The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

The reporter and cameras arrive at Willowbrook with Dr. Wilkins and are shocked by the conditions they see there.

Eddie and Sage use the confusion of the cameras to escape to the tunnels. Eddie gives Sage new clothes and leads her with a flashlight. The tunnels smell terrible and are covered in mildew, mold, and rat droppings. Eddie leads her into an unused tunnel coated with spider webs and then abruptly stops. He tries to keep her from seeing something, but she pushes past him and discovers Rosemary’s body. Rosemary is naked, and her lips have been painted into a macabre red clown smile. Her throat and wrists have been cut.

Sage falls to the ground, vomits, and asks Eddie if it was Cropsey. He says no and pushes Sage to keep going. She initially refuses, arguing that they must report Rosemary’s body, but Eddie insists that the administration will just cover up the murder. Then, as she and Eddie climb out of the tunnels via a manhole, Sage remembers the reporters.

Eddie and Sage run across Willowbrook’s lawn to House Six. Sage trips on a snow bank and falls, urging Eddie to keep going. When he reaches the House, Baldwin, Wayne, and Marla are coming out of the front door and the reporters have already left. Sage hides while Baldwin yells at Eddie, but Wayne and Marla spot her and chase her down. Eddie and Sage try to tell Baldwin about Rosemary’s body, but Baldwin tells Marla and Wayne to take Sage to isolation and tells Eddie to meet him in his office.

Marla and Wayne bring Sage inside to Nurse Vic, who directs them to take her to “the pit” as Baldwin ordered. Sage pleads with them to let her stay on the ward and promises not to try to escape again. She believes that Eddie will show Baldwin Rosemary’s body and she’ll be released. Nurse Vic gives her an injection before Wayne puts her into the isolation room.

Sage wakes in the pitch black isolation room. She calls for help, still hoping that Baldwin and Eddie will come and release her after finding Rosemary’s body. After some time passes, Nurse Vic opens the meal tray door to see if she’s come out of the sedation. Sage tries to convince her that she saw Rosemary’s dead body, but Nurse Vic only gives her a meal and tells her she’ll see Dr. Baldwin soon.

In Baldwin’s office, Sage processes what she imagined in the isolation room. She convinced herself that Cropsey murdered Rosemary and is going to kill her next. Baldwin asks why she was in the tunnels. She tells him she was trying to escape, but found Rosemary’s body. Baldwin says that Eddie won’t be in House Six anymore and she won’t see him again. When she accuses him of covering up Rosemary’s murder, he threatens to put her in a straitjacket and place her back into isolation: They searched the tunnels and found nothing, so Sage must have hallucinated the body. Sage insists that she isn’t having delusions.

Sage then tells Baldwin about Wayne’s sexual violence, seeking corroboration from the attendant who only dismisses her accusations. Sage then asks if Rosemary was sterilized, lifting her shirt to show that she doesn’t have a scar, but Baldwin tells her to cover herself.

Finally, Sage offers to tell him how the camera crew got into House Six—but only if he calls Alan to ask if Rosemary has a twin sister. Baldwin arranges for a phone call to Alan, but insists that Sage tell him what she knows or he’ll send her to the State Security Hospital. She tells him that Dr. Wilkins gave the reporter the key. Baldwin’s secretary Evie tells Baldwin that Alan didn’t answer.

Evie, the secretary, rushes into the room and turns on the television in the office. They watch the report on Willowbrook which shows and describes the deplorable and abusive conditions at the institution. Sage grows disheartened, knowing that Rosemary lived in these horrors and now she’s stuck here too, possibly permanently.

Sage lies in Rosemary’s bed, losing hope that she’ll be released. Then, she feels someone next to her—Eddie has snuck onto the ward again. He tells her that Baldwin was telling the truth—Rosemary’s body was missing when they searched the tunnels. Eddie says he’s been back to Alan’s and Sage’s friends, but no one was home again. Sage argues that Wayne might have killed Rosemary and moved her body in the wake of the news reporters. Eddie counters that the only way that could have happened is if Wayne left the dayroom unattended.

Sage is brought through the tunnels to Baldwin’s office. The office is empty. She wonders if they’ve found Rosemary’s body or if she’s going to be sent to the State Security Hospital. She attempts to call her friend, Heather, but can’t get the phone to dial out. She manages to get the operator, but Evie tells the operator not to allow outgoing calls.

Sage then finds Rosemary’s file. Rosemary was evaluated on admittance, six months later, and then only once a year for the next six years. Rosemary was diagnosed with schizophrenia and what is now known as dissociative identity disorder. Two years before her disappearance, she was sent to the State Security Hospital after a violent outburst. She experienced several injuries and illnesses, including hepatitis and dysentery, as well as suicidal ideation.

Sage asks Evie why she’s been brought to the office, but Evie refuses to tell her. When Baldwin comes in, Sage asks if he reached Alan, but Alan still isn’t answering. Then, Detective Sam Nolan and Sergeant Clark of the New York Police Department come in. They are investigating an anonymous report of a dead body in the tunnels. Sage tells them it was Rosemary, her twin sister, but Baldwin insists that Sage has delusions and can’t be believed. When the attendant arrives to take Sage back to the ward, Sage begs Nolan to listen to her. Nolan is bothered by Sage’s rough treatment and insists she stay to tell them what she saw. She tells them about the bus, the lost purse, and Alan’s phone number to try to prove her identity and honesty. Baldwin confirms that Rosemary was briefly missing. The police allow Sage to be taken back to the ward.