Late at night, Polly lies awake beside Hank, nursing her bandaged hand and thinking about the earlier confrontation with Tegan. She recalls visiting the basement to help with a bedpan, noting Tegan’s exhaustion and humiliation after earlier stabbing Polly with a fork. Polly frames her actions as helping Tegan avoid motherhood and fulfilling her own long-denied dream of a family.

Hank initiates a difficult conversation, pressing Polly to admit her true motives. When Polly insists she’s protecting Tegan from poor hospital care, Hank calls it out as untrue. Polly finally confesses she wants Tegan’s baby, believing she and Hank would be better parents.

Hank rejects the plan as impossible and reminds Polly that Tegan attacked her and will never agree. He emphasizes their legal peril after lying to the police and questions how Polly imagines delivering the baby at home and passing it off to a pediatrician. He urges her to call Dr. Salinsky, suggesting she seek help without revealing specifics.

Polly bristles at the suggestion of therapy and clings to the belief that time and persuasion can secure the baby. Hank concedes to the previously agreed three-day window but demands Polly make things right. Polly ends the exchange resentful and resolute, silently vowing to get Tegan’s baby regardless.