Anna assembled the passengers and crew in the observation car to present a box of rat poison she and Dante Wentworth found in the galley, asserting it was the murder weapon used on Judd Dodge. She questioned who had been in the galley earlier, and the group agreed none had lingered during the earlier dash to the locomotive. When Anna asked about the hour before the lounge gathering, Edith Gerhardt, Herb Pulaski, Sal Lawrence, and Jack Lapsford denied being there, with Lapsford growing hostile. Reggie Davis was deflected as a suspect; Anna defended him publicly while harboring private doubts.

As tension rose, most returned to their rooms and Seamus Callahan volunteered to ensure compliance. Alone, Anna reflected on her past, her family, and her father’s pride in the Phoenix, dozing briefly into a nightmare of Tommy, whose horrific apparition begged her to care for their parents. She woke to worsening weather and noticed someone entering the observation car.

Edith Gerhardt arrived and, in private, told Anna she had seen Jack Lapsford exiting the dining car shortly after departure, implying he had been in or near the galley despite his denial. When Anna tried to leave to confront Lapsford, emotion overtook her and she demanded to know if Edith’s past care had ever been genuine. Edith maintained that her actions “were not personal,” framing them as sacrifices in wartime for her homeland.

Pressed, Edith effectively confessed to aiding Germany, contradicting her past sworn testimony about Kenneth Wentworth by revealing her own sympathies. Anna declared Edith would face consequences and wished her only pain and regret in the end, then left before Edith could reply.

Back in the corridor, Anna spotted a man slipping through a door at the front of Car 13 whose build did not match any current passenger. She hurried car to car—through lounge, dining car, galley, club car, coach lounge, and coach—finding each space recently vacated but empty, and the locomotive door still locked. The trail vanished.

Returning, Anna found the dining car now dark, the lights intentionally extinguished. Through the closing rear door, she caught a fleeting side profile of the same man and felt a shock of recognition. Though impossible, she believed she had just seen her brother, Tommy, dead for twelve years, leaving her shaken and unsure whether it was a trick of light, fatigue, or something more.