The Rosie Project

Don rents a car and drives for over 14 hours to Moree, New South Wales, to obtain a DNA sample for the Father Project. Because the candidate himself has dies, Don has to collect the sample from the man’s mother. Margaret Case is in a nursing home and has lost her memory. Don sits by her bedside watching her sleep and decides not to collect a sample from her; it just seems wrong. She wakes up, and begins to cry. Don wipes away her tears and gets her DNA sample. He drives back home.

Only the two New York doctors remain to be tested: Isaac Esler and Max Freyberg.

Don meets Rosie at the airport. They fly to New York. On the plane, they arrange to split the responsibility for planning the days in between their Saturday evening dinner with the Eslers and their meeting with Freyberg on Wednesday.

Rosie takes over the schedule, telling Don that she will plan their activities for two days and he will plan the other two. She insists that they are going to get to know each other on this trip; they are going to share their life stories. Don goes along with her plans.