Frances Neagley finds herself in a tough spot when she tries to uncover the details of Tommy Crane’s death in Neagley episode 1. She learns that it wasn’t a simple case of suicide and that Echo Canyon farm has something to do with it. By digging deeper, Neagley gets a target on her back and finds other people who were associated with Tommy’s alleged murder.
Episode 2 begins with a flashback two weeks before Tommy’s death; he’s seen working at the farm with a girl named Lulu. The girl tells Tommy that she’s been selected to go see Lawrence Cole, which naturally entails working on a ‘secret’ project. Apparently, everyone wants to work on this project, but only a lucky few are selected.
Tommy is skeptical and warns Lulu about rumors that say girls are sent to Lawrence for sexual purposes. However, she shuts him down, saying he shouldn’t talk about Lawrence like that, but Tommy argues that he finds Echo Canyon a bit suspicious.
He points out that they read their correspondence, and anyone who is chosen for the project in the name of mindful revolution never actually comes back. Lulu is pretty adamant about proving Tommy wrong and says that ‘participants’ have their own dorms on a sister farm; that’s why no one gets to see them.
The conversation ends with Lulu dismissing all of Tommy’s concerns and calling him out for not noticing her green nail polish. Later that night, a storm hits the farm, and Tommy goes out to help the pigs. He falls into the pig pen, and the displaced soil uncovers a severed finger with bright green nail polish on it.
Tommy is terrified because he knows the finger belonged to Lulu, and he questions Lawrence. The man is pretty nonchalant about the situation and calmly explains to Tommy that Lulu died because she took speed from town that was laced with fentanyl.
Tommy isn’t convinced because he knew that Lulu wasn’t using drugs anymore, but Lawrence argued that she was. They had to bury her quietly to avoid sending other recovering addicts over the edge, but they mustn’t have buried her deep enough. He goes on to say that the coyotes must have dug her out and left a piece of her in the pig pen.
Tommy is shocked to hear that Lawrence has answers to every one of his questions and leaves in a rage. After he leaves, Lawrence calls out Judith for not disposing of the body properly, to which she replies that they were busy preparing the gas lines, but she’s more concerned about Tommy’s intrusion. Lawrence takes a drink and reassures Judith that Tommy won’t be asking questions soon.
Neagley digs deeper into Tommy’s death
Neagley and Hudson are investigating Charlie’s death — the man who was involved with disabling the L train cameras. They find nothing useful there except a receipt indicating he picked up work there. As they’re about to leave, we see the same two men from the morgue placed at a distance with a sniper and a clear shot of Neagley’s head.
Luckily, Neagley spots them and retaliates by taking out her own sniper from the car and getting a good look at one of the men through the scope. The men flee in panic, but Neagley was able to identify one man from the photo Hudson pulled from the morgue security camera.
The two then go down to the bar where Charlie Halle was hired by the men trying to kill Neagley. After she threatens to burn down his place, the man gives them names: Ford and Davos. Hudson plans to run the names in the system when he’s stopped by someone at the bar.
The man tells Hudson that he knows he’s cousins with a man named Mickey Nines, who’s supposed to be a gangster of sorts. He goes on to call Hudson a ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card because he’s in the police and tells him his cousin has been telling people he’d help out if any criminal finds himself in a pinch.
This enrages Hudson, and he rushes down to confront Mickey. However, his buddies apprehend Hudson, but Neagley swoops in and saves the day. The two later talk about it, but both of them are mean to each other about their "issues," especially Hudson, who calls out Neagley for her haphephobia.
Offended, Neagley leaves and goes to her house to collect a few things for her dad at the hospital. She gets her father’s ring from a box in the closet but is surprised to find a childhood photo of her and Tommy. She takes the stuff to her father, and they talk about how Frances should accept the fact that she’ll be left alone when he dies.
He calls out Neagley for avoiding people, and with him gone, she’ll be lonely, so it's best she makes friends or acquaintances. However, instead of listening to her father, Neagley demands that he be truthful about when exactly her haphephobia started. He says he doesn’t remember exactly, but that it's been there since she was a baby.
Neagley doesn’t believe her father because she shows him a picture of her and Tommy hand-in-hand in kindergarten. She asks if it started in the crib; why was she comfortable holding hands as a kid? Her father argues that years of chemo and medicine have fogged his memory, and he can’t tell for sure when it happened.
