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- He leaves red flowers on Audrey's doorstep with a note that reads "Accept the good," a phrase which Jerry himself had told Brian, and that Brian had subsequently said to Audrey many times.
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Eventually, Audrey demands that Jerry leave the house after he questions Audrey on her reaction to Harper playing hooky from school. This causes Jerry to relapse with heroin. Audrey and Neal rescue and rehabilitate Jerry, and he agrees to admit himself to a specialized clinic.
Bowled over by grief, Audrey almost forgets to invite Jerry to the funeral. He shows up looking haggard and uneasy. He knows that she never liked him, and he feels even more uncomfortable now that his friend is gone.
Audrey suspects Jerry of stealing money from Brian and always discourages him from meeting Jerry. Brian always told Audrey that Jerry also looked out for him. Howard Glassman (John Carroll Lynch) lived down the street from Brian and financed some of his deals.
Jerry is a drug addict, but Audrey invites him to move into her home nevertheless, and a mutually dependent relationship develops between the two damaged souls. Watch Things We Lost in the Fire...
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Audrey invites Brian's best friend, heroin addict Jerry Sunborne (Del Toro), to the funeral and something makes the two of them put aside their obvious and seemingly overwhelming differences to cling together in their grief.
The take. Things We Lost in the Fire is a touching drama about Audrey (Hall Berry), a married mother-of-two, whose husband Brian (David Duchovny) is killed tragically in a random act of violence. Amidst her grief she comes to connect with Jerry (Benicio Del Toro), Brian’s childhood friend who is living an isolated life as a junkie, and ...
It quickly becomes clear that Jerry knew and loved Brian as much as Audrey did, and she somewhat impulsively asks him to come live in her empty garage. Jerry begins to help Audrey and her family heal.
