Sabrina let her head thump back against the cool tiled wall of the hospital corridor and let out yet another moody sigh. Though Max had asked them to leave less than five minutes ago, the time spent standing out in the hallway listening to Kris sing to herself was rapidly wearing down on her nerves. Her younger friend was annoyingly switching between humming and whistling the theme song of one her favorite television shows, a song that on any other day, she'd have no complaint about hearing, one that she might have even started whistling along to herself. Hearing it now however, while she stood outside and wasted what precious little time she might have to put some terrible human beings in jail, was not going to work for her.

"Kris, stop." She whispered loudly.

The whistling stopped just long enough for Kris to side-eye her friend defensively before it picked right back up again.

Sabrina rolled her eyes in disdain. "How can you stay so calm about all of this?" she muttered, not really expecting an answer.

In response though, Kris stopped whistling and shrugged. "Calm? Why do you think I'm singing?"

"Why?" Sabrina asked, one brow raised. "Probably beca-"

Whether it was good or bad, the young officer was spared the revealing latter half of Sabrina's sentence when the door opened between them and Max cautiously poked his head into the hall. He didn't look absolutely devastated the way Sabrina thought Kelly would leave him, though. On the contrary, he was back to his usual mellow self, all the wild energy from a few minutes ago seemingly spent. There was even a faint shadow of a smile written on his tired face. As she watched, Max peeked around the door before turning and stopping short at the sight of Sabrina, now unintentionally blocking his way.

"Well, Romeo?" she grumbled.

Max stared at her for a moment but letting his lips curve into an unsure smile and giving his shoulders a shrug. He was well aware of both Sabrina and Kris's expectant stares, but smiled a dismissive smile and, to their extreme annoyance, seemed to change the subject entirely.

"Jill's hungry, so I'm gonna run to the cafeteria and get a snack for her." He said casually. "Anyone else want something?"

Sabrina and Kris shared a confused look.

"That's it? A snack?" Sabrina blurted out.

"A snack, yeah." Max echoed. "You know… to eat?"

"No, I know what a-" Sabrina started, but quickly decided it wasn't worth pursuing. She flopped wearily back against the wall. "-nevermind. No, I don't want anything. So, can we go in now?"

Max shrugged. "Yeah. You can go in." He stuffed his hands in his jeans pockets and cleared his throat. "Hey, Sabrina, Kris… thanks for the space." He said, a little guiltily. "Sorry for yelling."

"Sorry." Sabrina echoed, turning to Kris to shake her head in disbelief. "He comes out of there and all he has to say that he's going to feed Jill. Oh, and that he's sorry." She scoffed and jerked her head toward the door. "You're just like her, you know that?"

It was clear Sabrina wasn't about to pry for information, at least from Max . Whether out of respect for the situation he and Kelly were in or because she didn't know him as well, Kris wasn't sure.

But she'd be damned if she was going to wait a second longer for an answer.

"So what the hell, Max?!" she blurted out. "What? You and Kelly? The baby? What's going on?"

A small grin formed on Max's face. "I don't know yet. I guess we'll see. Anyway, you want anything?"

Kris was halfway through the hospital door, determined for some answers from somebody. But, still she turned to acknowledge the question.

"Whatever you bring Jill. Thanks." She said quickly, before slipping inside.

Sabrina rubbed her face in both hands, feeling suddenly exhausted. She glanced up at Max, who grinned at her before turning and making his way down the hallway. Irritated and confused, Sabrina watched until he turned the corner before pushing Jill and Kelly's door open and walking inside.

"What? Really? What do you mean, you don't know?" Kris was whining at Kelly. "You have to know!"

"I mean mind your own business." Kelly tossed back at her. But her tone was more playful than it was hostile, Sabrina noticed. Whatever had happened between them had been amicable.

"What'd they say, Jill?" Kris pressed, whirling on her sister.

"I'm sworn to secrecy." Jill teased.

Sabrina watched the three of them, choosing to listen instead of chiming into their banter. Clearly, nothing bad had happened. Gone was the guilt wracked expression Kelly had been wearing all day. She looked more at peace than she had earlier, not thrilled exactly, but the tense, nervous energy was gone. Even Jill looked upbeat.

