The Eyes Are the Best Part

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of racism, gender discrimination, sexual harassment, mental illness, substance use, graphic violence, death, illness, and emotional abuse.

Ji-won stops at a gas station to clean herself off. As she travels back and forth with paper towels to the car to clean off all the blood, she feels blank and empty. She finds one of the man’s hairs on the seat, and she blows it out the window and watches the wind take it.

Ji-won feels a strange energy and, not wanting to head home, goes back to Alexis’s apartment to apologize for her behavior before. She parks outside her apartment and dials her number. Alexis answers the phone groggily. She agrees to come downstairs and meet Ji-won. Ji-won asks whether Alexis would still be her friend if she found out that Ji-won had done something bad. Alexis agrees, within limits. She asks whether Ji-won is okay, and Ji-won says she is before telling Alexis to go back to bed.

Umma asks her daughters whether either of them has seen George. They tell her they haven’t, and Umma’s eyes tear up as she tells them that George promised to be home for dinner.