A beat. The unspoken hangs between them: We all did, and we liked it because we were starving, and now we're not.

(Perking up) Like a record. A flight data recorder. For the crash.

Behind her, MISTY (18) is the one sharpening the knife. Not a hunting knife—the small, curved paring knife from the cabin's kitchen. She tests the edge on a strand of her own hair. It falls in two perfect pieces.

Picking up in the immediate aftermath of Javi’s death, the episode opens with a haunting needledrop of as Natalie returns to the cabin.

The wind doesn't howl. It whispers .

Lottie, recovering from her injuries, abdicates her role as leader. She declares that the wilderness has chosen a new "Queen": Natalie . The group bows to her as a Nouvelle Vague cover of "The Killing Moon" plays.