I neglected to mention a couple details in my last scene recap. Before Dorota meets the office clerk at her front door to receive her husband’s sick pay, she systematically destroys a plant. She does this by snapping up all of the large leaves, one at a time, and then she snaps the stem. As she does this, she is watching the doctor walk away across the complex courtyard, giving a sense that this is an act of violence aimed at the man with a greenhouse.

We next see the doctor walking to work. The sights along the way are mostly unremarkable, but two things stand out — first, there is a style of hatchback car that seemingly everyone in Warsaw is driving. The only difference between them is the color, recalling Henry Ford’s statement from the early 20th century that drivers can get the Model T in any color, as long as it’s black. In 1980s Warsaw, the colors have arrived but seemingly everyone drives the same car.

Second, the doctor walks very slowly, to the point that when he gets a walk signal and begins his stroll immediately, he cannot make it all the way across before the don’t walk sign is fully lit.

The doctor enters this very old hospital complex and immediately upon entering asks a colleague where the patient Geller is. He’s told that the patient is in a post-op room. He peeks into that room on the way to his office and notices that Dorota is already there with her husband. How she actually beat the doctor to the hospital, we do not know at this point. The doctor then arrives in his office and asks for the Geller chart.

We next cut to the patient’s room. Dorota’s husband is asleep and she’s trying not to wake him. She has brought a big jar of something … weird looking. They kind of seem like large kalamata olives, but that can’t be right. The other patient in the room tells her to leave them, that he might want them later. He also tells her that her husband hasn’t eaten much that day. She seems to be trying to show gestures of warmth.

Her eyes are full of tears. She reaches around his pillow as if to rearrange them, but doesn't really do much. Eventually, she stands up and leaves. As soon as the door closes, her husband's eyes open. It seems deliberate, but he does appear to go right back to sleep. Dorota then goes to the doctor's office. A nurse tries to rebuff her, saying it's not the day to see patients, but she says she has an appointment.

The nurse goes into the office and tells the doctor that Dorota is waiting. He asks if it is past noon yet and she says it is -- so he asks for her to come in. He asks her to sit down. She takes out a cigarette and puts it in her mouth. She then hesitates and asks if it's ok. He says that he doesn't smoke, but if she must .... Dorota has second thoughts and puts the cigarette away.

The doctor tells her bluntly that things look bad for her husband. She presses him for more details -- will he live or die? He refuses to answer — once again, refusing to put life on a schedule — saying he doesn't know. She demands more, he tells her that he is only obliged to do his best to save his life. She gets up and leaves.

We return now to the post-op hospital room with her husband. He is awake now and becomes entranced watching the dripping ceiling. This hospital is clearly a mess and the ceilings are dripping water from multiple spots. The feeling any viewer would take from this scene is that Poland looks like a country on verge of collapse.

The last thing we see in the room is drips of water landing on the leaves of plants ... which seem to be the same plants that Dorota destroyed earlier. So maybe it wasn't an act of anger?

We next see Dorota sitting in an idling car ... she's waiting for the doctor. This answers how she beat the doctor to the hospital. She also drives a Volkswagen Beetle. Not exactly a luxury car, but different from everything else we see on the road. Also remember that she didn't have a driver's license, only her passport, when the clerk arrived at her apartment.

This plus the detail about running over the doctor's dog make you wonder just how good a driver she might be. She drives up right behind the doctor ... given her earlier statement about running him over with a car, this couldn't create any comfort for him. She offers to give him a ride, he refuses and starts to walk home. She then proceeds to follow him in her car all the way ... very slowly.

Still, he somehow succeeds in slipping into a doorway at one point and loses her (Kieslowski will repeat this same tactic in "The Double Life of Veronique.") As this segment comes to a close, Dorota is in her car staring up at the doctor's apartment. She sees the greenhouse lights come on, then his bedroom light.