In New York, Addie spends the days between her first meeting with Henry and their planned Saturday rendezvous in a restless haze. Staying in Gerard’s Prospect Park apartment, Addie cannot sleep and cannot distract herself; after three centuries of enduring time, she realizes the slow crawl of minutes comes from something new to her: nervousness about a future.

To fill the hours, Addie roams Brooklyn shops, buys a new outfit, and lets a makeup clerk redo her face, only to wipe it away when it feels like a mask that erases her freckles and familiarity. As 5:00 P.M. nears, Addie waits outside Henry’s bookstore, spiraling into fear that the curse may have “sealed” again and that Henry will no longer remember her.

Addie enters and finds Bea behind the counter instead of Henry, heightening Addie’s panic. When Henry appears from the back, Addie braces for the moment of forgetting—but Henry smiles, recognizes her, and introduces her to Beatrice. Bea comments on Addie’s “timeless” look through an art-history lens, and Henry jokingly calls Addie his “date,” a word that thrills Addie because it implies a planned future.

Outside, Addie aches at the ease of Henry and Bea’s shared familiarity, while also marveling that Henry is learning her as she learns him—something Addie has never been allowed with anyone except Luc. Henry leads Addie onto the subway and refuses to say where they are going, promising a surprise.

Henry takes Addie to a laundromat in Greenpoint and reveals a hidden back room: not a true speakeasy but an arcade-bar space tucked behind the wash-and-fold. The word “speakeasy” briefly jolts Addie into painful memories, but the neon pinball machines pull her back to the present. Henry produces a bag of quarters, and Addie is relieved when the coin accepts and the game lights up, letting her simply play and enjoy the moment with him.