Perception (2012–2015): Season 1, Episode 9 - Shadow - full transcript

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What are you afraid of?

Dying in a plane crash?

Or catching an incurable disease?

Getting eaten by a shark.

What you should really be afraid of..

Is failing this class.

What, we scare you?

Fear can override rational thought.

Before the Neocortex can even process
a threat, the Amygdala kicks in,

and now you're in fight-or-flight mode.



But this same Neurological
programming can also spook us.

Cause us to act irrationally when, in
reality, there's nothing to worry about.

So..

Can we override our most primal instincts?

Condition ourselves not
to react out of fear?

1x09
- Shadow -

All your meals are on the fridge.
Everything is color-coded.

All you got to do is reheat
them in the microwave.

I don't eat irradiated food. You know that.

Okay, you know, Doc, maybe I could
just do an iChat with my folks.

It's their 30th anniversary, Lewicki.

You're going home.
I can manage on my own for one weekend.

I'll be fine. What is an iChat?

I do solemnly swear to support and defend
the constitution of The United States



against all enemies foreign and domestic.

"And I will prove a crushing
disappointment to my constituents".

And I take this obligation freely.

"I will make shady backroom
deals with my fellow Senators"

"and accept as much special-interest
money as I can stuff in my pockets".

You voted for Ryland.

Lesser of two evils.

Lewicki, your cab is here!

Maybe he'll surprise you.

Ryland was the last guy's protege.

He'll turn out to be yet
another Wall Street lackey

just like everybody else in congress.

Daniel, don't be so cynical.

Easy for you to say.. You didn't vote.

Of course I voted.

I wasn't talking to you.

Okay. Uh.. Tell her I say, "hi".

Hey, Doc?

You got a letter.

There's no stamp, so it must have
been hand-delivered from some guy..

Wesley Sumter?

Who's Wesley Sumter?

He's a former student.

Would you get out of here already?

All right.
Okay, uh, I will see you on Sunday.

Don't do anything crazy, Doc.

No promises.

I can cancel.

It's a joke. I'm joking. Go!

Daniel, what's wrong?

Oh, damn it!

Wesley, are you trying
to give me a coronary?!

I'm sorry. I.. I didn't mean to scare you.

Well, what's with the melodrama, huh?

The.. The note, the meeting
at 2:00 in the morning?

What the hell is going on?!

I'll explain everything,
okay, but not here.

People could be listening.

Come on. Come on.

Okay, this is good.
This is good, this is good.

Listen, this new Senator, Ryland..

You remember what happened
to his predecessor?

Well, yeah, his private jet flew
into the side of a mountain.

His plane was sabotaged.

Sabotaged? By whom?

Larry Crawford, CEO of the
Verteron Corporation.

The electronics company?

Yeah. Paulson..

Paulson chaired.. He chaired a..
A committee that..

That.. That.. That was..

Was gonna pass a.. A clean-energy bill
that would have cost Verteron billions.

Okay.

Okay, so they stood to
gain from Paulson's death,

but what makes you think they had
anything to do with the plane crash?

- They made the..
- The anti-collision system

that should have prevented the accident.

Not only that, but.. But.. But..

One of their engineers, Brian Willingham,

died right after he found
out about the sabotage.

They said it was suicide, but..
But I think it was murder.

Wesley, what are you coming
to me with this for?

You should go to the police.

I tried.

I tried, but.. But no one..
No one would take me seriously.

Except for one guy, this..

This reporter, uh, uh,
from The Star-Herald,

but then.. But then he, uh..
He drove his car

off of a road, and he broke his neck.

Now, that's three men dead,

and I'm gonna be the fourth if
this company isn't stopped.

Wesley, I understand you're scared,

and if what you're saying
is true, it's terrible.

But..

Isn't it possible you're
making connections that..

That aren't really there?

I read about your work in the Sarin
bomber case, and I thought that..

That if anyone were to help me
blow the lid off this thing,

it would be you, but I guess I was wrong.

W.. Wait, Wesley. Look, look.

There's an FBI Agent that I know.

I.. I'll ask her to look into it, okay?

Thank you.

Thank you, Professor.

Wait, oh. Everything..

Everything that..

That you need to know is.. Is in here.

Here it is. Here it is.

I knew you would help. I..

Wesley.

Heading out? It's not even 3:00 A.M. yet.

Yeah, thought I'd knock off a little early.

Stick around. I'll buy you breakfast.

There will be bacon.

You do know my weakness.

Moretti.

Daniel, slow down.

