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Indiana storms out of Jim's office stopping in front of Joyce and Jonathan who were hugging. She admired the two. Indiana couldn't remember the time she was hugged by her mother.
"I want an apology!" A woman screams in the lobby.
"An apology for what, exactly?"
"Where is the chief? I want to speak to him right this instant!"
"Ma'am, I need you to calm down."
"Name and badge number, both of you!"
"What the hell is going on here?" Jim emerges from his office due to the shouting. Indiana follows and peeks around the corner.
"These men are humiliating my son." The woman yells holding her son, he looked to be Mike's age.
"No, no, no. Okay, that's not true. There was some kind of fight, Chief—" Powell tries to explain.
"A psychotic child broke his arm!"
Indiana furrowed her eyebrows at the odd statement.
"A little girl, Chief. A little one."
"That tone! Do you hear that tone?"
"Honestly, I'm just trying to state a fact."
" I don't have time for this. Will you please take a statement..." Jim tries to shrug her off. Jim mouths 'and get her out?'
"So what's this girl look like?"
"She had no hair and she was bleeding from her nose. Like a freak." The boy describes.
Something seemed to have caught Jim's attention. "What'd you just say?"
"I said she's a freak!"
"No, her hair. What'd you say about her hair?"
"Her head's shaved. She doesn't even look like a girl. And..." He trails off.
"And what?" Jim asks.
"Tell the man, Troy." The mother encourages.
"She can... do things."
"What kind of things?"
"Like... make you fly. And piss yourself." Troy mutters. Powell snickers. "What?"
"Was she alone?" Jim asks.
"She always hangs out with those losers." Troy explains.
"What losers?" Jim asks.
Indiana feels dread fill her bones as Troy states Dustin, Lucas, and Mike's names.
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"I have to go home." Nancy tells Jim as they watch the Wheeler's house get raided.
"No, you can't." Jim responds.
" My mom... my dad are there." Nancy argues.
"They're gonna be okay." Jim answers. Nancy walks past him to the house before getting pulled back by the cop. "Hey, hey, hey. Hey! Listen to me. Listen to me. The last thing in the world we need is them knowing you're mixed up in all this."
