Emily, having just had probes implanted onto her brain, is in a session with her psychiatrist, Dr. Fino. As he activates one probe after another, he asks her to "please speak continuously and describe [her] experiences as they come to [her]". With each of the three probe activations stimulating a different node in her brain, she relays a different dream that she used to have, each about herself with people that she knows, but with she even questioning within each dream if it is reality, as something within each makes her believe that she may be instead in some sort of hell. The third node activation and a subsequent lunch she has with Van may provide some indication of what she is going through.