Episode Details

The truck came back. Not everyone in it did.

Day Two of a seven-day probationary week, the Smith family rolls out of Camp Ridge on the camp’s regular supply route and into a country grocery store that has been turned into a trap. The men inside the store are inside the favor of the man the camp has only just put a name to. The shooter on the roof across the road is on a clock that is not the foray’s clock. The road home is not the road in. And by the time the convoy turns onto the gravel lane back at the camp, a Camp Ridge man is in the bed of the second truck under a jacket, and Sarah Smith is at the door of the medical bay with her sleeves rolled to the elbow because she has been at that door for an hour already and the work is the work.

What changes in this episode is not the threat picture. The Black Vultures were already a known faction by the end of Episode 8. The change is the moral weight the Smith family is now carrying. They walked into Camp Ridge the day before as petitioners. They are leaving Day Two with another camp’s blood on their hands, in the sense that a son from somewhere else paid the bill for food the family ate at dinner. Pastor Calloway leads the camp in prayer at dusk. The Smiths stand with strangers in mourning anyway, because that is what the camp does. The pastor watches them through it.

And then the bell on the north perimeter rings, and the count is not three.

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