Calvin Neagley asks his daughter to drop the interrogation, and she does, but she also tells him that she has indeed started working with a cop. That makes her father hopeful, but then he hands her a letter that came for her. Neagley learns that the letter came from Tommy Crane just before he died, and the envelope was full of white powder.
Neagley takes the envelop to Renee and asks her to investigate both the powder and the two men at the morgue. Just as she’s about to leave, Neagley’s boss pulls her in for a meeting with a client. As she talks about the case, Neagley realizes that since those men seemed to have second-grade equipment and clothing, they could have gone to a pawnshop for cash.
Echo Canyon has a long trail of red
Neagley and Hudson track down a potential pawnshop where Ford must have gone to sell Charlie’s teeth. The shop owner says he doesn’t know, but Neagley threatens to arrest him and gets an address after setting him up to believe she has a credible source that Ford was at the shop.
The duo drives to Ford’s address, but before they could talk to him, he escapes. After an exhausting chase, he is finally caught and taken to the police station. Neagley and Hudson question him about his involvement in killing Charlie and Tommy.
During the interrogation, when they take Lawrence Cole’s name, Ford reacts. Hudson calls Lawrence a loser who couldn’t get anything running except for the farm, but Ford argues that Lawrence is a visionary. He explains how he’s a portal to a better world, but before Neagley and Hudson could squeeze more information out of him, his lawyer arrives.
Once Neagley and Hudson leave, the lawyer gives Ford a blowtorch to burn away his Echo Canyon tattoo. The lawyer then sends the burnt tattoo’s picture to Lawrence Cole, who then sends it to Woodrow. Lawrence explains how he has handled things on his end by making sure the tattoo doesn’t lead the police to Echo Canyon. However, Woodrow isn’t convinced because if that were the case, Neagley wouldn’t still be on their trail.
Woodrow hangs up and sits on a bench with a guy, whom he offers money to. The man is a government officer who is apparently aiding Woodrow’s business despite calling it perverse. They argue about the bribe amount they agreed upon, but when the officer doesn’t budge, Woodrow bids him farewell and shakes his hand.
However, the man starts to feel off, and that’s when Woodrow tells him about the concentrated digitalis patch that he placed on his hand, which causes heart attack symptoms. Woodrow warns the man that no one will come between him and his billions.
Keno finds himself in trouble
On the other side of things, Neagley and Hudson drive to her house, and the latter apologizes to Neagley for her haphephobia. However, she says she asked her father about it, and it seems he was lying about when it started, and it doesn’t make sense that he’d hide it from her.
Hudson doesn’t say much after that, but when they arrive at Neagley’s place, she’s alarmed seeing her lights on. She bursts in through the door and finds Keno in his boxers, eating cereal on her couch. He explains that he was living in an abandoned house, but because he damaged the water pipes, it leaked into the neighbor’s walls and destroyed their goods.
Keno explains that the damage was worth $150,000 because the water seeped into two kilos of cocaine that the infamous Stukov brothers were hiding in the walls. Now, they’re out for Keno’s head, and that’s why he tracked down Neagley and crashed at her place.
As they’re talking, Renee arrives with the lab reports for the white powder Tommy sent Neagley. It turns out that the powder was rye flour, and Hudson argues that they will not get a warrant based on that. However, Neagley still believes it means something and suggests they send someone inside to find out what’s going on at Echo Canyon.
Neagley looks to Keno, who initially refuses, but she reminds him he’ll be safe from the drug dealers and that she’ll also pay him for the work he’ll do for them at Echo Canyon. Renee later prepares Keno by poking needles into his arm to make him look like an addict. They tell Keno to go to the local market and pretend his way in as a recovering addict looking for a second chance.
Keno spots two people loading off Echo Canyon vegetables from the truck. He poses as a homeless addict looking for a fresh start, and they fall for it. They drive him to the farm where Keno meets up with Judith. She also seems to fall for his story and tells him he needs to meet someone special before he can become part of their community.
In the meantime, Neagley takes it upon herself to give Charlie’s daughter the things her father kept for her as a way for her to find some closure. After they return the things, Hudson tells Neagley to acknowledge that they have become a team and should rely on each other more. As they talk, Davos is stationed somewhere with a sniper with a clear shot to Neagley’s head, which Lawrence tells him to take.
In the closing scene, Reno walks into the room, and Lawrence finishes talking on the phone; he startles the young boy by asking him who he really is. He takes out a gun and points it at him, threatening to shoot him if he doesn’t come clean about who he really is.
All episodes of Neagley are currently available for streaming on Prime Video.
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