Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 14, Episode 12 - Hamelin - full transcript

Something wrong?

Oh, it's my mom.

A pipe burst last night,

and now her living room
is flooded.

- Ugh.
- Yeah. Ah.

Repairs are gonna
take 3 weeks minimum,

and she has asked
to stay with me.

That's good, right?
I mean, out of all the people in her life,

- you're the one that she chose to...
- Yeah,

I was her
only option, spence.

- Ah.
- Trust me,



she would
much rather

rent something on her own
closer to home,

but apparently money's
a little tight.

I know our relationship
hasn't always been smooth sailing,

but... I don't know, maybe
this time it'll be... different.

Maybe it will.

Didn't you tell me
your house is having

a top-to-bottom paint
job this week?

Mm-hmm.
As of this morning.

What are you gonna do?

Well, will took the boys to Florida
for a couple days.

I just rented
a hotel room in the city.

Ooh, I guess I better upgrade
to that junior suite now, huh?

Let me know if
you need anything...



Books, food,
shoulder to cry on.

Mmm. What was
that last one?

All right, just please
keep your phone handy.

What do we have?

Last night
310-year-old kids

went missing from their homes in
Wesser, Iowa.

The parents didn't notice
they were gone

until they woke up
this morning.

Well, all of the families slept
through the abductions.

There must not have
been much of a struggle.

No signs of forced entry,
either.

Neighbors didn't
hear a sound.

Look, I'm not
minimizing this,

but is it possible
this wasn't an abduction at all?

I mean, group of
10-year-olds,

tip-toe exit
in the middle of the night.

She's got a good point.
I mean, what if the kids just

made a bad decision
to sneak out

on a big adventure
together?

I was wondering
that myself,

but it was nearly
freezing last night,

and it appears all
the kids left wearing their pajamas.

None of them took
any clothing or food.

Maybe it's
a straight-up kidnapping.

The ransom demands
could be on their way.

JJ has some personal business
to attend to here,

but she will be
consulting by phone.

For the rest of us,
wheels up.

Oh, no.

Guys, guys, guys.
There's something that just came in.

You need to see it.
It's from Wesser P.D.

It's surveillance footage
from a neighborhood park.

Those are the kids.

What the hell
is going on?

Garcia, can you zoom in on that,
please?

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Season 14 Episode 12

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Episode Title: 'Hamelin'

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'There is always
one moment in childhood'

'when the door opens
and lets the future in.'

Graham Greene.

40 years in
law enforcement,

I've never seen
an abduction like this.

The children appear
to be complicit.

I mean, they went to
the unsub voluntarily.

Yeah, but watch
the last child's face.

It's like he senses something wrong
at the last moment.

There's still
no ransom demand.

That plus the tape,

this is looking less
and less like a kidnapping.

Normally I'd think this
was a sex offender,

but pedophiles almost never
abduct more than one child at a time.

If for no other reason than
it's hard to control multiple victims.

I don't know.
The kids on the swing set

looked pretty damn controlled.

Maybe
they were drugged somehow earlier.

What do we know about
these kids?

They were all
good students,

stable homes,
no behavioral issues at all.

When we land,
I'll coordinate with agent channing

who's already on the
ground with her

child abduction rapid
deployment team.

The rest of you pair up,
go to the children's homes,

talk to their parents.

We need to get a sense
of these kids.

Someone or something
got ahold of them.

We need to find out what.

Ok, catch me
up, agent channing.

We've got local P.D.
Canvassing the neighborhood

looking for home
surveillance cameras.

Good. We'll set up
monitors here for viewing.

Our card team has
handled hundreds

of child abduction cases.

But something like this,

we're in uncharted
territory.

Have you met
the Mayor yet?

- No.
- Buckle up.

Are you the other
FBI person?

SSA Prentiss.

I understand
you're the Mayor.

Rob tremaine.

Can someone please tell me
what's being done

to get to the bottom of this?

Our BAU team is
in place, Mayor,

and we're very good
at what we do.

