Steven (
Zach Callison) is contemplating the conflicting information he has received about Pink Diamond's shattering and anxiously waits while
Amethyst (
Michaela Dietz) teaches Pearl (
Deedee Magno Hall) how to use her new cell phone. After Amethyst leaves, Steven confronts Pearl and asks her if she is the one who shattered Pink Diamond. Pearl does not answer, seemingly shocked. When Amethyst returns, Pearl immediately changes the subject and stores her phone in her gem, leaving Steven confused. Later, Steven receives a text message from Pearl: "I want to tell you but I can't.
🙊" Steven returns home and confronts her about it, but Pearl says she has not used her phone since that morning. As she tries and fails to retrieve her phone from her gem, Steven receives another text — a pink hibiscus emoji(🌺), which shocks Pearl. She asks him to enter her gem and get it himself, hinting that he will find the answers to his questions there. Inside Pearl's gem, Steven meets a personification of Pearl's ability to
compartmentalize. She cannot find the phone stored with Pearl's other belongings and sends Steven deeper into Pearl's mind to look for it. He visits her traumatic memories of Rose Quartz's pregnancy and the aftermath of the Gem War. He eventually arrives at the moment after Pink Diamond's shattering. He sees gem shards on the ground and Rose holding her sword, crying in despair. When he steps closer, he realizes that it is not Rose but Pearl, shape-shifted into Rose's form. She reveals Pink Diamond's undamaged gemstone in her hand and sends Steven further back through her memories. Steven ends up inside Pink Diamond's palanquin hearing a conversation between Rose (
Susan Egan) and Pearl. While Pearl is hesitant to do what Rose is asking, Rose insists and tells her that they will be free afterward. Pearl finally agrees to Rose's plan and, to Steven's shock, Rose reverts into her true form: Pink Diamond. She creates some fake diamond shards and swallows them, and gives one last command to Pearl as a Diamond: to never again speak of what really happened. As Pink Diamond leaves the palanquin, Pearl turns to Steven and gives him the missing cell phone. She assumes the form of Rose Quartz and heads out to fake the shattering. Steven texts Pearl back in the real world and is pulled out of her mind. Steven somberly states what he has learned: his mother was actually Pink Diamond. Behind him, Amethyst and
Garnet gasp in shock. ==Production==