- After supper has been finished and Richie has been put to bed, Laura Brown washes up in the bathroom as Dan waits for her in bed.
- Laura knows that Dan will want to have sex tonight, and she knows that she'll go along with it despite the fact that she isn't in the mood.
- Laura spends a moment looking at the bottle of sleeping pills that she keeps in the medicine cabinet, and she thinks again how easy it would be to step away from her life.
- Soon, Laura closes the medicine cabinet and walks into the bedroom, where Dan is waiting.
- When she reaches the edge of the bed, she pauses there, lost in her thoughts.