Bear wishes the woman he loves would love him back. The wish comes true — and her devotion becomes a violence neither of them can stop.

1. Scenes 1–9

   Bear in his comfort zone of quiet, unspoken longing for Nicky, grieving his cat and coached by Ian to stay silent rather than confess.

2. Scenes 9–13

   Bear needs Nicky to love him back, sharpened by trivia night's proximity to her and Ian, and the purchase of the willow as an almost-joke wish object.

3. Scene 13

   Bear breaks the willow and makes the wish, crossing from wanting to actively, magically pursuing Nicky's love.

4. Scenes 14–30

   Bear adapts to Nicky's escalating strangeness, paying the cost of denial and rationalization as the relationship forms under increasingly disturbing terms.

5. Scenes 25–31

   Nicky confesses her love and the relationship becomes real — Bear gets exactly what he wished for, at the exact moment the cracks (the dad lie) start to show.

6. Just before
7. Scene 30

   Over dinner, Nicky flirts and asks about Bear's real dreams, but when he presses her about her father's cancer she panics and unravels, insisting it doesn't matter to him.

8. Scene 31

   Back at Bear's, sex turns to horror when Nicky snaps into panic mid-moan and screams, then just as fast resumes as if nothing happened.

9. Scene 32

   Bear wakes to find Nicky standing in the shadows wearing his coat, watching him sleep, then cuts his arm with a crystal in a fit of eerie, childlike play.

10. Scene 33

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