- After obscuring their true purpose in town from local police, Ralph and Yunis interview witnesses from the cave festival, while Holly and Andy visit the scene; later, the group considers its next move as Claude deals with his role.
- Ralph and Yunis alibi Claude, but realize that they can't tell him anything about El Coco or their plans without El Coco learning. DA Hayes has second thoughts, and the group tracks El Coco to its lair but get a rude surprise after Seale tells Claude the truth despite the others' orders.—Gislef
- The Past
At a barn, one boy climbs up into the hayloft with a flashlight. He hears someone moving in the darkness, and the boy he's playing flashlight tag with "tags" him. The boys, John and George Weaver, run outside and across a field into the forest.
At home, the boys' father Emmitt calls them to dinner. They don't respond, and Emmitt goes into the barn to look for them but doesn't find them. Emmitt searches the forest for them but doesn't find anyone.
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Now
Inside the Bolton house, Howie looks out and watches Ralph and Yu8nis talk to the Cecil detectives. The lawyer goes out, and Ralph shows him the video of "Claude" at Cavestock. Ralph assures the detectives that Claude was with him the night before, and says that they were there because Claude is a witness in a homicide and Ralph came down to get a statement. Yunis explains that they wanted to question Claude is a non-threatening environment, and Seale let them stay. He says that the perp they're looking for abducted an 11-year-old boy in Cherokee City, and Ralph asks to interview their witnesses to see if they're dealing with the same guy. The detectives consider the idea, say that they'll be in touch, and leave.
Once they leave, Holly warns that whatever they say in front of Claude, El Coco can see and hear what he sees through their mental link. Seale isn't convinced but Holly tells him that the safer Claude is, the safer they all are. Howie hangs back with Ralph and asks him if the video was of El Coco. Ralph advises Howie to believe it while he's there and goes inside.
The group meets in the kitchen, and Andy wonders what they do once they find El Coco. He wonders if they can kill it, and Ralph figures that if it needs food to sustain itself, it can be killed. Holly suggests that they just contain it, but still isn't convinced El Coco exists. The others admit that they don't know anything about stopping it, and Holly says that one of them take Claude somewhere while the rest of them make plans. She tells Seale to drop the attitude because they need him. When Claude comes in, Seale suggests that they go to a diner to get chicken. Howie offers to drive Claude, and Claude agrees to go with him.
Ralph calls Jeannie and tells her that they're working on "it". He says that they're making progress, then says that El Coco is there. As Jeannie backs out of the driveway, she almost hits a jogger. Jeannie pulls back into the driveway, and tells Ralph that he can't go near El Coco. She asks Ralph to come home, begging him not to go after it, and Ralph says that they're just going to share what they know and step away.
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John and George go to the nearby Bear Cave. They don't have money to go in through the front gate and John takes his brother to another entrance blocked by a rock fall that the local children know about.
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The group watch the video and figures El Coco panicked. They figure it's starving and took the rest, and will go after another kid. Yunis points out that El Coco knocked over Mike Davidson even though he's starving. Andy confirms there's only one cemetery within ten miles, and suggests that he and Holly check it out. Seale says that they don't have any family buried there, and that all of the coffins at the one the Boltons favored got flooded in the 60s. Holly and Andy go to the kitchen, and Seale tells Ralph that Claude is all that he's got.
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Emmitt comes to the main entrance and talks to the woman running the souvenir shop, Evelyn Stickhouse. She says that no one has come through, and when he says that he needs to go in, Evelyn tells him to go ahe3ad without paying. Emmitt grabs a flashlight and goes in.
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Yunis hears from the detectives that Sam and Mike are coming in to look at mug shots, and they'll let Ralph and Yunis sit in. Howie and Claude leave to get chicken.
Hayes' secretary tells him that a hiker called in and said that he came across the body of a young boy who was killed the same way Frankie was. They wanted Hayes to check it out, but he refuses while telling his secretary to have the police in Cecil keep him posted.
Claude figures that El Coco sees and knows everything he does, and asks Howie to pull over because he's going to be sick. Howie does so and Claude gets up and throws up. When Claude gets back in, he tells Howie about he figures there's nothing he can do about any virus, including El Coco.
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John and George continue into the caves. Meanwhile, Emmitt continues searching for his sons.
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Andy and Holly arrive at the overgrown cemetery, and they find the stones of a couple who died at around the same time. Holly deduces that they both died of Spanish Flu in 1918, but Andy believes that they were conjoined at the soul and one decided to follow the other. When Holly smiles, Andy notices but she says that she's not smiling about anything in particular and leaves, with Andy following her.
Ralph and Yunis participate in Sam's questioning, and how Foxhead mentioned the Bear Cave. The boy describes how his grandpa wrestled with Foxhead, Ralph assures Sam that he's doing great, and asks if Foxhead touched Sam. Sam says that Foxhead had his hand on his shoulder, and Ralph confirms that Foxhead didn't scratch Sam. He claims that Foxhead wouldn't have hurt Sam to reassure the boy.
