Okay here goes:
Lucy wanted an easier life and drug money, so she sold Julie to Hoyt who is her dad. We’ve seen Julie’s drawings of the Pink Room/Hoyt house previously so she’s likely been to Hoyt’s home before.
I think the black dude with one eye at the book signing was the courier. I’m just really unsure how they met up with kids in the woods. How was it all choreographed? Did Lucy know the kids go there and she told Hoyt and Hoyt sent black dude with Lucy so Lucy could break the news to them? It went wrong? Son died by accident. Lucy put him in communion position as I said. Black dude laid out dolls. They split with Julie and brought her to Hoyt’s???
I’m thinking once Julie got older, Harris decides he can sell Julie, unbeknownst to Hoyt. To The uncle. Hence him asking for $7,000. She finds out and splits before the transaction can take place meeting up with Ardoin. They’re both about 20 at that point. Somewhat simultaneously, Tom stumbled into her room (how last episode ended) thinking they kidnapped her but she wasn’t. That was just her bedroom—though that would be weird to have a bedroom down there. Tom kills Harris James in a fit of rage and with Roland and Hays’ help, dispose of his body, as at the moment, it seems they kidnapped her...but she wasn’t...they push Harris in his car into the water of the quarry. At some point, Hoyt too finds out that the uncle tried to buy Julie for 7,000. He hunts him down safari style and kills him.
15 years later, Roland and Hays track her down and reunite her with Purcell. A happy ending.
No pedo ring. Not as completely dark as it’s seemed.