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Trey: Hey, buddy. It's me. Been a long time, huh?

You heard who's getting out?

Ain't that some shit? Like Lazarus.

Anyway, our other buddy's all tweaked about it.

You know how he used to be? He's worse now.

Yeah, I know. It's a drag.

Call me.

And you never called Mr. Willis back?

I didn't.

What about your phone conversation with George Melton?

George called me and, um, basically just said that

if this all came back, he wasn't sure that he could...

Withstand the pressure.

He just kept saying that maybe... maybe he should tell.

Tell it all.

That it was harder and harder to keep it in anyway

and that it had rotted inside of him.

H-he became, uh... Incoherent at that point.

Just he started crying.

What did you do?

I just tried to calm him down.

And I said i-i thought it was, uh...

A noble idea, but I didn't think it was a good one.

Why not?

I told him it was too late. It wouldn't change anything.

In fact, it... It would ruin a lot of lives.

What had rotted, Chris? What was he going to tell?

God, it was so long ago.

I'm not the same person.

I wasn't even that person back then.

Chris, everybody here pretty much knows the gist

of what you're gonna say.

You just need to...

You know, go ahead and give voice to it.

It evolved, Sheriff.

It wasn't... It wasn't premeditated.

It just became.

Became what?

Rape.

We raped Hanna Dean.

Have you just been sitting out here?

Didn't want to bother anybody.

Daniel stayed with Jon last night.

I don't know why.

I told him you weren't gonna be here, but...

Too many memories, I guess.

And not just recent ones.

Where you going, Janet?

Daniel wants to leave today.

We're going on a little road trip first,

and then I'm gonna take him

to the new Canaan house in Nashville.

I see.

Need some help?

I've got it, but... sure.

We'll be gone a few days.

I mean, I will... Three or four.

I'm not sure.

Want me to check the oil for you?

I'll just check it on the way out.

Janet?

I just got off the phone with Teddy.

Teddy? About what?

I just wanted to check in with him before I left.

See how he's doing.

You know, after yesterday.

He asked if it would be all right

if he could stay here for a little while if he needed to.

Stay here?

Evidently, he's offered the house to Tawney

if she wants to stay there.

I spent the night there, and he didn't say a word about that.

Anyway, I said I didn't have a problem with it.

It's not the same thing, Janet.

I'm not saying it is, Ted.

It's not the same thing.

Ted, we're not gonna figure this out right now.

Can we just put it on hold until I get back?

Sure.

I'll call you from the road.

I don't really have context yet, Jon.

Okay.

Would this be considered a shitty view?

Within the norm of shitty views?

To me, it qualifies.

I'm still outside the norm, then.

You are that, buddy.

You have to report to Nashville probation in four days.

Understood.

How's the view for you now, Mr. Stern?

More complicated.

Hey, y'all! I got Swint's doughnuts.

And fritters.

And a mother.

Don't let that woman near the box!

She'll take all the fritters.

- Fritters? - Mm-hmm.

Amantha, I am your mother. Give me that box.

Unh-unh. I'm your brother.

And I've painted your pool.

- What? - I don't know.

Help, Jon. What should I do?

Spit in the box.

Don't give up your day job.

Aah!

How was Hanna at that point?

She was okay. I mean, she wasn't, uh... okay,

but she had calmed down some, and...

And what?

She... she was kind of apologizing to us.

Hanna was apologizing to y'all?

Yeah, for getting things started, I guess.

But afterwards, she was more worried about Daniel

than what had happened.

What do you mean?

Well, she kept asking us not to tell him.

Why do you think she did that?

I don't know why exactly. I-it was all pretty surreal.

So, did y'all say you wouldn't tell Daniel?

Trey said that we wouldn't if she wouldn't.

How did she respond?

She just sat there.

Looking ashamed and...

I don't know how else to say this, but...

Kind of pouty.

"Pouty"?

Yeah, like how my daughter does now sometimes

when she's, uh, hurt or mad or...

Disappointed.

Finally, Hanna said that she wouldn't say anything to anybody.

And we left.

Left her sitting there?

Yes.

Still unclothed?

Yep.

And trey threatened you after that?

He said that, uh...

We'd better keep our mouth shut, or else.

"Or else."

That was what he said.

You want some popcorn?

What?

I microwaved a bag of it... Sweet kind.

No.

All right.

I've been here over an hour, lid.

Sheriff got tied up.

I'll see if I can't goose him.

Is that kettle corn?

It's the sweet kind.

I'll take some.

And a coke.

All right, you got it.

Trey shows up at my house pretty early the next morning.

Says that if Hanna decides to change her story

that we had to say that she was a willing partner.

Trey said he wasn't going down for that,

that she had tried to... Change the rules

in the middle of the game.

Were you brought down to the sheriff's station?

Later. My father took me.

Did you know why you were being asked to come in?

They didn't say, but I assumed the worst.

Did anyone ever talk to you while you were there,

you know, as in officially?

No, we just sat there in the waiting area

with some of the other kids and their parents,

and then they came out and said, "you can go,"

and we all just... went home.

Did you know why you were being let go?

Not at the time.

But later?

Well, word got around pretty quick

that, uh, Daniel had confessed

to raping and, uh, and killing Hanna.

Did that surprise you?

Honestly, I just felt relief.

You weren't even surprised by the confession of the rape?

Later, i-i thought about it, and I... I just tried to...

I don't know.

Just forget.

Can we circle back?

When trey came by your house that morning...

Did you know that Hanna was dead?

I did not.

And in so many words, trey said that if Hanna claimed rape,

that you all must stay united.

That's accurate.

Did you take that to mean

that he did not know that Hanna was dead?

That's what it meant to me, yes.

After eating fritters in a cheap motel,

the beach is gonna be such a letdown.

You can still come, Amantha.

No, I'll come visit you when you get all settled in in Nashville.

Mama's boy.

No maudlin goodbyes, then.

Deal.

Now get lost.

That's the plan.