- Holly tries to help a volatile but conflicted Jack, while their whereabouts are being tracked by Ralph and Alec; after she's confronted by gossip, Glory considers Howie's suggestion on how to secure her family's financial future.
- Ralph wakes up in his bed.
Andy is packing his things and leaves.
Ralph stands in his kitchen and stares contemplatively at the kitchen table while drinking his coffee. He takes down the sketches of the Outsider that Jeannie taped to the wall, and Jeannie comes out and sees him put them in a drawer. He asks where the chair is that the Outsider sat in, and Jeannie says that she doesn't want it there and it's out back until the next garbage pickup. She says that she's already ordered a replacement. Ralph notes that he heard Holly leave earlier and Jeannie wonders what business she would have in town that early. She wishes Ralph has talked to Holly, and he says that he was in bed. Jeannie leaves for work, leaving Ralph alone.
Howie is working in his office when the phone rings. He finally takes the call from Glory, who says that she's going back to work that day. She doesn't want to sue, and Howie tells her that they'll proceed when she's ready. Jessa asks Glory stay with them, and Maya wonders if people are going to be mean to her. Glory tells her daughters that there are nice people in Cherokee City and she's going to sell a house to one of them.
Ralph picks up the photo of the back of Tracy's neck that Holly printed out, then drops it and walks out.
Holly continues driving with Jack in the seat next to her. He winces in pain and Holly asks how far it is to the barn. Jack turns on the radio and doesn't answer her question, and Holly repeats her question. He talks about how he didn't believe in anything when he was kid, including the boogeyman, but now he believes that there's something worse out there than anything he ever imagined. Holly tells him that he's right to believe, and Jack wonders what the Outsider is. She admits that she doesn't know anything about the Outsider, and Jack shows her the blisters and says that he's just like Tracy. He wonders if he'll eventually let himself be killed, and Holly says she's going to track and expose it if she can. Holly says that once she sees what Jack wants to show her at the barn, she'll find it and stop it. She asks Jack if he knows she's trying to help him, and Jack moans in pain and doesn't answer her question. Jack then tells her to take the next road and turns up the volume on the radio.
Ralph tries to call Holly but she doesn't answer. He leaves a message for her to call him, then calls Jack and gets his voice mail. Ralph leaves a message for Jack to call him, asking if he knows where Holly is. He then calls Ralph and asks him to have Holly call him. He calls Alec, who says that Holly seemed to be hanging around Jack and figures that they're together since neither of them are answering their phones. Ralph tells Alec to meet him at the apartment where Jack is staying.
Claude gets fired at the strip club, and his former boss Lenny gives him severance pay. The ex-bouncer says that he hasn't been feeling like himself lately and goes to his car.
Holly continues driving, and Jack wonders why the Outsider picked him. She suggests that the Outsider is drawn to pain, and Jack has been wronged all his life. Jack describes how his mother wronged him.
Glory shows a couple a house, and they stare at her. She finally says that she's Terry's wife, and all they're thinking about is which of their friends they'll blab to first. Glory snaps at them and then takes them to see the guest room.
Ralph and Alec knock at Jack's door but get no answer. They pick the lock and go inside, and find the blood on the walls and the place torn up. Ralph calls to put a BOLO out on Holly's car, and says that they should consider Jack armed and dangerous. Once he hangs up, Ralph and Alec break into Jack's truck in the parking lot and search it. Alec calls Howie and says that Holly is missing and they think she's with Jack. Howie says that he can't help them at the moment, and figures that Holly and Jack went off somewhere together because Jack apparently believed her claim. Alec says that there's blood on the walls and hangs up.
Jack's phone rings, and he ignores it. Holly asks him what the Outsider forced him to do for it, and Jack says that it has had him do spying, mostly. She wonders why Jack didn't stop him from telling everyone what she knew instead of just taking her there, and points out how the Outsider is making Jack pay. Jack tells her to keep her eyes on the road, and wishes that Holly had told him more about his tormentor than she really can.
Ralph goes to Tamika's house and asks how she's doing. She joins him on the lawn, and Ralph tells her that they think Jack has taken Holly. Ralph wonders if Tamika has noticed anything odd about Jack, and she says that she hasn't seen since the christening. Meanwhile, the Outsider enters Tamika's house and looks down on the crib where Tamika's baby son Jerome is sleeping. Meanwhile, Tamika says that she's transferring to computer crimes after she comes back from maternity leave, and tells Ralph that she hopes he finds Jack before going inside.
Alec and Ralph go to the strip club and ask Lenny if Jack was there. Lenny says that he wasn't, and says that Claude quit. Alec asks Lenny to give them a ring if he talks to Jack and hands the owner his card, and meanwhile Yunis calls Ralph and says that he pinged Holly's phone and it's with Jack's. Both phones are heading down the highway, and Ralph and Alec drive to intercept them.
