This episode opens with Lynette confronting a family secret: Colette, once more talented at painting, was abducted and suffered a permanent hand injury the same night Lynette had a fever. Lynette apologizes to her father, who refuses to blame her; Lynette gives up the pen name Aerith for Colette. Ten years later Lynette studies a brutal painting of a carp—raw lines and bloodlike color—interpreting it as survival and resolving to "break free." Someone suddenly looks up and asks, "It's you?", leaving recognition and an uncertain choice unresolved.