After the break, it's the next day, and we see what one last thing Sister Jude was talking about. She's sitting in the living room of some nice, upper-middle-class, older-middle-aged couple and she's looking very nervous. The wife of the couple has a tiny baby in her arms, which only exacerbates whatever Jude's feeling. It's guilt, of course. These are the parents of the girl she ran down. Missy was her name and Sister Jude is pretending she was one of her teachers way back when. The parents are asking her specifics of what classes she taught Missy in, but Jude gets distracted by a framed photograph of the family. She starts blubbering about how she remembers Missy's little blue coat. The parents are being very cheerful right now. Jude gathers herself and begins to explain her story when the door opens and a twenty-something woman in a nurse's uniform walks in. Still has those cat's eye glasses, though. It's Missy! That baby is hers! Sister Jude takes a few moments to process everything. She starts crying in the meantime. Missy and her mom look at her kind of cross-eyed, but the father is stern. The father maybe suspects what's really happening here, though he never says it. Sister Jude covers for herself with what is basically the truth, or a version of it: Missy's accident was a contributing factor to her decision to become a nun, which is why she's reacting so emotionally. And lately, she's been having something of a crisis of faith, so Missy turning up alive right now seems like a sign. The mother talks about how her husband, Hank, used to struggle with this too. He wanted revenge with the "bastard" who did this to her. Hank is still silently staring a hole through Sister Jude. "We get to live with our daughter," the mother says, pleasantly enough. "The monster who left her there has to live with himself." Sister Jude lets that one sink in.













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