The Affair is an American television drama series created by Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi.
At the school, Noah brings up Anton at a faculty meeting calling him "brilliant" but expresses concerns about him and his home life.
Noah tells his students that they have collectively more power than they think, and this sparks an impromptu walkout led by Anton, with the rest of the school following suit.
The police show up and Noah becomes the main person the media speaks with, where he calls the walkout school sanctioned.
On the boat, Alison opens up and tells Ben about her son's death, as well as her past addiction to self-injury and her suicide attempt.
Vik has a hard day at work when he has to tell the parents of a young girl that she may have liver cancer.
Janelle explains that Anton's father (and her ex-husband), Carl, went to Harvard but left because of how he was treated, due to him being black.
Helen runs into her neighbor Sierra, and decides to join her at a "moon circle" retreat at Joshua Tree.
Back at their yurt, Sierra tells Helen she likes to sleep with married men because they appear more secure.
On their way to a rowdy house party where there is a sensory deprivation tank, Helen tells Sierra to "lay off" married because the affair harms too many people.
She decides to leave Joshua Tree, drive home, and tell Vik she doesn't want him to die.
Ben explains that his PTSD, which was caused by killing a teenager whom he thought had a live RPG, put strain on his marriage and he developed a drinking problem.
At the service, Cole confronts Athena about Alison being cremated instead of being buried alongside their son Gabriel.
While Alison's urn is being passed around to the mourners to say goodbye, when it's Cole's turn, he takes it and runs.
However, Cole offers to stay married so Luisa can become a U.S. citizen and Joanie's legal guardian.
The following morning, Cole takes Joanie on a road trip so they can properly mourn Alison.
Back at Helen's house, everyone watches a video Vik recorded before he died, and Noah discovers that Whitney and her boyfriend Colin are getting married.
After everyone has left, Noah stays behind to clean-up the kitchen and when he takes out the garbage, Helen exclaims "That's Vik's job!"
On set, Sasha expresses his concerns to Noah about the ending, asking him to rewrite it so his character returns to his wife.
Noah arrives at Janelle's as she is preparing for her campaign for the school board position, which is being led by Carl.
While working at her art gallery job, her artist ex-boyfriend Furkat shows up and invites her to an event, but she declines.
Colin wants to skip the wedding months from now and just get married now, so he could apply for a work visa.
At an afterparty, an intoxicated Whitney has sex with Furkat, while his gallery collector friend watches.
On her way to an audition, Sierra leaves Eddie in the car by himself after he finally stops crying and falls asleep.
After the first day of production on the film, Sierra goes to a nightclub and ends up doing cocaine and having sex with the director.
Noah receives a call from Petra, the Vanity Fair reporter who previously interviewed him, where she tells him that his former publicist Eden has lodged an allegation that he forced her into an unwanted sexual encounter, which he denies.
After a visit from CPS, Sierra tells Helen that she thinks she's an unfit mother and wonders if she should give up Eddie.
Noah has been accused by six women who describe a pattern of behavior ranging from inappropriate comments to unwanted advances and emotional distress.
A wildfire causes the Solloway family to evacuate the area, and Helen and the kids stay at Sasha's.
Helen watches an Entertainment Tonight interview with Audrey Nelson, one of the accuser's and Noah's former student.