Sydney waits for Tom in Chinatown for their sixth date and takes a call from her mother, who immediately pressures her about being single and having children. Sydney reluctantly admits she is seeing someone named Tom and says he is a doctor, but she ends the call as Tom arrives. Tom appears freshly showered from work, kisses Sydney, gives money to a homeless man, and walks with her toward her favorite dim sum restaurant.

As they move through the neighborhood, Tom jokes about buying Sydney street souvenirs, turtles, or illegal fireworks. When Tom starts enthusiastically describing a gruesome firecracker injury and hand surgery from his medical training, Sydney cuts him off because she does not want to hear about mutilated fingers before lunch. Tom looks disappointed and grows quiet, but he perks up again when they reach the restaurant and he politely opens the door for Sydney.

Inside, an older woman named Velma Stewart recognizes Tom and calls him Dr. Brewer. Velma explains that Tom performed her late husband Harvey’s autopsy and then spent time comforting her, telling her Harvey died quickly and without suffering. Her gratitude confirms Sydney’s impression that Tom is genuinely kind, and Tom admits that although he is a pathologist, he sometimes misses interacting with patients and that he once wanted to become a surgeon.

After Velma leaves, Sydney asks why she called him Dr. Brewer when he had introduced himself as Tom Brown. Tom flatly insists that his last name is Brewer and suggests Sydney must have misheard him earlier, even offering to show his driver’s license. The inconsistency unsettles Sydney because she had previously searched for Tom Brown and found nothing. When Tom goes to wash his hands, Sydney immediately searches for Thomas Brewer online and instantly finds something that strikes her as significant.