Everyone except Grace, who hasn’t come back to work, is acting very normal, considering what has happened. Sloane explains to Ardie that Cosette is helping represent Truviv in the lawsuit. Sloane loves that Ardie always says what she believes, which makes her easy to trust. Ardie decides that bringing Cosette in probably means that the company is taking their lawsuit seriously. She and Sloane exchange a look of relief and complicity.

The people on Ames’s floor find reasons to walk through the halls and peek into Ames’s office. Sloane wants to know if any of her friends are sitting on information about his death. She asks Ardie how blood might’ve gotten on the balcony. Ardie claims not to know, which makes Sloane distrust her—she seems to be protesting too much.

On April 18, Ardie gestures for Rosalita to come into her office. Ardie is on the phone. Being asked to wait like this would normally irritate Rosalita, but now she is here to give Ardie fresh tamales and the good news that Salomon got into the private school. They embrace—this is the best thing that has happened in at least a month.

To Rosalita, it will always be notable that Salomon got into the program the day after Ames died.