Boone remains unmoved by Mr. Bhuti’s testimony. Bhuti asks for water before he returns to the room where he must wait with his wife and his mother. He describes the room as a place where no one ever gets what they want. The Frenchman gives him a tumbler of water to bring back to them. Before he leaves, Bhuti enters Boone’s body and passes through Jill to give them both clear visions of his experience. Jill sees the extent of the environmental damage in India, causing a multitude of disasters in various regions and around the world.

Jill observes that Boone isn’t shocked by the vision Bhuti granted him. Boone argues that while he is aware of the environmental disasters in India, it is a fallacy to blame droughts and heat waves on him alone. Furthermore, Bhuti’s vision was selective, leaving out the parts of the world where no destruction was evident, including Texas. This argument frustrates Jill, who gives up on Boone and leaves.

Jill retreats to the wedding next door and dances with the guests to get Boone out of her mind. Entering their thoughts, she learns of a series of affairs taking place between the aunt of the bride and her husband’s boss. The aunt feels guilty that her husband will inevitably find out about their affair, but she knows that she must tell him so that she can leave him. She doesn’t realize that her husband already knows about the affair or that the boss’s wife is realizing the truth at that very moment and walking out on the wedding. Jill observes that all the wedding guests know about the things Bhuti conveyed to her but are continuing with their lives in spite of it. Feeling pity for the boss’s wife, Jill becomes lost in the memory of one Christmas when Lloyd insisted on skipping work to look after her while she was sick.

Jill follows a surge of energy into the house and sees the bride and groom sneaking away to have sex in the pantry. Seeing the love between them reminds her of the time Lloyd told her that he was ready to have a baby with her. Though cautious of its effect on her elevation, Jill indulges one more memory of the passionate summer they spent trying to conceive a baby. Watching the bride and groom kiss, Jill remembers all the kisses she had and wanted to have throughout her life. The rush of memories reminds her of who she really was. Jill is sick of being elevated and wants to become herself again.

Jill travels to Stanley, Indiana, to revisit the landmarks of her former life. Most of the familiar landmarks are already gone, including the duplex that she and Lloyd lived in on Crowne Street, which is now a data center. The only physical evidence she can find of her former life is the box containing her wedding dress, which is hidden in the attic of her mother-in-law’s former house. She wonders why Lloyd allowed the dress to stay there and resolves to find him.

Jill summons the spirits of the people she knew and asks them how to find Lloyd. They lead her to the cemetery where she is buried. She sees that Lloyd is buried next to her, having died in 2023. Jill realizes that Lloyd did not bother looking for her after he died and that he remarried after Jill’s death. His second wife and the mother of his three children is buried on the other side of his grave. Jill also learns that Paul Bowman remains alive and was never arrested for her murder. Over time, he came to forgive himself for her death. Finally, she learns that her parents have died, which fills her with grief.

Jill examines her own remains and realizes that she hadn’t been pregnant at the time of her death. She wonders why she remains at the cemetery when her identity as an elevated person is now more real than her identity as Jill “Doll” Blaine. Jill finds a goat pen in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she tries to excite the goats with her presence to restore her elevation. The goats are repulsed, which makes Jill realize that she is now a half-elevated being, half-Jill as a result of her visit to Indiana. Accepting her new state, she returns to Texas.

Just before Jill reenters Boone’s house, she encounters the spirit of Joe, the husband of the old woman who conveyed the Frenchman’s questions. Joe wants to find his wife so he can physically abuse her. Jill passes through him, inflicting violent thoughts to incapacitate him. She realizes that her new mixed nature enables her to use her elevated powers with human motivations and intentions.

Jill encounters the Frenchman, who observes that her appearance has changed to match her hybrid status. The Frenchman is in a weakened state, so he must return to the spiritual plane to recover his strength. Just as Jill sends him off into the heavens, Boone’s daughter, Julia, arrives in a taxi. Julia rushes up to her father’s room and speaks to him in whispers. Jill inhabits her thoughts to better understand her.

Julia expresses her adoration for Boone, as well as her forgiveness for the times he’d been rude to her and her friends when she was growing up. She cites his example as the reason for her strength. She improvises an affirmation of his life, praising his success. She also remembers how her liberal schoolmates used to resent her because of Boone’s work, which influenced her worldview and prompted her to lean towards patriotism and optimism. Though Julia has been accused of racism in the past, she asserts that she believes in the equal value of all people.

Julia encourages Boone to die with an open heart, letting go of any denial he may still be holding. She recalls Jesus Christ, who died forgiving enemies, to urge him to forgive the protesters, media pundits, and “trolls” who wrote letters to insult him. Insisting she knows the truth about his character, Julia invites Boone to pray with her.

Julia thanks God for Boone’s life, though she has little understanding of the true nature of Boone’s work. She asks God to forgive Boone for various faults, including the antagonism he showed her prom date, Randy, when Randy tried to convince Boone of the merit of electric cars. She brings up the faults that were alleged against him in a documentary that her graduate school friend Fran made her watch once. The documentary shook Julia’s faith in her father and resulted in the end of her friendship with Fran. Julia asserts that oil is a necessary industry for travel and mobility. At the same time, she wonders if there is a side to her father she has never known, a side she wants to think of as complicated and secretive. She indicates that if Boone did the things he was accused of doing with the full knowledge that they were wrong, then she would be disappointed in him.

After briefly convincing herself that she has killed him with her speech, Julia is relieved to see Boone still breathing. She kisses his head. Boone says the words “Devil” and “Lady” aloud. Julia tries to pray the devil lady away. When Boone says there are many devils in his room, Julia runs down to call her mother.