- Months go by, and it's spring again at the hospital. It's Deborah's third year there.
- Deborah digs into art and uses all the media available to her.
- A new patient named Carmen arrives, and it's clear that her rich father has rigid expectations that Carmen isn't meeting.
- Carla and Deborah have a conversation about what kind of hospital they would create. Carla opts for no bars on the windows. Deborah feels that bars on the windows can make you feel safe to go completely crazy, so that you can fight the sickness fully, honestly, and safely.
- While they talk, Carla and Deborah wander the hospital grounds far beyond where they both have permission to go. They both feel good breaking this rule. It's Sunday and raining. They let it wash over them, and they don't even care that they're cold.
- Once it's dark, Deborah and Carla go back to the hospital, where they're seen by two attendants who ask them if they have night privileges to be out and about. Carla says no.
- Rather than go back into the ward escorted by the attendants, Carla and Deborah run away from the hospital. They want to go back on their own terms. They hear the alarm sound, but they don't care. They run until they're out of breath and laughing. They feel great.
- After a while, Deborah and Carla are soaked and muddy. Finally, after midnight, they're ready to go back. The attendants on duty separate them and put them in seclusion.
- The next morning, the girls are brought separately in front of Dr. Halle. Then he talks to them together. He tells them he is actually proud of them for having a fun adventure together and then coming back. He says that even though they broke eight hospital rules, they had a shared fun experience of friendship. Dr. Halle doesn't even revoke any of their privileges.
- Deborah and Carla go to find Carmen and tell her that they're not going be punished, but they discover that Carmen's father came to collect her and take her home for being disagreeable.
- Deborah realizes then that her own parents had left her at the hospital to have the freedom to go crazy and then find her way out of it safely. She's grateful to them.