Pastor Cunningham pays Ruth a surprise visit, interrupting her secret meeting with Loro. Loro strongly suspects someone within the local police department is assisting Amos Laseur. Ruth discovers that all of the murder victims had been featured on Laseur’s preaching tapes and is rattled to hear that Wick’s condition has deteriorated overnight. Convinced that Wick must know something she overlooked, Ruth slips away to the hospital just in time to hear Wick gasp his last words.