From Ilonka, we learn that it was a halfway house during the great depression and that a cult called the Paragon called Brightcliffe home in the 1940s. The house was built in 1901 by a logging industrialist named Stanley Oscar Feelon and his wife Vera. Tim and Ilonka head inside, where nurse practitioner Mark ( Zach Gilford) gives them a brief tour of Brightcliffe along with some of its backstory. During her search, she has the creepy visions once again, but this time we learn that the house she’s been seeing is Brightcliffe. Inspired by this story, and the fact that the house seems to be calling out to her, she begs Tim to take her there. In the 1960s, a young girl named Julia Jayne came to Brightcliffe with terminal thyroid cancer but was miraculously cured during her stay. Using the hospital computers, she discovers the Brightcliffe teen hospice center. Tim tries to put on a brave face and keep her in a celebratory mood, but after they learn that the tumors in Ilonka’s lungs didn’t respond well to treatment, and she may or may not survive another year, Ilonka starts to look at other options. Nine months later, on her eighteenth birthday, Ilonka is in the hospital and has lost her hair from her cancer treatments. Ilonka is not only scared to receive this diagnosis, but she is set to start Stanford in the fall, and worries if the treatment will affect her enrollment and the future she had planned for herself. Her first course of treatment is a thyroidectomy paired with radioactive iodine. She is diagnosed with papillary thyroid carcinoma, a form of thyroid cancer. Ilonka goes to the doctor with Tim to find out what’s wrong.
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