Hunt and Bryce walk through chaotic streets back to her apartment after the White Raven explosion. Bryce is barefoot, shell-shocked, and barely speaking. At her building, she introduces Hunt to her doorman, Marrin, explaining Hunt will be staying with her. In the elevator, Hunt impulsively asks why she won't make the Drop. After retrieving spare keys from the doorman, Bryce reveals that she and Danika had planned to make the Drop together in two years, with Connor Holstrom and Thorne as their Anchors. Without Danika, she sees no reason to proceed.

Hunt asks whether she and Danika were lovers; Bryce denies it, instead haltingly explaining her complicated relationship with Connor Holstrom. She tells Hunt that when Danika and the others died, "a light went out" in her. Hunt recognizes the grief from his own experience after the Battle of Mount Hermon, where he lost his friends and his lover Shahar in a single day. He understands how she punishes herself by cutting out alcohol, drugs, and dancing, but he cannot bring himself to speak about his own parallel loss.

Bryce calls her mother on the landline, cheerfully lying that she wasn't at the club and that her phone fell in the toilet. She refuses to identify Hunt to her mother, explaining to him afterward that she doesn't want her mother visiting while things are dangerous. Bryce then tells Hunt with raw emotion that she needs to find whoever is responsible—not for Micah's sake, but because the unresolved pain and grief will consume her. Hunt promises they will succeed and, in a reciprocal act of vulnerability, reveals Micah's bargain: originally, Hunt was to assassinate 2,217 people to pay for the lives lost at Mount Hermon and earn his freedom. Now Micah has offered a new deal—solve the murders before the Summit and reduce the debt to just ten kills. Micah ordered Hunt to keep this secret. Bryce accepts the information without judgment, telling Hunt he's not the asshole he thinks he is.

They share a late-night meal of cheeseburgers, fries, and milkshakes in near-silence, both exhausted. After Bryce retreats to her room, Hunt settles into the guest bedroom. He examines framed photos: one of a young Bryce with her mother Ember Quinlan and her adoptive father Randall Silago—the legendary war hero and sharpshooter—and another of teenage Bryce and Danika sitting on desert rocks, shoulder-to-shoulder, with Danika's painted leather jacket reading "Through love, all is possible." Hunt notices a sword beside them—the wolf heirloom Sabine had frantically searched for after Danika's murder. The image of the two friends in a moment of hard-won peace is the last thing Hunt sees before falling asleep.