In New York on April 6, 2014, Addie and Henry share fish-and-chips in a pseudo-pub while Addie casually demonstrates how many languages she understands by translating a nearby German couple’s argument. Henry is impressed, and Addie jokes that her long life could have made her a spy.

When Addie suggests they leave without paying, relying on her curse to erase the waiter’s memory of her, Henry refuses. Henry points out that he will be remembered, and says that even if he could vanish too, it would still be wrong; the word “wrong” triggers Addie’s old shame about how her survival always makes someone else pay.

Addie throws down cash, but Henry presses her about where it came from, and she refuses to explain that she steals to get by. The confrontation escalates into Addie’s anger about her lack of stability—no job, no ties, no way to keep anyone—and Henry’s insistence that her methods “won’t work for us.” Feeling cornered and judged, Addie storms out into the night.

Outside, Addie’s anger collapses into fear that she has ruined the one relationship she has always wanted. Henry follows without hostility, reassures Addie that the fight is not the end of them, and accepts that Addie will never be “normal.” As they walk together again, Henry asks about Paris, and Addie admits she eventually returned—slowly and without Luc’s help—recognizing that being stranded in Florence broke her old boundaries and made the world feel suddenly, unsettlingly open.