Eliot packs to leave his home. The day before he plans to return to Chicago, Josh suggests a father-son hike at Sleeping Giant State Park. On the trail, Josh tells Eliot about a call center conversation with a man who seemed suicidal. Josh mentions that he shared with the caller about a difficult summer when he considered giving up music—the summer Claire’s cancer returned. Claire had told Eliot she believed Josh was trying to bargain his own unhappiness for her health.

Josh asks Eliot if he thinks he would make a good therapist. Eliot stops walking, unsettled by the prospect of Josh embarking on a new career. Josh misinterprets the silence as disapproval and grows defensive. When Eliot says that of course Josh could become a good therapist, if this is what he wants, Josh angrily accuses his father of having no real opinions and of always maintaining a blankly and unhelpfully positive attitude. Devastated by this wholesale critique of his parenting, Eliot jogs down the trail alone and eventually leaves the path, climbing the mountainside until exhaustion forces him to stop.

In the parking lot, Josh apologizes and says he was in a bad