Ms. Lowell shelters a wounded stranger picked up from the street while neighbors call her "heartless." The man taunts her, flips their roles—"a murderer and an arsonist"—and coldly reveals, "I've got evidence you set the fire." He refuses hospital care, claims someone will come, and treats staying in her house as leverage to be repaid. He won't be taken away alive and demands she figure out how to settle this "hot potato." The episode ends with him entrenched in her home and Ms. Lowell forced to decide how to stop him and protect herself.