The Time Keeper

Victor stops doing dialysis, and by Christmas he has to be moved to a bed in the living room. Grace accepts that he is just letting go and doesn’t know about his other plans. Victor knows that his body is showing all the signs of end-stage renal failure so that no one will suspect that he is planning to be frozen before he dies. He tells Grace that she’ll be taken care of, and they both express that they’ll miss each other. Victor almost tells her about his plan but then chooses not to.

Sarah loves Ethan, but she realizes that he doesn’t love her back. When Sarah meets him in the parking lot of the Dunkin’ Donuts on Christmas to give him his present, she tells him that she loves him, and he rolls his eyes. She feels completely humiliated. He gives the present back to her unopened. From that point on, Sarah begins to disengage from life. She feels angry that she blew her opportunity with Ethan, wishing that she hadn’t pushed him away when she had the chance. She realizes now that it’s completely over. She can’t call him or see him anymore.