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. Scenes 49–59

   Bear returns to the world he knew — the crystal shop, Ian's house, his own living room — trying and failing to undo the wish, confronted at every turn with what he's caused.

8. Just before
9. Scene 57

   Bear walks away from Ian's house as money keeps falling through the open door.

10. Scene 58

    Bear approaches his own house, Willows in hand, wary of the empty driveway.

11. Scene 59

    Bear finds his house turned into a shrine to their relationship with Sarah's corpse propped in a chair; when he whispers a wish for Nicky not to love him, she appears wearing Sarah's copied tattoos, shoots Ian dead, threatens suicide, and forces Bear to scream he loves her.

12. Scene 60

    This scene