<P> The trial between the McCulloughs and Bebe Chow goes forward, but even Mr. Richardson, who is arguing on behalf of the state and therefore the McCulloughs, begins to feel torn about the case . Mrs. Richardson, still eager to help her friend, investigates a suspicion that Bebe has had an abortion and to her shock discovers that Pearl is listed as having had one . She goes to confront Moody about being the father, but he tells her that she is accusing the wrong son, a statement which is overheard by Izzy . </P> <P> Bebe Chow loses her case . She goes to Mia's house for comfort, and Mia tells Bebe that her daughter will always be her own . Shortly after Mrs. Richardson arrives and tells Mia she knows about Pearl's origins before telling her she must move out . Though she is doing so because she thinks Pearl has had an abortion, her oblique references are lost on Mia . Nevertheless, Mia goes to Pearl's school and tells her they must move on . Pearl is reluctant to go, but Mia explains about her biological father and she reluctantly accepts . Before they leave Mia runs into Izzy, and, unable to say goodbye, tries to explain her actions by using a metaphor about prairie fires . </P> <P> Eventually, Izzy manages to put the pieces of Mia and Pearl's disappearance together . She also realizes that Moody, Lexie, and Trip have all used Pearl in their own way and becomes angry at them . Choosing a moment when they are all out of the house, she starts small fires on everyone's beds, not realizing that her mother has decided to sleep in for once in her life and is still in the house, though Elena manages to escape the fire unharmed . </P> <P> After the fire, the Richardsons go to the rental home, now vacated by the Warrens, where they find that Mia has left them each photographs and negatives that have personal significance to each of them . </P>

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