She learned from the news about a serial killer with acromegaly who digs up crypts, stealing bones and jewels, and has sex with and eats the faces of male corpses this explains why he didn't harm Jessie in the house and why Gerald's face was disfigured. But each night the "man made of moonlight" still appears before her as she falls asleep. She used some of Gerald's life insurance to start a foundation for victims of sexual abuse.
She describes how she had pretended to have amnesia over the ordeal of being trapped, avoiding painful questions. Six months later, Jessie is writing a letter to her 12-year-old self. People from a nearby house emerge to help. She makes it to her car and drives away but hallucinates the deformed figure again and crashes into a tree. Delirious, she removes her wedding ring and gives it to him for his trinket bag before leaving. When she awakes, the "man made of moonlight" is at the end of the hall.
She bandages her wrist but passes out from blood loss and fatigue. She is then able to reach the key and unlock her other hand. She smashes the water glass, cuts her wrist, and peels back the skin, allowing her bloody hand to slip through the cuff. Jessie remembers how her mother suspected her father but did nothing. Gerald calls the deformed man "the man made of moonlight", and points out a bloody footprint on the floor, making Jessie realize the figure may have been real. Gerald and Jessie number 2 taunt that she never recovered from the assault, and that she married a man just like her father. Gerald begins to call Jessie "Mouse", which triggers a memory of her father Tom, who affectionately referred to her as "Mouse." When she was 12, he had her sit on his lap while he masturbated to her during a solar eclipse. She refuses to believe the figure is real but Gerald says the figure is Death waiting to take her. Jessie falls asleep, wakes up in the dark, and sees a deformed obscured figure who reveals a bag of bones and trinkets. The two hallucinations trigger her to remember the glass of water Gerald had left on the shelf above the bed, which she is able to reach when she can't drink it, she rolls the shopping tag she'd torn from her slip into a drinking straw to reach the water. Jessie also hallucinates a more self-assured version of herself, who explains things about her and Gerald that she never had the courage to acknowledge. He then informs her that she is beginning to suffer from dehydration and fatigue. He taunts her about the truths of their strained marriage and his erectile dysfunction. Gerald stands up and begins talking when Jessie notices his body remains on the floor, she realizes she is hallucinating. Jessie tries to scare it away, but it bites a chunk out of Gerald's arm and eats it. The dog enters through the open door of the house. After a heated argument in which he accuses her of not even trying to rekindle their relationship, Gerald dies of a heart attack, falling onto the floor and leaving Jessie trapped in the handcuffs.Ī few hours pass. He begins to enact a stranger rape fantasy she half-heartedly plays along but soon becomes uncomfortable, telling him to stop and uncuff her. Inside, she changes into a new slip and Gerald restrains her with a set of handcuffs locked to the bedposts. While Gerald takes Viagra, Jessie feeds raw beef to a stray dog outside. Jessie and Gerald Burlingame arrive at an isolated lake house in Fairhope, Alabama for a romantic getaway.
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