"Necro" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Funeral home

A grisly scene is found in a house in Machiasport, Maine in 1998. Blood tracks along the walls and through the rooms of the home. A young girl sits next to the body of a dead woman.

In Whittier, California, across the continent twenty-four years later, an autopsy is performed on a corpse as it's prepared for burial. Sam, who completed the work on the body, is praised by the funeral director for her good, quick work on the deceased, so much so that she receives a raise. She rushes home to tell her husband, Jesse, and celebrate, but he's late for court. He tells her to take a nice, hot bath with the lavender oil he bought-- he smells the formaldehyde on her clothes-- and they can celebrate when he's home.

Answer: Her job

Sam confides in her friends that she's worried about her sex life. The formaldehyde smell aside, Jesse seems to lack the connection Sam is looking for in a partner, and she's starting to wonder if they're meant to be together at all. Her friends remind her that relationships are about compromise. They ask her the tough question: would Sam leave Jesse if it meant that was the only way to keep her job? She has to admit-- the dead teach her something new every day. She likes her job. People are their most interesting after death. Besides that, she helps people and it's important work.

At work, Sam works on a man, Mr. Glover, with a gunshot wound to the head. She speaks to the deceased while she starts the embalming process, but she's interrupted by Charlie, who claims to be the new gravedigger and death removal tech. He has a new body for her. Before he leaves the corpse, he whispers to the body bag.

Answer: His thanks

On the way out from work, Sam can't help but speak to Charlie about his whisper to the deceased, but he says it was a private matter. They formally introduce one another before he comes clean; he thanked the decedent for allowing him to escort her to Sam since it's an honour to help someone finish the journey to the afterlife.

At home, Sam runs a bath and uses the lavender oil Jesse bought her. When Jesse gets home, she suggests they go out to dinner. They stay in instead, heading straight to the bedroom. Sam, however, finds that she can't help but think of her new coworker.

Answer: Zion

At work, Sam asks Charlie about the afterlife and the two go about their tasks while discussing their favourite death rites from around the world. He eventually asks her: what's the most interesting thing she's ever eaten? When he realizes how non-adventurous she is, he suggests he might need to free her from her existence a bit.

Sam comes to find out, when prying into Charlie's life a bit, that his family has passed away. One day, when they took a drive to Zion to see the sights, he and his entire family were in a car crash. He claims that it brought everything into clear focus for him. He saw how precious life was and how the living needed to take care of the dead and honour them.

Trauma, Sam tells Charlie, is complicated. She didn't lose her parents in a car crash, but she was affected by death. She nearly opens up to her new coworker, but her phone rings.

Answer: No

Jesse phones Sam because she appears to have forgotten dinner with his family. It turns out that she forgot, spending time with Charlie at the funeral home. She suggests she'll finish their conversation later.

When Sam returns home she finds that no one's there. The lights are out-- completely out-- and all that awaits her is a mess. She steps on cereal on the kitchen floor and recalls the trauma from her childhood, crumbling to the floor in a panic attack, but when the lights turn on she finds her friends waiting for her, intending to surprise her with Jesse's candlelit marriage proposal.

Sam tells him the truth-- her mother was beaten to death and the cereal, her favourite, was what reminded Sam of her. She suggests Jesse couldn't possibly want to marry her; she's too messed up. She refuses the proposal before leaving, returning to the funeral home.

Answer: John

Coping with the events of her night, Sam returns to the funeral home to prepare the body of a corpse by the name of John finding, when she pulls back the sheet, that it's actually Charlie. Crying over her loss and his fate, she laments that he was the only one to understand how it felt to be like her. Taking his head in her hands, she kisses him and lays on his chest, wrapping his arms around her before straddling the body. It's to her shock that the corpse grabs her and she flees from the room, terrified.

Mustering up the courage, Sam returns to the preparation room to find that the body has vanished.
She rushes outside and throws up, and when she does she accidentally locks herself out. She turns around when her name is called to find Charlie standing behind her and she touches his face, finding him to be alive. It makes her furious, however, as he claims that it was all fake-- he took a pill to reduce his breathing and he wore prosthetics to imitate having autopsy scars. He was trying to help her, he asserts. There's no normal for either of them, but they can be together.

Answer: Cosmetics

Unable to return to the funeral home to continue her work, Sam takes up a new, less-fulfilling job at a make-up store. Her friends prepare her to be a new bride after she accepts Jesse's new proposal, and in the days to follow she sets up to meet with Jesse and her wedding planner. While on the phone she sees Charlie's reflection in a window.

On the day of the wedding, moments before Sam is set to walk down the aisle, one of her closest friends comments that she's never seen a sadder bride on her wedding day. She insists, however, that she wants a normal, boring life.

When Sam and Jesse reach the altar and say their vows, Jesse goes off-script, showing the entire church a slideshow of photos of their lives together. Cut in with these, however, to the shock of all attending, is a surveillance video of the night Sam spent with Charlie's body in the funeral home.

Answer: True

As Sam and Jesse's friends and family witness Sam sleeping with what appears to be a dead body, Charlie interrupts the wedding to call Sam out for letting herself be made into a boring, helpless person. Jesse storms out, unable to see it as the misunderstanding Sam claims it all is, while Charlie reminds her that in that moment, there in the footage, she knew what it was to feel alive. He confesses his love for her and believes she feels the same, but she leaves to chase Jesse instead.

Eventually, word about Sam's indiscretion gets out. She leaves her job in cosmetics sales and moves on to try and be a maid, but the video follows her, forcing employers to refuse her application. Before long, the public starts taking photos of her out and about. After that, she buys a gun.

Answer: Love

Waiting in her car, Sam scopes out the cemetery and waits until Charlie drives by in his hearse. She catches him off-guard, coming up behind him with her loaded weapon and holding him at gunpoint to say her piece. He ruined her life, he made her friends hate her, he ruined her chance at getting a job, but he's the one who lied. All she wants to know is why he did what he did, but he claims that he was trying to set her free.

The day Charlie's family died, he says, he was closest to understanding how alive he could be. He only tried to scare her into awakening, a jump-start to fix her life. He didn't want it to stop, but he never felt the way he did in the funeral home with anyone else.

He also tells her that he knows about her mother. She was dead for three days before the cops found her, and all that time, she drank her mother's milk. Charlie reminds her that she's disgusting, but also amazing, and she doesn't need to hide anymore. He asks what it felt like to taste death for the first time, and she admits it felt like love.

Answer: Both of them

When Sam was a young girl, she never realized that her mother was dead until it was much too late. She spent three days with the corpse of her single parent and it was the last time she ever felt safe. She never thought she'd feel safe again until the night she spent with Charlie in the funeral home. Maybe, she wonders out loud, she's alive and dead at the same time, or at least that's what she wants, but she can never have that. Since there's no way for her to fix the problems in her life, she turns the gun to herself, but Charlie stops her, reminding her that he would die a million times to be with her for a minute.

With this reassurance, Sam kisses Charlie before shooting him in the stomach. As he falls back into the recently-dug grave, Sam has soil fill the hole from above them and she joins him in the plot, together forever.