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- -Whoa!
Anybody in there?
Whoa, watch out! It's gonna blow.
Get back, get back!
- Dory? -Yeah.
I haven't heard that name in a while.
We've been playing phone tag.
You need to get that?
Nah, it can wait.
- Are you sure? -Yeah.
More of a conversation I don't care to have right now,
to be honest with you.
Do you remember this place?
Yeah, of course. How could I forget?
I'm surprised you remember this place
after those Mai Tais. They were like 10 Mai Tais?
-It wasn't 10! -I don't know what it was.
I stopped counting after five.
I needed the extra courage for the karaoke.
Oh, yeah, the karaoke!
Your rendition of "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
was absolutely unforgettable!
How many of those would it take
to get you on the stage?
Oh, that number doesn't exist.
-No, that will never happen. -
So what's this really about?
You were passing through town.
-I pass through town all the time. - Yeah.
And this place...
The last time we were here...
Was the night Gina vanished.
Yeah.
Do you ever wish you could go back,
and remember what it felt like between us?
Before that?
Everything changed after that night.
Yeah.
I, um...
I think I need to move on.
This thing with my sister,
it's like this...
big weight pressing down on me.
Everything I do,
I don't go one day, or one hour,
even without feeling it.
It's just not what Gina would've wanted.
I want you to know I have not stopped looking.
No, no. Colter...
I need to say it.
Gina's gone.
And whatever we had, I'm pretty sure that's gone, too.
I know you feel it.
It's just that I can't keep hoping.
I want to stop looking.
No more check-ins.
-Okay. -Because I can't see you without seeing her.
And I know it didn't start off that way.
-I get it. -But...
Do you really?
I said okay, I said, I get it.
I, uh...
You know,
I don't know what more you want me to say.
I did ask someone to look into Gina's disappearance.
-An ex-cop. - Ugh.
Maybe...
Maybe he sees something that I couldn't.
Maybe there's nothing else to see.
We have to live with that.
You did everything you could have.
It's just...
time to move on.
Dory again?
Mmm. It's work.
-Should you take that? -Yeah.
I'll be right back.
Hey, Velma.
Hey, Colter. Sorry to bother you.
No, it's okay. Never a bother.
Well, a job just came in. Another referral.
A graphic designer in San Francisco
is looking for her brother. 15K reward.
Okay.
There is a catch with this one.
Well, there always is.
Her brother isn't missing.
He's dead.
Alicia, we can do this later.
-if now's not a good time. -No.
There is no good time
sitting there day after day, waiting.
But sometimes she comes back,
and she's there for a moment and then she's gone.
Cancer?
Pancreatic.
I'm not sure how to do this.
Your brother Lucas
died in a car crash nine months ago, right?
Yes.
Well, that's what I thought.
He rolled a stop sign,
gas truck hit him, car exploded.
By the time the fire department arrived,
there wasn't much left.
And it was just one of those freak things
is what they told me.
What makes you think your brother is still alive?
Two days ago, I was here with my mom,
and I had to step out for a meeting.
I was only gone for two hours.
But when I came back,
my mom told me... she'd seen Lucas.
I know what you're gonna say.
It was the morphine,
and she was seeing things. But it's not that.
She told me that Lucas came to say goodbye.
He told her he loved her,
and left this.
I'm gonna need more context, um...
Whenever we were sad or hurt or down as kids,
my mother would take us to the corner store,
and buy us a peanut butter cup to share.
She'd tell us how it was
the strongest medicine in the world.
Sometimes, people see what they want to see.
Yeah. My mother was lucid.
She was sure she saw him.
Anyone else see him?
Yeah, a nurse said it was some guy
with a baseball cap pulled over his face.
She didn't get a good look at him,
but that there was someone here
who just signed the guest registry.
Lou Reed,
my mom's favorite musician.
Look,
here's an old birthday card. It's the same handwriting.
It is similar.
Is there any reason why someone would want you
to think your brother was still alive?
Or maybe, uh,
take advantage of your mother?
No, not that I can think of.
We were just a boring family.
My brother was an average guy
working in a computer repair shop,
saving up for grad school.
I mean, it's not impossible
he didn't die in that accident, right?
They identified the body.
Yes,
but there wasn't much left after they put out the fire.
I know it doesn't make any sense,
but my gut says there's something here,
and I have the money to pay you.
I'll look into it.
Thank you.
Looking for ghosts now, are we?
Maybe.
She lost her brother, she's about ready to lose her mother.
People grieve in different ways.
So what are we looking for exactly?
All I know is somebody visited the hospital.
And she immediately jumps to dead brother?
Signed in under a fake name.
I took a look at the handwriting. It is similar.
We've had less to go on, right?
You're telling me?
Just wanna give her some answers,
even if it's not what she wants to hear.
Okay, so,
was there any video footage
from the security cameras at the hospital?
No, there's no footage of this visitor coming or going,
and there's no cameras at the nurse's station.
And we're sure someone was there?
Just look into it, will you? See what Lucas was into?
Maybe there's some answers there.
Or maybe he's just dead.
Maybe.
His sister said he was coming from work
at the time of the accident.
Yeah, I'm looking into it now.
The place is called Big Byte Computer Repair.
Hmm.
That's sus.
You know something about computer repair stores that look like a front?
A little bit.
It looks like the place was broken into two days ago.
At the same time Lucas supposedly visited the hospital.
I'll look into it.
Good luck, Ghostbuster.
I'll just keep snooping on my end.
Are you with the alarm company?
-No. -Bummer.
I've been waiting all day.
Sorry, we're not taking any more repairs today.
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