Saint spends the night alone in a motel off Highway 33, taking a hot bath and calling home. Her conversation with Jimmy quickly exposes the strain in their marriage: Saint tries to comfort him about his setbacks and asks ordinary questions about home, but Jimmy turns the call into a complaint about her absence and then hangs up on her.

When the phone rings again, Saint first expects another domestic interruption because her calls are being forwarded while she travels. Instead, Patch is on the line. He opens with a gruesome pirate story, using dark humor to break the tension before asking how Saint is doing and whether Jimmy treats her well, showing that he still knows and cares about her personally.

Saint reveals that she was at the First Kansas Bank in Cottonwood Falls, making clear that she has identified him as the robber. Patch does not deny it. He rejects the idea that he is simply fleeing, insisting that he is still searching for Callie and widening his efforts to help find other missing girls as well, which frames his crimes as part of a larger mission rather than simple greed.

The call then turns more intimate and painful. Patch says he recently saw Misty, and Saint explains that she had asked Misty's mother to have Misty contact Patch if possible because Saint needed to speak with him. When Saint says she needs to see him in person, Patch refuses because he understands the reality between them: he is now treated like a criminal, and she is a law officer hunting him.

In the final exchange, both of them speak with painful honesty about what their paths now mean. Saint says that when the time comes, she will take Patch down, and Patch says he already knows. Saint admits that doing so will kill her emotionally, confirming that their bond remains strong even as the law and Patch's search place them on opposite sides.