04x10 - End This Way

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- Previously on Walker...
- GERI: This is Sadie Yoo.

- Hoyt's daughter.
- Did Hoyt

ever mention if he knew about me?

If he knew about you,

he'd have done everything possible
to be a part of your life.

I put in a transfer request
to Austin PD.

- Oh, my God.
- It's been approved.

Oh, my God! That's amazing.

- Jackal a health nut?
- Not exactly.

Rotting fruit is the "calling card"?

WALKER: Truth is I can't

be a good father,
a good friend, a good partner

until I get this guy off the streets.

The only thing I can be good
at right now is being a Ranger.

STELLA: August and I were able
to track the necklace

back to my Uncle Hoyt.

LIAM: I don't know

what is going on,
but I have a feeling that

it's something to do with what
happened at Geri's that night.

- She went out the window.
- What?

♪ ♪

["LOOK WHAT WE STARTED"
BY UNSECRET PLAYING]

♪ We could have both
walked away ♪

♪ And left our lions
in the cage ♪

♪ But it's too late
to be changed ♪

[SCREAMS]

♪ Whoa, whoa ♪

Just drive.

♪ We should have faced... ♪

STELLA: I had one day
to find this necklace

and I am nowhere closer now
than I was last night.

AUGUST: Joanna Rawlins,

the woman who says
she's gonna k*ll you

and everyone you love
in, like, six hours is...

Hoyt's mom?

♪ Oh... ♪

- Where are you going?
- To get the necklace

and to end this for good.

♪ Look what we started. ♪

How could you two be so reckless?

Look, it took us a while
to figure it all out, all right?

And that woman was threatening
to k*ll us if we told anyone.

- What were we supposed to do?
- You talk to your family.

I'm an attorney.
Your father's a Texas Ranger.

We could protect you.

That's what complicates it, Uncle Liam.

We didn't want
to get you guys in trouble...

LIAM: Yeah, but that's
not for you to decide!

- And what you've done is so much worse.
- Okay.

Augie,

do you know where she might have gone?

- [STAMMERS] I don't...
- LIAM: See?

You have to tell us where you think

she could be right now.

Where, August?

Is she out there hunting
this thing by herself?

August, focus, and tell me right now!

- Tell me the truth.
- GERI: Augie. Augie.

Listen, even if she's just upset,

we need to know...

Hey! We could hear you three

all the way out at the stables.

What in the Sam Hill's the fuss about?

Go ahead, August, you have the floor.

Okay, look...

The break-in at Geri's
last year wasn't random.

Okay? The guy who broke in,
he knew Sadie

and he was sent there by Joanna Rawlins

to find this necklace that belonged

to their family or whatever.

Joanna Rawlins?

Hoyt's mother. Birth mother.

She came after us and said

that she'd k*ll us if we didn't
give her the necklace.

She what?!

Well, I'm starting to
understand the fuss.

Who else knows about this?

Just me, Stella and Sadie.

- I got Stel.
- All right, well, we need to call Cordell.

- I'm already on it.
- All right.

Hey, make sure you're
as vague as possible.

- He's not in the best headspace.
- Okay.

♪ ♪

[PHONE RINGING]

[GROANS]

Geri, hey.

- What's up?
- Hey, Cordi, um...

something's going on with Stella.

We think she might be
in some kind of trouble.

- What do you mean, trouble?
- I don't think that

this is the best conversation
to have over the phone,

so you need to get home, ASAP.

Okay? She was just really upset
and she took off.

Do you have any idea
where she might have gone?

Okay, okay. Uh, well, there's, uh,

there's a gazebo out by Lady Bird Lake

that she's run away to before.

I'm not far, I can check it out,
see if she's there.

Hey, meantime,

do you mind calling James,
filling him in?

The rest of the Rangers are
full-steam on the Jackal case.

He may be able to peel off
and help track her down.

Okay, all right, will do.

