Lyra, Grayson, and Odette step through the FINALE door into a vast ballroom covered in an intricate tile mosaic, with one wall made of glass looking out into the darkness before dawn. Lyra realizes this room must be the final puzzle before sunrise ends this phase of the Grandest Game.

The ballroom stirs Lyra’s buried connection to dance. Odette observes that a ballroom is made for dancing, but Lyra insists she no longer dances. Grayson challenges that claim, describing how dance still shows in Lyra’s posture, movement, and gestures, which unsettles Lyra because the night is nearing its end and her feelings for Grayson are difficult to deny.

Lyra redirects herself toward the puzzle. Odette lays out their starting objects: a lollipop, sticky notes, a paintbrush, and a light switch. Grayson suggests that, in typical Hawthorne fashion, the objects may need unconventional uses, such as hidden codes in packaging, tools for reaching buttons, or ways to interact with the mosaic.

Lyra flips the light switch, but nothing happens. She and Grayson test the paintbrush on the sticky notes and then on the mosaic walls while Odette examines the objects behind them. As they work, Lyra becomes increasingly aware of Grayson’s presence and hands, then tells him about her ordinary childhood and reveals that she entered the game because her father may have to sell Mile’s End, the family land and home she loves.

When Lyra says they are getting nowhere, Grayson shifts from the puzzle to the past. He tells Lyra that he was wrong about what happened seventeen months ago, when she came to him for help. Lyra tries to stop the conversation and insists they focus on the game, but Grayson continues searching the seam where the wall meets the floor and admits that when he told Lyra to stop calling, he did not mean it.