The truck came back. Not everyone in it did.

Day Two of a seven-day probationary week, the Smith family rolls out of Camp Ridge on the camp’s regular supply route and into a country grocery store that has been turned into a trap. The men inside the store are inside the favor of the man the camp has only just put a name to. The shooter on the roof across the road is on a clock that is not the foray’s clock. The road home is not the road in. And by the time the convoy turns onto the gravel lane back at the camp, a Camp Ridge man is in the bed of the second truck under a jacket, and Sarah Smith is at the door of the medical bay with her sleeves rolled to the elbow because she has been at that door for an hour already and the work is the work.

What changes in this episode is not the threat picture. The Black Vultures were already a known  ...