Contains spoilers for this episode and earlier episodes.
Hanzee pursues Peggy and Ed from the motel and shoots Ed in the back. The couple reach a supermarket and hide in its meat locker, where Ed says that their marriage cannot survive. Peggy sees smoke entering and believes Hanzee is trying to burn them out. When she opens the door to fight, Lou and Ben are waiting instead. There is no fire, and Ed has died from his wound. Lou arrests Peggy and drives her back to Minnesota. She speaks about the limits placed on her life and asks to be imprisoned in California, while Lou reminds her of the people killed.
Milligan and Gale Kitchen take possession of the Gerhardt house. Milligan lets the housekeeper leave with money and a car, then watches Gale shoot Ricky G when he arrives to rob the place. Kansas City rewards Milligan with an office job, replacing his ambitions of command with accounts and paperwork. Hanzee receives a new identity and discusses changing his face. Betsy wakes from a dream about Molly's future and remains alive. Hank later joins her and Lou for dinner, explaining that the symbols in his study belong to a universal language he has been creating. After discussing the violence and their strange experience at the motel, Lou and Betsy put their family to bed.