Everything, Everything: 29. Forecast Summary & Analysis

Maddy finds Olly on the wall again and sits on the couch. He comments on her choice to wear shoes and when Maddy says she has nine pairs of the same shoes, he insists she has no right to complain about his clothing choices. The air filters come on and when Olly asks, Maddy explains how it works and says that the settlement paid for it. She quickly adds that a trucker killed Maddy’s dad and brother in a car accident, and settled with Mom. Maddy says she doesn’t remember them and struggles with how to miss them. Olly asks if Maddy ever wonders what things would be like if she could change one thing, something Maddy has been thinking a lot about recently.

Olly suggests that people aren’t really unique; instead, they’re made up of outputs and inputs, like a formula. He says that he thinks that if he can pin down one or two important inputs, he can figure a person out. Maddy asks how he’ll figure out which input to change. Olly says that it’d be easy to make things worse, but he suggests that if he could figure it out, he could fix things before they got messed up. He seems frustrated and embarrassed and says that chaos theory states that it’s impossible to do this. Maddy says she already knew that—she learned that people are unpredictable from books. They laugh and Maddy focuses on Olly’s dimple, which she’s not supposed to do. She knows she’s going to fall in love with him.