- Thanks.
- Bye.

Bye.

[SIGHS]

[SNIFFLES]

[VEHICLE APPROACHING]

♪ ♪

Wow, nice.

You sure got here fast.

Didn't have much of a choice, did I?

Not after your text.

Well, then you know time's up.

And you better believe

that I am not playing games
here, Stella Walker.

You give me the necklace

or I will k*ll your friend.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Did they hurt you?
- SADIE: Ah, not at all.

No, this guy was
actually pretty delicate

when he forced a bag over my head
and chucked me into his car.

- White glove service.
- All right, that's enough.

Where's the necklace?
You said you had it.

No, I said I knew where it was.

This is a letter written
by my Uncle Hoyt.

In it are clues to
where he stashed the necklace.

I want an even trade.

The letter for Sadie,
and an end to all this.

No more notes on windows,

and no more gasoline in cars.

We go our separate ways for good.

Wow, you got cojones, girl.

But no deal.

The only way that
you're getting out of this

is if you put that necklace in my hand.

You got it?

I was afraid you might say that.

MILLER: What are you doing? Stop her.

Nah, nah, nah.

We got our insurance policy.

It's only square that she has hers.

So now all those clues are in
that pretty little head of hers.

Shall we, Stella Walker?

No, Stel,
don't give this b*tch anything.

She's gonna k*ll us either way. [GRUNTS]

- Hey!
- JOANNA: Easy, easy.

You k*ll either one of them,
and we get nothing.

You want your payout, right?

I'll take you to where the necklace is.

But, you know, Joanna,
I still can't believe

you're doing this to your own family.

SADIE: Family?

What do you mean "family"?

I didn't have a chance
to tell you before,

but the woman who has been
terrorising us this whole time

over a Rawlins family heirloom,

her name is Joanna Rawlins.

She's Hoyt's mom.

Your grandmother, Sadie.

[SIGHS]

Come on. You got to take some credit.

Nope. The Jackal's M.O. was
a team effort.

Yeah, but the sealed court cases
were all you.

I mean, we needed you five years ago.

That's funny.

I could say the same thing about you.

Hey, thanks again for making
tonight work on short notice.

I know work's been running us ragged,

but Ed's only in town till tomorrow,

so it means a lot.

Of course.

I need to meet
my boyfriend's best friend.

Best friends are the ones with
all the embarrassing stories.

Like if you got called on in sex ed

and fainted in front of the whole class.

Well, that never happened to me.

Yeah, no, that never happened to anyone.

Honestly, I think you two are
really gonna hit it off.

And I mean this
in the nicest way possible,

but you both love to talk.

Oh, very nice.

Well, I'm "exciteh-vous" to meet him,

which is a word that I made up

because "nerv-ited" sounded too much

like an antianxiety medication.

Well, to be fair, they both kind of do.

Ask your doctor
if Excitehvous is right for you.

Excitehvous may cause
night sweats, insomnia

and even fainting in sex ed.

David Luna, did you just do a bit?

[LUNA SIGHS]

- Spending too much time with you.
- [LAUGHS]

Well, you think this is a lot of time,

just wait until you move here.

Are you sure about this relocation?

Yeah, very.

Very, but yeah, it's big. You know?

I spend a lot of time in hotel rooms,

but never this far from Corpus.

Well, it's not that far,

so we can visit whenever you'd like.

- [CHUCKLES]
- You're the best.

So, are we gonna talk about it?

Talk about what?

[CHUCKLES] You hear her?

"Talk about what?" she says.

Talk about what? Oh, I don't know.

How about we talk about Hoyt?

Aka my dad, aka your son,

which means that we are related?

[CHUCKLES]:
Right? Like, you're my grandma?

You know, even though
I grew up without a dad,

I did have grandparents,
the regular kind.

The "squeeze your cheeks,

feed you too many cookies"
type of grandparents.

But not you, Joanna.

No, you are a special
type of grandma, aren't you?

