Remember Me 2014

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"The elderly Tom Parfitt (Michael Palin) fakes a fall at his long-term terraced house in bleak Yorkshire, to escape to a care home. However, moments after arriving the social worker that delivered Tom is thrown from the seemingly impenetrable fourth floor window of Tom's room, with only her and the frail Tom inside. This mystifies teenaged care assistant Hannah (Jodie Comer), although local police, including depressed detective Rob Fairholme (Mark Addy) are largely uninterested. One by one, strange things begin happening to those in contact with Tom, including Hannah and her family, and Tom soon vanishes from his hospital bed without explanation. Returning to Tom's home, Hannah starts to piece together several clues which lead her to Scarborough, where a dark secret from Tom's past comes to light and it becomes apparent that the paranormal is moving against them."

I just finished watching this and was wondering about the ending; was Michael Palin’s character actually dead the whole time, having died as a child when the ship he was on sunk in 1914?

He says that his parents were killed in WWI in a German naval bombardment of Scarborough and he was left an orphan and that his Muslim Indian nanny left to return to India on a ship that struck a mine but a framed newspaper clipping in his house of the sinking mentions all hands lost, so I’m thinking his nanny tried to take him with her to India and they both died.