<P> With their parents traveling , Donnie and Elizabeth hold a Halloween costume party to celebrate Elizabeth 's acceptance to Harvard . At the party , Gretchen arrives distraught as her mother has gone missing . Donnie realizes Frank 's prophesied time is only hours away . He takes Gretchen and two other friends to visit Sparrow . They find her away , when they are attacked by two high school bullies , Seth and Ricky , who were trying to rob Sparrow 's home . Donnie , Seth , and Ricky get into a fist fight onto the road , just as Sparrow is walking back home along it , and she stops to watch . A car swerves to avoid Sparrow and runs over Gretchen , killing her . The driver turns out to be Elizabeth 's boyfriend Frank Anderson , wearing the same rabbit costume from Donnie 's visions . Frank leaves the car , asking if she 's dead and what they were thinking to stand in the middle of the road . Donnie shoots him in the eye with his father 's gun . </P>
<P> With their parents traveling , Donnie and Elizabeth hold a Halloween costume party to celebrate Elizabeth 's acceptance to Harvard . At the party , Gretchen arrives distraught as her mother has gone missing . Donnie realizes Frank 's prophesied time is only hours away . He takes Gretchen and two other friends to visit Sparrow . They find her away , when they are attacked by two high school bullies , Seth and Ricky , who were trying to rob Sparrow 's home . Donnie , Seth , and Ricky get into a fist fight onto the road , just as Sparrow is walking back home along it , and she stops to watch . A car swerves to avoid Sparrow and runs over Gretchen , killing her . The driver turns out to be Elizabeth 's boyfriend Frank Anderson , wearing the same rabbit costume from Donnie 's visions . Frank leaves the car , asking if she 's dead and what they were thinking to stand in the middle of the road . Donnie shoots him in the eye with his father 's gun . </P>
who is frank supposed to be in donnie darko
who is frank supposed to be in donnie darko
Elizabeth 's boyfriend
Elizabeth 's boyfriend