After three days convalescing from her descent to Avallon IV, June Hudson emerges to find her limousine and Special Agent Tucker Minnick waiting. Tucker cites Bureau business, shows a reassuring note from Griff Clemons that the staff can manage another day, and advises June to bring a coat. They head into the mountains, June allowing herself the rare experience of being a passenger and enjoying the landscape as they drive.

They stop at a country store for gas and Cokes, and on the road Tucker prompts June to speak plainly about her past. June haltingly recounts her childhood after her father’s suicide, her mother’s begging in Malden, and her distant, watchful temperament. Tucker shares little in return but listens without demanding a shaped narrative. June tries calling him “Tuck,” signaling mutual attraction.

They detour to overlook June’s birthplace, Casto Springs, a ghost town that Tucker says miners called “Poison Point.” They push the limousine overgrown back roads and enter the ruin. Walking the abandoned main street, June feels nostalgia, while Tucker is more guarded. At the miners’ houses, June stops him from looking away, recognizing his trauma tied to the 1922 flood. He briefly confronts it, then turns away, showing the hard-won composure he has cultivated since.

Drawn to a surviving charismatic church, June enters despite Tucker’s warning. A fallen beam has opened the floor, revealing running sweetwater beneath. June lowers her hand into the current with her familiar sequence, experiencing the water’s youthful, eager nature, distinct from Avallon’s. Tucker refuses to approach, saying he fears the water and that it will remember him. June withdraws, and Tucker acknowledges this power is why the staff would “walk through fire” for her.

They return before dusk; June drives them back toward Constancy in charged silence. At the dark train station below the Avallon, they kiss intensely, but Tucker stops. He confesses that his SAC handed him a pre-written resignation letter; new background checks after Pearl Harbor uncovered past issues, and he must prove himself invaluable on this case to keep his position. June empathizes with the weight of his ten-year investment in the Bureau.

Tucker then reveals his immediate dilemma: he learned Sebastian Hepp supplied the German journalists with maid uniforms and could arrest him “for assisting Nazis.” June erupts, defending Sebastian’s kindness and the harm such an arrest would inflict on him and the Grotto. Tucker says he sought her view and, after hearing it, abruptly ends the meeting, choosing to walk back to the hotel and addressing her formally as “Miss Hudson.”

That night, preparing for bed, June starts to draw sweetwater from her tap but stops herself for the first time, unwilling to bring her unsettled feelings into the Avallon’s water.