- Ralph admits to being baffled by conflicting physical evidence; an unexpected tragedy throws the investigation into a tailspin; Glory tries to soothe her daughter Jessa, who says she's been visited by a strange man in her room at night.
- Ralph drives into the prison and the guards take him to the imprisoned Terry. The guard refuses to remove Terry's manacles, and Ralph admits that he's there on his own. He tells Terry that the van with the New York plates is still bothering him, and Terry tells him that the last time he was In New York was 16 years ago for his honeymoon. Ralph explains that they back-checked Terry's movements over the last six months and couldn't find anything but a family vacation to Dayton that the Maitlands flew to and from.
The detective says that he's baffled by the conflicting evidence, and says that he has credible witnesses who saw Terry covered in Frankie's blood. Ralph figures that no one can explain it, and asks Terry if he had any physical or verbal contact with Frankie on the day of the murder. Terry says he didn't, and says that he didn't abduct or murder Frankie when Ralph asks. Ralph tells him that they're done for the night, and Terry says that when Ralph arrested him at the game, he asked him if he ever touched Derek. He tells Ralph that Derek was the best drag bunter he ever had, and had a lot of guts. The kids called Derek "The Whiffer", and Terry told them to stop. Terry taught him how to bunt and Derek never flinched. The other kids started calling Derek "Push It', and Terry asks if Ralph noticed how confident his son was. Terry admits that he hoped he did touch Derek when he taught him the bunt. With that, Terry goes back to his cell.
The next day, mortician Craig Kohara shows Fred and Ollie two coffins, for Frankie and Joy. Kohara offers them a discount since they're buying two coffins.
Terry showers at the prison.
At the courthouse, a crowd gathers for Terry's high-profile quest.
Howie drives Glory to the courthouse.
A reporter questions Hayes and notes that he could be focusing so much on Terry that he's letting other suspects slip past. Hayes insists that Terry is guilty, and the reporter asks if he's running for governor. The DA insists that he only cares about bringing justice to Frankie's killer.
The prison guards bring Terry to the courthouse and lead him out. Many of the spectators boo, and Ralph takes Terry in as Howie and Glory arrive. A masked Ollie steps out, shoots two of the guards and hits Tamika in the leg, and Ralph shoots back, killing him in self-defense. Ollie's last shot hits Terry in the neck, and Ralph goes over and confirms Ollie is dead. Glory goes to Terry, who is bleeding out, and Howie yells for 911. Ralph comes over and checks Terry's wound, and has Glory put pressure on it. Terry whispers to Ralph that he didn't do it and it wasn't him, and a doctor arrives. Terry dies despite her efforts, and the man in the hoodie watches as the rest of the crowd scatters. After a moment, he walks away.
Later in the hospital, a doctor--Myron Lazar-- checks Ralph. Ralph says that he killed a boy, and the doctor makes sure Ralph is fine. Myron tells him to concentrate on his breathing and get it down, draws the curtain, turns off the lights, and leaves.
The police question Glory.
Jack Hoskins is out hunting when he gets a text saying he's needed back ASAP. Cursing, Jack loads up his truck and drives off.
Yunis visits Ralph, who is at home sitting in front of the fireplace. Ralph confirms that he's on administrative leave for two weeks and they've assigned him a trauma therapist. Yunis says that Tamika is laid up with a shattered bone from the shooting and worried about her unborn child, and Ralph wonders why he didn't keep her back. He wonders why he thought arresting Terry in front of spectators was the way to go, and Yunis tells him that he had his reasons. The GBI officer tells Ralph that they found out a boy had been stealing cars and ditching him, and the van was the first vehicle he took. The boy drove it from New York to Ohio, and Ralph remembers saying that the Maitlands vacationed in Ohio. All the boy remembers is that he left the van at a shopping mall parking lot.
At the Peach Crease, Jack tells a man at the bar, Ed Polk, about the vacation he gets and they called him back early. Polk doesn't care and Jack throws his drink on him. When Polk man comes at him, the drunken Jack kicks him in the kneecap, wedgies him, and punches him to the floor. The bouncers get Jack out, and the bartender buys Ed a drink.
Glory sits on her porch, and hears Jessa and Maya yelling at each other. Their mother goes to Jessa's bedroom and Jessa says that "the man" was there and then left. Glory calms Jessa down and gets her back into bed.
Ralph is up smoking, and Jeannie finds him. She remembers that it's been five years since he smoked, and Ralph describes a piece of blue paper he saw beneath the van's windshield wiper. Ralph says that he's going to go in the next day to check it out, and Jeannie reminds him that he's on leave and supposed to see a therapist. She asks him to lie next to him in bed, and Ralph lights up another cigarette.
The next day, Fred sits in his otherwise-empty house. He finally makes a rope out of torn sheets, ties one end to the bed, puts the other end around his noose, and tries to hang himself. A woman is jogging by and sees the bedroom window shatter as Fred kicks it in his death throes, and she yells for help. Down the street, the man in the hoodie watches and then leaves.
