Too Late

Dalton texts Carter about the fight and Asa’s breakdown. Asa keeps saying Sloan had better be there when he gets back. Carter updates Sloan on the drive back from the care facility and then gets out to walk the last stretch so she can drive alone without arousing suspicion. They come up with a signal for each other that night since they have agreed not to talk at Asa’s house. When he wants to signal concern and affection, Carter will rub a thumb across his bottom lip. In response, Sloan will twirl her hair with a finger.

Carter texts Dalton again. Dalton says that Asa is raving and comparing Carter to LSD because he’s hard to find and makes him hallucinate.

Asa calls Sloan and asks her to make spaghetti. He asks if he ever told her about his father and then asks if Carter is there. Asa gets home an hour later. She gets a first aid kid to help with his hand, which might need stitches. When he notices that she’s not wearing her ring, he drags her to the bedroom and superglues the ring to her finger.

When Carter arrives later, Asa makes a point of bringing up Tillie and Carter making out at the party, which makes Sloan feel like a fool. She kisses Asa in front of Carter and thinks that all men are liars. Carter gives her the signal with his thumb, and she flips him off. When Asa goes to shower, she slaps Carter. Jon and Kevin stare at them suspiciously, so she yells at Carter not to dip his finger in the spaghetti. Dalton tells Sloan that Carter is telling the truth. It’s not what she thinks it is.

Dalton texts that Asa is passed out in his room. Carter goes outside to find Sloan in the pool in her underwear. He tells her that he used Tillie to convince Asa that he wasn’t interested in Sloan. She puts his hand on her breast and asks if he gets a bonus for making out with his “subject.” She says she knows why he’s there and to stay away from her. She also calls him Luke and says that she’ll tell Asa that he’s undercover if he speaks to her again. Luke pulls her over to the side of the house and tries to convince her that he isn’t interested in her just because of the job. She asks him to promise that he isn’t using her to get Asa. They kiss and then have sex in Luke’s car.

Sex with Luke is better than Sloan could have imagined, and she loves saying his real name. Sloan figured out that he was a cop while she was in the pool and pieced together clues, such as a slip that he once made when he referred to himself as Luke but claimed it was his middle name. Tillie was another clue, followed by Dalton (Ryan) saying Luke was telling the truth. Ryan pounds on the car window. He throws Sloan’s clothes inside and says Luke is going to get them killed. Inside, Sloan sees that Luke did the dishes, a small gesture that makes her smile.

Upstairs, Asa vomits in bed. Sloan gets Luke and Ryan, who lift him while she changes the comforter. She sympathizes with Asa, thinking once again that he was made this way. Half-conscious, Asa says his father made him sleep in his own vomit when he was five to teach him a lesson about not making a mess. He cries silently into his pillow, and Sloan thinks about how humiliated he would feel for them to see him this way. Asa mumbles that she can’t ever leave him.

Asa wonders if he killed his father in the parking lot. He needs to get off the drugs and stay sharp. Sloan comes into the bedroom, furious, and demands to know where the paperwork is. She thought Asa was paying for Stephen but has now learned that the benefits were never canceled. Stephen’s care never switched to private pay, meaning that Asa forged the file and the monthly check stubs to keep Sloan in his debt.

She accuses him of trapping her, and he dares her to leave. If she does, he says, it just means she took his money like any other woman would. He says if she doesn’t love him, then she has lied every time she gave her body to him. Sloan says she loves him, and he’s relieved because he knows that she’s the only one who will ever love him.

The social worker called earlier that morning after Sloan’s appointment. Asa had brought her the benefits cancellation letter two years earlier. When she had called the number on the letter, one of his friends had answered the number and pretended to be from the insurance company.

Asa, rambling, says that everyone pretends. He says he wants to host a dinner for Carter, Kevin, Jon, and Dalton that night. When he asks if she’s mad at him, Sloan admits that she’s unhappy. Asa says that he could possibly treat her better, but he doesn’t know how. He then gets in the shower with her, still wearing his clothes. She gets out, texts Luke, and asks him to arrive early. Asa stays in the shower for half an hour, which, unbeknownst to her, is part of an intricate plan to get revenge on Luke. He is getting his clothes wet so he can give himself an alibi of mental instability if he gets caught. He asks her to make meatloaf to celebrate but says she’ll have to see what they’re celebrating.

Luke gives Sloan the thumb signal when he arrives. Asa watches news for anything about his father. Luke knows that Asa’s father survived and that the man has schizophrenia, but he doesn’t tell Asa. When they have a moment alone, Sloan tells Luke about confronting Asa.

At dinner, Asa asks Dalton why he never brings a girl around. Then he asks about Tillie. He notices that Carter is rubbing his lip raw when suddenly there’s a knock on the door. Asa says it’s the FBI. Luke and Dalton know their undercover work will be ruined if other agents blow their cover. Asa sends Sloan to her room. When she looks at Luke for guidance, Asa shouts at her. Agents bust in and cuff them all.

Two agents question Luke as Sloan screams upstairs. Luke tells them that his badge is taped under his car seat in an envelope, just as Asa comes in holding the same envelope. Asa says the agents are actors he’s hired and calls him Luke.

Asa asks Luke whether he has seen the heist movie Point Break, which is how he got the idea for this plan. He hits Luke as he remembers Sloan looking at him for help, which makes him angrier than when he beat his father. He puts a gun to Luke’s head and asks if he had sex with Sloan. Then he tells Luke about his first time with her. Asa was her first kiss. He says Sloan had her first orgasm in a restaurant when he touched her under the table. If Asa finds out that someone else had sex with her, it will ruin her for him.

Sloan sees that Asa hid her phone as an agent points a gun at her, telling her to stay on the bed. He starts kissing her, and she fights back. Asa opens the door, sees him groping her, and shoots him, killing him. He tells Sloan he knows about her and Luke. He takes her downstairs, where she sees that Luke is handcuffed to a chair. Asa says that Luke brainwashed her. Asa hits her before going to check the door. Luke stands and gets his arms free of the chair, but still behind his back, before sitting back down. Asa returns and demands to know about the first time Luke had sex with Sloan.