Uh, okay, just stay calm.
I'll be right over.

Call CPD. There's been a
murder at the CLMU campus..

Courtyard by the Chapel.

Roger.

We have a slight problem.

I don't understand. Where's Wesley?

I don't know. You tell me.

I was the first person on the scene,
and there was no body when I got here.

Daniel?

Daniel?

Listen, CPD's been interviewing
faculty and students for hours.

No one saw any shooting or
anyone fleeing the scene.

This area of the campus
is deserted at night.

You know that.

Crime techs didn't turn up
any blood residue, either.

Well, obviously somebody's
cleaned up the crime scene.

These..

These are just newspaper clippings, okay?

There's no evidence here.

I got to be honest with you..
The boss is pissed.

Forensics has been out here all night.
I got to send these people home.

Well, I'm sorry if Wesley's murder
has inconvenienced the crime lab.

Daniel, listen.

Reardon knows about your.. Condition.

She doesn't consider you a..
Reliable witness.

We ran the name you gave us.

There's no record of a Wesley Sumter

anywhere in Chicago or
having ever attended CLMU.

I told you, he only audited my class. I..
I don't know if he ever registered.

And he wouldn't be the first
person to keep his name..

Out of a government database.

Listen, you know I've got your back,

and I'm gonna keep digging, even if
Reardon doesn't like it, but I..

I got to ask you..

Is it possible that you saw something
that didn't really happen?

Look at this.

It says the NTSB's report on the plane
crash has been delayed a third time.

Maybe Wesley was right.

Maybe the Senator's plane
really was sabotaged.

Daniel, the story he
told is exactly the kind of

paranoid scenario that a
schizophrenic would come up with.

You think Wesley was mentally ill?

I don't know. But you are.

Maybe Kate's right.

You're the only one who saw this guy.

Well, if Wesley wasn't real,
where did all these come from?

You have a closet full of old newspapers.

Lewicki just..
Just saves those for the crosswords.

- And what about the letter?
- You do have a typewriter.

You're saying I sent it to myself.

Have you been taking your meds?

Lewicki picked up a
prescription for me weeks ago.

You know that.

I didn't ask you if you had
a prescription filled.

I asked if you were taking your meds.

If we open the medicine cabinet and counted
the pills, how many would be left?

You've been under a lot of stress since
you started working with Kate again,

but I don't think your
coping mechanisms are enough

to keep you on an even keel any more.

If you won't take the medication
for yourself, then do it for her.

What's that supposed to mean?

Kate's out there trying to
find evidence for a murder

that might have only happened in your mind.

Think about her career, her reputation.

What if you're wrong?

Never underestimate the
power of shoe leather.

Might want to make us some popcorn.

Where did you get this?

A student caught the whole
thing on his cellphone.

It really happened.

I'm sorry I doubted you.

I understand why you did.

Look, I've asked the CART unit to enhance
the tape, try to I.D. the sniper.

So Wesley really was onto something big..

And whoever killed the Senator
was trying to silence him.

Just so we're clear, I'm not investigating
some James Bond murder plot, okay?

I'm just looking for a guy with a crossbow.

Do we have an address yet
for Wesley or next of kin?

No, and there's no physical
evidence at the crime scene.

Well, if we can't find
his body, then maybe..

Maybe looking into what he was
investigating will lead us to the killer.

You said Wesley was talking to a reporter?

Yes. Yes! From the, uh..

Star-Herald.

Uh.. Uh..

Here.

David Alcott.

But he's dead.

Maybe his boss at the paper has
some information on Wesley.

Oh, you must mean "crazy" Wesley.

Oh, he calls the assignment
desk at all hours and

leaves these bizarre
messages on our voice mail.

Once, he called from a
warehouse in New Mexico,

claimed he had found the sound stage
where NASA had faked the lunar landing.

The guy is absolutely nuts.

Some myths, it seems, never die.

But putting a man on the moon
was my greatest accomplishment.

50 years later, and they're still
trying to undermine my presidency.

Do you have any contact info for Wesley..

A phone number, maybe?

I'll look, but I doubt it.

You know, the guy is a total whack job.

Why are you asking about him, anyway?

Well, he was murdered last night.

Murdered?

Yes.

Yes. Uh, but before he died, he told me
he tipped off one of your reporters,

who also died recently.

You mean David Alcott?

Do you know what Alcott was working on?

No, David kept his cards
pretty close to his vest.

He was always afraid of being scooped.

What about his computer?

He never used one.
He was pretty old-school.

But we cleaned out his desk and
threw everything in a box.

