Okaaay.īack in the present, Dashmiel calls a man named Jim. He says, “This is just between us,” and kisses her on the lips, only it isn’t sexual: Some strange water gushes from his mouth to hers, and it does indeed wake her up. We flash back to a scene where Scott tries to snap Amanda out of a fugue state. Lisey asks her what Scott did for her the last time she got like this. The two sisters arrive to Amanda’s house to find food burning on the stove and the woman’s arms all cut up. Lisey tells him he’s never getting access to Scott’s work, and as she drives away, she purposely smashes into his car. The professor tells her she was nothing but a restaurant hostess before she met Scott, so clearly, these two aren’t buds. According to Lisey, Dashmiel “ran like a rabbit” when the gun was pulled that day, but he later returned to soak up the credit. He wants Lisey to release Scott’s unpublished work so it can be reviewed and published. Lisey takes care of her sister’s wellbeing, but when Amanda smashes a mug, she calls her other sister, Darla ( Atypical‘s Jennifer Jason Leigh): “I think she’s doing it again.”īefore she can pull out of her driveway, Professor Dashmiel pulls up. The phone interrupts and it’s her ill sister Amanda (Tony Award winner Joan Allen), who unfortunately has a history of cutting. In Scott’s den, she finds a message tied to a shovel - the same shovel she used to slice the shooter’s face open. We’re gonna be jumping around more than House of Pain.) One of her memories is a literal nightmare, one where her famous author husband is shot while giving a speech, causing Lisey to jolt out of bed. When we first meet Lisey, she’s forlorn and floating in a pool, reminiscing about her lost love.