Late at night, Trey is awakened on the sofa by blinding headlights flooding the Reddy house. Engines rev outside, and a galvanized barrel filled with burning rags blazes in the front yard. Johnny goes to the door and tries to talk down the unseen men with forced cheer, while Sheila bluntly states they mean to burn the family out. Eventually Johnny closes the door and reassures the younger children it was just drunken pranksters. Trey lies awake until the cars finally drive off down the mountain.

The next morning Sheila denies anything happened and confines the children to cleaning the house. Johnny hides in the bedroom on tense phone calls with Rushborough, who is furious. He approaches Trey, spinning the intimidation as possibly helpful, claiming locals' contrariness will make them dig in deeper. He tasks her with going to the village the next day to gauge who is friendly and who isn't, including visiting Lena and Cal.

In the afternoon, Sheila, Trey, and Maeve douse the smoldering barrel and drag it to the ravine to dump it. Maeve accuses Trey of fucking things up on purpose because she never wanted Johnny back. Tension boils over at dinner: Trey and Maeve fight physically, and Johnny laughs while separating them. Johnny dresses up and leaves for the night on a mysterious errand, telling Trey only that he'll "do his bit" while she does hers tomorrow.

Trey sleeps fitfully, plagued by half-dreams of voices and lights. At dawn she rises, plans to help Malachy Dwyer round up stray sheep before heading to the village to assess the damage, still clinging to faint hope Johnny can salvage his scheme. Walking up the mountain with Banjo, the dog runs ahead and lets out his discovery howl. Rounding the bend, Trey finds a dead man lying across the road.