On Saturday, October 10, Camille and Silas have an honest conversation, and Silas tells her everything that happened 10 years ago. Camille finally understands the darkness that’s hung over Silas for years. Silas tells Camille that by the time he found out the Prices had died because of him, it was too late to take responsibility and tell the truth, as Randall had already orchestrated a coverup and no one would have believed Silas. Camille understands, as Randall’s power and influence mean no one can stand against him.

Silas advises Camille to go to St. Francisville and wait for Aubrey to finish their planned alibi and to keep Aubrey in the dark about Ben’s discovery of their plan while Silas goes to the Bayliss house to talk to Ben.

Camille follows Aubrey to Chantilly’s and watches from the parking lot. Silas arrives, and Camille calls him until Silas comes over to her car. He tells her that Ben didn’t answer the door when he knocked, so he decided to check on Aubrey to make sure she’s safe from Ben’s seedy PI. Silas feels obligated to Aubrey. Camille asks Silas if he knew Margaret was visiting Ben, and Silas says he didn’t because he had promised Margaret that he would handle it.

Silas had someone follow Aubrey to keep her safe from Ben and Randall. After Paul’s case ended up on Hank’s desk, Hank visited Paul at Angola and told Ben that a man had new evidence that could exonerate Paul. Randall put a tail on Foster and followed him to Doug’s Tavern, where Aubrey works, though Foster never talked to her. Ben bought the Mustang to get closer to Aubrey.

Camille feels guilty for involving Aubrey and potentially placing her in Randall’s crosshairs, but Silas blames Foster for involving her instead of taking his information to uncorrupt police or the media. Silas has complicated feelings about Paul, as he thinks Paul would’ve ended up in Angola for the myriad other crimes he was committing. Camille worries that Silas is turning into Randall, and Silas assures her that though he’s been metaphorically imprisoned in Corbeau at Randall’s side, he’s tried to mitigate the harm Randall causes.

Silas tells Camille to come to his house the next day instead of going back to Baton Rouge, then heads into the bar. Camille knows that if she doesn’t act now, she’ll lose her nerve. She plans to go home and ask Ben for a divorce.

On Wednesday, October 14, Camille tearfully arrives at Bayliss and Landry after Silas drops her off. Hank spends an hour preparing her for Sully’s questioning. Sully arrives and starts the recording. He asks Camille the same questions as he did after she discovered Ben’s body to make sure her answers are recorded.

Camille walks Sully through her night in St. Francisville and her outing at Chantilly’s, and when Sully tells her a bartender says she spent time with a man at the bar, Camille reveals the man is Silas and offers to let Sully interview Silas to corroborate her story. Hank cringes at Camille’s phrasing, as it makes it seem as if she and Silas rehearsed their story. Hank notes that Sully reacts similarly. Hank asks Sully if Camille is a suspect, and he says she isn’t “at this time” (220).

Sully pulls out a photo of Ben from a recent interview in a lifestyle magazine. Ben sits smugly at his home office desk, and Sully points out the objects on the desk: A decorative gavel from a judge, a set of scales from Ben’s mother as a law school graduation gift, and a decorative knife in a case. Sully asks Camille if those items are usually on Ben’s desk, and she says they are.

Sully reveals that the preliminary results from Ben’s autopsy found that he died from multiple stab wounds, and the knife and its case are missing. Camille starts sobbing before she says she had the knife made for Ben for a Christmas gift, with a hilt from an antler of a deer Ben shot. Camille promises to give Sully the knife’s details from the certificate she has on file. Hank knows that the media will assume Camille’s guilt if the knife goes public, and Sully assures him that the police are keeping it secret, especially since the knife’s still missing.

Sully asks Camille if she and Ben were having marital problems, and she denies it. Hank ends the questioning.

Aubrey considers how best to destroy her laptop. She has no alibi of her own, as she spent all of Saturday providing Camille’s, and she thinks her search history, including information about Camille and Ben, looks damning. Aubrey’s phone did nothing for 12 hours, which looks bad, and her presence at Angola can’t help her because she left before Ben died. Her housemates would likely lie for her, but the word of a houseful of criminals won’t help her.

Deacon arrives and offers to help Aubrey destroy the laptop. They hammer it into pieces and go to throw the pieces into a river that leads into the Gulf of Mexico. Aubrey asks to stop at her parents’ graves beforehand, and Deacon waits for her in the car. Ten years ago, the Prices went to attend a wedding in Corbeau, and Aubrey was supposed to go with them but instead went to a concert in New Orleans. Aubrey leaves flowers beside their headstones and promises to find out what happened the night they died.

Hank stops the questioning, and Sully asks to talk to Silas. Camille texts him and asks him to come upstairs for questioning. Sully asks Silas to corroborate Camille’s story, and once he does, Sully keeps pushing, asking Silas where he was between 6:00 and 8:00 pm, which is the coroner’s estimation of Ben’s time of death. Camille feels anxious, as Silas claimed he tried to contact Ben during those hours but got no answer. Silas says he was at the family farm and that Margaret can corroborate his story. Hank shuts down the questioning and sends Sully away.

Once alone with Camille and Hank, Silas asks Hank if Camille’s a suspect, and Hank says he doesn’t think so. Silas tells Hank why Ben wanted to dissolve their partnership: Ben thought he could “dirty [Hank] up,” and once he realized Hank was unwilling to bend the law to his will, Ben wanted to get rid of him (237). Silas threatens Hank to motivate him to make sure he takes care of Camille.