I mean, really, I have heard
some messed up family drama

in my short little life,

but granddaughter hostage
has to take the cake.

[CHUCKLES]: Again, for the cheap seats.

You kidnapped
your literal granddaughter!

I mean, really, A-plus, no crumbs.

- America's Next Top Psycho.
- Shut up!

I hate to break it to you, sweetheart,

but family don't mean jack to me.

I don't know you from Adam,
we might as well be strangers.

All I care about is me and my payout.

You got that?

Who's Adam?

You're gonna turn right in 300 feet.

I know where we're going.

I've known for the last ten minutes.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

No place like home.

[SIGHS] Oh, God.

This used to be your house?

JOANNA: A lifetime ago.

All right, where is it?

I'm not sure.

What?

I told you, the clues in
the letter led to the house.

And I expect you to be
more specific than that.

It's here somewhere.

I'll know it when I see it.

Well, you better start looking.

Now.

[DOOR OPENS]

- Hey.
- Hey.

Any word from Stella?

Still nothing.

Did you try tracking her phone?

LIAM: Well, she stopped
sharing her location

about ten minutes after she left,

but she was heading west.
Lady Bird Lake might check out.

All right, I'll get State
Troopers on traffic cams,

see if we can find the Mustang.

Can I take a look at her
last known location?

Yeah, sorry. This way.

Augie... [SIGHS]

why didn't you just come to us
in the first place?

[BONHAM SCOFFS]

Great question.

All right, can you show me
Stella's web history?

Maybe we can put together
the same pieces

- she did.
- Yeah. Yeah. I...

Let me, let me go get the computer.

I'll go with Augie.

Okay. In the meantime,

I'll send Cassie out to
Lady Bird Lake with Walker

in case she really did just run off.

- All right.
- You two,

stay by your phones, okay?
She might try to...

reach out.

Abby.

Hey, we're gonna find her, okay?

BONHAM: Abby?

What?

Yes.

Thank you, Larry.

[PLAYING BLUESY RIFF]

♪ Right on time,
you say goodbye ♪

♪ I was just about to fly ♪

♪ I guess you must've
had a hunch ♪

♪ So you beat me to the punch ♪

♪ Right on time,
you set me free... ♪

Eddy boy!

Oh, Mooney! [LAUGHS]

- Damn, it's good to see you.
- Yeah.

Hi, I'm Cassie Perez.

David has told me so much about you.

Nice to meet you. Dude,

you have got to stop taking
these out-of-town jobs.

You can't leave me alone
with Cofield for this long.

- Come on, man, he's not that bad.
- He's the worst!

Would you guys like some drinks
or something?

Yeah.

- CASSIE: Great
- Absolutely.

Cassie, baby. What can I get you?

Uh, boys?

I'll do a bourbon, neat.

I'll do the same.

Uh, I will do...
the Boulevardier, please.

- You got it.
- Thank you.

Boulevardier? Austin has changed, huh?

Wow, doesn't it seem like it's all

tech bros and influencers now?

Well, given this corner
right here, not exactly.

[LAUGHS] No, I just mean, you know,

I used to come to Austin,

it was for a tall boy, a shot
of whiskey, some good music.

A bar like this doesn't need
some fancy BS c*ck menu.

They're just trying way too hard

to appease the West Coast
invaders, am I right?

Hey. Chill, man.

ED: I'm just saying.

Cities evolve. Right?

I'm sure they were saying the same thing

when people started driving cars
instead of riding horses.

And Austin is a great city to lay roots.

- Thank you.
- BARTENDER: Of course.

And I happen to know
the owners of this place

and the Side Step has been
in the family for...

[SCOFFS] decades.

And they're doing so well,

they're actually opening up
another location in OKC.

Ooh. What's next, the airport?

Hey. Give it a rest, Ed.

Oh, come on.

Man, you know that you
kind of agree with me.

