Dane tells Stella that they caught the person who has been doing damage to the farm and that he is currently at the station. He and Stella discuss her options, which are pressing charges and jail time for the trespasser, but Stella is unsure if she wants to go that far. Dane tells her that the vandal wants to apologize to her, and she agrees to hear him out, but she is shocked to see that the criminal is Will Hewett, the local librarian.

Mr. Hewett explains that when Stella bought the farm, he had a verbal agreement with the previous owner to buy it, but he couldn’t come up with the money before Stella did. It had been his dream to open an alpaca farm, so he started trying to inconvenience Stella for revenge. When he saw that she wasn’t fazed by minor inconveniences, he messed with one of the pasture’s drainage systems and gave her trees root rot. When he was nearly caught after disabling the farm’s cameras, Mr. Hewett was forced to take a look at his decisions and reevaluate them. Stella is confused, especially because she would have happily given Mr. Hewett some space for his alpacas if he had asked, and she asks Dane for some time to consider what she will do.