Sometimes I Lie

It is New Year’s Eve, and Amber has been in a coma for nearly a week. She is happy when Jo from work visits. Jo cannot understand why Amber quit her work at the studio after the Christmas party. Amber, to herself, explains mysteriously that she only took the job six months ago to hurt Madeline. Amber, suspended in the half-world of her coma, now sees the little girl in the pink dress. The girl departs with Jo.

Amber then feels the presence of someone in the room. Her intuition warns her it is Edward, but Claire comes in and, failing to recognize Edward, treats him as if he were a doctor before Edward abruptly departs. Amber then has a moment of recollection about Christmas: She is bleeding, and Claire is there with her. She remembers driving Paul’s car home and finding Paul in the driveway, standing in the rain. She is aware that the little girl in the pink dress is standing next to her, crying. Even as she reels in her sudden memories, Paul fusses about the hospital room and pops open a bottle of champagne to toast the approaching new year. He whispers to her that he will never give up believing she will recover.