After her conversation with Jo, Katie decides she needs to make a commitment to her life in Southport. To this end, she decides she wants to get her driver’s license. Alex teaches Katie to drive after first asking how she plans to present the required documents to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Katie tells him that she has a safe social security number. If Kevin had figured it out, he would have already found her because she’s been using it at Ivan’s. Alex gives her a driving lesson and they go for breakfast afterward. Katie tells him more about the forwarded calls she took from Kevin on those first days in Philadelphia. “But you made it” (207), Alex tells her.

Kevin lies to Coffey about his trip with his wife to Provincetown. Kevin hates that he must lie about Erin’s absence and is afraid Coffey and Ramirez have figured it out and are talking about him behind his back. Kevin still spends his weekends searching for Erin, but he no longer knows where to look. He breaks some of her flowerpots and destroys the china they got for their wedding. His anger against Erin grows as he imagines her laughing at him behind his back.