Leo leaves work early on a Monday afternoon, telling his office manager Kath he'll work from home after a site meeting. He feels uneasy about whether he needs Lilith's permission, reflecting on the blurred lines of his workplace dynamics. At the site meeting, he had mentioned the psychic's prediction that he would die in a workplace accident at forty-three, which captivated his colleagues and prompted jokes about avoiding him and suggestions that he quit work for a year.

Driving home, Leo reflects on his life in Coogee—the beach he never visits, the coastal garden that makes him miss Tasmania's green landscapes, his mother in Hobart he can't find time to see, and the crushing mortgage on their modern house. He even briefly considers that a worker's compensation payout from a workplace death could pay off the mortgage for Neve.

At home, Leo startles Neve, who falls off her chair. Their conversation turns serious when Neve asks whether he was fired—and seems almost hopeful. Leo presses her on whether she wants him to leave work because of the psychic's prediction, because she hates Lilith, or because she thinks he's a workaholic. Neve admits it's all three. Their discussion is interrupted by Lilith calling repeatedly, then texting "CALL ME ASAP." When Leo answers, Lilith passive-aggressively checks on him, mentions cost overruns, and comments on him spending time with Neve mid-day. Neve calls the relationship abusive.

Neve tells Leo she doesn't think he enjoys his work or even his life anymore, that he lives in a "constant state of terror," and that Lilith has consumed him so completely there's nothing left for his family. Leo struggles to respond, especially when Neve partially withdraws her comments. She then poses a hypothetical: if he had six months to live and money was no object, what would he do?

Leo answers honestly—he'd resign, hang out with Neve and the kids, visit his mother and sisters, move back to Tasmania, take his son on the Bay of Fires walk, take his daughter to a Melbourne musical, and go on a European river cruise. He almost mentions calling someone before stopping himself. Neve says she knows who it is and offers to give him the number, but Leo refuses, insisting it was hypothetical. Neve passionately declares they should do everything he listed, poking him in the chest and insisting "Yes. We. Can."