In Dubai, Steve and his son Adam sit together awkwardly over tea. Their conversation is stilted, and Steve reflects on how rarely they are ever alone together without someone stepping in to ease the silence. Both men search for safe, trivial things to say, but neither knows how to bridge the distance between them.

Steve eventually forces the discussion toward the case by making a joke about the bathroom, and Adam gives Steve permission to talk about the murders directly. Steve explains that Amy is being targeted and names Rob Kenna as the man trying to kill her on the orders of François Loubet. Steve also reveals that he has already gone to the golf club and seen Kenna there in person, playing with an older Cockney man. Steve chose not to confront Kenna publicly, preferring to wait and handle the situation more carefully.

When Adam asks where François Loubet is, Steve corrects him: the real mystery is not Loubet's location but Loubet's identity. That shift shows Steve's current line of thinking in the investigation, because he now believes uncovering who Loubet really is matters more than simply finding a named suspect. After that, the conversation lapses back into silence, and Steve thinks about raising the subject of Debbie but cannot bring himself to do it.

As Adam prepares to go to bed, both men avoid an emotional goodbye by keeping the exchange light. Steve suddenly reaches back to an old memory and mentions Adam's childhood love of dinosaurs, which briefly creates a warmer connection between them. The moment remains fragile, however, and Steve ends by asking Adam an awkward practical question about what to wear in a sauna. Adam answers plainly, and the chapter closes with the two men still distant but having managed a small, tentative step toward speaking more openly.