Jack seemingly dozes off, but Holly wakes him up to say she has to go the bathroom and can't hold it. She pulls over at a gas station, then fishes for something in her handbag. Jack asks what she's taking with her, and Holly says that she's having her period. He takes her phone, claiming the battery on his is about dead. Holly goes into the restroom and closes the door behind her, gasping. She can't get the window open. An impatient Jack finally comes over.
Holly grabs the lid off the toilet and breaks the window. Jack runs around to the back, and Holly runs out the front and gets back into her car. When Jack comes back, he holds up the car keys he took. She has a spare set and drive away, and Jack draws his gun and shoots at her. Cursing in frustration, Jack throws the cell phone down and stomps it. Holly pulls over down the road and discovers that her cell phone is gone.
Alec asks Ralph if any of it makes sense to him since he knows Jack. The investigator wonders why Ralph thinks Jack would abduct Holly, and Ralph says that nothing has made sense in his life since Frankie was killed. Alec talks about how, one summer when he was a kid, he got lost in the woods. It got dark and cold, and two hunters who were part of a search party found him. Before they found Alec, he heard something call his name twice. Ralph immediately dismisses it as imagination, but Alec insists that wasn't what happened, and he's never been so scared since. The police officer has nothing to say to that.
Glory meets with her employer Lorraine at her house, and Lorraine warns that the couple might file charges for emotional distress. She figures she should never have let Glory come back to work, and Glory figures there'd never be a right time. Glory says that she needs to make a living, and suggests Lorraine sell her house and move with her daughters to get a fresh start. Before she goes, Lorraine tells Glory that she shouldn't let them run her out of town after what they've put her through. Glory calls Howie and tells him that they should sue the police and any other city government department, and maybe the individuals.
Ralph and Alec reach the gas station, and question the clerk who saw nothing. Alec sees where a car pulled out, and the two men find the smashed phone. Ralph admits that he doesn't know if Holly is dead. Police cars pull up and Ralph figures that once they show them the cell phone, they can go because Yunis already briefed the police.
In the forest, Jack sits alone and considers shooting himself. He puts the gun in his mouth and tries to pull the trigger, but can't. Jack yells in rage and drops to his knees, then rolls over on his back. He shoots his gun into the sky, cursing.
Howie arrives at Ralph's house, and finds Ralph, Alec, and Jeannie there with Holly. Holly tells them that she originally believed Jack, but then sound the blisters and figured Jack was delivering her to the Outsider. She figures the Outsider only feeds on children, and came to the conclusion Jack was taking her somewhere to eliminate her and he had no choice in the matter, but he was fighting against the compulsion. Holly figures the Outsider gets into his "Renfields" through the blister wound, and the only way they can get free is through death. She figures Jack Is wherever the Outsider wants him to be.
Jack walks to the highway and tries to get passing cars to stop for him. A truck driver finally stops and gives Jack a lift.
Yunis shows Holly a photo of Claude and asks if she's ever seen him, and Holly says she hasn't but hesitates. He tells Holly to hold onto the photo, and Andy arrives at the f4ront door and asks to see Holly. When Holly comes to the door, Andy hugs her in relief.
The truck heads to Cherokee City.
Yunis tells Ralph that they have an APB out on Jack and the cops are staking out his apartment. The GBI agent notes that the gas station was in the opposite direction from the barn, and Jack's phone is turned off. Ralph wonders why Jack didn't kill Holly in the first place, and Yunis says that Holly told Ralph the truth about Jack not wanting to kill her but Ralph won't believe it. Yunis says that Holly said she didn't recognize Claude but she couldn't work out where she had seen him. The GBI agent says he just wants the whole thing to end, not make sense like Ralph does, and leaves.
The driver drops Jack off at a roadside restaurant.
Andy talks to Ralph and says that he's been doing his own research on Heath, which led him to Terry. He wants to be part of the investigation. Holly calls Ralph in and points out that the Outsider in its final transformation stages, and that Ralph knew the Outsider scratched Claude. She wonders why Ralph didn't tell her, and Jeannie tells her husband that he doesn't get to play like it's reasonable and rationale to ignore everything irrational happening in his face. Jeannie tells Ralph that he needs to get over that or step to the side because he's standing in everyone else's way.
Jack sits on the grass across from the restaurant as night falls.
Ralph calls Herbert and makes an appointment in an hour. He then looks at the kitchen chair that he recovered from the garbage, then sits on it. Later, Ralph meets with Herbert and asks him if he believes in God, or Heaven and Hell, or evil. The therapist finally says that he believes in medical research, and Ralph figures that Herbert believes negative things have a rational explanation. Herbert asks Ralph to tell him what's going on with him, and Ralph explains that something is unfolding that is too much for him. The therapist asks for specifics, and Ralph finally tells him that he has to let go to let something in. He apologizes because he can't say anything more, and Herbert says that he can't do anything for him. However, the therapist says that there's a lot they don't know about the world and never will.
The next morning, Holly wakes up from a nightmare of Jack shooting her at the gas station. She goes to the bathroom mirror, looks at herself, and screams in defiance.
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