Over the summer, Daphne continues to see how full Eddie Triplett’s life remains despite his illness: he goes to museums, theater, film events, lectures, bridge, and dinners with friends and family. Daphne sometimes joins him, but she quietly claims one role for herself above all others: taking Eddie to chemotherapy. When she picks him up for a July appointment, she notices he now uses a plain drugstore cane, and the trip to the clinic leaves him visibly tired.

While they wait far longer than expected in the oncology clinic, Eddie and Daphne talk about Abigail. Eddie reveals that he and Daphne’s mother have been exchanging notes and trying to loosen the old shame, disappointment, and regret that still connect them. He says Abigail may come see him now that Lucas is dead and the house has been sold. Eddie also alludes to Abigail’s earlier behavior by describing how a friend at his first chemo appointment angrily demanded special treatment, then abruptly says he has decided never to be mad at anyone again.

Once they are finally taken into the infusion room, Eddie tells Daphne he has been reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead and thinking about impermanence, nonattachment, and the bardo. He explains that the dead may resist change just as the living do, and he asks Daphne to promise that when he dies she will tell him he is dead so he can move on peacefully. To practice, Eddie proposes that they silently tell Lucas Ekker to let go. In her imagination, Daphne returns to the Winchester yard, lies beside Lucas’s body, and tells him he had a good death, that Abigail is fine, that the house has been sold, and that he must leave.

Afterward, Daphne and Eddie discuss whether Mary Carter’s strange deathbed experience belonged to the same kind of transition, and Eddie recalls his dying mother seeing her dead sister waiting for her. The long delay makes the treatment run late, and by the end of the day Eddie is exhausted. Daphne insists on taking him all the way home rather than leaving him with a cab.

At Eddie’s apartment, Daphne discovers that Skip has arrived unexpectedly with dinner and was worried when Eddie did not return on time. Eddie leans into Skip for support, and Daphne sees a tenderness and dependence between the two men that reminds her how little outsiders ever truly know about someone else’s relationship. Once she leaves, Daphne calls Jonathan from the street, close to tears. Jonathan tries to guide her back toward Grand Central and confesses that when his first wife, Candy, was receiving chemo, he often left her alone because he was too frightened to sit with her suffering. His admission reframes Daphne’s care for Eddie as an act of showing up where others once could not, even as she resists dwelling on the failures of the past.