She tells him she knows everything about Nanny. Virginia discovers Joey is at the hospital and would like to see her. Soon the memory of finding Susy's body returns and Nanny pulls Joey from the tub.ĭr Medman visits Virginia's hospital room and explains that Nanny is mentally ill and will receive long-term care. She carries him into the bathtub and fills it with water. Nanny grabs him by the ankle, causing him to fall and knocking him unconscious. Nanny tries to enter Joey's bedroom, but his alarm system wakes him and he tries to escape. When Nanny finishes her speech, Pen is dead. Nanny says she cannot let Joey live for fear that someone may believe his story and put nannies' livelihoods at risk because people entrust their children to them. Already shaken, she returned home to find Susy's body, which drove her over the edge. She gets over-excited and has a heart attack, but Nanny snatches her heart medicine from her.Īs Pen lies dying, Nanny tells her she was a single mother who was called to the deathbed of her daughter, Janet, who died from an illegal abortion. Suspecting Nanny intends to suffocate Joey, Pen asks her what happened earlier when Joey emerged from the bathroom soaking wet. Nanny claims the pillow is an extra one for Joey, but Pen remembers she would not allow her and Virginia to have pillows when they were children. Pen wakes during the night and finds Nanny standing outside Joey's door holding a pillow. Joey's Aunt Pen, who has a weak heart as a result of childhood rheumatic fever, comes to babysit him. After Virginia falls ill and is taken to hospital, Joey is blamed for the incident. Joey refuses to eat the steak and kidney pie Nanny has cooked for him, so she spoon-feeds Virginia the pie which she has laced with poison. He flies to Beirut for a few days after seeing Joey's hostility toward Nanny fail to subside. Later, Joey appears at Bobbie's window dripping wet and claims that Nanny tried to drown him.īill is a Queen's Messenger who is frequently away on business. She is aghast when she sees the floating doll because it reminds her of finding Susy after she drowned in the bath. Joey persuades Bobbie Medman, the 14-year-old daughter of a doctor living in the flat above, to witness a cruel prank: he places a doll face down in the bathtub, opens the tap, and persuades Nanny to turn the spigot off. Eventually, she realizes that Joey knows that she accidentally caused Susy's death. Joey witnesses this but Nanny does not see him. Her mind snaps and she bathes the girl's lifeless body. When she returns to the bathroom, she finds Susy floating face down in the water. Unable to summon Susy for her bath, Nanny searches for her. Nanny enters the bathroom and absentmindedly turns on the tap by reaching through the closed shower curtain without looking inside. She tries to retrieve it by reaching behind the shower curtain but falls into the tub. She goes into the bathroom to play and accidentally drops her doll in the bath. She wants to play with him, but he tells her to go away. Susy threatens to tell their parents on Joey for being disobedient because he is not supposed to. Joey is playing by himself with his father's model railway. In a flashback, Nanny leaves the house for an appointment. Nanny comforts Virginia as she did when she cared for her and her sister Pen when they were children. Joey's rude behavior upsets his neurotic mother, Virginia, who is prone to melancholy and crying spells, still grieving the death of Susy. He abandons the room Nanny has decorated for him and moves to one with a strong lock on its door. When Joey returns home, he refuses to eat the meals Nanny prepares because he suspects she may poison him. This extends to the family's nanny, whom Joey distrusts and disrespects. The school's headmaster informs Joey's father, Bill, that his son harbors an intense dislike of middle-aged women. Joey spends two years at a school for emotionally disturbed children after being blamed for drowning his younger sister Susy.