Leo picks Lauren up from the airport and drives her to his rented apartment in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Lauren admires the cheerful, light-filled space with its colorful walls and robin’s-egg-blue kitchen cabinets.

Settling into an armchair together, Lauren tells Leo he was right about fertility treatments—she wants to stop trying for a baby. She explains that an unspoken tension has been straining their marriage for months, and she wants it to end. Lauren reflects on her early relationship with Leo, how she couldn’t envision a natural ending with him the way she could with previous partners, and realizes she doesn’t want to waste their present trying to reach a different future. Leo becomes emotional as Lauren confirms she means it. They agree to stop the fertility treatments, kiss deeply, and Lauren thinks that home could be this very moment if they make it so.

After Marcella uses her ticket, she experiences initial euphoria followed by severe depression and a panic attack. She asks her mother, Sylvia, how to live with the knowledge that she can no longer undo terrible events. Sylvia reveals she used her own ticket on something minor, claiming she never experienced a