Simon calls Sam seventy-two days after the shooting, urging decisions about reopening, schedules, and jobs. With Marx gone, Sam tries to channel Marx’s practicality. Sadie, pregnant and devastated, offers little guidance, and Sam’s insomnia and phantom pain worsen. Deciding to act, he goes to the Abbot Kinney office alone.

Sam steps over a public shrine and surveys the damage: a bullet hole in a wooden column and deep bloodstains where Marx fell. His attempts to clean the floor fail, so he lines up contractors. The insurance agent warns their policy likely won’t cover shooting damage, and the longtime accountant notes Unfair is cash-poor after purchasing the building. Sam confronts trashed Ichigo merchandise and recalls Sadie blaming him in the hospital.

On the phone, Sadie insists he be honest about the scene. They argue over whether refinishing the floor “erases” Marx, and Sadie suggests moving offices. Sam says finances and deadlines (CPH4, the Revels expansion) make that difficult. The exchange escalates; Sadie refuses to visit, tells him to handle it, and hangs up.

Charlotte Worth then calls, seeking a left-behind portfolio from a meeting with Marx; Sam, raw and overburdened, snaps and hangs up. A memory of Marx’s Macbeth ghost underscores absence that still shapes everything. When the floor contractor arrives and begins work, Sam avoids discussing the shooting and, facing the clean, round bullet hole, considers leaving that mark—an understated scar—as the company moves forward.