- The next day, Taylor and Jonah go to St. Vincent's Hospital in hopes of finding Tate. The weird thing is that there's no record of her being there.
- Jonah asks if there's a St. Vincent's hospice around and the attendant points them to next door.
- The receptionist at the hospice says that Tate was there, but checked out six weeks before—about the time Hannah left.
- Taylor asks the receptionist if Hannah signed Tate out. She says no… Jude Scanlon did.
- This makes Taylor hit the roof with excitement: Jude's still in the picture and she's likely going to meet him.
- Jonah, on the other hand, looks at her in shock. He tells her that Jude Scanlon isn't just the Cadet in Hannah's story—he's the Brigadier.
- This is shocking news, but it definitely makes a lot of things fall into place. Like why the Brigadier came looking for Taylor, why he's always staring at her, and why he was in Hannah's house.
- When they get back to the car, it won't start. While Jonah tinkers with it, Taylor calls home to her House, where things aren't going well.
- For one thing, everyone's freaked out because Taylor disappeared; for another, the Brigadier took Jessa, and Raffaela thinks he's the serial killer. Taylor assures her that he is not and tells her to never say that ever again.
- On top of that, Santangelo's dad is furious because Santangelo broke into the police station and refuses to tell anyone where Taylor and Jonah are. She begs Taylor to come home.
- Coming home is starting to look like their only option since their car is totally dead. Jonah says they'll have to take the train to Yass and travel home from there.
- Not if Taylor can help it. She takes the bull by the horns and calls Santangelo's dad herself. She tells him to tell the Brigadier that they'll be at the hospice he signed her mother out of.
- That's not the end of her demands. She wants to know where Tate and Hannah are and wants Jessa back in the dorms immediately.
- As a grand finale, Taylor delivers a soliloquy on how every adult on the planet has let her down and she really needs him to do this for her. You go, girl.
- That evening, Brigadier Jude Scanlon shows up at the hospice and is quite obviously not happy. He says Hannah's totally freaking out and Taylor's pretty sure from the look on his face that he knows she and Jonah did the deed at the hostel. Um, awkward.
- The Brigadier tells Jonah that he'll drop him off at home. Since the Cadets are at the end of their six-week stay, it doesn't make sense for him to return to Jellicoe for two days. Not wanting to leave Taylor, though, Jonah refuses.
- On the way home, Taylor interrogates the Brigadier about where her mother is. When he won't answer any of her questions, she slaps him across the head and forces him to stop the car. Whoa. Taylor's gone wild. Or maybe she just really wants answers.
- Jonah speaks up and asks him to tell Taylor the truth. He says that his grandmother was in a hospice and he knows what that means.
- The Brigadier tells Taylor the truth: Her mother is dying and doesn't have long left.
- The next thing she knows, Taylor is out of the car running down the road.
- The Brigadier catches up to her and grabs her, and Taylor continues to punch him over and over again. He responds by pulling her closer to him.
- All of a sudden, Taylor recalls a memory from her childhood of being on what she thought was her father's shoulders. All this time, it's been Jude.
- Back in the car, Taylor asks him why he took Jessa. The Brigadier tells her he was investigating Taylor's whereabouts, as well as listening to Jessa's fascinating tales about his side job as a serial killer.
- He also explains the newspaper article Taylor found about the kidnapping charges pressed against him: When Taylor was seven, Tate drunk dialed Hannah and said she didn't know where she'd left Taylor; the Brigadier found her hiding in a luggage cart at the train station.
- He decided to take her back to Narnie's, but arrived in Jellicoe only to be arrested after Tate called the cops on him.
- Another piece of the puzzle falls into place when Taylor shows the Brigadier the picture of her as a baby and he tells her Narnie took it. Taylor was staying with them because Tate had made them promise not to give her back to her until she was clean.
- After that, it was a few years before the Brigadier and Hannah heard from them again. Then, when Taylor was eleven, Tate called Hannah and told her she was to take Taylor from the 7-Eleven at twelve fifteen. And that, folks, is where we came in.
- On the way home, the Brigadier tells Taylor story after story of the escapades and adventures of the five, and Taylor finds herself falling in love with her lost family all over again.
- And now we're back in Hannah's book. This time, we get the scene of Fitz shooting the tins that seemed to be missing earlier.
- The gang is sitting by the river, watching Fitz line up the tins on the tree, talking about their future. Tate and Webb are planning to go to the city after they graduate, while Fitz wants to join the Cadets.
- Webb is still set on the idea of building the house by the river, which will always give them someplace to come home to.
- As they leave, Webb calls to Fitz that he never got the fifth tin. Fitz says he'll come back for it. And we all know how that turns out.
- Back in the present day, Taylor asks the Brigadier why he and Hannah aren't together anymore. He tells her it's because Hannah was always wishing that he were Tate, Webb, or Fitz instead of himself. Taylor, though, knows he's wrong.
- He also tells the story of Fitz. He had problems for the rest of his life after Webb died, though he did meet a nice girl and they had a child. His wife later died of cancer.
- When they roll into town, they pass several fire trucks headed in the direction of the school and follow them. Uh-oh…