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Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter)’s Timeline and Summary

Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter)’s Timeline and Summary

  • Marla walks into a cancer support group puffing on a cigarette.
  • When our narrator confronts her as a "tourist" she agrees to split the support groups on different nights.
  • However, she calls our narrator after she attempts suicide, but Tyler shows up.
  • She starts sleeping with Tyler, a lot. And loudly. In the mornings, our narrator is mean to her.
  • Once a bunch of bald men start sleeping in Tyler's house, Marla can't take it anymore and she stops coming over.
  • However, one day the narrator calls her and asks what his real name is. She tells him his name is Tyler. This is the first he knows of this.
  • Worried that Project Mayhem will harm Marla now that she knows his true identity, the narrator gives her money and tells her to run away.
  • She does, but members of Project Mayhem capture her and bring her to the narrator, just as he's blown a hole in the side of his face.
  • Marla tends to him as buildings around them explode and fall.