At the hospital, Chereen is confronted by a desperate woman begging her to save a dying man. The woman admits she sent her son Wayne to the powerful Jacobs family for money and pleads for help. Chereen angrily provides a treatment that will keep him alive for seven days and issues a blunt ultimatum: if anything happens to her son, the woman’s son will have to die. Later at home, an injured family member blames their partner’s “crazy mom,” a quarrel turns physical and Bruce lunges — someone yells, “What are you doing?!” — leaving the seven-day deadline and the household outbreak as immediate, unresolved threats.