“Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words, I don’t just say
And nothing else matters…”
~ Metallica.
October 1993 & January 1994.
Michael helps Gary’s mother, Linda, clean out Gary’s apartment. Without knowing it, Linda chooses Varnum Cemetery for Gary’s final resting place and selects a plot on the same piece of ground where Michael and Gary used to spend their summer nights years earlier. Afterwards, Michael spends all of his spare time with Sarah in Cambridge as she tries to make sense of Gary’s death.
Samina enjoys some “downtime” in her bungalow on ECR beach south of Madras. While there, the famed photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha arrives for a photo shoot. While walking the beach and playing in the surf, she’s joined by a group of small children. Later, the mood gets ruined when Lakshmi, urged on by her husband, asks for the bungalow since Samina rarely visits. Outraged, Samina refuses her sister’s request and complains to her mother who seems listless and inattentive.
Michael relocates to Gloucester, MA for a new job. During his first night at the apartment, the Boston to Gloucester train sounds the horn, disturbing a drunken Michael. An unwelcome reminder of Gary’s passing, he races to the balcony and hurls an empty bottle toward the tracks below which falls harmlessly short.