"So?" Sabrina chanced, sitting herself down between the two beds.

"So, we haven't figured it out yet." Kelly sighed. "But, we will soon. When this blows over."

Good enough for her, Sabrina decided. She glanced over at Kris, realizing by the exasperated look on her face that Kelly's evasive answer wasn't going over nearly as well. To her credit though, she only rolled her eyes and leaned herself against the wall closest to Jill's bed.

"Okay… well-" Sabrina started. "Now that that's over with… can we please get back to what I was trying to tell you about before… well... you know."

"Yes, please!" Jill sighed in frustration. She pushed herself up in bed and, realizing her sister was in the room, glanced worriedly toward her two best friends. "Wait, should Kris here this? Kris, maybe you should step out for a minute."

Sabrina bit her lip. "I don't think she should have to le-"

But Kelly beat her to the punch.

"Hey, Kris," she said sweetly. "I'm dying for a cup of coffee and you don't want to hear this anyway. Could you please?"

Kris's eyes widened. "Oh, no!" she said firmly. "No! I want to hear what happened to you two. You're not sending me out again! You should have asked Max for coffee when he was taking orders outside! Besides, I was the one who-" Her blue eyes darted to Jill and the rest of her sentence fizzled out.

Kelly beamed. "The one who what, Kris?"

Kris had nothing, but stood firm anyway. "I… I want to know what happened. I deserve to know."

"And we'll tell you about it later." Jill sighed. "Just go get Kelly her damn coffee. We'll come up with a plan and then I'll tell you all about it later."

Kris glared at her older sister. "Don't talk to me like I'm six, Jill!"

"I'm not! But, this is our job, not yours. This isn't any of your business."

"What do you mean, not any of my business?! You're my sister! That makes every bit of this my fu-"

"Stop!" Kelly barked over the two bickering sisters. She met Jill and Kris's indignant gazes and then again smiled sweetly. "Kris, since you…weren't at the hospital, maybe you should leave this to us… and people who are police." She said, drawing out the word 'police' as much as she could without drawing Jill's attention to it. The warning look that followed was abundantly clear. "Since we're professionals and you're in college."

Kris whirled on her, a scandalized look on her face. You wouldn't, her look dared Kelly. But, by the look on Kelly's face, Kris knew she would. Insulted and betrayed, Kris pushed herself up off the wall and stalked over to the door.

"Fine. I'll get your damn coffee." She spat, her words coming out like poison. "Max is bringing me something. Don't eat it." With that as her closing remark, she shoved the door open, and flung it closed behind her, attempting to slam it out of protest. Unfortunately, the door caught on its spring, slowed and then clicked gently shut behind her.

Jill sighed and rubbed her temples with both hands. "Thanks, Kell."

"Okay. Can we finally discuss this?" Sabrina asked evenly, clearly running out of patience. She waited until Kelly, and Jill had each nodded their assent before rolling her eyes and grabbing up the picture she'd dropped on the floor earlier. She smoothed it out and handed it to Jill. "Anyway, this Zyklon B is a pesticide that's illegal everywhere else but in Czechoslovakia-"

"It's sold as a pesticide there, go on." Kelly interrupted impatiently.

Sabrina narrowed her eyes at her, but decided to let it go. "Yeah it is. And during the war they used it in the…"

"Yes, yes, they used it in the camps. We know." Jill griped over her. "Tell us about the scientists. About the experiments on the pregnant women."

"I'm trying to!" Sabrina snapped, irritated by having her train of thought derailed over and over again. "My dad didn't know all the details, but he said there were groups of people obsessed with… with creating an ideal human being. That was the whole Aryan philosophy, why they wanted to exterminate an entire race of people. And… and some of the people were the scientists in those camps and well… when you give something like that unlimited resources and don't make them accountable to anyone…" She gestured toward her two friends in their beds. "This is what you get."

"So is that what we're dealing with? A bunch of pyschopaths who don't know that the war ended thirty years ago and now they've moved over here to keep up their experiments?"

