Junior is on a stakeout in the back of a cramped van with a crew of older Italian goons, distracted by thoughts of Lauren and their encounter at Velvet. After Vinny stinks up the van and Alec accidentally lets slip that Junior has woman troubles, the entire crew launches into unsolicited relationship advice, urging apologies, flowers, chocolates, or a grand gesture proposal. Junior fumes but takes mental note.

The walkie-talkie crackles with his brother Stefan's signal: their target, a rat in their organization, is approaching. The crew suits up in balaclavas and ambushes the man before he reaches his door, capturing him alive per Lorenzo's orders. Junior reports it went smoothly, though he ends up bloody from the resistance.

Back at his parents' house, Junior burns his bloody clothes and is criticized by his cold father, who calls him an amateur. Junior fumes silently, resolving that he must escape his father's grip, possibly through blackmail, but first needs clean, independent income to support the lifestyle he wants to give Lauren.

In his room, Junior retrieves a hidden stash and pulls out Lauren's high school diary, which he had stolen from Kelly's room the night he planted drugs on her. Reading her old fantasies about him, including their unrealized arcade photo-booth scenario, he conceives a grand gesture: reclaiming and recreating those memories to win her forgiveness. A Me4U message from Lauren arrives, naked and inviting, reinforcing his determination to get her back.