Elizabeth brings Tia to meet an unnamed senior man and pushes for Tia to be given a chance despite Tia’s criminal record. The man asks about prison and whether Tia has stayed out of trouble since her release. Elizabeth bluntly admits that Tia did recently rob a warehouse at gunpoint, but insists that apart from that Tia has behaved well.

When the man asks why Tia deserves consideration, Elizabeth explains that Tia solved something Elizabeth herself had missed. Elizabeth argues that Tia’s life might have been very different if she had been born into the same advantages as the man, so she should be given that opportunity now. The man worries that Tia is too young, but Elizabeth reframes the idea as training and even suggests sending Tia somewhere with a gun.

The man says any role would have to be unofficial because Tia’s prison sentence rules out formal recruitment. Elizabeth likes that idea, and Tia asks the most direct question: what the job actually is. The man jokes that after forty years he still asks himself that, and says it is legal about eighty per cent of the time.

After Elizabeth presses him for a decision, the man admits the idea is irregular. Elizabeth says that suits them all perfectly, and the man confirms he is in a position to make such arrangements. He then tests Tia with a practical offer: if he sent her to Belize for three months, what would she say? Tia answers immediately that she wants to know where Belize is and when she should leave, showing she is ready to take the chance.