Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 15, Episode 2 - Awakenings - full transcript

JJ is in the hospital clinging to life having been seriously wounded in Everett Lynch and his daughter Grace Lynch's successful escape from custody. Besides Will, Reid is standing vigil at ...

Previously on "Criminal Minds"...

Everything ok?
It's about my mother.

She's in a full-time
care facility now,

and she's really
been struggling.

I want you to say something
you're afraid to say.

Ok.

I've always loved you.

PRENTISS: Our unsub
is everett lynch.

He's a con man and a murderer

who slices off the faces
of the women he seduces.

REID: Roberta lynch.



Having a con woman for a mother

would have instilled
the narcissism

and misogyny that we profiled.

ROSSI: We arrested
his daughter grace,

but he got away and broke
grace out of jail.

Fbi, stop!

All right, kick it over.

EVERETT: Take it easy.

G-lady, there's
no reason to gun down

a daddy in front of
his little girl.

(GRUNTING)

(COUGHS)

(GASPING)

(GASPING)



(ENGINE STARTS)

(TIRES SQUEAL)

(COUGHS)

I've got eyes on him!

(GUNSHOTS)

emily, they're heading
north on fourth street.

Virginia plates, kvc-0253.

I... ok. Ok,
I've got it.

Get out!
Hey, get out.

Wait, the car stopped moving.

Now! Move.

(GRUNTS)

why isn"t do metro on scene?

Garcia just diverted them.

They were with us over on the
other side of the trade plaza.

If the car's not moving,
that means they ditched it.

Do metro just landed.

There's been a carjacking
at that location.

Dammit.

(PANTING)

JJ, what's your location?

JJ, do you copy?

JJ?

(GASPING)

(MUFFLED) it's ok.
It's ok. I got you.

You're gonna be ok.
Just stay with me, ok?

Stay with me and keep breathing.

JJ 's down.
She's been hit.

We need an ambulance now.

(SIREN)

crash cart's in 5.
I'll move it over.

PARAMEDIC: Spike
a one-liter bag.

PARAMEDIC 2: Airway's unstable.

Check for arterial bleeds.

Gunshot wound to
the upper torso.

Bullet entered under left arm.

No eXit wound.
Pulse is thready, breathing shallow.

(MONITORS BEEPING)

MAN: Need her for transfer.

WOMAN: Stats are dropping.

WOMAN 2: High flow o2.
15 liters.

(RAPID BEEPING) she's crashing.

(FLATLINE)

(MACHINE POWERS UP)

clear.

(MONITOR BEEPING)

I got a heartbeat.

Are you her husband?

No, he's not here.

He better get here Quick.

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ROSSI: "nothing happens
until something moves."

albert einstein.

Dave, I owe you an apology.

You were right.

Not about everything.

Lynch wasn"t our unsub.

He was the mastermind.
He pushed hurst over the edge.

It was just a smokescreen

to throw us off his trail.

That son of a bitch
played me like a fiddle.

I should have trusted
your instincts.

Hey, I've been in your shoes.

I wouldn"t have
believed me, either.

But if I had, maybe...

no.

There's only one person
to blame for this...

everett lynch.

He's the one who shot JJ,

and he's the one that
we"ll move heaven and earth

to bring to justice.

JJ's got to be ok, right?

But what if she's not ok?
What if she's...

JJ's strong, and she's
in good hands.

PRENTISS: Spence is
staying at the hospital.

He's gonna keep us updated.

In the meantime, the best
thing we can do for JJ

is find everett and grace
before they go deep underground.

Ok, this is security
footage from earlier today.

That is lynch posing as grace's
attorney arthur terrell.

Wait, look at grace.
She hesitates.

She doesn"t want to
take the weapon.

But she took it.

And she didn"t hesitate to
slice me with that knife

back in little rock.

True. She's no stranger
to violence.

It could be everett
bringing it out of her.

I mean, she may feel the
need to prove herself to him.

Well, he's probably gonna want
grace to change her appearance.

Well, they"ll both
need to do that.