I could get my assistant
to find the box for you.

Wesley's name is mentioned,
but there's nothing in the

reporter's notes that aren't
also in the newspaper clippings.

Pleiades.

Seven sisters.. Greek mythology.

What, you think the only class
I took in college was yours?

You think it means something?

Got to admit, thought it
was a wild-goose chase.

I mean, what the hell does
a campus shooting have

to do with the death of a
United States Senator?

But I think I actually found a connection.

Well, will miracles never cease?

I ran Alcott's cellphone records.

There were seven calls between him and
a cell registered to Helen Paulson.

Wait, wife of the late Senator?

- Why would she be calling a reporter?
- Helen Paulson.

If the Senator was murdered,
he may have been threatened.

And maybe his wife can give us a name.

"Insiders say the governor
has decided to appoint

Helen Paulson to fill her
husband's Senate seat".

But the government didn't appoint her.

- Maybe the insiders were wrong.
- No.

"In a hastily called press
conference, Mrs Paulson"

"announced she was declining
the governor's offer,"

"and instead urged him to call
a special election to let the"

"people of Illinois decide who
their next Senator will be".

She endorsed Scott Ryland.

Why would anybody turn down a Senate seat?

I've got an idea.

How about instead of standing here
speculating, we just ask her?

Okay, got it, got it.

Agent Moretti, FBI. Is that Helen Paulson?

- Yeah. She's in pretty bad shape.
- What happened?

Don't know. She was
unresponsive when we got here.

The maid found her like
this and just called 911.

Excuse me.

This is no coincidence, Professor.

It's Dallas all over again.

Clearly, someone tried to
assassinate the Senator's wife.

Mrs. Paulson is displaying signs of neural
degeneration, and congestive heart failure.

Any idea what's causing it?

Wish I could say.

Her primary physician said she was
the picture of health a month ago.

I'm just pumping her full of
antibiotics until the labs come back.

Can we talk to her?

Yeah, for a few minutes.

Mrs. Paulson.

Hi. Um..

This is Dr. Pierce.
I'm Agent Moretti, with the FBI.

FBI?

Yes. Listen, you spoke recently with
a newspaper reporter, David Alcott.

Can you tell me what the
two of you talked about?

He said..

That someone caused Ted's plane to crash.

He said he had evidence.

Did.. Did he tell you
who he thought did it?

Lawrence Crawford.

CEO of Verteron. Wesley was right.

Did the reporter say what
kind of evidence he had?

No, but..

I.. I told him he must be mistaken.

Larry would never hurt Ted.

He's one of our closest friends.

Mrs. Paulson..

Why did you turn down your
husband's Senate seat?

Senate?

Yes.

Is Ted here?

Clear the room!

Thank you for seeing us on
a Saturday, Mr. Crawford.

No problem.
I hope this won't take long, though.

My son's soccer game
starts in about an hour.

Oh, we'll get you there on time.

I see you have an interest in astronomy.

It's a hobby.

And what are those stars?

Those are the Pleiades.

- The seven sisters.
- Hmm.

You didn't come here to talk astronomy.

No. It's about Helen Paulson.

We spoke with her a few hours
ago, just before she.. Died.

Helen died? What happened?

We don't know, but an
autopsy has been ordered.

So much tragedy for one family.

She told us that somebody at this company
was involved in her husband's plane crash.

Yeah, she told me the same thing.
A reporter was making wild allegations.

I told Helen I was sure it wasn't true
but I'd look into it, which I did.

And, of course, there was nothing to it.

But Verteron did manufacture
the terrain-avoidance system

that was installed in the Senator's plane.

Yes, that's true.

So if the system was
working, he shouldn't have

flown into the side of a
mountain on a clear night.

The T.A.S. Was working perfectly.

You sound pretty sure of that.

We examined debris from the plane.

You examined?

Is it standard procedure for..

For a company to determine its own
culpability in a fatal plane crash?

The NTSB asked for our cooperation.

We gave it to them.

You don't believe me, have a look at this.

The NTSB report. How do you have this?
This hasn't been released yet.

They're releasing it Monday.
They e-mailed me an advanced copy.

And they say the government
is too cozy with big business.

As you can see, a hydraulics
failure caused the crash.

Our system had nothing to do with it.

This so-called report is meaningless.

Your investigators have had
months to falsify this data!

I got a game to get to.

Any more questions, you talk to my lawyer.

Daniel, what are you doing?

Crawford had a painting of these stars

prominently displayed
in his conference room.

