_*Warning: Major spoilers ahead_*

As Clark’s latest interrogation comes to an end, it’s clear Detective Homer doesn’t believe what he’s saying about what happened with Floyd. He asks if he can provide a name for Tiger Tiger, but as it was a “no name” basis, Clark can’t give it. However, he knows he’s on DTF St Louis as he mentioned he’d set up another rendezvous while he was in town and was meeting them at a roller rink. Homer immediately remembers Modern Love owned a roller disco business. He recalls him saying “no one’s normal... it just looks that way across the street” and Clark notes that’s the same phrase Tiger Tiger used in their conversation.

Going back through the CCTV, Plumb and Homer split up – Plumb goes to interview Carol, while Homer returns to the roller rink to speak to Modern Love.

At Carol’s house, Plumb presses Carol about the recumbent bike they found in her garage. She once again asks Plumb to speak up, but she doesn’t play along this time. Carol folds and says she kept the bike after getting it repaired as her son, Richard, thought it was cool and wanted to ride it into his new school on his first day. Carol openly expresses misgivings about this, thinking that the bike is dorky.

Plumb notes she brought the bike home the day before Floyd was killed and asks where she was in the early hours of the morning. She said he was next to her son, as he’d had a rough night, so slept in a chair opposite him in his room.

Curiosity gets the better of Plumb, and she asks what happened on the day Floyd suffered his penis trauma. Carol refuses to say, saying she doesn’t like to talk about it because “their lives were changed that day”. Besides, Floyd didn’t die because of his bent penis, so it’s none of her business.

Meanwhile at the roller rink, Homer asks Modern Love about his DTF encounter with Tiger Tiger. He confirms they shared a “couples skate” scenario. They had the rink to themselves and just rolled around holding hands. It was a small fantasy he wanted to fulfil, a harmless but small joy, sharing a feeling of love and support. Homer can finally relate to something in this case, and shares that he used to do the same with his wife.

Modern Love confirms his date’s name was Kevin Van Der Lanse, and he was from Chicago just like Clark said.

As Plumb leaves Carol’s house, she looks through her mail and spots a paycheque from the Umpire’s Association, as well as her umpire uniform dying on the washing line.

Homer checks in with the District Attorney, admitting he’s beginning to believe Clark’s story, and their once airtight case against him is beginning to show holes. The D.A. isn’t quite so sure, saying the idea that someone would get an Amphezyne prescription for a friend to help him sleep with the wife you were having an affair with is a massive stretch.

He notes that Carol has a criminal record, but they are waiting on more information regarding that. The unsealed record arrives in Plumb’s inbox, but it’s an anticlimax. All Carol was guilty of was petty theft – stealing toilet paper for her mother when she was 12 years old.

Kevin Van Der Lanse is pulled in for questioning, and he corroborates Clark’s story, saying that he pulled out of the meeting with Floyd because he didn’t want to make him feel worse about himself. He wonders why Floyd still went to the meeting point even though he cancelled. The detectives wonder the same thing.

Going back to the day before Floyd’s death, Clark and Floyd attempt to take their minds off things with a game of paintball, but find neither of their hearts are in it, so abandon the game to have a heart to heart in the forest. The pair talk about their self-esteem, and how they both want to feel like they matter to someone. Clark admits that is probably what drew him into his affair with Carol in the first place.

We see Carol watch Richard as he tries out the recumbent bike, and he’s delighted. She offers to drive him to his first day of his new school, but he’d rather take the bike. Carol is happy that things seem to be going in the right direction, and with the money she’s got from her umpire job, goes out and buys new things for Richard’s room.

Floyd reflects on his marriage to Carol, and how much she helped him study for financial test he was meant to take the day of his accident – and the day he was inspired to become an ASL interpreter. He notes that he felt something fizzle in their relationship that day, like a tornado picking up their relationship and taking it away.

Clark asks to hear the end of the story about what happened to his penis – it turns out after Floyd had upset Carol by no showing his interview they’d got into a fight and he made Carol cry. Richard, then only about seven years old, reacted to this by cracking Floyd in the junk with a baseball bat. Floyd bears no ill will regarding the incident – it’s not like he’s needed it in the years since anyway.

Clark says that it’s just old age talking, and the pair acknowledge struggling with a mid-life crisis - “it feels like summer’s over.” Clark encourages Floyd to go to the swimming pool that night anyway, even though the meeting with Tiger Tiger had been cancelled, as if there’d be a surprise there.

Floyd is confused but excited about the idea as Clark tells him to bring his Playgirl spread and his “cocktail”. He also suggests Floyd lie to Carol about going out of town, booking a room at the Quality Suites on his account to avoid detection.

At home, Richard’s first day of school goes well, beaming as he rides home on the bike before being surprised by new bedroom furnishings. Things seem on the up for the family, with Carol and Floyd looking on happily at Richard’s good mood.

Floyd later packs up his stuff and leaves, saying he’s staying in the city for an ASL conference. She tells him to be careful, but things are still cold between them. That night, Carol is at the dining table sorting out bills, while Richard heads outside with a broom. Without warning, he uses it to smash a window.

Still without a second car, Carol is forced to take Richard to the hospital on the bus while he has an episode. She clings to him while he endures a panic attack – pleading at her not to call Floyd. He’s put on diazepam, with doctors questioning what caused his sudden flare up, before he’s discharged and they go home. Back at home, Carol puts her son to bed, and tells him she loves him, though he refuses to say it back. Exhausted, she sleeps on a chair in his room.

