Nora records a hotel-suite podcast with Marcelo, while Joanna manages the room. Marcelo asks about the album Pottersville, authorship of lyrics, and singles like Feathers and Stay Out Of My Life. Pressed about a restraining order against Dan, Nora offers guarded answers and tries to embody this rock-star life.

The conversation shifts to Howl, written after firing a manager who stole from her. Marcelo praises the cathartic rage of the song and recounts Nora’s public ordeals—stalkers, lawsuits, rehab, exhaustion—then asks why the press targets her.

Nora reflects on alternate paths and the inevitability of sadness within any life, articulating a philosophy of variations without guarantees. Marcelo notes her choice to play Bridge Over Troubled Water instead of Howl onstage and asks where she feels at home; Nora says London.

Marcelo gently references Nora sharing a flat with her brother, prompting confusion. Joanna suggests everyone still “feels” him, then Marcelo states Joe died two years earlier from an overdose. Shocked, Nora reels at this life’s reality.

Nora flees to the bar and asks Ravi about Joe “schmoozing the media.” Ravi clarifies he meant Joanna (“Jo”). Realizing her brother is dead in this life, Nora is overwhelmed as the hotel scene dissolves, signaling her exit from this version of existence.