"Weren't you listening?" Kelly answered her sarcastically. "That's exactly what this is."

Jill looked troubled. "So… so then, we can't be the first. How many people-"

"A lot." Came Kelly's troubled reply.

"How do you know?" Sabrina asked immediately and saw Kelly's face darken.

"I just - I saw it."

Sabrina's eyes narrowed at her, tuned in to the sudden look on her face. The same look she'd seen back in Kris's police car. That disturbing combination of fear and horror that made her friend look on the verge of either panicking or throwing up. Her anger at Kelly now put aside, Sabrina sighed and slowly climbed to her feet and repositioned herself on her friend's bed.

"Okay." She said calmly, laying a hand on Kelly's arm. "Kelly, listen to me. This is important. You need to tell me what you saw."

Over on the next bed, Jill was starting to lose her patience, much to Sabrina's frustration. "Saw where? Kelly, what's she talking about?" She would have gone on, but a pleading look from Sabrina finally stopped her. Agitated, she leaned forward, eager to catch up on whatever the hell it was that she'd missed earlier.

With Jill subdued, Sabrina turned her attention back to Kelly. "Kell-" Sabrina went on patiently. "Just tell me, okay? I can't help you unless you tell me what you saw. Please, Kelly."

Feeling pressured, Kelly took a shuddering breath and folded her good hand on her lap. Keeping it to herself in the first place had been stupid, she realized. It was time to let them know. And as much as she didn't want to think about the nightmare in the room on the second floor, there was no way keeping her friends in the dark was going to help anyone anymore.

Kelly felt her stomach start to churn and took a deep breath."Okay… okay. It was..." She looked pained for a moment, unable to put into words the vivid and gruesome images burned into her memory. How did one describe such a nightmare, truly account for all of the disgusting and horrifying things that laid beyond that door. Never the articulate one, it took several seconds of processing and stammering before she was able to proceed. "You know, I didn't even think it was real..." she started slowly, her voice deliberately neutral. "… it was... you know how every Halloween, we find a haunted house? And they're full of gore, all guts and blood, but no one is scared because of how fake it looks?"

Though puzzled by Kelly's description, Sabrina only nodded.

"It was almost like that, only it's not Halloween and I knew I wasn't in an elaborate set up. Everything was real."

Sabrina did her best to not show her frustration. "What was real, Kelly?"

There was another beat of silence before Kelly answered again.

"The babies."

Jill pulled a baffled face. "Babies? What babies?" she blurted out, earning her another silent reprimand from Sabrina.

Her outburst didn't seem to affect Kelly, who went on as calmly as could be without having to be further prompted. "The babies in the room. That room on the second floor, after… after we got out of the elevator. You wouldn't wake up and I left you to see if I could find a way out and there was a door, so I opened it and-" Kelly, starting to get visibly upset, had to stop for a moment to compose herself.

Sabrina and Jill waited in tense silence until she went on.

"There were babies inside. But I don't think they were alive, I don't think they could have been... God I hope none of them were. Some were just out laying on this…this long counter. But they were deformed, or not entirely formed... I can't be sure. But then there were others… just… just lined up in a row of jars, like they were being preserved or - like pickles - just floating in a jar like pickles. Like someone is just using them for a science project."

"Jesus Christ." Sabrina breathed. "Where'd they come from?"

The question had been rhetorical, and both Sabrina and Jill seemed surprised that Kelly had the answer.

"I think they… God, there were these two women…laid out on slabs and they were…" Kelly flailed for a moment, searching for the proper word to describe the state of the bodies in the room. She glanced quickly at Jill. "-like that squirrel. Just gutted... just like Walt did with the squirrel. Right down the middle of their stomachs, Bri." Sabrina was unaware what squirrels had to do with this, and she looked over in Jill's direction, who understood completely. She kept silent and allowed Kelly to continue. "Like an autopsy, except… except you know what it was, why they were cut open, don't you?"

Grimly, Sabrina nodded her head. "I bet I do."

