"Why are we at the hospital?" Frank says.

He is not terribly optimistic that anyone is going to explain anything to him but he feels like he needs to ask the question anyway.

"Well. There are these -- girls. Who need rescued. And Anita thought -- since there was -- well, y'know, no time like the..."

He trails off as he more fully connects the fact that Anita got splashed with Nectar and then immediately started acting very gungho about everything to his own presence in a car outside a hospital waiting for her to kidnap two high profile children from a cult with heavy firepower and control of that hospital.

"I feel like there are many better times to kidnap people?"

"Such as not at all."

"You know, I can see why you might think that! It's a very compelling argument! I'm not really sure whether I disagree with it myself!"

"Right. So. Uh. Why are we here."

There were reasons. Some of them were very good ones.

"Well, they do need rescuing. And it's not really clear there's any way to do that other than... and then, then Anita decided that this was... the right moment... and so now..."

"Anita," Frank says, "does not have what I would call especially good judgment."

"She's had a lot better track record than me tonight."

And a lot more force of personality. Which is probably the Nectar. Fuck.

"Uh... huh."

Frank looks skeptical.

"So are we going to do something about this."

"...Well. I could go in after Anita now that it's registering that this is a bad idea, and maybe fuck up her plan and maybe get us killed. Or we could keep waiting out here, and once she's out" if she's out "we can still be the getaway.

I'm not sure we have other options. Well. Other than, uh, leaving her here."

"Probably you should try to rescue her?" Frank says. "Since she's like. On our team?"

"She told me to wait out here. Easier to get in and out with less people.

...If she's not out in the next -- 10 minutes? 5 minutes? -- I'll head in."

"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."