*March 2026 - Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY*

Mia stands on the boardwalk looking at the ocean until Claire leaves the safehouse. She stays with Claire for a couple of days. Claire feels she will return to her real world when she is ready. Mia spends time alone for a few minutes while waiting for Claire to show up, and she arrives to walk over to Mia.

Mia: That took guts, cockroaches, pathetic, and miserable. Your life is almost taken away when your family is gonna see you again after you come back home.

Claire: What am I supposed to do, huh? I don't want to risk Debby to the same old again as when we were furious back in the day; I came back home from my friend's trip from eighth grade, and she doesn't like to be pissed me off. Yeah right.

Mia: *hearing*

Claire: So I am going back home. My parents will see me in my life in the family tree. Trees without roots fall over.

Mia: *walks closely to her and holds her shoulder while looking at her and leaving* Let's go.

Claire: *follows Mia

*New York - Griffin's house*

Griffin writes the papers on the table while eating the donuts. Whenever he is taking time to sign his job application, right before he finishes the paper, he hears knocking on the door, walks over to the door, and lets Christina in to check up on her.

Griffin: I wish you had carried the files when you got off work.

Christina: I should kept cleaning my office before I just left.

Griffin: Do you want me to hold your file up? I can see the coffee right in your hand.

Christina: Do you mind?

Griffin: La-la-la. Don't spill the coffee on your skin.

Christina: *puts the coffee on the table*

Griffin: I've got to send to the boss with the paper in the morning. I ain't giving no copycat to this fucking application; I cannot deny it.

Christina: I have some dignity.

Griffin: Wait a second; I need to get to the bottom of this. *heading to the other room*

Christina: *taking her stuff out until she heard a shot behind the window multiple times and got shot in the stomach after trying to run or hide* Griffin??...

Griffin: *hearing* Shit, Christina! *quietly until he grabs the sneakers box and takes out the gun while hearing shooting*

??: *keeps drive-by shooting in the house*

Griffin: *goes outside quickly while seeing the car take off and heading to the street while shooting the car several times*

Christina: *breathing heavily*

Griffin: *runs back to the house and checks up on her* Christina, you're gonna be straight, OK?

Christina: *keeps breathing*

Griffin: Imma gets you to help. Don't let it die on yourself.

Christina: *stops breathing a bit*

Griffin: Chris? Come on!

Christina: *dead*

Griffin: No, no, no, don't do this. Don't fucking do this. I knew you were a soldier.

Christina: *dead*

Griffin: *heads down on her stomach*

Mia and Claire are on their way back to the Bronx. While Mia was driving on the highway, Claire told her something about Kira because something terrible had happened.

Claire: Mia, I wonder if we did something after you killed Kira.

Mia: Claire, let it go. We've already gone through her body to the grave. Nobody saw it, they couldn't see shit. Honestly, we didn't contact the police.

Claire: You didn't.

Mia: I wasn't afraid of the cop. Do I believe that we are innocent instead of Kira being hostile?

Claire: I saw you everything on her.

Mia: I would never go deep down yet. I could get some new concepts no time soon.

Claire: *hearing* What are you talking about?

Mia: Same idea with anything new, which is different. We ain't fooling around.

Claire: *hearing*

Mia: Trust me, cameras didn't see us while we dragged her away.

Claire: Besides, we are already fucking with the dead body.

Mia: Respect to the game.

*Queens, New York*

Kevin spent some time in the other college from Queens; while he was still in the semester for NYU, he would like to spend time doing something different, from giving out drugs to making selections for the price; he was walking around near the buildings side-to-side from outside. Kevin was doing more people to confront to have a deal with the drug when it takes it from it to make exchange whether he puts the expanding to bring more details just like his mother to becoming kingpin.

He typically had a good time talking to several people after taking a break from work before the night began as he walked back home.

*Meanwhile*

Mia and Claire were already arriving in the Bronx, while Mia kept driving around the city to reach Claire's house. Claire was nervous about her family a bit when she took everything so hard to believe, from dead to alive. She was still driving right in front of Claire's house when they saw someone in the other car parked next to it; it was Claire and Debby's big sister, Raquel, who was returning home from Virginia. Debby comes out the door before Raquel gets out of the car to reunite with her, while Claire sees Raquel and doesn't expect to see her when she and Raquel haven't connected for three years. Raquel still trusted Claire better enough as Claire was still protected from her death while her family was surrounded.

*Raquel*

Mia: Who is she?

Claire: That's Raquel—my big sister. She moved to Virginia almost ten years after graduating from the same school.

Mia: *hearing*

Claire: *still looking at them*

Mia: You wanna get out?

Claire: *shakes her head* Let's go.

Mia: *drives away*

The next day, Griffin parked the car right next to the cafe while waiting for Kevin and Aurora to come out; he is thinking about Christina when he gave her life before she died; they've become more than a true friend whenever he feels like he's being trapped in the town so far while the gang were surrounding against him. He always knew he was coming for them while holding the gun in the car front seat and looking at the view of the park.

He turns on the radio to listen to the commercial before the song playing "How I Could Just Kill a Man" by Cypress Hill.

Aurora and Kevin: *leaving the building while chatting with each other*

??: *driving slowly and notices Griffin's car, pulls out the submachine gun and starts shooting*

Griffin: *blocked*

Kevin: *reacting while pulling out the gun quickly to start shooting the car*

Aurora: *reacted*

Griffin: Get in the car! *looks at them*

Both: *runs back to the car*

Griffin: *drives away faster* I ain't done with these assholes. These pussycats have got to go.

Kevin: There they go.

Griffin: *keeps driving* Shoot that son of a bitch!

Kevin: *goes outside while pointing the gun and shooting the car*

Aurora: Be careful.

