Bone Gap

Sean sketches, remembering his childhood and the past. His mother, Didi, always encouraged him to draw and was so proud of him. As a kid, he had a pretty good life: He did well in school. His parents supported and loved him. Didi, despite being distractible and flighty, was grounded by her loving husband, Sean’s father, Hugh. No matter how tired or sore he was, Hugh was always there for Didi, calling her his Dark Horse. Hugh was killed during his job as a truck driver, leaving them all alone. Finn was always spacey and asked “what” to mean why and how. Didi started dating around, and Sean withdrew. He stopped drawing and focused on becoming a doctor so he could heal people.

When his mom left them, Sean’s dream was ruined. Then Roza showed up in his life. He didn’t know what happened to her, and she refused to go to the doctor. One day while they were cooking together, Sean cut his hand. He stitched his own cut, and she tied up the stitches, finishing the last few. She called it his “Frankenhand,” and Sean sketched their hands together.

Finn comes home and interrupts Sean’s reminiscing. Finn is in a frenzy about seeing the man who kidnapped Roza at Charlie’s house. Sean doesn’t seem to take him seriously, distracted by the bag Finn is holding with honey from Petey. Sean knows that they’re together; he feels upset that Finn can be so carefree during such a difficult time.

Petey waits for Finn, who is running late. She thinks about how no one calls her Petey, even though she’s asked them to and they have no problem remembering her face. Petey’s mom is sex-positive, so growing up, she gave Petey a book called Get Real. Petey is an only child without a father figure. Growing up, she was curious about boys and how they acted, especially sweet ones.

As it’s getting later, Petey gets more anxious. She goes to the window and hears crickets, which she hates. They remind her of a party her friend Amber had brought her to. A guy charmed her and led her outside. They kissed, but the guy quickly tried to push her on her knees and make her perform oral sex on him. She resisted but was unable to move. She pretended to go down on him, then kicked him in the crotch. A police officer showed up, and Sean was there. They made assumptions about Petey. As retaliation, the boy spreads a rumor that she is easy and great in bed.

Finn finally arrives and tells Petey about the kidnapper. He’s upset no one else believed him. He lays his head in her lap, and she tells him she believes him.

Roza has a dream about Karolina and Honorata; they ask her when she’s going to use the knife she stole. She wakes up with the taste of honey on her lips and practices using the knife. Roza recalls how her kidnapper began obsessing over her. She was in college and running out of money. Rather than working for Karolina’s cousin at a factory, her professor offered her a job in a greenhouse.

He earned her trust. On the day she was supposed to go back to Poland, he offered to give her a ride to the train. Her only other option was to ride with Bob, Honorata’s misogynistic boyfriend. The professor took her the wrong way and revealed his plans to kidnap her. He spoke Polish like her and had been waiting to take her, though he didn’t want to do it this way. He commented on her beauty, and she jumped out of the moving car and hid in the cornfields. This is how she came to hide out in Finn’s shed.

The professor, however, found her. He believes they are destined to be together, but Roza is determined to escape again. At dinner, she pretends to want to be near him, saying the dog isn’t enough company. Then she stabs him with the knife.

Finn works on the fence with Miguel. He digs deep enough that Miguel has to tell him to relax. Finn tells Miguel that he saw Roza’s kidnapper and offers to get Petey to talk to Amber for Miguel. Finn goes to the diner and waits for Petey. The townspeople make small talk with him, and he remembers chats with Roza. He was able to see Roza for who she really was. Roza could see through him too and knew that he loved Petey.

Petey shows up and goes to the bathroom. They chat for a few minutes, but the townspeople potentially gossiping about them gets to Finn. He asks to move to a table in the back. He sees someone messing with his horse outside. The horse runs off. Finn takes Petey’s moped and chases after the horse toward the highway. The horse rears up and tries to stop itself from hurting Finn. Petey catches up to Finn. Finn worries he broke her moped, though he didn’t. Finn has to go to the hospital, and Sean drives him. Sean barely speaks the whole way home. He blames Finn for scaring the horse, but he’s also insinuating Finn scared Roza away too.