Walt's (Robert Taylor) working overtime as usual and collects soil samples to compare which ones were found in the shell and by the river, so they can be analyzed. Henry's (Lou Diamond Phillips) botanist friend can do that and he deputizes him so as not to break the chain of evidence, thus allowing Nighthorse to get off on a technicality. He gets a call from Ruby (Louanne Stephens) about some kids hearing Asian voices by War Eagle. Henry says he can hold Walt's hand if he's too scared to go down there at night. As he'll look into it at first light. Walt says he was 12 at the time.
Next day he takes Vic (Katee Sackhoff) and they find Thorvin Hampton's DB after he was locked in a room and tried to scratch and claw his way out. There's a radio mast there so he was a CB enthusiast and those were probably the voices they heard. Walt wants to investigate this rather than Vic being lead since he has to investigate all crimes, not pick and choose and that's not why he was elected. He has her check out the kids who made the report. She manages to talk to some of them except one, who she finds outside his home with a baseball bat, causing her flashbacks to when she was abducted and subjected to the same. She calls Walt for back-up.
Ferg (Adam Bartley) checks out the radios and he was a bit of a dab hand at radios too, his call sign, 'High Plains Drifter' well Clint, he can radio around and find out anything on Thorvin. The government set up the internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War Two and Thorvin was renovating the place, wanting to turn it into a museum. Speaking with Rett Jacky (Jeremy Ratchford) his son, Caleb (Eddie Hassell) says they were there but they didn't see anything and only heard the noises, and didn't steal from the donation box either. His father doesn't like what Thorvin was doing but they didn't start the war and reminds Vic about Pearl Harbour.
Back at the office Walt takes prints from Branch's computer, hoping to get lucky and find Nighthorse's prints on it. Vic says his suicide note sounds just like him for a fake, so Walt surmizes whoever wrote it, knew Branch really well. Ferg and Walt pay a visit to Sunshine Sally (Leslie O'Carroll) who keeps tortoises and tells them how she and Thorvin used to talk all the time. He was angry they set up the camp and how they even interned babies. As a tortoise plops into Walt's hat. They learn that Thorvin's father was a guard at the camp and he slept with a Japanese woman, Birdy, who had a son. This was Francis Igawa (Sab Shimono) and they pay him a visit. He has dementia and his daughter, Shiori is a nurse. He looks for something in the house and gets angry when he can't find it. She knows about his half brother. Obviously it wouldn't be her father who killed him, even if she does say he's still strong, even if his mind has gone.
Ferg learns from a man over the radio that Sunshine Sally lives in Florida, and finds a photo of a blonde woman in a bikini. It's not her but she went to talk with Thorvin at the bar and he didn't even notice her since she didn't look like the photo. She heard where they found his body over the radio, since it's not very secure. Vic tells Walt she should check Nighthorse's prints over the database but he doesn't want to give himself away. Vic sarcastically commenting that Nighthorse doesn't have a link to an FBI database. She does that for him and finds that Jacob Nighthorse is actually Jacob Blankenship. He was arrested and was part of the American Indian Movement. His partner was found dead with a gunshot wound to his face just like Branch.
Malachi's man, Darius (Joseph Daniel Avila) follows Henry to the university and he gets a letter to Hector from a young woman who's money is being stolen by Lane Potter (Adam Gifford). Henry follows her to the store with her daughter and she doesn't have enough money to buy what she wants. Later at the bar, he comes across him and puts a note under the toilet door with 'Thief' written on it, as well as writing 'Hector lives' on the mirror. Henry's friend tells him that the pollen found in the soil was from balsa wood and it doesn't like water. As Walt recalls Martha tried growing some. Meaning branch was killed somewhere else.
Rett brings Caleb in cos he stole the money and they also found a lighter with a Japanese inscription on it. It belongs to Shiori's (Michelle Krusiec) grandfather and he was drafted in the war, whilst her grandmother Birdy was in the camp. Vic has an App cos she ordered sushi and needed to read the menu, which translates the writing. Walt calls Shiori and tells her to bring her father to the camp. He'd rather not see him get locked up. Where he confronts her when she lies about following signs here, didn't she realize there weren't any signs on the road, oh and she's never heard of GPS either, even if Walt doesn't use it! She locked him in the room and left him there with a clear conscience. That's what they did to the Japanese who didn't do anything either. He lived in the past, but she is an American who doesn't. Her father at then end, ironically saying how beautiful it is there. Oblivious to what his daughter has done.
Walt does know that life and his investigations must go on and he can't focus full time on Branch no matter how much he w ants to. Besides we can't be getting a conclusion to what happened to him so quickly. As for this episode it showed the futility of war, but more importantly how people were treated back then, as possible traitors, as much in the same way as today, not so much traitors but outsiders, refugees seen as terrorists and the like. Also showing the callousness of Shiori and how she held Thorvin responsible when he had nothing to do with the camp, but was trying to ensure people didn't forget about it. Some sort of revenge on her part where she coldly didn't blink an eye as she left him there, even if he was related to her.
Henry meanwhile wants to continue where Hector left off as we know and maybe a response or rather reason for it is his heart is no longer in the Red Pony. Vic still has to deal with her ordeal but won't talk to Walt about it, as he wants her to get help. However she doesn't feel she needs any, though the flashback she has when she sees the bat shows otherwise and Walt noticed this too when he told her to leave the bat.
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