As Chuck is left standing at the crossroads he looks down each road, then smiles faintly as he looks in the direction of the woman's truck. As she drives away, Chuck notices the angel wings on the back of her truck is identical to the one on the parcel. A friendly woman passing by in a pickup truck stops to explain where each road leads. He departs and stops at a remote crossroads. The house at the address is empty, so he leaves the package at the door with a note saying that the package saved his life. Sometime later, after buying a new volleyball, Chuck travels to Canadian, Texas to return the unopened FedEx package with the angel wings to its sender, a woman named Bettina Peterson. Kelly gives Chuck the keys to the car they once shared. After reuniting with Kelly, the pair profess their love for each other but, realizing they can't be together because of her commitment to her new family, they sadly part. Upon returning to civilization, Chuck learns that he has long been given up for dead his family and acquaintances have held a funeral, and Kelly has since married Chuck's one-time dentist and has a daughter. Later, a passing cargo ship finds him, drifting. Chuck returns to the raft and collapses in tears.
Chuck is wakened by the spray of a sounding whale, sees Wilson, and swims after him, but Wilson has gone too far to safely retrieve. The following day, as Chuck sleeps, Wilson becomes untethered and floats away from the raft. After some time on the ocean, a storm nearly tears his raft apart. After spending some time building and stocking the raft and deciding when the weather conditions will be optimal (using an analemma he has created in his cave to monitor the time of year), he launches, using the sail to overcome the powerful surf.
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A large section from a portable toilet washes up on the island Chuck uses it as a sail in the construction of a raft. He also has regular conversations and arguments with Wilson, which has become his only means of socialization. He has become adept at spearing fish and making fires. One night, Chuck calculates that in order for the rescue workers to find the site of the plane crash, they will have to search an area twice the size of Texas, making him doubtful he will ever be found.įour years later, Chuck is dramatically thinner, bearded, with longer hair, and wearing a loincloth. A short time later he draws a face in the bloody hand print on the ball, names it Wilson, and begins talking to it.
In anger and pain, he throws several objects, including a Wilson volleyball from one of the packages. During a first attempt to make fire, Chuck receives a deep wound to his hand. He leaves one package, with a pair of angel wings stenciled on it, unopened. He searches for food, water, and shelter, and opens the packages, finding a number of potentially useful items. He initially tries to signal for rescue and makes an escape attempt with the remnants of his life raft, but cannot pass the powerful surf and the coral reefs surrounding the island. Several FedEx packages from the crashed plane wash up on the shore, as well as the corpse of one of the pilots, which he buries. After he awakens, he explores the island and soon discovers that it is uninhabited. He clings to the life raft, loses consciousness, and floats all night before being washed up on an island. Chuck escapes the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life raft but loses the emergency locator transmitter. While flying through a violent storm, his plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A Christmas with relatives is interrupted when Chuck is summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia. Although the couple wants to get married, Chuck's busy schedule interferes with their relationship. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelly Frears, with whom he lives in Memphis, Tennessee. In December 1995, Chuck Noland is a time-obsessed systems engineer, who travels worldwide resolving productivity problems at FedEx depots.