I'm talking about
specifics.

What specifically
are you doing?

Honey, I'm going home
with Timmy.

Take a deep breath.

Look, uh, I'm sorry.

I don't mean to come on strong,

but a thing like this.

I understand.

But it is important
for you to present a calm

and confident face
to your community right now.

Well, that's easier
said than done.

3 kids in one night?

How do we know that
this maniac isn't going to take more?

We don't.

This can't
be happening.

It's like a nightmare
and I can't wake up.

Your son was
plugged in.

Joey's addicted
to his screens.

I have kids myself.
I know what you mean.

Did your son make this?

Yes. He loved
doing papier-mache.

It's practically
the only thing

that could tear him away
from his electronics.

Do you think
that this is how this person got Joey,

like a chat room
or something?

We'll know more once we
have a chance to look at his computer.

'Cause we monitored
his online activity as best we could.'

We put in filters,
safeguards.

But Joey and his friends,

they know how to get
around all of it.

Oh, God.

This cyber stuff, it's their world,
not ours.

So why these kids
and why now?

The behavior in the video,
it appears as though they're responding

to a post-hypnotic
suggestion.

If true, that's
an awfully elaborate ruse.

The seeds for this
abduction must have been

planted a long time ago.

But the parents have
confirmed that these kids

didn't really know
one another.

They went
to different schools.

They didn't hang out
socially.

So where's the overlap?

Maybe there isn't any.

I mean, they could have been
selected randomly online.

Except if this is
a form of hypnosis,

the unsub would need to know

that the children are
susceptible to suggestion.

You're on speaker,
Garcia.

Ok, I've gone through

the registered
sex offenders

in a 50-mile radius
of Wesser.

And at the conclusion
of this phone call,

I am going to take 3,
maybe 4, showers,

scrub myself
with steel wool,

during which time
I'm gonna tent the office,

fumigate it, and
when it clears out,

I'm gonna fill
it with kittens.

You find anything?

His name is Arthur Brodie.

What about him?

50 years old.
He's got a long rap sheet

of sexual deviancy,

including but not
limited to voyeurism,

indecent exposure,
possession of child pornography,

the stealing of young
women's undergarments.

I'm definitely gonna
need 4 showers.

Why did Brodie pop out
more than any others?

Well, thing one is
he was released a month ago

after serving
a 12-year sentence for statutory rape.

Thing two, he owns
a white van

that is eerily like
the one from the surveillance video.

Does Brodie
live in town?

Yes. He lives
with his mom.

He works the graveyard shift
at an assembly plant in town.

And if you'd like
another pop for this weasel,

last night
when the kids went missing,

guess which bra thief
called in sick to work.

Let me out!

Let me out!
Please, let me out!

- Let me out!
- Let me out! Please!

I don't want to die.

Don't worry.
We're gonna get out of here.

Arthur Brodie?

FBI.

Your mother told us
we might find you here.

What's the problem?

I'm minding
my own business.

You minding your
business or theirs?

Heh.

'Assembly and maintenance
of your corvell 350 vacuum cleaner.'

Come on, Brodie.

You want to pretend
you're here to read,

you got to do
better than that.

That your white van
parked over there?

You can't touch it
without a warrant.

I've got my rights.

Yes, we can.
And no, you don't.

You're on parole.
That's all the warrant we need.

The hell with you people.

We're not done yet.

Ahh!

Now we're done.

All right,
mom, here we are.

All these years,
I can't believe

this is the first time I've seen
where you work.

Wow. Ha ha!

You're sure you don't
want me to take you to the mall?

You could
shop, watch a movie.

No, right here's fine.

You just do what you need to do,
and I will sit here,

quiet as a mouse.

Ok.

Oh.

Don't.

Ok, uh, heh!

I'm sorry.
I was just...

Don't look in the files.

It, uh, can be difficult
to process... ok?

Ok. Sorry.

It's ok.

Ok.

You know what
I thought might be fun?

