Dressed in men’s clothing and carrying a small blade Davina lends her, Julia makes her way to the Grant’s. An overjoyed Henry sneaks her into his quarters, where he immediately takes her into his arms and asks about William. She assures him their son is safe, and then — off her questions about the marks on his body — he fills her in on everything that happened when he went back. Julia’s face progressively falls as she realizes he isn’t mentioning their daughter, Claire, so she point-blank asks him if he went to London to find her. And then Henry dies a million deaths, because he can’t remember their little girl at all.
“What did they do to you?” Julia asks, horrified. Henry tries to explain how the doctors tried to remove his traumatic war memories, but the bigger pain was in regard to abandoning Claire. “They burned her out of me with their wires and their current,” he says, overcome. “Sometimes, I’m not even sure what’s real anymore.” And now he’s back, but he has to leave to fight with the Grants so soon… and that’s when Julia has reached her limit, physically stepping away from her husband and announcing that she NEEDS A MINUTE.
Once she’s taken a breath and removed her coat, Julia asks Henry about Seema. “It’s not what you think,” he says quickly. “Tell me what it is,” she presses. He walks her through the mental breakdown he experienced after thinking that she and William had died, up to and including when he had sex with Seema and imagined she was Julia. Julia is disgusted. Henry is sobbing. “The grief, it broke something in me,” he manages to get out. “When I realized, it was like losing you all over again.” Yes, she says, but they’ve seen each other since then: Why didn’t he tell her? “I was a coward,” Henry sadly replies. Eventually, it shakes out to the fact that Julia can forgive him, “but forgetting — that will take some time.”
She urges him to find the old Henry “for me, for our children.” He swears that he will. “And then, then we’ll forget together, when you return,” she adds, crying. Eventually, they put everything aside, because Henry IS about to leave to fight. “I need my husband now,” she says. “Tonight.” So they have sex, even though everything is very not OK between the two of them.
In the morning, he wakes to find her sitting at his desk. She wrote him a letter, marked “SWAK” like in the old days. “You wrote first last time. Now it’s my turn,” she informs him, ordering him to bring it home when he safely returns. They kiss. They trade I love yous. Then he leaves with the Grant men, and Julia slips home after everyone has gone.
Back at Leathers, Julia quickly realizes that both Davina and William are nowhere to be found. There is a troubling-looking omen left in the baby’s cradle, though. And when Seema enters, brandishing a knife and babbling about how she and Henry actually loved each other, things seem very bad, indeed.