Sue celebrates her sixty-fourth birthday surrounded by her family at the home in Summer Hill she shares with her husband Max. Despite being in excellent health—confirmed by her doctor Caterina, who insists Sue is not a candidate for pancreatic cancer—her family treats the occasion with the gravity of a wake. Everyone has brought elaborately wrapped gifts and heartfelt cards despite the family's no-gifts rule, and her sons and their partners insist that neither Sue nor Max lift a finger. Max, normally the energetic host, vibrates with barely concealed anxiety.

The mood shifts when Sue notices her two eldest sons, Callum and his brother, studying their phones with serious expressions. They reveal that a social media page has been set up by Eve and Paula ("the bride and the young mother") to gather information from passengers on the Hobart-to-Sydney flight and to trace the psychic. Sue reads through the posts with Max. One parent complains that his six-year-old son, told he'd live to ninety-four, now believes he's invincible and broke his arm doing parkour. Another woman—the "attractive brunette" in the leopard-print jumpsuit—wants to know her missing age of death. A woman named Philippa credits the Death Lady with inspiring her to leave her unhappy marriage and stressful job, now happily working at a garden center and playing pickleball.

The most sobering post comes from a man named Geoff, whose wife Sarah was told on the flight she'd die of breast cancer at thirty-seven. Though Sarah initially dismissed the prediction, she sought a mammogram after learning about the other deaths, and was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. Geoff is desperate because Sarah, influenced by the prediction and a friend's brutal treatment experience, refuses any invasive treatment, believing she'll die regardless. He pleads for help finding the Death Lady, hoping she'll tell Sarah she isn't one hundred percent accurate. He also asks whether anyone has outlived their prediction.

The family is shaken by the posts. Sue reflects on meeting Sarah in the security line and considers reaching out but dismisses the idea. Max, agitated, admits he sometimes wishes they'd never taken the trip to Tasmania. Sue reassures everyone she would never refuse treatment herself, though she realizes her comment may have made the situation worse. Her youngest son tells her she can't die first because Max wouldn't survive, but Sue gently insists Max would carry on, reflecting privately on how her grown sons haven't yet learned the fragility of life or accepted that death sits alongside everyone.