Ransom Canyon Season 1 Episode 7: By the Grace of God

Ransom Canyon episode 7 opens with a tornado bearing down on Ransom Canyon. The Ford pickup pulled from the lake matches the fender piece from Randall's crash, and its VIN was scrubbed before the dump. Sheriff Dan asks Reid and Davis for an off-the-record conversation: Reid says he and Tim were shooting bottles in the countryside waiting for Randall, then went home and played video games until the crash call. The sheriff notes Reid earlier claimed to be with Lauren, and reveals security footage of Reid leaving a truck the same make and model as the one from the lake.

Ellie is cold to Yancy and unloads what she learned from Freddie: Yancy stole from a farm in Tennessee and served three years in prison, and he is Cap's grandson trying to pull a job on him. When the men run into Cap trying to reach his wife Ruth at the care facility, they learn Cap has no will — meaning his ranch would pass to his next of kin, Yancy. Later, realizing Cap has driven off into the storm to rescue Ruth, Yancy goes after him and helps bring the retirement home's residents to safety; Ellie finds Cap and Ruth safe and hugs Yancy in gratitude.

Quinn searches for her dog Biscuit, whom Staten found wandering near the highway, and the two are forced to shelter together. She calls him out for declaring his feelings at the rodeo and then sleeping with Paula Jo; he says his heart was broken, and she says he has broken hers a hundred times. The power goes out, candles are lit, and a Smashing Pumpkins song brings back a high-school flashback in which young Staten meant to ask Quinn to dance but Amalah thought the request was for her. In the present, Quinn seeks comfort in Staten's arms; they kiss and get intimate.

Lauren, waitressing at the dance hall, ends up sheltering in Lucas's trailer with his brother Kit. A tree crashes through her car window and injures her leg; Kit pulls her out and tends her wounds, revealing he suffered domestic abuse from his father and hid it to protect Lucas from the system. The two bond over their trauma. In the episode's final moments, Reid decides to come clean to Sheriff Dan, and a flashback reveals the mysterious figure at Randall's wreck was not Reid but Kit — who phones Reid to 'make good on that favor.'

As of S1E7, the episode reveals Kit phoned Reid to collect on a favor but does not explain what it is.

As of S1E7, the full truth of the crash night is not laid out; Kit is revealed to have been at the wreck, but the circumstances remain incomplete.

As of S1E7, Ellie tells Yancy to leave after the storm, but his departure is not shown.