Episode 2

**"*Episode 2*"** is the Second episode of Season 1 of Pieces of Her, and the second episode overall.

## Synopsis

*Forced to flee in the night, Andy prepare to navigate the long journey to Maine without a GPS, while Laura asks Gordon for help with a delicate matter.*

## Plot Summary

Laura feels cold and asks if it is snowing while she notices that a man was coming back.

As Andy drives, she remembers what happened to her mom. She stops at a convenience store, where she is out of focus and shaking. When she goes outside, she sees the cashier looking at her, so she tries to hurry and looks at a map. After that, she leaves and makes it to a small town and walks into a bookstore, where she goes straight to a computer and searches for both Get-Em-Go and Camden, Maine, which is a 19-hour drive away. Andy manages to remember the name Paula Koontz and searches for it, finding many names, which leaves her unsatisfied.

At her house, Laura welcomes Detective Sergeant Wilson and Detective Shooltz, who also wanted to talk to her daughter, but Laura explains that she is in Atlanta visiting some friends. Wilson asks why the police were called to her house last night and Laura explains that she woke up in the middle of the night having believed she saw someone who was not there. Laura notices a bloodstain on the carpet and tries to describe what had happened the day before, thinking that Jonah was going to kill Andy. She explains that she has an old injury so she could barely feel her hand anyway, but admits that her reaction was unusual. Wilson asks why she had not hidden under a table, so Laura simply asks if she has children because she would do anything to protect her child. Shooltz says that that is pretty much all they need and calls her brave. As the detectives leave, Shooltz notices her keys and says that he would be happy to have a couple of officers drop her car off for her, which she accepts.

Laura calls Gordon, saying that her daughter was someplace safe and wants to talk to him as soon as possible, so he heads for her home.

Andy asks for what she printed at the bookstore and wants to leave. However, she sees a man looking into the van and leaves through the back door. As she tries to escape, she sees the man following her, but she is able to reach the Get-Em-Go. In the storage unit, she finds a car which has a gun amongst other things. When Andy opens the trunk, she finds it loaded with water bottles and a briefcase which has a lot of money inside. She finds fake IDs her mother has for different states across the country. She remembers how in the past, Andy bathes Laura and asks how she had gotten a scar in her back, which she simply says she got by bike riding. After that, Andy opens the storage unit's door and drives away.

At Laura's house, Gordon walks inside and asks what is going on. Laura says that Andy is going to Maine because a man had broken into her house the night before, so it was not safe for her to be there. Laura says that a man is there and opens the door so Gordon could see the man. She tells him that the man was supposed to receive a payment, so she wants to go, but Gordon refuses and says that they could maybe call the feds. Laura tells Gordon that the men would not stop and would go after Andy, also mentioning that she tried so hard to leave them out of her problems.

Gordon, Laura and the man get into the car, where Gordon plays music which annoys Laura, but he leaves it on because they are no longer married.

Andy walks into a motel and gets a room, writing her name down as "Anne".

In the car, Laura sees that the man was having a seizure. She asks him for the number of the man that sent him, but the man tells Laura that he would kill her and dies. Gordon looks back and sees that the man had died as Laura screams desperately. Gordon wonders why she never told him how bad things had been, but she tells him that it would not have made a difference. She says that just one person wanted to hurt her, so she wants to reach him.

Laura reaches house as a news reporter asks her questions. Charlie tells them all to back off as they sit on her porch. He wonders if she and Gordon were back together, but she tells him that they are not, so he mentions that he was in The Keys, but came back when he saw the news. She tells him that she never expected what happened to become so widely known, but is still there. Charlie asks where her daughter is because she should not be alone. He says they could try to get away from all that is happening, but she says she is okay.

In her house, Laura wipes the bloodstain off the carpet as she remembers a murder at the International Economic Forum.

Andy looks at a phone and leaves her room, making her way to the car and taking the gun. She walks into a bar across the street and gets herself a drink and some food. She sees herself on the news as a woman approaches her and asks her how her mom had done such a thing, but she says that was not her mother. The woman approaches a man next to Andy, who says that he does not care and sees that the girl in the photo is a lot younger than Andy. Andy thanks him, saying that she thought she knew her mother, but found out she was wrong. She offers him a drink and toasts to being wrong about people, sitting next to him and introducing herself. He says his name is Jack (it is really Michael) and she says that she was going North, but might be coming back because the scenery is not so bad. Michael says that she has had shitty days too and tells her about when he busted his knee. She asks him to teach her how to use a gun because she has one. After some convincing, they go out back and start using it as Michael shows her how to shoot it.

Laura wakes up in the middle of the night and walks outside. She knocks on the news van and tells the news reporter that she is ready to make a statement, which she wants him to upload live with no edits. She is offered an interview on the *Today Show* the next morning, which she agrees to do.

Andy and Michael walk back to his truck, where he says that he should head home unless she wants a lift. She thanks him for everything and asks her to remember not to lock her elbows or knees. Andy has a flashback and falls for one second before saying good night. Reaching her hotel room, she locks the door and loads her gun.

## Cast

### Main

* Toni Collette as Laura Oliver
* Bella Heathcote as Andy Oliver
* David Wenham as Jasper Queller
* Jessica Barden - Jane
* Omari Hardwick - Gordon Oliver
* Jacob Scipio - Michael Vargas
* Joe Dempsie - Nicholas Harp
* Terry O'Quinn - Martin Queller
* Gil Birmingham - Charlie Bass
* Catherine McClements - Grace Juno
* Mike Duncan - Hoodie
* Bert LaBonté - Interview Reporter
* Harry Greenwood - Loner
* Zahra Newman - Detective Sgt. Wilson
* Josef Ber - Detective Shooltz
* Ellie Lang - Little Andy
* Di Adams - Librarian Dot
* Zoe Carides - Francine
* Rolando Fernandez - Clerk
* Badaidilaga Maftuh-Flynn - Bartender Rick
* Gail Everett-Smith - Old Woman
* Daisy Kaur - Camerawoman
* John Crow - Georgia Regional Newscaster
* Nicole Lockley - Twentysomething Receptionist