back in 1978 bangkok, kim joyfully dresses in her wedding clothes ("sun and moon [reprise]") and leaves the engineer to watch tam while she is gone. she goes to chris's hotel room, where she finds ellen. ellen reveals that she is chris's wife. kim is heartbroken and refuses to believe ellen. ellen asks kim if chris is the father of tam, and kim confirms that he is. kim says that she does not want her son to continue living on the streets and pleads that they take tam with them back to america, but ellen refuses, saying that tam needs his real mother, and ellen wants her own children with chris. kim angrily demands that chris tell her these things in person, and runs out of the room ("room 317"). ellen feels bad for kim, but is determined to keep chris ("now that i've seen her", originally "her or me", replaced with "maybe" [completely new lyrics and melody] for the 2011 dutch revival).