As Frask escorts Donatti out, Elizabeth faces Avery Parker and Wilson from the Parker Foundation. Wilson praises Elizabeth’s past abiogenesis work, notes the foundation first came to Hastings for her and Calvin Evans, and casually mentions no one knows where Calvin’s work went. A flash of his cuff link jolts Elizabeth, recalling Calvin’s letter about a rich man visiting the boys’ home.

Elizabeth presses Wilson about supplying textbooks to a Catholic boys’ home in Sioux City, Iowa—All Saints—and the room goes quiet. Convinced the job offer masks a plan to seize Calvin’s boxes, she suspects they will leverage a blood relative to claim the research.

Parker dismisses Wilson to speak privately. Elizabeth probes whether Wilson has children; Parker says no and explains her own lack of control: despite owning the foundation, a trustee arrangement gives Wilson the financial reins. Parker insists Wilson is decent but acknowledges the system’s constraints.

Elizabeth accuses them of wanting the boxes and demands answers about All Saints and any tie between Wilson and Calvin. Parker, wanting first to understand Elizabeth, instead tells a story: at seventeen she was sent to a Catholic home for unwed mothers, refused to relinquish her baby, was isolated in labor, anesthetized, and falsely told the baby was stillborn. Years later a nurse revealed the infant was adopted; after the adoptive parents and an aunt died, the child was sent to All Saints.

Parker then reveals the truth: she is Calvin Evans’s biological mother and asks permission to meet Madeline. Elizabeth is stunned, and the offer to return to Hastings is suddenly entangled with Calvin’s origins, the fate of his missing research, and a new familial connection.