Andy and Holly go to Cavestock and get a map of the area. He wonders why El Coco ran off the direction that he did, and Holly finds the mounted map of the caves that Foxhead and Sam were looking at. She finds traces of the same residue found on the clothing.
Ralph questions Mike, who asks why Ralph asked Sam if Foxhead scratched him. The detective says that it's just a question they're required to ask, and Ralph says that the umasked Foxhead had "weird eyes" that were too far back in the sockets and he still looked like he was wearing a mask.
In the caves, El Coco looks at Jack sitting by himself.
Once Mike and Sam are escorted out, Ralph and Yunis ask one of the detectives about the Bear Cave. He hasn't heard of it, and they leave.
Hayes goes over photos of Frankie's body at the crime scene,
After Howie and Claude get chicken, Howie says that they should wait to go back and suggests they try some of the chicken now. Claude figures that Howie doesn't remember him from court eight years ago, representing him on a charge of assault and battery in a bar fight. Howie was sentence to mandatory AA, and Howie tells him that he's had to stand up for evil bastards and Claude should take it as a compliment that Howie doesn't remember him.
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John and George continue through the caves, and they come to a dead-end and retrace their steps.
Emmitt continues searching. He hears his sons yelling and yells back to them, but they can't find each other because of the echoes. Emmitt finds the Bear Cave and yells at his sons to stop moving while he goes for help. He leaves, snaps at Evelyn, and calls in locals to help him search for his sons.
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When they go back to the Bolton house, Andy points out the path El Coco fled on the map. When Ralph mentions the Bear Caves, Seale says that it was sealed in 1947 because the Weaver boys got themselves lost. Four Boltons died in the search.
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Emmitt, his wife Dara, and half of the search party open up the rock fall, and Emmitt assures Dara that they'll get their boys out. The party enters the caves and follow their voices. The yelling sets off a new rock fall, trapping them.
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Seale says that the party was trapped in the caves when there was a rock fall, and they slowly starved to death. Other search parties couldn't blast the rocks free without bringing down the entire cave, and 34 people in the first party died. Seale says that his people are "buried" in the cave, and it's the biggest cemetery in the state. He describes the souvenir store, and how locals broke down the concrete plug the state authorities sealed the caves off with so they could go in and get high. Ralph asks Seale to show him where it is on the map, and Seale gets a bigger map of the area. Holly figures that El Coco is in the caves, and Seale comes back and shows them the caves and a back entrance but an earthquake caused a rock fall and blocked it off.
Seale says that maybe El Coco is waiting for them. Ralph claims that they're just trying to find El Coco and call in the "cavalry", and they'll tell them that Foxhead is in there. Seale wonders what happens if El Coco gets past the party, and if it will come for Claude since he doesn't know anything since they're keeping him in the dark. Howie and Claude come back with the chicken.
Glory visits Jeannine.
As the group prepares to go into the cave without Howie, the lawyer complains that he didn't come there to babysit. Howie warns that he has to leave the next day, and Ralph assures him that they'll back in a few hours.
Glory says that she ran into Hayes at the county building and he wanted to talk to her. She refused because he's a plaintiff in one of her lawsuits, but he was acting hangdog. Glory explains that she was mad at Jeannine for dragging her to the meeting, and Jeannine admits that she and a lot of the others believe what Holly said about El Coco. She tells Glory that she can't explain what the others are doing but they're risking their lives. Glory says that she didn't want the meeting to destroy the good will between them, and she wants Jeannine to know that she respects the sincerity of Jeannine's beliefs.
The group takes two cars to the caves, and Yunis tells Ralph that he's stopped talking about El Coco as conditional, and Ralph agrees but admits that it makes him sick to his stomach. Alec is in the back, and tells Ralph that he has to take small bites to accept that El Coco is real. When Ralph objects, Alec tells him to accept what he can until he's ready for another bite. Yunis wonders what they do if El Coco doesn't want to be contained, and Alec says that then they kill it before it kills them.
Howie smokes weed with Seale and coughs, and Seale asks if it's right them not telling Claude their plans. He insists that it's not right, and Howie tells him to stick with the plan. Howie goes to the kitchen to get some leftover chicken, and Claude wakes up. As Howie opens the refrigerator, he hears Seale telling Claude about El Coco. He goes back as Claude tells his brother that El Coco is in his head, and Seale just told him that the others are coming for it.
El Coco sits up and walks away.
Howie calls the others but doesn't get a signal. Seale admits that he might have fucked up, and Claude tells him that the others are going up against El Coco for him. The three men get into Howie's car and drive to the caves.
Jack loads the guns that he brought with him, takes a drink of whiskey, and goes to a hill. He sets up a sniper post and waits, unaware of the rattler nearby.
As Andy and Holly drive to the caves, they play movie trivia and Holly knows all of the movie info. She admits that she never saw the movies. They pull over and kiss, then drive on to join the others. Jack sees the cars pull up and prepares to shoot.
As Andy prepares his gun, Holly warns that firing it in the caves is a bad idea because the sound could cause a gunshot. Jack pulls the trigger, blowing Alec's head open, and the others take cover as Jack fires six more shots.
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