The police tent near the church is being used to store the new bodies found buried there. The narrator leaves the pub where he was chatting with Josh and meets Millicent at the emergency room. Rory fell from his window while trying to sneak out and sprained his wrist. Millicent claims not to know about the bodies buried beneath the church and suggests that maybe Josh was mistaken.

Millicent and the narrator meet Faith’s parents at a restaurant, where they discuss how to address their children’s relationship and their sneaking out at night. Faith’s parents want to forbid the children from continuing their relationship. Millicent thinks this will not work but agrees anyway. However, she does not enforce this, although she does forbid Rory from sneaking out.

Jenna’s grades slip and her parents reiterate that she is safe and no danger will befall her. She points out that Naomi and Lindsay probably believed that, too. She has been researching statistics about abduction and murder.

The news breaks that police did find three additional recently deceased female bodies beneath the church. Two of them were strangled like the others, and one remains uncertain for now.