Deputy Garrett and Deputy Stoll arrive at Denis Farrell’s house. Denis tells them Lisa shot at him. After looking through the living room and study, the deputies realize Lisa took the boy and escaped through the patio door. Denis orders the deputies to get every police car to block the ways out of Thief River Falls and alert the nearby towns. Denis’s goal is to keep Lisa contained in town so she can’t escape. Denis also tells them to alert the Canadian border so Lisa can’t escape into Canada. Denis says they should explain that Lisa is a threat; after all, she shot at Denis, and she’s clearly armed. Denis explains, “If she becomes a risk to anyone’s safety, then we fire back. We have no choice. We treat this like any other active shooter situation” (262). Finally, Deputy Garrett asks if Denis knows what happened to the boy. Denis replies, “I still don’t know where Harlan is. I don’t know where she took him” (262).

Meanwhile, the cemetery groundskeeper meets a mother and her teenage daughter at the cemetery. The teenager, Katy, claims to have seen Lisa Powers burying a body a few nights prior, and digging in the cemetery again earlier that night.