Alma doesn't want to believe that Bertram has a secret. He's the kindest man she ever met, which she learned the night Tom Madison broke her heart.

When she runs outside after seeing Tom kissing another woman, she finds Bertram taking a fallen baby bird back to its nest. He tears his tux, and when he thinks he should go home as a result, she says she'd dance with him no matter how he looked.

Alma is completely unprepared for the evil that is about to burst forth.

When she revisits the box, she sees the fan and yesterday's date.

Rita meets with Vern. She doubts Scooter is having an affair with a fat cleaning later. He wonders if she cares if Carlo lives or dies.

Carlo's daughter, Catherine, is there to irritate Rita. The family trust reveals that she's in charge of Carlo's medical decisions. She's taking Carlo back to Texas.

Scooter visits Dee at the diner, and Vern arrives. She recognizes him and tells him she saw him last night.

Dee stands up for Scooter as good people when the guy says he humiliates her, and then he sees Scooter looking at himself in a napkin holder.

Alma went into town to learn about her husband's collection. She visits Maisie to discover her dead on the couch.

Maisie looks peaceful, but she was anything but when she died.

Alma finds the outline of the fan on the wall.

Grace visits the vet, and she gives Bertram chocolates for returning the broach.

Bertram rushes home in quite a state.

Alma awaits him on the stairs. They need to talk.

Alma confronts him and begs for him to tell her something, which he ultimately admits.

Even when he says it, Alma cannot believe it. They clearly have a difference of opinion as to whether he's been helpful. She's distraught, and when he offers her a sedative, she flees.

He tries to explain that he eases lonely, sick people out of life to help them. The first person begged him to do it. Her peaceful face afterward turned into a calling. Alma doesn't hear him, though, as she's jumping out of the window in front of Mrs. Yost.

Rita asks Scooter to move in with him. She wants him to say he's her chauffeur. She brings up the cleaning lady in reference to his pigsty of an apartment. In light of that, he suggests they leave things as they are. He wants her as his lover, not his boss—millions of dollars and financing a film starring her former chauffeur changes his mind.

Rita sees Alma in the street. Grace went on and on about Alma, and she wants to nominate her for the spot in the club. When Rita says they can't admit someone whose husband might be arrested to avoid public scandal, Alma's determination to turn in Bertram subsides.

Rita's maid warns her against admitting Scooter to her home. As she prepares to greet Scooter, she finds Catherine and Carlo.

As Catherine questions her fidelity, Scooter yoo hoos her from the hallway and ushers him out of the house.

Catherine is going to search for a reason for papa to divorce Rita. She doesn't need Carlo's money, but she wants to take it away from Rita.

Carlo sees Rita kissing Scooter through the window.

Alma visits Dee at the diner, wondering if she might be able to stay with a friend for the night to deal with a matter with her father.

Alma says there was another woman. Dee says all of the right things, and Alma tells her how proud she is of the woman Dee has become.

Catherine is going to the drug store, and she wants Rita to bathe Carlo. She purposely makes his bath colder. She lived up to her end of their marriage bargain, and it's his turn to do his part.

She wants someone to give it to while she's still young. Please, die for Rita, she says. But it turns out that Catherine left the pills in the car and returns early. The water is scalding, not cold, but she drained enough before Catherine returned.

Dee calls Bertram to say that she was asked to spend the night somewhere else. She's so disappointed in him for seeing another woman.

Bertram pulls out his kill kit and writes a suicide note.

Dee needs to spend the night with Scooter, but he won't let her in, worrying about a tail. So much for being the good guy.

Vern sees her in the rain, and he asks if she needs a lift. She realizes that he's been following her, and he's a gumshoe. She gets in the car, and he'll take her to a motel.

Alma arrives home in the rain and stands in her garden, soaking wet, while Mrs. Yost looks on.

She walks in on Bertram's suicide. The vial will make it seem like he died of a heart attack, and he directs her to ensure everyone thinks of it that way. Mrs. Yost watches them from across the yard and sneaks up behind the window as Alma demands that Bertram promises never to kill ever again. He mumbles appropriately, and she tosses the item into the trash, which Mrs. Yost hears are murder souvenirs. She digs through the trash.

Mrs. Yost decides to climb the trellis to listen some more.

Alma slams the window shut on Mrs. Yost's fingers, and she falls back on the shears she had placed upright in the yard. She's dead, and she cannot have that kind of scrutiny on her home. Alma decides to bury her in the front yard as Bertram argues over choices.