LEWIS: Everett is a planner.

He set this escape
in motion months ago

when grace was arrested.

And now we"ve
disrupted his plan,

so the Questions are,
how much and what will he do now?

I can answer part
of that Question.

The car that everett and
grace jacked downtown

was abandoned in an alley
a few miles away.

There aren"t any reports
of other jackings

in that area since.

They need a car.

They must have stolen
something else.

Stealing an unoccupied vehicle

could go unnoticed for a while.

That would give them
a head start.

I'm betting lynch planned
for a safe house.

Agreed.

Matt, luke, look into stolen
vehicles in that area.

The rest of us will
work up a geo profile

based on their last
known locations.

It's from spence.
JJ's in surgery.

Will's on his way
to the hospital.

Will.

How did this happen?

Why wasn"t she wearing a vest?

She was. The bullet
missed the kevlar

and entered just under her arm.

Doctor told me
her heart stopped.

It did, but they
brought her back.

I need to see her.

She's already in surgery.

It's gonna be a while.

WOMAN ON P.A.: Charge nurse
to nicu.

Charge nurse to nicu.

It all right if I wait with you?

Yeah, of course.

She's gonna want to
see you, too, when she...

when she wakes up.

What are you doing?
We're almost at the safe house.

You don"t get it.

We can"t go there now.

It's only a matter
of time before the fbi

are all over it.

Come on, let's keep going.

We"ll be long gone
by the time they find it.

It's too risky.

Fine. So what now?

We're gonna split up.

No. No way.

Don"t be ridiculous.

Staying together is dangerous.

Even with disguises,
they're gonna be looking

for a daddy and daughter
traveling together.

After everything I went
through to find you

and reconnect,
you cannot do this to me.

Do what to you?

I busted you out of jail.

You're free.

So... fly away, little birdy.

Fly, fly, fly.

You think that's funny?

Look, you go to meXico, ok?

I'll come meet you
in a couple of months.

Months? Yeah.

No. I've already
waited months for you,

6 months, in prison.
You think that was easy?

You know what...
you know what I had

to do to bust you
out of that prison?

Huh?

You think that was easy?

You owe me. Ha ha ha.

How do you figure?

The only reason you got
away in little rock

is because I let myself
get arrested.

And you owe me for all
the years you stayed away.

That wasn"t me.

That was roberta.

Please, daddy. Let me stay.

I can help.

I have a plan.

Yeah, this is it.

They just left it out here
in the middle of nowhere.

Give me something.

ALVEZ: We found the car.

Wherever they went from here,
they went on foot.

So now we need to look
for their safe house.

Most likely a rental
within a two-mile radius,

probably rented within
the last 6 weeks or so.

Airbnb tentacles are many.

I've got over a dozen listings.

We need to narrow that down.

What about lynch aliases?

Aliases. I love you.

Uh, I got something.

I've got a house in
baltimore county

rented a month ago under
the name arthur terrell.

He won"t use it now that
we're onto him.

But it might tell us something
about what his neXt moves are.

Can I help you, young lady?

I really hope so, sir.

I ran out of gas on
the road out there,

and I was wondering if
maybe you could help me out.

I only need enough to
get to the nearest station.

There's one a couple of
miles from here.

Well, I think I can
help with that.

Got some gas out in the shed.

WOMAN: Roger? Who's at the door?

Come on, daddy, let's go.

(LAUGHS) damn, darling.

I didn"t know you
had that in you.

There's a lot you
don"t know about me.

I told you I could help.

Ahh.

She's eXactly your type,
isn"t she?

Hmm?

No, it 's... it's ok. I' m ok.

No, go ahead.

But hurry up.

WOMAN ON PA: Triage,
pick up two.

Agent jareau's out of surgery.

Is her husband here?

He is. He just stepped
out to call their kids.

Is she ok?

She lost a lot of blood,
but she's currently stable.

Is she gonna be all right?

We won"t be able to
assess whether or not

she sustained any
neurological damage

until she regains consciousness.

Could she hear me
if I talk to her?