I bet you can't wait
to get back to Corpus.

- Actually, I'm, uh...
- [PHONE BUZZING]

I'm moving here.

Hmm?

Uh, I'm so sorry.
I have to take this, it's James.

Cap?

What is your problem?

I'm sorry, did you say
you're moving here?

- Yeah, I'm moving here.
- You didn't tell me.

- When did you decide that?
- Okay.

I don't know, I just, I just decided.

[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

Yeah. Copy that.

Uh, let me know if you
hear from her, okay?

- Why? Why are you doing this?
- Because I love her.

Cass...

Uh, I'm so sorry. I have to go.

Stella's missing and Cap wants me

to meet Walker over at Lady Bird Lake,

so you two stay and catch up.

No, no, no. I'm coming with you.

And, uh, why don't you put

our "fancy BS c*ck" on your tab?

♪ ♪

Great.

♪ To save me from hurting you. ♪

[EXHALES]

GERI: You know, I've known a lot of men

to combine anger and everyday tasks,

but "angry dishes,"
that's a new one, even for me.

You know, I just,
I-I can't believe Stella.

And I knew something was wrong,
Geri. I felt it in my gut.

And I would ask her, I'd say,
"Are you okay?"

And she'd go, "Yeah,
I'm fine, I'm okay,"

but then she would flake on
our plans for the rescue,

she'd make excuses left and right.

And meanwhile,
some mystery woman has been

antagonising her for months

and she doesn't come to me
about any of it!

No, no, trust me. I-I...

I know, I get it.

- I know she's not a kid anymore.
- Mm-hmm.

But what she's done is so childish,

it's immature, and not to mention,

- it's selfish.
- Yeah. Okay.

Let's just put the,
the cutlery down, shall we?

Liam.

Just because she's a grown-up

does not mean that she's
not gonna make mistakes.

Is this a Walker thing?

This blatant arrogance in my family?

Yeah. It is.

But surviving against all odds
is a Walker thing, too.

Listen. Listen.

The best thing you can do
for Stella right now

is to start forgiving her.

Because she is gonna need a hell
of a lot of forgiveness

once this is all said and done.

I mean, you're right.

- You're right.
- Thank you.

I just... I don't

understand how she
didn't trust me enough

to come to me and tell me
she was in trouble,

'cause I could've helped her.

- Okay...
- And-and you know what?

- Now she's in this mess. It's...
- I know. I know.

I'm gonna do the dishes.
I'm gonna... yeah,

- I'm gonna finish them.
- No, I...

You go angry chop some wood,
go do something.

That's a classic. No need
for Abby's flatware to suffer.

Go. I've got this.

- Fine.
- Take a deep breath.

- [DOOR SLAMS]
- Wow.

["ABERNATHY"
BY RATTLESNAKE MILK PLAYING]

[JOANNA GRUNTING]

Hey, help me move this dresser.

Yeah.

♪ I saw your mama
on the county line ♪

♪ We spent the night down
underneath the stars ♪

Psst.

♪ Making love in a Chevrolet ♪

♪ In the backseat, baby,
down there behind the barn ♪

[DOOR CREAKING]

You okay?

[SIGHS] Yeah.

But I'd feel a hell of a lot better

if I knew you had
some kind of plan here.

My plan was to swap you for the letter.

Right. Yeah.

And that didn't work, so now what?

I'm figuring it out.

Great. Great, so we're gonna die.

Not to say "I told you so,"

but it's pretty clear we should
have gone to the cops

once Witt showed up.

You're joking, right?

I tried to go to the cops
after the break-in.

You're the one that talked me out of it.

Yeah, but obviously I didn't
know that this was gonna happen.

It doesn't really matter anyway,

'cause we're dead if we don't
find that damn necklace.

Just trust me, okay?

I'm working out an idea.

Wait for the signal.

Signal? What signal?

What are you two doing in here?

Oh, I was just asking
if Stella here had a tampon.

