Jet and Billy, stuck rewatching uploaded Village Trustee Zoom meetings, complain about how mind-numbing the videos are while searching for the old “cat filter” incident. They jump back through recordings from early 2025 into late 2024, scanning for anything that might connect to Jet’s case.

In the November 2024 meeting, an anonymous citizen comment appears under the name “Anon.” A creepy cat-face filter and voice changer mask the caller, and the room initially laughs, assuming it is a prank. The caller refuses to disable the filter and says they are addressing Dianne Mason specifically about Mason Construction, accusing the company of “stealing” homes through predatory offers and demanding Dianne “pull out of the sale.”

The tone turns threatening when the masked caller claims to know Dianne’s secret, adding that Dianne’s dead daughter, Emily, knew it too. Dianne panics, orders Milly to remove the caller, rushes to intervene herself, and the caller vanishes mid-threat (“Or I’ll tell—”). Dianne returns to the table, forcing an unnaturally bright laugh and insisting it was “teenagers and their pranks,” while the room awkwardly moves on.

Jet and Billy replay the moment and analyze the caller’s environment. Jet zooms into a window behind the caller and uses the reflection of the laptop—seemingly a rose-gold MacBook Air—and the faint outside view to locate the room. As the caller shifts and blocks the screen reflection, Jet boosts brightness and recognizes the view: the corner of River Street where Jet’s phone last pinged, meaning the caller was filming from the North Street house that used to belong to Andrew Smith.

Jet and Billy conclude the masked “cat” was Andrew Smith’s daughter, Nina, trying to stop the sale of her family home to Luke. They connect this to Andrew’s claim that Dianne got Nina fired from the hotel, interpreting it as punishment or an attempt to silence her, and they infer the secret Nina threatened to reveal was likely real. Jet decides they need proof of “Emily’s secret,” and since Nina died only a year ago, Jet and Billy consider getting Nina’s devices from Andrew downstairs at Billy’s bar.