The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

The girls and women are led to the nurse’s station, where they are given medication. Sage thinks she sees Rosemary, but when she pushes toward her, she sees that the girl is not her sister. Sage is yelled at to return to her cart.

Sage pretends to swallow the pills, spitting them into her hand. When Eddie, a young man pushing a mop bucket, approaches her, she drops the pills into the cart. He calls her Rosemary but walks away quickly.

The residents are herded into the dayroom, freshly mopped, but still spotted with puddles and stains. Wayne is the attendant in charge. After all the residents come in, he locks the doors and prowls the room breaking up fights, putting girls into straitjackets, and using a bully stick to threaten or beat the girls and women into submission.

Attendants bring in orange juice spiked with tranquilizers and bowls of oatmeal with no spoons. Tina reappears and encourages Sage to eat quickly before the food is taken away. Sage asks her what will happen next and Tina laughs—they will never do anything but this. Only the people in the experiment ward get clothes, classes, or toys. Suddenly, Norma grabs Sage’s arm hard, angry that “Rosemary” left Norma alone.