Two days earlier, Miss Frask is timing her typing speed when Madeline arrives with an envelope for Wakely. Noticing Madeline’s features, Frask connects her to Calvin Evans and Elizabeth Zott. Over cookies, Frask reminisces about Calvin’s fame and the couple’s love, trying to comfort the curious child.

Pressed for the truth, Frask first softens events, then admits Elizabeth was fired from Hastings because she was pregnant. Madeline breaks down, then composes herself long enough to hand Frask an unsealed envelope for Elizabeth. Frask opens it, reads Roth’s latest piece about women in science, and is struck by its credibility and scope.

Galvanized, Frask types an angry letter to Life, calling its Elizabeth Zott cover story a lie, confessing her own complicity, and detailing Donatti’s theft of funding and research and his lies to investors. The letter appears in the very next issue, alongside many protests from women nationwide supporting Elizabeth.

At home, Harriet urges Elizabeth to read the supportive letters and mentions Roth’s unpublished science feature, but Elizabeth, feeling branded by Life’s misrepresentation, refuses and heads to work. Harriet later finds Elizabeth’s bleak lunch note and sees signs of deepening depression, blaming Life’s use of quotes from Donatti and Meyers. As Mad worries too, Harriet reconsiders the idea that no one cares about women in science and suddenly forms a plan.