“It’s so… crisp,” she whispers.

Gregory hesitates. Then, in a quiet moment after school, he points the remote at the screen and pulls up a video. It’s a home movie. Grainy, standard definition, filmed on a flip phone from 2009. It shows his late father laughing at a barbecue.

Barbara, a pro, pivots gracefully. But later, in the breakroom, she admits to Janine: “Sometimes, a little blur is mercy, baby.”

The B-plot: Gregory has been avoiding the screen. Janine corners him.