Sam visits Edward at Sweetbay Village, where a nurse named Miguel escorts her to the Chief’s room, flirting along the way. He mentions a recent death at the facility and says Edward has been proudly telling everyone about Sam’s true-crime writing career, suggesting she should visit more often. Sam clarifies that Edward is her boyfriend’s grandfather, not hers.

Edward opens his door looking exhausted and irritable, but his mood lifts when Sam reveals that she brought cannolis from the Green Bean bakery. He invites her in. He shares that he once dated Marie Cossetto, the bakery’s owner, before she married Paulie Cossetto, who later went to prison. Edward muses that good people do bad things and vice versa.

Sam brings up two recent murders: Bonnie Tidwell, a friend of her late mother, and a teenage girl in Marysville. The Marysville victim was raped, strangled, and had her left hand removed below the wrist, echoing the Butcher’s signature. Edward dismisses it as a copycat and insists that Rufus Wedge was guilty. Sam shares her theory that Wedge was not the real Butcher. Edward laughs it off and suggests they eat the cannolis.