- The next day, Pearl's mom goes out with Mitchell and leaves Pearl at home.
- The first chance she gets, Pearl heads to the woods to find Amiel—she wants to make sure he's okay, and doesn't care if it gets her in trouble.
- She walks through the woods, close to where his house was.
- There, she finds people walking around and worries they will report Amiel to immigration if she leads them directly to his front door.
- Pearl wanders this way and that so they don't have a trail to his house, and gets lost in the process.
- Suddenly she finds a big, black oak tree with a note on it for her. This is how she and Amiel used to communicate, so she knows it must be from him.
- The note tells her that he's gone back to Mexico and to remember him.
- Pearl breaks down crying. She apologizes to Hoyt, Robby, Agnès, and her mom right there in the woods even though they can't hear her.