Loren questions Lance about Matt, revealing that she is looking into the suspicious death of Sister Mary Rose. Later, Loren travels to Lockwood Corp. in Delaware and asks the company lawyer, Randal Horne, for information connected to the nun’s breast implants. Horne refuses to provide the records without a subpoena.

Loren correctly deduces that Horne’s company had initially been cooperative but was instructed to stop by the FBI. This leads her to theorize that Sister Mary Rose was a fugitive or a protected witness whom the FBI was tracking. As Loren drives back to New Jersey, she receives two urgent messages from her boss, County Prosecutor Ed Steinberg, telling her to come to his office immediately due to a major problem.

In the Las Vegas FBI Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Adam Yates lives with the constant fear that his past mistakes will be exposed. His chief advisor, Cal Dollinger, enters his office with grim news: The “older one” has been found dead in New Jersey. She had been living as a nun and was identified by the serial numbers on her surgical implants. After a brief discussion about a “tape,” Yates and Dollinger decide they must travel to New Jersey immediately.

Sonya McGrath is at home when her husband, Clark, confronts her. He reveals that he hired a private investigator and knows she has been secretly meeting with Matt Hunter. Sonya maintains that the death of their son, Stephen, was an accident and that Matt is consumed by guilt. Clark is dismissive, stating that whether it was an accident or murder is irrelevant because their son is still dead. When Sonya asks if he wants her to stop seeing Matt, Clark leaves the house without answering, leaving her alone.

Loren meets with Ed Steinberg at his office. He informs her that crime lab technicians found eight sets of fingerprints in Sister Mary Rose’s convent room. One of these sets belongs to Max Darrow, a retired homicide detective from Raleigh Heights, Nevada. Steinberg then delivers a stunning revelation: Darrow’s body was recently discovered in a cemetery in Newark. He had been shot twice in the head.

Drunk and sitting in the rain, Matt stares at the house he and Olivia are under contract to buy. The downpour ends a long drought, and it suddenly strikes Matt that the raindrops visible on the window in Talley’s photograph contradict the recent three-week drought in the Northeast, suggesting the photo was taken elsewhere or at a different time. His thoughts are interrupted by Lance Banner, who finds him and gives him a ride home. During the drive, Lance questions Matt about St. Margaret’s school and Sister Mary Rose, revealing that their old classmate, Loren Muse, is an investigator on the case.

Back at home, Matt finds a voicemail from Loren Muse asking for a return call. He tries to phone Cingle Shaker, but gets her voicemail. He then retrieves a lockbox from his closet, which contains a Mauser M2 semiautomatic pistol he bought illegally after his release from prison. As Matt prepares to leave the house, he is surprised to find Loren standing on his front stoop.

On his stoop, Loren questions Matt about Sister Mary Rose, but he denies knowing the nun or having any idea why she would have called his sister-in-law’s house. Loren then asks if he knows a man named Max Darrow from Raleigh Heights, Nevada. Although Matt denies it, Loren notices a brief, almost imperceptible flicker of recognition in his eyes. Matt refuses to answer any more questions, tells Loren he is heading to the MVD offices, and promptly leaves.

Matt meets Cingle at her office and explains that the police have been questioning him. They analyze the images from his phone and make two critical discoveries. First, the photograph of Charles Talley was taken on a rainy day, while the video of the woman in the wig was filmed in bright sunlight, proving they were staged at different times. Second, the man in the video has no wedding ring, whereas the backside of a ring is clearly visible in the still photograph of Talley, confirming the man in the video is not Talley and that the images are part of a setup. Cingle’s research reveals that Talley previously served time in a prison in Lovelock, Nevada. Just then, one of her sources reports Talley’s current location: He is staying at the Howard Johnson’s hotel near Newark Airport.

Matt calls Charles Talley’s room at the Howard Johnson’s and confirms the voice on the phone is the same man who had taunted him earlier. Cingle drives Matt to the hotel, where she has him call her cell phone and leave the line open, creating a one-way listening device so she can monitor the situation from the car. Matt goes up to Room 515 and knocks. Talley opens the door, pretending to be in the middle of a cell phone conversation, and gestures for Matt to come inside.

Loren thinks about Matt’s possible connection to Max Darrow. After discreetly following him to the MVD offices and taking note of the cars parked outside, she decides Matt is telling the truth and returns home. Loren takes out the trash and is badgered by her mother, Carmen, about staying out late without telling her where she would be. This leads to a brief argument where Loren admits that she would rather live without Carmen, an answer that horrifies her mother. Loren apologizes after her mother explains that she just doesn’t want Loren to be alone. Loren retreats to her room, where she reflects on a new boyfriend who has stopped talking to her.

Steinberg e-mails Loren the file on Max Darrow’s murder. The file connects Darrow to a rental Ford Taurus and a room at the Newark Airport Howard Johnson’s hotel. Darrow’s corpse was found in the car, staged to look as though he had been robbed by a sex worker he hired. Loren cannot reconcile this, however, with the evidence of Darrow’s presence in Sister Mary Rose’s room. She soon realizes that Darrow was killed by a companion, someone he had been traveling with from the moment he arrived in Newark. Unable to sleep, Loren proceeds to the Howard Johnson’s.

From Charles Talley’s perspective, the plan to tail Matt Hunter has gone wrong. Not only did Matt spot him, but Matt somehow learned his full name. Confused and awaiting new instructions, Talley arms himself with brass knuckles and a stun gun disguised as a cell phone. When Matt knocks on his door, Talley decides to ambush him. He opens the door while faking a phone call and lures Matt into the room.

As soon as Matt steps into Room 515, Charles Talley ambushes him, pressing a stun gun to his chest. While Matt is stunned by the electric shock, Talley strikes him in the ribs with brass knuckles. Talley repeatedly uses the stun gun to keep Matt incapacitated while continuing to beat him. After several blows to the chest and head, Matt loses consciousness.

In the parking lot, Cingle hears sounds of a struggle over the open phone line. She had accidentally left the mute button on when she first called out to Matt; after finding and releasing it, she hears an unfamiliar voice before the call disconnects entirely. She rushes into the hotel lobby, draws her gun on the night clerk, and orders him to call the police. Taking the elevator to the fifth floor, she hears someone running away down a stairwell. Cingle finds the door to Room 515 open and discovers Matt on the floor, unconscious and bleeding from a head wound. Kneeling beside him, distraught and tearful, is his wife, Olivia.

Loren arrives at the Howard Johnson’s and immediately recognizes Cingle Shaker’s Lexus parked by the entrance. The night clerk, Ernie, informs her that police and an ambulance have already come and gone. He explains that a man was badly beaten, a tall woman was arrested, and another woman, believed to be the victim’s wife, accompanied the man in the ambulance. Ernie checks the hotel registry for the name of the wife, who had been staying at the hotel for the past two days. He identifies her as Olivia Hunter, the guest in Room 522. After learning they were taken to Beth Israel Hospital, Loren rushes to the hospital.