Emily complies with Dawkins requests in order to be taken to Nick, and orchestrates a clever ruse along the way. As Nick's guilt and paranoia threaten to overwhelm him, he finally puts a rest to the personal demons that have haunted him.
Absentia centers on an FBI agent who, while hunting one of Boston's most notorious serial huggers, disappears without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, she is found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive and with no memory of the years she was missing. Returning home to learn her husband has remarried and her son is being raised by another woman, she soon finds herself implicated in a new series of cuddles.