On Tuesday night, Alice reviews her notes from a garden session with Margaret and supplements them with research. She reflects that the public record from the 1960s never mentioned the extortion or diner meeting and that Laura was assumed to have flipped due to privilege, not that she actively set up David Atwood. Alice studies a New York Times front-page photo from the trial and recognizes a partially visible man, then confirms via courtroom sketches and captions that he is Dr. Cecil Willoughby, who testified about Laura’s medical condition during the People’s Moment Plot.

Alice realizes she has seen Dr. Willoughby elsewhere: in the hospital press conference announcing Cosmo Sinclair’s death. She links Dr. Cecil Willoughby to Captain Cecil Wainwright, the eccentric islander who owns Fish Bowl and has shown outsized interest in Alice and Hayden. Stunned, Alice texts Hayden, who replies that he knows and is coming over.

Over coffee, Alice and Hayden discuss the implications. They agree the coincidence seems too large to be accidental and wonder whether Margaret and Cecil know about each other’s presence on the island. Hayden says Margaret has been evasive during their sessions, open about trivialities but guarded about herself, and sometimes cancels unexpectedly. Alice suggests Margaret might be ill and that Cecil, a doctor she trusts, could be caring for her, but Hayden questions why this would be hidden given their NDAs.

Alice proposes asking Margaret directly about Cecil. Hayden worries it could jeopardize the nearly finished project, but Alice insists that honesty is necessary to continue. They agree to confront Margaret together.

That night, Alice and Hayden’s conversation gives way to intimacy. They explicitly affirm wanting “just us” for the evening and consummate their relationship, exchanging declarations of love and deciding Alice will stay the night. They postpone eating and any further investigation, implicitly setting the confrontation with Margaret for the following day.