The Dream Hotel

The notes of another facility meeting are reproduced. Medication shipments are delayed, but construction work on the expansion remains on time, and the CRO is displeased with the vacant shift numbers—increased because of the stomach virus—and insists the nurse refuse to treat more people so they do not take advantage of being sick. The CRO makes finding the vandal of the camera system a top priority.

Sara has a confusing dream about watching her brother play a game on his phone and then seeing Elias confessing to the kids that he misses her, followed by a stressful dream about trying to identify and caption a historical photo correctly. At morning check, Hinton reappears, looking awful. She confronts him about the notebook, and he admits to having read it. She begs for it back and he mocks her for dreaming about having sex with him. She extorts him for hiding in the refrigerator room during the fire and gains immediate leverage.

Sara finally acquires a new uniform. She tries to convince some of the other women to not work with little success; they are beaten down by the system and afraid of revolt. She tries to convince her friends at lunch that the difficulty keeping things running shows how reliant the system is on their compliant labor, with negligible effect.