Alex visits Dan at his office to apologize for her recent erratic behavior and attempt to normalize their relationship. She offers him opera tickets as a peace offering, testing his boundaries while Dan tries to maintain a professional distance despite her manipulative charm.
DAN: Are you okay...? I was going to call you today.
ALEX: I'm fine. Listen, I find this terrible embarrassing... I wanted to say "sorry" for what happened. I had no right to put you through all that.
DAN: Nothing happened. Okay?
ALEX: The fact is, I'd been going through a bad time. I was coming to
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