Memento answer for mzd: HUGE spoilers, don't read.

Rating: Null/10 (12 March 2001)

"When Teddy tries to convince Leonard about what his life has been, what is the real story about his wife? Did she indeed die? Did she survive the attack only to die from Leonard's insulin injection? " SPOILERS She survived and Leonard was left with the memory problem and what occurred between them is basically the Sammy Jankis story. Leonard's condition caused his wife heartache until the insulin thing where his wife realized Leonard was ill and not faking and felt so bad about treating him so horribly that she let herself get put into the diabetic coma and die. After that, Leonard must have convinced himself in one of his 15 minute periods that she died during the rape instead of at his hands and that the only way to go on with life, the only way he could live with a purpose, was if he had that "dead wife to pine for" and exact revenge on her killer. He made up the whole conspiracy in order to make his life more livable. Teddy tells him this. So at the end (or the beginning) Leonard puts together another plan to erase what Teddy told him (and in essence, to again erase the truth) by setting up Teddy to be his John G. for the next cycle.