the flight attendant chris bohjalian summary

Elena decided to stage Cassie’s death as a suicide. He was afraid that Alex might have told Cassie something classified. He told Elena that she had to track Cassie down and kill her. He was also unhappy because the information that Elena had gotten off Alex’s computer was not helpful to them.

Viktor was angry with Elena because she had allowed Cassie to live. Meanwhile, Elena, the woman whom Cassie had known as Miranda, was in trouble with Viktor, her boss with Russian intelligence. Cassie admitted to her lawyer, Ani Mouradian, that she had been with Alex and that he had been dead when she woke. Cassie did not call the lawyer until pictures of her with Alex and leaving Alex’s hotel, taken by the hotel’s security system, surfaced. Regardless, the union representative suggested that Cassie get a lawyer. Cassie cried in relief when the plane finally lifted off from the airport in Dubai.īack in America, Cassie was questioned by the FBI and a representative from the airline’s union. When her friend, Megan, from the airline asked Cassie if she had been with Alex, Cassie denied it. She attempted to remove any evidence she had been in the room and left without letting anyone know that Alex was dead. Cassie next remembered waking up next to Alex’s dead body.Ĭassie was unable to remember exactly what she had done that night so she feared she might have been responsible for killing Alex. After Miranda left, Cassie and Alex returned to the bedroom for another romantic encounter. Cassie had intended to go back to her hotel room after she and Alex had sex but, her plans were interrupted when Miranda, who appeared to be one of Alex’s co-workers, dropped by to visit Alex. The two flirted on the plane and then decided to have dinner together. Even though she knew she was making a mistake, Cassie tried to clear all evidence she had ever been in the hotel room and called no one to say the man she spent the night with was dead.Ĭassie met Alex Sokolov while she was working a flight to Dubai. Cassie feared she might have been responsible for his death. Through the haze of all of the alcohol that she had drunk the night before, Cassie could not put together exactly what had happened. In the novel The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian, flight attendant Cassandra “Cassie” Bowden awakened in a Dubai hotel with a terrible hangover … and a dead man in bed with her. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Bohjalian, Chris.

The flight attendant chris bohjalian summary