At the hospital Mr. Zoller is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. He refuses treatment because revealing it would trigger layoffs at his factory and vows to disappear within seven days rather than "live like a zombie." Colleagues and Haley plead, and attention shifts to his wife Madelyn. In a confrontation—Madelyn pleading "Don't leave!"—Zoller admits twenty years of a loveless marriage: she never slept with him and forbade intimacy. Realizing she’s been waiting for another man, he decides to step aside; the episode ends as he moves to give Madelyn to Trenton while his plan to vanish remains unresolved.