Polly narrates her first return to Roosevelt Memorial since “The Incident,” when security escorted her out for holding a newborn too long. She frames it as humiliating and minimized, signaling her distorted judgment and unresolved fixation on babies and motherhood.

Determined and disguised, Polly leaves her coat in the car to display scrubs and wears an old, still-passable hospital badge. Visiting hours and a surgical mask make entry easy; the front security barely looks up, and she proceeds toward the elevators after confirming Labor and Delivery is on the third floor.

While waiting, Polly briefly interacts with a new father holding chocolates and a stuffed elephant, which triggers thoughts of what Hank might have brought her if she’d conceived. The moment deepens her resentment and fuels her resolve to act.

Riding up, Polly grips the scissors hidden in her scrub pocket, framing them as the means to ensure Tegan never reveals what Polly and Hank did. She rationalizes the attack as giving Hank a fresh start and imagines him searching for her and arriving at the hospital too late to stop her.