1977: Joubert and Turner cross paths again.
When Finn and Kylo meet again, the world is falling down around them.
"It's Karen," she says hopelessly in the middle of his doorway like he wouldn't know her a thousand other ways. The whiff of perfume on her, Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb trapped underneath a thick smear of booze, or the sound of her shoes on the hard tile floor. She's drunk already; her breathing is faint and thready. Her face is too hot.
What it says on the tin. Jeff topping for the first time, for justbreathe80.
Sui Zhou must rise eventually, of course.
Balls and chains are for pens at the bank, and he's never seen a pen that looked like it could survive a level three nuclear holocaust.
“If there is anything else that can be said of Qinghe Nie,” Lan Xichen recites, helplessly faint, “it is that we take our weddings and our burials very seriously—”
“—For they are, to us, one and the same,” Nie Huaisang finishes for him. “You do remember.”
"Don't slouch, Maxine, it makes you look common," says Barbara.
Maria's not sure how it all happened, really.
Kaz almost dies. Inej almost leaves his room without sitting on his face.