Eugenia takes the contacts out of her eyes, then puts color remover in her hair. After the black is gone, she colors it blonde. She plays Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” on speakers throughout the house.

After packing what she needs, Eugenia gets the Swiss Army knife and goes into the basement. The woman is asleep on the bed from the sedatives. Eugenia kills her.

Returning to the bathroom, Eugenia pulls off her blood-stained shirt. She admires her tattoos, a python on her thigh and the black heart on her ribcage. She showers again, then leaves the house for the last time.

Ethan demands that Francis reveal Portia’s location. Francis replies that the information is in the Little Free Library in Veteran’s Park. He urges Ethan to hurry.

Ethan runs from the prison to Maddie, who is waiting in her police car. They drive as quickly as they can to Milwaukee, but it still takes over two hours. Ethan finds the Little Free Library. The envelope inside has Portia’s name with an address in Rome. Ethan notes that it is the same town that Eugenia lives in, just over two hours away.

Eugenia drives to the spot where she abandoned her car along the highway. She thinks of killing the woman in the basement. She knows that she has no “regrets” for anything that she did; however, it cannot stop her from thinking about the feeling of killing someone.

Eugenia finds a spot where the highway turns sharply, forcing vehicles to slow down. She waits for over two hours until she spots the transport van from the prison. She puts her vehicle in the middle of the road and turns on her hazard lights, then checks to ensure that her handgun is loaded.

Andre Monroe drives the van along the highway. He marvels at the fact that Francis managed to get transferred; it disappoints him. He checks the camera feed to see that Francis is standing in the back, tethered to the ceiling. There is another guard sitting next to him.

Monroe sees Eugenia struggling with her car, noting that she is attractive. The other guard reports it over the radio. When Monroe pulls over, Eugenia asks him for help with her engine.

Maddie drives as fast as she can toward the address. She questions whether they should get backup, but Ethan is worried it will be a trap or a dead end. They agree to hold off for now.

As Monroe turns to talk to his partner, his partner’s head explodes. He turns back and sees Eugenia pointing a gun at him. She tells him to get out and move to the back of the van. When she asks him to open the back, he refuses, so she shoots him in the leg. She demands the keys from him and starts to unlock it.

Monroe crawls toward the driver’s door, desperate to attempt to drive away. Just as he manages to pull himself up to the driver’s seat, Eugenia appears in the other door. She turns off the van and pulls out the keys. Behind her, Francis appears. He smiles at Monroe.

Arriving at the address, Ethan and Maddie get out of the car with their guns drawn. When no one answers the door, Ethan kicks it down.

Once Francis is entirely free from the transport suit, he kisses Eugenia. He tells her to leave the gun on the ground and return to her car. He walks around the van to where Monroe is on the ground. He puts the shotgun in Monroe’s mouth and pulls the trigger.

Ethan and Maddie check the first floor of the house. They find a pack of Blake’s cigarettes. Maddie asks if they should call someone to go to Blake’s cottage, but Ethan suggests they wait. They then realize that music is coming from the basement. They descend the stairs, finding a locked door with a slot in it at the end of the hallway. Hanging from a hook nearby is the key. They find a woman that Ethan recognizes as Portia on the bed. After a moment, she sits up, clearly overwhelmed with relief.

Ethan gets a call from Pete. He tells her that they found Portia alive. However, Pete interrupts him to tell him that Francis escaped. A car at the scene belonged to Eugenia. Pete is at her house now, preparing to go inside the home.

Deciding that he can’t wait any longer, Pete approaches Eugenia’s home. He finds that the garage door is open as well as the door leading into the house. As he approaches, he hears “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” playing.

Ethan and Maddie go to Eugenia’s home. Pete explains that they found Eugenia’s dead body in the basement, along with a shrine to Francis. Her visits to Francis and her car by the transport van lead them to believe that she helped Francis escape. However, video footage from the van shows a tall, blonde woman with a tattoo. Pete speculates that it could have been Eugenia in disguise, and then Francis brought her back here and killed her.

Christian calls Ethan, insisting that he has more information that Ethan needs to see. He keeps the information from Pete and Maddie for now. He ensures that Maddie is going to have protection until Francis is found, then leaves.

Lindsay arrives at the Prescott estate. She hits the buzzer at the gate, knowing that it rings in Blake’s cottage, as she has visited him many times before. When she gets to his cottage, he invites her in for a drink. As she walks by him, Lindsay thinks about how Blake “had, ever since she first laid eyes on him in high school, spun her world in circles” (257).

