Do You Remember?

Tess doesn’t trust Camila either and decides to go for a walk. She tries not to panic when she realizes that she’s locked in. When she spots the mail carrier, she pounds on the window, but he ignores her. Camila comes, however, and Tess sees the pity on her face. Camila comforts Tess and tells her Lucy is coming to visit later.

When Lucy arrives, Tess cries in her arms. Lucy looks fantastic, but Tess recalls that Lucy didn’t believe in her when she wanted to start her business. Lucy says the last month has been especially difficult for Tess; before that, she seemed much calmer. She says that Tess has been more scared and almost always asks about Harry now.

Lucy is surprised when Tess reveals she has no phone, and Tess can tell that Lucy is lying when she tries to avoid answering questions about what usually happens. Suddenly, Tess remembers Harry’s voice telling her to look in the locked drawer of Graham’s desk. She begins to suspect that her husband might be drugging her so that she loses her memory.

Tess recalls Harry’s criticism of Lucy, that she always puts Tess down. She and Lucy take Ziggy for a walk, and Tess has another “absence seizure,” remembering the day she married Graham. She recalls telling Lucy that she made a mistake ending things with Harry, and she wanted to call him before the ceremony, but Lucy wouldn’t let her. Back in the present, when Tess and Lucy walk by the dog park, Tess gets a strange feeling that something significant happened there, but she can’t recall what.

Lucy stays for dinner, and she and Graham chat familiarly. Tess feels excluded. When Lucy casually sips from Graham’s glass of wine, she realizes that they know each other well. Soon, Tess’s speech begins to slur, and he puts her to bed.

Tess awakens around 11 o’clock that night, her memory intact. She can see the light downstairs, so she goes to investigate. As she descends the stairs, she has another “seizure” and recalls walking in on Lucy and Harry kissing. Lucy shoved Harry away, but he claimed that Lucy kissed him. Tess didn’t believe him and broke off their engagement. Now, however, she returns to the present and finds Graham and Lucy having sex.

When Lucy tries to deny what Tess saw, Graham says Tess won’t remember in the morning anyway. Graham says Lucy might as well confess that she kissed Harry that night, that she did it to get a raise and a corner office. He tells Tess that Lucy lied about Harry to help him because he wanted to be with Tess. Now, Tess struggles to keep her eyes open, but he continues, saying that she planned to leave him and cut him out of the company before her accident, but now she’s stuck with him forever. Tess wants to claw at his face, but fatigue overwhelms her.

Tess spits the pomegranate juice out and tries to rinse the taste from her mouth. Graham says she drank two glasses yesterday and asked for a third, but Tess can’t believe it. He suggests a trip to the doctor, and she demurs. Graham then explains that Ziggy is outside because “[h]e’ll trash the furniture” (236). When she meets the dog, she loves him immediately and can tell that he loves her.

Harry calls out from the other side of the fence, worried because she didn’t respond to yesterday’s texts. When he realizes that Graham took her phone, he fears that he’s making her situation worse. He tells her where to look for the phone, but says not to contact him.

After Graham leaves for work, Camila asks if he was “a jerk” to Tess today. Tess says no, that he made her breakfast—which was a little burned—and offered her the juice she loves. Camila is shocked and says that Tess hates that juice. When Tess learns this, she recalls the look on his face when she spat it out: the “little smile” that indicated amusement. She finds her phone where Harry suggested she look, and she sees some strange texts from Lucy, sent yesterday. She also sees Harry’s texts from yesterday, and she responds, but he tells her to delete the messages.

Graham comes home with flowers and chocolates. Tess thinks it would be easy to believe his lies if she hadn’t found her phone. He goes upstairs, and Tess has another “seizure,” in which she remembers walking in on Graham sleeping with his secretary. She told him that she found his secret bank accounts and learned that he was embezzling from her company; she locked him out of company computers and demanded an immediate, uncontested divorce. She could feel a throbbing in her head even then.

In the present, the idea of forgetting all of this is unbearable, so she writes “Find Harry” on her thigh with his phone number. When she emerges from the bathroom, Ziggy is standing there with a set of keys in his mouth.

Tess texts Harry that she has Graham’s keys and wants to meet at McDonald’s. He says not to go, but she says she will, whether he shows up or not. She puts Ziggy in the car and goes. When she arrives, she and Harry kiss passionately, and he asks if she got his last message. It instructed her to leave her phone at home, but she brought it with her, which allows Graham to track her. Harry and Tess go outside, and she not only sees Graham but also hears sirens.

Graham threatens Harry with prison and tells Tess that she has a restraining order against Harry. He reassures Tess that she’s safe now, but she doesn’t feel safe. She doesn’t know what to believe. When they get home, Graham offers to make Tess dinner, but she won’t eat or drink anything he brings. She makes herself a sandwich, and Graham demands that she write herself a new letter because they took it “too easy” on Harry before. When Tess refuses, Graham threatens to take Ziggy to the kill shelter. She grudgingly agrees to write a letter, and Graham dictates.

Tess hates the idea that she’ll believe all the terrible things about Harry that Graham made her write. In the middle of the night, she’s awoken by a sharp pain. She rolls over and sees Graham standing by the bed. He has just given her an injection and says this is what he does every night. She wants to fight back, but fatigue immediately overwhelms her.