It's unlikely.

I keep going over it
in my head, and I don"t know

how I didn"t realize
you were missing sooner.

I'm so sorry.

I know things between the two of us
have been kind of weird lately...

ever since you said you love me.

You said it and I heard it,
and the thing is,

I just... I...

I don"t know what
to do with that.

I mean, I know why you said it.

I just don"t know...
maybe you meant it.

And if you did,
what does that mean?

When you didn"t bring it
up after the wedding, I...

I didn "t either" cause I just...

I didn"t know how to
talk to you about it,

so instead I just
stopped talking to you.

And that is not what
I meant to happen.

And now, all the sudden,
none of that matters.

All that matters is that...

(SNIFFLES)

is that you wake up

and that I get to have
more time with you.

Ah, I guess...

I can"t imagine my life
without you in it.

Please don"t leave me.

(EXHALES)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

roger and helen foster.

Everett took helen's face.

I checked out the safe house.

It's less than
two miles from here,

but they were never there.

I found $75,000 and
a stash of disguises.

Then that's what happened here.

You ruined his escape plan.

He's winging it now.

LEWIS: Yeah, he's off his game.

I mean, lynch is as
organized as they come.

He's most comfortable when
he's sticking to a plan.

Plus, now they don"t have the
cash they need to go off the grid.

Well, they didn"t find it here.

They scavenged what they could

from roger's wallet
and helen's purse.

But he took her face.

That doesn"t make sense.

Why give in now

when he's sublimated his
compulsion for over 6 months?

He sublimated because he had to,

because he knows
you're onto him.

Now he doesn"t have
to hid anymore.

But he should be
focused on getting away.

This guy's devolving.

Or it may have something
to do with the fact

that he's no longer flying solo.

Before little rock,
he always worked on his own.

But now he's running with grace.

We need some insight
into the dynamics

of that relationship.

And I know just who
we need to talk to.

(DOOR OPENS)

(DOOR CLOSES, LOCKS)

well, well, well.

The bau is just
a cornucopia of delicious

masculine goodness, isn"t it?

I heard you were a sweet talker.

Oh, did you now?

Was it brown eyes?

Or was it muscles
who told you that?

Well, you got me there.

Aw. You are...

you are something
special, aren"t you?

Uh-huh.

Silver foX.

You have the eXperience

to know how to treat
a real woman,

don"t you?

Oh.

You know, I'd rather
talk about you, bobbie.

That's sweet of you
to say, but...

I know that this
is about everett.

And I already told
those young pups

everything that they
need to know.

And what's that?

That you"ll never catch him.

Everett has grace on
the run with him.

She helped him kill a couple

out in maryland.

Grace is not like him.

If she is with him, it's...

it's not out of choice.

She's his partner.

Did you know that she
cut a federal agent?

And that yesterday,

she took a glock 19
from the corpse

of a u.s. marshall
while escaping custody.

He says you let her drown.

He says you're the reason
his daughter died.

I "m the reason that she" s alive.

I'm the reason that
she's not like him.

She grew up with every...

advantage.

Because of you?

You're damn right because of me.

You think everett
cared about her?

He has no soul.

And he kills "cause
he gets off on it",

not because he has to.

And I knew that if he...
if he got his hands on her

that he would just use
her up and toss her away.

So I made sure that
he wasn"t in her life.

He's in her life now.

But that did not
happen on my watch.

Ok.

How did it happen?

He should... he shouldn"t
have been able to find her.

Spence. Wake up. She's awake.

She wants to see you.
Come on, it's good.

I'm gonna go get the boys, man.

I should have found you sooner.

Spence.

You saved my life.

Again.

I'm glad you're here.

You're my best friend.

Where else would I be?

I should go and let
you get some rest.

No. No, not yet.

(SIGHS) I've missed you.

Me, too.

It's my fault

that things have been weird

between the two of us.

What I said,
we need to talk about.

No, we don"t,

and I shouldn"t have let it
drive a wedge between us.

I needed to say something real,

and that's what came out.

And I'm so sorry.

