Elliot tells the reader that after he developed his plan, he explained it to Lana. Back in the past, he tells her that Jason and Kate’s relationship will crack under the pressure of her murder and that she will get her revenge. They decide to stage the shooting and enlist Leo’s help, even though they both doubt his ability to execute the scene. They decide not to tell Agathi and Nikos. Elliot doesn’t share his full plan with her, however.

The night of the murder, Elliot meets Lana at the ruin with a shotgun. He fires it in the air three times while Lana applies fake blood and stage makeup. Elliot wraps Kate’s red shawl around her and then leaves the scene, dropping the shotgun into the rosemary bush. When the others arrive, he follows Leo and is shocked both by the boy’s acting and by how real it all seems. He realizes now that he forgot to consider how unpredictable people can be during a traumatic event.