At the hotel suites, Floyd gets ready for the night and pours the whole bottle of Amphezyne into his Bloody Mary cocktail can.

In the present day, Plumb and Homer call in Steven Queece – the young president of the umpire’s association and Carol’s boss. He’s only 15. They confirm that, with Carol’s paycheque, they also found a hand drawn certificate for “Umpire of the Year” and ask if he left it there – the envelope being unstamped.

He confirms that he hand delivered the paycheque and certificate, dropping it off on his paper route around 4.30am to 5am. He thought it would make her happy, as despite taking on the job with barely any understanding of baseball, she tried really hard across the year to understand the game better and was always supportive of the kids. When he dropped it off, he notes that the lights were on, and he could see her sleeping on a chair through the window. Carol has an alibi.

With Tiger Tiger corroborating Clark’s staory, and Steven clearing Carol, they now have no legitimate suspects. Homer informs Clark that he’s set to be released, and they’ll go back to figuring out who rode up to see Floyd that night at the pools.

To their surprise, Clark puts himself back in the firing line and confesses he was the one to meet Floyd that night. He rode there on his bike, saying he was going there to “give him something he seemed to need”.

In the early hours, in the changing rooms of the pools, Floyd is waiting patiently, drinking the laced Bloody Mary and doing press-ups when Clark knocks on the door. Floyd is confused why he would be there, and Clark admits that his “friendship feelings” towards him are “complex”. He feels safe around Floyd, and in opening up to him. The pair use ASL to communicate their mutual appreciation to each other.

Asking to see his Playgirl spread, Clark says it’s cool to see, but he feels safer with him as he is now. He needs to learn how to love himself just like he loves him. Floyd asks Clark if he loves himself, but he admits not lately. They share their body hang-ups, with Floyd taking off his shirt to show off parts of his body he wants to improve on, complimenting Clark’s in the process.

Clark removes his shirt too to see what Floyd means, and soon Floyd is stripping down to his underwear to compare his thighs to what they were in the Playgirl spread. Clark shows his legs – something he has a hang up about – and Floyd compliments them. Clark says Carol and Tiger Tiger would be crazy not to see what he sees in him.

The pair put on some music and playfully dance around in their undies. Clark confides in Floyd that he moved the swings to where they are so he could look at the neighbours next door – but not just the woman, her husband too. Just to get a little thrill, and because he misses the vitality of being young.

Homer asks what he thought Floyd needed, and he admits it was an arousal. The proposal flatters Floyd, who allows him to sit on the floor, watch him dance and “feel however he wants to feel, no biggie”.

However, as Floyd continues to dance, the reality of the situation dawns on Clark. He asks Floyd to cut the music and admits he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He just feels lonely and is desperate for any kind of connection. He apologises for not getting aroused – it’s the one thing he can’t provide for him. Floyd comforts him by hugging him, telling him it’s ok, and that he is safe. Clark gets dressed and rides home.

The CCTV checks out with the timing, with videos showing him leaving around the time he suggests. Suddenly, Plumb notices something on one of the screens. One screen shows a bike with the tag from the bike repair shop still attached, while another does not. They realise they’re not looking at one recumbent bike – but two. With Carol’s whereabouts vetted, there can only be one conclusion - Richard was also at the pools.

Going through screengrabs taken from the Floyd’s laptop, they realise that Richard must have stumbled upon Floyd’s DTF app while filling out the worksheet he had put together for him – causing his episode. The DTF page left open when Floyd died was the chat with Tiger Tiger, confirming the rendezvous at the pools.

Plumb and Homer arrange to meet with Carol and Richard at the skate park. They ask the teen why he wanted to meet there, but he said it was because he liked it. Richard admits cycling to the pool to confront Floyd for cheating on his mother and call him an asshole. However, when he arrived, finding him and Clark dancing in their underwear, he froze.

He waited until Clark had left before going in to see Floyd, but angrily, he explains Floyd didn’t even care about him being there. When asked why, he explains that when he tried to leave, Floyd knocked on a window, told him to “rock on” with a hand gesture and carried on getting drunk.

Carol notices her son’s mistake. She tells him the hand gesture was not “rock on” like Richard thought – it was an ASL sign for “I Love You”. Knowing that the Bloody Mary was laced with a full bottle of Amphezyne, the group collectively realise that Floyd chugged it knowing it would kill him. His death was of his own doing.

Now realising the misunderstanding, Richard is taken aback. After being comforted by his mother, he moves over to the bench where Floyd would practice his gymnastics routine daily and expresses an interest in taking up that torch himself.

With the case now closed, Homer and Plumb sit together on her porch to discuss the entire case. While she gives him some further education on the kinks and desires prevalent behind closed doors today, he admits he was in over his head in this investigation and screwed it up. He believes himself to be a simplistic man – he just likes boobs and butts – but Plumb doesn’t entirely believe him. He admits he likes a good bra too, which makes her laugh. She says he’s so normal at this point, he’s the weird one.

Clark is released from prison. On the taxi home he notices his billboard has been defaced and his reputation is in tatters. Arriving at his house, he finds it empty. His wife has moved out, taking their daughters and all their belongings with her.

A final flashback confirms Richard’s story. He went into the pool house to confront Floyd, and Floyd being mortified by what Richard witnessed. As he walks away, Floyd bangs on the window, tells him he loves him in ASL, and then drank the rest of the Amphezyne cocktail to end his life.

In his final moments, he scrawls out the face of his Playgirl photoshoot, angry at the man he once was compared to the one he became.

In the present day, Clark sits on the swing in his deserted back yard. More alone now than ever.