Titled “The Sensitive Kind”—which isn’t just a song written by J.J. Cale and featured in this episode via an Eric Clapton cover, or the headline on Lee’s cover story about Dale, but was also the working title for the show —the finale opens with a flashback that also feels a bit like a fantasy. Lee is in his bookstore, reading Walter Tevis’ novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, as Dale (Tim Blake Nelson) browses the shelves. (The book, which the filmmaker Nicolas Roeg adapted into a classic sci-fi movie starring David Bowie, follows a space alien who is tragically distracted by earthly frivolities from a mission to save his imperiled home planet. It also includes a human character who shares a name with Jeanne Tripplehorn’s Lowdown femme fatale, Betty Jo. In many ways, it’s her love that dooms the extraterrestrial protagonist.) Dale tells Lee that his journalism is “brave.” Lee explains to him what he means when he calls himself a truthstorian. “You know how they say there’s more to every story?” he says. “Well, that’s what I try to find.” Dale counters with a quote from Jim Thompson, the hardboiled Oklahoma writer whose books will be crucial in Lee’s investigation: “There is only one plot—things are not as they seem.”