Jet and Billy go to Dr Mandrake’s Dive Bar, where Billy works, to confront Andrew Smith. They find him drinking at noon. Jet pushes Andrew about Halloween night, and Andrew insists he did not attack Jet and claims he was passed out.

Jet and Billy pin Andrew down on timing: Sergeant Jack Finney escorted Andrew from the fair to his upstairs apartment, and Andrew shows a text he sent at 10:29 p.m., implying Finney left shortly before that. Jet realizes this still leaves a window before Jet was struck, since Andrew was then alone with no witnesses.

Trying a different angle, Jet asks why Andrew hates the Mason family. Andrew reveals his daughter Nina died by suicide and he blames Dianne Mason, claiming Dianne used her influence to get Nina fired from her hotel job shortly before her death. Andrew also says Luke Mason bought Andrew’s house for an inflated price, and Mason Construction later demolished both Andrew’s old house and the neighboring one to build a larger development, deepening Andrew’s resentment.

Andrew then drops a new bomb: he says Scott Mason is not leaving Mason Construction to Luke, but is instead planning to sell the company to Nell Jankowski, the police chief’s wife, and Andrew admits he has already told others because he cannot keep secrets. Jet and Billy leave shaken, with Jet seeing both motive and opportunity in Andrew but also doubting his reliability.

As they reconsider the phone evidence, Billy points out a flaw: Jet’s iPhone last pinged on River Street, which does not fit Andrew taking it home. Jet asks Andrew about River Street and learns Andrew’s former house was reached via North Street, just off River Street, and that Mason Construction is now building on that site. Jet realizes they may have been focusing on the wrong street: the killer may have turned the phone off at the River-and-North corner, then headed toward the North Street construction site—suggesting either Andrew’s connection or Jet’s own connection to that location matters.