Millie keeps Cecelia’s warning to herself, afraid that speaking about the “slam dunk” evidence will make Enzo’s looming arrest feel inevitable. As Enzo helps set the table, Millie repeatedly tries to bring it up but cannot.

When Nico and Ada return home, Millie and Enzo deliberately act as if everything is normal despite the police having ransacked the house. Clinging to routine feels urgent, and Enzo even gets Nico outside to play baseball for the first time since the Little League incident.

That night, Enzo takes an unusually long time with bedtime. Millie goes to Nico’s room and finds Nico awake, reading, beside the now-empty enclosure where Little Kiwi used to be.

After insisting on bedtime, Millie sits with Nico as Nico asks whether doing a very bad thing makes someone a bad person. Drawing on her own hidden past, Millie tells Nico that people can do bad things and still be good if they acted for the right reason, offering a mild example about lying to spare someone’s feelings.

Nico says that kind of lie is not “really bad,” which alarms Millie and makes her suspect Nico has something specific to confess. Before Millie can press him, Enzo knocks and comes in to take his turn saying good night, leaving Nico’s question unresolved.