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Jack wakes up completely disoriented and feeling sick. He is lying on a metal trolley bed similar to those found in hospitals. He feels sick and groggy. Beth asks if he’s okay. It’s clear that she’s been crying. She tells him that he knocked himself out and the guard carried him here. They said they’d return with a doctor. Jack wonders how they’re going to escape. He feels devastated as he thinks about how his dad must have experimented on him. He wonders what the consequences of being the subject of anti-aging experimentation will be. He wants to call Auntie Lil but remembers that he broke his phone at her house.
Jack tries to open the door but it is locked. He starts crying. Beth tells him that her rucksack has been taken. Jack is upset that she is thinking about her rucksack while they are locked in a lab. He tells her that it’s not a big deal because the ashes aren’t even in the bag anymore. As soon as the words are out of his mouth, he realizes he’s misjudged the situation. Beth is understandably furious and demands to know what he means by that.
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