Kevin: *keeps shooting*

Griffin: Watch out, the truck is coming!

Kevin: *gets back in*

??: *turns the different way*

Griffin: *follows the car*

Kevin: *keeps shooting*

Griffin: Shoot those son of bitches, Kevin! Get them! Shoot that motherfucker!

Kevin: *keeps shooting*

??: *gets shot in the right shoulder while driving, and it goes crazy*

Griffin: It's done; I think he got shot. *turns around to make a shortcut*

Kevin: *puts the gun away*

Aurora: OK, everything was pretty intense.

Kevin: Really?

*New York University*

Justin and Jude are having sex in the bed without the classes today cause they had spent time off for today; Jude had a sleepover with him last night on the bed when they were entirely naked.

Justin: *moaning*

Jude: *keeps riding while moans*

Justin: Shit...

Jude: Shut up...*keeps riding while holding his body*

Both: *breathing*

Jude: *lying back down right next to him*

Justin: *looks up the ceiling*

Jude: Are you OK?

Justin: Yeah. I'm feeling delightful.

Jude: Especially when you are feeling hungry, so are I.

Justin: I can't explain how stressed I am each day when I return to class.

Jude: I do not wanna risk falling apart into my grades up.

Justin: *hearing*

Jude: I can't hold myself down; that's a dumbshit.

Justin: To be fair, I had to ask Percy if we could go on a ride for one night when we see how we feel. However, we had to write more details to brainstorm for our classes.

Jude: I would do it more than a lot.

Justin: *hearing and gets up*

Jude: *putting her ring back on the finger*

Justin: *heading to the bathroom*

Jude: *takes out the phone and goes to social media through Snapchat*

At the market, Tyson is hanging out with her friend, Ashley, grabbing some things for the dorm room. Perhaps they saved up more money to get another payment after the semester. They were taking care of the food and setting up the prices, which both paid together.

Ashley: Yuck, I'm not too fond of cranberry.

Tyson: *looks at her* Why the hell not?

Ashley: It's too damn strong.

Tyson: Which one do you like the best with any fruit juice?

Ashley: You know what I like? Grapes.

Tyson: No...

Ashley: Uh-huh!

Tyson: Grapes were my favorite!

Ashley: And that's final.

Tyson: How could you embarrass me by giving out your favorite fruit juice?

Ashley: I don't know. I was trying to do my best to give out the answer.

Later that afternoon, Mia and Claire left the hotel, returned to the car, and left the parking garage. Whenever these two go something in their heads, it is because of Claire. She is not ready to reunite with her family yet. Mia has something on her mind for Claire so that she can decide on the next thing.

Mia drove out of nowhere on Randall's Island; the parking space was empty because she stopped driving until both got out of the car and took out the waterproof to cover the vehicle.

Mia: You know what, let's go to Seattle to make her life normal again.

Claire: How could we get there?

Mia: I think we should catch the flight over there.

Claire: *nods softly*

Mia: I will call an Uber to return to the campus first.

Later, Mia and Claire were already grabbing things from the dorm when Mia tried to call Uber again until someone else showed up to capture both of them to attempt to shoot right before they pulled down the window because Claire noticed them and dodged Mia to the ground while the enemies started to shoot.

Mia: What the fuck is that?

Claire: *pulls out the gun and shoots the car*

Mia: *looks at the brown truck and watches Claire while moving back quickly*

??: *keeps shooting*

Claire: *hiding*

Mia: *looks around at the people running away and begins to hide until she takes out the gun*

Unknown 1-4: *gets out of the truck to begin hunting both of them*

Kevin and Griffin: *starts shooting at each other*

Unknown 3: *got hit in the stomach and dead*

Unknown 2: *got shot in the same way*

Claire: *shoots Unknown 1 in the back multiple times*

Unknown 1: *dead*

Kevin: *sees Claire* Claire?

Claire: *sees him* Kevin?

Mia: *shoots Unknown 4 four times*

Unknown 4: *dead*

Griffin: *sees Claire* How are you alive??

Mia: Hold on to your question; let's get in the car.

Claire: Let's go.

All: *gets in the car*

Claire: We're going to Seattle.

Griffin: Seattle?

Claire: Yes! Seattle!

Griffin: OK then. *drives away*

While the four of them leave for New York, Tyson sees everything, including what he didn't expect when he saw Claire. He feels surprised and confused about why Claire has been alive for many months.

Meanwhile, Percy, Justin, and Jacob hang out on Brooklyn Bridge, where they stay to get some fresh air together as long as they've been chilling on the bridge and confronting each other.

Jacob: How did it go with Jude?

Justin: Same old shit.

Jacob: It doesn't mean that your going against her is pointless.

Justin: No, no. I feel perfect because that's how I've constantly felt with her. I'll keep focused on my goal of getting the classes done before I'm out of there. Cause I'm winning, winning, winning.

Jacob: No doubt about it.

Percy: *looking at the boat to the ocean while Jacob and Justin confront each other*

Tyson: *calls Percy*

Percy: *answers* Tyson, what's up?

Tyson: Percy.

Percy: What's going on?

Tyson: I was leaving the campus when I saw Mia and Kevin with Griffin. They were heading to Seattle. I just saw Claire. She's alive, bro.

Percy: How the hell is she alive?

Tyson: I don't know. She's with them.

Percy: *hearing*

Meanwhile, Debby takes enough time to write the notebook with her diaries on the table from the library instead of Simone arriving there as she can see her on the table alone to go over with her and sit beside her.

Debby: Are you looking for help?

Simone: You know what to do?

Debby: *sighs*

Simone: Are you stressed or something?

Debby: I wished Claire would be here.

Simone: I know. Cause she's your family no matter what.

Debby: *nods softly*

Simone: Come on, help me with this homework.

Debby: *begins to help her*