Reggie has grown to like Jackson, finding in him a similar world-view and childhood experience. When Louise refuses to get the police involved based on her vague worry, she asks Jackson to look for Joanna. Jackson reluctantly agrees. They go to Joanna’s house and seeing the two men Reggie saw threatening her, follow them. They come to a house just as Joanna emerges with her baby, covered in blood. Joanna was, in fact, kidnapped by men her husband owes money to. She escapes her captors by violently stabbing them with a pen and a knife; when Jackson arrives on the scene she asks him to burn down the house, which he does so she will not be charged with murder.
