Skidmore admits to a history of violence toward those who don't fit in; the FBI arrives and turns to the sheriff's role in the crime; Trena's fight for justice seems ever more elusive; the town begins to pay a different kind of price.

Sheriff Espey is confident that Branson was murdered due to drug world connections; tragedy visits Skidmore when Bobbie Jo Stinnett is murdered at eight months pregnant and her unborn baby is stolen.