She had, that morning, no exit at all.

She came into the unit at 10:20 in the morning and walked into Mark Sterling’s room and did not close the door.

What she said in the following ninety seconds was heard by two nurses, one resident, a ward clerk and — approximately forty seconds in — by everybody else.

“Where is my money.”

Mark was awake, barely, and on monitors, and had been told nothing about any of it.

“What?”