At a hospital, a distraught woman demands to know where her husband Hugh went. Staff reply that Dr. Lyon has resigned and refuse to disclose his location; nurses urge her to calm down and take a check-up. She resists, pressing to see Hugh, but the exam yields a shock: a clinician tells her, "You have late-stage liver cancer. Your body can't handle this kind of stress." Stunned, she repeats, "I have late-stage liver cancer?" She now faces a sudden, life-altering diagnosis while Hugh is missing, and must decide whether to search for him or begin urgent medical care.