Sydney and Tom spend the night together, and Tom goes to take a shower while Sydney stays in bed. Sydney answers a call from her mother, who awkwardly presses her about marriage, invokes Sarah and Abraham to suggest late motherhood is still possible, and even brings up Jake as a preferable former partner. The conversation leaves Sydney irritated and emotionally off balance.

When Sydney fumbles her phone into the gap beside the bed, she reaches down to retrieve it and finds a black scrunchie as well. The scrunchie shocks Sydney because Bonnie wore scrunchies, and the discovery suddenly makes Tom seem like a plausible candidate for Bonnie’s secret boyfriend. Sydney starts mentally connecting earlier details: where she first met Tom, his profession, his reaction to Bonnie’s murder, and the possibility that he once gave her a false name.

Trying to test her suspicions, Sydney calls Tom from her own phone. The ringing comes not from the phone visible on his dresser but from a hidden phone in a drawer. Sydney finds a burner phone and discovers that every call and text on it is from her, meaning Tom has been using a secret phone solely to communicate with Sydney. This intensifies Sydney’s fear that Tom has been concealing crucial parts of his identity and intentions.

Realizing she has only minutes before Tom finishes showering, Sydney rushes into the living room and looks for an object that might preserve Tom’s fingerprints. She chooses Tom’s water bottle, carefully places it in her purse, and prepares to keep it as evidence. Before Sydney can leave or explain herself, Tom catches her in the act and asks what she is doing.