Alex waits two years and, on Valentine's Day 2008, he arrives at the lake house where Kate said she was waiting for him. Kate also writes in her 2008 note that she's waiting for him at the lake house. He goes to Daley Plaza anyway, but does not step off the curb and the bus passes harmlessly in front of him, changing his entire timeline. Meanwhile, in 2006, Alex digs out a letter from Kate in which she tells him about the man dying in the plaza and realizes that she is talking about him. She rushes to the lake house mailbox and places in it a letter telling Alex not to come looking for her in Daley Plaza. Kate realizes that the man she tried to save on Valentine's Day 2006 in Daley Plaza was Alex. Henry then drops the bomb that Alex died when he was hit by a bus in Daley Plaza on Valentine's Day 2006. Henry says that the drawing was made by his brother Alex, and Kate asks how she might get in touch with him. On Valentine day 2008, while Kate and Morgan are consulting with Henry regarding the renovations to their new house, Kate notices a sketch of the lake house hanging on the wall. Now go back and read Kate's timeline again. On Valentine's Day 2006, Alex is hit by a bus and killed. In December 2004, after being told by Kate to "let me let you go," Alex gives Morgan the key to the lake house and moves to Chicago to start Visionary Vanguard with his brother Henry. In September 2004, now fully aware of Kate, Alex attends her birthday party, and they dance and kiss, but she doesn't yet know who he is (remember, she doesn't become aware of him until 2006). He also retrieves her book, Persuasion by Jane Austin, from the Riverside train station. Alex's 2004-2006 timeline: Alex finds Kate's forwarding request in his mailbox early in 2004, and they begin a correspondence that lasts through his summer (2004), during which he attempts to visit her apartment in Chicago but finds only a building under construction. That's when Kate learns that Henry's brother Alex died on that very day two years ago. They meet with Henry Wyler ( Ebon Moss-Bachrach) at Visionary Vanguard Associates on Valentine's Day 2008 to discuss the renovation. She and Morgan decide to move into a new place, and Kate finds a building that needs massive renovations. In 2007, Kate finds Persuasion under the floorboard in her Chicago apartment and realizes that Alex must have placed it there during the construction phase of her building. Discouraged, Kate asks him to "let me let you go" and goes back to building a life with Morgan ( Dylan Walsh). She sets up a time on 10 July for him to call her, but he doesn't, so they plan to meet at Il Mare in December 2006, but Alex doesn't show. Kate asks Alex to retrieve her book, Persuasion by Jane Austin, that she left in the Riverside train station in 2004. That summer, they "share" a walk through Chicago looking at the architecture. After a series of back and forth letters, they realize that they are in a time warp. Unnerved by the experience, she travels back to the lake house, finds Alex's reply to her note, and laughs when she notices that it is dated 2004. On Valentine's Day 2006, while she is eating lunch in Daley Plaza, a man is hit by a bus and dies in her arms. Kate's 2006-2008 timeline: Kate moves out of her Wisconsin lake house at the beginning of 2006 and leaves a note in the mailbox asking that her mail be forwarded to her new address in Chicago. It might help to look separately at each of their timelines and then see how they fit together. Thanks to their mailbox, their correspondence takes place simultaneously in both of their times. It is made difficult in The Lake House because Kate and Alex are separated by two years. Time warp movies are often hard to follow.
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