- Since it was too late to bring the evidence to the judge, the Imadas, Hatsue, and Ishmael sit around discussing what is likely to happen next. Ishmael is predicting a mistrial.
- When Ishmael leaves, Hatsue follows him outside. She indicates that she is grateful, and in return he just asks that she remember him a little bit when she's old. She kisses him and tells him to go find someone to marry, have kids, and start livin'.
- Hatsue shows up at his mom's house (where he spent the night) early the next day and suggests that they go looking for evidence that Carl Heine had tied up a lantern to the mast of his boat, which would corroborate Kabuo's story that Carl had called him over for a dead battery.
- Ishmael suggests that they look at Carl's boat before the jury reconvenes at 8 a.m.
- They go to Art Moran, show him the shipping records, and convince him to check out the boat, which has been locked up since the investigation began.
- Abel, Art, and Ishmael go together to search for this new evidence (Art suggests that Hatsue stay out of it, given her relationship to the defendant).
- At first, it's no dice—at least, they don't find a lantern. However, upon a closer examination, they realize that there are cut lashings where a lantern had likely been tied up. They also see blood, which they hypothesize was from Carl's cut hand (for those keeping score, those are two points that corroborate with Kabuo's story).
- They collectively realize that Carl had likely been up there cutting down the lantern when the wave from the freighter hit the boat, causing him (and the lantern) to fall overboard. On the way down, they conjecture, Carl had hit his head. They take a look at the port side gunnel and find a fracture with three small hairs in the crack.
- Art says he will bring the hairs to the coroner to determine if they are from Carl...
- By 10:45 that morning, the jury has been released and the charges against Kabuo have been dismissed in light of the new evidence.
- Upon Kabuo's release, he shares a long kiss with Hatsue, which Ishmael captures in a photo for the story he plans to write up about the end of the trial.
- Ishmael then goes back to his office to write the story. He imagines Carl's final moments as he sits down to write.