At a tense family confrontation someone demands the truth: a woman confesses their grandmother ordered children to push someone into the pond to drown. She explains Natalia arrived with a huge fish to scare them and Mia fell in by accident. Relatives turn on Xenia, calling her wicked for involving grandchildren and harming a child. Xenia protests she only doubted Natalia’s origins and blames a misunderstanding by Xavier. Beverly—insisting Natalia is her only biological granddaughter—cuts Xenia off, ordering her away from Natalia’s homecoming. Xenia’s allegation that Natalia’s identity is “fishy” hangs unresolved.