Rhea Calder returns to Calder Estate but is stopped at the gate. A guard and onlookers refuse her entry, call her an ex-con and mock her, forcing her to read the sign and confirm her name. Nico urges her to go home, but staff sneer they didn't get her out just to have her waltz back in. Insults escalate—accusations she lost herself over a man—and she's publicly humiliated and denied access. One man snarls, "I'll deal with him later," leaving Rhea shut out and a confrontation with that man looming.