Teddy is horrified to learn that the last two days have been "radical, cutting-edge role-play," in which everyone around him has performed for his sake, including his psychiatrist, Dr. Cawley reveals that "ANDREW LAEDDIS" and "TEDDY DANIELS" are anagrams, as are "RACHEL SOLANDO" and "DOLORES CHANAL." Cawley explains that Teddy is Andrew Laeddis, Asheliffe's 67th patient, admitted two years prior after his suicidal wife Dolores killed their three children Henry, Simon, and Rachel. At the lighthouse, Teddy finds Cawley waiting for him. Teddy attacks and sedates Naehring when Naehring suggests that he is a "monster" suffering from a "wound." Teddy hijacks one of the facility's cars, but decides to go to the lighthouse instead to save Chuck, against the wishes of Dolores's ghost, whom he symbolically leaves behind. Later, a panicked Teddy attempts to reach the ferry but is intercepted by Naehring.
Teddy climbs back up to a main road the next morning and is ferried back to Ashecliffe by a warden, where he is reprimanded by Cawley for not trusting his "method." Cawley also tells him that Chuck does not exist. The woman tells Teddy that Ashecliffe has likely been poisoning his food with psychotropic drugs, causing his migraines and dreams, and has been conducting brainwashing experiments on patients just like Nazis did on prisoners in concentration camps. In a nearby cave, Teddy finds an older woman he believes to be the real Rachel Solando. Noyce also tells Teddy that Laeddis is being kept in the lighthouse, which is where lobotomies are performed.ĭisturbed by Noyce's words, Teddy becomes suspicious of Chuck and heads toward the lighthouse alone but cannot reach it due to the high tide. Teddy attacks one patient, and follows a voice until he finds a badly scarred George Noyce, who tells Teddy his investigation is fake and to leave Dolores behind. Teddy wakes up and goes searching for Laeddis with Chuck in Ward C, where Ashecliffe houses the most dangerous patients. When Rachel Solando turns up alive, Teddy interviews her, but fails to understand a seemingly delusional story she tells him about "swimming in the lake." Teddy suffers a migraine and dreams of Rachel, three dead children, a scarred man he believes to be Andrew Laeddis, and Dolores, who tells him to find Laeddis. Teddy learns that Ashecliffe has 66 patients, believing Andrew Laeddis to be the 67th. Chuck worries that the men have been lured to the island and are being set up by Cawley and other Ashecliffe employees. Teddy also reveals that he interviewed a former Ashecliffe patient named George Noyce, who told him that Ashecliffe is conducting illicit experiments on political subversives. Marooned in a shelter during a storm, Teddy tells Chuck that the arsonist who killed his wife, Andrew Laeddis, should be at Ashecliffe, but is seemingly missing. Teddy has a dream where his dead wife Dolores tells him that Rachel is "still here." Believing that Rachel had help escaping, Teddy interviews the other patients in her group therapy sessions, but learns nothing. Sheehan, has been sent away, and also when he meets Cawley's associate, a German man named Dr. Teddy finds two mysterious notes in Rachel's cell that read "The Law of 4" and "Who is 67?" Teddy becomes suspicious when he learns that Rachel's doctor, Dr. Cawley tells the men that a delusional patient named Rachel Solando has vanished. The head of security, Deputy McPherson, has the men surrender their firearms and takes them to the office of the facility's main doctor, Dr. Teddy believes they have been sent to the hospital, named Ashecliffe, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. In 1954, a man named Teddy Daniels arrives at a mental hospital in the Boston Harbor Islands in 1954, accompanied by a partner named Chuck.