- Speaking of dead people and pictures, we're back in the sitting-room (aka the Hall of Dead Relatives), and Lavinia's by herself.
- She yells at the pictures, saying she did what they wanted her to do and they should leave her alone.
- Orin suddenly walks in, moving kind of like a robot.
- He manages to startle Lavinia, but things are only going to get weirder.
- Orin tells her that he's just come from the study, where he thought he'd find Christine waiting for him. For obvious reasons, he's wrong.
- The pictures hanging in the sitting-room frighten him.
- He says he hopes they'll leave him alone, and Lavinia tells him to knock off the strangeness.
- Trying to get him to think about anything other than their dead mother, Lavinia asks Orin if he's excited to see Hazel again.
- All Orin says is that he doesn't understand why she's been talking about Peter and Hazel the whole way back home.
- She says it's because they need to focus on living in the present and trying to be happy.
- Orin says he can't get over how much like Christine Lavinia's become in the past months.
- Rather than being grossed out by this, Lavinia actually seems kind of flattered.
- Off in his own guilt-ridden world, Orin goes on about how Lavinia looks, acts, and thinks like Christine, and how weird it is that Lavinia killed her only to become her.
- Lavinia says she's sick of that kind of nonsense and wouldn't have brought him back home if he wasn't over saying stuff like that.
- Orin says something about it being his brotherly duty to get her off the island—which is a big hint that some not-so-cool stuff went on there.
- Lavinia tries to convince Orin he doesn't need to feel guilty. It's taking every ounce of Lavinia's energy to convince her brother that mommy was a murdering adulteress who got what she deserved.
- Peter shows up and is stunned that they're back so soon. And by how much Lavinia has grown to look like her dead mother.
- Of course, the fact she's wearing a dress that's her mom's favorite color probably doesn't help.
- Peter finds himself overcome with love and lust for this newly voluptuous Lavinia.
- Like some kind of lost kitten, Orin has wandered over to a window and is staring out of it.
- Lavinia tries to get his attention.
- After a little polite chatter between Peter and Orin, Orin mentions that Lavinia's adopted Christine's signature color.
- Lavinia and Peter brush it off. Peter asks all about her travels.
- Orin mentions that they spent some time in the South Pacific islands, a regular tropical paradise.
- Not wanting to make Peter jealous, she said she didn't really have that much fun.
- Orin, who's decided to be a butt-head, mentions that Lavinia didn't mind checking out men while they were there. Especially this one guy named Avahanni.
- Doing her best to brush it off, she tells Orin to quit being a little fibber, babying him the way Christine used to (O'Neill really wants us to notice a pattern here), and telling him to go find Hazel.
- He goes, but not without giving Peter a dirty look.
- When Peter wonders about why Orin's acting so strangely, Lavinia chalks it up to him never being quite right after the war, and that grief has made it worse.
- Lavinia gets to flirting with Peter, talking about how much the islands changed her for the better and how much she missed him.
- She literally throws herself at Peter, and says she wants to be married—but then remembers that she can't leave Orin alone.
- (Lavinia blames it on the way he's grieving, but it's really because she's afraid he'll talk about Brant's murder).
- They agree to marry anyway.
- Peter says Orin can live with them, and that they'll try and make him better. They seal their agreement with a kiss just as Orin and Hazel show up.
- Orin realizes what's just happened.
- At first he seems jealous, but then he acts strangely happy.