I Found You

After Kai, his friends, Derry, and Daniel leave, Jasmine watches Romaine and the oldest dog. Alice and Frank walk the other dogs on the beach. Alice apologizes for Jasmine’s outburst, and Frank thinks it was good for her to get it off her chest. The dogs run after a fox, then a flock of seagulls. Following them, Alice and Frank travel down the beach. Frank recognizes a large house; Alice heard from Derry that it belonged to a novelist. He remembers peacocks in the house and wants to go there to see if he can remember more.

Gray and his family haven’t seen Mark for three days. Kirsty admits that she told Mark she loved him after he said it first because she was flustered by her first kiss. Later, they go out to a pub for dinner. There is a singer named Izzy there; Gray is attracted to her and gives her a big tip. After her set, Gray sees Izzy talking to Mark. Kirsty’s parents take her home, but Gray stays behind to finish his food.

Because he gave Izzy such a big tip, Gray only has enough money for one more drink. Mark offers to pay for it, but Gray turns him down. Mark invites Gray to a party at his house that Izzy will be attending. Izzy flirts with Gray, and he agrees to ask Kirsty if she wants to come to Mark’s party.

The following day, Lily repeatedly calls Carl’s mother. No one answers. Lily throws the home phone and breaks it. She texts Russ from her cell phone, explaining that the home phone is broken. Then, she tries dialing the number of Carl’s mother from her cell and a woman answers.

Alice and Frank walk along the beach with the dogs. They hold hands, then kiss. Alice invites Frank into her bedroom. They have sex twice that night and once in the morning before Frank goes back to the shed. Once the kids are awake, Frank comes back over for coffee and says he’s going to the house. Alice says she’s going with him. He recognizes a pub along the way, and Alice agrees to eat there later. They hold hands as they walk. Frank internally wonders if Alice is his usual type.

At the house, he tells Alice that he hates not remembering his life. Holding the doorknob, he remembers a girl pulling him through the door and dead lilies.

Gray arrives at the cottage with a drunken group including Izzy and Mark. Gray asks Tony for permission to go to Mark’s house. Izzy asks if Kirsty wants to come. She is already in her pajamas. Izzy insists and Kirsty agrees, changes, and comes along. Tony tells them to be back by midnight, or he will come over and embarrass them. At Mark’s aunt’s house, the lilies on the front table are dying. He shows everyone to the bar and makes drinks. Kirsty only drinks soda.

After Mark puts on loud music, Gray asks Kirsty why she came. She says she feared missing out and asks why he came. He looks at Izzy. Kirsty teases Gray about his crush. Mark offers everyone ecstasy. Gray says no, but Kirsty and Izzy convince him to split one pill with them. Izzy takes half; Gray and Kirsty take a quarter each. Mark’s friends talk to one another for a while. Izzy’s friend asks Gray if he has a girlfriend, and Kirsty says Gray has never even been kissed. Izzy kisses Gray as the ecstasy kicks in, and he hallucinates colors in a peacock shape. Mark offers Izzy and Gray another pill, and they split it.

The woman who answers the phone tells Lily that she’s not Carl’s mother; she has no children. Lily gets angry, demands to know why the woman is lying, then tells her that Carl is missing. The woman hangs up.

Alice and Frank look around the house, but the door is locked. A phone inside rings over and over. Frank thinks the calls are about him and wants to go to the police. Alice says they’ll be closed on Sunday, but they can go tomorrow. Today, they’ll go to the pub Frank remembered and see if it jogs some memories. He remembers a band he likes, Elbow, and Alice helps him remember what Yorkshire puddings are.

About 20 more people show up at Mark’s party, and Izzy flirts with one of them. Gray decides to leave and finds Kirsty. She’s taken an additional whole pill of ecstasy and declares Gray beautiful, and she wants to see the peacock. They go outside and watch it dance. They admit they love one another in a platonic way. Mark shows up with beers. He demands to know why Kirsty and her parents said she doesn’t want to see him. Gray explains that she was feeling ill. Mark demands to know if he and Kirsty are still dating. Gray says they should talk when they are sober, but Mark thinks they will be honest while on drugs.

When Gray starts to take Kirsty home, Mark grabs Kirsty. Gray tries to punch Mark, but Mark grabs his hand. With his other hand he grabs Kirsty and puts his arm around her neck. Gray tries to free his hand, and Mark kicks him close to his testicles. Gray falls and gets back up. Mark has a knife at Kirsty’s throat and says Gray made him put it there.

