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. Scenes 32–48

   The price escalates from self-harm and terror to Sarah's murder, the heaviest cost of the wish coming due.

7. Just before
8. Scene 47

   Sarah reveals that Nicky and Ian have secretly hooked up for years and may be dating Bear out of spite, and mid-confession Nicky smashes through the car window and beats Sarah to death with a brick, telling Bear afterward it's kind of his fault.

9. Scene 48

   Bear and Nicky stuff Sarah's body into a tuba case and load it into her SUV's trunk behind the music store.

10. Scene 49

    Nicky sends Bear home from the break room, telling him she'll finish disposing of Sarah's body herself.

11. Scene 50

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