Driving back into Lee County, Demon recalls past fights with Angus and the hardships tied to this road. He visits Coach’s new, tidy apartment, noting Coach’s sobriety, retirement, and the plan to sell the old house. Over coffee, Coach reminisces about former players while Demon silently tallies the dead and damaged. Demon also learns U-Haul skated embezzlement charges with fines and probation.

Demon goes to the mansion where Angus is clearing out the place to sell. Initial banter and old irritations flare as Demon questions why she once let him think she was a boy; Angus explains the survival logic of that home and her lack of agency. They cool down, and he apologizes for past insensitivities. Demon receives a message that Annie has delivered a baby, Woodie Guthrie Amato Armstrong.

Working through Coach’s paperwork, Angus shares she’s training to be a social worker via a nonresidency program, intends to focus on kids with incarcerated or abusive parents, and plans to stay local. Demon admits he struggles to picture himself staying. He draws a heart on Angus’s palm, signaling his long-standing feelings and shifting their old no-touch rule.

Outside, amid cold and light snow, they reminisce about the Christmas “magic” Demon once created and the ship-in-a-bottle he kept. Angus then offers an unwrapped gift: the ocean. She proposes a spontaneous winter trip to the Atlantic, touting off-season perks and oysters “like kissing the ocean,” and their flirting underlines a new intimacy.

They collect Angus’s things from Coach’s apartment, take Demon’s Beretta, and head east. As snow falls and night gathers, Demon relaxes into the ride, touching the back of Angus’s neck and accepting that she is no longer just a sister figure. They pass Richmond, aiming for the ocean—the one vast thing he believes won’t swallow him.