By chance she shows him a photo from her supposedly dead father.
Then he began to tell a story about his dead father and they all laughed in the right places.
And then there was the 5-year-old who wrote to his dead father.
He would meet every one of his dead father's expectations.
I even made you break into your dead father's house and search it with me.
The shock of a dead father was enough for one day.
And your fathers dead, who's been looking after you for the last eight years?
His own father dead and him not able to come to the burial.
As if he felt some debt to my dead father to keep me well.
She wanted to make a human to replace her dead father.