If I Stay: 9:06 PM Summary & Analysis

Mia then hears a raspy, familiar voice, and realizes it belongs to Brooke Vega, the lead singer of Bikini, the popular indie band that Shooting Star was supposed to open for in Portland. Adam’s plan is to have Brooke make enough of a ruckus in the ICU to distract the nurses, while he and Kim run to see Mia. Brooke begins an impromptu concert in the hallway outside the ICU, distracting a few of the nurses. Adam makes a break for it, followed by Kim. Nurse Ramirez, the nurse who told Mia’s grandparents that Mia was “running the show,” tips them off as to which room is Mia’s. Though they enter Mia’s room for a moment, they are quickly escorted out by security.

As Kim and Adam are being led away by security, they run into Willow, who has come from the hospital where she works to the hospital where Mia is being treated. As a nurse, she is able to convince the guards to let Adam and Kim go. Willow says she can talk to Mia’s grandparents about arranging for Adam to be able to see Mia.

Mia recalls that when Willow began to date Henry, her Dad’s band-mate, Henry was a “total drunk playboy,” but that Willow whipped him into shape, and they now have a daughter. Mia believes in Willow’s ability to fix any tough situation, but it hits her that if Willow is here in Portland, it means that she’s not back at the local hospital near the accident with Teddy (where Mia believed her to be). It also occurs to her that no one in the hospital is discussing Teddy’s condition, or splitting their time between two hospitals. Mia then realizes that Teddy, too, has died.

In a flashback, Mia remembers how on the day her Mom’s water broke with Teddy, she still insisted going holiday shopping at the mall as planned. Several hours later, Mia accompanies her mother to the birthing center, and watches her mother give birth to Teddy. When, after the birth, Henry comes to bring food to the new family of four, he tells Mia the story of her own birth, when her father allegedly “cried like a baby.” When Teddy is born, the first person he sees is Mia, and she cuts his umbilical cord. Later, Mia’s Mom jokes that Teddy “imprinted” on Mia, because they have a special bond, and she is often the only one who can make him feel better.