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As the year winds down, Grace chooses to be with her mother for her final weeks of life. An encounter with Ned reveals a long-held sadness tempered by hope.

Barbara outshines Grace by arranging a rock-star guest speaker who studies the Arctic. Worse, his talk awakens her long-buried grief over the state of the climate.

Grace is barred from accessing her well study sites and must scramble to keep her project going, which leaves her wondering why she's even still fighting when her passion for the work has long faded.

Grace wakes in the hospital after a near-fatal asthma attack at the well site she's studying. Faced with another major failure, unexpected visitors, and absurdly high medical bills, she tries to carry on as if nothing has changed.

Grace has a sweet moment with Ned just before receiving devastating, life-altering news from the dean of her department.

As Grace wrestles with her estranged mother Francesca's illness, Ned accompanies her on a visit and volunteers them for duty in the neighborhood vegetable garden, where they learn just how beloved Francesca is in her community.

Grace and Barbara argue about the narrow scope of their methane research, while Grace tries to push away a growing sense of unease about Barbara's loyalty.

Grace is creating a definitive map of methane emissions from United Energy’s wells. Dragonfly Farm is the largest tract of land in the area, not under lease for methane extraction. She needs to sample their air as a baseline, to contrast and highlight methane hot spots from the well sites. She makes her pitch to the owners of the farm, but they know about her connection to the drilling company. They question her integrity and make a shocking demonstration that challenges Grace's closely held belief in the value of her work.

Grace contacts the owners of the farm adjacent to the methane well site to ask permission to place her air monitors on their property. They invite her to one of their Radical Self-Sufficiency workshops and promise to discuss her proposal afterwards. Now she’s burning an entire Saturday for something she learned the hard way—by living it. They said to wear old clothes and be prepared for mud.

Grace spends money like a drunken sailor to equip her lab with all new equipment, resists a strange mentorship, and spars with Ned, a reporter for the Sun, over their coverage of climate.