The two of us take a drive out to
Ocean City this weekend.

I... I'm consulting on
an active case, mom,

so until we close it,
there are no weekends.

I haven't been to
Ocean City

since you and Roz were
just little things.

That's where your dad
and I took you girls

to have lobster
for the first time, remember?

No, not really.

Yeah, funniest thing.

The lobsters were
in a tank out front

so the customers could
pick the one they wanted,

but when the man reached in
to grab the one... you picked...

What?

Well, it hit you that
that poor fish

was about to go
get cooked.

So you told that man
to put it right back where it was,

and we had to order
you a hot dog instead.

That's funny,
I really... I don't remember that at all.

Well, I should have known
you were gonna be an FBI agent.

Even back then, you were
all about saving lives.

What's that
abrasion on his forehead?

Apparently he gave
Lewis a shove

and reid went a little
cell block 'd' on him.

Nice.

Mr. Brodie, where
were you last night?

I don't got to say a thing.

Well, actually, you do.

That's one of the rights
a person gives up

for assaulting
underage girls.

Nobody got assaulted.
And it was a girl.

One. Me and Brandi
were in love.

That would be
Brandi Nichols,

eighth grader.

Who was all of
13 years old in 2004

when you first began
having sex with her.

Hey, if that's a crime,
you better get out there

and slap the cuffs
on Shakespeare, too.

Excuse me?

Romeo and juliet.

You know
how old she was? 13.

So how come with her,
it's this great romance,

but when it was me and Brandi,
I'm a pervert?

Now, my Shakespeare's
a little rusty,

but I don't remember Romeo
being a 50-year-old degenerate

'who collects
girls' underwear.

You didn't answer
my question, mr. Brodie.

Where were you last night
between the hours of 9 p.m. and 4 a.m.?

At home with my mom.

Call and ask.

Now, if you're not
gonna charge me

with anything,
then I'm...

Oh, we're definitely gonna
charge you with something.

Parole violation,
assault on a federal agent.

That should get
the ball rolling.

Wait.

I'm going to jail?

Well, look at it this way.

Someone asks you
wherefore art thou,

you know what to say.

Ok, so we have
a citywide curfew in place tonight.

I heard the good
news about Brodie.

I'm scheduling a press conference
to announce

that we have our primary suspect
in custody.

Ah! That's a little
premature, Mayor.

Why?

Well, because people are gonna think
the danger is passed.

It hasn't.

Brodie's still
a person of interest,

but his van came back
clean and he has an alibi.

You mean his mom?

And the only reason
the van is clean

is because he
cleaned it.

We'll hold a press conference
when it's appropriate.

Oh, good.

When would that be,

when the next batch
of kids goes missing?

Unbelievable.

Hmm.

Look, I know he wants to tie this all off
in a tidy bow, but come on.

You think Brodie's
our guy?

No, no.
The guy's a moron.

And morons don't
grab children?

Yeah, but this unsub
isn't grabbing.

The kids are going to him.

For an offender to sink
in their hooks that deep

requires patience,
planning, and smarts,

none of which is Brodie.

At least this town's
on high alert.

I doubt there's a door
in Wesser, Iowa

that hasn't been double-
and triple-bolted.

Let's hope that's enough.

The unsub's sending
a message...

'Take all the precautions you want,
I can still get your kids.'

Katie's father not only double-locked
the front door,

he barricaded it
with a couch.

Did their daughter know any
of the other missing kids?

No, she was
homeschooled.

These kids are linked
somehow.

We need to widen out,
look into extracurricular activities...

Sports, summer camps.

The kids on the
surveillance video,

they-they looked like they were
on auto-pilot, right?

More like zombified.

But katie's parents
put up a barricade.

So she was forced to use
in-the-moment cognitive skills

to circumvent the obstacle.

Evaluate, problem-solve,
improvise.

Not... your average
zombie's strong suit.

Making it even more
likely that the unsub

had previous personal interactions
with the children.

