padzok — 9 years ago(July 13, 2016 11:30 AM)

SPOILERS
Jess is a single mom. Her son has special needs. She works as a waitress.
One of her customers comes into the diner every day. She knows he is not married and does not have a girlfriend. They get along well, and he is always very friendly towards her. However, he has never asked her out on a date. She is not sure if he is gay, or maybe he is just not attracted to her, but he's a nice guy and she doesnt push it.
One day, the customer, Greg, asks her to spend the weekend on his boat with him and his friends, and tells her she should bring her son. She is really excited at this development. She's not sure if she wants a relationship with him or not, but she is lonely and is delighted that she and her son will have a break from their boring routine:
"every day is the same with Tommy"
.
She buys a new dress for the trip and a new toy boat for Tommy. She goes home and excitedly writes a post-it note on the fridge about the boat trip. It's not that she'll forget; it's just that she has had nothing special to look forward to for a long time, and writing the note reminds her of her younger days, when her life was so action-packed and spontaneous that she needed such notes to keep track.
Later she collects Tommy from school, and as she is driving home, she excitedly tells him about their plans for the following day. Tommy does not seem interested. As they are driving, a seagull hits the car leaving blood on the window. Jess disposes of the bird, but Tommy is still freaked out by the blood, and kicks and screams all the way home.
Jess realises that her plan for the boat trip simply will not work. If Tommy is freaked by a single seagull on a familiar drive home, he will be completely manic on a strange boat, with strange people, and strange birds, for two days.
She's depressed. When she wakes up the next morning, she feels lonely and disappointed as she prepares Tommy for school, and gets ready for another humdrum day just like the last. She is normally extremely loving to Tommy, but today he is getting on her nerves. She shouts at him for leaving the new toy lying on its side. This causes him to accidentally spill paint on her new dress, and she momentarily loses her temper. She swings hard at Tommy with her hand; she catches him so hard that his head slams into a table giving him deeps cuts on his face, and he falls to the floor unconscious, banging his head again.
As she desperately tries to revive him, Jess - with her last gasp of sanity - realises that it is hopeless; there is no saving Tommy.
Jess has a total breakdown, and can think of nothing else other than how much she would like the chance to rewind time, to do things differently. Part of her is thinking
"if only we could have gone on that trip, instead of me getting worried that Tommy could not handle it"
, but the other part of her is thinking
"It's all Greg's fault! If he had not suggested going on the yacht, I'd never have got my hopes up. Greg should have never talked to me about 'my world'. If only he and his friends did not exist, Tommy would still be alive"
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In the criminal asylum, Jess lived out the remaining 50 years of her life, with her brain just circling around the fact that she is a killer, and she must save Tommy. Jess ever again experienced reality.