Excellent.

What secrets does it contain.

The room is stacked with case after case of bottled Nectar, literally gathering dust. The shelf at the back of the chamber contains black archival boxes and a few pieces of paper. There's a half-finished painting covered with a layer of dust an inch thick.

Hmmm what's in the archival boxes and what do the pieces of paper look like.

Half of the boxes are empty. The other half contains a series of photographs, labeled and categorized for use as blackmail material.

(...Very quickly noting down who she has dirt on. Just in case it ever comes in handy, which it most likely won't.)

What a competently run operation in some ways. What are the papers?

There's a letter to Donovan from Jonathan Brooks, and a suicide note.

Oswald can't quite figure out her notation system but holy shit, those notes.

He suggested a crazed manifesto but this is heartbreaking.

Well! This is pretty good to know. Maybe Donovan can be of some help to them after all.

(Oswald is carefully replacing the documents he doesn't need -- he's considering taking the two letters -- so that it isn't as obvious they were rifled through. He can't replace the dust, unfortunately.)

In a Nectar-fueled flash of insight it is clear to Anita that there will not be any knowable HORRIBLE CONSEQUENCES if she declares this surveillance mission sufficiently surveilled, heads out and buys some kids' clothes, and heads to the hospital to get Lela and Tereza out.

Or, she'll have two kids she has to figure out something to do with, but lmao she can handle that. And Montgomery Donovan is going to be searching for them around Malta which will make it difficult to do anything other detectiving but whatever they can contact her and explain that they've determined that her associate is poisoning her daughter. It'll be fine. Anita can do ANYTHING.

"All right. I think we have what we came here for. As far as I see it, the next obvious order of business is getting the kids out of the hospital, and hey, no time like the present."

"...By ourselves? When we don't know where Donovan is? And are still trying to do things in Malta?"

"Like what? Destroy the mouth?"

"Yeah, maybe!" Sigh. "The others should at least get a heads up."

"This would involve waiting until after Donovan sees that we've been rifling through her stuff. Anyway, we don't have the right resources or people to destroy a mouth, not unless you're planning on sacrificing someone to it."

"I have a shift to -- I'm not keeping this job, am I. On top of everything else it's too obvious we've been in this room."

"Pretty obvious, yeah!"

"I guess you could try to claim that it was only me and you didn't know about it. If you were any good at lying."

"Which, unfortunately..."

He makes a face. Thank you Anita.

".........We're heading over there now, then, aren't we. Okay. Sure."

"All right. We should leave this room as close to we found it as possible, get in the car, leave, buy some kids' clothes real quick, and then head to the hospital and see if we can sneak them out."

okay time to ABANDON THEIR TEAMMATES it's cool they'll brb

Out into the bedroom, close the secret door, hallway, stairs, maybe they shouldn't be leaving obviously together--

Yeah she can leave first and wait for him?

And then he will appear shortly after. Car. Either hotel or some place that sells clothes.

And then they can go to the hospital! It's 8pm. The hospital is quiet, but there are nurses on their daily rounds, fewer than during the day but still quite a few. The building is even darker at night than during the day; avoiding running into any of them is definitely possible.

Well Anita is super good at things, so. She tells Oswald to stay here and wait for her to come out with the kids, she'll have an easier time making it in and out without an extra person.

Oh that's fair. And also much much easier.