New details in the episode’s ending reveal that Hal’s father gave him the family safe key months before taking his own life, and that Hal’s grandfather also died by suicide. Hal describes this history as pain passed from one generation to the next, casting his own hidden supplies and preparations in a more troubling light. The episode also reunites John Stewart with a copy of Hal’s consciousness and takes them through a portal to the ruined world of Antaan.

The copy, known as the Hal-ogram, helps John open Hal’s storage vault, where they find supplies, a handgun, a canteen and a portal-making black sphere. On Antaan’s barren planet, John recognises the place from memories aliens forced into him earlier in the season; the episode does not name the planet. The penultimate instalment leaves the central mystery unresolved: who killed the real Hal Jordan?