Back on the farm after Frank’s conviction, Beth throws herself into lambing and other work because the routine offers relief from grief, scandal, and exhaustion. As she works, she reflects on how the dog attack set off everything that followed: Leo’s arrival, her renewed relationship with Gabriel, and the collapse of the story she had long told herself about him.

Gabriel comes to see Beth in the field because he is devastated that Frank has gone to prison and believes he has failed them. He asks how long Frank may serve and then questions why Frank would take the blame for killing Jimmy in order to protect a child who was not his. Worn down and unable to keep the secret any longer, Beth answers that Frank could not save Gabriel’s first son, and then tells Gabriel that Bobby was his child.

The revelation shatters Gabriel. As he realizes that Bobby was his son, he also sees more clearly why Leo resembled Bobby and what had been stolen from him and from Leo. Beth explains that she had wanted Gabriel to know, but Gabriel’s mother understood the truth, forced Beth into silence, and paid her to protect Gabriel’s reputation. Gabriel resists believing it, but Beth insists that his mother cared more about appearances than about them.

Gabriel then accuses Beth of feeding him fragments about Bobby out of guilt, which unleashes Beth’s anger. Beth tells Gabriel that Frank is in prison because Gabriel’s son killed his brother, and that Frank chose to protect Leo from prosecution, testimony, and removal from his home. Beth also says Frank’s decision came partly from guilt over having raised Bobby as his own after Gabriel had been kept ignorant, but she insists that Frank stood by her when she was a pregnant, unmarried teenager and became a better father to Bobby than Gabriel ever had the chance to be.

Once Beth’s anger breaks, she collapses into shame and apologizes, calling herself cruel and damaged. She recalls that after Jimmy’s death, she, Frank, and Gabriel all tried to convince Leo that the shooting had been an accident, and that Frank even broke bail conditions to visit Leo because he wanted the boy freed from guilt. Instead of rejecting Beth, Gabriel kneels beside her, and in his grief Beth sees not hatred but enduring love. They cling to each other as evening falls in the field Bobby loved, united by loss and by the truth that has finally been spoken.