Over dinner Daniel and Laura reflect on events of the past two weeks as their relationship develops. Daniel shares that he and his father have always had a stressful relationship, and that he just learned that his college tuition had been paid for by Harold O’Bannon, the deceased owner of the Black Cat Toy Factory. He tells Laura that he imagines it must have been out of some since of obligation to Daniel’s grandfather, Jack Thompson, who served as a manager in the factory and who died in the fire that crippled O’Bannon and destroyed the business. We also learn that Daniel’s mother was an orphan who was raised by a strictly conservative couple who died and left their farm, the Thompson farm to her. Daniel’s father was one of the few men she had been allowed to know.

     Later that night, Daniel has a dreams that he is called to the root cellar by his father to help put up jars of fruit and sauce. His father scolds and berates him and calls him “a bad apple.” Daniel sees body parts in the jars of tomato sauce and drops one on the hard floor where it breaks. Hundreds of spiders spill out of that jar and all the jars in the cellar.

     The buzzing of his cell phone on the night stand awakens Daniel, and he sees a message from Laura telling him that she was sorry she couldn’t stay the night but that she’s looking forward to picking up where they left off. Daniel sees an apple sitting at the base of a lamp on the nightstand. Finding that strange since he did not remember putting it there, he reaches for it and cuts himself on a razor blade that it sticking out of the apple.