"I-I knew... I knew then I had to get us out, because these aren't people, people don't do this to other people. So I had to do everything... everything... to make sure we'd get out alive. I didn't want to kill Bruce, I swear it was an accident but… I couldn't let him do that to us. To my baby... I didn't..."

Jill looked horrified. "Oh my God." She groaned to herself.

Not wanting to upset Kelly anymore than she already was, Sabrina reached forward and patted her shoulder. "Okay, okay, was there anything else in that room?"

Shuddering, Kelly swiped at her eyes with her good hand and shook her head.

"Then that's enough for now." Sabrina said gently. "You did good, Kelly."

Kelly shot her a look. "Don't patronize me." She responded a bit heatedly. "I haven't done anything. They're still out there and they know where me and Jill-"

"Bri, they need to be stopped." Jill interrupted, still looking green. "This is what they're doing! Kidnapping pregnant women on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere and… and those fertility drugs in my system? They're probably using them on whatever women aren't pregnant to get them that way so that they can do…whatever the hell it is they're doing to the babies!"

Sabrina slumped over in her chair, suddenly feeling twenty years older. "I know. We're going to stop them. Right now." She rose to her feet, gave Kelly's good hand a squeeze and started hurrying toward the door. "I need to tell Bill, Kelly."

From her bed, Jill snorted. "Bill? You need to get the goddamned national guard out there."

Again, Jill's comments went ignored. Focused only on one thing, Kelly pushed herself up in bed. "What? No, Bri!"

"Kelly, look at what you just told me!" Sabrina argued. "They can't keep doing this, we have to shut them down!"

"No! Bri, they have Jill's gun there and all of our ID, they'll get her involved!"

Sabrina threw her hands up. "Involved in killing a psychopath!? Who cares?! If anything, they'll probably give her a fucking medal! Kelly, there's a whole room full of evidence there, they're not gonna look twice at Jill!"

"You didn't see her!" Kelly argued back. "Irene… she… she'll pin that murder on Jill, they'll lie, they'll find us and my ba-"

Fed up, Sabrina forcibly shoved Kelly back into her pillow. "Kelly, calm down! You're getting yourself all worked up and you sound like a goddamned maniac!"

"Bri!" Kelly pleaded, trying to sit back up. But, Sabrina held her down.

"No! Will you listen to yourself?!" Sabrina scolded her angrily. "You're paranoid! You sound crazy! Just calm down and lie there and don't say anything until I get back!"

Unfortunately, Kelly was far from calming down. "No, Sabrina!" she yelled at her. "She'll find a way! We'll be stuck here or they'll put us in jail or somewhere and they'll find us! They'll track us down and there won't be anything we can do about it! They have Jill's gun, they have our ID, they know where we live!"

"And what are you gonna do about it!?" Sabrina shouted over her. "What, Kelly?! Are you gonna go drive up there and get Jill's gun by yourself?"

Kelly glared at her, but hadn't thought it through enough for a response.

"I didn't think so." Sabrina replied, lowering her voice. She rubbed her face wearily, before placing a gentle hand on Kelly's shoulder. "Now, listen to me, Kelly. You need to trust me. And as much as you hate it, you need to trust Bill. Nothing is going to happen to you and Jill, so just- please, Kell- please, calm down, huh? The cops will find them. You two will be safe. The baby will be safe. Just calm down."

Astoundingly, Kelly stopped struggling and seemed to comply. Still breathing hard, she slumped back into her pillow and gritted her teeth, still clearly upset.

Sabrina placed a hand on her cheek. "Kelly, look at me. It's gonna be okay. I promise." She said sincerely. "When have I ever lied to you? When have I ever done anything to hurt you or Jill? Trust me, Kell. Do you trust me?"

The question hung unanswered in the air for a few beats before Kelly clenched her jaw and let out a reluctant. "Yeah, Bri." Her demeanor said otherwise, but for Sabrina, it was better than nothing.

"Thank you." Sabrina sighed. She patted Kelly's cheek and smoothed her rumpled bedding. "Now, just take it easy. I'll explain to Bill what happened, they'll probably send every cop in Bridge Grove out there and by morning, everything will be okay."

