Toby goes to retrieve the cake for Zachary and finds the foil topping gone. Tara has taken it to make a bracelet for her role as a Shiner. When Toby and Tara get to Zachary's, Cal is already there. Zachary makes a face at Tara, runs screaming out of the trailer before they are even able to close the door. Cal, Toby and Zachary laugh.
The boys share the chocolate cake and discuss more of Zachary's travels. Zachary tells them he visited the Louvre and discusses it as though reading it from an encyclopedia. Cal asks Zachary about the lack of a minister's notes in his bible, and Zachary tells him he never said he was baptized, only that he almost was baptized.
At home, Toby finds a letter from his Mom on his bed......
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