The Last One at the Wedding

Content Warning: This section of the guide discusses death.

Frank receives a call from Maggie, his estranged daughter. The two have not spoken in more than three years, and Frank is desperate to reconnect with her. He is in the kitchen when she calls, the room in his house with the worst cell reception, and scrambles into another part of the house so that he can hear her better. On the way he trips over a pile of lumber, part of a coffee table he plans to build to distract himself from thoughts of Maggie. He still cannot quite hear Maggie’s voice over the static, and the call fails.

Frank immediately tries to call Maggie back but gets a busy signal. He realizes that she must be trying to call him, so he hangs up and waits for her call back. The phone rings again after just a few moments, and this time Maggie’s voice comes through crystal clear. She tells him that she has been meaning to call for a while and does not want to talk about their past disagreements. He asks if she is still working at Capaciti, the Cambridge startup that hired her three years ago.