Jill looked unconvinced. "You should call Charlie too." She offered quietly.

Sabrina sighed. "I'll call Charlie too. Just… both of you, lie down, get some rest and I'll be back in a few minutes."

"Okay." Kelly muttered.

Looking exhausted, Sabrina rose to her feet and made her way to the door. "I'll be right back." She announced. She fixed Jill with the same "don't let her do anything stupid" look that she'd used many times before and was gone.

The girls remained lying quietly for a few seconds before, as if to test Jill's sanity, Kelly sat up in bed and swung her legs over to stand up.

Jill heaved a weary sigh. "Kelly, lie down."

Her order went unheeded and, while Jill watched in annoyance, Kelly pushed herself out of bed and took a few unsteady steps toward the center of the room.

"What are you doing now?" Jill asked, her voice unmistakably irritated.

Again, Kelly ignored her, focused on not letting the sweeping wave of dizziness bring her to her knees. She grabbed up the bag Bosley had left in the corner and sat herself down in a chair with it. There was a change of clothes her, Sabrina, and Jill, she realized, as she dug through the bag. Even something for Max to wear. Bosley was very thorough. While Jill tried to get her attention, Kelly pulled out some clothes and, despite the incessant pounding that was starting behind her eyes, began tugging on a pair of jeans.

"Hello?" Jill called. "Kelly, what the hell are you doing!?"

"What do you think I'm doing." Kelly sighed in response, as she shucked away the hospital gown and pulled on an old T-shirt.

Jill raised a brow. "Ignoring me. And driving me crazy."

"I'm getting your gun, Jill."

Her admission had Jill bursting into laughter for a moment before realizing that Kelly wasn't going to join in her merriment. Because she was as serious as could be. "What? Kelly, are you serious? Tell me you're not serious."

With a sigh, Kelly shoved her feet into the shoes she'd arrived in and shakily rose to her feet. "Don't tell Sabrina where I went. Just say that I went for a walk or something."

"You're serious!?" Jill cried, sitting herself up in bed. "Kelly, have you lost your goddamn mind?!"

"No, I haven't." Kelly grumbled. "I'll get your gun and… and our stuff and then I'll-"

"What the fuck are you even talking about?!" Jill exploded. "Kelly, no! Get back in bed, you're not leaving!"

Kelly whirled on her. "I'm not going to lay here and do nothing and let Bill fucking Duncan go find our things inside of a goddamn Nazi science experiment!"

Jill barked a sarcastic laugh. "So, what then!? What, Kelly? You're gonna drive out five hours when you can hardly fucking walk and you're going to go right back into that place where you... and you're baby! You're pregnant, remember? - where you almost got killed last night? Kelly, are you fucking crazy?!"

"No, I'm not crazy." Kelly hissed back at her. "I'm not letting them tie us to whatever the hell is going on in there!" Her face darkened and she leaned in close. "You didn't see her. You didn't hear the way Irene was talking. They have your gun, Jill! What if she puts some of your bullets in those dead women I saw in that room. Do you want to get caught up in that? Cause I sure as hell don't and neither does this baby! It'll be their word against ours!"

"What is wrong with you!?" Jill cried back at her, slamming her fists into her bed in outrage. "You can't go in there alone! We'll tell Bill what you saw! He can get cops in there! They'll believe our story, we haven't given them a reason not to!"

Kelly looked at Jill as if she was a fussing toddler. "Really, Jill? Really, Officer Munroe? Would you have believed two women who said they were out looking for a trailer one day and then hit a deer so they decided to hitchhike and got picked up and dumped at a half finished hospital out of the Twilight Zone-"

"Kelly, stop!" Jill tried to cut in, but Kelly wasn't finished.

"- where they willingly went inside, gave up their guns, and let the people there treat them, even though they were pretty sure they were up to no good. Oh and then those nurses decided to kill them so they broke one of their faces with a bed pan and then killed another one with an elevator-"

"Would you shut up and listen to me?"

