Never Never

Silas does not know how to tell Charlie, but he remembers last night—who he is. He, Charlie, and Landon head to the car, and a note on the dashboard tells them to go to the police station and pick up Charlie’s backpack. At the station, the police are eager to talk to Charlie and find out where she was for the last three days. Eventually, she comes out of interrogation with her backpack. The trio stops by Charlie’s house, and she comes out with Janette. The reunion is awkward, as Landon and Janette dated in the past. Silas tells the group that they need to visit the state prison.

During the three-hour drive to the prison, Charlie and Silas sort through their materials. Charlie reads a long letter addressed to her: In it, Silas talks about their tattoos and hidden messages. He is certain that years from now, they will still be together. In another letter, Charlie tries to explain why his kiss electrifies her. She opens her journal and reads the entry about her father’s arrest; she hates Silas’s father for blaming him for their failed business. She reads the last entry, about her and Silas’s breakup over the arrest and Silas’s relationship with Brian’s sister, Avril. This Charlie admits to crying.

As the group approaches the prison, Charlie reads her last entry aloud.

At the prison, Charlie is told only she can see her father, Brett; everyone else waits in the car. Brett accuses Charlie of betraying their family by resuming her relationship with Silas; furthermore, reports from school suggest she is acting strangely, perhaps on drugs, and that she was caught trespassing Jamais Jamais. Charlie is taken aback by her once loving father’s aggression. In a moment of realization, she sees a resemblance between him and Cora (as she was mentioned in her and Silas’s notes).

Charlie tells her father that his former lover locked her up in Jamais Jamais and drugged her. She then asks if Cora is her half sister. Brett admits to having an affair with Janice years earlier, as she had been a client at his firm. He sent child support, and Janice used the money to buy Jamais Jamais at auction. Angry, Charlie tells him that he ruined so many lives and says goodbye.

Charlie storms out of the prison and tells Janette about their half sister, Cora. Silas takes Charlie on a walk, and she tells him that Cora and Janice never hurt her, when they could have easily. She sees Janice as bitter and Cora as neglected. Still, she has no idea how they tie into the amnesia loops, if at all.

Charlie considers the possibility of the universe itself being behind the amnesia loops, a way to punish or teach her. Silas stops at a pizzeria and asserts what he learned from the loops: “Maybe finding each other all over again every day is not so bad” (311).