In “Beautiful Living Rooms,” the seventh episode of The Beauty shifts from global conspiracy to devastating personal choices, showing how love, desperation, and manipulation intertwine under the seductive promise of an impossible cure.

Hidden in a safe house, Jordan and Cooper share a rare moment of vulnerability. She regrets not marrying him earlier and confesses her love. Cooper promises he will fix everything, but cannot say he loves her back, remaining emotionally restrained and deeply troubled.

At the hospital, the contrast is harsher. Meyer Williams prays beside his dying daughter, Joey, a child suffering from progeria. The disease has destroyed not only her body but also her parents’ marriage. Julianne, once editor of one of the country’s most influential fashion magazines, blames Meyer for the life she lost. She refuses to accept any decision that could mean letting their daughter die, while Meyer, exhausted and broken, begins to question whether prolonging the suffering is mercy or cruelty.

The next morning, the Corporation arrives at the Williams home in New Jersey carrying the mysterious drug. Byron, the FBI director and key architect of the conspiracy, proposes testing the formula on Joey. Julianne agrees instantly, desperate to save her child and reclaim a future. Meyer hesitates, but Byron reveals detailed knowledge of the worldwide explosions and makes his demand clear: the investigation must stop, and Cooper must be delivered to him personally.

Byron further pressures Meyer by revealing that Jordan is infected and being protected by Cooper, framing it as a choice between duty and fatherhood. He offers doses of The Beauty for the entire family, plus ten million dollars. Julianne wants the new life. Meyer’s final decision remains uncertain.

Meanwhile, the episode humanizes one of its killers. The assassin finally reveals his name: Antonio. Watching a game with Jerry, he recounts how he once worked as a bodyguard for the ultra-rich until an acid attack left him disfigured and in constant pain. Byron recruited him in the hospital, offering the formula that restored his youth and made him an invisible weapon. To support his son from afar, Antonio accepted erasing himself from his own life.

Their conversation ends when Byron assigns a new mission: kill Cooper and Jordan immediately. They will have only a one-hour window of access to a laboratory where the agents are working. Unbeknownst to them, the operation is also a trap.

They infiltrate the facility and quickly close in on their targets. Cooper speaks with the man posing as a doctor until he senses something is wrong. Violence erupts. Jerry captures Jordan while Antonio confronts Cooper in a brutal fight. When Antonio threatens to kill Jordan if he dies, Cooper surrenders. With no options left, he finally tells Jordan he loves her, too.

Back at the Williams home, the Corporation performs the transformation on Meyer and Julianne, assuring them that the only side effect is an uncontrollable urge to laugh. They emerge young, flawless, reborn, and are led to Joey, who has also been transformed.

The reunion suggests the cure worked, yet the atmosphere is deeply unsettling. Something is wrong. The episode ends without revealing the true cost of this salvation, reinforcing the show’s central question: what, exactly, was sacrificed to achieve this new form of life?