Black Box

Previously on "Black Box"...

Okay. Not that I'm obsessed with him.

Oh, my God!

It's a closed-circuit infrared 400,000-CCD-pixel resolution.

I have known Reynaud since I interned under him.

He had an undiagnosed brain tumor.

I want your advice.

Yes, you have the surgery.

- You remove as much of the... - What if I don't want to live?

No, buy as much time as you can,

and then you spend it with your son.

You repair what is broken between you.

Peter?

Dad?

Daddy?

Ralphie's dead.

Ohh, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry, bubele.

Shall we say kaddish for him, huh?

What's a "cad dish"?

Kaddish is a sacred prayer for the dead

that will send Ralphie to a blessed life in Olam Ha-Ba where Hashem will welcome him.

Please don't talk gibberish to our son, Jacob.

Sweetie, ralphie died 'cause fish don't live as long as people do.

We'll get you another one, okay?

- Tie your shoes. - I want... I want Ralphie.

Well, we'll get you a better one.

What is your problem?

All he needed was a hug.

You're late for the partner's meeting.

Your shoes are polished, Mr. Myers.

I ironed your blue sea island cotton shirt.

Cufflink choices are here.

Thank you, Rosalinda.

Yesterday, I noticed you didn't eat your strawberries...

I-I don't really like them.

So, today, I put in bananas and peanut butter, okay?

You got to promise to eat it.

Daddy?

Mr. Myers?

Bezeh hammaqom tehi b'rakhah v'shalom.

That means, "may this home be filled with the blessing of joy and peace."

Rosalinda...

For your kindness and hard work over so many years...

The penthouse is yours.

Mommy!

Daddy just gave away our house!

Oh, really? Did he? Who'd he give it to?

Shalom.

So, I got assigned Rautavaara's "Piano Sonata No. 2"...

- You know, "The Fire Sermon"? - Yeah, it's wonderful.

Sounds like a piece of cake for you.

Are you kidding me?

- It's the hardest in the canon. - We'll get together later.

Who's that?

That's Miles.

He's a junior.

He studies guitar and composition,

and he deejays in Chinatown on the weekends.

He's cute.

Yeah, he's okay.

Oh, my God. He's looking over here.

What's wrong with him looking at you?

I don't want him to see me in this.

This outfit is stupid.

You'll freeze to death. Here.

No.

Easy. We'll swap.

Oh, my God! This is Helmut Lang.

- Are you sure? - Uh-huh.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Dripping with edge.

- You know you're never gonna get it back, right? - Fine.

I'm gonna rock this forever 16 jacket forever.

You know you're cooler than any guy, right?

Let him know that.

- I love you. - I love you.

Bye.

Yeah, now would be good. Thanks.

So, Tracy, how long has this been going on?

Three weeks, and it's getting worse every day.

All he talks about is God, God, God.

This morning, he gave away our house and $12 million.

Gone.

Oh, you remember that?

That's the shelter you helped fund in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake.

You know, they're still housing 30 homeless people a day

thanks to your generosity.

Adonai machasi u'metzudati.

Come on, man. You know I don't speak Hebrew.

"The lord is my refuge and my fortress"... Psalm 91.

Well, I doubt all those homeless kids feel the same way, Jacob.

"He that dwelleth in the shelter of the most high

will rest in the shadow of the almighty."

- Hey, what's up? - Oh, hey, come in.

This is Dr. Black.

Tracy and Jacob Myers. They're very good friends.

- Hello. Lovely to meet you. - Hello.

Dr. Black is our star brainiac here at the Cube.

Oh.

"May the source of strength who blessed the ones before us

help us find the courage to make our lives a blessing."

So, Jacob's experienced a sudden spiritual conversion.

He's bonkers.

We've always been bad Jews.

I can count on one hand the times we've gone to temple.

All of a sudden...

I'm enlightened.

Beautiful office.

I think we need a full neurological work-up.

I'm happy to help.

Would you like to come to my office?

You can tell me all about it.

- Thank you. Thank you so much. - It's okay.

- Oh. - What are you doing?

- The Myers are philanthropists... - I'm just standing here.

- You're standing in the hallway. - And they've just recently joined the board at the Cube,

- so make sure they get VIP treatment. - You worry too much.

All our patients get VIP treatment, Bick.

God is blessed.

- Hello, Arthur. - Ah. Owen.

I heard you were here getting your second cycle of temozolomide.

Yes. Yes, I finished my last fraction of radiation one month ago.

And look at you. You look terrific.

Well, uh...

The therapy is working beautifully.

Uh... the last brain scan showed... no tumor enhancement.

- That's wonderful, news. - Mm-hmm.

- Now, is there any dizziness, fatigue, - No.

Weakness... seizure activity?

No to all three. I feel like a new man.

And if I, uh, may ask, h-how's the, uh, reconciliation going?

My son, Peter, he's forgiven me.

I plan to use every day I've got left to make up for the ones I wasn't here.

Okay, now, as a fellow doctor, you'll be interested in this.

We have a new medication that we can add to your treatment regimen.

What is it?

It's experimental. Valganciclovir.

The antiviral?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

A team of researchers in Sweden gave it to a small group of glioblastoma patients,

and they lived a remarkably long time.

- Yeah, h-how long? - More than two years.

Yeah. That's twice as long as the patients that didn't receive it.

Two years? What I...

What I could do with that time.

I was hoping for a good six months.

Shall I arrange it?

Oh, sign me up!

I'm gonna fight this thing with everything I've got.

Look.

- My grandson. - Mm.

He was three last week.

How's that for a reason to live?

Give me that.

Can you look at me, please, Mr. Myers?

Uh, please, call me Jacob...

Descendant of our tribe's forefather of the Israelites.

Or, for short, the Messiah.

So, just for the sake of clarity...

You are the Messiah?

I am chosen by Hashem,

who calls on me to walk with angels.

The only thing you should walk with is our dog,

which you haven't done once since this started.

You have any headaches recently?

No, I've never felt better.

And does God talk to you?

If you're asking do I hear voices, no, I'm not crazy.

But God and I have an understanding.

I see.

Uh, how long has this been going on?

Ever since we got back from vacation.

It was not a vacation. It was an aliyah.

That's a pilgrimage to Israel.

Where did you visit when you were in Israel?

We shopped in Tel Aviv. We swam in the dead sea.

It was wonderful. They have spa treatments there.

- Then we went to the wailing wall... - Oh!

- Where... this one went bananas. - I-I mean, I was brought to my knees.

- And I was moved to tears. - He was on his knees.

- B-being there, praying there... - It was very scary, actually.

That is as close to heaven as I've ever felt.

It changed me forever.

Jerusalem syndrome?

Mm, it's been around since ancient times.

Apparently, people go to these holy sites,

like the wailing wall,

and they start relinquishing possessions,

- wearing togas, sermonizing. - Yeah, but it's... It's temporary.

And they usually recover in a couple of days.

Yeah, but this has been going on for three weeks with this guy.

Tracy said it's getting worse every day.

He's such a show-off.

You're eating doughnuts for lunch?

Whatever, corn chip man. You got a problem with that?

No, but...

It's kind of low rent in the era of the cronut.

"Cronuts"? What's a cronut?