Lily goes shopping and worries about the future. After she’s eaten, she calls Russ and updates him about the woman saying she wasn’t Carl’s mother. Russ does an internet search for the phone number and gets the address in Ridinghouse Bay. Lily wants to go there right away, but Russ has plans with his family. He gets off the phone, talks things over with his wife, and reluctantly agrees to take Lily to the house. She apologizes for causing trouble in his life.

Frank, Alice, her children, and her dog Sadie go to the Hope and Anchor pub. Frank remembers that he loves a girl named Kirsty and tells Alice. He worries that he’s left a family behind in his amnesia. Alice worries that Kirsty is his wife, but hopes she is his sister. She doesn’t want to lose Frank. They will know more tomorrow when they go to the police.

Mark threatens to kill Kirsty if Gray moves. Mark explains that he’s outraged at how he has been treated by Gray and his family; Gray turned his parents and Kirsty against Mark. Gray stays calm and says he was only looking out for Kirsty, who isn’t ready for a relationship. Mark doesn’t believe this because Kirsty told him she loved him. When Mark moves the knife slightly, Gray tries to free Kirsty. Mark grabs Gray’s hand and breaks his wrist. Then he demands Gray go with him and Kirsty or he’ll break the other wrist.

Lily and Russ drive to Ridinghouse Bay. He tells the story of how he and his wife met; she was his boss at a previous job. Being a mother gives her cabin fever, and Lily apologizes for interrupting Russ’s time with his wife. Lily brought her wedding album to show the woman who said she isn’t Carl’s mother. She tells Russ how sweet Carl has been but internally thinks about a time when he strangled her when she was asleep. He said he was dreaming and apologized with a diamond necklace.

Lily is impressed by the house, but Russ thinks it’s neglected. Lily rings the doorbell but no one answers. They keep ringing the bell for five minutes. Then, Lily uses one of the keys she found in Carl’s locked drawer to open the door.

After lunch, Frank goes to the shed and Alice watches her parents on her iPad. They are holding hands and tell each other “I love you too” (211). However, they aren’t sure about many other things in their life. Alice takes off the sheets she had sex on and puts on new sheets.

Frank starts to remember his apartment, a bachelor pad, and his job: teaching teenagers math. He worries that he will remember negative things about himself and wants to remain without an identity. When he remembers that he has a cat, he is determined to go to the police in the morning to try and find out who he is.

Mark locks Kirsty and Gray in a spare room. The music at the party is so loud that no one notices. The door is solid; Gray can’t kick through it. Gray and Kirsty look around the room for weapons, settling on a blanket to throw over Mark’s head, a lamp to knock him unconscious, and coat hangers that have been unfurled to stab him. Gray also finds some expired painkillers and takes them for his hand, but they don’t help. He tells Kirsty he loves her and she’s the best sister ever.

Lily and Russ search through the house. They find one locked door and knock on it. Lily calls out, asking if the woman she talked to on the phone is inside. When there is no answer, Lily demands that Russ kick in the door. He refuses, and she begins to throw her hip against the door, then kicks it. Russ stops her. She says she’s not leaving until she gets through the door. They kick the door together three times and it finally breaks open.

Frank remembers he can draw and makes a postcard for Alice with her art supplies. It is a pencil and pastel sketch of her dogs. She is impressed with his artistic talent. He tells her the other things he’s remembered. She’s glad to hear he lives alone and promises to take care of his cat if he is arrested. When Frank tells Alice she is amazing, she tells him about her failures as a mother. The social services visited her twice. Once was before Romaine was born. Alice was depressed and struggled to raise her two children properly. Eventually, she started taking Prozac and got rid of problematic friends. The second time was after Romaine’s father kidnapped her. Alice struggled to keep Romaine looking tidy and struggled to pick her up from school on time.

However, Derry helped Alice turn her life around. Derry helped with picking up and dropping off Romaine, as well as helping to get Romaine a diagnosis for dyslexia. Then, Alice shares her regrets about sleeping with Barry, who rented the shed and owed her money. Frank says he still thinks Alice is amazing and kisses her forehead. Romaine comes in and Frank offers to make her a bagel. When Romaine sees Frank’s drawing, she asks him to make another one of her and Alice. Alice feels like Frank belongs in her house and worries about losing him tomorrow to the police.

Kirsty gets the blanket over Mark’s head, but Gray ends up hitting Mark on the side of the head with the lamp, which doesn’t knock him out. They fight, but Gray’s broken wrist causes him to lose. When Gray tries to leave the room, Mark threatens to kill Kirsty. Mark says their dad has come by and he thinks Gray and Kirsty are wasted on the beach. Everyone has left the house; the party is over.

