Internment

Layla jerks awake and listens for any sign that her parents are back. She doesn’t hear anything except the sound of her heart breaking—the Director, she believes, is successfully breaking her. Layla opens the door when Jake knocks and implies that she feels responsible for every death and abduction at this camp, but he insists it’s not her fault. She doesn’t believe him, even when he insists it’s his fault. As they sit in the common area, Jake explains that he’d been ordered to “let things play out,” or specifically, to let the Director interrogate Layla. Jake’s superiors needed evidence to take down the Director, so Layla was their bait. Apologizing, Jake says now he knows he should’ve stopped it, but he isn’t going to let anyone else hurt her.

Layla looks away. She realizes that in the grand scheme of things, her role in getting the Director’s crimes on video might be really important and meaningful. But she’s still hurt and will have to address this trauma at some point. Minutes later, Fred knocks on the door and comes in. He explains that Dr. Han took the video of the Director assaulting Layla to the attorney general and the head of the National Guard—and then she leaked it. Layla shouts and begins sobbing, even when Fred says her face is blurred. Fred explains that this was the only way to make sure that nobody would bury the video and protect the Director. Though Layla feels violated, she suggests it’ll be fine if they can get out of Mobius and if it’ll help find her parents.

Fred explains that things are getting intense in DC: after Soheil’s death, there’s no way to make Mobius look good, so the president is extremely upset. Still, nobody can leave Mobius quite yet. It’s on lockdown, especially since every news agency is covering it. The Director, Fred says, is hiding in his office. Angrily, Jake suggests he should go confront the Director, but Fred and Layla convince him not to. Fred leaves, and Layla returns to her bedroom to sleep.