Nora sold her home and staged everything to expose Emily and cut her off. Joe, filled with guilt, rushes to the nursing home to apologize, only to find Nora had suffered a respiratory failure and died. At the hospital,
he learns she had been declining and had skipped treatment. Moments later, Joe receives a message—Nora had transferred $500,000 to his bank account from the sale of the house. It was her final act of love, a heartbreaking sacrifice to save her son from a woman who never truly cared for him.