From his computer, Josh watches Aly grow distressingly hollow during her shift after her confrontation with Bradley Bluhm. He researches Brad and concludes the rapist needs to die. When Aly's mood worsens at shift's end, Josh abandons her requested space, texts her to take an Uber, dons a balaclava, and goes to her house, letting himself in with a copied key.

Forgetting his voice modulator, Josh lowers his voice as he greets Fred and brews tea and wine. He startles Aly out of the shower; she throws a hairbrush, and he scalds his hand with tea. As she tends his burn, she notices his blue contacts don't quite hide his brown eyes. She breaks down, and he pulls her into his arms.

Aly reveals the source of her trauma: at sixteen, she was driving when she panicked, hit the gas instead of the brake, and caused the crash that killed her mother, who was impaled by a pipe. A car accident victim that night resembled her mom and triggered her. Josh, channeling his own therapy, insists the accident wasn't solely her fault and that her mother would not want her self-punishing through grueling shifts.

Josh reveals he too took two weeks off so they can spend time together. He confirms Brad's family has long covered up his crimes, validating Aly's instincts. Aly confesses she wanted to kill Brad and felt unhinged; Josh admits feeling the same, briefly worrying about his paternal legacy.

Aly shifts the mood, opening her robe and demanding Josh not hold back this time, asking to be used and taken into the darkness with no safe words. Josh's playful demeanor drops away into something colder and dominant. He throws her on the bed, retrieves his knife, stabs it into the mattress corner, and orders her to come ride it.