Delicate Condition

Two days before the Oscars, which Anna plans to attend in person, she does a virtual yoga session during she begins to feel intense pain in her throat. She coughs up a tooth.

Anna turns off her computer and finds that the tooth, if it was ever there, has disappeared. She begins to question her own perceptions, so she goes upstairs to take a bath. While waiting for the tub to fill, she feels the baby kicking again. Its movements become increasingly unpleasant, until she feels a cutting sensation and sees something sharp, black, and talon-like poke out of her skin. As she starts to cry, she sees that the talon is gone and her skin is unbroken.

Hearing Anna screaming, Dex rushes into the bathroom. Since there’s only light bruising on Anna’s stomach, she chooses not to say anything about the hallucination. Dex leaves her, and she hallucinates seeing Meg in the bathroom. Screaming again, she collapses.