In Chap­ter 124 of “All the Col­ors of the Dark,” the scene opens with Saint leav­ing Jim­my asleep on the couch while wear­ing her old fur-lined hik­ing boots. As she walks with Nor­ma along a frozen Main Street, they pass sev­er­al beau­ti­ful­ly dec­o­rat­ed Colo­nial hous­es, show­cas­ing vibrant Christ­mas scenes. One store, how­ev­er, is devoid of dec­o­ra­tions, its win­dow instead dis­play­ing a new paint­ing that cap­ti­vates Saint, reflect­ing her feel­ing of being lost.

Sam­my, dressed in a tuxe­do with a loose bow tie, greets Saint. Their con­ver­sa­tion reveals an under­ly­ing ten­sion as they speak about unre­solved issues. Sam­my asks her to leave a cer­tain per­son alone, prob­ing Sain­t’s knowl­edge about his where­abouts, which she declines to dis­close. The dia­logue hints at deep­er con­nec­tions and emo­tions linked to indi­vid­u­als like Eloise Strike, Anna May, Sum­mer Reynolds, and Ellen Her­nan­dez, whom both char­ac­ters seem to care about but can­not help.

Sammy’s demeanor shifts as he reflects on his paint­ing and the rela­tion­ships implied with­in it, express­ing that he does­n’t know the boy Saint is search­ing for. How­ev­er, he sug­gests that before focus­ing on the boy, they should find the miss­ing girls and those who harmed them—his tone under­scor­ing a painful acknowl­edg­ment of loss.

After their exchange, Saint vis­its the church with Nor­ma, stop­ping briefly at Ivy Macauley’s grave. Inside the church, the atmos­phere turns somber as they light a can­dle, and Saint express­es her feel­ings of des­per­a­tion and fear. Despite her tur­moil, Nor­ma offers wis­dom about strength in silence—a reminder that not all strug­gles are vocal­ized.

Sain­t’s inner tur­moil cul­mi­nates in a moment of rev­e­la­tion as she con­fess­es to her grand­moth­er, “I’m preg­nant.” This admis­sion intro­duces an addi­tion­al lay­er of com­plex­i­ty, inter­twin­ing her emo­tion­al strug­gles with new­found respon­si­bil­i­ties, high­light­ing the chal­lenges she faces ahead in the midst of her search for truth and res­o­lu­tion.