Theresa hasn’t left her bed since the night before—she hadn’t been prepared for Ethan’s death. For the first time, she goes to sit in the sun. David Pilcher approaches. He tells her to get Ben, because he wants to take them somewhere. She worries he is going to kill them. Pilcher points out that if he’d wanted to do that, he would’ve taken them in the middle of the night.

The duct is small, but Ethan wiggles into it. He can’t go backward. As he crawls through the dark, he questions his reality again, wondering if he ever really left his imprisonment during the war.

Light appears ahead, and then a quiet hum tingles through the duct. At the source of the light, Ethan sees another duct, a series of them, connected to an air intake below, its fan spinning. He climbs down toward it, then turns into one of the shafts. He crawls until reaching a vent cover, opens it, and climbs down.

Ethan lowers himself into a corridor lined with doors. Each door opens into a small, anonymous bedroom. On the floor, he finds a cafeteria, laundry, locker rooms, even an operating theater and laboratories. In one room, a man wearing a headset watches screens that show footage of Wayward Pines.