Polly discovers Hank has emptied the medicine cabinet and removed sharp objects after her earlier suicide threat. Realizing the greater danger is that their kidnapped victim might tell police everything, Polly decides she must act to prevent prison.

Polly targets the 7 p.m. shift change at Roosevelt Memorial, a chaotic window she knows from her former nursing job when medications pause and staff are distracted. She changes into floral scrubs, pins her hair into a bun, and steels herself, recalling her past life before everything fell apart.

Her chance comes when Hank goes outside to chop wood, expecting her to come down for dinner. Polly slips downstairs quietly. She considers bringing lunch to Sadie as usual, but seeing Mitch’s truck next door, she avoids the house to keep clear of him.

Before leaving, Polly takes kitchen shears from the knife block as a makeshift weapon and pockets them. She intends to exploit the hospital’s shift-change chaos to address the threat Tegan poses, accepting she might not return home.