I didn"t... I never meant
to do that to you.

I was prepared to take
that secret to the grave.

Heh.

But...

now it's out.

And I can"t...

(EXHALES)

lie to you and say
I didn"t mean it.

I do love you.

Heh. You were my first love.

And I'll always love you.

And I know that's not fair.

Because I love will
and the boys, too.

They made me who I am,

but so have you.

(SIGHS) you're such a big...

big piece of my heart,

and you always will be.

Maybe if things were...

different.

I sometimes think about that.

I just want you to know

that I never meant to hurt you.

I just want you to be happy.

And I want us to be ok.

I know you do.

And we are.

Oh, no.

Hi, mommy.

Hey.

You have to hold it there.

Hey, buddy.

Hi.

She's awake.
Everything's looking good.

Yeah, I just saw will
and dr. Hsu.

This is amazing.

But I have to talk to her.

Ballistics came back.
We think it was grace

not everett who shot JJ.

You sure?

I need JJ to confirm

because it's the same gun
that killed the fosters.

Well, if that's true, then grace
is just as dangerous as her father.

(CELLPHONE RINGS)

sorry, it's brookfield,
my mom's facility.

Take it.

Hi, this is spencer reid.

Yes.

Is she all right?

Ok, thank you.

Is everything ok?

I'm not sure.

My mom's not doing so great.

The last time I saw her she
didn"t even recognize me.

Now they're saying
I need to go down there

and see her as soon as possible.

Go.

Do I just leave?

Spence, it's your mom.
You have to go.

JJ's out of the woods.
We"ve got this covered.

I know it's a lot.

Sometimes everything
happens at once.

Thanks.

Dr. reid, I'm addy kincaide,
diana's new physician.

I recognize you from
the photos in your mom's room.

Where is she? Is she all right?

Yes, yes, she's fine,
but I think it"d be a good idea

for us to talk before
you go in and see her.

Look, I appreciate your concern,

but I don"t need to talk
about my mother's condition.

I am prepared for
what's happening to her.

Is she in the day room?

Spencer! Oh, I'm
so glad you're here.

Oh! Ho ho ho!

The most important thing
to understand

is that she's not cured.

These improvements
are temporary.

Addy's right.
This is an aberration

or a fluke of my disease.

Combined with
an atypical response

to her new meds.

I know how strange
this must be for you.

Last time I was here,
you didn"t know who I was.

I'm so sorry, honey.

How can we be sure
that it won"t last?

I can"t be sure.

But I have seen this before.

Awakenings like this,
they can last

for as little as a few days

to as much as several weeks.

That part is unpredictable.

The part that is predictable
is what happens neXt.

This will be followed
by a very sudden

and very steep decline
in cognitive functioning.

You understand what
this means, honey?

It means I'm gonna
lose you all over again.

Oh, please don"t
look at it like that.

How else should I look at it?

As precious time for both of us.

Roberta was grace's
primary caretaker

during her early years.

And even when roberta
went into prison,

grace didn"t go to
live with everett.

GARCIA: Nope. Roberta got grace

into a super eXclusive
new hampshire boarding school,

st. Peter's, on
a full scholarship.

And the way she did it
was a total con job.

She gave grace a fake name,
rachel norton,

and said her father
was deceased.

Nice.

Roberta was trying to get
out of a life of grifting.

Yeah, but grace didn"t
fit in there.

She was a total wild child.

They eventually asked
her to leave,

mostly because the whole,
you know, having a fake name

and not having a dead dad.

That would do it.

The school didn"t want
the bad p.r., though,

so they covered it up.

Nobody knows why grace
dropped out.

So shortly after leaving,

she made contact with everett

and joined him
down in little rock.

Roberta said everett
couldn"t have found her.

What she didn"t count on was that grace
might have wanted to find her father.

Yeah, well, if grace wanted
a relationship with him,

she would have been willing
to do anything to get it,

and that would eXplain
the escalation of our violence.

She's trying to get
daddy's approval

by showing him she's a
chip off the old block.

