On the A train back from the beach, a brief blackout jolts Addie awake and triggers sudden panic, but Henry steadies her. They return to Henry’s apartment, shower, and fall asleep tangled together, comforted by the fragile feeling that they still have time.

Addie wakes after dark with a familiar dread and briefly searches the apartment, half-expecting Luc’s presence even as she tells herself he has not come in decades. Henry, disoriented, apologizes for oversleeping and starts to pack to stay at Bea’s, but Addie stops him, unwilling to give the night over to the shadow she fears.

With no food at home, Addie and Henry go to the Merchant and tell a waitress they are celebrating. When asked what, Addie answers “anniversary” and jokes “three hundred” years, and Henry plays along, unsettled but smiling. A song cuts through the room’s noise, and Addie pulls Henry onto a small dance floor, teaching him steps until they are laughing and, for a moment, everything feels easy.

At the bar, Henry orders two beers, but one drink arrives as Champagne with a rose petal and a note in French: For my Adeline. Addie grabs Henry and tries to leave, but when she looks back, the entire bar has been forcibly stilled—people halted mid-motion—while a voice calls her name. Luc steps from the shadows, unchanged, and claims the moment as their anniversary, circling them and taunting Henry as another desperate soul who made a bargain to be loved.

Addie demands Luc send Henry away, insisting Henry would forget, but Luc refuses and instead hints that time will separate them soon enough. He warns Henry about counting his life in days versus hours, tells Addie to savor the time left, and emphasizes it was Henry’s choice before vanishing; the bar snaps back into motion. Addie finds Henry slumped and sees the watch on his wrist again, and she realizes its hands have advanced steadily over their months together toward “midnight,” revealing Henry’s deal is far shorter than she believed; she demands to know how long he asked for, and Henry finally begins to confess the truth.