As they drink whiskey together, Blake questions why Lindsay is there. She climbs onto his lap and they start kissing before going to his bedroom.

Christian shows Ethan the list of clients that Lindsay has met with recently. When he clicks on the one from July 30, it reveals that Blake Cordis was the anonymous client. When Ethan reacts with puzzlement, noting how his instincts had been wrong, Christian stops him. He explains that someone wanted it to look like the call came from Blake and his computer. In reality, the truth was further encoded.

Christian plays the video from Lindsay’s session. The client’s face and voice are still masked. Christian instructs Ethan to hit the escape button. When he does so, the image returns to normal. After a moment, Ethan realizes that he is looking at Lindsay confessing to herself.

After Lindsay has sex with Blake, she gets up and gets dressed. She thinks of all the clues she left that would lead back to Blake: She purchased the home where Portia was found with a trust tied to him, gave Ethan the disposable phone, and orchestrated the anonymous confession from Blake. She is sure that it is only a matter of time before Blake is arrested.

As she starts to leave, she asks Blake if he remembers the night he took her virginity. She admits that she wasn’t sure what to call him, as both “coach” and his name felt weird. She accuses him of having sex with her and then immediately going to Callie a week later and falling in love with her.

Blake tries to insist that that’s not how it happened, but Lindsay tells him that she saw the text messages about Callie’s pregnancy. She laughs at the fact that she is now extremely wealthy and powerful while he is a gardener. On her way out the door, she tells him that “tonight was about nothing more than [her] taking back what’s [hers],” calling him “Coach” as she leaves (264).

As Lindsay drives away from Blake’s home, she prides herself on her plan succeeding. She had considered getting revenge on Blake for years. After Callie was gone, she assumed that she and Blake would be together. However, he had always resisted her advances; tonight was the first time they had sex since she was 17.

Lindsay thinks back to the day that Callie went missing. Lindsay was heartbroken that nothing else ever happened with Blake. She tried to reach out to him, but he kept insisting that he was only her coach. That morning, she went into his office after practice to try to talk to him. He brushed her off and left for a budget meeting. In tears, Lindsay was about to leave when she heard a phone go off. She found the disposable phone with a message from Callie saying that she loved him. Lindsay took the phone and left.

At The Crest, Lindsay texts back and forth with Callie. When Callie leaves, Lindsay takes a 4x4 Ranger and drives quickly to the pier. She finds a golf club in the backseat and waits in the dark for Callie. When she finally arrives on the pier, Lindsay hits her three times with the club.

As Lindsay arrives at home, she thinks over how successful her plan was. After she failed to win Blake back, she kept the disposable phone and the golf club for years. She was going to use them to frame Blake, but part of her still loved him. However, after his relationship with Portia, she finally decided to put her plan in place.

Lindsay had Eugenia as a client. Through her, she learned of Francis. At the same time, she learned of the reopening of Callie’s case and Francis’s connection to Ethan. She went through her list of potential clients from the prison, something Lindsay did pro bono. When she found Francis on the list, she set up a session with him. She proposed her plan, wanting to use him to get the evidence to Ethan in exchange for a transfer. However, it never occurred to her that Francis would set up an escape plan on his own.

As Lindsay enters her home, she is anxious to see the rest of her plan unfold. The last part is the coordinates of Callie’s body. She put her body into a barrel at an abandoned nuclear power plant and dumped it into the lake. To her delight, a few years later, the Prescott family bought the land and has left it abandoned ever since.

When Lindsay enters the kitchen and turns on the light, she finds Francis seated at her table. He smiles as he greets her, his T-shirt splattered with blood. Lindsay doesn’t know that “the blood belonged to Andrew Monroe, the other person who had tried to take advantage of [Francis] while he was in prison” (278).

Ethan arrives at Lindsay’s home. There are several other police cars, as well as Maddie and Pete. He instructs Maddie to make the arrest, knowing that his temporary appointment by the DCI would be scrutinized in court.

As Maddie knocks on Lindsay’s front door, it opens. She yells to her but gets no answer. Drawing her weapons, she, Pete, and Ethan enter the home. They find Lindsay at her kitchen table, strangled. In her blood on the table are the words, “Close Ethan, So Close” (280).