Episode 3

**"*Episode 3*"** is the third episode of Season 1 of Pieces of Her, and the third episode overall.

## Synopsis

*Feeling caught in a web of lies, Andy searches for answers on her own. Laura sends a message on live TV and soon finds her past catching up with her.*

## Plot Summary

At the International Economic Forum, a younger Laura watches the debate as a man looks at her.

Laura gets ready for her interview on the *Today Show*, where she says that she wants to reach someone who would maybe want to hurt someone.

Andy looks out her window and gathers her things, walking out and asking if there was a shortcut to town, which she takes by walking on a path a woman sends her to. Meanwhile, Jack looks at her from another window at the motel. Laura makes it to a car, where a salesman reaches her and offers her the new car for $5800. However, Andy asks for a bathroom, where she starts counting the money she has.

A man looks at Laura's interview, where she says that people need to change and it is time for a real conversation and wants a truce. The man turns his TV off angrily and leaves his room.

Andy walks back to the salesman and gives him the money in cash. He asks her what she was doing with a suitcase and no car, adding more to the price. He asks her if she is in trouble as she gets scared when a man reaches the store, but she simply hands him the money and asks him where she could sign. She uses the phone and calls Charlie.

At the motel, Jack walks to Andy's car and removes a tracker from it.

At her house, Laura is approached by a man, telling him to get off her property. He tells her that his employer is happy to see that she is alive and well. She asks how everybody is in San Francisco and he simply says that she is good on camera, also asking why she talked to the press. He tells her that he thinks that they can help each other, offering safety and support. She asks him if he knows where his employer is and when he does not answer, she tells him to get off her property or she would call the cops telling them exactly what she knows. He offers help for her daughter as well and asks her to give it some thought.

Andy reaches Charlie's house, where she is invited inside.

Laura makes herself a drink, where she watches Jasper Queller on an interview, talking about his father's death. The reporter asks him about Nick Harper, who had killed his father and was still a fugitive. Laura starts removing her bandage and takes a looks at her hand. She gets a phone call from Nick.

Andy tells Charlie about a man that had broken into their house, but she does not know who he was. She also mentions that another man at a bar had been following her, She also hands him a photo of her mother with a big cut on her back, and Andy says that her mother never talks about Jerry, which might mean that he had done that to her. Charlie tells her that her mother was devastated when Jerry died, so Andy wonders if he knows who Paula Koontz is, but he says he does not know. Charlie says that Carrollton was a long way from there, which makes her wonder if she had told him where she had come from. He brushes it off, saying that she had told him and had even mentioned she was going to Maine. He tells her to get some sleep and says he would get her something to eat. She asks him how he had met her mother, and he says that he had helped her with the loan on their house and had even painted her room with that awful color she wanted. She starts looking through his drawers and finds a picture of him with his family. She asks why he had never married, to which he simply responds that he believed he never found the right person, which makes Andy cry and she storms out of the house. Charlie notices this and asks where she was going, but she leaves.

Gordon is having flashbacks at work, remembering the man who had died in his car. He gets a phone call from Andy, who tells him that Charlie knew that she was coming from Carrollton even though she had not told him and was also married. Gordon asks where she is, but Andy simply states that everything her mother had ever told her was a lie and needs someone to tell her everything. She asks Gordon to tell her one true thing, wondering if Charlie is who he says he is. Gordon says that he is not, but mentions it is complicated, wanting her to go to the nearest police station so he could pick her up. She says that she could not go to the police, but he tells her that he loves her no matter what and would fix whatever was going on. He tells her he knows about the man and says they would talk about it when he picked her up. She asks about Paula Koontz, but he says that he does not know that name. She realizes she would need to figure things out on her own and hangs up.

At home, Laura packs a bag, when she gets a knock at her door. She opens it up and finds Gordon, who asks her if she had been talking to Andy. She tells him that they would be spending a few days together in Camden, which he does not believe since she had gone to see Charlie. He asks her where Paula is, saying they have no time for her lies and was not going to let anyone hurt their daughter. She tells him that Andy is her daughter, to which he does not respond and simply gets back in his car.

