Back at the porch table, Mia notices the photo of Adam’s notebook set before her. Hannah (Mom) shares a scan from the green notebook found in Adam’s backpack. The page shows Adam trying to define happiness—micro (momentary pleasure) versus macro (life satisfaction)—and debating Angelman syndrome gene therapy, noting Eugene’s micro happiness but macro limits, and comparing Mia’s and John’s differing outlooks.

Stung by Adam’s comparisons, Mia wonders if Eugene might already be in a therapy study; Hannah denies any enrollment. Detective Morgan Janus returns, promises more scans, and begins sharing new evidence. Eight months earlier Adam created a new checking account and moved $20,000 into it. Around the same time, Adam began frequent daily calls and texts with a woman named Anjeli Rapari.

Janus plays a retrieved voicemail from Anjeli, recorded the night before Adam disappeared, urging Adam to stop sneaking, to tell Hannah, and rejecting a “plan” she finds wrong and hurtful. The family is shaken; Anjeli’s phone is off, and neighbors haven’t seen her recently, complicating contact. Janus suggests the evidence could indicate a voluntary disappearance.

John and Mia reject the idea that Adam would abandon Eugene. As doubts surface, Janus receives an alert: a $1,000 cash withdrawal from the joint account at a convenience-store ATM 50 miles south, 30 minutes earlier. The detective refers to a “potential suspect,” raising the possibility that someone else used Adam’s card and PIN.

Mia’s initial, fearful wish that Adam not be the one withdrawing money leads to a surge of shame; she realizes she wants Adam alive regardless of his failings. The new financial activity forces the family to confront two paths—Adam’s voluntary flight with Anjeli or a crime involving his wallet—while Mia briefly reflects on how rarely stories frame adult men as kidnap victims.