Helen followed Cora to the train station where Cora bought a ticket to Springfield. Cora told Helen that Mike is trying to get her sent to prison. Helen arrested Cora and took her to Mike. Mike wanted to release Cora, but Parmalee had Cora followed too and ordered Mike to book her. Mike pleaded Cora's case at the bail hearing, but the judge ruled that Cora be remanded into custody until the murder trial. As Cora was being locked up, Mike suggested that she face her fears for once and use her confinement as a strengthening experience. Cora collapsed in her cell and begged God to her help her.
Mattie feared that Cora's arrest will bring shame on the family and began to doubt Cora's innocence. Ella Battle told husband Wyn that she'll allow Betty-Jean and Jack to see each other again, but a furious Wyn informed Ella that Jack's drunken aunt was arrested under suspicion of murder. Despite protests from Ella and Betty-Jean, Wyn warned Betty-Jean against ever seeing Jack again. Betty-Jean chose her parents when Jack forced her to decide between them. Sara tried to take Cora a vanity kit, but the matron wouldn't let Cora have it, because it contained a glass mirror.