It can't be a coincidence that the
reporter wrote down the name "Pleiades".

There has to be a pattern or a
symbol that means something.

What the hell am I looking for?

Maybe the stars are significant
in some other way.

What is their history?
Where do their names come from?

Greek mythology.

The Pleiades were the daughters of Atlas
the Titan and some floozy sea nymph.

What else?

"Ancient astronomers once believed that
the brightest star in the Pleiades,

Alcyone, was the center of the Universe,
around which all the heavens revolved".

"Center of the Universe".

Daniel?

Ah..

Al-cy-on..

Uh, Freemasons.

Illuminati.

"The order of Alcyone..

One of the most ancient and
powerful secret societies".

Uh, "some believe the order's senior
council has manipulated world events"

"through the appointment of its members
to positions of power and influence.

"Their ultimate goal is to
create a single world government

with the order itself at the
center of the Universe".

You don't believe a secret society
is murdering congressmen.

Maybe!

Maybe some..
Some modern-day cabal of businessmen

like Crawford has adopted the
philosophy of this group

and they're trying to install
their own people in government

to serve their companies' interests.

Now you're seeing the
big picture, Professor.

A Cuban.. Really?

I enjoy the irony.

Now, this.. Uh, this conspiracy was
never about getting Paulson out.

It was about getting his successor in.

Scott Ryland.

Some very powerful men must have
wanted Ryland in that Senate seat.

But killing Paulson doesn't
make his protege Senator.

This is Chicago, Professor.

Remember what happened here
when I ran for The White House?

Daniel?

It's 1960 all over again.

- What?
- Remember JFK's election?

That was a little before my time.

There was this Mafia boss, Sam Giancana.

The rumor was, he stuffed the ballot
and stole Chicago for the democrats.

But it's a lot easier to steal
an election these days.

All you got to do is push a button.

"Verteron acquires Dover
Election Solutions".

So?

So, it turns out Crawford's company
doesn't just make avionics.

Eight months ago, they
bought into a new business..

Electronic voting machines.

Those bastards murdered Paulson
and rigged the election.

They stole that Senate
seat for Scott Ryland.

Daniel was right.

The election results don't match
up with the exit polling.

The counties in blue were
predicted to go for Ryland.

The counties in red were
expected to go to his opponent.

Looks like a landslide.

Except that is not what actually happened.

These are the counties
that Ryland actually won.

You see?

A slim enough margin, it
looks like a squeaker.

Wouldn't be the first time
the exit polls were wrong.

And even if the results were
tampered with, how do we prove that?

Wesley believed that a Verteron
engineer, Brian Willingham..

Got wind of Crawford's plan and
turned up dead.. Uh, "suicide".

Maybe if this Willingham figured it out,
somebody else at Verteron did, too.

We need the names and addresses
of all their employees,

especially the ones in
the election division.

I was working late the
night before the vote.

I noticed that someone had uploaded

some kind of software
update to the DRE servers.

D.R.E.?

Direct recording electronic voting.

I decompiled the code, and..

I discovered a virus hidden inside.

It was designed to alter
the voting tabulation

on every machine that received the upgrade.

So you told Brian Willingham
what you'd found.

Brian was the only one that
I trusted at the company.

He started asking questions.

But the CEO wouldn't even
give him the time of day.

So..

He hacked into Crawford's e-mail.

Did he tell you what he found?

He was pretty certain that Crawford
was behind the whole thing.

And there was something else.

He said that he read in
the emails that there was

going to be some kind of
big meeting at Verteron..

Some kind of senior council.

A lot of important people
were going to be there..

Including Senator Ryland.

Did he tell you when this
meeting was gonna take place?

I don't know..
Sometime after Ryland was sworn in.

Would you be willing to testify
to what you've told us?

Yes.

It'll be her word against his.

If we're gonna get Crawford,
we need hard evidence.

I made a copy of the virus.

Get this down to CART and get it analyzed.

Mrs. Paulson died from
congestive heart failure

brought on by acute radiation poisoning.

- Radiation?
- Do you know what kind?

Polonium-210.

I found massive traces in
her hair and bone marrow.

Should we be wearing lead suits?

Polonium's only dangerous if ingested.

She consumed about 10
micrograms probably a week ago.

Could this have been an accident?

Polonium just doesn't exist in
these quantities in nature.

She was assassinated.

Moretti.

Okay.

That was the CART unit. The flash drive
that Janice gave us, there's nothing on it.

After everything she told us, why would
she give us a blank flash drive?

It doesn't make any.. Where is she now?

