Richard returns home the next day after Karen decides to stay the entire weekend. While Karen and Sam go grocery shopping, Harold, Nick, Michael, and Chloe drive out to see the abandoned house that Chloe and Alex were renovating. Meanwhile, Meg tells Sarah she is fed up with failed relationships and intends to have a child on her own. Believing she is ovulating, she plans to ask Sam to act as sperm donor after learning that Nick was left impotent from a war injury. Michael, who continually flirts with Chloe, has nebulous plans to open a New York nightclub and is seeking investors. At dinner, Sarah becomes tearful as the group discuss Alex and lament how their fervent '60s idealism diminished into upper middle-class affluence. Later that night, Meg asks Sam to father her baby, though he gently declines.