39. July 29, 2021

Summary

• Holly dreams of being in a cage and an old man covered in fire engines, speaking about the human liver's calorie content.
• Penny Dahl can't sleep, worried and angry about her daughter and Holly's disappearance.
• After a relentless nightmare, Holly wakes up in pain, bruised and battered in a cage, realizing Emily Harris has hurt her.
• Roddy Harris waits outside for the police, hoping they won't discover Holly's whereabouts.
• Holly watches the aged Harris couple descend into the basement, wary of their intentions.
• Penny receives a call from the daughter of Holly's business partner, who is in the hospital, impatiently awaiting help.
• Holly contemplates her grim situation, trapped and injured in a basement, left to ponder her fate with two elderly captors.
• The Harrises deal with practicalities and sinister plans as they handle Holly's imprisonment and their own potential fate.
• Barbara Robinson awakens and rushes to Holly's office, where she finds disturbing evidence and receives unhelpful responses from the answering service.
• Harris reflects on his deluded beliefs about the benefits of consuming human flesh, oblivious to the actual harm he's causing.
• Holly is determined to survive despite her captors' plans and grapples with the reality of being imprisoned by two elderly academics.
• Barbara continues her search for Holly at the Finders Keepers office, encountering unsettling oddities and the lingering presence of someone else.
• Emily Harris executes a risky venture to Finders Keepers, hoping to find Holly's investigations and erase any incriminating evidence.
• Holly confronts her captors about their delusions of cannibalistic health benefits and learns of their disturbing intentions.
• Barbara receives a call from Peter Huntley's daughter, revealing his illness and her frantic search for Holly's whereabouts.
• Holly unearths startling information about her captors, exposing their cannibalistic nature to her own horror.
• Penny gets an important call from Huntley's daughter, Shauna, as tension rises about Holly's mysterious disappearance.
• While in a cage, Holly cunningly engages Roddy Harris in conversation and kills him in self-defense using Bonnie Dahl's earring.
• Barbara discovers that Holly has vanished and, recognizing the urgency, strives for any lead on her missing friend.
• Rodney Harris, after a lecture on the supposed benefits of cannibalism, is attacked and killed by Holly who managed to get hold of an earring.
• Holly, armed with her wit and desperate to survive, delivers a chilling reality check to her captor before making a deadly move.
• As Emily Harris coldly prepares an interrogation, Holly realizes the extent of her captivity and the grim fate that likely awaits.
• While Penny awaits a crucial phone call, Barbara takes decisive action to investigate Holly's silence, and Emily executes a deceitful plan.
• Roddy enjoys his morning routine, unaware of the tragedy unfolding beneath his home as Holly faces mortal danger in the basement.
• Holly, clinging to hope and survival instinct, outsmarts and defeats both her aged captors, proving herself a formidable opponent.
• Barbara's investigation leads her to pressure an answering service for emergency contact, hinting at the danger Holly might be in.
• Emily Harris, on her gruesome quest, inadvertently crosses paths with Barbara, who's en route to solve her friend's disappearance.
• Holly, drained and desperate, outwits Professor Harris with a brutally clever retort and self-defense, ending his life to protect her own.
• Barbara, piecing together clues amidst her personal fears, initiates a search at Finders Keepers, stepping closer to unraveling the mystery.