Contains spoilers for this episode and earlier episodes.
Truman shuts himself away at the Bookhouse after Josie's death, drinking instead of returning to work. Hawk and Cooper manage the station while trying to reach him. Josie's autopsy gives no clear cause of death and records an inexplicably low weight. Cooper tells Hawk about the figures he saw in her hotel room, adding another unanswered question to the loss. At the diner, Norma welcomes her sister Annie, who has left the convent and wants to begin working in the outside world again. The Log Lady recognises the marks on Major Briggs and describes a similar childhood disappearance of her own.
Pete helps Cooper seek a chess stalemate, but Earle spots the outside assistance and punishes Leo. Disguised as Doc Hayward's old friend, he visits Donna and leaves a chess piece; the doctor later explains that the real man died years ago. Eckhardt's assistant Jones delivers a sealed puzzle box to Catherine and Andrew. Ben's campaign produces a fashion show to save the pine weasel, ending in panic when the animal bites Dick and runs through the audience. Cooper meets Annie and notices the scars on her wrist. He later calms Truman during a drunken breakdown and gets him to bed. Jones knocks out the Bookhouse guard and slips into the sleeping sheriff's room.