Neagley episode 6 opens with a blast from the past, as we see a young Frances Neagley in her kindergarten days. She walks by Cook County’s book mobile, and a man calls out to her about the new Bernadette Bunny book. She goes to him, and he asks her to come inside so he can give her a ride home. However, her father's friend sees her and asks her to come along since her father is about to pick her up. He’s the same man Frances saw being killed by her father, and the intensity of the memories jolts Neagley back to reality.
She wakes up in her car beside Hudson. They look through the binoculars at a tied-up Woodrow that they left sitting in a chair in the middle of nowhere. As Woodrow comes to, he finds a card on him that reads, ‘I can get to you too, and now your boss knows.’ This sends him into panic mode, and he runs to buy a new phone so he can call his boss.
Woodrow calls Rawlings immediately, and Hudson and Neagley listen in on the conversation with a device. Right off the bat, Rawlings senses something is wrong because Pierce Woodrow never calls just to check in. His boss immediately catches up, saying that Woodrow has been outsmarted by Neagley and that he was only calling to know if he had heard of his failures.
Rawlings threatens Woodrow to fix his mistakes because he doesn’t want another "Hamilton," and he doesn't intend to spend the last 30 years of his life in jail. Hudson and Neagley are sure now that someone with a Swedish accent is calling the shots, but in order to move forward with the investigation, they must find out what happened in Hamilton.
Neagley and Hudson get the upper hand
Neagley wins a round against her enemies, gaining valuable information about the secret "project." She and Hudson head to the York office to search for any major drug busts related to Hamilton. However, Hudson feels awkward being in her office since everyone is on edge over their missing boss.
As they’re talking, Nora York arrives, and she’s worried out of her mind about her husband. Nora tells Neagley that York always said that if something happened to him, she should go to her because she was the best investigator he ever met. Although he wants to, Neagley refrains from telling Nora about her husband’s fate and instead offers to look into things on her behalf.
She tells Nora to go home and give everyone in the office a week off to stop people from panicking. With this move, Neagley wins Nora’s trust and ensures they have the entire office to themselves. She’s adamant about revealing York’s death to his wife only when she has their killers in her hands.
Through research, the duo learns that a woman wrote an article in the local Hamilton paper about teenage suicides linked to a pharmaceutical company. However, when they looked up the writer, Dottie, she had passed away, but her sister still lives in Hamilton.
Neagley and Hudson drive to her house, but she isn’t welcoming when they mention they want to investigate what her sister was investigating. After hearing that Neagley intends to bring the people who killed her to justice, she invites them in. As they sit, Neagley tells Dottie’s sister that she was investigating Pinnacle Pharmaceuticals, which provided ADHD medication to at-risk kids.
Unfortunately, four of the kids committed suicide in less than two weeks after taking the medication. Dottie’s sister mentions that she knew the kids and their families, and she can say for sure that they were just hyper, not depressed. When the news broke out, the clinic shut overnight and disappeared like it never existed.
Dottie, however, went after Pinnacle but found that the clinic was owned by an LLC that was owned by a nonprofit, meaning there was no legitimate trail to follow. But Dottie didn’t give up; she published the article with what information she had gathered. Unfortunately, she was burned alive in her home less than a week after the article came out, claiming that she fell asleep while smoking despite quitting eight months prior.
It’s obvious that whoever Dottie was after was powerful enough to shut up as many mouths as possible without consequences. Neagley mentions that she only needs Dottie’s research, but her sister says it was burned alongside her sister. She tried to raise her voice for her sister, but some people condemned her, making life a living hell for her. In the end, Dottie’s sister had nothing to offer except for painful memories.
However, Neagley isn’t the one to give up, and she makes her way down to Dottie’s burned house. As they drive by, a few men at the local bar give them troubling looks. During the drive, Hudson talks about how his father was never around and cared more for his criminal activities than his own son. In comparison, Neagley argues that their father issues are different because hers was loving and caring, except for the fact that she saw him kill someone.
Hudson then reveals that someone at his department told him to be careful of her because her father had done something shady as a cop, like disappearing someone. Neagley is taken aback by this information and demands to know who her father disappeared, but Hudson tells her to forget it because he’s not going to stay away from her.
