The Affair Season 4 Recap
Here's Where Season 4 of The Affair Left Off With Each Character
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Helen is confronted early on with the news that her boyfriend, Vik, has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. She repeatedly begs him to seek chemo and other treatment, but he refuses, although he does express a wish that they could have a child together before he dies. Instead, Helen is left to help pick up the pieces after Alison, her ex-husband's original lover/the ex-wife of her ex-lover, dies.
And that's not the only emotional web she's sucked into dealing with. Just after a heartfelt conversation with ex-husband Noah helps her realise just how much she really does love Vik, she learns that their neighbour Sierra (with whom she had a brief hookup) also hooked up with Vik and is consequently pregnant with his baby, even as he teeters on death from complications from his cancer.