We Are All Guilty Here

In the station observation room, Emmy and Gerald watch while their colleague Lionel Faulkner interrogates Dale. Dale swears that the computer containing the child sexual abuse material wasn’t his, that he’s innocent, and that he had nothing to do with Cheyenne and Madison’s disappearance. Lionel reminds him he’ll be imprisoned either way. Dale still doesn’t budge. 

Emmy feels frustrated by Lionel’s techniques but realizes that Dale might not be “the pedophile [who] kidnapped” the girls after all (121). She and Gerald discuss the case, guessing at Dale’s involvement. They review what they know before heading to Taybee’s land, which borders Millie’s property. Upon arrival, Emmy receives a call from her pharmacist friend Louise Good, who informs her that Madison was on birth control. Afterwards, Emmy deduces that Madison was giving the pills to Cheyenne; her parents are strict and wouldn’t have let her go on the pill.

Emmy is going over everything she knows and musing on the broken necklace she found at the crime scene when she gets to Millie’s house. Millie called so many times in recent days because she wanted to tell Emmy that she’d seen Madison on her property the night prior. Madison often hung out by the pond with Millie’s farmhand,