Lyra recognizes the word omega from her trauma and asks whether it means anything to Grayson. Grayson says it does not, then presses Odette Morales for an answer. Odette explains omega as “the end” and quotes the Book of Revelation, connecting the symbol to Catholic imagery from a church in Mexico that Odette says she has not visited since her seventeenth birthday and arranged marriage.

Lyra suspects Odette may know more than Odette admits, especially because Odette is one of the few people on the island old enough to have known Lyra’s father. Grayson narrows the pressure by asking whether Odette once worked for McNamara, Ortega, and Jones, Tobias Hawthorne’s personal law firm. Odette’s silence confirms the connection, making Lyra realize that Odette may have known Tobias Hawthorne’s secrets.

Instead of fully explaining, Odette offers “three truths”: Odette knows nothing about Lyra’s father, Tobias Hawthorne was both the best and worst man Odette ever knew, and Odette is playing the Grandest Game because Odette is dying and wants to leave a legacy for her family. Odette insists that she will answer how she knew Tobias and how she ended up on his List only if the group escapes and reaches the dock by dawn. Grayson warns Lyra not to trust Odette’s heavily conditional phrasing, but the game’s deadline forces them to continue.

Odette rewinds the projector film, and Lyra studies the multiple-choice cipher question again. When Lyra learns there is another set of symbols at the end of the film, after the violent images tied to Lyra’s memories, Grayson tries to skip ahead to spare Lyra. Lyra refuses, saying that anything in a Hawthorne game might matter and that she is not weak.

Lyra and Grayson share a charged exchange about weakness, mistakes, and whether some mistakes are worth making. Odette restarts the film, breaking the moment, and Lyra forces herself to watch objectively through images including a gun, a body, and blood. With Grayson silently beside her, Lyra endures the montage and focuses on the final set of symbols, even as her father’s imagined warning—“A Hawthorne did this”—echoes in her mind.