The unsub dropped a packet off
at the local newspaper.

It's on its way here now.

I'm so cold.

It'll be warmer if we
sit close together.

Come on.

It was found outside
the newspaper offices.

Nobody saw who left it.

Names of
the first 3 kids.

Nail clippings.

So why send proof of life
with no ransom demand?

There was a flash drive
in the envelope, too.

How does it feel?

What did he say?

How does it feel?

Our unsub used the expression
'how does it feel?'

This indicates that,
while he abducted the kids,

our unsub's anger is
focused on someone else.

It also explains
why there appears to be

no deliberate harm
to the children.

The kids are merely
a means to an end.

He's not a sexual predator
nor a kidnapper

in a traditional sense.

This person is an
injustice collector,

and as such is
motivated by revenge.

None of the children's
parents, however,

are in professions that typically evoke
revenge-based anger...

Doctors, judges, lawyers.

We believe the unsub is.

In his mid-30s to mid-40s.

He's thorough, intelligent,
and calculating.

He may have also suffered
the loss of a child recently.

That could be what's
triggered these current abductions.

Now, whether this was
a literal death,

a physical separation,
or purely a symbolic loss isn't clear.

The children
are apparently responding

to a form of post-hypnotic
suggestion.

He's also
technological savvy

and capable of bonding
with children.

In fact, his cyber
expertise may be

his entreée into
their world.

And this person is
known to your children,

and he might even
be known to you.

He is a local
and not a transient,

which will make identifying him
even more difficult.

Hypervigilance is key.

It's not enough to lock
the doors and the windows.

Adults cannot take their
eyes off of children,

not even for a minute.

Even if you
think your kids

are secure and protected,

this unsub has demonstrated to us
that they are not.

Thank you.

Ahem.

- Good.
- Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

So, um,
I got a call

from your
insurance adjustor.

Mm-hmm.

He was calling to confirm

that you had
declined a benefit.

Your policy provides
a generous rental allowance

if you're displaced
from your home.

So now you know.

Mom, why would you
make up that story

that you had no
other options?

Because I wanted to
spend time with you,

and I was afraid if I asked,
you would tell me no.

Why would I do that?

Oh, come on, JJ.

You are perfectly
happy up here

with your life
just as it is.

The same way you
are perfectly happy

with your life in East Allegheny, right?

- It does not mean that...
- Oh, you think I'm happy?

You think I'm happy

in that house
all alone,

your dad off with
his new wife,

one daughter
who never saw 17,

and the other...

The other what, mom?

The other what?

Who left.

Who went away
and stayed away.

I came back.

Yeah, after 20 years.

- Can you blame me?
- Look,

the terrible memories,
what happened to Roz,

they're...

It's all there...

In that place.

Well, I'm there,
too, remember?

Well, we're checking every industrial
space in the area.

So far nothing.

Look at this photo from
katie linz's bedroom.

She was making something
out of papier-mache,

just like Joey pryor.

School project, maybe.

No, no, katie
was homeschooled.

I'll have Garcia
look into it.

Yeah.

Well, the sun's going down.

Every last patrol officer's
walking the streets.

This little town's
turned into a fortress.

Think the unsub
will be discouraged?

Yeah, me, neither.

Well, how much
longer will you be?

No, no. I'm just
making up a spare bed.

Timmy's sleeping in
our room tonight,

whether he likes it or not.

Mom, why can't
I watch tv?

Listen, I need to
get started on dinner.

Love you, too.

Somebody's at the door.

What are you doing here?

What's going on?

There's a disturbance
at the Mayor's house.

A neighbor said she
heard a child scream.

Call an ambulance.

It's ok.
Help is on the way.

Ambulance
is almost here.

It's too late.

She's already dead.

What the hell
happened here?

Mrs. Tremaine's skull was crushed,
and the boy's missing.

That's a big change
in M.O.,

but this had to have
been our unsub.

Judging by
the volume of blood,

she was most likely attacked here
and left for dead.

