Scarlett joins Jan and Lukas for a midweek hike, listening to their teasing and occasional Swedish. She reflects on how each pronounces Lukas’s name and what it means to live in a second language. Grateful to be off campus, Scarlett pauses to photograph the brothers, and they joke about their father’s enthusiastic, egalitarian praise.

On the trail, Scarlett nearly trips and Lukas steadies her, keeping a protective hand longer than necessary. They discuss family locations and Swedish sayings while cresting a hill in the warm weather, sharing an easy moment that hints at intimacy despite Lukas’s recent silence.

Afterward, Jan insists on buying coffee and pastries. At the café, Lukas casually brackets Scarlett’s chair with his arm without touching her. When Scarlett mentions fika—knowledge she researched on her own—Lukas pointedly notices, and she meets his gaze, unashamed. Jan observes that Lukas “doesn’t like” sweets and, prodded, begins recounting Lukas’s history of self-denial: sleeping on the floor instead of a comfortable new bed, a year of cold showers, unseasoned food, and waking early.

Jan frames it as Lukas’s attempt to control desire—“We are not in control. Self-determination is a myth.” Lukas bristles and snaps in Swedish, and the brothers exchange a brief, tense back-and-forth before Jan gently ends the topic. The revelation lands heavily for Scarlett, who connects it to Lukas’s distance; shaken, she cannot bring herself to eat.