In the present, Hana stares at Luka’s face on the website in disbelief. She realizes that her bullets did not kill him. He is now, she is horrified to see, a diplomat at the highest level working with the UN. Just then, Dylan comes out of the bathroom. She looks at the light reflecting off his golden hair and then looks back to her computer: She realizes that Dylan looks just like Luka. She realizes that all these years, she was wrong about Zorić being Amina’s rapist and Sara’s father. Instead, it was Luka. Amina withheld this information from her. She now realizes that Zaim must have been blackmailing Luka. Dylan’s mere existence is evidence of Luka’s war crimes, and Luka surely wants to kill Dylan.

However, Luka does not know that she exists: No one is hunting her. Yet she is even more terrified now that she knows Dylan is the true target. Hana considers telling Claypool this information but realizes that Luka has diplomatic immunity and would not likely be prosecuted, all these years later, for his crimes. So, she decides to hunt him herself and realizes that she must draw him to her, dangerous as this will be.

A flashback shows Nura and Amina fleeing together. They are lucky to run into a Bosnian convoy, and Nura recognizes one of the soldiers. They are taken to a hospital, and Nura is elated to see Natasja. The two share stories of what has happened to them since their separation, and Nura learns that because of the information they gathered, the Bosnian offensive was a success. She also learns that she has been christened the “Night Mora” after a figure from Slavic myth and that the Serbians are accusing her of war crimes: The soldiers who brutally beat Nura also killed two other Bosnian women, whom they were taking to be sexually assaulted by Zorić and his men. The Serbs claim that Nura killed these women during their fight. Nura is shocked to learn that because she was captured and escaped, ordinary Serbian soldiers now think of her as a powerful, supernatural creature. Natasja explains that Nura must leave the country. False papers have been arranged, and she will flee to the United States under an assumed name. Nura insists that Amina, who is only 15, go with her.

In the present timeline, Hana purchases a shotgun and a trail camera. She intends to use the trail camera to track Luka’s movements and the shotgun to fatally shoot him. Although it would be better to kill Luka quickly, she realizes that she would rather make him aware of who she is before he dies. He must, she thinks, understand that he is paying for his sins with his life. She decides to set a large snare for him—the kind that her Babo taught her to make to snare rabbits after the war started and food supplies ran low. Using wire and weights, she constructs a hidden snare in her barn and designs it to lift Luka up into the air by his foot. She plans to draw him to her property and lie in wait.

As Hana comforts Dylan during Amina’s burial ceremony, she scans the cemetery. She knows that the ceremony’s program lists Amina as Dylan’s grandmother and her, Hana, as Amina’s best friend. She is sure that Luka will deduce from this that Dylan is likely to have been placed in her care.

She sees one car that looks out of place, but it turns out to be Claypool’s. Hana approaches him, but he is uninterested in talking. He explains that she has impeded his investigation and that her own inquiries into Amina’s death put her in danger. He tells her that he will soon have Amina’s therapy records, and Hana does her best to hide her emotions: Amina did not name her, but she knows that Claypool is smart enough to identify her as the woman whom Amina spoke of as Nura. As her mind whirs, she spots another man who seems out of place and looks like Luka. Wordlessly and without directly looking at any of the mourners, he walks through the cemetery and into the woods.

After the burial ceremony, Hana and Dylan return home. Hana checks her car for a tracking device and finds one. She thinks she has successfully lured Luka to her property. She comforts Dylan and is touched when he asks if he can call her “Mama Hana.” After the two spend a few quiet moments together, she explains that she has to do a few chores and that her friend Deb will watch him overnight. She knows that she cannot have Dylan on the property when Luka comes for him. She hopes that she will be able to kill Luka, but in case things go awry, she leaves a note for Claypool. In it, she explains who Luka is in relation to Amina and Dylan and begs him to protect Dylan.

Hana waits silently for Luka in her barn, watching the trail-camera app on her phone. She wishes that she had the blue marble to show him and to remind him of her murdered brother. Suddenly, she sees movement on the trail camera: Luka is approaching the barn holding what appears to be a pistol. He enters silently after peering in through the door. He approaches the snare, and Hana’s pulse quickens. When he steps into it, she is ready. He is lifted into the air by one foot and now hangs from the rafters. Swiftly, she charges at him with an axe, slicing the hand holding the firearm and causing him to drop it. Quietly, she approaches him and looks into his eyes.