Silas and Camille leave, and Camille criticizes him for threatening Hank, but Silas tells her it’s important that Hank knows the forces he’s up against. Silas assures Camille that he didn’t kill Ben. He also tells her that Foster amassed large amounts of evidence of what Randall asked him to do and went on a forgiveness tour after his cancer diagnosis. Camille tells Silas about the safe in Foster’s house and Ben’s key, which might still be in his office. Silas asks Camille why she didn’t tell him about the safe before, and she says she worried about what would happen if Silas and Ben ran into each other there.

On Thursday, October 15, Hank visits Sully at the police precinct. Sully asks him how he’s doing, and Hank honestly discusses his grief and confusion over Ben’s death. Sully gives Hank back several of Ben’s things, but not Ben’s phone. Hank again reiterates that Camille shouldn’t be a suspect, but Sully makes it clear that though there’s no clear suspect, he can’t rule out Camille or even Hank himself.

Sully shows Hank a photo someone sent Ben mere hours before his death, supposedly of Camille in St. Francisville. Hank can see it’s not Camille, and Sully then tells Hank that he saw the open file on Ben’s desk with the name “Aubrey Price.” He shows a photo of Aubrey, making it clear that Aubrey is the woman impersonating Camille. Sully says that Aubrey lives with the men who brought Ben the car on the day he died, and her parents died in Corbeau in an accident caused by a man who lived near Ben. Hank dismisses Sully’s information as coincidence, but privately he begins to panic.

Hank leaves the precinct and goes to Doug’s Tavern to meet Aubrey. He orders a beer and asks Aubrey about her presence at Ben’s Rosary. She lies and claims that Camille attended Serenity’s yoga classes, so Serenity wanted to go and asked Aubrey to go with her before flaking last minute. Hank asks Aubrey if she was in St. Francisville on Saturday, and Aubrey avoids answering before telling Hank to leave. Hank insists he just wants to make sense of Ben’s death, and Aubrey says she’s got a lot to make sense of, too.

Deacon appears and escorts Hank out, telling Hank that Camille knows more than she’s letting on. Hank gives Deacon his card in case he has more information for him.

On Friday, October 16, Deacon drives Aubrey home after she leaves work early and finds Serenity throwing a backyard birthday party for her boyfriend, Frank. The noise is loud in Aubrey’s room, and Deacon insists Aubrey take a bath in his room and sleep there. Aubrey tries to decline, but Deacon insists and says seeing Aubrey in his bed would be a welcome sight. Aubrey realizes she has feelings for Deacon and has let him into her life in a way she hasn’t with anyone since her parents’ death. They confess their feelings for each other and hold hands before he has to go to work for Chris. Deacon tells Aubrey to be waiting for him in his bed.

Aubrey goes inside and prepares to shower. When she searches for the pajama drawer, something sharp cuts her. She moves the clothes aside to find Ben’s missing knife. She screams, realizing someone’s trying to frame her, and Eddie and Shane rush in. Eddie uses a pair of sleep shorts as a barrier and picks up the knife, and Shane tells him they need to get the knife out of Aubrey’s room.

Aubrey follows them to the garage, where they hide the knife in the oil pan of a car they’re working on. They sit Aubrey down and warn her the police will come to search the house within an hour, and Aubrey must act surprised that the police are interrupting their roommate’s boyfriend’s birthday party. They call Deacon and inform him what happened.

The police arrive with a warrant to search Aubrey’s room and any common areas she can access. They search the house until 1:00 am, finding nothing. Eddie and Shane search the house for any damage or evidence that the police exceeded the bounds of the warrant. Deacon arrives after they leave and calls Hank.

Hank arrives 45 minutes later and walks through the areas the police searched. He finds letters and gifts from Paul Granger spread out in Aubrey’s room, illustrating that the police found them. Hank looks at the leather goods Paul made in prison and their accompanying letters, and notices that one of the letters is typed while the others are handwritten. The typed letter accompanied a jewelry box with a St. Anthony card inside it.

Deacon warns Hank that he can’t protect Camille without protecting Aubrey, too. Hank doesn’t know what to make of everything and leaves, advising the group to call him if they need a recommendation for another lawyer. Aubrey goes to Deacon’s room to sleep; she decides to stop waiting and joins Deacon in the shower.

The narrative jumps back to 10 years prior. Ben drives Silas back to Corbeau in silence. Ben tries to make conversation, but Silas tells Ben he isn’t appreciative of Ben lying for him, since he only did it to gain Randall’s trust. Ben reminds Silas that he should be grateful he isn’t going to jail, but all Silas feels is guilt. Ben drops Silas off at the Everett house to give his statement to Foster.

Ben then drives to Margaret’s house. He knocks on her front door, but she doesn’t answer, and her parents are both at work. He sneaks around the side and knocks on her window, and she lets him in. He checks on her, but Margaret thinks he just wants to ensure that she’ll keep Ben’s secret. She tells him that two people died in the crash, which Ben knows will add to Silas’s guilt. He tells her to call Silas, and she asks Ben if Randall referred to him as part of the family, and Ben says that he did. Ben tells Margaret that they need to stick together, and Margaret agrees.