In the ear­ly hours, the pro­tag­o­nist wakes to the irri­tat­ing sen­sa­tion of spi­ders crawl­ing on him. After switch­ing on the lamp, he finds mul­ti­ple spi­ders in his room and spends time squash­ing them, feel­ing a dis­tinct lack of com­fort as he con­tem­plates mul­ti­ple wor­ries on his mind. Prin­ci­pal among these con­cerns are the strange hap­pen­ings sur­round­ing his daugh­ter, Dawn’s uncle’s unset­tling ques­tion about his men­tal state, and a fake pho­to of Dawn.

As his thoughts spi­ral into a re-exam­i­na­tion of his par­ent­ing fail­ures, he reflects on past regrets, par­tic­u­lar­ly the pres­sure he placed on his daugh­ter Mag­gie over minor issues like din­ner eti­quette and her aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance. A cru­cial mem­o­ry sur­faces regard­ing an inci­dent when Mag­gie, at sev­en­teen, sought his help to buy a veg­an suede jack­et priced at $350 from an online retail­er. He recalled dis­put­ing the coat’s exor­bi­tant price, believ­ing it to be a gim­mick, but ulti­mate­ly relent­ing to her insis­tence and using his cred­it card.

When the jack­et was sup­pos­ed­ly deliv­ered, it dis­ap­peared from their porch—likely snatched by a porch pirate, a real issue in the ship­ping indus­try. After real­iz­ing the jack­et was lost, he con­tact­ed the retail­er explain­ing the sit­u­a­tion, which result­ed in a replace­ment jack­et for Mag­gie. How­ev­er, weeks lat­er, the pro­tag­o­nist encoun­ters Priya, one of Mag­gie’s friends, who reveals that she bought the extra jack­et Mag­gie had received by mis­take.

This rev­e­la­tion hits him hard, trig­ger­ing feel­ings of pro­found dis­ap­point­ment. Upon con­fronting Mag­gie about her actions at din­ner, her casu­al dis­missal of the seri­ous­ness of the mat­ter leads to a heat­ed argu­ment where she jus­ti­fies her actions through var­i­ous excus­es. The ten­sion esca­lates, result­ing in threats to report her to the police, which both he and she know he would­n’t fol­low through with. Even­tu­al­ly, she was made to donate the jack­et to Good­will, an act that infu­ri­at­ed her for an extend­ed peri­od as she defi­ant­ly avoid­ed wear­ing win­ter coats there­after.

Now, with a com­plex strain in their rela­tion­ship, he rec­og­nizes the long-term effects of his past par­ent­ing choic­es and pre­pares to nav­i­gate this ongo­ing con­flict cau­tious­ly, hop­ing to mend the rela­tion­ship despite the brew­ing ten­sions sur­round­ing his daughter’s inter­ac­tions with Gwen­dolyn and Brody Tag­gart. In these rest­less moments, the pro­tag­o­nist remains wide awake, mulling over every­thing.