Anna O

A year after Ben’s death, Clara buys Anna O’s memoir. The book is an instant bestseller, featuring the victim telling the “truth” of her story. Podcasts, radio, and press are sensationalizing it as a brave work of art, since Anna confronted her perpetrator Ben—if Anna is to be believed, Clara thinks.

Clara and Kitty have ice cream in the park, where they’ve erected a bench in Ben’s honor. She is a faithful ex-wife who believes in Ben’s innocence. She quit the force and has a new job in the private sector.

The media reported Ben drank himself to death, but Clara doubts that. No proof was found marking Ben as Patient X either.

That night, Clara reads Anna’s memoir. She thinks there are no more threats.

At Anna’s memoir’s conclusion, Clara feels satisfied that she’s safe. She takes Kitty to school, then looks through her hidden box in the attic with Emily Ogilvy’s letter approving MEDEA, pictures of Douglas and Indira dead, etc. Clara was Patient X, Sally’s daughter. Harriet was her friend and lover. Harriet’s number was HOSPITAL in her phone, though Ben assumed her affair was with a man.