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Nicky joins Diana at breakfast. Diana talks about working for Hope Trapp and returning to London after Hope disappeared. There, Diana met and married Ewart. Three years later, they were expecting a child, but on their way home from a baby shower, they were hit by another car. Ewart and the baby died. Two years later, Diana wrote to Sebastian asking how he had survived the loss of his wife and son. He invited her back to California, and they eventually married. Diana says it’s been a happy but different marriage. She says she never suspected Sebastian of harming his wife and son, and Nicky has jolted him back to life. When Nicky asks what Hope and Cole were like, Diana says she’ll show her.
Diana gets out an old video camera recording (VCR) and shows Nicky videos of a soccer game. Hope is filming and talking to Madeleine, while Sebastian expresses disgust at Cole, who is standing alone looking at his shadow instead of playing. They realize he is making origami, and Sebastian grows more frustrated. Madeleine says that he’s embarrassing, sharing that people at school tell him to hurt himself, so he often hides from them. Hope rages against the kids, and the video cuts to Madeleine dancing awkwardly at a talent show.