Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of bullying, racism, rape, death by suicide, and suicidal ideation.

Inside the garage, Hosea tells Charlie that the land they’re on first belonged to his great-grandfather. He built the first house on it. The house was small, so his wife, Hosea’s great-grandmother, taught him to strive for something bigger.

Vivian enters the garage and asks Charlie, Hosea, and the sons about the purpose of the work. Herald wants to communicate with ancestors, Tau wants to empower Black people, Hosea wants to heal Black consciousness, and Charlie wants to build a relationship with his daughter. Sailor enters the garage. He wants to help so planes can fly across Alabama. To get the machine running at maximum force, Charlie believes they’d have to cut out a piece of the sun.

Tau brings up Elizabeth and claims white women are always undercutting Black men. Yet Tau doesn’t hate white people: He’s angry at the world for allowing their racism to persist. Sailor asks about the future. Herald mentions the trade routes they’ve created with countries like Cuba and Haiti. Sailor thinks countries will try to invade the United States and curtail the healing of Black people. Herald notes that there’s no such thing as a perfect circle since pi, the equation for a circle’s circumference, continues indefinitely.