Joelle's last walk — "Joelle van Dyne is excruciatingly alive…"
Joelle van Dyne is excruciatingly alive and encaged, and in the director’s lap can call up everything from all times. What will be that most self-involved of acts, self-cancelling, to lock oneself in Molly Notkin’s bedroom or bath and get so high that she’s going to fall down and stop breathing and turn blue and die, clutching her heart. No more back and forth.
Context
The plan stated in full, with the theme's diagnosis embedded: not deadness but excruciating aliveness inside a cage, suicide as "self-cancelling" — the grammar of Kate's "I just wanted out" in Joelle's idiom.