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Hi honey, it's me,

you know, I've done with my phiscal and I'm back at work.

Doctor said I look good.

Although, I must be getting older.

She said she wants me to start doing an annual mammogram.

Really? You never done one of those?

It's cute.

Getting old is a bitch.

There she is.

I was wondering when you were going to show up.

I'm sorry.

Do I know you?

Of course you do.

You've worked for me for years.

It's me, Manuel.

District Attorney Devalos.

Duck!

You're out of there!

You like office dodge ball?

'Cause I'm picking you for my team.

I pick Allison!

So, what do you think?

Of what?

Of this.

It's the ultimate wish fulfillment.

You're anxious about getting older,

so you dream you're a child again.

No mammogram for you, no colonoscopy for me.

Oh, and check out the hairline.

So, wait.

This is a dream?

And I'm dreaming it just to feel better?

Hey, that's what dreams are for.

To make you feel good.

You know what? You're right.

I think I'd forgotten.

Dreams should be fun.

They should make you feel good.

So this is how you use your gift?

Are you talking to me?

This dream--

it's so... frivolous.

Frivolous?

Well, I don't know.

It does make me feel good.

It is fun.

I mean, that's what dreams are for, right?

To make you feel good?

How can you be so preoccupied with feeling good

when life is so bad?

Wait a second.

Is it?

Is life so bad?

It is for me.

Hey, you, you okay over there?

Huh? Yeah. Yeah. No.

I'm fine. I just... I had a bad dream.

Well, don't worry, dear.

I'm right here beside you.

Not.

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Hi, Joe.

I remember you.

I'm glad that somebody knows who I am.

I am so tired, I got in the car to drive home,

and I actually had to stop

and think for a minute where we lived.

It's not even 5:30.

What are you doing up?

Paying bills.

Had a bad dream.

Couldn't sleep.

Kind of lonely in there.

Well, I'm home now.

For four whole hours almost.

I have to be back at the office by 9:00.

What is with all these crazy hours?

Isn't Keith a one-man band?

Isn't he the guy who doesn't need anybody's help?

Yeah, that was yesterday.

This is today.

Today, I think that the genius may have finally met his match.

Burroughs-Strauss sold the government

a new high-tech drone.

But it doesn't work without a new, lighter fuel.

Unfortunately, this new, lighter fuel

has yet to be invented.

That was supposed to be Keith's job

and so far, Keith has come up empty.

So, now he needs his seven dwarfs.

Well, I can't speak for the other six guys,

but he sure is learning on sleepy here... a lot.

Glad you're here.

Maybe you can make sense of this.

Well, I'll do my best.

But tell me something, there's a coroner's van

full of people sitting out in front of this house.

How about we invite them in to do their work?

It's okay. Let them drink their coffee.

I think you need to see this first.

What a mess.

Tell me about it.

He, they, them-- busted in through that window.

Somehow managed to turn off the burglar alarm.

Then, uh, did whatever it is

they were trying to do in here.

I'm going to need you to put on some fresh booties.

I don't understand, Lee. Where are you taking us?

This all looks pristine.

Are you sure they even came this far into the house?

Pretty sure, yeah.

Help me out here, Lee. What are we looking at?

You're looking at the Prescotts.

Martin, a research chemist.

Irene, stay-at-home mom.

Jason and Emily,

a couple of well-liked honor roll students.

I don't get it.

Why are they just sitting there?

Are they real?

Real dead. Yeah.

What the hell happened here, Lee?

Well, I can only tell you what I know,

and that's not much.

There are injection marks on all of their necks.

We're thinking that the killer or killers

crept in while the family slept and incapacitated them

one by one with some kind of fast-acting poison.

Then he drained their blood.

- Drained their blood? - Then he dressed them

or, uh, redressed them,

and then he posed them here.

Like this.

I'm sorry, you're telling me that there's

four bodies' worth of blood somewhere in this house?

Actually, no. We couldn't find

a single drop of blood in the entire place.

That doesn't make any sense.

Yeah, it does if he took the blood with him.

Hey. Sorry I'm late.

What's going on?

Uh, well, nobody quite knows what to do.

About what? He told us

to meet him in his office at 9:00

- and it's six minutes past 9:00. Come on. Let' - Slow down.

You might want to take a peek inside before you go charging in.

All right, well, I guess we've got to wake him up.

Uh, no, thank you.

I've seen The Hurt Locker.

I know how this ends.

Brian, you're being ridiculous.

Come on. We're under a deadline.

He's under a deadline.

He'd want us to wake him up.

We're talking about Keith here.

This guy was eccentric

before he couldn't turn water into wine.

Now that he's under all this pressure with this fuel project,

he's downright certifiable.

Come on.

You want to go in there and wake him up, go ahead.

Me? I'm staying right here outside the blast zone.

Okay.

Besides, you bring him back to life,

he may want us all to do some actual work.

God forbid.

Joe, that's not what I signed on for.

That's not what any of us signed on for.

Keith, it's 9:00.

Keith?

Hello?

It's time to wake up!

- Yes? - Good morning.

This is your wake-up call.

Wake-up call? What are you...

What are you talking about? I'm not asleep.

I-I'm in the middle of a solution here...

How long have you been sitting there?

Just a couple of minutes.

Uh, don't, uh, take offense,

but you look like hell.

Do you want to just go home, shower up a little bit?

Take a moment.

I can keep things moving along here.

There's, there's, there's no time.

Plus, I'm fine.

I just, I just need to find a clear channel.

Excuse me?

A clear channel.

Look, the brain is an amazing piece of engineering.

It's a freakin' phenomenal synthesis of chemistry and electronics,

and sometimes the chemistry is a little bit off

or the electronics aren't firing correctly,

and I think that that's what's going on right now.

Okay.

'Cause I can,

I can see the solution to this thing.

It's-it's-it's basically just constructing something,

but with fewer molecules.

And I know how to do that,