A Cure For Wellness Trivia Quiz

Answer: Switzerland

Lockhart riding train through the Alps, clearly working on some major business, is sent specifically to a spa/wellness center to seek out Roland Pembroke, the CEO of a major wall street accounting firm who's headed out there to feel better. He refuses to return. Nonetheless, he's needed to sign off on a complex and high-value merger between two financial service firms.
The truth is though, there are some complications. Lockhart could potentially go to prison-- they all could-- because of some allegations. But if he goes and retrieves Mr. Pembroke, they could all be fine.

Answer: Car accident

Lockhart arrives at the spa and the gates lock behind him. The driver tells him the story of the ill-fated castle spa and its original owners. The castle was burnt to the ground after a horrible fire two hundred years ago, for instance, and the last owner, in an attempt to keep the bloodline clean, impregnated his sister. Upon arriving, Lockhart says he'll be twenty minutes at the maximum, but he'll be longer. Visiting hours end as soon as he arrives, and he has to speak to a manager.

He's refused again, though he can leave a note. Lockhart heads away to a nearby village to wait in a hotel since he may be afforded an opportunity to retrieve his boss later, but upon departing his driver smashes into a deer, sending the vehicle rolling down a hill.

Answer: Yes

Lockhart awakens in a bed in the spa. The director of the sanitarium, Dr. Volmer, is at his bedside when he does so and informs him that he is in the best care imaginable. His superiors have already been notified about the accident and he is free to recover at the spa.

His leg was broken in the accident, so he shall wear a cast and use crutches. Directed to the steam baths to find Mr. Pembroke, Lockhart finds that the mysterious architecture of the building is already playing tricks with his mind.

He finds Pembroke there though, and the CEO claims he's too unwell to go. In fact, he says that Lockhart is worse off than the rest of them because he has ambition in his dreadful business, even if others have done seemingly more terrible things. Nonetheless, Pembroke says he will get his things and Lockhart asks for a cab to take them to the station.

It does not arrive.

Answer: She seems to be the youngest patient.

Lockhart wanders the grounds while waiting for his vehicle to arrive and comes across a younger woman named Hannah, who claims to be a 'special case' for the spa because of her age. Lockhart tells her that he's planning to depart soon, but she says that no one ever leaves-- why would they want to? When Lockhart later checks Mr. Pembroke's room to retrieve him, it turns out that his room has already been vacated.

Unfortunately, according to Dr. Volmer's diagnosis, his wellness has taken a severe turn for the worse. Lockhart's has as well, it would seem. During a confrontation in the dining hall, he has a severe nosebleed that results in his fainting-- likely a concussion from the accident. Volmer encourages Lockhart to stay for full treatment and Lockhart agrees, secretly planning to seek out answers.

Answer: Eels

Lockhart, in for a pound with the treatment, is placed into a sensory deprivation chamber and submerged there to allow the toxins to leave his system. Volmer states that if he lets himself go with the treatment, he will notice results. It takes Lockhart only a short time to notice the eels swimming there with him, and as his attending physician is occupied, he nearly drowns inside. When they free him from the chamber, they note that some experience hallucinations in sensory deprivation, but it's only toxins leaving the body; it's part of the cure.
That night, while looking through Mr. Pembroke's stolen files, Lockhart spies someone out in the spa courtyard wheeling a body on a gurney into a small building, formerly part of the church on the property.
At breakfast time the following morning, Lockhart discusses the spa's sordid history with Mrs. Watkins and she informs him that many years ago, locals burned down the castle not because this disapproved of the odd familial relations between its owners, but because of the emaciated corpses they found on their lands. Mrs. Watkins is soon called away for a treatment she didn't know she had.
Lockhart asks Hannah to share her bike with him so that he can ride to the village, offering her a ballerina figurine his mother made. The two of them leave the spa shortly after, even though they're not supposed to.

Answer: Chronic dehydration

Lockhart makes it to the nearby town and immediately seeks out information, heading to a local bar to speak to the patrons and better analyze Pembroke's medical files. According to the records, Pembroke's teeth are falling out due to chronic dehydration, particularly interesting since everyone drinks the spa's natural spring water.
In the meantime, Hannah catches the attention of the bar patrons and when Lockhart returns to find her dancing with one of the punks occupying the venue, he gets into a fight that can only be broken up by Dr. Volmer who knowing Hannah and Lockhart left, appears to retrieve them.
All of this occurs, but not before Lockhart makes a call back to the U.S. to find out that Pembroke had no pre-existing conditions before visiting the sanatorium and the firm was never notified of his accident.
Back at the spa, Hannah asks Dr. Volmer when she will be 'ready'. He can only tell her 'soon', and soon he will make her better. Late that night, Lockhart sees another stretcher be brought back from the church building outside. Heading to a mirror, he pulls out one of his teeth.