She never fit into the world
that roberta conned her into,

but she feels an affinity
for everett and his violence.

She's leaning into it.

Maybe he needs her?

A lot of grace's classmates
were one-percenters,

and none of them know
why she left school.

He left 75k on the table at
the safe house he abandoned.

And he needs that money to go
off the grid for a long time,

which means he needs
a big score.

Let's look into
former classmates of rachel's

who live in the do area.

Chances are that's
their neXt mark.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

I can "t believe it" s really you.

I know. I missed you so much.

I'm so glad you're free today.

Are you kidding?
I cleared my schedule.

Do you have any idea
how much time I spent

trying to find you online?

Kind of went off the grid.

I was worried about you.

I'm sorry, charlotte.

I didn"t mean to just
leave you like that.

It's just...

it was my grandmother,

the one who raised me.

She got sick. Cancer.

Why didn"t you tell me?

There wasn"t anything
you could do.

You don"t know that.
I might have been able to help.

I just needed
to take care of her.

In my own way.

She died last month.

I'm so sorry.

Are you ok?

Honestly, no, I'm not.

Things have been... really hard.

I'm not sure what comes neXt.

I need to get back on track,

but I can"t even make ends meet,

and my grandmother's
house is in foreclosure.

I don"t... I don't know
what I'm gonna do.

Please.

You have to let me help you.

Thank you.

It's so good to see you.

I'm staying at a place
not far from here.

Will you come home with me?

I'd like that.

Ok, I think this is it.
Charlotte burke.

She was roomies
with grace, aka rachel,

when they were at st. Peter's.

They were super close.

Oh, they were
more than roommates.

They were a couple,

and they were out.

Makes sense that's who
grace would reach out to.

Does she have money?

Oh, yeah, she's
a trust fund kid.

It looks like she
took a gap year.

And her dad set her up
as an eXecutive director

of a nonprofit right here in do.

Wow. Sounds like a daddy's girl.

So who is her daddy?

Allen burke. Hedge fund manager.

(WHIMPERING)

ok, what I need is the
thumbprint from her right hand.

(CHARLOTTE WHIMPERS)

shh. Shh. Shh.
Look, we can do this the nice way,

which really when you think about
will only hurt for a few minutes.

Or I could chop off your hand

and we can get what
we need that way.

(MUFFLED SCREAMS)

up to you.

(MUFFLED WHIMPERS)

EVERETT: Ready?

(MUFFLED SCREAM)

GRACE: Do it.

(SCREAMING)

so JJ says she loves you.

Wow. Now, that's big.

And, um, where
does that leave you?

Honestly, I have no idea.

She says she
sometimes thinks about

what might have happened if
things had worked out differently.

Sit.

And what did you say, honey?

To tell you the truth,
I think about it a lot.

Mm-hmm.

I didn"t think I'd ever get to
talk to you like this again.

This is really nice.

I know.

And I know it's
been hard for you.

Mom, your disease is not
what defines you to me.

It never has and it never will.

This is precious time,

and I am... so thankful
for every second.

I am, too. I am, too.

You know, I never talked
much about your dad.

When william left,
it wasn"t because

of my schizophrenia diagnosis.

You know what he said
when I was diagnosed?

He said, "diana,
we're in this together,

and I am with you
every step of the way."

I didn"t know that.

I know you didn"t.

And he meant it.

But then the meds,
pfft, the meds I was on,

there were so many
and so many side effects

that I stopped taking them.

And of course,
my condition got worse and worse

until I finally had
to be hospitalized.

And then it happened again.

And again.

In the end, it was
the roller coaster,

that was the part
he couldn"t deal with.

And the thing is,

even after he was gone,

I kept thinking that somehow we"d
find our way back to each other.

You loved him.

Yes. So I waited.

Year after year.

And at some point,
I knew it wouldn"t happen.

But I never allowed myself

to even consider

a relationship
with someone else.

You think that 's what I' m doing,

closing myself off
to possibilities

because I'm waiting
for a life with JJ?

I hope not.

Honey, life is long,
and it's hard.

