No way back from the tech age.
2 things come to mind.
A gangster saying “I’ve decided I want to retire. I want to quit. I’ll never talk.”
“Nobody quits.”
(Movie Retirement Plan was based on that. Comedy.)
The couple found out she was later in a hospital. Was found in a coma and doctors brought her out of it at the hospital later on and she was said to have evidence of psychological damage from some kind of mind drugs. Or was avoiding some kind of horrible event her mind could not tolerate so shut down. Like a person who goes on an LSD trip and never returns. She couldn’t communicate or show any signs of memory.
Hotel California?