Mark uses the cord from the lamp to tie Gray and Kirsty’s hands together while they sit back-to-back. With Gray facing the other direction, Mark narrates how he is touching Kirsty. She struggles. Gray is determined to free himself by tugging on the frayed end of the broken cord tying them. He blocks out what Mark says about Kirsty’s breasts and genitalia and focuses on getting free.

The locked room is tidier than the rest of the house, and Lily guesses the woman is classy like Carl. Russ notices that some clothes and jewelry are missing and thinks the woman left recently and in a hurry. Lily says she’ll wait and, realizing how long they’ve been gone, tells Russ to go home to his family. He is concerned about leaving her alone, but she assures him she has money and can get home without him. Eventually, Russ agrees to leave her, but makes her promise to call him in the morning, or if anything scares her before then. They hug. After Russ leaves, Lily fantasizes about Carl being happy she found him.

Alice loves Frank’s sketch of her and Romaine; he captured their features and the love between them. When Alice puts Romaine to bed, Frank goes back to the shed, leaving her a note saying he’s going to bed to prepare for their early morning. Alice longs to have sex with him again and starts to go to the back door that leads to the shed. However, she changes her mind. When she turns around, Kai is there. He says she seems a bit off and asks if Frank is causing her stress. She says it has been a bit stressful. Kai admits that he likes Frank, then tells Alice he loves her.

Gray loosens the cord enough to free his hands but waits for the best moment to do so. Mark cuts off Kirsty’s shirt while, Gray prepares a wire hanger that he took out of Kirsty’s pocket. When Mark struggles with the clasp of Kirsty’s bra, Gray makes fun of him and calls him a virgin. This causes Mark to leave Kirsty.

As Mark slaps Gray, Gray pulls his hands out of the cord and cuts Mark on the head with the hanger. Gray tries to hit Mark with a lamp, but Mark takes it from him. Mark is bleeding heavily and starts screaming that Gray has “done it now” (242). Gray tells Kirsty to run, and she does. Mark runs after her, and Gray chases him. Kirsty slips on the steps, and Mark grabs her, getting blood on her clothes as he tries to remove them. She kicks him in the testicles and gets away.

Gray and Kirsty run towards the back door. Mark follows and tackles Gray, hitting Gray’s head against the floor. Kirsty screams and stabs Mark with his own knife, which she took when he was fighting with Gray. Then, Kirsty and Gray make it outside.

Lily stays overnight at the house, sleeps a few hours, and wakes up as the sun rises. She is overwhelmed by the beauty of the sea. Russ texts her to make sure she is okay, and she replies that she is. Lily plans to spend the day going to shops she found receipts, menus, and cards for in the house. She is surprised there isn’t any identifying information in the house. Russ calls her and she tells him this. Lily thanks him for his help and thinks that his wife is lucky to have him. After they get off the phone, Lily prepares to leave.

In the morning, Frank offers to go with Alice to drop Romaine off at school, to spend more time with her. Jasmine and Kai say goodbye to Frank before they go to their school. Derry is already at the school when Alice, Romaine, and Frank arrive. She suggests they all go out for coffee so she can see if the editor has gotten back to her. A teacher gives Alice a dirty look, and Frank holds her hand.

At the coffee shop, Derry checks her phone; the editor hasn’t replied yet. As she, Alice, and Frank drink their coffees, Lily comes into the cafe. She asks about the woman who lives in the house, and the man at the counter says she is named Kitty: She doesn’t have any children and spends most of her time in Harrogate. He doesn’t recognize Carl from the picture Lily shows him.

Frank and Lily don’t recognize each other. Alice explains that Frank lost his memory around the same time that Carl went missing and suggests that the men may be connected somehow. They all introduce themselves. Lily shows Frank the picture of Carl. Frank gets up, knocks over his chair, and puts his hands over his mouth, clearly upset. Alice asks him what’s wrong.

Gray and Kirsty run down to the beach. Their dad is there, looking for them. Mark runs up, grabs Kirsty, and drags her into the sea. Gray and Tony jump in the water after them, but Gray can’t swim with his broken wrist. Tony tells him to go back to the beach. On shore, Gray yells for help, but no one is close enough to hear. Tony crawls out of the water and has a heart attack. Gray continues to call for help, but no one comes. He tries to do CPR but fails because of his broken wrist. His dad dies in his arms.

Frank first tells Lily that he saw Mark, who looks just like Carl, drown as a teenager. Then, Frank thinks he saw Mark more recently but can’t remember more details. This upsets Lily. Derry suggests that Mark has an identical twin. Alice suggests Frank go for a walk to clear his head, but Lily objects. Derry gets a phone call from the person who wrote the news story about Tony’s death: Lesley Wade. Frank is sure he didn’t see Kirsty come out of the sea.