Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination.

In the present, Sookie wears a disguise to her next session with Dr. Shapiro. She explains the rumor going around about them having an affair. Dr. Shapiro compliments her for commitment to their sessions even though her mother told her not to continue. On the way home, she feels proud of herself for making progress, even if she still wants to meet further out of town so they won’t be spotted.

At the New Castle Army Air Base in Wilmington, Delaware, Fritzi describes to Billy in a letter how she doesn’t think her sister Sophie should join the WASPs because she won’t like their lifestyle. Fritzi herself has been busy making deliveries. 

She also relays how some people don’t understand that she and other women pilots work for the military, mistaking them for Girl Scout leaders or Red Cross volunteers. One restaurant refused to serve them because they were wearing pants and not skirts. On another occasion, a group of WASPs were stopped when they landed at an airbase in Georgia because the military police thought they’d stolen a US military plane. They hadn’t heard of the government’s WASP initiative.