The next morning, Jessica visits Lisa from the lab and offers a drop of her own blood for analysis. When Jessica leaves, Lisa from the lab picks up the phone and calls someone she needs to see right away.

Jessica goes for a walk in the park and experiences a variety of disturbing flashbacks and hallucinations. Back at home, Jessica is getting wasted in the bathtub when Mike stops by for a visit. Jessica draws her gun on him, before making out with him and passing out.

After laying Jessica on the couch and staring at her open legs, Mike lights up a cigarette.

By submitting a sample of her own blood to Lisa from the lab, Jessica shows that she is seriously considering herself as a suspect. This apparently brings her up to speed with what the audience has been considering for the last 45 minutes of the film. To pass the time until Lisa from the lab calls back with the results, Jessica decides that a walk in the park would help relieve her anxiety; unfortunately, this plan backfires when the film seems to realize it has no third act prepared and begins to collapse upon itself.

Having laid no groundwork for a climax of any kind, Twisted ironically achieves its greatest thrill when it briefly gives up trying and spirals into chaos: the camera swirls around Jessica as she looks around at absolutely nothing, genuinely threatened by the sheer meaninglessness of her flashbacks. Geese! Hawks! Fog! One can only imagine the film's editor, Peter Boyle, experiencing an identical apex of horror upon reaching this point in the film, the challenge of making Twisted make sense too great even for the editor of The Hours .

Remarkably, however, Twisted recovers nicely from its close brush with dadaism by allowing Jessica to do what we know she does best: going home, opening a bottle of wine, and drinking it all by herself until she passes out. Indeed, no one could blame Jessica for turning to alcohol for comfort after her harrowing experience in the park, despite the fact that another one of her boyfriends will probably be disemboweled by the time she wakes up. To be sure, by this point in the film, many audience members would accept these conditions too if it meant blacking out for the remainder of Twisted.

Mike's subsequent appearance at Jessica's apartment reminds us that no matter what twists and turns this movie holds, one thing stays constant: men wanting to have sex with Jessica. Additionally, after witnessing Mike molest Jessica up to and beyond the point of her losing consciousness, not to mention peering between her legs while brandishing his gun suggestively, we know something else for sure: even if Mike is innocent of murder, he's still guilty of being a gross pervert.

-- Jessica, for anyone just tuning in

Lisa from the lab: You know, I always say you can tell a lot about a person from a drop of their blood.
Jessica: Can you tell if they're a good person?
Lisa from the lab: Give me a little time.

REALITY

Lisa from the lab: You know, I always say you can tell a lot about a person from a drop of their blood.
Jessica: Can you tell if they're a good person?
Lisa from the lab: No.