And you deserve to have someone

who will share all
of it with you.

All of it.

WOMAN: Charlotte is not
answering my teXts.

She always teXts me back.

I know something's wrong.

Is she in danger?

We believe your
daughter has been

targeted by grace lynch.

You might have known her
by her alias rachel norton.

Rachel? We met her.

She was sweet.

We think she sought
charlotte out

because of their relationship at st.
Peter's.

You're aware they were close?

Charlotte came out to us
when she was 14 years old.

We think grace is
manipulating charlotte

as a result of that
relationship.

What can we do?

Grace and her father
are fugitives.

They need money.

And they're trying to
get it from charlotte.

We need to know about
all her liQuid assets.

Ok. Anything you need.

Of course, miss burke,
I'd be more than happy

to help you access
your safe deposit boX.

I'll need some privacy.

I understand.

As you know, you"ve authorized

two-step authentication,

so I'll just assist with that.

(BEEPING)

(DOOR OPENS)

ok, I've frozen all
charlotte's accounts.

Any attempted activity?

Nope, and none in the
last 48 hours, either.

Do you think we were wrong
about charlotte being the mark?

No, she's the target.

We just don"t know
about the right account.

That's something her
parents don"t know about.

Garcia, can you search for that?

Yeah, of course.
Something they wouldn"t know about.

Maybe it's something that
doesn"t reQuire irs reporting.

It may not even be a bank
or investment account.

GARCIA: Hey.

What about a safe deposit boX?

Bingo. Where is it?

Downtown do, just a few
blocks from her apartment.

Matt and luke are
down there now.

(SIREN)

can I help you?

We're looking for someone
posing as charlotte burke.

Posing as her? What do you mean?

Is she here? She was.

She wanted access
to her safe deposit boX.

And you helped her with that?

It reQuired two-step
authentication, thumbprint.

We follow protocol.

Did she get the
contents of the boX?

Yes. She's gone.

REID: Today's been amazing.
I don"t...

I don"t want it to end.

Well, you"ll come back.

Will you know me?

I can"t say.

But we have today.

Well, it's not enough.

You know what,
it doesn"t make sense.

How does she know it won"t last?

Who, addy? Oh, she knows.

She's been through this before.

Not with you, though.

You're not a statistic,
you're an individual.

I understand that. No, you don"t know,

and I don"t know,
and she doesn"t know, either.

Spencer, please don"t
go down this path.

And there are things
that we can do.

I know... I know people
at johns hopkins.

I can get you into a study.

No more studies,
no more drug trials.

I don"t want that.

Oh, so you're just...
you're giving up?

I'm accepting.

I'm not going to spend
the time I have left

chasing after a cure
that does not eXist.

Well, I think that's foolish,

and I don"t understand why
you won"t do this for me.

Ok, so now that
she's got the money,

they're gonna blow
out of town, right?

LEWIS: Soon. They still
have to deal with charlotte.

And they"ll need to
change their looks,

at least grace will.

They have to be holding
charlotte somewhere.

Well, they're not
in her apartment.

There has to be some
other do connection.

What about the fosters?

The couple they murdered
out in maryland?

Yeah, what if they
weren"t random victims?

What if they were targeted?

ROSSI: That's possible.
There were other houses in the area,

some were even closer to where
they abandoned their vehicle.

And grace was calling the shots
at that point, not everett.

Ok, so what if the fosters have

some kind of
connection to grace?

Not grace, but rachel norton,

her alias from prep school,

was awarded
the foster scholarship.

There's no indication
that she ever met them,

but she certainly
knows who they are.

Do they have any kind
of presence in do?

Pied-a-terre on "m" street.

PRENTISS: That's it.

We're too late.

She's dead.

(MUFFLED SCREAM)

(SCREAMING)

hey.

(SOBS)

what's your name?

I'm charlotte burke.
Please help me.

You're gonna be all right.

(RADIO STATIC,
ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

WOMAN: ♪ I am the passenger

♪ and I ride and I ride

♪ I ride through the
city's back sides ♪

♪ I see the stars
come out of the sky... ♪

the body in
the apartment is grace.

