The Good Girl

Gabe goes to the bar where Mia was abducted. He speaks to a waitress named Sarah, who remembers Mia and her date vividly. She says they were both regulars, but she’d never seen them together before that night. They left together and gave her a large tip. She agrees to meet with a sketch artist to describe the man. As he leaves the bar, Gabe looks for cameras that might have caught the pair leaving.

Mia doesn’t eat for days. She spends all her days sleeping. Colin is out chopping firewood one day and returns looking for water. He finds Mia in her panties and bra, standing in the middle of the living room: “She might as well have been dead. Her skin was drained of all color” (97). She asks him if this is what he wants and starts undoing his belt. He lets her, for a moment, before pushing her away. She keeps trying, desperate to change something about the situation, but he pushes her away more forcefully. He tells her to put her clothes on. He goes back outside to chop wood.