Reba returns from a late dinner with Ralph Mandy, the man she had been dating before she met Dolarhyde. Reba told him over dinner that she no longer wanted to see him, and she thought Randy might have been relieved. After Reba closes the door, and Ralph turns, Dolarhyde shoots him three times. Dolarhyde then hides his body in the bushes. Dolarhyde rings Reba's bell and covers her mouth with a chloroformed cloth when she opens the door.
Reba wakes in the van, terrified until she realizes what has happened. Reba tries to talk to Dolarhyde, telling him Randy was no one to her. The van stops, and Reba is carried into the house. Reba smells gasoline. Reba is placed on a bed, and she knows it is the same bed she and Dolarhyde.....
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