Detective Garrison visits Blake in the evening and reveals that Herb Zimmerly’s autopsy showed death by blunt force trauma, with traces of Zimmerly’s blood found on an antique clock from his mantel. Blake, dizzy from drinking, denies seeing anything and claims he was at work the day after Zimmerly died, learning the death occurred the previous night.

Garrison presses Blake about whether Zimmerly had enemies and about Blake’s own relationship with him, bringing up their recent argument and asking if Blake threw a trash can at Zimmerly. Blake admits the confrontation happened, blaming personal stress. The detective asks Blake to come to the station for an official statement and to give fingerprints “to rule him out,” but Blake, wary and intoxicated, declines.

After Garrison leaves, Blake disposes of a bloody paper towel and checks the kitchen, discovering an empty space where the couple’s flea-market antique clock used to sit. He realizes the murder weapon matches their missing clock and worries it bears his fingerprints. He returns to the living room and confirms the stain beneath the rug is reddish and not wine by sight and smell.

Whitney enters the brownstone, sees Blake at the floor, and mocks him. When Blake confronts her about the stain, she dismisses him, then reveals a detective spoke to her that morning; she told him that Zimmerly was not Blake’s favorite person. She further accuses Blake of anger issues, paranoia, and wandering the house at all hours, implying he could be dangerous.

Blake, shaken by Whitney’s insinuations and his own intrusive thoughts, recalls a psychic’s prior warning about violence in the living room and momentarily fears what he might be capable of. To avoid an escalation, he retreats upstairs, leaving Whitney downstairs and the bloodlike stain unresolved.