Hook, Line, and Sinker

Hannah feels like her heart is breaking. She knows she should respect Fox’s not wanting to be in a relationship, but when he comes to the door of her room and tries to stop her from leaving, she gets angry. Wanting to show him what he’s missing, she takes off her dress to taunt him, and Fox pounces. They make love, and Hannah thinks of herself as a fighter in the ring, about to go down—but a leading lady wouldn’t quit. She dresses and tells Fox she’s not giving up on them and she’ll wait until he pulls his head out of his ass. Then, she leaves.

Fox realizes he needs to do what Hannah said and clear his head. He drives to his mother’s. They talk, and Charlene tells him how it hurt her, as a mother, to see Fox be pushed into being sexual at a young age because everyone expected it of him based on his father and his looks. She feels guilty that she participated by giving him money for condoms. She flinches when she sees him now because of her own part in leading him to believe that he is only capable of casual relationships. She tells him he shouldn’t worry about what other people think.

Fox falls asleep on her couch, and when he wakes up, he calls Hannah. The call goes to voicemail, and he tells her he loves her and wants to be with her. He asks her to get off the bus to LA and he will come get her. On his drive home, Fox takes off the leather bracelet he wears to remind himself of his father and throws it out the window of his truck. He enters his apartment to find Hannah there, listening to his records. He puts on Al Green’s song “Let’s Stay Together” by way of apology. Then Fox takes her into the bedroom and tells her they can find a place to live that is between Westport and Seattle. He plans to hold on to her, and Hannah says she will hold on, too. 

Ten years later, Hannah is returning home from a business trip. She and Fox have a house in Puyallup, Washington, where they live with their two daughters. Fox is captain of the Della Ray, and Hannah runs a business, Garden of Sound, that connects musicians with film production companies. It is near Christmas, and Piper and Brendan and their two kids, along with Charlene, are coming to visit. Hannah is alarmed to find a giant moose in their yard. When Fox comes out to rescue her, they slip and fall in the snow. Laughing, they embrace and reaffirm their love.