For three days after Briggs orders the house locked down, Cassie is never left alone. FBI agents watch from outside, and the Naturals take turns supervising Cassie so closely that Cassie feels trapped and irritated.

Sloane tries to distract Cassie with statistics about morticians, balloonists, and balloon animals, but Cassie is too restless to enjoy it. Cassie notes that Dean and Michael can barely stand each other but still appear whenever Cassie leaves the room, while Lia has mostly stayed out of the conflict.

Lia enters and announces that, since Cassie’s argument with Dean about his father was not entirely Cassie’s fault and the killer’s latest move has given Dean renewed purpose, Lia is no longer obligated to make Cassie miserable. Lia offers a distraction in the form of a makeover, and Cassie, desperate after days of confinement, agrees.

Lia applies makeup to Cassie, including a dark red-brown lipstick. When Cassie looks in the mirror, Cassie is startled by how much Cassie resembles her mother, Lorelai. The sight triggers flashes of Cassie’s memories: a blue dress, blood, and lipstick.

Cassie checks the lipstick tube and discovers the shade is called Rose Red, the same color Cassie remembers Lorelai wearing. Cassie presses Lia about where it came from, but Lia avoids giving anything beyond the ordinary answer that Lia bought it. Cassie is left unsettled by the coincidence and by the renewed connection to Lorelai.

The chapter shifts to the UNSUB’s perspective. The killer has a bound girl who is crying and resisting, but the killer finds no satisfaction because the girl is neither Lorelai nor Cassie. The UNSUB does not kill or seriously hurt the girl yet, but the abduction is meant as a message to the people protecting Cassie: anyone standing between the UNSUB and Cassie will suffer.