18. The day of Prot's anticipated return to K-PAX has arrived. Which patient has been chosen by Prot, to accompany him on his return to K-PAX?
From Quiz "K-PAX" a 2001 film with Kevin Spacey
Answer:
Bess
The time has arrived. It's 5:51am and a flash of light enters Prot's room. Mark frantically makes his way to Prot's room. He finds a body under the bed. What appears to be the body of Prot, is wheeled out of the room. The other patients exclaim, "That's not Prot." "He's definitely not Prot." "Certainly not, Prot's gone." The other patients discover that Bess is missing. They congregate in her room and Howie reads her essay. "He chose Bess." Bess had written, "I have no home."
Prot has left a message for Mark: "I wanna tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't know, is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have."
Mark takes this advice to heart and reconciles with his son.