The FBI comes to the school looking for Margaret Miller, who happens to be Carol Collins, Kim’s mother. It’s her blood and DNA that’s on the jacket. She claims she cut herself in her kitchen and was still bleeding when she picked up the jacket on the side of the road. 

 

In 1973, Carol, then Margaret Miller, was arrested for auto theft in Portland, Oregon. When she got out of prison she changed her name and moved away to have a new life. Unfortunately, when she left Oregon she broke her parole. Carol swears she did not kill Richie Fife.

 

Bridget thinks there could have been two people in the van, one who grabbed Richie and another who drove.

 

Matt and Hilde decide to track down everything they can find out about Margaret Miller. They go to her old address in Portland. There’s a young woman there who says Margaret gave her and her mother their house. Margaret was her biological father’s (Ezekiel) sister. She never met her father because he left as soon as he found our about the pregnancy. 

 

Margaret and Ezekiel were inseparable as kids. Ezekiel had a Sinner tattoo. Ezekiel also spent time in prison.

 

Hilde pushes Matt to tell her why he quit journalism. He admits that the missing girl on Long Island overwhelmed him because he never let go of the Richie Fife case. 

 

At home, Sylvester has a stroke. He’s rushed to the hospital and will survive.

 

When Mr. Sipple sees the picture of Ezekiel in The Magic Hour Chronicles, he realizes that Ezekiel is the person who ran him off the road the day Richie was abducted. That is the accident that left him in a wheelchair. 

 

Kim realizes that her mother planted Richie’s jacket that night to make it seem as though she found it on the side of the road. When she confronts her, Carol wants them both to run away and start over. Kim is horrified.