From Ellis Dean’s hotel suite, Katarina answers Bella’s Skype call. Bella immediately notices that Katarina and Heath are together in a different room, so they explain the night’s escalation: the suspected tampering with their skates, the break-ins, Katarina’s ruined free-dance dress, and the indifference of local police. Bella focuses on practical survival, asking what Katarina will wear for the final and warning both of them not to trust anyone until they know who is responsible.

Garrett briefly appears on the call, taking care of Bella and wishing Katarina and Heath luck. Bella never questions whether they will still compete, which reinforces their identity as skaters who keep going despite injury and fear. After the call ends, the quiet returns, and Katarina and Heath shift from crisis management to the uneasy intimacy of sharing a bed again.

They get ready for sleep, compare pain, and joke bitterly about feeling like worn-out veterans instead of champions. Katarina blames the Volkovas for everything that has happened, but Heath hesitates. Heath says Veronika is capable of cruelty yet usually directs it at her own skaters, and he complicates Katarina’s theory by describing Yelena as one of the only people in Moscow who treated him kindly, helping him with the language and his technique.

When Katarina presses Heath, Heath admits he abandoned Yelena without explanation when they were supposed to train together, leaving her vulnerable to Veronika’s blame. Katarina then returns to the more painful question raised earlier: if Veronika was not the person who physically abused Heath, who was? Heath does not answer directly, which shows that the truth remains too difficult for him to fully reveal.

Instead, Heath offers a broader confession about his life. Heath says he did many shameful things trying to get back to Katarina, and that he built too much of his identity around her because he had grown up without a stable family, culture, or sense of self. Heath says he is still trying to find his own purpose, and Katarina recognizes that this search now includes a life in Los Angeles connected to Bella and the baby.

The conversation ends not with full disclosure but with mutual recognition. Heath mourns the years they lost by defining themselves through damage, separation, and obsession. Katarina answers by insisting that what matters now is that they are together in this moment and should not waste any more time.