"All right."

He stares at the window.

"So. How about them Yankees?"

Oswald can pretend to know something about how the Yankees are doing for the next 5 to 10 stressful minutes.

"I guess you are going to go stage a rescue attempt?"

"Looks like it." Part of him was really hoping Anita's lucky streak would just continue.

Into the hospital he goes.

There are a lot of very panicked-looking nurses.

He hears someone say "someone was shot!"

He was hoping to get past the nurses by moving with a purpose and not being someone people want to question but possibly there are bigger issues here. He can instead try to head into the fray and figure out how fucked he is. "Someone got shot? Who was it?"

"She was invading the hospital for some reason--" a nurse says. "Trying to kidnap a patient--"

"Are you supposed to be here?"

"There was -- I needed to -- she kidnapped a patient? -- it's probably just a cold I can come back tomorrow."

He says a bunch of inane things and then turns around and tries to walk briskly out of there while not moving fast enough to look really suspicious, which it turns out is not fast enough to get the fuck out.

Fortunately, everyone is busy and distracted. And "he's a patient, he's going away" is relatively unsuspicious behavior.

It does totally fail to accomplish any of his goals.

It does! Is it at all possible to circle around some other way.

Maybe he could also stop another nurse on his way out? "Excuse me, did someone try to kidnap a patient? What happened? Is the patient okay?" He can convey that he is stressed out about this because he is definitely stressed out.

"Yes, one of the girls upstairs!"

"We don't know what happened!"

"She got shot by a guard."

"I guess it's a good thing Miss Donovan put in all those guards?"

"The -- the kidnapper got shot, the patient is fine? Do they -- is the kidnapper dead, or in custody, or -- I mean, it's got to be one of those, right, she couldn't have gotten away--"

"She's dead, I think."

"I heard they got her right in the head."

Oswald sits down heavily on one of the chairs in the lobby. He should've known going in how likely this was, he should have steeled himself, he is doing his best to keep it together in front of the nurses so they don't connect him to Anita but God, he can't stop picturing her with a bullet hole right in her forehead. There are too many people in this room. They are kind of an overwhelming blur.

Eventually he can think of something other than that image. Okay, she got to one of the girls, that girl is alright, there's almost definitely added security, maybe... maybe the girl got away? Should he be holding out for that possibility?

If she did and he leaves now then he's passing up an important opportunity but if he gets caught sneaking around he is almost definitely going to get shot.

Is there... a place he can get to where he can try to determine if the girl got away without getting shot to death if he gets caught.

He doesn't find a spot without someone watching.

Okay he is going to make one last effort to see if he can spot or hear a wayward child anywhere and then he is going to report their collective failure to Frank.

And then there's a sudden scream from upstairs.

It sounds like a young child.

Meanwhile, in the coffeeshop--

Montgomery looks at Mordred. "...You have five minutes to explain yourself."

That is so incredibly fair. Mordred gets talking.

About a minute into this explanation, Montgomery interrupts with "...and who are you exactly?"

"This time try not lying to me."

"A journalist -- I actually do live in New York with my brother, I am not actually an academic, everything I said about Early Modern English was true I don't lie about languages -- who was hired to investigate what happened in Los Angeles ten years ago by the daughter of one of the people who tried to stop the summoning and immediately realized I was in over my head. Until about six months ago I mostly wrote about abuses in asylums."

"Hm."

This time she allows the explanation to continue until she says, "Peter didn't give Dr. Solazzio the spell. I did."

"....yeah I should have reevaluated that theory when I found out about the sorcerer thing but I am still guessing you were not intending for it to be used on Lela?"

"The Font said it was a healing spell when It taught me the spell."

With All Due Respect Your God Is Named 'The Liar' don't say that or at least don't say it like that.

"...I'm sorry but I do not really consider the Font a trustworthy source, given all of everything."