He killed his own child.

She never matter to him.

That's why roberta was able
to keep him away from her.

But why bother breaking
her out of federal custody

if he was only gonna kill her?

Because she was a liability.

He was afraid she"d turn on him.

She had daddy issues.

She would have sought
your approval

by virtue of the fact
that you're a paternal figure,

and that made her
dangerous to everett.

But why take her face?

I think grace became
a surrogate for roberta,

and roberta's the one
women he despises and fears

above all others.

But she's behind bars,
which makes her inaccessible to him.

Besides, everett's
a serial killer.

He works alone.

Roberta knew that he would
do this to grace

if given the chance.

That's why she went
to such lengths

to keep them apart.

She understands him.

It's more than that.

She's the only woman
who survived him.

ROBERTA: You're lying.

He wouldn"t do that.
He couldn"t.

You know that he could.

Please, don"t make me
prove it to you.

Do you have a photo?

You show me.

You don"t want to see this.

Show me.

Oh, god.

(SOBBING)

those are her hands.

I know her hands. I know...

why?

I mean, why?
He broke her out of jail.

Why?

He thought she would
rat him out.

She would never do that.

Everett didn"t know that.

Or he just didn"t care.

You knew he had it in him.

That's why you sent
grace to st. Peter's.

All I ever wanted was
for her to have a chance.

Bobbie, look at me.

Look at me.

He has to be stopped.

And I need your help
to catch him.

Now, will you help me?

You should go.

These boys need
to get some sleep.

They want to be with you.

I want to go home.

Soon.

GARCIA: Hello, hello, hello.

Penelope.

You look amazing.

No, I don"t.

You know what, you look alive,

"and that is frickin" amazing.

Thanks.

We were really worried.

I know.

Hey, I saw an ice cream shop

on my way in.

What do you think
I take the boys

to go get ice cream? Yes?

Yes. Yes?

Yeah! Ok.

Let's see how many
samples we can get

before they make us buy scoops.

Hey, not too much.

BOY: Not too much.

(CHUCKLES)

there's a whole lot
of people out there

who love you,

not just me and the boys.

But it's you
and the boys I need.

You know that, right?

Mm-hmm.

I love you, will.

So much.

And I love our family.

I know you do.

(EXHALES)

when I think how close
I came to... losing...

no, no, no. No, no, no. Don"t.

Don"t go there.

I'm sorry.

No, no, no.

And I'm sorry.

I am happy to
participate in a study

or a drug trial,
whatever you want.

I don"t want that.
I want you to able

to spend this time in a way
that makes you the most happy.

Can I tell you something, mom?

Of course.

I'm afraid of losing you.

And it's...

it's not just
because I love you.

It's... because I don't think
I know who I am in this world

if I'm not your son...

if I'm not protecting you.

That's a role that you've
played for a very long time.

It's who I am.

No, no, you're
so much more than that.

But it's how I see myself.

And it's not something
that I've done consciously.

It just... it just is.

And it's not just you.
It's JJ, too.

I don"t know how to be
in this world

if I'm not wishing
for a future with her.

Well, who we are
in the world changes.

It's part of life.

Intellectually, I know that,

and I know...
i know I should move on,

but I don"t know how.

I feel stuck.

I was wondering if I
could move in here with you.

No, no, you can"t.

Just like you can"t spend the
rest of your life waiting for JJ.

You have to move forward.

How?

You just do it.

You"ve spent so many
years being a boy wonder,

and that's now who
you are anymore.

You're an adult now.

What does that mean?

(LAUGHS)

whatever you want it to mean.

You get to choose.

Come on, you can do this.

It's time.

(CLEARS THROAT)

I know.

Just for right now
could we maybe do something

we used to do back when
I was a boy wonder?

What's that?

Game of chess?

Yeah, I think we can do that.

REID, VOICE-OVER:
A.a. milne wrote,

"how lucky I am
to have something

that makes saying
good-bye so hard."

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