I'm not really sure why some of the reviews for this episode seem to think that these two people end up romantically together. I don't believe that is what was intended by the last scene of this show. To me this episode is all about how these two people, who met by random chance in a road rage incident, are able to reconcile by sharing their experiences with one another. These are just two individuals, who've been going through it, having a human experience. But up to this point haven't truly shared their experiences with anyone else. Now by their own actions, are forced to confront their choices and end up sympathizing with the other person.
I don't think the final scene is them ending up together at all. I think it's just Amy's character realizing that the only person who could genuinely feel sympathy for her is Danny, because he's the only one she's truly been genuine with. She's expressed her rage with him, she's shared her life story with him, and while they are both high on psychedelics dying, he tells her "I see your whole life. You poor thing. All you wanted was to not be alone". It's a geniune statement that could only come from someone that really gets it. Really understands what she's been going through. And she reciprocates that with him by telling him not to be ashamed of who he is and that he doesn't have to hide with her.
Then at the moment before they fall asleep they realize that this is really what their lives should have been spent doing. Sharing their feelings and experiences and being truly honest with someone. How spending their time the way they did was such a waste compared to how they spent this one short day together. How they wished they'd realized sooner how important it was to be able to find someone to share with. Now that they're dying they don't have to be afraid to share anymore, but that spending their lives with their feelings bottled up wasn't really living to begin with.
I think that's what the final scene is about. These two people who escaped the dessert, trying to get back to their former lives. Realizing that it was going to be a complete **** show, but that it didn't matter because for once they had a genuine human experience and someone they know will be there to understand them going forward. It gave them the strength to face what was coming. Then Danny gets shot and Amy is reflecting on how her actions were responsible for him ending up in that hospital bed. She feels truly sorry for how she treated him.
I think the importance of her remembering him asking if the only thing he needed was to get where she was, and that she told him everything fades is because she doesn't want this to be the same. For anyone that's done psychedelics, the experiences you have are very much in the moment but can sort of be fleeting once the effect wear off and life comes back into the picture. So she reaches out to hug him so that it doesn't fade and become another one of the moments in her life that just simply pass by. That she is still there and willing to share this experience with him as well.
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