Linda McQueen/Season 2

### The Night Road

Linda greets Vic in the driveway as she returns to Haverhill. She welcomes Vic back and rushes her into the house. Inside, Linda makes Vic a grilled cheese sandwich. Vic complements her new hair, to which Linda replies that Sean, her boyfriend, says she looks like Madonna. When Linda asks about Wayne, Vic reveals that she got drunk and accidentally set the house on fire. Linda encourages Vic to call Lou and Wayne and tell them where she’s at. Linda then leaves for work.

Linda returns home to find liquor in Vic’s room and her drawings scattered along the floor. Vic arrives and Linda scolds her for getting drunk and joyriding. She advises Vic to get her act together and go back to her kid. Vic tries hard, but she fails. She often makes bad decisions and puts him in bad positions. Linda can relate, stating that she never won a gold metal for parenting either. Linda explains that when you’re young, you never understand how much having a child will take from you. You give them everything you’ve got and more than you have. Vic worries that she doesn’t know how to love Wayne like that. Linda tells her that she doesn’t have to know how. She just has to stay and figure out the rest as it happens.

### Bruce Wayne McQueen

Linda arrives at the hospital after Vic, Chris, and Lou are attacked by Charlie Manx and Bing Partridge. She comforts Vic, as she exclaims that Wayne is gone and is never coming back.

### The Hourglass

Linda scolds the FBI for failing to protect Vic given the recent try at her life. She demands they do better. Meanwhile, just inside the room, Vic wakes up. She gets dressed, determined to find Wayne, as no one else can. Vic tells Linda that she has a gift. With her Triumph, she can find Wayne. Vic reminds her mother of Sharon Smith, who she used her gift to find eight years ago. Linda believes that Vic is delusional, telling her to either get back in bed or she’ll have her evaluated. Vic chooses the former.

Linda finds Chris getting dressed and gives him a long hug. She tells Chris that Vic has been cleared to go home, but Linda is worries that Vic's having a breakdown given that she believes she can find Wayne with her motorcycle. Chris, however, believes that she can. He saw with his own eyes as Manx took Wayne and drove off in the Wraith. Chris knows how insane it sounds, but Vic is special. Linda refuses to believe that their daughter is magic, asking how a mother could miss something like that. Nevertheless, Chris proposes that they listen to what Vic has to say.

Linda looks through all of Vic’s old drawings in her room. Vic enters and tells her that Chris and Lou went to go get her motorcycle and that they’ll need some place dry to work on it. Linda always thought that Vic spent too much time drawing. But the truth is, she never understood Vic. She was always so quiet and self-sufficient. Linda never felt that Vic needed her. Vic replies that she did need her mother. She still does. Linda asks Vic to tell her how her gift works. However, Vic doesn’t fully understand it herself. Linda then tells Vic that they can fix the bike in the kitchen.

Linda pours the cops coffee, as Vic, Lou, and Chris work on the bike. Vic then gets a call from Wayne, who reveals he’s stuck in the back of the Wraith, in a junkyard. It’s too dark for Wayne to see exactly where he’s at.

### Chris McQueen

Linda catches Chris and Vic before they leave to find Wayne. Linda voices her concern in regards to them taking explosives over Vic’s Bridge, though Vic doesn’t have much of a choice. Linda tells them to be careful as Vic starts the bike and Chris hops on the back. Linda follows them down the street on foot and watches as Vic and Chris ride away on the Shorter Way Bridge. Linda is lost for words at what she’s just witnessed.

Vic, Maggie, Lou, Chris, and Linda sit in the waiting room of the police station. Tabitha tells Vic that Bing has confessed to several crimes, including kidnapping Wayne. Unfortunately, he refuses to give up any more information of Wayne’s whereabouts until he speaks with Vic. Chris and Linda advise her against it, but Lou tells her to do whatever feels right. And so Vic decides to speak with Bing.

Admittedly, Chris lost control when attacking Bing, but he refuses to allow Vic to ride to Colorado alone. Vic doesn’t want his help. They lost nearly a day because of him. Chris explains that half of those bombs have timers and that only he knows how to rig them. Linda warns Vic against letting her anger screw up her chances of saving Wayne. Vic reluctantly agrees to allow Chris to join her. Linda hugs Chris and tells him to bring Vic and Wayne home.

### Bats

Linda and Vic pack Chris’ belongings and bring them back to her house in Haverhill. She met him when she was just 12 years old. Admittedly, Linda misses him. Vic recalls her father telling her to forgive herself. Linda remarks that Chris was always good at giving advice he couldn’t take, and forgiving one's self is hard advice for a mother to follow. Vic wonders if Linda ever forgave herself — for the struggles she had along the way whilst raising Vic. Linda likes to think she has. Vic used to resent how tightly Linda used to hold onto them, but she understands it now. Linda asks about Wayne, who Vic says is different, and she doesn’t know how to help him. Linda’s biggest regret with Vic is covering for Chris. Perhaps if they talked about what was going on rather than hiding it, Vic’s life might’ve been easier. Vic tells her mother that she loves her, and Linda invites Vic to move in.