Chapter 6 is told from the perspective of Sue O'Sullivan, a sixty-three-year-old emergency room nurse seated in the forward section of the plane. The mysterious woman has predicted that Sue will die of pancreatic cancer at age sixty-six. Sue, a seasoned ER professional accustomed to verbal abuse from patients, is shaken but tries to maintain composure. She reflects that she and her husband Max had planned to retire at sixty-six and travel Europe together, having just completed a successful camper van tour of Tasmania. The prediction feels like a cruel reminder that illness strikes people with plans.

Sue observes the woman continuing her predictions down the aisle—cardiac arrest at ninety-one, Alzheimer's at eighty-nine, drug-induced death at thirty-seven—with growing confidence. Sue stands on her seat to watch and mentally catalogs familiar passengers: a pregnant woman she helped at security, a tall young man she chatted with, a nervous first-time flyer named Kayla, and a woman in a sequined caftan who is told she'll live to ninety-four. Sue assesses the mysterious woman with her nurse's eye, noting dehydrated features, estimating early seventies, and finding no clear signs of dementia or substance abuse. The woman strikes her as ordinary and professional in demeanor.

Returning to her seat, Sue debates with Max about whether the woman could be a genuine psychic. Max, a self-employed plumber who needs problems he can fix, is visibly agitated despite insisting the prediction is nonsense. Sue recognizes his pattern: Max's worry always disguises itself as something else, a trait she has known since he brusquely asked her to a movie at a church youth group forty years ago, his unfriendly expression masking nervousness until she said yes and his dimples appeared. Sue reassures him by pointing to a river cruise advertisement in the in-flight magazine, and they begin planning European travel.

Max engages their seatmate, the civil engineer Leo Vodnik, who was predicted to die in a workplace accident at forty-three. Leo admits he turns forty-three in November and jokes about wearing his hard hat more often. Sue formally introduces herself and Max, and Leo apologizes for being poor company, explaining he missed his daughter's school musical due to the flight delay. Sue's maternal warmth toward him replaces her earlier annoyance. The chapter ends when a troubled young voice rises from the back of the plane reacting to a prediction, prompting Sue, Max, and Leo to reach for their call bells to alert the flight attendants.