Ryan, now undercover and living in a tiny apartment, reminds himself of the rules of being undercover: Stay in character and never tell anyone anything. He has met his contact in the crime organization, a woman named Angela who goes by the name Nicola and introduces him as her cousin. On his first night, he boosts a luxury car, replates it, and drives it to the Liverpool port, delivering the keys to Ezra. He is in.

Jen lands in May 2021, the day her father died. As Todd and Kelly banter over breakfast, Jen sneaks a call to Andy Vettese. After initial questions to establish who she is, Andy suggests maybe Jen’s time loop is not about stopping the murder. He tells her whenever she contacts him to use a code, refer to his imaginary friend named “George,” and he will know who it is.

Jen drives to her father’s home. She knows that her father never liked Kelly and that, since their marriage and particularly after her mother’s death, she and her father have not been as close as they should have been. When she sees her father, a “very specific feeling […] of just-out-of-reach nostalgia” comes over her (238).