


or, who knows, this could just be the anesthesia talking.' The only way for Nate to find the answer is to open the casket and see for himself.Whether Nate's out-of-time-and-body experience was the result of quantum superposition or medication may never be resolved, but his mortality status finally is: he's among the living. 'In some places you're dead,' Nathaniel tells him, 'and in some places you're alive. And no.' He suggests that Nate's been moving through parallel universes. When Nate asks his father whether he's dead, Nathaniel replies, 'Yes. To his amazement, he finds himself away from the operating room, wandering through a myriad of possible outcomes of his life: in one, his bald-headed corpse lies in an open casket in another he survived the surgery but was left partially paralyzed and unable to speak in another he's married to Brenda in another his father's fatal car crash never happened and in yet another he's a beer-bellied couch potato watching a bizarre soap opera.Eventually, Nate encounters Nathaniel, who leads him to a closed white casket in the Fishers' Slumber Room. As they work, the scene slowly fades to white and onscreen appears the following:NATHANIEL SAMUEL FISHER, JR.1965 - 2002Is Nate Fisher really dead?As it turns out, no one is more anxious to find out than Nate himself. The malformed blood vessel in Nate's brain ruptured and the surgical team struggled to control the massive hemorrhage. Directed by Rodrigo GarciaWritten by Alan BallThe surgery was going badly.
