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The rain finally stops. Clementine and Sam go to a first aid course, and Sam cries while he is giving CPR to the dummy. Clementine realizes he has PTSD from the experience at the barbecue, and Sam starts treatment. Feeling better from the treatment, Sam saves a baby about to roll into traffic in its stroller.
Erika and Oliver go over to clean at Sylvia’s house. Sylvia finds a photo of her with Erika and Clementine, taken when the girls skipped school and went on a roller coaster. It was one of those few days where Sylvia was just her mother, and Clementine was a real friend. Then, Erika remembers what she’d forgotten about that night at the barbecue. It was Harry, the next-door neighbor, who’d seen Ruby first. He banged on the window until he got Erika’s attention, and she realized Ruby was in the fountain.
Harry lost his wife and son a long time ago in a fairground accident. He had been attempting to run down the stairs to rescue Ruby when he slipped and fell to his death.
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