What was in the letter Quinn gave Summer In Time Cut

Notice! This post contains spoilers for Netflix’s Time Cut.

Quinn’s letter to Summer in Time cut it is a “cannon event” that determines the future trajectory of your story. In its one and a half hour duration, Netflix Time cut alternates between two years: 2003 and 2024. Although 2024 seemingly represents the “present day” in the film’s story, 2003 is the past. The film’s opening arc gives a glimpse into how a serial killer murdered four high school students in 2003 and then flashes forward to 2024 to highlight how the event has repercussions in the future.

Time cutThe time travel narrative begins when a character from 2024 named Lucy ends up in 2003, giving her the opportunity to change the future and save her sister, Summer, from the serial killer. In the film’s climactic moments, she, her sister, and her new friend, Quinn, realize that Quinn was the killer all along. As they put all the pieces of the puzzle together, they realize that Quinn’s crimes were the result of an event that involved him delivering a letter to Summer in 2003.

Quinn confessed his love for summer in the letter he gave her at the party

To Quinn’s dismay, Summer rejected him

The original 2003 schedule of Time cut’The opening moments reveal that Quinn handed Summer a letter in which he confessed his feelings. He poured his heart out in the letter, hoping Summer would reciprocate his feelings. Unfortunately, to her dismay, Summer was struggling with her own feelings and complexities to understand herself. She was beginning to realize that she was in love with her best friend, Emmy, but struggling to come out of the closet.

Because of this, instead of considering Quinn’s proposal, She told him she could never love him like that. Quinn was bullied throughout high school, and there were times when Summer was a bystander when his older students picked on him. He was already resentful of many of his schoolmates and became even more isolated after Summer’s rejection.

How Quinn’s Letter Contributed to His Future Sweetly Slasher Motivations

Quinn’s hatred for Summer and his friends consumed him

After Summer rejected him, the letter Quinn wrote to her became a reminder to him of how badly everyone treated him at school. As a result, his hatred for Summer and her friends gradually grew. Over the years, Quinn continued to pursue his passion for time travel and physics to ultimately design a time machine.

Using the time machine, he traveled through time and punished those who tormented him at school. He first targeted Summer’s closest friends and eliminated them one by one. He then went after Summer and mercilessly killed her because she rejected his letter. To ensure he did not face any legal consequences for his actions in Time cut as Sweetly Slasher, Quinn used her time machine to disappear through time.