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AndyEpisode 3 As the search for Hedwig continues, crumbling movie-star Andy Dolan surfaces as a strange and crucial player in her disappearance. Told from the perspective of Andy Dolan — a movie star on the edge of professional and personal collapse — we chart the history of his relationship with Hedwig. They meet, ironically when Andy is dropping out of rehab at Saranya’s Wellness Centre and he asks Hedwig if she can score him some drugs. Intrigued by each other, they’re mutual dependence leads to a deal which will come to engulf them both. Andy’s back in his hometown after a spectacularly public demise that’s cost him his career as well as any relationship with his wife and their young child. The deep traumas of his past swirl under everything he does, threatening to pull him down. And so, Hedwig becomes Andy’s life-raft at a point where he decides he can no longer bear to go on. As Andy’s gratitude shifts to possessiveness, questioning Hedwig’s comings and goings and interrogating her relationship with Cam, Hedwig’s desire for independence grows and their relationship stretches to breaking point. On the night of Andy’s party everything hideously unravels in front of the assembled guests. Later that evening, when a terri ed Hedwig desperately needs Andy’s help — he turns his back on her cold-bloodedly, forcing her back into the jaws of danger. Cast:
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