Sitting down on a bench to smoke a joint, she imagines watching her mother's final moment. On her 21st birthday, Dylan ( Olivia Cooke) gets ready to go out, and then performs a rendition of To Make You Feel My Love with her band.Īfter the show, Dylan fights another girl before leaving the venue. Her dog dies when she is 7, leading to a talk with her grandfather, Irwin, about death. Dylan’s grandmother, Linda, passes away when Dylan is 6.

Will and Abby's daughter Dylan, born of death and tragedy, seems to have a dark cloud following her. Will, blaming himself, shoots himself in front of Cait. Distracted, Abby was struck by a bus, while a little boy watched from inside. Walking down the street after having lunch with his parents, Abby announced they were having a girl and wanted to name her Dylan. Cait tells Will that he was institutionalized following Abby leaving, pushing him to remember the details of 'that day'. In the present day, Will wonders what happened. On another occasion, Abby excitedly talks to Will about her thesis on the unreliable narrator: that life is the ultimate unreliable narrator as it is so tricky and surprising. She meets his parents Irwin ( Mandy Patinkin) and Linda ( Jean Smart). She had to live with her only family member: her Uncle Joe (Bryant Carroll), who sexually abused her until her teens, when she threatened to shoot him dead if he touched her again.Ībby and Will meet, become friends in college, he asks her out and less than a year later, proposes. Her parents died in a car accident, while she sat in the backseat. She is a Bob Dylan fan, and is very pregnant.

Flashbacks show Will and his wife Abby's ( Olivia Wilde) married life. Cait is actually Will's therapist, and he has been seeing her since he was discharged from a psychiatric hospital. It is then revealed that this scene is part of a script that Will is writing, and another narrator ( Lorenza Izzo) takes over, telling the actual story. When he sees that she is dead, he leaves. Sam breaks the narration, appears physically, and suggests that Cait will be fine because she is the hero. As she is crossing the street, Will Dempsey ( Oscar Isaac) tells her he is a big fan and she is then hit by a bus. Unimpressed with Henry, he focuses on Cait. Jackson first introduces the hero of the story, Henry, as he is talking to his therapist, Dr.

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