Walt finds a camera in the moosehead or was it a deer, wasn't paying attention to it, ha. On the footage, they see the girl and see Ellis write on the pad. Though the paper's gone, the pad is still there and just knew the old scribbling on the page with a pencil ploy was coming. They're 3 partial numbers of a plate and Ferg (Adam Bartley) tells Vic they're the numbers for another county. By the way, Walt's not into his tech, but he does think Ellis may have some sort of hidden camera. Probably not take him much for being a hunter so it had to be on the wall for some reason.
Sometimes it's good when Vic asks such questions, like the number plate or has to be filled in on things that are new to her, being an outsider herself, but other times it's a little frustrating to have her ask obvious questions, or at least what should be obvious to her since she's not a novice deputy like Ferg. So the girl left footprints and Walt asks Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) to track them to see where she came from. Telling him he needs Ferg to go with him cos she may be armed. Though he's reluctant, he has no choice. They head out and Henry finds a toe print leading him to the woods cos it's the direction where she came from. Ferg bugs Henry about being taught to track as an Outbound scout and Henry replies he needs to concentrate and that includes not having a conversation. In the woods, Ferg finds some mineral which is native to Brazil and isn't found here, thus Henry sees it's a trail of breadcrumbs. Following them they come to a shack and find a baby inside a rabbit hutch.
They think the missing girl could be his mother and Walt gets her photo put out on the wire. Soon her parents, Johnson (Steven Culp) and Maureen Mace (Kate McNeil) turn up and tell them Evelyn (Abbie Cobb) went missing. She was charged with shoplifting and she is kind of messed up but they need to find her. Branch (Bailey Chase) pesters Walt to put out a reward for her cos they can afford it. That's nice so if she was just some poor kid, she'd have no hope of being found.
Vic finds the three numbers from the car are registered to a mining company in the next county and Vic was able to get h husband to arrange a meeting with the manager. Walt tells her to thank him but she got the info on the basis that Walt have nothing to do with it. The manager is reluctant to talk saying they'll need warrants and Walt reminds him of how the press had a field day on one of their other cases ad then they'll come back and waster his time. He relents and gives them the address of the man who drives their car. They drive there and talk with Leland (John Pyper-Ferguson) who leases his land to the mining company. He recalls the crazy woman from the store and the store owner as he drove into for fuel. Also adding he's the only one who drives that car. Well that was a big giveaway as to who the guilty party was. He recalls she got into a black SVU and he was a little scared of her. Yeah he sure look liked he'd be scared of anything.
Walt later gets a visit from the local sheriff, Jim (Tom Wopat) of the other county who's waiting in his office and isn't happy about Walt going in there without him or even asking him. The company paid for his campaign and he doesn't believe that's relevant, there's no backhanders out here. Walt asks Ferg where they found the baby and he waits for the girl to return. When she does, it's not Evelyn. Her name's October (Sonja Kinski) and she says April/Evelyn isn't the mother but they share the baby. They are a family of sisters. Vic asks about the cult and she gets defensive. She's allowed to leave and just sits outside on the bench. Which creeps out Vic and Ferg. Of course she's waiting for the baby.
Henry still follows the tracks which lead him to the company and he's arrested by the security men who drive a black SVU, well that was a red herring. Walt has to pick up Henry and after agreeing to the reward, they get some time wasters but one man tells them his wife is a midwife and she delivered a baby. He wants his cheque. Talking with Katherine (Margaret Easley) she tells them of being blindfolded and driven somewhere they crossed the train tracks. She was threatened if she told anyone about it and needed the money which is why she went. Ferg tells Walt via Branch's mobile, that October, real name Fiona Hines is a missing person too. Branch saying he needs to get his own phone and Walt replying he doesn't need one. No, cos he's got other peoples' phones, ha.
October snatches the baby from the social worker as Cady (Cassidy Freeman) walks her to the car, again knew that was coming and Branch follows her to do the same and she wants him to stop calling her. Vic realizes she's gone and turns out a car comes for her, as Branch manages to help with saving the baby. Vic rolls over the car and is injured, but only enough where she just needs an icepack. Lucky she had time to put on her jacket then before she ran out, otherwise she may have gotten more serious injuries. She recalls the number of the car and Ferg finds the car is registered to Fiona in her real name. The judge refuses to sign the search warrant to search Leland's house cos they don't have any solid evidence.
Heading to Leland's house again, the sheriff admits to Walt he didn't think it strange he was living here with all these girls. Don't know what to make of that especially considering he's all alone out here. Ugh, small town mentality, maybe he was only turning a blind eye. Walt wants to know that he'll back him up. They find Leland inside and the girls all gone and he is about to reach for his gun but doesn't. Outside he's sick after Walt sticks his finger down his throat, eeww!! Rather you than me! Cos he's taken poison but Walt tells him he won't let him die. Driving back he talks about choices and the like, which in a roundabout way is meant to lead back to Walt and the things he's done and his choices too. His time has come now cos of the baby being born, which spells his demise. Or the kind of wacko thinking these cults come up with. Anyway whilst waiting at the train crossing, Walt recalls the mural on the wall of a girl with the sun behind her and floating over what looks like the desert. He realizes he's tied them to the train line and needs the train to be stopped. Only it's Evelyn who's been tied. The others were drugged and so were placed there. Reaching the girls, he must move them from the line and Branch reaches the train and the brakes are applied but not sure where it'll stop. All the girls are rescued and the train stops too late, ain't that the way. Cady brings Evelyn her baby.
Some nice touches in this ep, in flashback again we see that Henry was with Walt in Denver and he was meant to use his tracking skills to help him found someone, assuming his wife's killer. Ferg proves to be useful here with his mineral knowledge, also it helps that he collects minerals too. Which some would think is a pretty outlandish hobby, but it works. Ferg aims to be more of help than a hindrance as he's not written in this way in the books. He's more hapless. Anyway he's learned his lesson form 1.3 A Damn Shame and checks out the social worker's ID before he lets her take the baby. But another plot hole why let the baby leave when they know the cult will be after him.
Branch getting to highlight the fact Walt doesn't read a newspaper, bad for his re-election if he's not up on current affairs. Though that wasn't called for especially since Walt acts upon his suggestion of a reward, which surprises him too. Maybe he can come up with a few ideas that are helpful. Ruby writes an obit for Ellis which Walt likes. Cos she asked him about it, wondering why he'd be such an expert on obits, considering he's just lost his wife a year ago and well, he isn't quite over it.
Henry telling the security man he's Tonto and they'd be kemosabe. Then the punch up and Henry putting his hands up and adding, "how." Yeah typically stereotypical for them! Ha. Once more it's cult members from the neighbouring county who encroach into their town and make trouble. Also with sheriff Jim being peeved Walt invaded his territory, understandable, cos Walt would feel the same way over his turf.
Suppose the trail of mineral chunks from Brazil was meant to point to the manger as a possible suspect, since he said he thought he'd seen and left behind all the corruption in South America. Either that or the hole in the fence probably meant that Evelyn had been sneaking in there, so maybe got hold of some he might have brought back with him, she was arrested for shoplifting after all. Otherwise it was another little unexplainable plothole. The title obviously being a reference to Walt, ha!!
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