The Babysitter

Sheriff Schley's questioning about Mary Hogan goes nowhere; the town's tolerance of Ed holds. Adeline, showing him photographs of Christine Jorgensen, unlocks a new fixation — and accepts a proposal in a graveyard that Ed immediately forbids himself to consummate.

To keep Ed occupied, Adeline steers him toward babysitting, and the episode builds to the case Plainfield never solved: Evelyn Hartley, taken while watching the neighbors' children. The Hollywood thread follows Perkins into typecasting and conversion therapy — two prisons for the price of one.