Carl enters the trailer alone and finds his father in a hospital bed in the living room, awake and watching a Mariners game. The room has been rearranged around the bed, and purple allium curtains hang in the windows. Carl is shaken by the smell and by how emaciated and jaundiced his father looks, then realizes a small boy is in the hallway: Asher, clearly his father’s son.

Carl watches as his father orders Asher around, demanding cigarettes and berating him when he hesitates. Outside, Donut reports that a woman has appeared in the yard like a memory ghost but with clothing intact, and Carl deduces she is his stepmother. Carl loots items from the living room while studying photos that confirm the woman married his father and was pregnant, and that Asher is Carl’s younger brother. Carl feels the encounter is meant to break him by forcing a confrontation with his past.

The stepmother enters in nurse scrubs, crying and smelling of cigarettes, hiding something Carl cannot see because he already looted it. Carl checks the flowerpots he took earlier and understands the hidden items were morphine. Zev confirms this scene is a real recording up to the timer’s end, and Carl leans close to his father to speak unheard, telling him he is a bully, unloved, and insignificant, and that the dungeon’s producers misjudged what this would do to Carl.

Carl goes to Asher’s room while the stepmother returns to the living room and injects Carl’s father with a lethal dose of morphine. Carl apologizes to Asher for never knowing he existed and promises he will not be forgotten, though Carl’s hand passes through him. Carl loots the boy’s room sparingly, leaving a small box of Asher’s treasures, and notices Asher’s drawings of storms and destruction, realizing the boy fears lightning.

With minutes remaining, Carl avoids witnessing his father’s final moments and loots the master bedroom, taking cigarettes, a folder of court documents, a 9mm Glock with ammo, vehicle keys, furniture, and an old Centipede arcade cabinet. Near the end of the timer, Carl lights a cigarette, sets the allium curtains on fire, and tells the unseen watchers their attempt to hurt him failed. He rejoins Donut and Mongo outside; when the timer ends, Carl decides they will first watch the trailer burn down because it is too cramped inside for their totems, then proceed to face the keyholder.