Frank Black must track down the man who has kidnapped his wife. During his hunt, Group member Peter Watts reveals that the Group is much more secretive and mysterious than Black had ever known.

"The Beginning and the End" is a two-part episode, which continues where "[[Recap/MillenniumE22PaperDove Paper Dove]]" left off.

!!!Tropes
* FreudianExcuse: Defied with the Polaroid Man.
* HowWeGotHere: The episode begins with Frank holding a bloodied knife while looking at the comet.
* WouldHurtAChild: Watts had once been assigned to a child-murder case in which the dismembered infant's body had been found in a cooler floating in a lake.
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