Lulu realizes that she’s been so concerned with Bitsy that she missed noticing her own mental-illness symptoms.

Lulu has lost trust in herself. As Henry drives her to the sanatorium, she tells him that Gary is lying. However, when Lulu explains that she saw Bitsy’s discharge paper from the lobotomy, Henry asks if this was when she broke into the Betsers’ home. He points out that she was sure she saw Esther too. Lulu knows that anything else she says will only confirm Henry’s image of her as “hysterical.” She tries to figure out where her reality began to deviate from everyone else’s. They arrive at the sanatorium. Lulu once visited Georgie there; years ago, it was a polio hospital. Henry says that he’ll be back soon and implores Lulu to remember. Lulu knows she needs to act docile so that they don’t lobotomize her.

On her first morning in the sanatorium, a nurse tells Lulu to take a shower, and she watches while Lulu does so. Next, the nurse takes her to the cafeteria for an inedible breakfast. Lulu is appalled by the sight of patients who no longer look or act human. When the nurse retrieves Lulu for a doctor’s appointment, she slips another patient a lollipop, telling the woman not to mention it to the doctor.