Beard knows this part of the story, and is nodding along. Nate and Higgins are following, taking it in. Keeley covers her mouth with her hands, and nods when Ted apologizes for lying.

"It's all right," she says. "It must have been so hard to be apart."

"You did what you had to do," Higgins says.

"It wasn't her, though?" Nate says. "That's why she came back, yeah?"