But I thought
Mrs. Tremaine

was in the kitchen
fixing dinner.

That was after the attack.

Come again.

Her neocortex was
destroyed,

but her paleocortex
must have remained intact.

It's the more primitive
part of the brain

that guides instinct
and habitual action.

Like when it's
dinnertime, you go fix dinner.

Ok. Well, that's a sharp
escalation of violence.

And the unsub didn't
try to lure Timmy out

like he did the others.
Or he tried and failed.

- Mayor, you can't go in...
- It's my house.

Let me in.

They said, uh...

Joan is dead.

Mayor...

Where's my boy?

He's gone, isn't he?

We're gonna find
your son.

You have my word
on that.

Mayor tremaine,
I know it's difficult

to think clearly
right now,

but it's incredibly
important that we know

if Timmy had a cell phone
or a computer.

Yeah.

It's upstairs
in my office.

It's in your office?

Timmy didn't
do his chores,

so we took it away
for a few days.

Ok.

Let's get you
out of here.

Ok? Come on.

Well, that explains it.

The kids are being
lured via the internet,

but Timmy was offline.

So the unsub got an ax
and went back to basics.

So the wife and the
son of the Mayor.

That can't be
a coincidence.

Yeah, and the packet was
sent to the town newspaper.

I mean, this unsub's
anger isn't directed

at any specific parents.

He's got a grudge
against the town as a whole.

Garcia, what have
you got?

It turns out that Joey Pryor
and katie Linz

took a papier-mache class
together as part

of this summer
activities program

located at
the county fairgrounds.

Now, I know what you're
thinking, and before you ask...

I'm sorry... the instructor
was a retired nurse

in her seventies.

That's about as un-unsubby
as they come.

Were the other kids enrolled?

Not in that class,

but in that activities
program, yes.

Let's see. Aiden Lyson was
taking a woodworking course.

Olivia woolsey went the 4-h route,
learning about chickens.

Ok, so the unsub
Cherry picked the kids

from the other classes.

I think we just found
our guy's hunting grounds.

But I've gone
through all the instructors,

and nobody matches
the unsub's profile.

Ok, what about parents
or fairground employees?

No, nobody.
And the thing is,

that place is open
to the public.

Tons of people go
in and out,

it could be practically
anybody in town.

We found these encrypted emails
in Timmy's inbox.

The date of
the first one

is the night, the 3 children
vanished.

So Timmy was meant to
be part of

the first group of abductions.

This is an asmr video...

Autonomous sensory
meridian response.

It's a tactile sensory
stimulation that can

evoke low-grade euphoria,
particularly in children and young adults.

I've never heard of it.

Euphoria. So that
must be the drug

that our unsub was
using to induce

a suggestible state
to the kids he abducted.

Uh, what just happened?

I was afraid of this.

The emails are programmed
to self-delete after being viewed.

That's why we didn't find anything
on the other computers.

Ok, he sent 4 more
identical emails,

so we'll just film
the next video

and have a record of it.

To do this, the technical
level of expertise

would have to be
off the charts.

I'm talking
penelope Garcia level.

Well, that narrows
the suspect pool.

That's good, right?

Yeah, but it
also means our unsub is

a lot more formidable
than we thought,

and that's bad.

Euphoria ain't
what it used to be.

Ok. Well, let's walk
through it.

The kids crawl into bed,
they go to sleep.

Ping, they get an email.

They open it,
watch the video,

go wandering out intothe night
to be taken by by a stranger.

That feels like
a stretch.

Yeah, I agree.
Sandpaper, whispering.

It's just not enough
to induce the behavior

we saw on that
surveillance tape.

So something must be
added to the mix...

Subliminal messaging, maybe.

You mean, the old
'eat popcorn' thing,

because that turned
out to be a hoax.

Well, they
weren't all hoaxes.

It's a serious enough phenomenon
that subliminal advertising's

been banned in the u.K.

That might explain
the papier-mache.

