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Greer Gallagher (born September 15, 1976) is a successful internet influencer, branching out into the self-help genre, who contacts her high school boyfriend, Cash Aldrick, to discover what happened to her father and to provide an alternate narrative of his life.

• Greer is motivated by a need to control the way people see her.
• Greer wants total control of her image.
• Greer is challenged by any seeming loss of control.
• Greer will discover how truly powerless she is.

Greer reaches out to Cash in a moment of weakness, having resisted the urge to find her father for many years, although she won't let Cash know of her uncertainty. Once she initiates his journey, she feels expelled from the process, and tries repeatedly to inject herself into the story. When she hires another person to keep an eye on Cash, that person accidentally causes Joey's death, further hampering Cash's investigation. Believing this loss of control to be a sign of things to come, Greer encourages Hélène to pursue Cash in order to distract him, but when Hélène begins helping Cash, Greer sees that she's lost all control.

Plot Synopsis

Get It All Back

One night, after drinking a bit too much during lockdown and after another fight with her husband, Greer DMs her high school boyfriend Cash, with whom she hasn't spoken in 26 years. At first, she tells herself it is just a bit of social media pining, but quickly she decides to make it professional by hiring him to look for her father, whom she has long assumed was dead. To justify it all, she turns it into a project for her social media presence, a less for her followers about the possibility of solving every mystery, finishing every story. Fearing, though, that Gerry's story will be too off-brand for her, she asks Cash to also "revise" Gerry's story.

Greer becomes quickly frustrated with the pace of Cash's investigation and reaches out to Randy, whom she learns about through Cash's rare Twitter post, to keep tabs on Cash for her. She also encourages Cash to post more online, to help improve his presence and thereby his business.

Greer engages with Cash through text mostly out of nostalgia, as their story never "ended", although she always attempts to make the communications seem to be about their business. She promotes his work through her social media, playing it up well beyond what it actually is. When she realizes that one of the cops who met with Cash is also one of her followers, she encourages Hélène to get closer to Cash, although she it taken off-guard at how quickly their relationship develops.

In the end, Cash and Hélène figure out just how involved Greer has been in the whole story, but know they can't say anything lest they reveal the connection between Randy's snooping and Joey's death.