Episode 7

**"*Episode 7*"** is the seventh episode of Season 1 of Pieces of Her, and the seventh episode overall.

## Synopsis

*Andy heads to a familiar place with a companion as memories of her childhood come flooding back. Flashbacks reveal the Quellers' struggles after Oslo.*

## Plot Summary

In the past, Jane is taken to a cell, where she sees drawings on the wall. Charlie tells her that 4 years is a long time. He tells her that Laura Randall does not even have a ticket and offers to talk her through their deal. He tells her the details behind her new identity and she sees that both her and Andy's birthdays were changed. She is told that she would go to Belle Isle in Georgia so she would not have enough trouble. Laura asks about Nick and Charlie says that they would get him, but he only wants her to focus on being Laura.

Andy sits in front of the diner where her mom left her and is approached by Charlie, who asks where her mother is. Andy tells him the details of the car she was in, but Jane had already switched the plates.

When Jane had cancer, Andy stays with her mother, who tells her to go home. Andy refuses at first, but ends up going to the cafeteria. Jane hands the woman next to her a pen, but she only wanted to read. She is asked what dreams she had been putting off and Jane simply says that she wanted to finish her book.

In a car, the radio tells the group that Maplecroft and another man had been killed. Andrew, Jane, Paula, and Nick all make it to a house, where he approaches Eli and his wife, calling them lifesavers. Eli offers them all they need as Nick goes to help Andrew unpack. Nick asks Jane if she is okay and hugs her. When Andrew gets out of the van, he collapses and the group sees that he had been shot. Jane wants to take him to a doctor, but Nick refuses.

Charlie tells Andy that they checked the location she had given them, but found nothing. She tells him that she saw two people get shot and she still thinks it is her uncle. Charlie says that Michael had been moved to a secure location and was stable. As for her mother, there had been no luck tracking her phone. He tells her that Nick is around there somewhere, which is why she had left. Andy thanks Charlie for everything he had done, so he mentions that he was with her mother in the delivery room and was the second person to have held her. He says that perhaps her mother had gone up North.

While getting chemotherapy, Jane still tries to ignore the woman next to her and says that the trip she wants to plan does not matter and wants her to shut up because they would never do anything again since they were dying. Andy asks her mother if she was really ready to die, since she wants her to make an effort and wants to know why she is not even trying. Jane says that her life did not begin when Andy was born and tells her daughter that she believes she had only come home because she had nothing better to do and wants her to get a life. Andy tells her not not shut her out because she wants her alive.

On the news, Jane watches Jasper say that the Army of the Changing World were terrorists, so Nick gets angry and shuts the TV off, saying that they should bomb him and his precious company, which Jane says he cannot do. Nick asks why he could not do it, so Jane asks if he is not simply wanting revenge because it was getting hard to tell. She goes to help Andrew as Nick walks away.

Jane sees that Andrew has a fever and asks why he had not said anything. He says that he is dying for something he believes in, which makes Jane realize he was just like Nick. She asks him to let her take him to a hospital, but he refuses, saying he would be fine. Jane tells her brother he is pregnant and hopes that she has a daughter. She says that she does not want to be alone and wants him there with her, but he says that she would not be alone. Walking to a basket, Jane takes out a bag which has a cassette; listening to it and hearing Nick tell Jasper how to act.

Nick approaches her and asks what she was doing. Jane responds that she would take Andrew to a hospital because he would not make it, which Nick knows and is ready to accept. Jane does not care if the cops were looking for them and Nick says that he did not want those things to happen, telling her that the world had broken them, but they had been able to find each other. She shoves him and says that she could not go through with it anymore. Nick tells her that Eli would take them to the border and help them, but she refuses. He grabs her and shoves her to the ground, telling her that if she ever left him, he would scorch the world to find her, punching her in the face.

