- Dr. Acker is trying to get Connie to sign the permission form for them to mess with her head.
- He's already got permission from her brother Luis, but he seems to enjoy trying to convince her.
- He says she'll get out if she signs the permission form.
- She refuses.
- On Sunday, Dolly finally comes. She is obviously drugged nearly out of her mind.
- She gives Connie some money.
- Connie begs Dolly to get her out, but Dolly says it's all up to Luis (her dad).
- If your life depends on Dolly, you are in big, big trouble is the takeaway here.
- Connie asks Sybil to help her get out, but Sybil is worn out by the electroshock. She agrees to help though.
- Connie cries because her life sucks and everybody who can help her is a mess.
- She tries reaching out to Luciente to see if maybe she can help.
- Luciente and Jackrabbit are swimming naked in the future; Connie is embarrassed, which they think is funny.
- Jackrabbit says he's going on military service.
- Connie tells them her problems.
- Luciente can't interfere in the past, but she offers advice.
- She tells Connie she can teach her how to feign unconsciousness to fool the doctors.
- So Connie bounces back and asks Sybil to stage a fight with her.
- She spends as much time in the future as she can to try to learn to feign unconsciousness.
- Schemes! Plots! It's almost like an action adventure story now!
- Trust us, Shmoopers, that won't last long and we'll be back to sitting around in despair.
- Connie learns about some of the political disputes in the future; some people want to do genetic tinkering as a matter of course; Luciente and others only want to interfere with genetics for birth defects and such.
- Connie tries to learn to knock herself out; Dawn watches.
- Even the scheming is pretty low-key, honestly.
- Luciente says she and Bolivar are trying to like each other better, with mixed success.
- Back to the present… and Sybil and Connie stage their fight.
- Sybil hits Connie; Connie drops and uses her future superpowers to knock herself out.
- Orderlies tranquilize Sybil (and Trina Ortiz, another inmate who joined in the fight). They wheel Connie down the elevator to the X-ray.
- As soon as Connie is left alone for a minute, she gets up. (If she's crazy and isn't going to the future, how does she manage that? This is the moment when it most seems like Connie really has been traveling to the future and has future superpowers.)
- She gets outside. She'd stowed some clothes in preparation, but the searchlights come on, and she just has to run.
- She walks and runs and staggers along the side of the highway.
- She finds a gas station with an open bathroom and tries to clean herself up a little.
- More walking. More walking. She finds a clearing by a tree, and falls asleep.