- Grace's life gets complicated when what's supposed to be an heroic capture turns into an IA investigation; meanwhile, she continues her mission of revenge against Father Murphy, and Earl attempts a lesson in forgiveness.
- Grace's tactics to chase down and kill a wanted fugitive makes her the subject of news headlines, and the subject of an internal affairs investigation. But she is still struggling with her personal demons and keeping the captive Father Murphy at her house and subjecting him to tortuous mind games for his past abuse of her while waiting for Earl to show up after discovering that he has visited the pedophile Father Murphy as well.—Anonymous
- Grace goes to meet Rhetta, whom she's been avoiding. It's three days after Grace learned her abuser, Father Patrick Satan Murphy is still alive. Rhetta wants to know why Grace called off work. She knows Grace went to see Murphy. Before Rhetta can prod her further Grace sees a shifty-looking guy. He soon draws a gun to carjack someone and bullets are flying. Grace, who is off-duty, runs after him, he continues to fire on her. Patrol officers show up and she gives a detailed description before they loose the dog on him. He's soon cornered by cars and the dog. He jumps off an overpass and the dog follows him off the edge. Poor puppy. Grace calls for an ambulance for the officer down.
Officers pack the vet's office. Grace has clearly been crying. Her partner Ham shows up along with Butch and Bobby. Perry shows up and congratulates Grace for knocking off No. 6 on the FBI's most wanted list for raping and killing nine women. They stand before the cameras at a press conference, as Perry praises Grace. Grace gives all the credit to the dog.
Back at the station, the gang give Grace a hero's welcome, with confetti and a super hero cape. A stern looking Brad from IA shows up to talk to Grace. He's not excited about two hurt civilians and the fact she was drinking that morning. Perry points out she was off-duty and the FBI wants to give her a medal. They blood test her. Grace and Brad used to work together. After the third time he almost got her killed she told him to get behind a desk.
Rhetta still wants to know what happened with Murphy. Grace walks out and heads home for shots, still wearing her super hero cape. She unrolls her rug. Father Murphy is bound and gagged inside. Alive. She apologizes for having been gone that long. He begs her to talk to him. He says he's confessed. She's feeding him ice cream sundaes and offers him beer and wine. Murphy says Earl brought them together for a reason. Grace lays down a plastic tarp on her living room floor. Murphy asks, calmly, if she's going to kill him.
Back at the station Ham and Butch talk to the witness who saw Grace drinking that morning. Perry thinks Deanne came forward for personal reasons. She's determined to help Grace keep her accolades.
Back at Grace's house, she's put a steak in Murphy's lap and taunts her dog to eat it out of his crotch. She laughs when Gus just safely eats the food. She's wearing latex gloves and putting a silencer on her gun. He asks her to give him the gun and says he'll kill himself. He says he doesn't want her to suffer any more because of him. She's waiting for Earl to get there. She kills time by dancing to the radio, flashing him lasciviously. She climbs on his lap and flops around.
At the bar, Rhetta talks to Grace's brother Johnny about Murphy. They blame themselves for not knowing what was happening to her as a kid. Rhetta tells Johnny that Earl the Angel lead them to Murphy. Johnny the priest doesn't believe her.
Back at Grace's house, Earl has finally arrived. Murphy asks Earl how God could still love him after all the kids he hurt. Grace tells Earl what she's going to do. Murphy says he's ready to die. Earl worries about the lifetime of hate Grace will be in for if she goes through with it. She puts the gun to Murphy's head but before she can pull the trigger Earl disappears. She calls Earl an ungodly name and then squeezes it anyway.
She walks into the station, still in her pajamas, covered in Murphy's blood. The detectives aren't concerned. They congratulate her, tell her about the parade they're going to have for her. She wakes up. Murphy's still alive and tied to the chair.
She wakes him up and slugs him.
She drags him, in his steak-stained pajamas, into the station. Grace matter-of-factly introduces Murphy as the man who raped her when she was a child as well as 27 other children in other states. She says he's already confessed, but she wants to get it on tape. Her coworkers stare at her, agape. Perry leads the man into an interview room.
