Ward D

Amy has six hours left of her shift. She tries to take a nap in the staff lounge but cannot sleep even after using Dr. Silver’s technique. She walks around, stopping at the seclusion rooms. There’s no sound from Seclusion One, which makes Amy nervous, so she tries to talk to Damon Sawyer but receives no answer. In Seclusion Two, Miguel is singing. Amy decides reading might help her sleep, so she goes to Will’s room to borrow one of his John Irving books. Will is in the bathroom, so she helps herself to a copy of The World According to Garp, but when she opens it, she discovers it’s hollowed out and filled with medication.

Will exits the bathroom and Amy covers her intrusion by asking to borrow Cider House Rules; he gives it to her. Thinking about Will’s hidden pills, Amy brings up what happened to Miguel and suggests Will wouldn’t want to be secluded. He becomes closed off and says he’s ready to sleep. Amy leaves, but her concern about Will’s untreated paranoid schizophrenia worries her, so she goes to tell Dr. Beck. Although he seems concerned, Dr. Beck says he’ll switch Will to injections if necessary. Amy tells him about Cameron’s disappearance, and Dr. Beck claims Cameron left a voicemail saying he left for a family emergency.

The narrative flashes back to eight years ago. Amy is in math class on the day of the test. She reflects on how much she dislikes the teacher, Mr. Riordan, because of his lack of hygiene, monotone voice, and difficult tests. As Mr. Riordan hands out the tests, he becomes agitated because one appears to be missing.

Jade confronts Amy about telling Dr. Beck about Will’s hidden pills. She accuses Amy of not understanding how difficult it is to take such pills and suggests she tell Dr. Beck about seeing things. Finally, Jade accuses her of abandoning her when she needed her most. When Amy apologizes, Jade suggests she and Cameron join her and her boyfriend for dinner when she leaves the hospital; Amy declines.

Amy has five hours left of her shift. She reads Jade’s chart, and learns she and her boyfriend attempted to rob several banks with a beer bottle; overall, Jade has struggled to treat her bipolar disorder. Amy hears a strangling noise in Seclusion Two, where Miguel is, and sees blood under the door.

Amy struggles with what to do about Miguel. She considers opening Seclusion Two, but then decides to get Dr. Beck. However, when she returns with Dr. Beck, the blood is gone. Amy wants to check on Miguel, but Dr. Beck refuses because he doesn’t want to rile him up. He again tells Amy to sleep.

The narrative flashes back to eight years ago. Mr. Riordan keeps Amy and Jade after class the day after the test. He says the janitor identified them as the students he let into the classroom the day the copy of the test went missing. He wants them to explain their actions to the principal the following day. Amy panics, but Jade promises to take care of their problem.

Jade accuses Amy of still seeing things, but Amy denies it, claiming she’s just tired. She returns to the staff lounge to sleep, but the lights are off and she realizes someone is waiting for her inside.

Will is waiting for Amy in the staff lounge. He saw the blood in Seclusion Two, too, and Ramona cleaned it up. Amy doesn’t trust him because of his diagnosis. She confronts Will about his pills, and he admits he’s been hiding them because he needs to be able to think clearly. He heard Cameron scream earlier and saw him taken to Seclusion One. Amy mentions Cameron’s family emergency, but when she tries to call Cameron on a landline, she discovers the phones are dead. Will connects this to the power outage. He suggests Amy leave, but when she enters the code on the main door, it doesn’t work.

Amy asks Ramona about the door code. Ramona says the doors reset when the power went out, and that they have to wait for the morning shift in order to leave. Amy asks what to do in case of a fire, but Ramona dismisses the idea, insisting a fire won’t happen. When Amy asks about the blood in Seclusion Two, Ramona tells her it was strawberry jelly.

Amy tells Will what Ramona said, but he doesn’t believe it. He tells Amy to be careful. She sends him to bed, but when she looks down the hall, she believes he went into Jade’s room, not his own.