In Mik's room, seven days before the hanging, Mik looks at all the paper dolls she's made at the VA hospital with Fatima and the kids.
She
imagines a world without walls where animals could roam.
While
she's dreaming of this world, her mom comes in and says goodbye before heading
off to work, though not before eyeing the new hearing aids on the dresser.
Mik
takes NaNa her dinner and reads her a Bible passage.
NaNa
asks her to talk about the reading, but Mik says she's got homework. Then NaNa
explains that Mik's got to learn to forgive people—especially herself.
Shanelle's
planning on retaliating against Mik with the help of her posse, so Mik asks Jaekwon
to leave her alone—and then Gale comes up and makes the point perfectly clear: Beat
it, Jaekwon.
As Mik
is leaving school, Shanelle starts yelling out that Mik doesn't have any friends
except a terrorist.
She
mocks Mik for a while and then threatens her again, until someone tells her to
cool it at school.
At the
hospital, Fatima announces that Mik will lead the class today.
The kids
ask to make angels when Mik suggests they make butterflies. She gets sick of
making those, though, so instead she suggests the try making each other.
The kids
think it'll be too hard, but Mik convinces them to do it, and within the hour,
they have new paper dolls.