The Crouch family all get sick, which Winnie blames on Dulce, thinking that her germs were on the whiskey bottle. Dakota texts Winnie telling her that he’s been staying with their mother and begging Winnie to intervene on his behalf with his wife, Manda. Nigel has been sleeping in the den since the confrontation about Dulce but brings Winnie water and toast in bed while she’s sick, showing he still cares. Shelly invites Winnie and her family to her cabin for Christmas break, but Nigel can’t go because of a work conference. Winnie decides to go, taking along the marijuana that Dakota brought her back when he was living with them.

Juno reminisces about her mother’s beauty salon, called The Slick. Her mother, Hoida Pearl, would gossip with the ladies who came to get their hair done, and they would ask Juno to leave the room so that they could speak freely. Juno would sneak around so that she could listen to all the stories. She plans to use those skills now. There have been angry voicemails on the family phone from Dakota, but Nigel erased them without telling Winnie about them.

Trapped in the crawl space during the Crouches’ sickness, Juno spends a lot of time thinking about her past: She was in prison, and no one would help her when she left.