Derek, Jason, and Chloe are in the truck, driving down some sort of back road at night. Well, it's actually more like early morning; Chloe reports that it is "4:30 AM." Jason and Derek banter over whether or not they missed their exit, even though they don't appear to be on a major highway of any sort, and I wouldn't think a back road would have exits per se, but clearly I'm overthinking this. Jason calls Derek "Magellan," since he's the one with the map. Heh. Chloe expositions that they are on their way home from Tennessee, where they were looking for Bigfoot, but didn't find anything. Derek says that they got six hours of footage of what Jason calls, "a drunken hillbilly." Chloe thinks she has Lyme disease. Jason doesn't think it was a tick. Chloe says that a tick is what Lan gets when she thinks Derek is ignoring her. Derek is all, "Huh?" Chloe is all, "She likes you." Jason is all...nothing, actually. Jason just drives.
Derek tells Chloe to "stop!" Jason stops the truck, but not because of what Derek said. There's another vehicle overturned in the road ahead. Derek and Jason get out, and it's all very Jurassic Park, with the pouring rain and the overturned SUV. Chloe tries to call 911, but can't get any service on her cell phone. That's how we're supposed to know that they're in the middle of nowhere. Because all civilized townships have cellular service. And cable. And Chinese delivery places. And an Old Navy. Anyway, Derek keeps yelling, "Is anyone there? Is anyone hurt?" as they shine their flashlights around. Jason's flashlight shows large amounts of blood on the ground, like, wouldn't it have washed away in this torrential downpour? There's actually a trail of blood that leads into the woods, and call me Kenny Rogers because I'm the Coward of the County, but I would not follow that trail. They do. There must be a full moon. Scratch that. They must be on Tatooine and there are two full moons, based on the amount of light shining through the trees. While it's raining. And thus, one would expect, cloudy. Derek stops short when he realizes that the trail has disappeared, and the three of them shine their flashlights around and argue about whether it disappeared. Maybe the rain washed it away? Just a thought. Suddenly, a half-naked girl, bloody and battered, is standing behind them, screaming, "He's gone!" Derek asks who's gone, and the girl says that it's her boyfriend, Brandon. Derek asks where he went, and I realize they are in the middle of a crisis here, but if she knew where he went, would she be crying and wandering around the woods in a slip? The girl says that "it took him." Derek's all, "It? What's it?" and the girl cries, "I don't know!" Credits.
When they get to the campsite, Derek does a quick inventory of the location and then takes off running in one direction. Jason and Chloe aren't quite sure where he went. There are many Blair Witch-esque shots of branches and the ground.
Derek approaches the mouth to a cave. Cut to Derek narrating that he should have waited for Jason and Chloe, but he had to see it. Cut to Derek, entering the cave. Of course, his flashlight goes out. After last week, wouldn't they get new flashlights? The light from his camera illuminates many bones and such on the ground. We see the silhouette of Joe Lockhart, kneeling on the ground up ahead. Derek approaches him. Lockhart turns around and he has some enormous claw marks on his head, and is bleeding profusely. He says, "Best be getting out of here, boy. She's in a bad, bad mood today." Are they kidding me with this dialogue?
Derek tries to prevent Lockhart from lighting the stick of dynamite, but then Derek is attacked by something that looks like a crew member flapping a burlap bag at the camera. Derek is dragged backwards, and then knocked unconscious. The sheriff comes in and revives him. As they exit, the animal comes after them and the sheriff fires shots at it, igniting the giant pile of explosives. Derek and the sheriff escape. Chloe and Jason see the giant fireball and run towards it. Derek thanks the sheriff for saving his life, and then remembers that Lockhart was still in the cave. The sheriff says Lockhart was dead before the sheriff got to Derek. Is it wrong of me to point out that we were seeing footage from Derek's camera, even though it was obviously destroyed in the explosion? I don't mind if they switch back and forth from Derek's camera to film, but they could at least be consistent with the central conceit of the show -- that Derek is filming footage to put on his website, and that's what we are seeing. I hope he had insurance on that thing, anyway.
Chloe and Jason arrive. Derek asks the sheriff whether he saw the creature. The sheriff says he saw something, maybe a bear. Derek says he knows. The sheriff says that whatever it was, "it looked like it was overdue for extinction."
Cut to Derek talking into the laptop while walking through his apartment. He says it might have been "a flying reptile," but we'll have to decide for ourselves. Yeah, with the help of all the footage we won't see since your camera blew up in the giant explosion. Derek says life will go on in Owensmouth, but sadly without Joe Lockhart, since "determined to destroy the thing that had defined his life for the last twenty-seven years, he destroyed himself." Derek arrives at the couch/bed and says that it's a lesson that "every once in a while you have to stop, hang up the obsession, smell the roses. You never know if you'll see them bloom again." And that's...one to grow on. Derek picks up his pillow and smells it -- Lan's perfume, remember? Then he smiles. I am so much more interested in a potential romance between those two than anything having to do with "freaky" or "links" that it's not even funny.