Heather’s mother stands in the kitchen making donuts. Heather is anxious because her mother’s good moods don’t last, and she’s waiting for the moment it will sour. Junie, Heather, and Constance talk about Maureen, and Heather reflects on the other diary entries she has read. Most are about the outfits Maureen wears, but some are about the money she has made performing sexual acts with various men. Junie asks Heather whether she thinks she ran away, and Heather tells her mother and sister that Maureen had no reason to leave.

When their father enters the room, Heather asks if he’s made any progress in Maureen’s case. He tells her they’re all still looking into it and that he will ask Sheriff Nillson about it when he goes to his house for dinner. When Constance asks if she can also join, Gary decides to bring the whole family. Heather plans to see if she can take a look in his basement and find out if that’s where Maureen was that night—and whether she might still be there.

When the Cash family arrives at Sheriff Nillson’s house, Heather feels certain this is the house they saw Maureen in. Constance, who didn’t expect a party, is caught off-guard by the prospect of multiple guests, and Heather worries that she can’t handle it.