Layla

Leeds pauses in his story when the interviewer, UndercoverInc, asks to see the stove that had seemingly turned off by itself. He notes that one has to push the knob in to turn it off. He asks Leeds if anything else happened that night, and Leeds tells him no but that there were several other things over the next few days. He resumes his story.

Leeds makes pasta for dinner. Layla is picking at her food, and Leeds thinks about how her appetite has diminished since coming home from the hospital. She weighs herself frequently and picks around carbs. They discuss the fact that Aspen—Layla’s sister—and her husband, Chad, are coming to visit later that week, and Leeds thinks about how Layla hasn’t been answering her mother’s and sister’s phone calls.

Suddenly, Layla begins eating her pasta with gusto and asks for more. She hasn’t shown this much delight in and appreciation for food in a long time, and Leeds is happy to see her eating heartily. Just as suddenly, she closes and opens her eyes and is shocked and frightened when she sees that her bowl is empty, as if she doesn’t remember eating the pasta a minute ago.