Jessica is told at the hospital that her operation still lacks $490,000 and must be covered in two days or be postponed. Tina is exhausted after a checkup and dreads the spinal needle. At home, relatives press Sanford about Jessica—he refuses to search for her despite her caring for him when he was blind; someone laments the aborted baby. A mother tells Tina to give up on her; Tina pleads, "Don't leave me." With the two-day money deadline and the mother's decision, the operation and Tina's future hang in the balance.