During a quiet night at the Revelry with a Jimmy Buffett tribute band playing, Jo and Sebastian sit on the balcony sharing a burger and fries. Jo savors the safety and simplicity of home as she watches the small crowd, including Wyn and Rick slow dancing. Sebastian is surprised Jo prefers these intimate nights, and the two connect through their shared telepathic link about belonging and homesickness.

Sebastian admits he has never been homesick for a place because frequent moves with his mother made people, not locations, feel like home; after his mother died, that sense of home disappeared. He confesses that the stage once felt like his only place of belonging, though he resents how that echoes his father. Their banter softens the moment, but the conversation deepens when Sebastian wonders who he would have been without his father and the boy band.

He reveals he only met Roman Fell at thirteen, after discovering his birth certificate in his late mother’s safety deposit box. Social services brought him to Roman, who had been unaware of Sebastian’s existence. Angry at Roman’s absence and neglect of his mother, Sebastian vowed to make himself impossible to ignore, which led to joining Renegade at sixteen, rapid fame, excess, and public scandals.

Sebastian explains he kept up piano out of respect for his mother’s sacrifices but began chasing intensity to feel anything until his car wreck made him constant tabloid fodder. He clarifies he quit Renegade, then went to rehab and tried a solo album that failed and was pulled by the label, which taught him that people cared more about Roman’s name than Sebastian’s talent. Jo privately recognizes her own bias in seeing him primarily through his father.

Jo and Sebastian hold hands as she shares that music was her mother’s dream, too, and wonders if pursuing a dream can become hollow. When she asks his dream, he says he wants to start over, while his unguarded thoughts reveal his deeper drive to outgrow Roman’s shadow so his father cannot forget him or his mother. Jo realizes how much of Sebastian’s creation is tied to anger and grief.

Jo tells Sebastian she wants their song to be written for them, not for his father or anyone else, and that music should make them feel alive instead of small. Sebastian is startled and, through their link, silently rejects the idea that he is small. Jo tries to clarify she meant that his way of creating makes him feel small, not that he is, but the distinction hurts him.

Overwhelmed and unable to think privately due to their link, Sebastian stands and says he needs to leave, his thoughts racing toward needing space and possibly a drink. Jo insists she is not taking Roman’s side, but he withdraws, saying she did nothing wrong and that he just cannot think without her hearing. He leaves the balcony abruptly, and Jo fights tears as the moment ends.