The slab was the name that she had given the table where she did her autopsies. It had become the place where she would be forced to deal with the pains of her past. And when the child she leaves in the woods for dead is brought to her slab, at that moment, Tonya will face the pain of her present. Or will the pain be so overwhelming that, Tonya runs back to her God? Or will darkness cover her? Then while consumed in that darkness. Will Tonya fall deeper and deeper in her own pain and end up on her own Slab?