Beat 4 – Rising Action
After Annie and Helen play an awkward game of tennis, the bridal party goes to a Brazilian restaurant at Annie’s suggestion. When Annie suggests a French theme for the wedding shower, Helen suggests they consider other options.
Then they go to a fancy wedding shop to look at dresses, and Helen gets them in without a reservation. Lillian reveals that Helen has arranged for a French designer to make her a custom dress, which annoys Annie further. And then everyone becomes outrageously sick from the food while trying on their gowns.
Later, after Ted declines an invite to the wedding, Annie runs into Officer Rhodes at a convenience store. He says she should be thinking about starting a new bakery and takes her to use the speed gun to track drivers on the side of the highway. They have fun.
Afterwards, Annie suggests having the Bachelorette party at Lillian’s family’s lake house, but Helen suggests Vegas, which everyone agrees to even though it’s expensive. While everyone else flies first class, Annie can’t afford it and becomes plane sick sitting in coach. She takes a pill and a glass of whiskey to calm down, but then proceeds to hallucinate and make a scene on the flight.
Beat 5 – Midpoint
After being thrown off the flight for making a disturbance, Annie and the rest of the bridal party must take a bus the rest of the way to Vegas. On the bus, Lillian asks Annie not to be in charge of the bridal shower. She says Annie seems overwhelmed, and it would be best for Helen to do it.
Beat 6 – Plot Point 2
Annie asks Officer Rhodes out, has sex, then decides it was a mistake when she awakens the next day to see he has assembled materials for her to bake (because she should do what she loves).
A series of disasters follow for Annie and, not only does she has to go home to live with her mom but she also has a fight with Lillian at the bridal shower. It Annie may not be going to the wedding.
After her car breaks down on the way home, Annie stays over at her friend Megan’s house. Megan has overcome her own difficulties and helps Annie have a realization – Annie is her own problem and solution.
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