It's a tactile,
immersive activity

like finger-painting
or working a potter's wheel.

Give us something
good, Garcia.

Ok, I went through
the asmr video

for sub-visual clues. Nada.

Then I looked for
sub-audio clues,

and I found this
running throughout.

That's like the back and forth of
a playground swing.

It might be the
unsub's subliminal message

to the kids on
where to go.

And at
no additional cost

to the American taxpayer,

I scanned for back masking,

which is messages
played backwards

or under other audio
tracks, you know like,

'I buried paul.'

And I found this.

Hamelin.
Hamelin.

Hamelin.

Is that Hamelin?

Of 'Pied Piper' fame.

He played a flute
and lured the town's children

from their homes.

The unsub must see himself
as a 21st century version of that,

except he traded in
the flute for a laptop.

Guys, I think
I blocked it out

and I'm not sure I want
to unblock it back in,

but what eventually happened
to the kids from hamelin?

They were all led to a riverbank
and drowned.

He had these kids
right where he wanted them.

Asmr, susceptibility
to tactile stimulation,

subliminal messaging,

plus, they're at
the most vulnerable age

for psychological
manipulation.

A perfect storm.
What have you got?

Employment records
for the summer activities program.

The first set of payroll checks were
issued on june 15th,

except for one.

The computer teacher
didn't get hers until July 8th.

I looked back,

discovered that the
original teacher,

wayne hollis, was fired after only
3 weeks on the job

for suspected inappropriate
behavior with the students.

I think that thud we just heard
is a dart hitting a bull's-eye.

What kind of
inappropriate behavior?

Undetermined
and maybe nonexistent.

Apparently, he would
meet with children after school

to teach them things,
sometimes at the park or in the mall.

Anyway, the parents found out,
they started talking,

things snowballed,
and people wondered

if he was
molesting them.

So once the gossip
machine revved up,

it didn't slow down.

I bet you the parents
of some of these abducted children

were right in the middle,
stirring the pot.

Does Hollis
have a regular job?

He does. He's
a research consultant

at a hi-tech firm
in Des Moines.

He's also
a single father

to a 15-year-old
son named Garrett.

Garcia has the address.

I'll send Luke and Dave.

Hollis' utility bill hasn't been paid
in two months,

and the teenager, Garrett,
hasn't been to class in 3 weeks.

Father and son
just packed up and left?

Maybe. Garrett was
ridiculed at school

for the molestation
rumors surrounding his father.

The advisor said he was
worried about the kid

that he was
spiraling down.

Ohh, what a cute baby.

Thank you.

How old is he?
Or is it a she?

He's a little boy,
and he's almost 8 months old.

It's hard to believe
that people were ever so innocent,

so pure

and untainted.

Why do you hurt him?

Pardon me?

Why hurt your boy?

Why do such terrible,

unthinkable
things to him?

Because
that's what I heard

from your neighbors,
your friends,

the people you thought
you could trust,

the same way all of you
talked about me.

Leave me alone.

Stay put.

Do not move. Stop!

Any of you move,
I kill her.

- Please don't hurt me!
- Do not move a step!

So the Hollis house
was empty?

Yeah, except for a chair
that was knocked over

- in the middle of the living room.
- Like there'd been a struggle?

That's what we thought,

and then looked up
at the ceiling.

It was hung over
a roof beam.

Matt said that Hollis' son
Garrett had been teased

and tormented in school over rumors
surrounding his father.

Garrett must have
hung himself.

His father found him
and cut him down.

And buried him.

There was freshly
turned dirt in the backyard.

It's being excavated
as we speak.

We have a hostage situation
in Legacy park.

Tara and Matt
are in the area.

I'm serious.
Don't move, people!

Do not move!
Run away, I kill her.

Wayne Hollis, FBI.

Let her go.
Drop the weapon.

No, no, no, no.

Everybody in this town
talks except me.

Gossip, rumor,
innuendo.

You think
I hurt your children,

but I didn't.

It was a lie.

