Team USA assembles en route to the world championships, and Scarlett is openly snubbed by teammates, a fallout of prior tensions with Carissa. After arriving in Amsterdam, she’s assigned to room with Akane, a stern but even-keeled platform diver who acknowledges the sport’s cliques and suggests they can get along.

During practice, Coach Mei Wang singles out Scarlett’s forward dive, forcing immediate corrections and emphasizing small technical fixes that add points. Mei admits she’d written Scarlett off after her injury but revises that assessment, noting Scarlett’s responsiveness and the value of a second set of eyes beyond Sima’s coaching.

Avoiding the US team’s table in the athlete lounge, Scarlett visits Sweden’s area, where she reconnects with Lukas and meets his teammate Ebbe. Lukas brushes off a dinner invite from teammates to escort Scarlett to food, making clear he prioritizes time with her.

Back at the hotel, their separation tension explodes into sex in Lukas’s room. Afterward, Scarlett worries about performance impacts; Lukas chooses intimacy over competitive caution and asks her to move in with him during the meet. She hesitates at the deeper conversation he’s inviting, so they agree to take it day by day, with plans set around her early training.