Answer: False

Lockhart soon discovers that Pembroke has recently been taken to the transfusions wing for treatment and makes his way down to that level of the building to find some unique machines. There, he finds Mrs. Watkins asleep on a gurney. He asks her about Pembroke, but she says he took him back to New York.

She also tells him the truth about what happened centuries ago-- the baroness' wife was pregnant on the night of her wedding, but the townspeople cut the fetus from her, burnt down the church, and tossed the baby into the aquifer.

The child survived though. Lockhart is forced to hide when he knocks over a rack of tincture bottles and the room he stumbles upon appears to contain a number of bodies, all floating in individual water chambers. Pembroke is among them. In trying to escape the transfusion wing, Lockhart ends up running into Dr. Volmer who insists on checking his tooth problem.

His dental surgeons get to work on him, without anesthesia, as Volmer departs.

Answer: His father's suicide

Lockhart escapes the spa again, this time in the back of a driver's car, and he goes to local law enforcement for help. It's a bad idea though; he soon realizes, finding a blue tincture bottle on the shelf, that the police may be in with the spa. Dr. Volmer soon arrives and asks Lockhart to trust him. Even Dr. Pembroke is brought forth to help smooth out the situation, despite his prior state; he says that Lockhart tried to take him against his will. Volmer allows him to return to the spa as a patient as he clearly has deep-seated issues regarding his father's suicide. Soon though, Lockhart realizes a few things. Firstly, there's something odd involving the water at the spa. Secondly, his cast does not protect a broken leg.

His leg was not broken at all. Thirdly, when he breaks into the church building and proceeds down into the aquifer beneath the property, he finds where the gurneys have been going the whole time. Down there is a lab, much of which contains research on eels not unlike those he's been seeing everywhere.

Included in this room is a large oil painting depicting a woman who looks very much like Hannah.

Answer: The human body

While Lockhart searches the aquifer to find Mrs. Watkins' dried-out body, Hannah descends into a pool in the spa, luring eels into the waters around her. After discovering that the dying bodies of the patients are being thrown into the aquifer as food for the eels, Lockhart races back up into the spa proper to catch up with Hannah in the dining hall.

There, Lockhart reveals to everyone that what's making them sick is in the water, but he's subdued by the patients, knocked out, and brought to the transfusions ward to continue the next phase of his treatment alongside Pembroke. What they do there is unique-- the eels of the aquifer live for three hundred years despite the aquifer's toxicity because they are kept fed with nutrients from the human body, which is why the transfusions are done to place the eels within the patients.

There was a time when the former baron of the castle used unwilling patients to filter the waters for their curative properties, but now, with people overworking, there are many willing candidates.

The filtration process is done in the transfusions room, where the distilled essence of that curative is dripped into the blue tincture bottles. Dr. Volmer proceeds to shove a tube down Lockhart's throat, sliding the leeches into his body. Hannah, meanwhile, is given a wedding dress as a gift. Dr. Volmer, convinced by Lockhart's actions, decides to marry her. Before the reception though, Hannah speaks to Lockhart who, now deluded and convinced to stay, doesn't seem to want to do anything but get well. When Hannah hands over the ballerina he gave her though, he breaks free of the spell.

Answer: Fire

Before long, the wedding ceremony is performed on the grounds of the sanatorium and Dr. Volmer brings his new wife back to his lab with him. He presses himself upon her and reveals that while she is his wife, she is also his daughter who, when she was thrown into the aquifer, survived her mother's murder two hundred years before. Now, they can continue the bloodline. Lockhart comes upon them after dousing the lab in gasoline and Volmer confirms that he is hundreds of years old by removing his face, nothing more than a mask covering horrifying burns from two hundred years earlier. Lockhart sets him ablaze and frees Hannah just in time. She's able to kill him, swinging a shovel into his face and letting him fall into the aquifer to be eaten by the eels.
While the fire spreads through the sanatorium building, Hannah and Lockhart flee from the church building and leave the spa on Hannah's bike.
On the road to town, Lockhart and Hannah literally ride the bike into a car driven by his banking superiors who've come to retrieve himself and Pembroke themselves. He opts not to get into the car with them, riding off with Hannah instead. He tells them that he's feeling much better now as they depart.