Rescuers bring the survivors and bodies out of Devil’s Bathtub. Demon is strapped to a stretcher under a thermal blanket and mistaken for a third body until Rose Dartell realizes he is alive and attacks the ambulance in grief and rage. A first responder named Nathan insists Demon be taken to the hospital for exposure, while Hammer and Fast Forward’s bodies ride separately.

Maggot rides with Demon and slips him a Xanax; at the hospital, staff give Demon an oxy and keep him overnight. The next morning Rose appears as a “visitor,” calls Demon a murderer, and demands to know what happened and where the rifle is. Demon describes Fast Forward climbing too high, being startled, slipping, and falling; Rose hints the outing was “supposed” to go differently and blames Demon and Maggot for bringing Hammer.

Rose then shifts to threatening legal consequences, claiming she saw Hammer using meth in Demon’s car earlier and warning that supplying drugs tied to a death is a felony. Demon denies supplying anything and explodes at Rose for trying to punish the Peggots further, but Rose admits she wants everyone else to feel the loss she feels. She insists she could have saved Fast Forward and frames his scar on her as a binding mark of ownership.

Back at Mrs. Peggot’s, the family cycles through shock and retelling while they wait for direction from Hammer’s Texas relatives about burial. With Maggot staying high upstairs, Demon becomes the main storyteller and deliberately sanitizes key details: no revenge mission, no gin or meth, and no gun in play, focusing instead on Hammer’s selfless dive to save Fast Forward. Demon also keeps Rose out of the narrative and does not warn Maggot about her threats.

Life in the crowded house becomes a surreal mix of grief and nonstop TV, while relatives argue about whether Emmy should be told about Hammer’s death; June insists it can wait because Emmy is locked down in treatment. Then a court letter arrives: the deaths are under investigation, and police have information that Maggot supplied illegal substances to one of the deceased shortly before the accident, putting him at risk of charges. June takes charge to get a lawyer, and later offers Demon a path out: Medicaid reenrollment, a rehab stay, Suboxone treatment, and a halfway house in Knoxville—on the condition Demon not return to Lee County for at least a year. Demon realizes his deepest attachment has always been to June as a mother figure, but he tells her he will “think about it,” knowing he is not ready.