Jonathan Goldstein

Third comes Randy.

Randy's hard to get a hold of, so when we get no answer on her house phone, we try all the numbers we can find.

We leave her repeated messages, but it seems like she's not even getting them.

But as it turns out, she's gotten all of them because she sent Skye an email to say that she's not happy about it.

In fact, she's creeped out.

Skye was at the grocery store when she received the email.

Sky went into damage control mode, writing back to Randy to say how deeply sorry she was.

I asked her to read me what she'd sent.

Like, you know, is there a kind of, like, do you feel like your default is to sort of apologize for having reached out?

Later, Skye shares the email with Clark, and it seems like it's occurred to him as well.

At Skye's insistence, Randy finally agrees to a phone call.

But in the end, all she tells Skye is that she doesn't remember that night, doesn't remember any toilet paper or garage door.

She doesn't remember anything at all.

Of the four friends, only one remains, Tessa.

The girl Skye's mom phoned directly after the incident.

Over the next couple weeks, I speak with Tessa several times.

She can't decide if she wants to talk with Sky.

For one thing, she says, it was so long ago that she doesn't remember much, to which I rejoin that she's all we've got.

For another, she adds, getting contacted like this through a third-party interlocutionary international podcasting host is pretty weird, to which I admit that it is slightly unconventional."

Finally, Tessa says, she doesn't want to inadvertently drag the other girls' names through the dirt for something they did as kids.