Before dinner, Frankie comes downstairs wearing a deep red dress she originally bought for an event with Nate’s colleagues. George is visibly affected and, after Frankie pushes him to say what he thinks, he stops her at the door and finally tells her she looks "fucking incredible," making the attraction between them feel newly explicit.

At the Pointe Restaurant, Frankie is dazzled by the setting and the meal. The food rekindles a creative excitement she has been missing, and over wine she tells George that his sense of purpose has made her want that for herself too. Frankie then becomes more emotionally open, admitting that when she is with George she feels larger, more alive, and almost invincible, because his energy makes the world seem full of possibility.

Their intimacy deepens when a server arrives with complimentary amaros after Kevin has told the restaurant that Frankie and George are on their honeymoon. Playing along, Frankie prompts George to describe their "wedding," and George invents a romantic version of their childhood make-believe marriage, recasting their old memories as a real adult love story. His choice to say that his best friend became the woman he fell in love with leaves Frankie shaken, and afterward they continue talking about how much they have missed each other.

Caught up in the emotion of the evening, Frankie says that maybe she and George should have been the ones getting married instead of Frankie and Nate. But she immediately frames the idea as a practical, companionable, sexless marriage built on friendship and mutual convenience, not as a declaration of romantic love. George listens in silence, then abruptly pushes back from the table, throws down his napkin, and walks out, turning the charged closeness of the night into a painful rupture.