Protective custody.. Emissary Hotel.

How long has she been in there?

She said she wasn't feeling well.
She wanted to take a nap.

- When was that?
- An hour ago, maybe.

Open the door.

Janice!

We're too late.

So?

- So, I've been reassigned.
- Why?!

Medical Examiner says that Janice
also died from exposure to Polonium.

That's because Crawford
or somebody at Verteron

realized she was a loose
end and poisoned her.

Washington isn't buying that.

They're considering this
a public health crisis.

The priority right now is finding
the source of the Polonium

so that no one else gets sick.

These women didn't die because a
radioisotope seeped into their tap water.

It's like Wesley said..

Anybody that gets close
to the truth gets killed.

Daniel, there's nothing I can do.

We can't back off now, Kate.

Think about what Janice said about the..
The big meeting.

That could be the key to
breaking this whole conspiracy.

We have no idea when that
meeting is supposed to happen.

For all we know, it already did.

She's entirely mistaken, Professor.

Of course you know when it's happening.

- When?
- What?

The answer you're looking for..

Is in the stars.

The meeting is tomorrow
morning, just before sunrise.

You're getting all this
from an astronomy book?

The Pleiades. Remember, we saw
them in Crawford's office,

and Alcott wrote it in his notebook.

What does this have to do with what time
the meeting is supposed to take place?

The Heliacal Rising.

- The what?
- Listen. Listen.

"The Pleiades are a group of stars that
rise every day, just like the sun,"

"but one day a year, they rise before dawn
and are visible above the eastern horizon".

"This first appearance is known
as the Heliacal Rising".

Which, this year, takes place..

Tomorrow morning.

We've got to get to Verteron before dawn.

It's the only way we're gonna figure
out who all the conspirators are.

Daniel, I feel like that's a lot of faith
to put in a scribble in a notebook.

Daniel Pierce, you are under arrest
for the murder of Wesley Sumter.

This video's a fake.

No, it was just enhanced by the CART unit.

I am being set up!

Okay. Who's setting you up?

I haven't the faintest
idea, but if you want to

search my house for a
crossbow, be my guest.

Did you have anything to
do with the other deaths?

Are you..

David Alcott..

Brian Willingham..

- Helen Paulson.
- Sure, sure.

Yes, I have a secret stash of Polonium-210

in my medicine cabinet.

Kate.. Kate, you believe me.

I didn't.. I didn't kill Wesley Sumter
or anybody else, for that matter.

Daniel, I know that you are not
capable of hurting anyone.

If you were in the right frame of mind.

But it is possible..

That you didn't know what you were
doing when you pulled that trigger.

Oh, Kate..

There's a fox in the
hen house, Professor.

This G-man was one of the conspirators.

Probert?

Yeah?

He had custody of the drive
that was mysteriously erased.

He was first on the scene after
the sniper killed your friend.

You..

You moved Wesley's body.

Daniel, this isn't helping.

Who are you working for..
Crawford, Senator Ryland?

Look, Pierce, I know that you think
I've always had it out for you.

The truth is, I care about you.

But you are a very sick man.

Now, we're gonna do everything
that we can to make sure

you get the very best lawyer so that
you can get the help that you need.

- When we get back, the S.A.I.C. wants to..
- Ugh!

What are you doing?

Throwing away any chance
of future promotion.

Daniel, you might be crazy,
but you are no killer.

- That tape was doctored.
- I thought you didn't believe me.

Probert was standing right there.
I had to pretend to agree with him.

Hit the parking garage, would you?

Great. Now what do we do with him?

Let me worry about that, okay?
Now, you need to leave.

That door will let you out into the alley.

I'm going with you.

You can't. I'm going to Verteron.

You're not going into that
building by yourself!

Listen, I'm just gonna go into the
conference room and try to plant a wire.

I'll only be in there a few minutes.

Don't you need a court order for that?

I just tased my partner and
dumped him in a trunk!

I'm not exactly doing
things by the book today!

Listen, just lay low for a few hours.

I will meet you in
Millennium Park at sunrise.

But, Kate, wait, wait!

Daniel, I..

She told me to meet her at sunrise.
She should be here by now.

Relax, Professor. She's a professional.

She's got a lot more on the
ball than any of Hoover's boys.

She'll be here.

No, no, no, something's happened.

She's in trouble.

I'm going after her.

I don't suppose you know the code.

Actually..

.. I'm pretty sure I do.

Pleiades. Of course.

Thanks to your unwavering support,

I now stand before you as
a United States Senator.

