In 1965 New York, Moira returns to her small apartment above a lively club by climbing the back fire escape to avoid being seen. Inside, she is confronted at gunpoint by a man who quickly realizes it is her: Ernest.

Moira tells Ernest that Amelia is safe in the time space, then admits she killed Jack and also Fred, explaining Fred was going to kill Amelia. Ernest reacts with shock and frustration that this was not part of their plan, and Moira snaps that Ernest’s failure to tell her about Vasily Stepanov’s son nearly got someone killed. She explains Amelia ran into Anton in the time space while searching for the book, and Moira mistakenly assumed Anton was a threat until Amelia revealed Anton had the book. Ernest presses for details, notices blood on Moira’s shirt and a box of watches, and asks if something happened to James; Moira insists he sit and let her make coffee before she explains everything.

In the time space, Amelia and Anton walk through memories belonging to Ezekiel Levy, watching fragments of a life and the final memories of his daughter. The memories shift to a pivotal sequence: a younger Ernest meets Lisavet Levy for the first time as she kneels by a burning book, and Ernest tricks her and steals pages while leaving behind a blue book cover. Amelia and Anton continue through Ernest’s memories of falling in love with Lisavet, dancing in a New York club, time-walking together, Ernest lying to Jack and being caught, and finally the tense Swiss Alps hotel moment where Ernest begs Lisavet to leave with him.

Expecting the decision’s aftermath, Amelia instead finds herself in someone else’s memory: a young red-haired woman—Amelia’s mother—sobbing on a hospital bed beside a cradle holding a blue-lipped, lifeless baby. Amelia panics, and the memory abruptly freezes and then resumes altered: the baby is gone, the woman is asleep, and the room is quiet.

Lisavet appears in a nurse’s uniform holding a baby, and Amelia is startled by Lisavet’s resemblance to Moira. Azrael materializes and explains that Amelia is sliding between two versions of the same memory—one changed from what it was—because memories of the dead show only part of the truth. He tells Amelia she can reach “memories of the living” through temporal displacement, hinting that as a child born outside of Time, Amelia is not bound by normal constraints. Guided by Azrael’s instruction to listen to the whispers, Amelia takes Anton’s hand and the living memories begin to unfold.