This Book Will Bury Me

Citizen, Goku, Lightly, and Jane bring the recording into the investigation headquarters. In it, Odell confesses to killing the women, describing the godlike power that killing bestows upon the murderer. He explains that for him, it is better than sex. Jane pulls Hale, their FBI contact, aside and explains her theory: Lizzie committed the first murders, and then Odell killed the next set of victims because he figured that they would be blamed on the first killer and that he could get away with the crime. She also tells him that Mistress seems to be missing. Hale does not take her seriously.

Jane returns to the house, worried about Mistress. She clutches her father’s urn for comfort and decides that she must look for Mistress herself. She picks the lock on Mistress’s bedroom door and searches through her notes. She finds one in which Mistress appears to have been looking into Citizen. Curious about why her friend would seem so suspicious of one of their group, Jane tiptoes into Citizen’s room. He is still at the station, but she is wary of being caught in someone’s room again. Nevertheless, she knows his password and accesses his laptop. She finds a gruesome trove of crime-scene photos but also a shot of his kitchen, saved as his video-chat background.