david and kevin are placed into separate rooms that contain unique security measures based on their specific weaknesses. staple explains that she believes they suffer from delusions of grandeur and do not have superpowers. elijah's mother mrs. price, joseph dunn and casey cooke, a victim who survived kevin/the horde's captivity, try and fail to convince staple superhumans are real. as part of her final evaluation, staple brings the three men to a room where she challenges them with explanations of why their seemingly superhuman abilities are not extraordinary. kevin and david become distraught while elijah remains catatonic. that night, elijah escapes his cell to conduct research on kevin before visiting him and telling him he feigned his sedated state and plans to escape the institute but requires one of kevin's personalities--the beast--to help elijah. staple discovers elijah's escape and proceeds to do a prefrontal lobotomy, only to discover that the surgical laser had been sabotaged by price.