There is a school dance coming and Sally (Logan Browning) asks Cassie (Britt Robertson) to help her organize it.

Luke (Zachary Abel), a student at the school, likes Cassie and he asks Adam (Thomas Dekker) to introduce him to her.

Meanwhile, a man named Zachary (Dave Baez) appears in town and when he sees Cassie, he starts to ask questions about the Circle.

Dawn (Natasha Henstridge) and Charles (Gale Harold) find out that Zachary is back in town and he is asking about the Circle.

Charles meets him to warn him but Zachary hits him and goes to the school dance aiming to kill one of the kids.

In its original American broadcast, "Loner" was watched by 2.12 million; exact same rating as the previous episode.

But I prefer to think of it as slow developing and enough seeds have been planted for me to anxiously tune in each week, curious about what will soon grow.