☆ jigzaw ☆

On the left page of the promo, we only get two additional details. The first is this line from Ryan that got cut, “I want it Naim. I do.” So what does Ryan want? What’s Entity Naim been telling him? I can make an educated guess based off of the Photo Booth scene, where we get images of Ryan taking off his shirt, and the sound of Ryan telling Entity Naim to take his off too.

From the semi-private setting of the Photo Booth, to the way Naim shut things down in the first mill scene, to the bus scene, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what Ryan wants, and what Entity Naim has been tempting him with.

It’s during this conversation where Ryan reveals this that the slushy machine starts overfilling, spilling across the floor as they talk, which is what draws Arlene’s attention to him. Once Ryan’s gone, Arlene goes to Naim and asks him what’s going on with him. Naim is about to response, but Arlene interrupts him with :

“Cathy said someone’s hurting him. Ryan’s mum. She said he has bruises all up his back. Doesn’t know how he got him.”

During this scene, Ryan had a bruise on his arm too, proof of this piece of dialogue. We establish here that Ryan’s been visited by the Entity before— and specifically has hurt him before. So why does Ryan want it too, if this has already happened?

We can pull this back to Hunter and their relationship. Ryan probably thinks that ever since his exorcism, Naim has lost emotional interest in him, but not physical interest. So Ryan just takes the fact that Naim is hurting him in the promise of intimacy, just to be close to Naim, even if it’s not really him.

And back to the fact that this is the actual promo picture, instead of using a scene that made it all the way through to the final cut, they used this, which makes me even more fuckin jealous of Americans.