the flight attendant by chris bohjalian summary

The funeral also stokes long-buried memories of Cassie’s father’s own funeral and forces her to begin confronting her alcoholism, which began as a pre-teen. She’s rescued after Ani pulls strings with a criminal (possibly mob-related) client of hers to bail Cassie out of the situation. While at the memorial service, it’s revealed that the Sokolovs are involved in shady business dealings, as evidenced by a reference to shredded Lionfish files, which Cassie - having ignored Ani’s phone call warnings all evening - barely manages to confiscate before getting caught. Despite Ani’s assurance that she should let her handle the situation as her lawyer, Cassie pokes around further, especially after learning that Sabrina is now claiming to have never heard of Miranda. Kaley Cuoco Is Seeing Double in ‘Flight Attendant’ Season 2 Trailer “Funeralia” Phil Caruso / HBOĪgainst all sense and reason, Cassie attends Alex’s funeral, dragging an unwitting Shane along with her. While disorienting, these substance-fueled PTSD flashback-cum-hallucinations prove useful as she stumbles through a vast, unraveling criminal conspiracy.

Nearing a mental breakdown, she alternates between vivid hallucinations of Alex in the hotel room, who is guiding her through possible whodunnit clues, and her childhood, which is colored by a tumultuous memory of hunting rabbits with her father. “Rabbits” Phil Caruso / HBOĪs can be expected, Cassie is extremely unwell. While lying through her teeth (or at least, trying her best to do so) during the interrogation, she recalls that another woman had joined her and Alex’s festivities that night. In another horrible decision that will inevitably lend itself to future horrible decisions yet to be made, Cassie attempts to run away from FBI questioning.

Soon enough the FBI is notified of Alex’s murder, leading special agents Kim (Merle Dandridge) and Van (Nolan Gerard Funk) to interview Cassie and her flight attendant crew as soon as they land in New York City. In a rush of panic so visceral as to send every audience member into a tizzy (not unlike one experienced after extreme turbulence), she haphazardly cleans up the crime scene (bad) and very conspicuously flees the hotel (worse) in attire that can only be described as “I’m clearly running from the authorities” meets “Hollywood’s Golden Age” chic (the worst).

And no one can blame her for this - that is, until she wakes up in a hotel room the following morning next to his dead body. And no, she’s totally not going to hook up with him, she tells her coworkers Megan (Perez) and Shane (Matthews), but, also, yeah, she’s so totally going to hook up with him. On one fateful flight to Bangkok, she befriends and flirts with a handsome business class passenger named Alex Sokolov (Michiel Huisman).

The flight attendant by chris bohjalian summary