Detective Ramirez drives Millie Calloway to the Manhattan police station, making small talk that Millie interprets as probing. At the station, Millie sees Brock waiting and immediately asks to speak with him privately before any questioning.

Millie is placed alone in a small interrogation room, and the isolation triggers mounting panic. After nearly forty minutes, Brock finally enters, looking tense and concerned.

Brock tells Millie he has spoken with Detective Ramirez and that this is not routine: the police consider Millie a serious suspect in Douglas Garrick’s murder. Brock adds that detectives have a warrant and are currently searching Millie’s apartment.

Realizing her background could be driving suspicion, Millie confesses to Brock that she has a prison record for murder from her teenage years, insisting it was self-defense while stopping an attack on a friend. Brock is stunned and skeptical, but he refocuses on the present case and asks why police would think she killed Douglas.

Millie avoids describing what happened the night before and instead gives Brock a careful timeline: she finished her work, left the Garricks’ apartment while Douglas was not there, and went straight home. Brock concludes the police may be pressuring her due to her record and assures her they will work through it, though Millie remains frightened.