On his birthday during a heavy rainstorm, Junior and his three brothers—Alec, Greg, and Stefan—dispose of Tommy Marchetti's body and Beamer in a swollen river near a warehouse owned by one of their father's mob associates. The killing was ordered by their father, head of a mafia cleanup operation. After bleaching a bloodstain inside the warehouse, Alec suggests they go out to celebrate, but Junior, exhausted and morose, declines and dismisses his brothers, telling them to inform their parents he'll be away for a few days.

Junior walks ten minutes through the rain to his rarely used studio apartment in a working-class immigrant neighborhood, a refuge from his paranoid father, who normally keeps his adult sons close. He reflects on the burden he and his brothers carry doing their father's dirty work, including a recent crisis involving his cousin Aly and her boyfriend killing serial killer/billionaire-heir Bradley Bluhm, which the family covered up by faking Bluhm being on the run.

Showering off the blood, Junior recalls his history with Lauren Marchetti, Tommy's daughter—a girl from his old Little Italy neighborhood. At eighteen, an incident involving Lauren prompted Tommy to beat Junior and threaten to kill him if he came near her again. With Tommy now dead, Junior resolves that nothing will keep him from Lauren this time.

After dumping his bloody clothes in a distant dumpster to thwart forensic evidence, Junior settles on his couch and opens social media to stalk Lauren's profile. She has transformed from a quiet honor student into a curvy activist and sex worker fighting for sex workers' rights, that day celebrating having coerced conservative Councilwoman Marion Blackwell's support by blackmailing her over her son's cocaine use—an act Junior facilitated. He clicks through to her Me4U creator page, requests a custom video, and messages her praise, revealing he is her number one fan.