Lucy reflects that Ben Owens’s true crime podcast did not begin her ruin, but it has dragged Savvy’s murder case back into public view and made Lucy’s name immediately searchable as the prime suspect. Already reeling from being fired, Lucy assumes her boyfriend, Nathan, has now learned about her past and is likely to break up with her. Because Lucy needs both stability and somewhere to live, she makes “apology chicken” while preparing for the conversation.

As Lucy waits, she admits she never planned to tell Nathan about the case because their relationship is shallow and self-centered. Nathan invited Lucy to move in after only three months, mostly during the early, intense stage of their relationship, and both of them seemed to regret it soon afterward. Even so, Lucy has stayed partly because Nathan avoids conflict, and partly because she likes his apartment and his dog, Brewster.

When Nathan comes home, he smells like beer, avoids Lucy’s eyes, and focuses on greeting Brewster and noticing dinner. His uneasiness confirms Lucy’s suspicion that someone told him about the murder case, but Nathan still refuses to address it directly. Lucy watches him nervously retreat to change clothes, and her anxiety hardens into resentment.

Back in the kitchen, Lucy stands with a carving fork and knife, silently waiting for Nathan to say what he thinks about her. Instead, Nathan only asks how work was. When Lucy tells him she was fired, Nathan barely reacts and reaches for wine, showing either obliviousness or a refusal to engage. Frustrated and angry, Lucy drives the knife into the chicken with unnecessary force and thinks darkly about Nathan’s fear, ending the scene with a mordant joke that at this rate he may wind up married to a murderer.