This Must Be the Place

This chapter takes place in Sweden in 2014. During an interview at Timou Lindstrom’s summer cottage, an interviewer asks Timou why he stopped making films for 20 years. He argues that he never stopped working and says that he made a film 11 years prior. The interviewer asks about Claudette, and Timou is defensive, insisting that he knew she would leave and that she left the world of journalists and fame, not him. He knows her whereabouts but won’t tell anyone.

Lucas goes to see Daniel in London in 2014. He has the divorce papers that Claudette asked him to bring. Daniel is unkempt and depressed, still overcome with grief over Phoebe’s and Nicola’s deaths. Lucas tries to console Daniel but is met with anger. Daniel says bitingly cruel things to Lucas about how Claudette treats him, and Lucas gets angry when Daniel suggests that Zhilan was Lucas’s payment for helping his sister. Daniel apologizes, but he becomes enraged when he finds Lucas looking at the pictures and notes that Daniel has taped to his wall. He believes that Lucas is gathering ammunition to prevent Daniel from seeing his children. Lucas assures him that Claudette wants Daniel in the children’s lives, but not in his present state.