After the pool party, Teddy goes upstairs for Quiet Time while Mallory stays in the den, trying not to think about what he might be doing. Later, Mallory takes Teddy on a long walk through the neighborhood paths and tries to distract him with a story, but Teddy is preoccupied with spirit boards. Teddy keeps asking how they work, whether they can contact any dead person, and whether one can be bought or made, which convinces Mallory that the failed séance has only deepened his interest.

When Mallory returns home from a long run that evening, Ted and Caroline are waiting for her on the porch. Caroline has found a new drawing by Teddy that depicts Mallory and Mitzi using a spirit board, and she is furious that Mallory left Teddy with the neighbor while attempting a séance. Mallory takes the drawing as proof that Anya was present and leads the Maxwells into her cottage, where she lays out the earlier disturbing drawings. Mallory explains that Teddy made them while in a trance, captured on a hidden baby monitor, and argues that Annie Barrett is using Teddy's body to communicate.

Ted and Caroline do not accept Mallory's supernatural explanation. Ted insists that ghosts are not real and asks Mallory to focus on facts, while Caroline's attention shifts to Teddy's blank sketch pad in Mallory's cottage, suggesting she suspects Mallory may have made the drawings herself, especially given Mallory's history of memory lapses. To prove her case, Mallory insists they ask Teddy directly.

Upstairs, the three adults confront Teddy in his bedroom. Teddy says he did not draw the pictures, but when Caroline asks whether Anya helped him, Teddy says Anya is only make-believe and could not draw real pictures. Mallory tries to point to the strange bad smell in the room as evidence that something is wrong, but both parents say they smell nothing. Pressured by the conversation, Teddy breaks down crying and repeats that Anya is not real, and Caroline ends the discussion and sends Mallory away.

On the way out, Mallory tells Ted that Teddy is lying to satisfy his parents and avoid trouble. Ted replies that Teddy may instead be afraid of Mallory. He says they are not firing her and that everyone should cool off, then he hugs Mallory and reassures her that she is safe. What begins as comfort becomes physically unsettling to Mallory, and the moment ends only when Caroline comes down the hall, prompting Ted to pull away and Mallory to leave shaken and confused.