Aaron Tracy

It's a really cruel symmetry.

You might remember Hellman played matchmaker for Dahl and Neal by throwing that dinner party years ago.

That was the bright beginning of something in a beautiful setting filled with brilliant writers and celebrities.

Now the two women are together again in the opposite of that glamorous setting.

No more fancy dresses, no makeup, just trapped in a sterile Manhattan tower, terrified and grieving.

But back to Dahl.

He tells Farrell about the dreadful special nurses that kept getting called in to Theo's room.

One of these nurses walks right in, and before even attending to Theo, she shows Dahl and Neil a newspaper clipping about the accident and says how thrilled she is to be assigned this case.

This is something Dahl and Neil are gonna have to get used to, unfortunately.

Neil is a world-famous movie star.

Her son being in an accident like this is huge international news, and some of the nurses seem much more interested in getting Neil's autograph than in paying attention to her son.

They seem downright distracted.

One afternoon, Dahl observes a nurse giving Theo a dose of an anticonvulsant, and she's giving him a ton of it, Dahl says.

"'Isn't that rather a lot?'

he asks her.

"'No, half an ounce, like it's supposed to be,' she replies calmly."

Well, it was supposed to be a tenth of a gram, Dahl later explains, a hell of a lot less.

Doctors rush in and start to pump the stomach of this poor four-month-old baby.

After the nurse's mistake, despite the comfort of having Hellman and Hammett right upstairs, the Dahls decide to get the hell out of this hospital.

So they wrap Theo in blankets, pick him up in their arms, and just carry him out.