alec saw as a child going just by the date, Ralph gives her all of the information on Terry's vacation, and says that she needs to find out who was working in the center wing the days that Terry visited. Holly quotes Ralph her fee, assuring him that he'll get back anything she doesn't spend, and asks for half up front. Alec agrees and Holly offers a toast in Lithuanian.
In prison, the prisoner gets a letter with a drawing of a bloody child's face. The guard says that it must have slipped through the screening. Once he leaves, the child-killer sharpens the glass lens on the edge of his bunk.
Holly suggests that Terry had a doppelganger, a mythical creature that is a non-biological double of someone. She says that they're looking for a flesh-and-blood biped, and Ralph notes that she said "if" it's a myth. He admits that he has no tolerance for the unexplainable, and Holly says she's a savant. Her parents had her tested and studied by psychiatrists when her behavior first manifested. None of them could account for it, and Ralph is shocked her parents let them study her. Holly says that they were scared and though the psychiatrists could "cure" her of being herself. She says that she's good and goes upstairs to her apartment, and thanks Ralph for drinking to make her feel comfortable as she goes. She goes up to the stairs, gasping for breath. A man comes out and looks at her, and Holly calms down and continues to her apartment.
The newcomer pulls a razor from where it's buried in beneath the skin of his leg.
The child-killer lies on his bunk and looks thoughtfully at the sharpened lens.
Grace wakes up to find Jessa sitting by her bed. She says that her mother has to call Ralph because she has something to tell him. When Glory asks what it is, Jessa says that "the man" told her to only tell Ralph, and refuses to answer Glory's questions.
Later, Ralph takes Jeanie to the Maitland house. Howie is there with Glory, and Glory explains that Jessa thinks she has to tell Ralph something about her dream. She tells Ralph that he should ease Jessa's mind, and Ralph agrees. They go in and Jessa insists that it wasn't a dream. Glory and Maya point out that a man couldn't have gotten upstairs, and Glory interrupts when Ralph ask why Jessa though it was a dream. Jessa says that the man said he wouldn't come back if she gave Ralph the message, and tells him that the man said that Ralph should stop. If Ralph didn't stop, something bad would happen. When Ralph asks for details, Glory takes Jessa to her room and curses Ralph for not helping.
Jeannie talks to Glory privately, and Howie asks how Ralph found Holly. The lawyer admits that Holly is a loony but good at what she does.
Glory and Jeannie talk in the kitchen, and Jeannie says that Derek used to have nightmares and telling him he had bad dreams just agitated him. They took Derek's nightmares seriously and eventually he either got over his dreams or got bored with them questioning him. Jeanie advises Glory to let Ralph keep asking Jessa about her dream. Glory refuses, but says that Jeannie can talk to Jessa.
Jeannie talks to Jessa, who says that she's seen the man four times. The first time h looked like Terry, and she didn't mention it to Glory. Jessa explains that the man was mean and tried to make her cry. The second time his face was blurry like someone tried to erase it. The man said more mean stuff, and the last time the man wasn't blurry and was muscular with tattoos. Jessa says that she's tired and doesn't want to talk about it. Ralph is listening and tells Jessa to tell the man to give him the message. Jessa says that Ralph doesn't want the man to do it, and the man wants Ralph to be scared rather than her.
Holly goes to the hotel room where Glory and her daughter stayed, and recreates what happened in her mind. She then goes to the parking lot of the Hangry-Q where Merlin abandoned the van, notices a surveillance camera, and studies it. The head of mall security, Andy Katcavage, pulls up and says that he's shorthanded so he's working. Holly tells him that she's looking for the footage from six weeks ago, and Andy says that they erase them once a week. She explains that she's trying to find the man who took the van, and explains that he murdered a child. Holly says that she's a PI, and Andy exchanges business cards with her. He tells her to contact him if she needs help and she leaves.
Jack is at the Peach Crease, drinking, and the back of his neck is swollen. He falls off his stool, drunk, and when one man tries to help him up Jack screams in pain. Jack says that he'll do anything to make the pain stop, and it does.
Jeannie goes to the Maitland home and asks Glory how she and Jessa are doing. Glory confirms that Jessa slept through the night, and Jeannie assures her she just wanted to check on the family. Glory says that Maya saw a horror movie about leprechauns and Terry told her that leprechauns aren't allowed to leave Ireland. Maya accepted that, and Glory breaks into tears at the thought of Terry. She asks Jeannie how she lives with Derek's death, and Jeannie says that it's impossible.
Holly goes to the senior center and the receptionist, Angela, refuses to let her talk with Peter Maitland. She says that Peter wouldn't recognize Holly and he's been going downhill in the last month or so ago. Holly asks if something happened then, and Angela figures that Holly is a reporter like the ones who showed up a month ago when the police were there and orders her out. The receptionist isn't aware that Terry is dead, and calls a security guard. Holly leaves on her own and calls Ralph, and explains what happened. The police wanted to talk to Peter as part of the investigation, and she's going to look into it. Holly apologizes for calling prematurely but says that sometimes she likes to hear the voice of someone on her side.
That night at her apartment, Holly checks the newspaper from a month ago and finds an article about two young missing sisters. The killer is described as a "monster".
After lights out, a guard unlocks the newcomer's cell door. The newcomer goes to the child-killer's cell, and the killer hears him coming, takes out the lens, and puts his back to the wall. The newcomer comes in and the killer tells him he doesn't need to do it. The newcomer comes at him, the killer cuts his throat with the sharpened lens and collapses. Startled, the newcomer leaves.
Jack sits in his apartment, saying that he'll do whatever the creature needs him to do.
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