Episode Title: The Cut

Season 3, Episode 1 | Say It Happened

In this opening episode of Season 3, Em takes us back to the moment before the escape. Before the healing. Before the microphone. When survival looked like silence, exile, and a pair of clippers in a borrowed bathroom. This isn’t a story about reinvention. It’s about reclamation.

She wasn’t sick. She was done.

This chapter holds the quiet, brutal holiness of shaving her head in the wake of estrangement, system failure, and the unbearable distance from her children. It’s not a metaphor. It’s not performance. It’s what happened.