"-and then watched them kill each other - with a gun that belonged to them, of course - before climbing out of a fucking window and driving five hours before seeking medical attention. And by the way, one of them has a concussion and a criminal record. Does that sound like it would hold up in court? Because if someone had given me that bullshit story, they'd have been in jail before they could finish it. And that's me! Do you remember how fair and gentlemanly everyone was to us when we were cops?! Well, guess what? Now we're not. Can you imagine how big the smiles on those assholes' faces will be once they can arrest us after hearing this page long mad-lib of a story we have?!"

Jill dropped her head into her hands and took a deep breath. "Okay. Okay , I know it sounds stupid. But that's what happened. And when they find evidence, it's going to support our story, because our story – as stupid as it is, is really what happened."

Kelly scoffed. "And you're willing to just wait around in jail until that happens? If it happens?"

"Well, I'm not willing to get myself killed!" Jill shot back.

Kelly rolled her eyes. "No one's asking you to. I'm going."

"You're not going. Sit down. You're being stupid."

To Jill's ever increasing horror, she watched as Kelly grabbed Sabrina's key's off of the nightstand and headed for the door. "Don't tell Bri. Stay by the phone."

"You're not going, Kelly!" Jill whispered loudly, doing her damnedest to keep the panic out of her voice. "Kelly, stop it. Sit back down!" She made a wild grab for her friend's arm and latched onto her sleeve instead. "Kelly, goddammit!"

"Stop, Jill!" Kelly scolded, pulling away.

Jill made another grab and missed. "Stop! Fine, let's tell Bill right now and we can go toge-"

"I'm not telling Bill anything." Kelly snapped. "Stay by th-"

"Then let's pick up the phone and call L.A.P.D.!"

Kelly laughed. "Oh, okay!" she replied sarcastically. The pinky and thumb of her good hand extended in a pantomime of a phone and flew to her ear. "Yes, officer, you see we hit a deer and started hitchhiking and ended up in an episode of The Hitchcock Hour-"

"Kelly, I swear to God-"

"-and I know it's our gun that killed someone but the other nurse was using it, you see, and she had gloves on- why, yes I do have a concussion, why do you ask?"

"I don't care what it sounds like! Kelly, no! You'll get yourself killed!"

Kelly swore under her breath. "Jill, they have all of our information. They know where we live, they know our first and last names, what makes you think they aren't trying to find us right now?"

"Kel-"

"What makes you think they haven't already found where we live? Look at all this shit they've been doing without getting caught! You think they won't kill us?" Kelly let out an exasperated breath. "Besides, two witnesses just escaped after seeing everything and drove away with a fucking cop. They'd be stupid to still be there. I'm just gonna… gonna do some damage control, is all. It'll be okay. They're probably out looking for us, they won't think to go back. For all they know the place is crawling with cops by now. I'll get our stuff, come back, and then you can lead Bill and whoever the hell else you want right to it."

Out of words, Kelly paused for a moment and, seeing nothing but stunned silence on Jill's face, turned to go.

"Alright, stop! Stop, stop, stop!" Jill pleaded desperately, making a successful grab at Kelly's arm. She'd have to cross her to get to the door and Jill had no intention of letting her friend leave alone. Though she looked calm and rational, Kelly was in a full blown panic, Jill knew. She wasn't thinking clearly and utterly asinine as she knew this idea to be, at least if she tagged along, she could keep Kelly from getting herself killed.

"You made your point. But, I'm coming with you." Jill sighed. "Just… help me get dressed."

To her surprise, Kelly laughed. "No. You're too sick to go anywhere. You stay here."

"No. Pass me that bag."

Kelly stared beseechingly at the ceiling. "Jill! You can't even get up! And even if you could-" She flipped her good hand in the direction of the IV pole standing by Jill's bed. "-you're hooked up to that… that thing. How in the h-"

"I go with you or else I'll start screaming right now-" Jill threatened, her voice dropping to a soft, silky, whisper. "-and make such a huge fucking scene to get everyone in here to stop you." Her blue eyes narrowed dangerously. "And you know I will, Kelly. Don't you dare think that I wouldn't."

The determined look on Kelly's face began to falter and Jill knew she'd won.

"That's what I thought. Now, shut up and help me get this thing out of my arm."