JoHelen Hooper is alone and frightened. A stranger has been inside her house, and both Cooley and Myers have abandoned her. She knows that the intruder is gone, but her home is no longer safe. She grabs a few toiletries and gets on the road, driving at random until she finds herself in Alabama. There, she takes a hotel room and phones the one person she has left who might help her—Lacy. Lacy listens to her story, acknowledges her fears, and tells her to stay around other people throughout the night and call her back in the morning. JoHelen feels reassured to have a plan and someone she can count on.

Clyde Westbay has a job to do for the FBI if he wants to stay off death row. He’s wearing a bug built into a Timex watch, and he must get Vonn Dubose to admit to murder while the FBI is recording. Clyde tells Dubose that he doesn’t want to be involved in the “dirty work” anymore. Dubose expresses disgust at Clyde’s weakness, and Clyde quickly gets him to admit to having set up the collision on the reservation. As a bonus, he gets Dubose’s Lieutenant, Hank, to implicate himself as well.