We know about
your son, Wayne.

Think about Garrett.

This is not
how he'd want you to react.

It doesn't matter
what Garrett wants or doesn't want.

He's dead,

because of you,

all of you.

He had hopes
and dreams,

and you took it all
away with your lies.

Lies!

Well, now I'm taking something
away from you.

By the time you find
your children,

it'll be too late.

And that will
haunt you

for the rest
of your lives.

No!

No wallet.

Pockets are empty.

What is it?

Well, I don't know.

It's unlike any mud
I've ever seen.

Let's get a rush
analysis on that.

Here you go,
agent.

Thank you.

Lab results on the mud.

- And?
- Sample contains

large amounts of
proteases.

- And?
- Proteolytic enzymes.

They break down
the peptide bonds

between amino acids found
in complex proteins.

It's commonly found
in meat tenderizers.

- Garcia.
- Uh...

Got it. Great plains
meat tenderizer.

The company was based
out of Wesser, Iowa,

until it went out
of business 20 years ago.

I'm sending the address now.

Anybody in there?

Aiden, Olivia, Joey.

Now, this unit's
locked up tight.

Kids, we're the police.

You're ok now.

There's gonna
be a loud noise.

We need to knock
the lock off the door.

All right. Watch out.

Hey. Look at me.

We're here to help you.

Hey, Joey,
we got you. Come on.

All right.

No chance I can
change your mind?

Mm. No, sweetheart.

I need to go home.

I really wish you'd stay.

You ever project
yourself into the future?

How do you mean?

Imagine what your
life's gonna look like

down the road,
but really see it,

like it's a movie
and you're

sitting in the theater
watching.

I guess I've always
just been

too wrapped up in
the craziness of now.

Yeah.

When I was younger,

I played this
movie in my head all the time.

You and Roz
all grown.

Your dad and I
in a house out in the country,

grandkids running
all around,

food cooking
in the kitchen.

That sounds nice.

Yeah.
Except it was all make-believe.

After Roz died,
I threw that stupid movie

in the trash for good.

I blamed your father.

I blamed myself.

I blamed the whole
damn world.

I got so caught up
in all my troubles

that I forgot

there was another little
girl under my roof

who had just lost
her sister.

You needed me,
and I wasn't there.

You did the best you could.

No. No,
I did not do my best,

and I realize that now,

and I am
truly sorry.

Mom.

Now we know
the truth about Roz.

Yes.
Thanks to you.

I'm proud of you.

I don't think I've
ever told you that.

Every morning
you get up

and you go to work,
and you make

a difference in
people's lives.

You look in those folders
so the rest of us don't have to.

Thanks, mom.

That means more than
you'll ever know.

This way.

Over here. Right here.

Dad, it's ok.
I'm ok.

A lot of wounds to heal,

but it's started.

I missed you guys!

Let's head home.

'It isn't what
they say about you,

it's what they whisper.'

Errol Flynn.

I'm so happy
to hear that.

And where's your mom
now?

Oh, she's saying
good-bye to Garcia.

She wants me to drive her
back to Pennsylvania tonight.

Well, give her my love.

Yeah, I will.

Uh,
Spence, have you...

Have you ever projected
yourself

into an imagined future?

You know, given that
particles can travel

faster than
the speed of light,

it's always kind of felt
like pointless speculation.

You'd have to,
obviously, solve that first.

Mm. Yeah, yeah.
You're right.

We would
definitely have to solve that first.

But to answer your question,

yes, I actually have 3 or 4

- imagined futures.
- Really?

You sound surprised.

I am.

Tell me about
it someday.

It's a date.

Okay.

S-S-So, uh,
I have a proposal.

Let's postpone
East Allegheny for a day,

and we take that drive
to Ocean City tomorrow.

You sure?

Yeah. Why not?

Let's do it.

All right.

Do you think that
seafood restaurant's still there?

Oh, yeah,
we could check.

I think I've helped
save enough lives today.

I want a lobster do-over.

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