Alice shows Hayden her sister Audrey’s minimalist childhood room and then her own cluttered, neon-influenced room, reflecting on past tastes and memories. Hayden leafs through a family photo book Audrey had made, and a picture of Alice in the garden triggers Alice’s sensory memory of working with her father while Cosmo Sinclair played, linking present feelings to past warmth.

Moved, Hayden hugs Alice without explanation, which Alice takes as a clear sign of mutual affection. They hold hands on an evening walk down the country road, and Alice recognizes she is falling in love with Hayden without fear.

Back in the kitchen, Alice and Hayden help Angela cook in near-silent companionship while Alice plays a playlist featuring Cosmo Sinclair. The music jolts Angela, and Alice realizes her father used to choose their cooking soundtrack, suggesting Angela may have cooked in silence since his death.

As they prepare salad and roast carrots, Angela begins humming along to a Cosmo love song, which makes Alice tear up, thinking both of her parents and of Margaret Ives’s public heartbreak memorialized in similar music. Hayden quietly checks on Alice, who deflects by blaming onions.

Over dinner, Angela drinks wine and, more openly than usual, tells how she initially “hated” Alice’s father, finding him silly amid their serious farming commune. She describes his constant, off-key singing and admits she underestimated his joy and softness, later realizing he was smarter than she was. Alice fills in lines her father would have added, showing familial ritual around this story.

When Alice reaches out to touch Angela’s arm, Angela briefly accepts the touch but then withdraws, steering the conversation to dessert, signaling the limits of her comfort with sustained vulnerability.