After exposing Alan's affair with Lisa—photos, flyers, banners and looping videos at Lisa's graduation—the narrator forces a confrontation: she demands Alan sign the divorce and stay away, even splashes coffee on his face, and then cries at her mother's grave. She vows to sabotage Lisa's exhibition, but Alan refuses. At city hall he signs but gives her only his family's old house; other assets cover losses she caused, and Lisa is credited with sparing her more. Her revenge backfires; she realizes she cannot beat Alan and is left with the house and an unresolved, humiliating defeat.