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"Kapag lumiliwanag ang puti sa madilim, na asul ang siyang pagdating ng gabi, lumalabas hindi lang ang taga-habi ng mga panaginip, pati ang mga nagmahal kahit puso ay nasawi."
That poetic line Patrick (Joshua Garcia) finds in a notebook mirrors the tone of "It's Okay to Not Be Okay" Episode 57 where an ailing Samuel (Michael de Mesa) falls into a lucid episode and makes a startling confession about a terrifying night from his past.
The episode opens with a flashback inside the Hernandez mansion where a younger Samuel (Geoff Eigenmann) was surprised to find his wife Ingrid (Empress Schuck) in an unusually pleasant mood, humming along to the lullaby that played loudly from the speaker as she fixed her long red nails. Irritated by the noise, Samuel turned off the music, and then noticed a nib pen resting on the table, its pointed tip stained with blood. He frowned at the sight, puzzled but choosing not to question it yet, until he turned on the radio and heard the news report about the murder of Tessie (Meryll Soriano).
It only took a moment for Samuel to piece everything together, convinced that Ingrid was responsible for their helper’s death, which she didn't even deny. Instead, she boldly claimed that Tessie’s death was Samuel’s fault as he couldn’t stay content with her and their daughter, Mia (Ysabella Suarez). Horrified, Samuel vehemently denied having any affair with Tessie, and pointed out that Ingrid had taken the life of an innocent woman.
Samuel couldn't believe how his wife could become so cruel. He swore she would pay for what she had done, called her a monster, and condemned the way she was shaping their daughter into her own monstrous image. Ingrid replied that there was nothing wrong with molding Mia to be like her, saying, “My daughter is special. She is my creation.”
Samuel ran after Ingrid and caught up by the staircase. In anger, he grabbed her by the neck, as if he were thinking it would stop her madness. In their struggle, Ingrid slipped and fell down the stairs, her body covered in blood and her white dress stained red.
Samuel carried Ingrid’s bloodied body to the underground room of the mansion—the same room Mia (Anne Curtis) once warned Matmat (Carlo Aquino) never to go near. As Samuel locked the door, Ingrid seemed to smile faintly before it fully closed. Later that afternoon, Samuel opened the door again to get Ingrid’s body and dispose of it in the lake. This part ties back to the earlier episodes where Dipong saw Ingrid emerging from the lake.
In the present, this becomes Samuel’s memory during his lucid episode where he repeatedly says that he killed his wife. Eden (Agot Isidro) firmly tells him to stop thinking about such things. At the same time, Olivia (Maricel Laxa) spots Patrick (Joshua Garcia) peeking from outside the isolation room, and they rush in as Samuel’s condition worsens.
Right in front of them, Samuel admits, “Pinatay ko ang asawa ko." Patrick can’t help but ask if this was also the reason he tried to strangle Mia as a child, but Samuel says Mia was innocent and that he only wanted to stop her from becoming like her mother, just as Ingrid said she would make her daughter her own creation. A flashback shows Mia confronting Samuel after he arrived home from the lake. Her tone and expression were eerily familiar to him, as if he were looking at Ingrid's young version. Seeing Ingrid’s eyes in Mia’s face, fear and anger took over Samuel, and he strangled his daughter while begging her to die instead of becoming like her mother.
Back in the isolation room, Eden reprimands Olivia and Patrick for suddenly going in, but Olivia explains that they were only worried since she was alone with the patient during a lucid episode. Patrick observes the two nurses' reaction. Later, he secretly takes Eden's phone, which she accidentally leaves at the nurse's station.
That night, Eden arrives home and realizes her phone is missing, so she goes back to the hospital to look for it, unaware that Patrick is already outside her home, waiting for the right time. Upon seeing Eden's car leave, Patrick approaches her son, Vio (Raven Rigor), returns the phone, and pretends to ask for water so he can enter the house.
As Vio goes to the kitchen to get some water, Patrick takes a quick look around the living room where he spots books and a notebook that has a handwritten note that reads, "Kapag lumiliwanag ang puti sa madilim, na asul ang siyang pagdating ng gabi, lumalabas hindi lang ang taga-habi ng mga panaginip, pati ang mga nagmahal kahit puso ay nasawi." When he asks who wrote it, Vio confirms it was his mother, who enjoys writing as a hobby.
Back at the mansion, Patrick hurries to the library to recheck Ingrid’s manuscript. The exact line isn’t written there, but the tone and rhythm in writing feels identical that it leaves him wondering, "Siya nga ba? Si Ma'am Ingrid at Eden ay iisa?"
Meanwhile, Eden is searching for her lost cellphone at the nurse’s station when she hears rustling outside. The scene cuts to a person in disguise taking Samuel out of the facility. Who could it be?
Catch the final chapter of “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” on Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live (KOL), A2Z, and TV5, weeknights at 8:45 PM. Watch it in advance on iWant.