Alice comes to in a red-lit elevator beside Sabine, panicking because she cannot remember leaving the club. The doors open onto a luxurious penthouse that Sabine has taken over. Alice physically cannot cross the threshold until Sabine invites her in, confirming vampire-like rules. Sabine asserts that if she wanted Alice dead, she would be, and belittles death while calling Alice a rose grown from rot. When Sabine commands Alice to sit, Alice’s body obeys against her will, revealing the strength of Sabine’s compulsion.

Surveying the room for weapons, Alice finds little: a photography book, wilted flowers, an emptied knife block, and a bar cart with a heated carafe of blood. Sabine presses Alice to admit why she came, arguing compulsion only pushes where someone already leans; Alice recognizes a part of herself wanted to come because Sabine feels like the “ground” after a long fall. Sabine then pivots to “our Charlotte,” accusing Lottie of knowingly killing girls she beds, including Penny, and asks why Lottie did not do the same to Alice. Alice parrots Lottie’s claim that Alice is “special,” provoking Sabine’s cold laughter and the assertion that Lottie hates what Alice is and only feels guilt.

Seeking an opening, Alice claims thirst. Sabine grants permission to drink from the bar cart. While masking her thoughts by focusing on Lottie, Alice secretly tips the last of her mother’s grave dirt into a glass, then pours blood over it for herself and pours a second glass for Sabine, hoping to taint Sabine. Sabine refuses, saying she never drinks from decanted containers and nudges the full glass back to Alice, foiling the ploy. Alice notices a glint beneath Sabine’s dress and realizes Sabine is wearing chain mail, extinguishing hope of a quick physical strike.

Sabine states they will help each other: Alice will help her catch Lottie. Alice, seething at being used by both, inches closer and asks what happens when they find Lottie. Sabine says their game will end. When Sabine touches Alice, Alice endures it and agrees to help “if it means [Lottie] pays,” presenting herself as pliant. Sabine’s attention warms, and she moves to kiss Alice; Alice pulls back and asks to shower “first,” implying later intimacy to keep Sabine engaged while creating a window to act.

Alice walks to the master bath, leaving doors ajar, turns the shower on hot to fill the room with steam, and undresses, keeping her mind busy by singing a song from childhood. The steam fogs the mirror as she sings, using her voice to mask small sounds and steady herself while she prepares for what comes next.

A sharp scene break shifts to the past: Catty’s Monday voice note to Alice, musing about only having one life, wondering if death is a chance to start again, and quoting their mum’s saying about tired minds being good soil for bad thoughts. On Tuesday, Alice receives a call that Catty has been hit by a car in Glasgow and died; Catty never made it to London. The driver stayed, but it was too late. Alice is devastated and haunted that she did not feel the moment Catty died, recalling Catty always running ahead as she mentally pleads for her to slow down and come back.