With Piper’s help, Hannah appears at a party for the movie crew wearing a red dress and styled hair. After chatting with the lead actor, Hannah asks Brinley if she can help with the movie score. Sergei, who notices that Hannah has dressed up, agrees that she can try. Hannah is elated at this opportunity, but concerned that she can’t think of an appropriate song to celebrate the moment. She has several drinks and dances, and then notices the female attention Fox receives when he comes looking for her. It annoys Hannah to see how women objectify him, and she feels guilty for judging him the same way at their first meeting. She crosses the room thinking she wants to comfort him, wants “to be an anchor for him” (84), and kisses him.

Fox returns from his fishing trip. He searches for Hannah with the excuse that he is looking out for her. Kissing Hannah makes him feel like he is back on solid ground. He tells her, and himself, that he was trying to make Sergei jealous. He carries her piggyback style to his apartment and tells her Brendan offered to make him captain of the Della Ray, but he doesn’t want the responsibility.