Herky-jerky plotting dominates “Ready.

Fire.,” which exclusively focuses on the events unfolding at PriceMax.

For that act, she gets a bullet in the back courtesy of Roxanne.

The episode cuts to Hero and company enjoying some target practice in the PriceMax parking lot.

Roxanne is impressed by Hero’s sharpshooting skills and gives another one of her anti-men, female-empowerment speeches.

Hero tries to get Sam to take part in the fun, but he balks.

Inside, Nora watches a happy Mackenzie get pushed around the store in a shopping cart.

Nora begs her to reconsider, to no avail.

At this point, “Ready.

They’re cowering because of gunshots, which Roxanne attributes to two unidentified shooters.

Given that their house is no longer safe, she invites them to stay.

Afterward, Nora approaches Sam and proposes escaping together (with Hero).

“Not everything is about me being trans.

Hero, however, wants to stay, and they quarrel about it.

Hero contends that Sam simply isn’t putting in the effort to fit in.

Things escalate when Hero hears that Kelsey showed interest in Sam, and badmouths her.

But you’re free to’t,” he laments.

Everyone is now eavesdropping on this fight.

Roxanne interrupts, demanding Sam apologize to Hero.

He won’t, and curses Roxanne and bolts.

That night, he leaves his bunk and steals some supplies.

Roxanne lets him go.

We then jump back in time to see Roxanne dragging corpses onto a tarp in the PriceMax parking lot.

She tries to set them on fire but her lighter won’t work.

She follows it to the domestic violence shelter, where she spies on its happy residents.

This is clearly how she first found them.

Roxanne talks about her lousy husband, and says, “Men aren’t good at staying.”

To cheer Hero up, Roxanne brings her outside to a bonfire surrounded by the rest of the group.

She doesn’t want to leave and runs back to the comforting arms of her new friends.

Once the party subsides, Nora checks on Roxanne, who’s drunkenly passed out.

She finds a canister of gasoline and gets an idea.

She uses it and the bonfire to set the PriceMax ablaze.

Before long, everyone is fleeing the unsalvageable building.

She lies in the grass beside the lake, where she can see the domestic violence shelter.

Alone, Sam enters a school and plays the piano.

He’s confronted by Principal Blackwell, who’s sure her students will come back.

She coaxes him into playing more piano, since “this has been the highlight of my day.”

In the aftermath of the fire, the PriceMax group is in disarray.

When they succeed, Roxanne takes one of their handguns and uses it to shoot subsequent trespassers.

Obviously, this is how she first became so adept with a firearm.

Y: The Last Mannow reveals Roxanne’s real origins.

Dejected and sent back to work, she clips her PriceMax employee name tag to her uniform.

“This is our world now!”

she proclaims to cheers.

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