Actually, you got one on you?

Ooh. The big overcompensating
guy with a g*n is grossed out

by a little menstruation? Shocking.

[SCOFFS] From now on,

you two can't be alone together. Got it?

♪ ♪

[MOUTHING]

Oh, yeah.

We're gonna die.

I'm sorry about that back there.

I swear he's a good dude.

Thing is, he had a pretty rocky
relationship with his mom growing up.

Gets insecure with women
and goes on the defensive.

It's fine. I've met guys
like that before.

We always looked out
for each other, you know?

I think he's just afraid to lose that.

But I'll talk to him.

Hey, it's okay. I understand.

- You worried about Stella?
- Of course.

- Hey, you didn't happen to hear...
- I did.

[LUNA SIGHS]

Look, I'm sorry that
you had to hear it that way.

And, uh, I'm sorry I didn't
tell you sooner.

But there's no denying it, Cass.

All right, I love you.

[LAUGHS]

Uh, wow.

That's what you were gonna say
earlier in the bedroom,

wasn't it?

Am I that easy to read?

Yeah, kind of. [CHUCKLES]

And on the contrary,
I think this is the perfect time.

However, if you did

wait another few steps,
you could have told me

in front of this big beautiful lake.

Yeah. Well, I'm, uh, I'm an idiot.

Come on. [CLEARS THROAT]

♪ ♪

[SIGHS]

♪ ♪

You know...

[GASPS] Geez.

[CLEARS THROAT]

You scared the hell out of me.

Sorry. I didn't mean to.

Well, God forbid I'm jumpy
during a kidnapping.

Just gonna say, this was Hoyt's room.

Yeah.

Figured.

[JOANNA SIGHS]

[JOANNA EXHALES SHARPLY, SNIFFLES]

[JOANNA SIGHS, SNIFFLES]

You know, you're the reason
that all this is happening.

Weird. I thought
you had started all of this.

What I mean is that...

I've been looking for
this necklace for a long time.

For years...

before Hoyt snatched it.

But it wasn't
until you took that DNA test,

looking for your daddy,

and then I got that alert
that I had a granddaughter.

Family heirloom and all,

and I thought maybe...

he left it for you.

You know, I looked into you, too,

when I found my dad.

Thought you were in jail for
robbing some cops or something.

I got caught

taking the necklace back
from an evidence locker.

Then it ended up in a museum,

and-and Hoyt stole it,
and then, you showed up,

and then... that's when
I sent Witt in and...

[SIGHS] Yadda, yadda. You know the rest.

By "Yadda, yadda," do you mean,

"Yadda, yadda,
I threatened to k*ll you"?

You don't get it.

The cops stole the necklace
from me.

And then, they find out
it was worth $800,000.

I had no idea how much it was worth.

And I spent years
living paycheque to paycheque,

and all the while, that money
is right here under my nose.

That's not fair.

Yeah, well, neither is having
a homicidal grandma.

Yeah, I... It's just,
I still don't understand.

How could you do this
to your own family?

If there's anything
I learned from my family,

it's that nobody in the world's
really looking out for you.

Not the cops and not your parents.

No, all you got is yourself.

And the best thing that I ever
did for my boy was leaving.

Taught him that Rawlins family lesson.

And the sooner you learn it
for yourself, the better.

You know,

I talked to Abby Walker a lot
about my dad.

And she says he never really
got over you leaving him.

Don't you talk to me about
the Walkers. They're the reason

- he's dead.
- No, you're wrong.

The Walkers...
they were his family.

[CRYING]: And he loved them.

And you...

Well, you really didn't know him.

Neither did you, honey.

You keep looking.

[SIGHS]

[BIRDS SINGING]

[BONHAM SIGHS]

I don't know what the hell's
taking so long to find that car.

Paint job's louder than the engine.

Hmm.

- Hey.
- Hmm?

They'll find her.

Are you still mad about the boat?

