Plot summary
Ralph meets Terry at the prison and expresses uncertainty about his decision to have Terry arrested so publicly. The next day, Joy dies at the hospital after collapsing at home. As Terry arrives at the courthouse for his arraignment, Frank's teenage brother opens fire, injuring others and fatally wounding Terry before being killed by Ralph. Terry insists on his innocence before dying. The deformed man is shown watching the aftermath. Fred Peterson, the sole surviving member of the family, attempts suicide by hanging, but he is only left comatose. Ralph is put on leave, and hot-headed detective Jack Hoskins is called to substitute.
The case continues to gnaw at Ralph, who investigates the van used by the killer and identifies that it was in the same location as the Maitlands during a family trip to Dayton, Ohio, earlier that year. While questioning a reluctant Glory about that trip, Ralph learns from her older daughter that Terry received a small cut on his wrist, supposedly from a male nurse at his father's nursing home. A farmhand discovers a pile of discarded clothes in a barn that match those that Terry was seemingly seen wearing on security footage after the murder.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, The Outsider (miniseries). Series, exact episode number and English title matched. Paragraphs formatted; references and illustrations omitted.