Beth goes to work at Bayshore Oaks, a residential facility where she is a nurse, and learns that a patient, Mr. Hal Rhoads, died overnight. He was a favorite of Beth’s, and he had been at the facility since having a third stroke. During one conversation, she explained to Mr. Rhoads that she and Jack live on the South side of the slough and that Jack started paddleboarding in it three years ago. He tells her that he lived on the North bank for over 80 years. 

Beth remembers that Mr. Rhoads’s son, Martin, was at the facility on Saturday, and his daughter, Diana, usually comes both on Tuesdays and on Thursdays. Beth sees a picture of the Rhoads family standing near some cattle, but while Mrs. Rhodes appears in another picture, she is not in the family photo. Beth notices something peeking out from the frame, and it is another photo, this one containing Hal and a woman with a toddler.

Jack tells her mother that the sloughs will open again the next day, and she wants permission to go back to work. Her mother is hesitant both because of the detectives and because of the possible danger, but Jack feels like she is being punished when she did not do anything wrong.