Funny little conversation going on here, this Kitchen is hawt. I like how they just thematically went with that little twang/funk riff during the breathe/wiping the slate section as the progression for the 2nd part of this odyssey
I would argue that was an > Cut Off, they held out the A instead of sliding → the ending chord of ITK which is a B indicating they were seguing > Cut Off. Not a full stop they just did the a decreciendo to pull off the segue. A hair split, just my .02