This victory belongs to everyone
here at this historic conference.

And it brings us one step closer to
achieving our ultimate objective..

Dominion over the affairs of..

Oh.

This is an unexpected surprise.

Mr. President, it's a
pleasure to finally meet you.

Pleasure's mine, Senator.

What the hell is going on here?

Sir, you'll have to come with me.

Get your hands off me.

Let go of me! Let go of me!

I know what's going on here!
You're not fooling anyone!

You're a murderer, Crawford!
You're a killer!

You're all killers!
The world is gonna know!

It's me. Listen, it's me!

- You're a murderer, Crawford! I know that!
- Doc, it's Max.

- It's Max.
- I know what's going on in this room!

The world will know!

- You silenced them!
- Doc, listen, please!

- Alcyone! Alcyone!
- Listen to me, Doc! It's Max!

Look at me!

Look at me. It's Max..

Max Lewicki, Doc.

Max? How did you..

I'm here, Doc. Okay? You're all right.
You're gonna be just fine.

I've got you. I've got you, Doc, okay?

I've got you.

How did I get here?

What do you mean, Doc? You're home.

No, no, no. I was downtown..

Just.. Just a few minutes ago!

Doc, I.. I think you're confused.

No, no, I'm not, I'm not.

What the hell happened?

Who knows? Answer me!

I don't know. Doc, I just got home.

Daniel?

Kate! Oh, Kate!

Thank God you're all right.

I was so worried about you.

Why? Why did you not meet
me at Millennium Park?

Millennium Park?

I went in the building to find you.
I know you said not to, but then..

But then.. They must have drugged me.

They must have drugged me because
the next thing I knew, I..

I was here. I.. I was home.

Daniel, the last time I saw you was when
I drove you home from the university

after we looked for Wesley's body.

That was two days ago. You remember that?

Yes, I remember that! And then you..

Then you came back that afternoon,

and you gave.. You had that.. The.. The..

This. Here, here. Play it. Play it.

- Doc, it's..
- Just play it!

It's a recording of the
sniper on that disk.

A student..
A student caught it on his cellphone.

And then Probert..

Probert, with his computer trickery..

Put my head on the sniper's body..
Tell him!

Sure, Daniel, let's take a look.

What the hell is this?

It's an FMRI scan.

You wanted me to burn it to a DVD
so you could show it in class.

- Come on, Doc.
- I..

Come on, Doc, let's get you washed up.

- Kate..
- Just go with Max. I'll be right here.

- I didn't..
- It's okay.

I'm not an invalid, Lewicki.
I'm capable of washing myself.

- Doc, I'd rath..
- Give me a little time alone, please.

- I'd rather stay if that's all right.
- Just I'm not gonna hurt myself, okay?

If that's what you're worried about.
Please, just get the hell out.

Some of these are articles Daniel
said his friend Wesley gave him.

Doc's been busy.

Doesn't look like he's left the
house since you dropped him off.

Daniel, you need help.

This is a major escalation.

It's one thing to have
visions of John Kennedy,

but you've spent the entire
weekend in a delusional state.

I must have known

On some level that it wasn't real.

That's.. That's why I made
myself snap out of it.

Bullshit.

You'd still be wandering the
house, talking to the walls,

if Max hadn't come home when he did.

What if he'd left for a week?

What would have happened to you then?

I should have started
taking these weeks ago

when I had the prescription filled, but..

I convinced myself I didn't need them.

It's too late to start this on your own.

You need to go to the hospital.

I do that, they're gonna put me on
something a lot stronger than these.

Maybe that's what you need.

What I need..

Is to be with you.

Trying to keep me around is
what got you into this mess.

For the sake of your sanity..

And everything else that you care about..

You need to let me go.

It'll be all right.

That Wesley guy..

Doc got a letter from him right
before I left, and.. Now he's dead?

Frankly, Max, I'm not even sure
that "Wesley" was a real person.

I spent the weekend tracking down
every Wesley Sumter in North America.

None of them ever attended CLMU or
lived within 200 miles of Chicago.

Excuse me.

Can someone please give me a ride?

Can I help you?

My name is Dr. Daniel Pierce.

I'm a paranoid schizophrenic,
and I need to be admitted.

You're not gonna believe the video
that popped up on the Internet an hour ago.

Roger, I'm not really in the
mood for talking cats right now.

No, no, no. Trust me, you want to see this.

My name is Wesley Sumter.

I've arranged for this video to be
released only in the event of my demise.

If you are watching this, then
I have already been killed.