The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

Nolan, Sage, Baldwin, and Marla walk across the field to the edge of the woods. Evie lies in a shallow grave with the same injuries and makeup as Rosemary. Baldwin then suggests that Sage herself committed the murder. After confirming that residents have no access to outside media, Nolan points out that it’s highly unlikely that Sage found out about the three other similar victims—unless she has regularly escaped the hospital or killed multiple women in precisely the same way.

The leadership of the hospital appears. At the same time, Dr. Douglas Carter, Evie’s husband, runs toward the body of his wife. The police stop him and guide him away. Hammond, the head of Willowbrook, interrogates Baldwin about the reporters. Carter aggressively threatens Baldwin, accusing him of hurting Evie. When Carter is led away, he drops his head in his hands and weeps, evoking Sage’s sympathy.

Nolan gets a statement from Hammond. Evie’s body is placed into the coroner’s van. Just then, the cadaver-sniffing dogs alert the police to a second body buried near Evie’s dump site. When the body is revealed, Nolan allows Sage to come forward, and she falls to her knees at the gravesite.

In the morgue, Sage identifies Rosemary’s body. Nolan, Baldwin, and Sage return to Baldwin’s office. Nolan asks why Baldwin didn’t report Rosemary missing and why he didn’t take the report of the body in the tunnels seriously. Baldwin insists that he’s never been told Rosemary had a sister, much less an identical twin, and so believed Sage was Rosemary. Nolan asks Sage about the relationships Wayne and Eddie had with Rosemary, as well as the timeline of her arrival to Willowbrook and how she found out Rosemary was missing.

Nurse Vic pounds on the door: Wayne has cleared out his locker and left the residents in the dayroom unattended. Baldwin asks to see to the patients, but Nolan refuses to allow Baldwin to leave until he’s released Sage, given Nolan Wayne’s employee records, and answered more questions related to Evie. Nolan asks Sage if she’s ready to go home and offers her a ride with an officer. Baldwin apologizes to Sage, but sounds disingenuous. She hears fear in his voice and considers suing. Baldwin looks in the filing cabinet for Wayne’s file, but it’s missing.

As an officer drives Sage back to Alan’s apartment, she reflects that what matters to her has changed significantly in her two weeks at Willowbrook. On the way to Long Island, Sage begins to see Wayne everywhere she looks, her nerves becoming progressively more frayed. When they arrive at the apartment building, the super tells her that Alan said Sage was away with Alan’s sister. She confirms that the super told Eddie Alan had been on a fishing trip. The super lets her into the empty apartment, which is a mess with a nasty smell permeating the air. She showers, gets dressed in her own clothes, and curls up in bed. She has trouble sleeping and wakes from a nightmare, starving, in the middle of the night. Alan still isn’t home. She gets her money, a coat, and boots, and heads to the 24-hour convenience store nearby.

A red Mustang pulls up next to her. She speeds up, worried that Wayne is stalking her or that she’s otherwise in danger, but the driver is Eddie, who offers her a ride. She hesitates but accepts. Eddie offers to buy her breakfast at a diner. She again hesitates, but agrees. As they drive, she feels faint, asks Eddie to pull over, and catches her breath in the cold fresh air.

Sage used to go to the diner where they end up with her friends. The waitress recognizes her and asks if Eddie is her cousin. Sage’s friends told the waitress that Alan sent Sage to stay with his sister and that she’d had a breakdown when she found out about Rosemary. Over breakfast, Eddie shows Sage a news article about Willowbrook: Hammond refuses to reinstate Wilkins, the whistle blower who called the reporter. Sage asks if Hammond will admit to Rosemary’s death, but Eddie believes that Hammond will keep all the secrets he can.

Eddie asks if Alan will look for Sage, but she thinks he’s talking about Wayne and gets scared. Sage thinks Alan likely will let Willowbrook cremate Rosemary. She asks if Eddie will come with her to the funeral, and he agrees. He offers to let Sage stay with him while she figures out what to do, but she declines, saying she doesn’t know him well enough. She asks why he works at Willowbrook. In high school, when he defended a girl from a bully, the bully pulled a knife and fell on it, injuring himself. Eddie was expelled and had to get his GED instead of graduating, so his uncle got him a job at Willowbrook.

Eddie drives her back to her apartment and walks her up. When they get to the door they hear someone running down the stairs and quickly duck into the apartment. Eddie offers to spend the night on the couch to help her feel safe, and she agrees. She sleeps fitfully. Eddie goes out, leaving a note that he’ll come back after work, his phone number in case she decides to go somewhere else, and some money. She decides to ask her friends if she can stay with them.

As she gets the spare key in Alan’s bedroom, the unpleasant smell becomes stronger. She checks the bedside table for money, and steps in something sticky. When she looks down, she realizes there are pools of blood around the bed. She looks under the bed and sees Alan’s dead body, painted and cut up like Rosemary and Evie.

She screams, calls the police, and gets a knife in case the killer is still in the apartment. When the police arrive, she tells them there’s a body in the bedroom.