I never told you, a few years ago,

when Hoyt passed, I wrote
his mother Joanna a letter.

She was never a part of his life,

but... it didn't feel right
for her not to know.

Death in a family's
full of strange obligations.

Well, I think you did the right thing.

Well, she never called,
never wrote back.

Hell, I don't even know
if she was still at the address

I had for her, but... I tried.

I cannot believe I spent all those years

looking after that woman's son

and being the mother to Hoyt
she refused to be,

only for her to turn around and
threaten my grandbaby's life.

[SIGHS]

If she touches...

one hair...

The Rangers better find her first

because if I do, I'll k*ll her.

I've never heard you
talk like that before.

- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
- Hey,

guys, we got something.

Okay, so, I just got off the
phone with the State Troopers.

They were able to track Stella's car out

to a building in Rockingham,
but there was no sign of her.

Wait. Rockingham isn't far
from Patina, right?

- Uh, it's about, what, 20 minutes? Why?
- Yeah.

Because Hoyt grew up in Patina

before he came to Austin back
when he lived with his mother.

AUGUST: Yeah. There was something
in Hoyt's letter about orange wine.

There's this winery up in Patina
that does this baller orange wine.

- Or so I've heard.
- LIAM: Hold on a minute.

The sheriff's sale
that we talked about before.

That was in Patina around that time.

Do you think that Stella is there?

I-I don't... I don't know. I...

Okay, Trey, text Walker
and Cassie that address.

Before you even think about it,
I need all you Walkers

to stay put until we know
the location's secure.

- All right?
- Wait. Where's Abby?

Oh, hell.

Abeline?!

[SIGHS]

- What is it?
- Oh. [SCOFFS]

Abby knows where that house is.
I think she might have

gone out there to k*ll that woman.

[TIRES SQUEALING]

Did you check under the bathroom sink?

About four times.

What about the pantry?

An empty coffee can and a dead mouse.

[SIGHS] Damn it.

Well, clearly, we've missed
something, so let's start over.

Okay, I hate to break it to you,

but I don't think
the necklace is here anymore.

- No. Don't say that.
- Hoyt could have taken it

out of the house,
he could have melted it down,

he could have sold it, anything.

It's probably long gone by now.

And I think that means
that you should let me and Sadie go.

We swear we won't talk to the cops.

We're pretty proficient
at that by this point.

Please. I am sorry
that your necklace is gone,

but it's over.

We can't help you anymore.

[LAUGHS]

Oh, you're laying it on thick, girl.

And you know something, don't you?

What do you know?

You say it.

I don't.

Need I remind you
the consequences for keeping secrets.

STELLA: Wait.

Stella... don't.

I knew since we got here.

Hoyt's letter talked about "embers."

We thought it was at our house, but...

[JOANNA SIGHS]

JOANNA: That's it.

[PANTING]

Yup, that's it.

That's it, that's it.
That's it, that's it.

- And that's it! That's it!
- It's empty.

[PANTING]

What? What did you do?

No. No.

You said that it was here!

It was clearly here at one point,

but Uncle Hoyt must have moved it.

And he's gone now, so...

the necklace is lost.

No.

No!

[CRYING]: No, no, no, no.

All that time, all that...

All for nothing!

[GROANS]

[g*n c*ck]

What are you doing?

- You owe me 50 grand, Jo.
- Well, clearly, I don't have it.

- We were gonna sell the necklace.
- And now it's gone.

We'll find another score.
We'll settle it.

Come on. I'm good for it.

That's the thing. I don't think you are.

We've been at this for months. No dice.

So we have to settle our tab,
one way or another.

- Sorry you girls have to see this.
- [GASPING]

- Signal! Signal!
- The hell?

- [GRUNTING]
- [g*nsh*t]

♪ Why, it's the price I pay ♪

[GRUNTING]

♪ Oh, hey, it's the big mistake ♪

♪ Shadow play, shallow grave ♪

[GRUNTING]

Stella! She's running!

