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Lucy visits Ira, who is listening to old music and looking at pictures of his VW Beetle. Lucy considers how the world has endured seemingly unconquerable hardships through every generation. She asks Ira about Manolo Santiago, but Ira refuses to discuss the mystery visitor. Lucy suspects that Santiago asked about the camp, and Ira suddenly cries and grieves for the dead teenagers. He blames himself for not protecting them all.
Lucy tries to get Ira to elaborate, but he screams and huddles in a corner. Nurse Rebecca brings a doctor and a sedative to the room. Lucy impedes them from drugging her father, since she still wants to talk, but the doctor reminds Lucy that the decision is Ira’s. Ira claims that he told Santiago nothing, and then he lets Rebecca administer the sedative. Ira’s ease reminds Lucy of when he smoked marijuana. His drug use increased after the murders, and Lucy wonders if he was trying to escape his guilt.
Paul meets with FBI profiler Geoff Bedford and shares his theory that Wayne may not have killed the Camp PLUS teens. Wayne only killed boys, so Margot and Camille don’t fit his type. Bedford refuses to entertain the theory and reasserts the accepted story.