What Happens in Paradise

Irene drives Cash to the airport. Afterward, she calls her attorney, Ed, who informs her that the Iowa house was purchased with a cashier’s check from an offshore bank. Troubled, Irene leaves a voicemail for Paulette, the St. John property manager, to request Russ’s death certificate. She visits the office of Heartland Home and Style.

Irene confides in her boss, Mavis, about Russ’s death and resigns from her position at the magazine. Back home, she texts her friend, Lydia, that Russ has died. Her solitude is interrupted by four FBI agents, led by Agent Beckett. They present a search warrant, and Beckett questions Irene about Todd Croft before the agents seize all her electronic devices.

After the FBI departs, Irene discovers a secret compartment containing romantic postcards from St. John signed with the initials “M.L.” Realizing she has nothing left in Iowa, she calls Huck and tells him she will arrive in one week to start work as his first mate.

On the evening of Cash’s arrival in St. John, Ayers and her boyfriend, Mick, have a tense dinner. Mick senses she is hiding something, and Ayers is preoccupied with reading Rosie’s hidden journals.