Netflix’s “Pieces of Her” follows a young woman named Andy, whose world is turned upside down when she discovers that almost everything she knows about her parents is a lie. After watching her mother, Laura, effortlessly slit a man’s throat, the young woman is thrown down a rabbit hole of dangerous intrigue. To make matters worse, dangerous elements from Laura’s past begin to follow Andy, who is completely unprepared to deal with the situation.
Aside from a few useful albeit shadowy characters, things look pretty grim for Andy for most of the story. The brutal accident she is involved in near the series finale raises further questions about her fate. So, does Andy survive in “Pieces of Her” or does she meet a dark fate? Let’s find out. FRONT SPOILERS.
Does Andy die?
Andy’s life is in perpetual danger, starting with the violent gunman who begins murdering people at a restaurant where she and Laura are celebrating Andy’s 30th birthday. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her life was actually endangered even before she was born. As Laura (originally called Jane) reveals in a flashback, her overbearing father, Martin Queller, tried to forcibly abort Andy before he was born. This is attributed to the complex relationship Jane shared with her father and the fact that Andy’s father is Nick – a man vehemently opposed to the Queller family’s drug company.
In the current timeline of the show, Andy is beset by danger from multiple directions. On the one hand, she and her mother are followed by a vengeful Nick, who has been on the run for thirty years because of Jane’s testimony against him. It is later revealed that Jane’s brother, Jasper Queller, who now runs the family business, is also suing Andy because of the suitcase she has in his possession. The suitcase contains an incriminating tape that could harm Jasper’s political ambitions and possibly cost him his job as head of Quellcorp.
Despite all the danger swirling around, Andy’s most life-threatening situation occurs when she’s with Charlie Bass, one of the few people she completely trusts. As Charlie drives her to safety, the two are involved in a brutal accident that nearly destroys their car. Andy and Charlie are left unconscious, the latter sustaining fatal injuries. Andy, however, survives and wakes up relatively unscathed in an old wooden cabin where she spent a few years of her childhood with Clara and Eli.
In the end, Andy survives thanks to a mixture of luck and timely interventions from the shadow agents working to protect her and her mother. However, it should be noted that the protagonist herself is gradually improving to deal with deadly situations. At first, when the shooter attacks him, Andy is frozen in fear, having never faced a life-threatening situation before.
At the end of season 1, after going through a chaotic and violent adventure, she is much better equipped to face danger. In fact, in the tense climax where Nick holds Laura and Andy hostage, the latter escalates the danger and sets the log cabin on fire, showing just how far it is from its timid beginnings. So Andy is still very much alive and seems to be following in her mother’s footsteps, slowly evolving into a dangerous “badass” in her own right.
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