Delicate Condition

Anna’s contractions become more intense. Dex, telling Cora to leave, gets Anna to the car. On the way, Anna sees a doll whose mouth has been painted red.

Dex, driving, pesters Anna with questions about how she feels. When she sees blood between her legs, he tries to offer her napkins. Anna recoils from his touch, which angers Dex, who calls her “unreasonable.” Anna becomes enraged, feeling as monstrous as the child inside her. She bites his finger off and spits his wedding ring onto the car’s console. Dex panics, and the car crashes.

Anna wakes in the wreckage and sees Dex, unconscious but alive. She tries to exit the car and call for help, but her contractions are more powerful, and there’s no cell signal. Anna loses consciousness. When she wakes again, Siobhan is above her, wearing a blue baseball cap. Anna, deeply alarmed, asks if Siobhan was the one following her all this time. Siobhan confirms that it was sometimes her but sometimes other women she works with. Anna, not understanding who else Siobhan might work with, asks if Emily or Talia are involved, but Siobhan says they are not. Anna slips in and out of consciousness as she sees that Siobhan is not alone—there are other women at the scene of the crash now, including Olympia.