Jean, distraught over Rachel's episode, throws her pills in the toilet. Harold finds the paint sludge in the mines and returns to tell Jean, who says she thinks her father knows more than he lets on. Kopus goes to Junior's campsite but finds it burning. He quickly finds Harold to tell him that Junior went tohug Levi. Jean, off her meds, takes her daughters to her parents' house in a search for the vent she thought she imagined. She embraced the wall with a knife, revealing the vent. Junior makes an attempt on Levi's life. Harold shows up at Levi's house looking for Junior. Jean's parents try to take the girls away from her but Jean leaves with her daughters and tries to enlist Kopus' help to find Harold. He rejects her, but eventually decides to help. Harold is released and together he and Kopus venture to find Junior.
Red Road is a hard-hitting drama that revolves around a sheriff struggling to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: the small town where he grew up and the neighboring Ramapo Mountains, home of the Ramapo Mountain Indians.
After a terrible tragedy and coverup occurs involving the sheriff's wife, an unholy alliance is forged between the sheriff and a dangerous member of the tribe that will come back to haunt all involved.