Natalie’s eldest daughter, Clementine, now an adult has unexpectedly arrived at Yesteryear Ranch in modern clothing. Caleb appears surprised by the visit, while Mary watches from a window.

Clementine stops at the kitchen threshold and angrily asks why Natalie keeps smiling all the time. She explains that Stetson contacted her after Natalie showed up at his house seeking a doctor. Natalie explains that she was going to ask the doctor for an abortion. Clementine tells her she is actually going through menopause. Caleb adds that Natalie alternates between lucid and confused states.

Mary appears, and Clementine introduces herself as her sister. Seeing the car outside, Mary asks what it is. The moment prompts Natalie to recall how their lifestyle shifted from a temporary game into a permanent fiction. After 16-year-old Clementine left with four of her siblings, Natalie and Caleb told their toddler, Mary, that her siblings were dead, then simply gone, and eventually stopped mentioning them altogether. They later had three more children.

Clementine reveals that the older children live nearby. When Mary realizes the neighbors are her brothers, Samuel and Stetson, Natalie understands that Caleb has been secretly receiving grocery-store food from them for years while pretending to farm.