S1, E2: Emma is in turmoil after the suicide of her lover, Kit and the death of Jess. She confides in Pete and takes him to the site of Jess' murder: but the body has gone. Pete worries Emma is becoming unstable again, and that she has hallucinated the murder of Jess and the crazed man in the bayou. Emma wrestles with doubt over what she saw while also experiencing horrific flashbacks that suggest she was involved with one of Kit's murders. The discovery of a hook in a sore on her leg, festering since her escape from the bayou shack, convinces her that she didn't imagine the horrors of last night. She begins to research the 'swamp monster' Jess mentioned to her and discovers a dark mythology in the bayou. She makes a promise to herself to find the truth about Jess and the strange town of Saint James while once again crossing a red line in forming a strange connection with another young woman, Rose Lord, the bully of Jess. An unsettling question begins to form: if the memory of Jess is real then are the memories of the murder with Kit real too? While questions also form about Pete as he reveals a strange connection to the group home Jess disappeared from. Mary Barlow holds a vigil to raise awareness that her daughter, Theresa, is still missing believed dead at the hands of Kit Parker and his lover Karen Miller (now Emma) who is living free in witness protection. The vigil brings forward another grieving parent who believes his daughter was a victim of Kit Parker. John Tyler tracks down Karen/Emma's mother in a bid to glean information about where her daughter is. Instead, he finds a fractured relationship led to Karen/Emma being fostered in Minnesota and learns that it is this foster mother who Karen/Emma was closest to. John believes the information is enough to have Mary release him from this twisted contract but she refuses to release him from her blackmail and John moves further from the path of redemption he so desperately seeks.