<P> When Henry goes back to the café, Lucy does not have any recollection of ever meeting him . The restaurant owner Sue (Amy Hill) explains to Henry that in the previous year, Lucy and her father Marlin went up to the North Shore to pick a pineapple for his birthday . On the way back, they had a serious car accident that left Lucy with anterograde amnesia and she wakes up every morning thinking it is October 13, 2002 . </P> <P> To spare Lucy the heartbreak of reliving the accident every day, Marlin and Doug, Lucy's lisping steroid - addicted brother, re-enact Marlin's birthday by following a script, including putting out October 13's Sunday newspaper, refilling Lucy's shampoo bottles, re-watching the same Minnesota Vikings game, and re-watching the movie The Sixth Sense where Marlin and Doug halfheartedly say, "Wow . Didn't see that coming," during the famous plot - twist . </P> <P> Despite Sue's warning, Henry invites Lucy to have breakfast with him . Eventually she does, but it ends poorly when Henry unintentionally hurts Lucy's feelings . He follows her home to apologize where Marlin and Doug instruct Henry to leave Lucy alone . Henry begins concocting ways to run into Lucy on the following days, such as pretending to have car trouble, creating a fake road block, or by having Ula beat him up . Eventually, Marlin and Doug figure this out due to Lucy singing The Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" on the days when she meets Henry . </P> <P> One day, as Henry is about to sit with Lucy at breakfast, she notices a police officer writing her a ticket for her expired plates . Lucy attempts to argue that they are not yet expired, and takes a newspaper to prove herself, but sees that the date on all the newspapers is not October 2002 as she thought . When she rushes home, Marlin and Doug are forced to admit their ruse (and presumably not for the first time; when Marlin sees Lucy's frantic behavior as her truck pulls up to the house, he immediately realizes what happened and loudly announces to Doug that Lucy "had a bad day"). </P>

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