Tova drives to Hamilton Park, remembering past picnics with Will and seeking relief from the silence at home. She settles in with a crossword under sudden summer heat, musing over clues tied to Blondie and Italian cars as the low tide laps the beach.

A cyclist arrives and struggles with the broken fountain. Tova offers him bottled water, and together they solve “Ettore” for Bugatti and “Debbie” for Blondie. When the man, Adam Wright, realizes she is Erik Sullivan’s mother, he offers condolences and quickly leaves, while Tova is left wishing she had asked him what he knew of Erik.

Back home on laundry day, Tova confronts Lars’s flannel robe from Charter Village, debating whether to keep or repurpose it, and recognizing how unlike others she is in attaching little comfort to such objects.

Sorting Lars’s photos, Tova files childhood images, discards unfamiliar ones from his later life, and keeps a single painful photo of Lars with teenage Erik on a sailboat. She recalls that Lars taught Erik every sailing trick—even how to leave an anchor rope cut clean—and hides the photo in a kitchen drawer, the memories reigniting her unresolved grief and questions.