Everyone ogles the strangers. Jess tries to beat Phil to the front door, but Phil arrives first, and Mauro introduces himself as her nephew. Jess tries to pull her mother aside to talk quietly, but Phil is already getting upset.

Angelo asks why Jess didn’t let him know she was leaving as Conor and Gaetano walk in. Lisa is happy to see that Jess and Angelo seem to be in a relationship, as she’s been seeing Bobby since Ash Wednesday. Jess is genuinely happy for them, and Bobby says she’s a “good girl.” She knows this is the highest compliment he can pay her, though she feels she’s outgrown it. She says she intends to return to Italy, and her cousin Marina speaks up about being a travel agent. Everyone is shocked that Lil’s quiet niece found her voice.

Campovilla arrives. The FBI wants Jess to wear a wire to visit Googs in prison. They believe she’s told the truth about her non-involvement in the Elegant Gangster, but they need to prove that Googs was linked to the money to access it. She says she’ll consider it, and then rescues Angelo from the circle of tittering women. She kisses him before retrieving her old engagement ring and returning it to Bobby.

Phil asks about Angelo and if Jess is happy. Jess is shocked because her mother has never asked that question. Phil says she wanted Jess to marry Bobby because she knew he would never take Jess away. Jess says she had to leave home to “grow up” and to teach her family how to treat her. Phil realizes that Jess has “outgrown” them, and Jess wonders how to let go and hold on at the same time.

Angelo and Mauro sleep at Lil’s. Conor and Gaetano stay with Conor’s sister. The family comes over for breakfast, and Connie says they want to buy Grandma Cap’s house. Diego was recently let go, and they need to downsize; plus, she’ll be close to her parents when Jess goes back to Italy. Katie and Joe announce that she is pregnant with their third child, a girl they plan to name Giuseppina.

Jess tells her siblings that she’s not going to wear the wire; she signed the accounts over to the FBI. She’ll get no money, but she’s not implicated in any wrongdoing. Joe is shocked because the cash could be life-changing, but Jess says the only thing that can change her life is her. She knows it’s never about the money, but about family taking care of each other.

Jess eyes the “peachy pink” sky over New Jersey when she goes to visit Googs. He tells her that they planned to pay the taxes, but Louie wanted to build up the accounts first. Louie once called him the “elegant gangster,” and that’s where the name came from. He has found something to get out of bed for everyday: The first cup of coffee in the cafeteria before anyone else arrives.

When Jess goes to the car, she sees the spirit of Uncle Louie in the driver’s seat. She doesn’t understand why Louie did it, as he made plenty of money to support him and Lil. She asks his spirit. He says he was worried about her, Connie, and Joe. Phil isn’t good with people, and Joe Sr. isn’t good with money. He says Jess and her siblings gave him a purpose. Then he vanishes.

Jess pulls the car into Lil and Louie’s garage. Angelo is there, and he gets in. He tells Jess that he loves her and wants to be with her. They kiss until Jess’s mother taps on the window. She tells them it’s time for dinner. Angelo and Jess try to think of somewhere they can be alone, and Jess suggests the Motel 6. Then Jess’s dad arrives, and she knows they should go to dinner. Angelo doesn’t want to, and he slides his hands up Jess’s coat sleeves. They run.

One year later, Jess is struck, once again, by the beauty of the Italian sunrise. She’s been renovating the Montini farmhouse where her Grandma Cap was born. She journals briefly, noting that she is happy both alone and in love, that her worth isn’t dependent on pleasing others, that work is the soul’s creative expression, and that she is a person of the world.

Jess unpacks her books and hears her mother calling. Her parents, Joe, Connie, their families, and Angelo are all there. Jess designed a collection of marble and granite flooring that Conor sells worldwide. She’s in school at the University of Pisa getting her architecture degree.

Phil and Laura bond over their shared complaints. Jess asks Angelo to move in with her, and he agrees. Everyone climbs into a van to go see the quarry.

Jess writes a letter to all her Thera-Me doctors. She tells them that, with their help and her willingness to embrace solitude, she learned to live. She feels that one must “[l]et go” of what scares them; this is when happiness arrives, unannounced.