The scene where Grace goes to talk to Stratt during the party REALLY gets me, every part of their conversation gets me, but especially when he’s freaking out a little bit about how the flight crew are coping with things and she says ‘Camaraderie helps them. Me, not so much.’ OUGH. She just said ‘You don’t bother me,’ she’s not unhappy to be talking to him exactly, BUT she just also does not want to be part of this, the whole social landscape of this terribly fucked up and desperately important situation.
And then she decides: she does kind of need to be a part of it. For the sake of Grace who is really struggling and has gone to her specifically, for the sake of the flight crew, for the sake of all the people she’s asking to work on this project in any capacity. She decides to give something of herself that she wasn’t intending to give to them. Camaraderie doesn’t help her. But it helps them. And Grace needs it, but she can see he doesn’t know how to get it from the rest of them.
She threw this party. She bought them all hats. She wanted that to be enough, but she decided it wasn’t and she decided to give a little bit more of herself.
