Aly finishes masturbating to the video the Faceless Man left, fantasizing about him while staring at the mask he abandoned on her bed. She climaxes hard, then is hit with the realization that she has destroyed potential evidence and could not credibly explain the situation to police, especially since she had publicly begged in comments for exactly this scenario.

She reflects on how trauma nursing has numbed her, killed her interest in vanilla sex, and isolated her from anyone outside first responder circles. After cleaning up, she lets her cat Fred out of the bathroom, clears the house again with her gun drawn, and then notices new messages on her phone: Sleep tight. Alyssa. The use of her full name—never posted online—rattles her, confirming he knows far more about her than her username.

Aly barricades herself in her bedroom with Fred, a baseball bat, and her gun, and surprisingly sleeps deeply for ten hours. The next morning, over coffee, she oscillates between terror and arousal, plans to buy cameras and an alarm at the gun store, and tries to puzzle out how he got in—no forced entry, all locks intact—and whether the power outage was coincidence or a hack.

Suspecting hacking, Aly remembers Tyler's roommate Josh, a reclusive cybersecurity expert she once met and found strikingly attractive. She considers asking Tyler to connect her with Josh, offering to pay him to track down the Faceless Man, unaware that Josh is the Faceless Man. She avoids her phone to resist rewatching the video and goes to find her laptop instead.