As the family approaches the beach, Raff immediately understands that Fen has made the bonfire too large and that she is burning Claire’s things. He tries to warn Dominic before Dominic sees the fire’s contents, but Dominic only understands when Fen throws another book into the flames. Dominic lunges forward to save it, catches his sleeve on fire, and Rowan quickly uses her jacket to smother the flames.

When Dominic asks why she did it, Fen says she wanted to free him. Instead of relief, Dominic feels devastated and tells Fen he did not know she had such cruelty in her. The accusation crushes Fen, and Dominic collapses to the sand and weeps openly in a way Raff has never witnessed, not even after Claire’s death.

Rowan takes control of the immediate crisis by sending Fen, Raff, and Orly back to the boathouse. In front of the children, Rowan then crouches behind Dominic, wraps her arms around him, and comforts him physically while Dominic allows it. The intimacy shocks Raff and the younger children, deepening the sense that the family’s balance has shifted.

At the boathouse, Raff makes sure Fen and Orly are settled with food and that Fen is calm enough to read to Orly. Once Raff knows the younger children are safe, Raff leaves alone, unable to contain mounting anger. Raff refuses to look at Dominic on the beach or at the body hanging near the fuel tanks and instead climbs past the lighthouse to the communications building.

There, Raff’s anger only sharpens. Raff blames Fen for the fire, Dominic for letting the family deteriorate to this point, and himself for never being able to save anyone. In that rage, Raff smashes the hydrophone Dominic once saved up to give him, the instrument that had brought Raff joy and connected him to Alex. Later, Raff is grateful the violin was not there too, and Raff accepts Rowan’s unspoken point: Raff cannot keep going like this and must find another way forward.