Proof

Previously, on Proof...

I'm working on something unique.

We can't afford to waste any more resources on this.

- It's not a waste. - What I understand is the bottom line.

You let your employees talk to you like that?

She's my sister.

The scan revealed a mass.

- Cancer has spread. - I'm sorry.

Turing asked me to investigate life after death.

You're not buying into any of this stuff, are you?

I'm looking for a former patient of mine.

She might be wearing a green scarf.

So, no new pictures from the other side?

They told me not to talk to you about that anymore.

Night, Jennie.

Save me some sick people for tomorrow.

I need help, please!

Hey. Here, I'll take him. I'll take him.

- What happened? - I don't know.

One minute he was fine, and then the next he just collapsed!

Get him on a monitor! Oxygen!

Someone get a line in, stat!

Yes, Doctor.

Elevated heart rate, abnormal rhythms.

I thought you should take look.

Has he ever fainted before?

No, never.

Was he light-headed?

Was there any shortness of breath before it happened?

He was feeling dizzy, but I thought it was nerves.

Kyle sometimes gets the jitters before his piano recitals.

Oh, recital, that's exciting.

What song were you gonna play, Kyle?

Chopin's Prelude in E minor.

Wow. When I was your age,

I was still figuring out how to tie my shoes.

You're still not very good at it.

Kyle's a prodigy.

His concerts have gotten thousands of hits on Youtube.

A celebrity.

Mild cyanosis, BP 120 over 70.

Let's get a stat glucose, labs, ECG, and a portable chest X-ray.

That sounds serious.

It's just a precaution to find out exactly what's going on.

We'll know more once we get the results back.

For now, can you be brave for me

and let Dr. Barliss take some blood?

Will it hurt?

No, not at all.

Oh, you mean you. Just a little.

I want you to start with the ECG.

- Is it Ebstein's anomaly? - Excuse me?

You need to check for Ebstein's. That's what wrong with him.

Are you the family physician?

No, I'm not a doctor.

I saw him collapse at the recital.

Well, thank you for your concern. We're running some tests.

Heart rate above 110, shortness of breath,

bluish color on the fingertips?

It's Ebstein's, I know it.

Please, he's gonna need surgery.

You can't risk waiting.

Ebstein's is an extremely rare congenital condition.

What makes you so sure that's what's wrong with him?

Because my son Matthew died of it eight years ago.

I'm sorry you had to go through that.

But, despite the similarities, this boy isn't Matthew.

That's where you're wrong.

I know how it seems...

Strange woman shows up and tells you

that her dead son has come back as another boy.

But I need you to believe me about his illness.

And do what? Open him up and perform open-heart surgery

based on your hunch?

Gonna go through the normal process of testing,

and then I will make a diagnosis.

No, they took time running all kinds of tests on Matthew,

but they didn't find out what was really wrong until it was too late.

And what makes you think this has anything to do with your son?

I discovered a video online of Kyle playing at a recital

- just like Matthew did. - A lot of kids play piano.

Not at that level.

Matthew was a prodigy, too, but it was more than that.

Kyle was playing Chopin's Waltz number 7 in C-sharp minor.

Matthew's favorite.

He closed his eyes and swayed his head

exactly the same way Matthew used to.

And he tripped just slightly on the arpeggiated runs during the coda,

the same place every time.

Most people wouldn't even notice it, but I did...

because Matthew did the same thing.

The similarities were too much to ignore.

So I went to experts...

people who know about this kind of thing,

people who say they're able to communicate with the dead.

I wouldn't exactly call those people experts.

They each confirmed what I felt,

that Matthew had come back to me.

I'm sorry, but those people were just telling you

what they knew you wanted to hear.

No one wants to believe their child is really gone.

You're making connections where there aren't any.

We didn't catch Ebstein's in time for Matthew.

Please don't let that happen to Kyle.

Ivan?

This one has real potential. It's identical twins.

One of them dies, and then the other one is able to see...

Good, good.

Let's follow up with that with our Tokyo investors next week.

Yes, right. Okay.

Hi.

Hi.

I wanted to talk to you

about some of your recent expenditures.

Don't you ever feel like talking about something else?

How about net neutrality?

Do you have an opinion on that?

Or are you neutral on neutrality?

Specifically, your recent donations to Medics International.

Medics International... uh, I don't know.

I-I make a lot of donations to a lot of charities.

It's not the generosity I take issue with.

It's the recent spike.

It's a drop in the bucket.

Sasha, I am sure you have far more important areas

on which to focus your financial expertise.

Is everything all right?

You haven't seemed like yourself lately.

Uh...I picked up a little bug

on my recent trip to the Amazon.

Actually, it was a 3-foot-long parasite. Would you like to hear about it?

I've been going over Kyle's results.

It's a good thing you put in for that specialized echo.

Who knows how long it would have taken us to find the problem without it.

So it is Ebstein's.

It's incredibly rare.

What made you suspect that's what he has?

Well, maybe I'm just that good.

Come on.

That's better than good. How did you know?

Really.

Okay, you really want to know?

A strange woman came up to me in the hall and told me.

- Okay, fine. Don't tell me. - I'm serious.

After I left Kyle's room, this woman approached me.

She believes that Kyle could be the reincarnation of her son,

who died of this same disease.

That's crazy.

Wait a second.

Is the kind of thing you investigate for Ivan Turing?

Can be.

Is that why you ordered the test?

I ordered the test because the symptoms said

that there's a possibility she might be right, whatever the reason.

She was.

A lot of sunshine throughout much of this beautiful...

In my culture, there are those that believe

that there's a finite number of vessels for human souls.

So, when a person dies,

they must wait for a baby to be born

in order to return to life.

Matthew did die 10 months before Kyle was born.

It fits the timeline.

But there's no indication that Kyle has any memory at all of a past life.

Well, maybe it's there, but Kyle isn't aware of it.

There's fascinating research on the manifestation of past lives in children.

Current phobias

possibly born out of past-life tragedies

or special talents present at an unusually early age.

Like Kyle's piano-playing ability?

Exactly.

Some children are even born with identical birthmarks.

Maybe Ebstein's can be seen as its own birthmark,

a congenital defect that persists across lives.

Or perhaps it's just a grieving mother

who's desperately clinging to false hope

that her son is still out there.

Or it could really be her son.

And that would be a lovely thing.

Zed's probably right.

But I do think we should see it through.

Zed, I want you to cross-check Matthew and Kyle's medical charts,

search for any similarities, and, Janel...

Wait, stop the car!

I think that's the woman I asked you to find,

the one who I thought was a patient of mine.

So she is alive?

I've seen her before at the hospital. She had the same flowers.

I saw her in my NDE.

Hi, Kyle. How are you feeling?

I need to listen to your heart, okay?

This might be a little cold.

Can you sit up for me?

Okay, I need you take a big breath in and hold it,

like you're swimming underwater.

Great. You can let it out.

Are you the doctor that's going to cut me open?

Well, where I come from, we like to call it surgery.

And, yes, I will.

Where did you go to school?