♪ You were meant for me... ♪

What did you do?

Mawline?

Hi, Joanna.

I'm Abeline Walker.

[SIREN WAILS]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

♪ I wait for you ♪

♪ Late like the night ♪

♪ Then ♪

♪ Shivering inside... ♪

Hey.

You okay?

Hey, be honest with me this time.

Yeah. I'm okay.

- I am so sorry...
- Stella, I forgive you.

Okay?

Look, I-I can't fathom

the pressure you must have been under.

But you can't keep me in
the dark about stuff like this.

'Cause I do have your back.

[SIGHS] I am glad
that everything is okay now.

Yeah, but just because everything's okay

doesn't mean that I didn't screw up.

I lied to you so many times,

and I told you I was okay
when I clearly wasn't.

I'm not gonna make that mistake again.

♪ Follow the light ♪

♪ Don't go ♪

[SIGHS]

♪ Don't you let me down. ♪

Hey.

Could I have a minute alone?

- Yes, ma'am.
- Mm-hmm.

I was ready to blow your head off

if you laid one finger
on my granddaughter.

I wouldn't have blamed you.

[SNIFFLES]

But a wrong for a wrong
doesn't do anyone any good.

Wish I'd learned that lesson...

a long time ago.

I had a lot of resentment
towards you over the years.

Every time that boy cried to me
about where his mama was...

it was visceral.

But I don't know.

I think maybe I've had a...

a change of heart.

Watching Hoyt grow up

was one of the greatest
blessings of my life.

You wouldn't know this,

but...

every day, he was running
from this place.

From what his legacy was
and who his family was.

And he was fighting

till his dying breath
to be a better man.

And that fight gave him
the biggest heart

that you could ever imagine.

Oh, I...

I hated you for so long.

And now I feel nothing but pity for you.

Because you... [INHALES, EXHALES]

you couldn't see the treasure
that you had in that boy.

And even more
that you didn't have the guts

to fight that legacy like he did.

You let it eat you from the inside.

Well, all the years in the system

and all the mothers
that I met inside there...

they tell us

that we're not good enough
to be mothers.

Started to feel true.

It didn't have to end this way.

[CHUCKLES]

Well, that's the difference
between you and me, Abby Walker.

I always knew it'd end this way.

♪ ♪

SADIE [IN DISTANCE]: Oh, oh,
so this dummy says,

"Wait for my signal."

Right? And then when-when
stuff starts popping off,

- she just yells, "Signal! Signal!"
- [CHUCKLES]

Really. I-I would have died laughing

if I didn't think you were about
to get yourself shot.

That is the most Cordell thing

- I've ever heard.
- Hey,

it worked, didn't it?

- [CHUCKLES]: Okay.
- But...

since I'm here,

I owe you both an apology.

Aunt Geri,

I'm sorry that I read
your letter from Hoyt.

And I'm really sorry
that I lit it on fire.

You lit it on fire?

Oh.

Yeah.

- It was pretty badass though.
- GERI: Oh.

Well, as long as it was badass.

[CHUCKLES]

STELLA: And, Sadie, I'm sorry, too.

I keep blaming you
for us not going to the cops,

but I went along with your idea.

And that's on me. That's not on you.

I-I think we're both a little
guilty for this whole thing.

"A little"?

That might be the understatement
of the century.

[CHUCKLES]

GERI: But the important thing
is that you're both safe.

SADIE: Is it though?

I... I just mean the...

We didn't even find the necklace.

What was the point?

Just kind of a lame ending,
if you ask me.

That is actually the perfect segue

for my next order of business.

Ta-da.

- How did... What? Wait.
- Is that, is that

- the necklace?
- How did you even...?

I drove over here
before meeting with Joanna.

I knew it would be in the fireplace.

[SCOFFS]

STELLA: It was honestly kind of

anticlimactic,
now that I think about it.

