- Ham's brother goes missing in Afghanistan and Grace's car turns out to be more valuable than she thought, given the money in the door.
- After working security at his art show, Grace is met with profane hostility from Ham's brother Nick, who disapproves of her relationship with Ham. That same night the door of Grace's Porsche is knocked off by a speeding car, sending a long-hidden stash of money flying all over the parking lot. An investigation leads to an inquiry into the car's past owners, and the connection of the cash with a casino robbery where an officer was killed almost 30 years earlier. Ham's brother Rafe goes missing in Afghanistan, sending Ham into emotional turmoil. Rafe is finally rescued, but he dies of his wounds before he makes it home.
- At an art show, the group runs surveillance. Ham asks a dressed up Grace to go on a real date. They chat with Ham's brother, Nick, who owns the place.
Grace runs into an older woman she knows. She turns and knocks over a statue. It's a fake, a practical joke. Nick follows Grace out to her car and confronts her about Ham, asking if she loves him. When she dodges the question, he asks if she's a whore and tells her to stay away from Ham. He chucks her car keys into the nearby brush.
She leaves her door open to go look for the keys, and Earl stops by to chat. As he's prodding her over why she couldn't answer Nick's question, a car tears through the parking lot and bashes off Grace's Porsche car door. Bills flutter everywhere, spilling from the smashed door.
Back at the station, no one believes her. She shows them the Frontier Casino chip she found, too. They finally believe her when she says if it's a joke she'll wear a "puke orange Longhorn's shirt to every (Oklahoma) game this year."
She's had the car for nine years. The guy she bought it from shows up, inquiring about "Connie." He tells stories of driving cross country in "her."
Grace learns that he won it in a backroom card game off a kid, with a royal flush. He can't quite remember his name, but he lived on a farm out east.
Grace checks in with Rhetta, who's been tasked with examining the money. She's freaking out Grace had $220,465 in the door of her car. She imagines what she'd do with the money. It's from at least 1977. One stack has a bullet hole in it.
Butch talks to Nelson the super-concerned mechanic. Bobby reports that two masked men robbed the casino in 1980 and were never caught. One had a scar on his hand, the other chewed gum. They look into the farmhouse's ownership.
Ham's brother comes by and Grace avoids him. She sees he's having trouble walking in, so she goes to talk to him, getting Ham for him.
They talk in the hall, Grace watches. It's bad news. Grace looks on like a woman in love with a man in pain.
She talks to Ham in the stairway. His Marine brother's entire platoon in Afghanistan is missing. She tries to reassure him. She prays with him, kissing him as he leaves. She's shaking. Earl shows up, commending her for praying.
Butch's connected mother is pulling her DC strings. He briefs Grace on the hold-up. There's little info and a murdered highway patrolman.
Bobby has info on the farmhouse people, the Jenny's. The kid is the one who lost it in the car game. His dad Morgan Jenny had an arrest for armed robbery. He had a scar on his hand, just like the casino robbery suspect. They look for his partner.
Grace talks to the kid grown-up now. He says dad bought the car in 1981. He keeps talking, saying that Barry Switzer won it in a card game and owned it for three months. Grace can't believe the former Sooners coach owned her Connie.
Butch talks to the daughter, who works for the Lt. governor now. She was seven at the time, claims she doesn't remember much from then.
Perry talks to the dead patrolman's father, who's still proud his son dragged himself 20 feet as he bled to death to call in the car plate, which turned out to be stolen.
Grace brings Ham food and listens to him talk about his family.
Nick drops by Ham's place the next morning. Ham's in the shower. Nick's not happy Grace spent the night. He asks her if she's going to be his rock if things turn back with their little brother. Ham comes out in time to hear and shoves him, then follows Grace out when she makes a quick exit.
Her rental car is a purple PT Cruiser, which Ham finds hilarious. He gets in a good cathartic laugh.
At the station, Butch thinks he's found the partner, Jenny's former cell mate, now an important landowner around town. They're looking for a suspect who chewed gum.
They talk to the man, Mr. Marshall. He's chomping away on gum.
Ham is tense, wound up. He calls a major for information, but gets none. Bobby and Butch listen to him rant, then hand him a nearby stool, which he bangs against the walls of the holding cell.
Grace goes to the garage to check on Connie. She's a shell of her former self. Grace demands Rhetta call Nelson the attentive mechanic. Rhetta found various items, including an old kind of tool.
Her phone rings, it's Butch. Grace finds Ham at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station office, demanding answers. He's told his brother was wounded and is being medivaced to Germany. But he is alive.
Grace puzzles out the murder scene with her dog Gus. Earl shows up, saying there is a lot of good karma out there for Ham's brother. Grace eats her cereal. He asks her if she believes her life is preordained. She doesn't buy it. She says everything's predetermined, but they're given free will. She flicks cereal in his face.
Back at the station, they've figured out where Jenny and Marshall might have had to stop because their car was leaking gas. They decide to check there for the murder weapon.
Just then, Switzer walks in, responding to a call he got about his car. Perry falls over herself to meet him. He recognizes Butch as a local high school kid who ended up playing for Texas. A visual power struggle ensues, Sooner against Longhorn, neither wanting to give.
Meanwhile, Rhetta has found a fingerprint in gum taken from the car. Butch and Bobby bring in Marshall the land developer. They present him to the dead patrolman's dad, who stares him down.
Grace checks in on Nelson, putting Connie back together. Grace asks him to fix something and he goes for the specific tool. It's missing, the one that was in the car door. Grace asks him how long he's been taking money and why he didn't just take it all. For a long time he says, and because he knew he'd spend it all.
The gang celebrates at the bar. Grace comes in, excited Connie is back in shape. Ham drags Grace to the back of the bar, where Rhetta is mooning over Switzer. Grace drops to her knees and crosses herself. She tells Barry with reverence, "I've tried to live my entire life based on the Wishbone offense."
Switzer asks how Connie is doing and says he'd love one more spin. He presents Grace with an OU football signed by Steve Owens, Billy Simms and Jason White (three of OU's five Heisman Trophy winners).
He drives around with Grace in the passenger seat, the OU fight song, "Boomer Sooner" blaring.
Back in the bar, staring at the football, Rhetta proclaims it to be one of the best days of her life.
Ham's brother Nick shows up, dressed in black and looking stricken. He goes to talk to Ham outside. Grace follows. Ham sees her. She tells Nick she'll take him to their mother's. Their brother died in the plane on the way to Germany. Grace hugs him, he wraps his arms around her.
Cut to the Marine's flag-draped coffin being carried off the plane, one of many. Earl stands watch.
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