Thread:Godzillafan93/@comment-27047679-20151005160942/@comment-397235-20151024035442

They axed him, and I can honestly understand why. He needs one functional adult to be living with once it becomes evident Reiko is undead (because otherwise who was he living with all that time? [cue Lost music]). He contributes very little to the overall plot except in a handful of scenes, so they just removed the character entirely. That's the downside to making a film with such a large cast: when characters don't do much, they're cut. Look at Naoya and Sanae's roles in the film, and they actually matter in the novel.

Back to Tami, though. I seem to recall her saying something along the lines of "Well, that's the last of it" packing her car, and it seems they were also packing up furniture. It's one of the many things about the film which flat didn't make sense.