At chemotherapy, Jane is told that the woman she found annoying had been moved to hospice care. She visits her and says that she was always cheerful, apologizing for how she had behaved. Jane says that her only real dream is freedom, having lived through terrible things and needing to lock her old self away. She says that hiding for thirty years is not a choice, but captivity.

After Jane was hurt by Nick, she walked up on him and knocked him out, taking Andrew to the van and thanking Eli's wife. At the hospital, Jane cries as she holds Andrew. Jasper walks into the room, but Andrew was already dead. Jasper says that there was an FBI agent outside and tells her to say that she had been brainwashed by Andrew and Nick. Jane tells him to stop, but Jasper says that they could deal with the situation. Jane says that she would turn herself in and move on with her life after doing her time, telling that he needed to use profits from the company to make amends or she would ruin his life. He asks what is wrong with her, but she says that she knows about both him and Nick's side deal, which he pretends to not know about. She says that she has him on tape. He admits that he did not know Nick was going to kill him and tells her that they need to look out for each other. However, Jane refuses and leaves the room.

Jane walks out of the hospital room to an FBI agent, telling him that she knows who killed Alex Maplecroft and where he could find him. However, she says that she wants a deal first.

Andy asks Charlie how Nick had not been caught the first time and Charlie says that he got close, but he had managed to slip away, so he believed that he had help. Andy wonders if Nick really hates her mother and Charlie says that Nick had a lot of time to think about what had happened. All of a sudden, Andy sees a car headed straight for them, which crashes right into them at a very high speed.

Andy wakes up in a bed with bruises. She remembers when Clara used to take care of her because she was now in the same house years later. One night, Clara walked into her tool shed after hearing some noise, but did not see anyone. The next day, Andy went to play with her dolls and is approached by Nick, who tells her that he saved her dolls, who were going to fall into lava. She says that she has the whole forest to herself, which he says is cool. He asks where her mother is, and Andy says she is gone and is now growing flowers. She tells him her name, which he recognizes. He invites her to go swimming and says they could go to a creek, but Eli and Clara start calling for Andy, so Nick says goodbye. He gives her a coin and says that as long as she had it, it would mean he would go back.

Later, Andy sees Jane, who tells her she is beautiful. Andy has a hard time getting close to her mother, who hugs her and tells her that she got her some presents. Clara tells Andy that she would now go with Jane, but Andy does not want to leave. Jane asks Clara how she could ever repay her, but she says that something great had already come out of being able to care for Andy, but Jane says that she likely will not be able to visit. Andy runs away and Jane approaches her, trying to convince her to go with her at first, but forcing her when she spit on her. Clara hugs Andy and takes her to the car where Charlie is waiting and they all get in.

In the car, Jane asks Andy if she can see what she has in her hand, but Andy does not want to show her. Jane says that she knows she is scared but they need to figure out how to be a team together. Andy opens her hand and Jane sees Nick's nickel, which makes her ask how she had gotten it. However, Andy does not respond.

In the present, Andy walks down the stairs at Eli's house. There, she sees Nick waiting for her. He says that she had been sleeping all day and introduces himself, telling her that he is her father.

## Cast

### Main

* Toni Collette as Laura Oliver
* Bella Heathcote as Andy Oliver
* David Wenham as Jasper Queller
* Jessica Barden - Jane
* Joe Dempsie - Nicholas Harp
* Gil Birmingham - Charlie Bass
* Calum Worthy - Young Jasper Queller
* Aaron Jeffery - Nick Harp
* Paul C. Grenier - Young Charlie Bass
* Nicholas Burton - Andrew Queller
* Gemma Bird Matheson - Clara
* Ben O'Toole - Young Eli Wexler
* Mia Artemis - Young Paula Kunde
* Raelene Chapman - Alex Maplecroft
* Ellie Lang - Little Andy
* Geneviève Lemon - Gloria (as Genevieve Lemon)
* Serag Mohamed - FBI Special Agent
* Sarah de Possesse - WITSEC Guard
* Karina Bracken - Nurse - Infusion Center