Donald uses an old schematic and his recovering memories to identify the correct facility as Silo 2, where he believes Helen was sent. While Anna showers and gets ready for Victor's funeral, Donald works through the silo records, relearning how to search the database and scrolling through the first generation's names and photographs.

Donald searches desperately for Helen under several possible names, trying family names and even names they once discussed for future children. The process unsettles him because the stranger's faces begin to blur his memory of Helen, and Anna's nearby presence complicates his grief; Donald feels physical desire for Anna, then reacts with guilt and reasserts his loyalty to his missing wife.

Acting on a sudden association with loyalty, Donald searches for the name "Karma," the name of his and Helen's dog. The search returns a single result: Karma Brewer. When Donald opens the file, he recognizes Helen in the badge photo and realizes she had lived inside Silo 2 under that name, holding jobs including teacher, school master, and judge.

Donald then reads further and learns that Helen lived to eighty-two. The record says she was survived by her husband, Rick Brewer, and two children, Athena and Mars. That revelation devastates Donald, because Helen not only lived a full life without him but married his best friend and had a family.

Anna comes up behind Donald and gently urges him to stop and leave for the funeral, but Donald continues opening the files of Helen's descendants. Seeing their daughter and later generations, with traces of Helen's face but none of his own features, breaks him completely. He sobs that they are "a hundred years too late," grasping the full emotional cost of what was taken from him.