Plato's Cave

A bird flies to its death by striking a window, and Daniel Holden and his mother both observe this event separately with barely a reaction. Daniel gets glasses and goes shopping with his mom and expresses amazement at yarn and flip flops. Daniel's mom gets easily freaked out by a TV crew that approaches their car. Daniel's lawyer Jon talks to the state prosecutor, who says just because Daniel is freed doesn't mean he is exonerated. Sheriff Daggett talks to Trey, the other witness in the original Daniel trial. After hesitating, Trey establishes that he saw Daniel go into the woods with Hanna, but that only George testified that he actually saw Daniel rape Hanna. Trey also reveals that he and other people including an alleged adult had sex with Hanna. At a seminar out of town, a buddy talks to Ted Talbot Jr about getting out of the nickel and dime tire business and doing government contract work because the "whole game is rigged" and he is also frustrated that online ordering services are able to cater to minorities in his store's area. Daniel visits Tawney at her church, where she expresses shock that Daniel did not contemplate the afterlife instead of just preparing for the moment of his death. Daniel takes Tawney off guard by referring to multiple books and philosophers. Tawney pretends she understands Daniel's references and turns the conversation back to her faith in god and asks Daniel if he will get baptized. Daniel ends the conversation by hugging Tawney awkwardly. Later back at home, Tawney gets a call from Ted Jr., who asks her what she's wearing. His wife awkwardly talks to him and then hangs up. On his walk home from Tawney's church, Daniel is looking at books inside a closed store and has a flashback of when prison guards confiscated his books. A female acquaintance that knew Daniel before he was sent to prison engages him in conversation and offers him a free hair cut and tells her she had planned to offer her body to him if she saw him again, but now feels foolish. Daniel says he would have accepted her offer and she closes the store's blinds.
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