The next morning, Ted apologizes for drunkenly showing up in Mallory's cottage, but Caroline insists on discussing the incident directly instead of ignoring it. Mallory minimizes what happened and does not reveal Ted's most invasive behavior because she does not want to worsen Caroline's distress. Caroline then explains that Ted's confidence is collapsing under a failing one-man business and midlife anxiety, which reframes his behavior as part of a larger family strain. When Teddy comes down, Caroline reveals that she has taken away his drawing supplies and replaced them with an iPad in hopes of interrupting the strange drawing episodes.

After Caroline leaves for work, Mallory immediately sees that the iPad is changing Teddy's behavior. Teddy becomes absorbed in Angry Birds, resists Mallory's attempts to redirect him, and spends their walk in the Enchanted Forest talking only about game mechanics instead of joining their usual imaginative play. At lunch, he again chooses the iPad for Quiet Time. While he is upstairs, Mallory calls Rest Haven and leaves a voicemail for Dolores Jean Campbell, hoping to confirm a link to Annie Barrett, but she has little confidence she will get an answer.

Feeling insecure about her place in the household, Mallory cleans obsessively and starts planning an ambitious surprise dinner for the Maxwells to prove her value. Instead, she accidentally falls asleep on the den sofa. She dreams of Storybook Land, first losing Teddy and then finding her dead sister Beth alive and reassuring her, which briefly relieves her guilt before Teddy wakes her. Mallory discovers that four hours have passed, the iPad battery is dead again, her own hands are covered in black graphite and soot, art supplies are scattered around her, and the den walls are covered floor to ceiling with dense drawings in the same style as the earlier Anya images.

Realizing Teddy could not physically have made the drawings, Mallory concludes that Anya used her body while she slept. Ted, Caroline, and Adrian arrive home just as she is trying to react. Mallory sends Teddy upstairs and tells the adults that Anya possessed her and drew on the walls through her, and Adrian initially comforts her and seems willing to believe her. Caroline, however, interprets the situation as a relapse or psychiatric episode and demands an immediate drug test. When Adrian defends Mallory, Caroline and Ted expose Mallory's history of addiction, rehab, and the halfway house, which destroys the false story Mallory had told Adrian about Penn State and causes him to leave, hurt and disgusted.

Caroline supervises Mallory's urine sample and runs a five-panel test, which comes back fully negative. Even with that proof, Caroline insists the drawings are not supernatural evidence but trauma art created by Mallory's own damaged mind, and she links the images to Beth's death, Mallory's grief, and Russell's role in her recovery. Mallory keeps insisting that Anya is real and that something dangerous is happening in the house, but the Maxwells stop engaging with her explanation. They focus instead on the fact that Mallory slept for four hours while Teddy was unattended, and they decide they can no longer trust her to care for their son, effectively firing her.