What Really Matters

What Really Matters is one of the Collectibles found in Alan Wake's American Nightmare. It is one of the pages of the Return manuscript.

Manuscript text[]

It's been two years since I came here. Being that long without Alice breaks my heart, and I know it broke hers. I know she thinks I'm dead. How could I blame here for that?

It would be a crime to pretend that she owes me anything. She took all the stupid, self-indulgent bullshit I brought into her life and still stood by me, still loved me. It's no betrayal. But I'm a better person now than I used to be. I want to be that person with her.

Location[]

This page can be found on the trunk of a brown car parked in front of the projection booth.

Manuscript Pages (Alan Wake's American Nightmare)
Note: The number next to the page indicates the act in which they can be found.
Rest Stop	Alan Wake, the Writer¹ • Hunting Mr. Scratch¹ • Rewriting Reality¹ • The Devil is in the Details¹ • The Splitter¹ • Too Many Legs¹ • The Twisted Mirror¹ • New Reality: The Satellite¹ • The Appearance of Mr. Scratch² • Pages and Instincts¹ • My Best Friend² • Wake's Friends² • Night Springs, the Cult TV Show² • Night Springs, Arizona² • The Spectre² • Emma Sloan² • Old Gods of Asgard³ • Barry and the Old Gods³ • Old Gods in the Studio³ • The Giant³ • Emma and Mr. Scratch³
Observatory	Success¹ • Pressure¹ • The Genesis of Mr. Scratch¹ • Fighting the Taken¹ • The Spiders¹ • New Reality: Fragment 1¹ • The Darkness² • Lost in the Dark Place² • The Nature of Stories² • Cosmological Truths² • The Taken² • Dr. Meadows² • New Reality: Fragment 2² • Everything Is as Real as Everything Else³ • Dr. Meadows and Mr. Scratch³ • New Reality: Fragment 3³
Drive-In Theater	Bright Falls¹ • Alice¹ • What Really Matters¹ • The Grenadier¹ • A Car in Flight¹ • Survival in the Dark Place² • Equilibrium² • The Doppelganger² • Mr. Scratch's Trap² • The Plan² • The Dangers of Creation² • Serena Valdivia² • Focusing the Beam³ • Serena and Mr. Scratch³ • The Clothes³ • Alice's Film³