Curing, Crafting, and Counting Fortune - Episode 13

At the village clinic, Dr. Cheney delays opening, claiming he can run the only clinic on his own schedule. Parents arrive not for treatment but to return unused medicine: their children stopped coughing after taking a cough-relieving soup sold by Blaire, Dr. Cheney’s ex-wife. The crowd praises Blaire and abandons the clinic, undermining Cheney’s bid—his father had promised investment if he cured the outbreak. The episode pivots when a bystander accuses Blaire of vending illegally and someone confronts her with, “Come with us,” leaving her praised recovery suddenly threatened and the clinic’s future in question.