The Light Between Oceans

Violet coaxes Isabel out of the house to run an errand, and they encounter Hannah, Gwen, and Grace. The child runs to Isabel, and the two cling to each other. While Hannah tries to extract Grace, she realizes the enormous consequences of Tom and Isabel’s initial decision to keep her daughter and Tom’s decision to confess. Isabel and Grace have shared thousands of embraces and now theirs is a “love usurped.” Isabel does nothing to help.

Knuckey reflects on the situation and the Anzac Day mob that started the trouble and drove Frank to a desperate move. He acknowledges that it would have only made things worse to point out the connection between a town’s unjust attitude towards one innocent man and the current situation.

Spragg gets his chance to question Tom about killing Frank Roennfeldt, noting that many men came back from the war unstable. Tom points out that it does not make sense for him to confess to taking Lucy but to lie about killing Frank. Spragg remains skeptical. 

After running into Isabel in town, any progress that Hannah has made with Grace disappears. Gwen concocts a secretive plan to alleviate the child’s pain. She takes the girl for a walk, calls her Lucy, and brings her to the park bench where Isabel has been spending her days alone.