Ralph goes to the station and tells the clerk Mildred that he needs the keys to the evidence room. She lets him take them, and Ralph goes in and takes a photo of the blue paper from the van. When Ralph goes out, he sees Jack, who says that they called him back in after Ralph shot Ollie. Hayes calls Ralph to his office and says that at least one of them came out a hero. He then tells Ralph that he's not running for reelection after Terry's death, and he needs to move on. Hayes then tells Ralph that the DNA in the saliva on Frankie's body is a match to Terry's. Ralph wonders what different it makes, and Hayes points out that when Gloria sues them for negligence, it might keep her reward down. The detective wonders if Glory deserves every penny, and Hayes insists that they both thought they were prosecuting the right guy. As Ralph starts to go, Hayes talks about how strange things have happened throughout history. The DA admits that there are unanswered questions, and they have to learn to live with it and move on. Ralph says that it's hard for him and leaves.
That night, Ralph shows Jeannie the flyer and asks her what comes first thing to her head. He figures someone saw it, tore it off but left a corner, and got into the van. Jeannie uses Google to find the restaurant the logo belongs to, between New York and Ohio, and finds a Big Daddy's Hangry-Q in Dayton.
Glory finds Jessa sitting on her bed, and the girl says that she dreamed about the man again. There's a puddle of goo on Jessa's floor, and Glory goes to get Jessa some water.
Ralph and Jeannie visit Tamika in the hospital after she delivers her baby. Jack is sitting in the room, and Tamika's husband and mother are there. Tamika says that Yunis updated her on the case. Ralph finds Yunis looking at Fred, who survived his hanging but is in a coma after his brain lost oxygen for ten minutes. The agent says that the Peterson family is gone, and Ralph leaves with Yunis and says that he needs to know if the boy dumped the fan near the Hangry-Q. Yunis advises him to take some time for himself, and Ralph admits that he hasn't seen his therapist yet. He figures that if the boy dropped the van is Dayton when the Maitlands were there, they want to know if the killer crossed paths with the family. Yunis confirms that the boy is in foster care, and agrees to get Ralph with him if Ralph sees the therapist.
Later, Ralph meets with the therapist and refuses to discuss Derek. The detective says that he's sorrowful and angry, and isn't getting much sleep. The therapist asks him about his dreams, and Ralph says that he's having weird ones. He describes his dreams of what happened when Terry was killed, and claims that no details stuck with him. The therapist tells Ralph that it's good Ralph came in so soon, but warns that the injuries to Ralph's psyche could take weeks to manifest. Ralph suggests that he's fine even though he doesn't feel fine, and being there feels like a punishment. The therapist tells Ralph that he can walk out and he won't stop him, and Ralph tells him that when anyone says that they're there to help, things get worse for him.
Later, Yunis takes Ralph to the boy, Merlin, at the foster home. Ralph asks him if remembers the Hangry-Q in Dayton and when Merlin left the van off. Merlin says he never saw the restaurant before, but he remembers the parking lot. The boy remembers that it was "three cars ago", and Ralph tries to narrow it down to a date. Merlin finally remembers a woman with a smudge of ash on her head. Other people had it, and Ralph figures that it was Ash Wednesday. As they leave, Ralph confirms the date was March 6 and the Maitlands were in Dayton during that day even though they flew both ways.
Back home, Ralph approaches Glory at her house and says that he needs to talk to her. She refuses at first, and he suggests that if Terry didn't do it, someone deliberately framed him and it might happen again. Glory asks Ralph how she's supposed to explain to her daughters while she no longer has friends, and the thing will go with them no matter where they move. Ralph says that the only way Glory is going to get her life back is to clear Terry's name, and they need to find the real killer.
After a moment, Glory closes the door in Ralph's face. She sees Maya on the upstairs steps and sits down next to her, and holds her tight.
The next morning, Howie finds Ralph working on his lawn. The lawyer knows from Glory that Ralph visited her. Howie warns that talking to Glory won't stop him from filing a lawsuit, and Ralph tells him that he doesn't care about the lawsuit. The lawyers set up a meeting between Ralph and Glory at Glory's house with Alec looking on, and Ralph says the van used in Frankie's murder was dumped in Dayton when the Maitlands were there.
Glory figures Ralph is still trying to pin the murder on Terry and tells him to get out, but Ralph believes that Terry never saw the van as he claimed. He says that it's all strange and the van seemed to follow the Maitlands home. Ralph asks why the Maitlands went to Dayton, and Glory explains that Terry's father is at a senior center in Dayton, has dementia, and tends to be violent. She and the girls stayed in the hotel or went to a movie the entire time Terry was at the senior center. When Ralph asks about the Hangry-Q, Glory tells Howie that she wants the interview over. Ralph asks if anything out of the ordinary happened, and Glory insists that nothing happened.
Maya is listening from the stairs and says that Terry got a cut. When Ralph goes out to join them, Maya asks him if he's the man who killed her father. Ralph says that he didn't but he made some terrible mistakes, then asks Maya to tell him about the cut. She says that he saw it visiting his father, and she remembers it because Terry said he got it from a nurse but the nurse was a man. Terry said that he bumped into the nurse when he slipped on a wet floor, and when he got up he saw he had a cut on his wrist. Maya then reminds Glory that there was a "pig restaurant" near their hotel, even though they never went there. Glory doesn't remember, and she says that the cut was nothing and goes upstairs with Maya.
A teenager, Ethan Elman, drives his truck out to a barn that his family owns. He finds a pile of abandoned clothing on a hay bale, and sees that it's covered in goo. There's a horse-head belt buckle in the pants, and police sirens sound in the distance. Ethan looks nervously around, wondering if the clothing's owner is still there.
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