Rohan learns, in a slow, awkward exchange, that Savitri once feared she was exactly like Vikram. She too had been young once, she says, with an anxious hunger to be useful. She reveals a flash of memory: a younger husband gone for work for two years, letters that arrived late and changed nothing. She had become sharp to protect a fragile home. Now, older and quieter, she sometimes mistakes control for care.

Tagline for the next episode: "When memories stream, who controls the playback?"