The Family Remains

Alf comes to Henry’s apartment at Marco’s request, and gets into Henry’s devices. Since Henry’s phone is synced with his other devices, Alf can see Henry’s recent online activity. He finds the Tripadvisor messages and determines that Henry is in Chicago. The boys also find the website for Kris Doll’s motorbike tours, so they call and leave a voicemail asking if Kris met Henry Lamb. They also call the Dayville, a hotel in Henry’s search history, but the hotel says that no one by the name Henry Lamb is staying there. An hour later, Kris Doll returns their call and says he’s taking a British man out for a tour that afternoon, but his name is Joshua, not Henry. However, when they learn that Joshua is staying at the Dayville, they realize that Henry is using a false name.

Rachel hears from Liberty department store that they want to stock her jewelry. Instead of sharing this news with Michael, who she knows will “taint” (153) the excitement of the moment, she shares it with her father and Paige. Rachel ignores a text from Michael asking when she will be home for dinner. She goes out with Paige instead. A few hours later, she texts Michael to tell him she is with Paige and will be home later, but he doesn’t respond. When Rachel arrives home at 10:00 p.m., the kitchen is completely clean except for a broken bowl of risotto thrown against the wall. Rachel decides to sleep on the couch rather than face Michael in the bedroom. She is awakened during the night by Michael on top of her, covering her mouth with his hand. He rapes her with his hands around her throat. Rachel is shocked afterward, and confronts Michael, accusing him of rape, but Michael cruelly tells her that she “liked it” (157). Rachel thinks of all the times in the past when she played it safe on dates to avoid being raped, now feeling that all the effort was futile since she was raped by her own husband. Michael blames Rachel for coming in late and failing to message him; he says he gave Rachel what she wanted. Rachel leaves the apartment.

Samuel and Donal find the house from the music video in Chelsea on a street called Cheyne Walk. The house is overgrown with plants and unkempt. They meet the owner, Oliver Wolfensberger, who bought the house just a few weeks ago. He has plans to renovate, since the interior of the house is also in derelict condition. Oliver bought the house from a young woman named Libby Jones. The house was left to her in a trust by her parents; 25 years ago, the parents committed suicide and Libby was found alone in the house as a baby. Oliver allows Samuel and Donal to explore the house, and Samuel notes the absolute symmetry of rooms on each floor. He also finds a carving in one of the rooms that reads “I AM PHIN” (164). On the roof, there are several channels filled with mulch and dead leaves, and one of them appears to have been disturbed recently. Samuel takes photos of his findings, including the trees surrounding the house, before leaving.

Henry watches Phin enter an apartment building, but can’t tell which apartment is his. He sits at a café across the street, telling the waitress he’s looking for an old friend. He hears from Kris Doll, who offers to drop the watch off at Henry’s hotel the following morning. Kris also says he had a phone call the previous day, before their tour, from someone looking for a Henry Lamb. Henry freezes when he hears this, and realizes that Lucy must have accessed his search history somehow. Henry decides to change hotels to be less traceable, so he books one near the Magdala bar and Phin’s location. Kris drops off the watch at Henry’s new hotel in the morning, but Henry doesn’t get any new information from him about Phin. Back in his room, Henry looks at himself in the mirror and wonders if Phin would recognize him, thinking of all the ways he’s changed and curated his appearance over the years. Phin would likely recognize him, though, since Henry has probably “haunted [Phin’s] dreams” (171) ever since they escaped from their childhood home. Henry watches Phin’s apartment building from the café across the street again, and searches Airbnb listings for the building. He finds one that is booked for the next 10 days and studies the photos, finding clues to where the room may be located in relationship to the street. He finds another Airbnb listing in the building, and books it starting that afternoon.

Lucy decides to take Marco and Stella to Chicago to search for Henry, leaving her dog, Fitz, with Libby. Lucy can’t stand the thought of anything happening to Phin after all these years, when Libby is finally close to meeting her birth father. Lucy is nervous at the airport, since the passports she and her children have are fakes provided by Lucy’s ex-husband. However, they make it to Chicago without any issues. They check for Henry at the Dayville hotel first, but learn he already checked out. Lucy and the kids check into their own room at the Dayville, where Marco learns from messaging Kris that Henry is now staying in a hotel called the Angel Inn.

Rachel cries herself to sleep after leaving Michael's place. When she wakes up, she decides not to look at any messages or emails other than her business-email account, which Michael doesn’t have. She hears from the jewelry buyer at Liberty and forces herself to focus on work rather than Michael. Rachel messages Dominic, asking for the contact information for Dominic's lawyer, and heads to her dad's house. She tells her dad about Michael’s money problems and explains that she has seen a “darker side” of Michael lately (183) and wants a divorce. Rachel does not give her dad any details, saying that Michael has not hurt her. She feels foolish for being drawn in by Michael; her dad comforts her, saying he will support her throughout the divorce. He also warns her not to tell Michael about her new business success with Liberty. After talking with her father, Rachel resolves to never tell anyone about Michael raping her, and wants only to erase him from her past.

Henry checks into his Airbnb and finds it lacking in several respects, especially compared to the photos of Phin’s Airbnb. He pinpoints the exact location of Phin’s apartment and listens and the door, but doesn’t hear anything. He leaves a note on Phin’s door pretending to be a man named Jeff. When he sees that the note hasn’t moved by that evening, Henry leaves for a somewhat reckless night on the town. When he returns to the apartment building, he sees that Phin’s light is on, knocks, and barges into Phin’s apartment when Phin opens the door.