Frannie is writing a letter to someone.

Everyone is getting ready for something while Johnny Cash plays over the action.

Stu, Glen, Harold, Nick, and Larry are all preparing for something. They're on stage with all of the other residents of Boulder down below. Earlier, the group and Frannie decided who would be the messenger to the audience.

Although they picked Stu, he didn't work the crowd well, so Larry took over to make things flow more smoothly.

Larry starts by having everyone who has been working on the power station stand up for a round of applause, followed by the body crew and the teachers. He's giving everyone their due. The power is coming back on this Friday night.

After that, Larry hands things back over to Stu. Glen wanted to tell the truth to the townspeople, but everyone else was quite worried about panicking them.

Nick wants to know if Stu cares more about his personal sense of honor than protecting the place. Glen says he doesn't have to lie. He just doesn't have to say more than he knows.

They hope that the men who were on the body crew will take on the role of protectors since their current job is just about done.

When Stu suggests a vote to put people in charge, Harold jumps up. He wants to put it on the table that the ad-hoc committee accepts the role going forward. They're a little stunned, and Frannie wonders what he's up to.

When Harold gets home, Nadine is waiting for him on the porch. She's trying to be alluring. They have a lot to talk about.

Nadine says she didn't come here to drink. She undoes the buttons on her shirt to reveal the stone that Flagg gave to her. He sent her because they can do great things together.

Harold is skeptical. Nadine wants to make his dreams come true, starting with his virginity. She is staying a virgin for Flagg, but between now and when they leave this place, other than taking her virginity, Harold can do whatever he wants with Nadine.

Nadine gets Harold to admit he wants to kill Stu and all of the others. After that, they go to Flagg. She is his queen, and Harold will be his prince.

She rides Harold to completion while rolling her eyes at him. Harold apologizes.

Two months earlier in Dalevale, Virginia, Frannie wakes up with a fright. Harold wonders if it's another nightmare. Yep. Harold can't sleep. There is too much to think about.

He makes a pass at her, declaring his love, but she assures him she will never feel that way about him.

They find a trailer in the middle of the road. Believing the guy is dead, they discover he's not. He's got a gun on them. He tosses handcuffs to them both and plans on putting them in the trailer with a couple of others.

He starts by punching Harold in the gut and dragging Frannie away for a feel. The guy is going to give Harold a chance to take over the title. Harold is down, but he rises and lands a punch. That only gives the guy more drive.

The other two women are eyeing a bar they can use to pummel the guy. When Stu and Larry drive up, it causes a commotion. The older woman gets shot, and the younger one pummels the guy to death while Harold cowers on the ground.

Stu and Larry wonder if the others want to join a little caravan to Boulder.

Stu speaks patronizingly to Harold to get him in on the caravan.

Frannie wonders if Stu is having other dreams, one with the man in them. Frannie sees him as a leering man with a coat hanger. At that, she tells Stu she's pregnant.

She's not keeping that a secret, but she hasn't told anybody other than her dad and now Stu.

She feels comfortable with Stu and cries into his arms after telling him she's so fucking scared. Harold watches from inside the bus.

The body crew gets red vests instead of uniforms, badges, and guns. Stu reminds them that there are no laws to uphold, so they're not police officers. They're merely looking out for public safety.

Now that Harold knows he's going to kill Stu and the gang, he seems to be getting a little bolder. In his pocket is a ski patrol jacket, and there is a map and stuff about explosives.

Teddy has a Bluray of Skyscraper and wonders if The Rock is still alive. Wouldn't that be great, he wonders?

Glen wonders about Flagg and suggests sending scouts to Vegas to see what's going on. Stu says they're spies. It's dangerous. It can't be any of the five of them since they're crucial to running the place.

They're too noticeable, anyway. They need to send someone who won't be missed so that word doesn't reach Vegas before they do. Not to mention it is in direct violation of Mother Abigail's wishes. But Nick says that if we're not prepared to leave, then we shouldn't be here.

Frannie has a name for them. Dayna Jurgens. Dayna doesn't think the situation sounds ideal. She's got to go alone and talk her way into the camp to get information and then return. But she's in.

Larry nominates an older lady whose name I cannot hear because he mumbles. At the risk of being blunt, if they lose her, they won't lose someone with 50 good years ahead of them. She, of course, says yes.

Glen wants to consider Tom Cullen. Frannie agrees. He's the last person Flagg would ever expect. Plus, he loves this place, and Mother Abigail more than any of them.

Nick recalls meeting a pink-haired woman. She's all over him like white on rice.

When she meets Tom, she calls him a feeb. She tells Tom that his name is Imari Tard. Nick calls her on it. When she asks Nick if it's time he ditches that tard, Nick chooses Tom.

At the possibility of being left alone, she says she's sorry. Tom listens, but Nick doesn't care. She gets the gun and starts shooting because that's what you do to the only people you've seen on earth.

When they find the poster for Hemingford Home, where Mother Abigail resides, there's Stephen King. He was a resident!

Mother Abigail is just about to give up when Tom and Nick arrive. They're thrilled to see each other.

Tom has a pretty good understanding of what to do to get there and return. Glen thinks it's great. Stu thinks he can do it, too. Larry says the whole thing makes him feel like a pay toilet, but yes. Frannie considers voting no to save her conscience, but she thinks they need to do it together, and she votes yes.

Frannie is very pregnant now and writing to her baby as the people chosen to scout begin to leave.

Tom cries, wishing his main man, Nick, could go too, so he didn't have to go alone.

Harold and Nadine are looking for avalanche explosives. Everyone else is counting down to the electricity going on.

There's a big party with Larry and his guitar playing the National Anthem, Jimi's version.

Glen is always vaping.

Teddy wanders up on Nadine while she's getting explosives. Harold is there, too. It looks like Teddy is going to perish. Yep. Down he goes.

Even as he's dying, Teddy tells "Hawk" to run from Nadine. Awww. Poor bastard.