Cady (Cassidy freeman) and Nighthorse (A Martinez) have a conversation about what her job entails and how she's putting up fliers telling people about her legal aid clinic and the casino staff have only been paid a pittance, whereas the Res workers should have got more than she's getting. Which they will resent her for. She actually tells Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) that he's paying her $750,000 and many will believe what they should have gotten has been squandered on her, which will hardly give her a good reputation or acceptance amongst them. He asks if Walt (Robert Taylor) knows and she tells him he does but he didn't find out, she told him. Even though he doesn't like it, she's an adult and can make her own decisions. When she leaves the casino she spots a girl sitting outside in a car on her own. She calls Walt and Olivia Hannah Nordberg) tells him her father's disappeared. A search of the casino doesn't reveal anything.
Walt also leaves messages for Donna (Ally Walker) who doesn't pick up but prefers to carry on with her work. As he also notices the bullet holes in his house which need fixing. Walt takes Olivia home and he sees the car lights on, her mother's inside passed out and they carry her in. Olivia says she does this a lot and can put her under the shower. He questions them about her missing husband and Olivia makes breakfast at 4am before having to finish off homework. Her mother, Melissa (Anne Dudek) can't recall anything. Walt talks with Olivia's teacher who really can't say much for fear of losing her job but doesn't have much to say about either of them.
Ferg (Adam Bartley) still searches the casino and Walt wants to see the footage from two days ago when her father was here. Walt tells Nighthorse Malachi (Graham Greene) may have started up his scam again from relieving guests from their winnings and Nighthorse doesn't want any of the footage getting to Walt. As he keeps Olivia and her mother at the station, Ruby (Louanne Stephens) tells him Ferg found a DB matching the description of her father on the other side of town. Vic (Katee Sackhoff) doesn't find much money in his wallet for someone who won big and he appears to have been run over. Being found by a school bus driver who parked alongside the road, instead of parking further down, giving the children a view of the DB and a chance to take pictures. Obviously they're not going to delete them as Walt tells Ferg to tell them to do that. Vic questions the trailer park owner, Mega (Robert Baker) and he didn't see him there. On her way back, she finds a man on his mobile chair with his dog who says he saw a woman who was searching for a royal blue car. Putting the suspicion on Melissa since she also conveniently can't remember.
Donna finally shows up after Walt leaves a message about Olivia, as Walt tells Ferg to check the underside of Melissa's car. Where he doesn't find any damage to it. Vic and Donna have words, yeah two jealous women going at it, okay more like one jealous one and one who seemed indifferent either way about her true feelings for Walt or whether she has any for him. Vic being open tells her she doesn't deserve him, she saw how he was when Donna was missing and Donna just avoids him. Donna making excuses about having been shot so she wants to make up lost time for her work. So perhaps Vic gave Donna the idea to go back and pursue Walt in the end, a little of, if she can have him she will and Vic won't, going on there. Well she's a shrink after all.
Nighthorse calls Henry and asks what he's found out about Malachi and he has found anything new, except for the ledger which doesn't show much except that Nighthorse's catering company has been doing a lot of business with Henry. Also Nighthorse tells him about a company that Walt found out about after he questioned the woman, Shawna Crawford (Beau Garrett) in room 503 after he found the room number on the DB. She just says she flirted with him and he brought her back here when she had too much to drink cos he looked "safe." Malachi tells Walt there's no footage in the casino of the man other than with Shawna and Nighthorse gets a camera to place in Malachi's room.
Henry takes Cady to search for offices on the Res and comes across a foreclosed house. There are also other foreclosed houses on the Res but they won't be in such good condition. She's going to have a tough time getting them to accept her. Henry also confronts Nighthorse about this and he draws an analogy of the body being starved for days without food has to be nourished a little at a time, the same with the tribe, who must be given a little money at a time and not a lot in one go, they've gone without for so long. He wants schools, health centres for them. Henry tells him they won't really help the people. Also that he sounds like the government. Nighthorse wants Cady to use Sam as a handyman (yes him again from past seasons) and also gives her a rifle. He's not threatening her but says it's a Cheyenne custom that when a bride gets married, a gun is given as a gesture. You don't give a gun to your enemy, as well as giving her bullets just incase.
Melissa is taken to hospital and Vic finds she was beaten by her father. But he didn't lay a hand on Olivia. In his car Walt finds a packet of Skittles on the driver's side pointing the finger at Olivia, that much was apparent. She knew about his abuse towards her mother and she said it was her dream, that they'd be rescued but they weren't. Walt didn't find his keys cos she had them and she was his designated driver so he wouldn't get a DUI and lose his job. She stopped the car and reversed over him after throwing him out. The title being the analogy Mega at the trailer park drew about chrysalis turning into butterflies. Seems that won't be the case here for Olivia.
Donna visits Walt and he has a package for her, laundry. She tells him she's pregnant and he wants to do the right thing. She thinks he's saying that cos he's obligated to do so, but she's not really pregnant, that he feels he owes her after what happened to her. But that's not what she wants. She stays for a Rainier and asks him if he knows how a woman gets pregnant. He can't remember if they actually did anything or not and she replies it's great to have some mystery in a romance. As long as the mystery doesn't involve some secrets from her past. Also poor Ferg didn't get to take a photo of Beth at the hospital, Walt telling him not to stay there.
Not much of an interesting episode in terms of the story about Olivia and her parents, it's been done before. The bitchy catfight (ha, can a cats be bitchy) between Donna and Vic was more interesting and also how Walt finds himself in the same position as Melissa in not recalling whether she killed him or not. Walt doesn't even recall what they did that day, which was a bit harsh on Donna's part keeping the truth from him. It wasn't as if he was a drunk suffering from a hangover or anything like that. But hey they did find her clothes and bra, so...he should've got some sort f an inkling from that, or maybe not.
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