While washing his wife Gina's underwear, a husband finds a burned, tobacco‑scented patch and grows suspicious. Gina texts that she'll work late at the animation studio, so he drives there, hides on the fire escape and watches her exit with Peter Lane, the married creative director; they kiss and taunt him — "Your husband's pretty clingy." He quietly photographs their intimacy as proof, recalls the savings he sacrificed for their home, and, feeling betrayed, vows a "huge surprise" that will use the evidence, leaving their marriage and Peter's standing in jeopardy.