Ham confronts Rhetta, wanting to know if she knew about Murphy. He asks how young Grace was when it started. Nine years old. Rhetta tells him Grace doesn't need his anger right now, but his support.
Grace tells someone from the DA's office about her past three days with Murphy, during which at no time did he ask for a lawyer as he told her about his 2,374 sex crimes over the years. The DA congratulates Grace for not killing him. She says they're not pressing kidnapping charges against her. But Murphy has recanted now that the lawyers have arrived. Still, they're confident he'll pay somehow.
Perry says she should kick Graces ass, but hugs her instead.
Perry asks Grace if she knows the woman who claims she saw her drinking at the bar, she tells her to look into it since she can't investigate Murphy.
Ham's waiting for her outside Perry's office. He doesn't know what to say, but says if she ever needs anything, just ask.
Rhetta meets Grace in the stairwell and thanks Grace for not killing him. Grace tells Rhetta about Murphy's connection to Earl. Grace is worried her mom won't what Murphy did to her.
Ham goes to talk to another of Murphy's victims, a man who denies Murphy did anything to him.
Butch and Bobby talk to the father of another victim, Amy. He didn't know the extent of it, but learned in her diary after Amy killed herself.
In the station, the TV announces candlelight vigils for the wounded dog. Ham, Bobby and Butch all try to avoid reading Grace's statement about the abuse. Perry walks in and says Murphy has been murdered. She wants to know if anyone knows where Grace is.
Cut to Earl, bent of Murphy's body, cradling him.
They go to the crime scene. Murphy's been dead about three hours and his knees are dirty, like he was kneeling and was executed. Grace drives up, thrilled. She denies responsibility, citing a bar and producing a guy's phone number on a napkin as an alibi. Murphy drove back into town after hitting Tulsa. He was killed outside the ice cream shop he used to take Grace and Amy to. Perry asks them to bring in Murphy's other victim, Ross. Grace wants to work the case, because she understands whoever killed him.
Grace talks to Amy's dad. He says he didn't read Amy's journal, his wife did. He didn't know where they got ice cream.
Grace smokes with her fellow victim, Ross, who she went to grade school with. She thinks he did it and implies as much. She talks about dealing with the abuse. Ross, who is also a cop, denies it happened to him. Ross says she doesn't have proof. Ross asks Grace why she didn't kill him. She says she couldn't. She tells Ross he has about 12 hours to get out of town and lets him walk away.
Earl sits nearby.
She goes back to the station and says she has nothing. Butch has video from a business in the area that shows Ross driving up. Amy's dad has an alibi. Butch and Bobby check in on Grace. Ham asks her if she wants to get a drink. She says she has to meet someone and then kisses him in a way you wouldn't want an angel to watch.
She leaves and goes to meet Deanne in a diner. Deanne can't believe Grace threatened to have her arrested. Grace says she filed a false police report. Deanne calls her a drunk. Grace pulled her file, she used to be friends with Grace's sister Mary Francis. Deanne tells Grace she got her sister killed because she was to hungover to babysit and to keep Mary Francis from going to the federal building the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. Grace pays her tab and leaves without saying anything.
At her house, Grace's doorbell rings. It's her mom, back early from a cruise. She saw the news report calling Grace a hero on her cruise.
Her mom talks about the cruise and then shifts to Father Murphy. She wants to know why the newspaper is suggesting he was a child molester. Grace hasn't been able to look her mother in the eye, but she does. And says he was one.
Her mom stares at her. "Well, he was always so good with you kids," her mom says. The church has been through so much.
She kisses Grace on the cheek and leaves.
Grace drives to work and a radio report says the police dog is going to be fine.
In the station, Ross's fiancée is freaked out, crying, saying he walked in on Ross giving her 11-year-old daughter a bath. She broke up with him.
Realizing Ross is probably about to snap, the team goes to his house. Before they can get inside they hear a gunshot. Ross killed himself.
Grace goes home. When she gets a beer from her fridge she turns around to find Earl. She asks him where he's been. She asks if he knows about Ross and Murphy. She cries and he hugs her. She says she's sorry. He knows. Angels are like that.
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