Avery enters the wine cellar with Jameson and Grayson, and the setting pulls her back to the night of the cocktail party. She remembers Grayson saving a little girl from the pool, then disappearing down the same stairs after the girl’s grandfather said Tobias Hawthorne would have been proud of him.

In the memory, Avery finds Grayson drinking alone in the tasting room. Grayson admits that praise for saving the child only deepened his pain because he believes he failed where it mattered: he did not save Emily, and he froze when Avery was injured by the bomb.

Grayson confesses that after the bombing, he hallucinated Emily’s voice for weeks and believes he is broken. Avery tries to reassure him that he is enough, but Grayson insists it will never be enough, a statement Avery understands as meaning that whatever might have existed between them cannot be restored.

Back in the present, Avery forces herself to focus on Tobias Hawthorne’s game rather than the unresolved weight between Grayson, Jameson, and herself. Grayson directs the group into the interconnected cellars, and Jameson explains the layout: white wine, red wine, scotch, bourbon, and whiskey.

Because Grayson identified the photo clue as pointing to a Bordeaux, the search leads to a bottle of Chateau Margaux from 1973. Avery connects the bottle to the steamer from the bag and realizes they are meant to steam off the label without tearing it, likely revealing the next clue. Grayson hands Avery the steamer and lets her proceed.