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Hey, Jake. What's up?
What? When? How?
So, who told you?
Mm. Mm.
Well, I'm sure you can handle it.
Call me when you get down there.
Okay, sure thing. Bye.
What's happening with your brother?
Oh, nothing. My dad died.
Jason. What happened?
Well, these... these people
that knew him from the apartment complex he lives in,
they hadn't seen him for a few days,
so they... they called the super
who called the Tampa PD,
and they went in and found him on the kitchen floor.
He hadn't moved in some time, it was...
Oh...
heart attack or something.
Jake's on his way down right now.
Hey, baby, I'm so sorry.
Yeah.
I feel like I want scrambled eggs.
You want some eggs?
Izzy called. Jason...
I know. Anything I can do.
Oh, it's okay. Anything at all.
- Thanks. - Hey, man.
Hey. It's tough.
Anything I can do for you?
No, it's all right. Will there be a service?
You know, my brother's taking care of all that.
How you doing? I'm good.
If there's anything I can do... You know what? Thank you.
I appreciate it. I really do.
Uh, I think the best thing for me right now is...
just to get to work.
All right, then. Sure.
Oh, there was a delivery. Uh, came this morning.
It's on your desk.
Thanks.
Get out of the way!
Move!
Hey, I'm sorry, uh...
this may sound like a strange question, but, uh,
where are we?
You're in Brooklyn.
This is Park Slope.
What time is it?
It's, uh, quarter to 3:00.
That's not possible.
Oh, I was just in my office and-and it was...
Um, can I, can I borrow your phone?
'Cause I-I don't have mine.
Yeah, I-I don't... I don't think so.
Come on.
All right.
Jason?
Nate.
Why are you lurking outside my door?
I was looking for you.
You haven't been around since you finished your doctorate.
I assumed you'd forgotten about me, as students do.
Forget the best teacher I ever had? I don't think so.
Save the flattery for someone young enough to believe it.
I trained you to be a clinician, Jason.
To treat patients.
You abandoned psychology, to do what...
fix parking tickets?
Trial analysis.
Same difference.
Well, we can agree to disagree.
I have a problem.
I've lost five hours.
Lost. You have no memory of them?
I was in my office. It was morning.
And the next thing,
it was afternoon and I was here.
And I have no consciousness
of the intervening hours or what I did.
Any signs of a recent head injury,
concussion, nausea, headache?
No.
On any medication?
I'm barely on Scotch these days.
Well, by all means, see many doctors
and have lots of expensive tests,
but I suspect it's an episode
of transient global amnesia.
Do you have a history of heart disease?
Yes.
That makes it more likely.
It's usually brought on by stress
or very strenuous activity.
Any stress recently?
My father died.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, we weren't that close, and I don't think that's...
a big enough event to cause an episode like this.
The thing is, I was...
in my office and I was looking at something.
But I can't remember what it was.
Some short-term memory loss is to be expected.
You'll figure it out. Nice to see you, Jason.
Nate, something provoked this,
something important, and I can't put my finger on it. I...
I'd really like to talk to you about this.
I haven't worked with patients in a very long time.
You'll have no trouble finding someone to talk to.
It's Brooklyn, you can't throw a stick
without hitting a therapist.
You used to say it's not the crisis
that defines the patient,
but their response to it.
I lost my memory,
and I ended up a block from your apartment.
I don't think that's an accident.
Please.
You're interrupting a very full morning of doing nothing.
Come in.
I did actually get a parking ticket recently.
I can't help you with that.
Well, this place hasn't changed, has it?
Same books, same furniture.
And this rug.
Have you ever had this rug cleaned?
If I'd known you were coming, I would have called a decorator.
Tissue box is empty.
Then I guess you can't cry.
Jason, procrastination is a form
of passive-aggressive resistance.
So cut the crap and sit down, will you?
I'd forgotten how cuddly you aren't.
You want a cuddle? There's a pillow.
Your father died. Let's start there.
Tell me about him.
Whip-smart, fast talker.
Never delivered on a promise.
You weren't close.
He left the family when I was a teenager.
I decided at that time that
I would have nothing to do with him.
And in 30 years,
I haven't found any reason to change my mind.
You never tried to reconnect, make peace?
In the end, I never saw the point.
It's not like he was gonna change.
Apologize.
Jake got along with him,
'cause they're made the same.
Your brother, where is he now?
He is down in Florida,
arranging things.
And, uh, I'm happy to let him do that, I've...
I'll pay for the funeral.
And that will be the only thing
my father gets from me.
Can we talk about something else?
You have a family now?
I do.
A daughter and a wife.
Any stress there recently?
You could say that.
Jason!
Where's Astrid? I don't know.
No, no, no. What's going on?
He took her. He had a gun.
Had a gun. Who? Who took her?
Where's my daughter?
You didn't hear about this? It was in the news.
Must have missed it.
I can't imagine how horrible that must have felt.
Weirdly, it didn't
feel like anything, really.
It was an out-of-body experience.
I was floating up near the ceiling,
looking down on myself.
And Izzy.
What did the police say when you called them?
We didn't call the police.
Do you have the money?
Yes, I have the money.
The million dollars, just like you asked for.
Tell me where to go.
You'll receive further instructions
once you're on the road.
Remember, no police.
I don't like this.
I don't like you going out there alone.
Danny's following me, Taylor's got trackers
on my watch, Taylor is one person.
On my phone. I want an army.
I want helicopters in the sky. We can't do that.
We don't want to tip them off.
If we panic, they panic. We stick to the plan.
There is no plan. Jason, there's no plan.
I went along with this because I thought your team
would figure out who took Astrid and have
some kind of special insight in getting her back,
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