As Amy Wheeler drives with Rosie D’Antonio, Rosie jokes and flirts about meeting Amy’s father-in-law, Steve, while Amy tries to stay focused. Amy questions whether involving Steve was the right decision, then works through the six-point operational checklist Jeff Nolan taught her.

Amy’s assessment clarifies the situation. Amy concludes that François Loubet appears to be trying to kill her, and that Amy is also being implicated in three murders she did not commit. Amy counts her strengths as her field experience, the cash she is carrying, the refuge Barbara Elliot can provide, and a short window of time to investigate. Amy also believes there is no direct evidence tying her to the killings.

Amy then admits her weaknesses: Amy has little experience investigating murders, Loubet wants her dead, Jeff may already have been killed, and Rosie is dangerously unpredictable. That analysis convinces Amy that calling Steve was the correct move, because Steve is someone Amy trusts and someone who can investigate what Amy cannot. Amy decides that, instead of merely hiding, her best chance of survival is to solve the murders of Andrew Fairbanks, Bella Sanchez, and Mark Gooch.

Amy briefly worries that she should have cleared Steve’s involvement with Adam first, so Amy sends Adam a message framing it as asking Steve for work advice. Adam responds warmly, and Amy is reassured. Soon after, Steve finally turns his phone back on and reports that he has landed. Amy tells Steve to go to the Eternal Glade Wellness Retreat Resort near Greenville and ask for Barbara Elliot, while Steve sends a characteristically mundane question about finding the airport toilet. Amy looks at Rosie’s ongoing chaos, realizes that her team now consists of Rosie and Steve, and feels energized rather than defeated.