Luka pleads with Hana, pretending to be an anonymous man whose car has broken down. Hana is not fooled and angrily identifies him by name, calling him the “killer of women and children” (283). Luka then switches tactics, claiming that he never killed anyone and that someone must be lying about him. She then tells him who she is, explaining that she watched as he shot her brother and his fellow soldiers beat her father to death and then raped and killed her mother. Luka falls momentarily silent. Then, he resumes his pleading: He claims that during the war, he was only following orders, and terrible things happen during wartime as a matter of course. Just as Hana is preparing to shoot him with his own pistol, she hears a car approaching the barn.

The car belongs to Claypool. Hana silently curses for accidentally leaving a light on in the house. Now, Claypool will know that she is home, and she must answer the door when he knocks. She stuffs a rag into Luka’s mouth and then slips into the house through the back. She lets Claypool in through the front door. He explains that he has read through Amina’s therapy notes. He now knows Hana’s entire story and that she is Nura.

Claypool asks Hana pointedly about Luka, and Hana explains that she did not know that Luka was Amina’s rapist until recently. All these years, she was sure it was Zorić. Claypool berates her for not sharing more of her story with him and explains that he has enough information to bring Luka in for questioning. Hana scoffs. She says that the Serbian army got away with a host of war crimes and the genocide of thousands of Bosnian men and children in Srebrenica. Luka is now a diplomat, so he will be flown swiftly back to Serbia and will never see punishment for his crimes. She says that Luka is ruthless and even tortured Zaim before killing him. He will apply this same ruthless spirit to getting rid of Dylan, whose DNA bears evidence of Luka raping Amina. Claypool looks saddened, but just then, they hear Luka faintly screaming from the barn.

Claypool and Hana enter the barn and see Luka swinging from his snare. Claypool is stunned, and Hana does her best to explain. She says that Claypool might be bound by professionalism and laws, but Hana is not. Luka killed her family and has every intention of killing Dylan, so she has a duty to kill him first. Luka spits out his gag and accuses Hana of being a war criminal. Claypool looks questioningly at her, but Hana remains calm. She explains that the Serbs falsely accused her of killing two Bosnian women whom they’d been holding captive. She would never have murdered her own countrywomen. Their accusations made no sense and were an obvious ploy. Claypool promises to sort everything out and reiterates that Hana cannot kill Luka without facing life in prison. Hana asks Claypool to make sure that Dylan lives a long and healthy life. She then shoots Luka through the temple.

Detective Claypool meets with the chief of security for the US Embassy in Bosnia, Delia Vance. A delegation of Serbian diplomats soon joins them. The Serbian diplomats are angry because the body of one of their own, Luka Savić, was found in the Mississippi River. His death was ruled a suicide, and the Serbs cry foul.

Remaining cool and collected, Vance explains that Luka was involved in blackmail and possibly murder in the United States. He was also in possession of an illegal firearm when his body was found. His gun was retrieved from the river very near his body. The model was a Serbian brand that is not legal to own in the US. She further explains that, because he was officially on a diplomatic mission, it would be difficult for the Serbian government if this information were to be made public. The US government is in possession of Luka’s laptop: It contains a wealth of information that proves his guilt. She suggests that they close the investigation now. The Serbian delegation seems to understand that it has been outsmarted, and its head representative, Igor Mitrović, quietly agrees.

Claypool and Hana sit on her porch watching Dylan play. She tells him that he did not need to help her in the way that he did, but he explains that after finding out what she and Amina suffered at Luka’s hands, he knew there was no other way. After his many years as a law-enforcement officer, he has come to understand that the legal system does not always work. Hana was right: Luka never would have been brought to justice. He also thinks that Hana is better off at home with Dylan than she would be in prison. He pulls out something from his pocket: It is the blue marble that Hana gave to Amina and that Amina was wearing at the time of her death. Hana feels at peace. The men who killed her family are dead, and there is no threat to Dylan. For the first time since leaving Bosnia, she feels that she can move on.