Tova spends the day executing a plan: she schedules a realtor’s walkthrough with Jessica Snell, then visits the bank for a cashier’s check and balance statements required by the Charter Village application. Reflecting on Lars’s depleted inheritance and Charter Village’s cost, Tova resolves to ignore town gossip and proceed.

She stops at Janice Kim’s to scan her driver’s license, politely sharing coffee, then drives to Elland for passport photos demanded by the application. Startled by the price, she nonetheless gathers the remaining pieces she needs.

At Fairview Memorial Park, Tova contemplates Will’s spare epitaph, resents the fussy, partly incorrect inscription on Erik’s stone, and notes the blank marker reserved for herself. Watching Mrs. Kretch and her great-granddaughter picnic and chat with their dead emboldens Tova to whisper to Will for the first time: she is selling the house.

After Jessica’s tour and supper, Tova assembles the paperwork but stalls at the instruction to use black ink. At Shop-Way, Ethan Mack banters, offers a pen, and worries that Charter Village isn’t right for her. Tova insists the move is practical, buys a better pen, and, amid shared emotion, accepts Ethan’s spontaneous invitation for tea; he gives her his phone number.

Past ten, Tova detours to the aquarium to “inform” Marcellus of her plans and to assess the facility in her absence. She notices a dilapidated camper, lets herself in, finds the place acceptably clean, and whispers to the exhibits as she approaches the octopus area. A light glows under the enclosure door—then a terrible clatter erupts inside.