Fabian and Amber confront Patricia about allowing Nina to come out of the attic; however, Patricia has thrown the key out of the window into the bushes. While hiding from Victor, Nina accidentally opens a secret panel in the attic with her locket and sees a pair of mysterious eyes looking out at her, causing her to panic. In the end, she uses a hairpin to pick the lock and leave the attic. She successfully finishes her "initiation ceremony" and later confides in Fabian about the eyes. The next day, Fabian asks Nina to walk with him to school, and on the way there, they recover the key and Nina decides to keep it for future trips into the attic - "the only place where she truly felt welcome".

Victor rigs the attic door with a feather, and when Nina and Fabian sneak up to find some strange wax cylinders (during Mick and Amber's getting together party), Victor knows that someone has been up there. Mara talks to Patrica in the girls bathroom about her liking Mick, and unknowing to the two of them, Amber hears the whole thing - eventually being fed up. Amber blows up with jealousy over Mara and Mick's friendship and demands to change rooms, sharing with Nina instead of Mara. Fabian and Nina take the wax cylinders to Fabian's uncle Ade who runs an antique shop and find out about the phonograph cylinders. Fabian remembers seeing an old phonograph in the attic. They resolve to return to the attic if they want to play the cylinders. Patricia overhears Victor talking to the Sergeant from the police station about Joy, and realizes the police are also involved in the conspiracy surrounding Joy's disappearance and becomes afraid of everything.