After finishing the latest section of Verity’s manuscript, Lowen is overwhelmed by horror and grief. She becomes convinced the manuscript is truthful because she cannot imagine a mother inventing such hatred toward her unborn daughters. That belief makes Lowen fear what Verity may have been capable of and wonder what really happened to the girls. She hides the manuscript in a drawer and decides Jeremy must never read it.

Shaken, Lowen goes to the kitchen looking for alcohol. Jeremy notices her distress, gives her a drink, and asks what happened. Lowen lies and says Verity’s writing simply scared her. While eating the dinner Jeremy made, Lowen asks whether Verity could ever fully recover. Jeremy explains that Verity’s brain injury left her with only basic reflexes and that doctors do not expect her to walk or talk again, though he still hopes therapy will help.

When Crew comes downstairs for bed, Lowen watches Jeremy’s warm, affectionate behavior with his son. That moment, combined with Jeremy’s description of Verity’s condition, briefly calms Lowen. She starts telling herself that Verity may have written the awful pregnancy confession as a release and may have later loved the twins deeply, especially since the couple eventually had Crew.

After dinner, Lowen studies family photographs in the hallway. She notices how beautiful the family looked and asks Jeremy to identify the twins. He tells her the smiling twin with the scar is Chastin and the other is Harper. When Lowen asks about the scar, Jeremy says Chastin was born with it. Lowen then clumsily asks whether both girls had the same allergy, revealing that she has been reading about Chastin’s death. Jeremy answers that only Chastin was allergic to peanuts.

The conversation turns intimate when Jeremy notices the scar on Lowen’s palm and gently asks how she got it. Lowen pulls away, unsettled by her reaction to his touch, and retreats to the bedroom. There she finds that Jeremy has installed the lock she wanted. Lowen then reveals the real reason she requested it: she has a history of sleepwalking and wanted a barrier to protect others from what she might do in her sleep. Remembering an old episode in which she woke with a broken wrist and blood on her after apparently locking herself in, Lowen ends the chapter disturbed not only by Verity, but also by her own unexplained past.