The Missing Half

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual violence, rape, alcohol use and addiction, cursing, and death.

In the truck, Nic and Jenna discuss how surprising it is to get new information; they assume the police would have told them Steve’s name. Jenna gives her peanut M&Ms, a gesture that touches Nic because she has so few people who care about her. As Jenna drops her off for work, Nic calls Detective Wyler and leaves a voicemail when he doesn’t answer.

After work, her manager Brad calls Nic into his office. He tells her that he overheard her on the phone earlier, saying Detective Wyler’s name. Nic realizes how much it must affect Brad to talk about Kasey—he and his wife Sandy were deeply affected by the case. After Nic’s mother started drinking more and then moved to Florida following Kasey’s disappearance, Brad and Sandy stepped in to help Nic.

Brad asks Nic if she is sure that she wants to get into the case again. When Nic assures him that she wants to, he offers to help in any way he can. Nic then tells him about Steve, but Brad says he never heard the name before.

Sandy interrupts their conversation and gives Nic brownies that she made.