Avery enters the Heights Country Day archive, an ornate library-like room with specialized tables and magnifying glasses. An auburn-haired girl is reading there, but Avery sits apart from her and focuses on the letters from Tobias Hawthorne.

Avery compares Jameson’s letter with her own and fixates on the middle name “Tattersall,” which Xander has just said Tobias was not born with. When Avery asks Alisa whether the name issue could invalidate the will, Alisa immediately replies that Tobias legally changed his name years earlier, meaning the inheritance terms remain secure.

Using the archive’s magnifying equipment, Avery studies Tobias’s signature and notices an unusual space in “Tattersall,” making it look like “Tatters all.” Avery wonders whether Tobias chose the name as a clue about leaving his family in tatters. When Avery looks up, the auburn-haired girl has disappeared, and Avery texts Alisa to ask when Tobias changed his name.

Instead of Alisa, Jameson texts Avery, implying that Jameson has also noticed something important. Avery assumes Jameson means the middle name, but Jameson directs Avery to the letter’s sign-off: “Don’t judge.” Avery rereads Jameson’s entire letter and realizes that nearly every line is a proverb or variation on one.

Because “Don’t judge” appears to be the only incomplete proverb, Avery completes it as “Don’t judge a book by its cover” and asks Jameson whether that means anything to him. Jameson confirms immediately that it does, suggesting the next clue is connected to a book or its cover.