When they arrive at Dottie’s house, there’s not much to go through except when Neagley sees that there’s still an old cast-iron vent on the floor despite the house having a modern interior. She removes the vent and is glad her instinct was right, because Dottie hid some important documents in it.
As they get ready to leave, the men they saw at the bar arrive to threaten them to leave and stop snooping around. It’s obvious that they are muscle for hire to ensure no one comes looking for a trail of wrongdoings. However, threatening Neagley is a bad move because she kicks their butts big time and learns that they were being paid by Pierce Woodrow.
Keno risks his life to do good
At the farmer’s market, Renee pretends to buy vegetables from Echo Canyon, and thankfully, Keno is there too. She pretends to ask Keno for help, and they walk to her car so they can flee. However, Keno is not there to run away because that’s what he has been doing all his life. Renee argues that they’ll kill him the first chance they get, but Keno doesn’t want to leave Mandy at the hands of people she thought were her family.
He gives the example of Bob and Carol, his parents who abandoned him, which forced him to grow up in foster care. He knows how far someone would go to have a family, and he can’t let Mandy be part of the project. Unable to convince Keno, Renee agrees to help him into the silo and tells him there’s a ventilation shaft in the woods big enough for him to climb down. They bid farewell, hoping that Keno’s mission is a success.
At the farm, Keno wanders into the woods and finds the ventilation shaft. It’s deep, so he’ll have to climb down, but he asks Renee to keep talking to him as a distraction. Keno asks Renee to tell something about herself, and she says she and her brother were raised by a single mother who was a cop in northern London. Her father bailed when she was born, and her brother ran away from a mental health facility a few years ago.
Last she heard, he was in Chicago. Keno immediately remembers that he had a feeling he saw her somewhere; now he knows she used to hand out food at the church he knew. Renee admits she does that to keep a lookout for her brother, Patrick. She also confesses she's been selfish and put Keno in danger because she thought her brother might have sought help at Echo Canyon.
Keno doesn’t mind; instead, he reassures Renee that once this is over, he’ll help her look for Patrick. As he reaches the bottom of the ventilator, there’s a narrow passage, and it goes over different rooms that contain patients. Keno takes pictures as evidence and luckily arrives in the room where Mandy is being kept. He warns her of the dangers of the experimentation and pleads with her to meet up with him at a safe spot so they can get out.
Lawrence Cole shows his true colors
Back at the underground lab, the drug formulation is finally a success, and they're under the 30-minute mark. Judith goes to call Woodrow while the scene intercuts to Lawrence’s residence, where he calls one of his followers to tell him that he’s sleeping with his wife, and he shouldn’t feel that the word ‘husband’ means that his wife is bound only to him.
It’s an incredibly jarring moment in which Lawrence has the audacity to explain to a man how it's justified to sleep with his wife just because they are part of the community. As Judith arrives at Lawrence’s place, she sees the man rush out in anger and immediately understands what it means. She plucks up the courage to call out Lawrence for not only sleeping with every woman on the farm but also now in front of their husbands.
As expected, Lawrence is nonchalant about everything and tells Judith to worry about how she perceives him. Judith also asks about whether Pierce intends to come by so she can prepare his favorite dinner. However, Lawrence shuts her down, saying it’s not her place to play host or worry about the guests,, and he pops another pill and dances away his worries.
Later, somewhere in the facility, Judith calls Pierce to let him know that the formulation hit the 30-minute mark and that they will make great progress. However, she points out that Cole has become a liability, and he isn’t the man she once knew. Woodrow is surprised by this sudden shift in allegiance, but he agrees they should remove Cole from the equation so Judith can run things smoothly.
The scene intercuts to Community, where Cole talks about trust and loyalty. He then gestures for his men to bring out Judith, who is gagged and tied to a wheelchair. He makes his followers believe that she was secretly trying to weaken the community and deserves to be punished. He makes the acolytes throw stones at her while the others turn their backs on her as her screams fill the air. Pierce witnesses the disturbing scene and flees before he’s spotted.
Back at the underground lab, Keno waits for Mandy at their meeting spot. However, instead of her, two men arrive and take Keno into custody. The camera pans to Mandy, who stands with Lawrence Cole in a corner, receiving praise from him for showing great loyalty and commitment to his cause. At the end of the day, it’s a win-win situation for Cole, who not only eliminated his competition but also caught the mole.
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