After someone reveals they mixed an anti-inflammatory with sleeping pills and fears a medical accident, Clare wakes confused from fainting. Axel sends Emma home and promises to protect Clare, but she confronts him: "you once loved me like your life... you've hurt me this much for the one who tried to kill me." Axel notes there are only two letters left, raising the stakes. Clare then receives a call that graves must be relocated due to landslides; at the cemetery she collects her mother’s ashes and signs transfer papers. When an attendant asks, "Why are you here?" Clare faces an immediate, unresolved choice.