Carver gets a visitor while in the hospital. Spoilers for episodes 7 and 8. This picks up pretty much where episode 8 left off.

Ellie and Carver at the end of episode 6, followed by missing scenes from episode 7 and after.

Her dreams were almost as haunting as her reality was. As she watched the early morning filter through the curtains, she didn't dare move, just in case she was still dreaming. If she wasn't, her reality had just become a nightmare anyway, and she had been half expecting it to get worse some time during the night.

Ten years after the events of the Danny Solano murder case, twenty-one year old Tom Miller-now known by his cover name of Tony Baker-returns to the cliff side where it all began. A run in with an old "friend" may put things in a new perspective.

Emmett Carver has his surgery then receives a message from Ellie.

Carver's daughter comes to Gracepoint

For a moment, he's not drowning anymore. She has tossed him a life preserver and he clings to it tightly, wanting to live, wanting to be present.

"Most people have a moral com." She once told him. That was easy to believe, but it didn't make it true.