Chimes announce that the scoreboard has changed: Lyra’s heart team remains at its previous score, while the diamond team jumps to two. Lyra concludes that another team must have found a trick that allowed two answers at once, proving the puzzle has a larger pattern her team has missed. Grayson, kneeling on the floor, has silently reconstructed the private magnet poem Lyra had tried to scatter.

Grayson says he has been practicing being wrong because Tobias Hawthorne raised him to be an heir who could not make mistakes. Lyra, recognizing the pain in that confession, hears him admit he was wrong only about the puzzle’s structure: he assumed it was sequential, but her idea of a shared pattern is sound. Odette again calls Lyra “very much a Hawthorne,” but refuses to explain her connection to Tobias unless all three players reach the dock by sunrise.

Odette asks whether Lyra found anything useful outside, and Lyra tests Odette’s reaction by mentioning the Abraham Lincoln escape quote and the notes listing Thomas, Thomas, Tommaso, and Tomás. Lyra explains that her biological father used many aliases and hustled under changing identities before Lyra’s mother left him when Lyra was three days old. Grayson sharply assures Lyra that Avery and his brothers did not plant the notes, while Odette denies using such tricks and redirects the group to the puzzle.

Lyra returns to the objects and the confirmed answer SWORD, working backward from what they know. She notices that SWORD can become WORDS, connecting the Scrabble tiles and poetry magnets through an anagram. Grayson immediately extends the insight to the plate and rose petal, and Odette enters PLEAT, which the screen accepts as correct.

With the anagram pattern confirmed, Lyra and Grayson look at the remaining objects and realize SONIC and COINS can become SCION. They say the answer together, Odette enters it, and the room signals that all three answers are correct. A hidden compartment opens, revealing a sword; when Lyra removes it, a larger wall section parts to reveal a doorway. Grayson notices Lyra knows how to hold the sword, and after a brief exchange about her mother’s fight-scene research, Lyra refuses his gallant offer to go first and tells him to lead instead.