Lucy returns from an evening with colleagues to a quiet domestic scene. Her partner sorts through old junk, says his "heart died inside long ago," and announces he'll give her a surprise in fifteen days. He has prepared a birthday feast; Lucy apologizes for losing track of time and promises to make it up, admitting they haven't been intimate and that past birthdays went to Andrew instead. The episode closes on a stinging rebuke—he tells her to shower because she smells—while the promised surprise and their growing distance remain unresolved.