It was just, like, sitting there.

Wow.

So you're telling me

that you could have
just given her the necklace

at any point? Are you insane?!

You told me not to give
the b*tch anything!

Uh, that's true.

It wasn't just that though.

It's what I found
with the necklace that made me realise

that I could never hand it over to her.

There was a letter from Hoyt in the bag
with the necklace.

It doesn't have a name on it, but...

I think it's for you, Aunt Geri.

♪ They'd run wild ♪

♪ From your eyes ♪

♪ The demons you fought... ♪

GERI: Um...

I think this is actually for you, Sadie.

♪ To survive... ♪

"This necklace is
a Rawlins family heirloom."

"Lore states it was given
to one of our ancestors

"by a dear friend

and that Rawlins further gifted
it to his daughter, Ophelia."

"It's been passed down ever since.

I..."

♪ Did you find your way home? ♪

"I hoped to give it
to a rug rat of my own one day."

"But real or chosen,

I want it to stay in my family."

"It now belongs to you."

♪ Were a hell of a walk ♪

Wow. Um...

♪ With a broken wing... ♪

You know I'm not one
for the waterworks, but, um...

[CHUCKLES, SNIFFLES]
but that one got me.

[CHUCKLES, SNIFFLES]

This is all yours.

♪ You weathered the storms ♪

[SNIFFLES]

♪ You never minded
the thorns... ♪

You sure about this, Geri?

Yeah.

I mean, technically,
it is still stolen property.

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY, SNIFFLES]

But...

you know, in-in the spirit of Hoyt...

[SHUDDERS] um...

I may be able to forget
that I ever saw it. [SNIFFLES]

[CHUCKLES]

♪ You're broken now... ♪

SADIE: You know...

[SNIFFLES] in the spirit

of my Walker-Broussard family...

I think it should go back to the museum.

Right one last karmic wrong
of my old man.

[CHUCKLES]

♪ Ooh ♪

- ♪ Did you find your way home? ♪
- [SNIFFLES]

[SIREN WAILS]

- Everything under control here, Cap?
- Yeah.

Yeah. Girls are safe.

Got Ms. Rawlins and
her accomplice in custody, so...

[SIGHS]

Where's Walker?
What, he, uh, follow you in?

He never showed up?

LUNA: We went to the lake.

Tried calling him, but
he didn't pick up. Figured...

That he was already here.

Hold up.

Walker wasn't at the lake?

Trey, you talked to him though, right?

Yeah. Yeah, texted him
as soon as we got the address.

Same as them.

But I never heard anything back.

♪ ♪

Guys, where the hell's Walker?

- [FAN BLADES WHOOSHING]
- [BIRDS CHIRPING]

[SNIFFING]

[SOFT WHOOSHING CONTINUES]

[GROANS SOFTLY]

AUGUST [IN DISTANCE]: Oh, come on.

You can't be serious.
That's not what happened.

Oh, get real.

You're just making excuses
because we destroyed you.

Hey.

Hey, bud. Um, you seen Stella?

I-I feel like I'm supposed
to be looking for her.

Uh, I'm right here, Dad.

And I am not making excuses.

You and Gramps cheat all the time.

AUGUST: Oh, we do not.

Listen, just because your
teammate sucks at board games

doesn't mean we're cheaters.

- Hey, do not drag Mom into this.
- [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

Mom?

What about Mom?

[WHIRRING LOUDLY]

[AUGUST AND STELLA
ARGUING INDISTINCTLY]

[WHIRRING CONTINUES]

[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]

[GRUNTING]

[GAGGING]

[DISTORTED CLANKING]

[GRUNTS]

[GROANS]

[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]

AUGUST [MUFFLED]: Oh, I'll
bring her in if I need to. Hey, Mom?

Yeah, Stella's questioning
the integrity of game night!

Would you come downstairs
and set her straight?

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

Emily?