The police launch a full search for Adam. Sam tells Emily to go home, but she’s hesitant to leave.
Later, Emily catches someone sneaking out of her shop and tries to chase him but loses him. She reports the break-in, and Sam shows up concerned. He questions her, then returns to the search for Adam. Emily reviews her shop’s security footage and finds a masked man breaking in.
June drops by with Doyle’s medication, noticing Emily seems troubled but Emily brushes it off.
At practice, Emily notices Vera’s hand injury, which Vera dismisses as just a papercut. Vera also announces that Debbie won’t be at the tree lighting ceremony, and that she will cover the solo despite Brooke’s disappointment.
Sam visits Emily at the shop, explaining the street security cameras didn’t capture anything useful. Emily tells him nothing was stolen, just minimal damage. Violet is surprised to learn about the break-in. Sam has no news on Adam, but Emily mentions that Vance was acting strangely at practice. Sam agrees it’s worth looking into and warns Emily to be careful.
Emily meets Brooke at the diner. Brooke is thrilled Emily joined The Belles and opens up after some wine, revealing she doesn’t understand why Debbie is always the soloist. When Emily asks about Clara, Brooke insists Clara loved Adam and there were no secrets. After Brooke leaves, Sue tells Emily Brooke had a shot at being the soloist last summer but failed. Emily watches a video of Brooke struggling during her solo and notices Debbie and Vera aren’t in the video.
Emily meets Debbie at the diner and subtly fishes for details. Debbie reveals she once missed a performance due to food poisoning, with Vera taking her to the hospital. It was the same night Clara died. Sam shares with Emily that Vance has ties to a crime family in White Rock. He explains that Adam’s truck GPS was set to Vance’s address, suggesting Adam may have thought Vance and Clara were having an affair.
Emily goes to see Ray, who tells her that Vance turned himself in after being part of a mob initiation but has stayed clean ever since. Back at the shop, Emily tries to give Violet a new key, reassuring her it’s okay that she lost the first one. But Emily realizes the intruder must have found Violet’s lost key—meaning they know her.
Emily confronts Vance about the rumor of an affair with Clara. Vance denies it, explaining Clara was just teaching him to read music. Adam once confronted him, but after Vance explained, Adam apologized and left. Vance admits he served time for something he didn’t do to escape a life he didn’t want. Emily feels a newfound respect for him.
Debbie defies her doctor’s orders and returns to practice, despite struggling to sing. Vera won’t let her solo.
Sam later shows Emily what he found at Adam’s house—a full investigation of his own. Adam had been tracking junkyards, searching for the car that killed Clara.
Violet’s friend Nicki visits the shop, and Emily recognizes Nicki’s hat from the surveillance video. Nicki says it belongs to her brother Pete. Emily tracks down Pete, confronting him while wearing a mask. Pete admits to the break-in, saying it was just for fun, and promises not to do it again.
Sue later tells Emily that Clara used to give lessons in a trailer at her house. Emily goes to check the trailer and finds several other cars in the yard. Under a tarp, she smells bleach. She cuts her hand opening the trunk—and discovers Adam’s body inside.
Pete returns Violet’s keys, apologizing for not giving them back sooner after finding them in his car.
Emily reflects on her hunt for Kaimera and wishes she could move on from it.
Sam visits Emily with an update: the car in the yard had Clara’s blood and hair on the hood and was Debbie’s old one.. Adam had likely found it, leading to his death. The car had recently been cleaned. Adam died of blunt force trauma, but he did have a large amount of sleeping pills in his system.
When Adam asks Emily about her hand, Vera’s hand injury suddenly makes Emily suspicious.
Sam and Emily head to The Belles’ practice and ask Vera to remove her bandage, revealing a matching cut to Emily. Sam takes Vera to the station. During interrogation, Vera breaks down, admitting she killed Adam. When Adam told her he found the car, she sedated him to clean her fingerprints off the vehicle. But when he showed up bloody, she panicked and hit him with a tire iron, killing him.
However, they realize Adam was the one who tried to kill Debbie with the tainted throat spray—his way of seeking revenge. One mystery remains: the electrical diagram found at Adam’s house.