Helen meets with a woman who is demanding power of attorney over her mother, and attends her ex-husband William's writers' festival run by literary interlocutor Lindy Baxter-Smythe.

Helen meets formidable opposing counsel Alice Pike, and stumbles upon Roz's passion project; an all-woman harmony group for funerals called, The Sadrigals. Alice Pike makes a complaint to the board about Roz.