4:09 p.m. (EST)

At 4:09 p.m., Allison Shiner speeds toward JFK, frantically calling Colin and then Donna as she grapples with King Sorrow’s ultimatum: Horation Matthews will be on the 6:40 p.m. flight to London. If Allison boards, Sorrow can only take Matthews; otherwise hundreds may die.

Allison and Donna debate Matthews’s motives and the risk of a midair catastrophe at Easter. Allison argues Matthews could have riddled for their names and may be hunting Arthur in England; regardless, Sorrow delights in the potential mass death. She concludes the safest option is to board, forcing Sorrow to spare the plane until landing.

Donna warns Matthews is dangerous and suggests alternatives—bomb threat, delay—but Allison counters that escalation could lead to even greater casualties, invoking Sorrow’s power to obliterate entire terminals. She half-jokes about luring Matthews into missing the flight; Donna refuses and prioritizes her on-air shift.

Feeling abandoned, Allison asks Donna to meet her; Donna insists Allison call Van for help. Allison, rattled and drinking, resists, ashamed of how she left things with Van. In her distress she blurts confused feelings toward Donna and begs for reassurance, but the call has already dropped, leaving her alone on the road amid near-crashes.

Allison recommits to her plan despite fear and isolation: board the flight to contain the damage to a single life, accepting personal risk to prevent mass death.