Detective Emmett Carver, who hides traumatic fits, is in no mood to give quarter to sulking Ellie Miller's unprofessional efforts to reassure witnesses and even suspects with undue promises. In victim Danny Solano's home, drugs are found, which his sister Chloe vaguely admits having sold trough her part-time employer, who claims it was a motel guest's request. Loner Jack Reinhold reports that Danny was uncharacteristically absent from his bunch of wildlife observing volunteers, and met a mysterious strange man. Danny's father Mark rages at Paul Coates for 'eagerly' consoling his grieving, secretly pregnant wife Beth, but ends up arrested based on scared diary entries on Danny's computer and Mark lying about having left home that night to the cabin where his boy was murdered, miles from the cliff where he was dumped. Behind her editor's back, a San Francisco globe reporter come to Gracepoint to be shown around by Owen and steals Danny's teddy-bear to force contact with Chloe.
—KGF Vissers