Unable to sleep, Sheriff Marcus Hudson reviews spliced and enhanced hospital surveillance footage of the suspect who murdered Ryan Stevens. Pam Olson, awakened in Marcus’s home, joins him as they rewatch the suspect’s smooth, composed exit through the hospital while disguised in surgical attire.

Marcus notes the suspect’s professional behavior: entering already dressed for surgery, changing into clean gear after the attack, and maintaining an unhurried pace. The cameras’ limited overlap obscures the suspect’s path, and his ordinary appearance makes him blend in.

Outside the hospital, the suspect removes and discards bloody gloves. As the gloves drop into a trash can, a streetlight illuminates his exposed hand. Marcus pauses the footage and zooms in, focusing on the suspect’s fingers.

The close-up sparks a vivid memory for Marcus of time on a shooting range with a colleague whose pointer finger was noticeably longer than his middle finger. The colleague had suffered a hand injury during a traffic stop, resulting in ongoing difficulty with marksmanship and desk duty. Their banter about the unusual finger length and its effect on trigger pull fixes the trait in Marcus’s mind.

Snapped back to the present by Pam, Marcus reexamines the footage, connects the unique finger length and the familiar gait, and recalls seeing the same man in the crowd during his media statement, initially thrown off by a beard. He now recognizes the suspect clearly.

Marcus tells Pam that the killer is Scott Summers, Kelly Summers’s husband, and declares that Scott has returned and killed Ryan Stevens.