Griffiths and Antonucci drive Ariel to an undisclosed location, refusing to tell her where John is. Ariel is alarmed when Griffiths orders her to hide on the floor of the car.

The point of view switches to John, still at the airport. He watched Ariel’s ordeal from a distance. He prepares for his own departure, purchasing a burner cell phone.

Ariel arrives at a CIA safe house where Griffiths launches into an interrogation. She asks Ariel how she and John met: Ariel describes a chance meeting at her bookstore, followed by another meeting at a grocery store where John asked her on a date. Griffiths asks if she knew about John’s prior drug arrests or that his sister is a survivor of multiple suicide attempts. Ariel is emotional at these revelations, which are new to her. Griffiths asks why John stopped calling his sister three months earlier and finally asks the key question: whether John knows who George’s father is. Griffiths assumes he was conceived as a result of Ariel’s rape.

Instead of revealing Ariel’s answer, the narrative turns to her past when she explains to her lawyer that she will not terminate her pregnancy as a condition of her settlement with Wolfe.