Leaving the chapel, Avery reframes the kidnapping around a new assumption: Toby may have been taken not because of his own actions, but as revenge for something Tobias Hawthorne did. Eve’s warnings about dark Hawthorne secrets and Nan’s comments about dirty hands make Avery focus on Tobias’s rise to power and the enemies he may have created.

Avery asks Oren about the threats Tobias tracked when Oren served as head of security. Oren confirms that Tobias had a List, though it differed from Avery’s current threat list. Jameson quickly sees the same possibility Avery does: if the captor’s story involves envy, revenge, and defeating an old enemy, Tobias’s former enemies are the right place to search.

Jameson and Avery update the others, and Oren has Tobias’s files delivered to the solarium. The group gathers there after a sleepless night and discovers that Tobias kept extensive folders on hundreds of possible threats, not just a simple list of names. Oren explains that Tobias compiled the files himself, while Oren only used them when a person became active enough to warrant attention.

Because the group still lacks a name or face, Avery narrows the search by what they do know: the captor is likely an older man who was bested and betrayed by Tobias Hawthorne. Avery also considers whether the parable’s emphasis on three figures points to a family connection, a family-like bond, or a story structured around three people.

Eve adds that the parable’s figures are all men and that the captor took Toby—the son—rather than Zara or Skye. Her reasoning suggests she has been thinking through the clue with Grayson. Avery returns to the overwhelming stacks of folders and concludes that whoever the captor is, he is now wealthy, powerful, and connected.