Oh, Kevin's hot on the trail. He finds the post office box, and the bill for all the pharmacies, and puts it together.
Gloria's in pursuit as well: She climbs up into the ceiling at Emergency, far above their heads. The something smoking, the something Coop heard. Last year it was rats. "Jesus Christ, it's God," she grits. Cramped in half, smoking a cigarette, watching his flock from above. "You're smoking!" she gasps, and he promises her he can do two things at once. He's God, after all. She tells him to go home, across the street, and he says he can't: They're fumigating his place for vermin.
Up here, "It's cozy, and I can keep an eye on shit. I'm not ready to walk among you. There's a lot of pain down there." But in her office, she promises, there are on the other hand candy bars. And a TV. God has needs, but they're pretty simple.
"Now you tell me where and when to meet you because otherwise, I'm coming down there and you can deal with me then. Your choice." Oh, Kevin is so mad!
God asks to smoke a cigarette, taking down that chocolate bar like it done him wrong. Gloria says God's landlord said he can go back in the morning, and God's free to stay at All Saints -- "below the ceiling" -- until then. "You are good," he says, and it's a benediction.
Jackie's mugging victim appears, still toting that bouquet (and those teeth!), and Gloria sends him to the nurses' station. "I got a bad feeling about that guy," God says when he's gone, and shushes him: "Now is that any way to talk about one of your flock?" God promises her Mr. Martin is not one of his. But is Jackie?
Coop stares longingly at the Face of All Saints, ten feet high, mourning what was once his nose. Jackie's in the bathroom, snorting a bunch of drugs into hers. Outside the stall is Sam, barely standing; she's terrified for a moment, but he slides to the floor. She drags him inside to figure it out, and leans him against the wall, hushing him as he starts into a diatribe about how she doesn't like him. The door opens, sending Jackie's heart into another tailspin, and Zoey enters.













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