Foxy Waymond asks what if you had come with me all those years ago — and then we’re at the New Year’s party in full swing. Evelyn comes back to life in the Alpha Verse, stares at her hands, and the music rises with what sounds exactly like a hero’s reawakening. Then she picks up the phone, tells Deirdre to shut up, tells her nothing matters, and her eyes fill with black. We end in the green-lit alleyway outside the Hong Kong theater, with Evelyn advancing on Waymond saying they’d have woken up every day in a tiny apartment.
We spend time on Rick, played by the late Biff Wiff, who passed away in February 2025 after a late-career run that included this film, I Think You Should Leave, and Jury Duty. He’s standing at the party in his red suspenders, insinuating himself just close enough to Evelyn to be technically arguable, and we trace everything the movie has done with him since the beginning. We also dig into Debbie the Dog Mom showing up without the dog and actually talking animatedly with Evelyn like they’re friends, Jobu’s expression when “nothing matters” lands — not triumph, something much more like nausea — and the shot of Evelyn’s eyes going black, which is easy to miss and hard to come back from. The false hope of this minute is the whole point.
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