The bachelorette party begins with a spa “water journey,” where Phoebe throws herself into the experience more readily than the others and ends up in a cold pool with Lila. In the quiet, Lila vents about Gary’s mother repeatedly pressuring her about God and a church wedding, and Phoebe urges Lila to stop spiraling and simply breathe. The calm briefly works, giving both women a rare sense of peace before they return to the hotel.

That peace collapses in the lobby when Jim announces that someone has sexually violated the vintage wedding car. Lila immediately treats the incident as another catastrophe marring her wedding and demands a replacement car, while Gary focuses on practical solutions and Phoebe helps by getting Pauline at the front desk to arrange a new one. Afterward, Phoebe showers, dresses for the evening, and rejoins the group, where Lila is still brittle beneath her attempt to recover her party mood.

The evening’s “Sex Woman” turns out to be a former panda mating expert whose presentation is awkward, funny, and unexpectedly revealing. Her questions force the bridesmaids to describe their sex lives and recent desire: Suz and Nat joke openly, Marla blurts out her affair, and Phoebe admits that honest eye contact with a stranger made her want sex again after her divorce. Lila, by contrast, stays guarded, insists her sex life with Gary is simply beautiful, and grows uncomfortable whenever the conversation presses past her polished version of herself.

Later, between tarot readings and dinner, Marla privately asks Phoebe whether Phoebe judges her for having an affair. Marla explains that the affair exposed long-standing damage in her marriage and that therapy has reduced Robert and Marla to awkward sexting as they try to rebuild trust; Phoebe, in turn, starts to separate Matt’s betrayal from any supposed failure in herself. Thyme’s tarot reading also unsettles and steadies Phoebe at once by telling her that children are receding from her future, that a move and new possibilities lie ahead, and that no matter what happens, Phoebe herself will remain.

At the Boom Boom Room, the bridesmaids dance, take shots, and briefly recapture a carefree group energy, but the walk back reopens deeper tensions. Lila admits that Thyme’s reading struck a nerve because Lila feels she has no stable self, and Nat angrily argues that the straight women around her rarely bother to figure out what they actually want. Back at the hotel, after vomiting in a plant and collapsing into Phoebe’s room, Lila finally confesses the truth: she fantasizes about Jim, sometimes hates Gary because Gary gave her false hope that her father could survive, feels bored and emotionally absent with Gary, and does not want to marry him. Phoebe does not dismiss the confession; instead, Phoebe tells Lila that marriage will not save her from loneliness and promises to help her tell everyone in the morning.

Because Lila falls asleep in Phoebe’s bed, Phoebe goes to the bridal suite and encounters Gary returning from an awkward bachelor party. In a long, intimate conversation, Gary admits that Jim seems angry about the remarriage, that Wendy’s death still leaves him feeling guilty and emotionally numb, and that he may have pursued Lila partly through grief, hope, and his role in treating her father. Phoebe challenges Gary’s self-blame, listens as he reflects on Wendy, art, and the human need to chase feeling, and recognizes a strong mutual attraction between them. Phoebe chooses not to act on it, but she ends the night lying in Lila’s bed thinking only of Gary and the charged honesty between them.