Plot

Emma in freefall at her growing distrust of Pete. She changes the locks, avoids his calls. We see a flashback to how they met and the deal Karen made to gain witness protection. Their relationship disintegrates when she learns Pete lied about who the cabin belonged to and that it is his. When she finds an intimate picture of him with a young girl from his time at Saint Jerome House she fears for her own safety and moves into the storm shelter outside - where she finds items that hint at darker aspects of Pete's nature. Her growing paranoia derails the burgeoning connection with Tom who begins to ask about her life before coming to the town. While two key men in her life fall away, her connection to juveniles in the town intensifies as Emma digs deeper into the bayou mythology and the mysterious Abel through a friend of Jess' at the group home. Her relationship deepens with Rose who is secretly falling in love with her and hints at dangers in the town. A violent encounter over the cat she has stolen leads her to reach out again to Esther and learn of her death and then to flee the town in a vehicle she steals from Rose to get to Minnesota. We learn that Pete is married to the girl in the picture Emma found and that she was once his patient. John mines a growing intimacy with Esther as he draws out details that help him set the trap for Karen. Mary escapes the fallout of her exploitation of the Walkers and descends on Minnesota, surprising John on his mission. We see the beginning of a shift in the power dynamic of this relationship with John banishing Mary from contact with Esther but Mary sickened to learn that John has let Esther's confused mind believe he is her husband. Mary realising she has put this woman in possible danger goes to her to apologise. But her desire for answers leads to a terrible event, one secretly witnessed by John.