Although he tries to slam the door in Maria's face, Brandi fiercely stands up for her, getting him to let them in. Being there is already hard enough he doesn't need to make it harder.But once inside, with the lawyer running late, the silence is deafening. Tensions run high and the rift between the stepsiblings grows wider still. It's as clear as day that they both have been hurt in the past, wrestling with intense feelings of betrayal, especially surrounding their family. Maria insists that their family, especially Adam's parent, was cruel to her because she's trans, though Adam remembers things differently. As he fiercely tries to defend his family, Maria struggles to help Adam see what life was like from HER perspective, and how she's finally found acceptance and happiness meeting other trans women like Brandi.