The morning after agreeing to a less-casual relationship with Nic, Lauren cooks pancakes for her roommates Taylor and Ryan, recapping the past day. She admits uncertainty about being a long-term mob girlfriend and worries about Nic's secrets, particularly his careful phrasing about not putting more trackers on her. Ryan reveals Ben has accepted their job offer, and Taylor teases Ryan about a crush by following Ben on social media, sparking a chase upstairs.

Lauren decides to visit her sister Kristen at their grandparents' deli in Little Italy, hoping to mend their relationship and subtly probe for information about their missing father, Tommy. Hugo, Kristen's husband and a guard for mob boss Lorenzo Brusomini, warns Lauren to go easy on his pregnant wife.

Upstairs, Lauren finds Kristen miserable from severe pregnancy nausea. She tries to be patient through Kristen's pointed remarks about Lauren's lifestyle and absent parents. When Lauren asks about Tommy, Kristen casually reveals that Hugo believes someone killed him, because Tommy was last seen with Nico Trocci, whose crew serves as Lorenzo's cleanup squad, the men who make people disappear.

Stunned, Lauren snaps at Kristen and storms out as her young nephew Enzo wakes. Outside, dizzy and shaken, Lauren connects the timing: Tommy vanished and Nic suddenly reentered her life after ten years. She fears she's been a pawn, that Nic has been manipulating her to monitor any investigation into her father, or worse, plans to harm her too. Terror hardens into vengeful anger as she resolves to confront him immediately.