Beneath the happy façade of Jonathan and Suzanne’s trip to Dubai, there existed the unknown, dark reality of her failing health. This memory of Suzanne reframes Alkaitis’s recurrent memories of Dubai, rendering them manifestations of his unresolved grief over Suzanne’s early death. In his grief over Suzanne, he mourns not only his wife, but the last person with whom he had an intimate, authentic relationship. When Alkaitis refers to Suzanne as a “co-conspirator,” he insinuates that Suzanne (unlike Vincent) knew about the fraud he was committing.