Mallory spends her weekends alone while the Maxwells take Teddy on family outings. To protect her sobriety, she avoids social media and tries to stay busy with chores, running, cooking, and church, but she feels isolated and is happiest when work resumes. On Monday morning, Caroline quietly tells Mallory that Teddy has been wetting the bed again, likely because of the stress of the move, and asks Mallory to move his sheets to the dryer without mentioning it to him.

Later, Mallory and Teddy spend the morning exploring the woods they call the Enchanted Forest. Teddy turns the hike into an elaborate fantasy about Prince Teddy and Princess Mallory trying to return to their royal family, showing how much he enjoys imaginative play and the privacy of the forest. After lunch, Teddy goes upstairs for Quiet Time, and while passing his room, Mallory overhears Teddy speaking in broken responses with long pauses, as if he is carrying on a conversation with someone else.

A call from the principal of Spring Brook Elementary interrupts Mallory before she can investigate. When Teddy comes downstairs, he brings a new drawing, and Mallory sees a man walking backward through a forest while dragging a woman’s dead body by the ankles under a moon and stars. Teddy explains that Anya “acts out” stories and he draws them, but he cannot identify the man or explain whether Anya was hurt.

Mallory is disturbed by both the drawing and Teddy’s casual amusement, but Teddy seems genuinely cheerful rather than frightened, which makes her hesitate to treat the situation as an immediate problem. When Mallory tries to file the drawing with Teddy’s other artwork for Caroline, Teddy stops her and says that Anya wants Mallory to keep this one. That detail makes the picture feel personal and unsettling instead of merely strange.

That night, Mallory buys a tablet so she can search online for Annie Barrett, hoping to connect Teddy’s drawings to the local story she heard, but she finds nothing useful. Alone in the cottage, bothered by moths at the window and by the image on her nightstand, she becomes increasingly unnerved by the drawing’s details. Russell then calls to check on her training and indirectly on her recovery, asking whether she has had any memory lapses or “glitches”; Mallory insists she is fine and says nothing about Anya, but the call underscores that she is hiding how disturbed she has become.