Andy walks into a trampoline place and asks a woman if she could borrow her iPad. She googles Paula Koontz and finds Paula Kunde, who was part of the Army of the Changing World and had committed a murder, helping Nick Harp. The woman asks for the iPad back, so Andy gives it to her and picks up the phone. Laura calls her and tells her that she should have gone North because there are people looking for her. She asks if Charlie, Paula and Gordon were part of all that since she had found all her fake IDs and there were no IDs for her. Laura asks her to let her come get her so she could explain, but Andy says that she could go home by midnight.

Laura waits for Andy and calls her, but she does not respond as her daughter drives to Texas. Laura finds where Paula was and looks for plane tickets there.

In his office, Gordon kisses a photo of Andy and calls someone concerning Laura and Andy.

Annette, Laura's mother, wakes her daughter up and puts her in her car with her brothers. She tells them that they were going to a big lake without their father. Martin walks to the car and tells them all to get out, threatening to lock her up. Annette starts singing to the radio and threatens to run him over. The oldest child opens the lock for himself and his siblings, so they get out of the car.

Laura remembers all this and heads to the airport, when she is trapped by two SUVs. A man with a badge approaches her and she gets out of the car.

Andy walks towards McDowell & Ross law offices, with Jack following her. He takes out a screwdriver from a bag as Andy approaches reception, wanting to talk to Geraldine Ross about Paula Kunde. However, she is told that Ms. Ross does not give statements about ongoing legal matters. Andy tells her that she is not a reporter, but was making a documentary on sentencing reform nd wants to talk to Paula, but is told that things were not that simple and there was a $400 fee for an initial consult, which Andy agrees to pay.

At the parking lot, Jack gets out of his car while Andy is told that the next available appointment was in three weeks, so she walks past reception. Jack uses the screwdriver to open Andy's trunk as she heads towards the bathroom and washes her hands. She takes the lid off a coffee and makes small talk with a woman she saw at reception. She spills the coffee and apologizes, but the woman leaves. In the trunk, Jack finds Andy's money and sees her heading out, so he closes it. She gets in and drives away.

Laura is approached by Charlie, who calls her Jane and tells her he knows that she has been busy.

Andy puts on some makeup, a wig and a dress with a new ID as well.

## Cast

### Main

* Toni Collette as Laura Oliver
* Bella Heathcote as Andy Oliver
* David Wenham as Jasper Queller
* Jessica Barden - Jane
* Omari Hardwick - Gordon Oliver
* David Wenham - Jasper Queller
* Jacob Scipio - Michael Vargas
* Joe Dempsie - Nicholas Harp
* Terry O'Quinn - Martin Queller
* Gil Birmingham - Charlie Bass
* Robert Longstreet - Car Salesman
* Aaron Jeffery - Nick Harp
* Nicholas Burton - Andrew Queller
* Ewen Leslie - Arthur Gibson
* Sarah Aubrey - Annette Queller
* Avi Hutensky - Jane 7 Years Old
* Quinn Togher - Jasper Queller 10 Years Old
* Jack LaTorre - Andrew Queller 8 Years Old
* Catherine McClements - Grace Juno
* Mike Duncan - Hoodie
* Bert LaBonté - Interview Reporter
* Anita Hegh - Cable Host
* Jeremy Waters - Norwegian Moderator
* Gregory Matchett - Male Panelist #2
* Daniel Czura - Male Panelist #3
* Daisy Kaur - Camerawoman
* Emma Diaz - Sarah
* Morgan Griffin - Paralegal Sheila
* Michelle Ny - Paralegal Melissa
* Julia Billington - Tired Mother
* Charlie Scott - Daughter
* Angela Mahlatjie - Gordon's Assistant
* Nicole Lockley - Twentysomething Receptionist
* Marcel Noronha - Safe House Man #1
* David Marc Dupre - Safe House Man #2 (as David Dupre)
* Nada Ninkovic - Legal Worker