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Hello?

Oh, hello. Is that Thomas Chadwick?

Yep.

Hello. This is Brian.

Hi, Pete.

I'm calling-- you did--

You know what gave it away

was that you just sounded like yourself.

You didn't even put on a voice.

I did. I was doing a voice.

I was doing my insurance person voice.

Anyway, how are you?

- I'm really great! - Are you in America?

Is it hot and sunny? Are there girls in bikinis?

- Have you got a suntan yet? - Kinda.

Oh, lucky sod.

Anyway, I've got your mail here.

Oh, that's great. Thanks.

- Do you want me to go through it? - Uh...

Crap, crap,

fast food, crap,

bollocks.

Oh, Clancy Lorimer Insurers?

Ooh. Open that one.

All right.

Here we go.

Here we go. Here we go.

"Dear Mr. Chadwick..." duh duh duh duh duh.

"We are pleased to inform you

that you have been selected to interview

for the position of crash analyst

in our crash investigation department."

Get in!

Get in, my beauty.

That's great! When is it?

Uh, it's a week after you get back.

Bring that letter with you when you get in.

- Yeah, all right. - When do you get in?

I'm flying into LA on the Thursday

and I'm getting in about 10:00.

Okay, great.

Flying into LA.

All right, then?

Are you there?

- Tom? - Let's do this.

Pete: Tom? Are you there?

Tom?

Hello.

Oh.

Okay.

- Morning, Tom. - Hey.

- How'd you sleep? - Great. I slept great.

Good.

I was doing a little rummaging around the attic

and look what I found.

Tom: Oh, it's Charles.

Yeah, your great-great-grandfather.

- That's so great. - In a different uniform.

- It is? - Yeah.

Oh, yeah. It's a little lighter.

He's wearing the Confederacy uniform.

That's the uniform for the other side.

- Oh, that's not the same uniform? - No. No, no, no.

- Oh, that's interesting. - Yeah, isn't it?

You're sure it's not--?

Maybe they just had different uniforms--

No, no, no. Rebel cap, Rebel uniform.

That's what it is.

- Button missing, too, here. - Yeah.

He's bad at needlework.

Maybe.

Maybe.

- Al: Fascinating. - Tom: It's a mystery is what it is.

Somebody here thinks it's a coincidence

that he lost one button from each jacket?

- That part is interesting. - And then found them later?

Are these the actual buttons?

- Those are the buttons. - Oh, my God, those are so pretty.

Well, that's why they're not on there, 'cause you guys have them.

I've got another theory.

He left two days after Lincoln was shot.

How nice would it be to have

two different uniforms to pass freely?

I'm sorry, Al. You think he's a double agent?

Al: Maybe triple.

David, why don't you have a look at this?

Well, I don't know much

about the historical part of the war itself,

but I do know that obviously he's a man in the Confederacy.

And the thing I see

more than anything else that I noticed,

'cause I'm not a uniform expert, is I look at his hands.

We used to call this gnarly hands.

- Gnarly-- - Gnarly hands, yeah.

This is from fear-- from fear of being in battle.

When you're fighting, your hands get all

kind of rigor mortized like that.

And, you know, in the old days,

they'd say, "Hey, gnarly hands!"

Across the street they'd yell at him.

And he was-- that was embarrassing.

But it's for a good cause,

because look-- he has no ill will.

He's a nice-looking boy. He's our relative.

I have heard the term "gnarly hands" before.

I actually have a friend that is--

well, I'm into this a little bit.

A bit of a passion of mine is Civil War reenactment.

- He's really good at it. - And really fun to do.

You're living, you know, history.

How does he have access to the opponent's uniform?

Let me talk to my buddy.

I've got to drop Julie off at her spinning class.

- If the hands comes up, great. - Okay.

But it would be great to know

why he's wearing either of the things.

- Can I see that one, Dave? - I can promise you there's a reason.

- Man: There they are. - Harvey, good to see you again.

- Good to see you, pal. - This is Tom.

- Tom! - That's right.

Nice to meet you. Come on in.

- Thanks very much. - I love the cannon.

Thanks. I just got it.

It's an 1861 Napoleon.

Come on in, guys. Have a seat.

I'm telling you, Harvey, that cannon looks brand-new.

- Is that a new coat of paint? - It is.

- Doesn't it look good? - God, it looks great.

And I got new 12-pounders for it, too.

- Oh, those 12-pounders fire off. - Yeah.

- Rick: When's the last time you fired it? - Once a weekend.

- Yeah. - In the morning, early. Annoy the neighbors.

- Tom: Yeah. - Rick: That's great.

Neighbors are the worst.

You are not gonna believe the stuff that Tom has to show you.

- This stuff's incredible. - So this is a picture

of my great-great-grandfather Charles Chadwick.

All right, this is Charles Chadwick, huh?

Okay. I see. A Union man. Good.

But here is also a picture

of my great-great-grandfather Charles Chadwick.

Well, that's very interesting.

Okay. Wow.

And some buttons.

Really?

Now, I see he's missing a button on each uniform.

Yeah.

Yeah, there we go-- Confederate and Union.

I want to look something up.

I-- I'm privy to an online site

- that a lot of people don't get to see. - Oh, cool.

- They're almost like official war documents. - Do they look like normal--

No, they don't look like anything you'd see,

so it's kind of a waste of time.

Even taking a peek, it'd be all spaghetti and mushrooms to you.

Let me do the grunt work here.

Charles Chadwick-- there it is.

Union-- Union soldier. Unlisted, yep.

And there, sure enough, Confederate.

- Charles Chadwick. - Whoa.

Yeah, both sides.

Oh, wow, wow.

Oh. Look at this.

Okay, so, he fought for the Union side

and the Confederate side,

both in the same battle--

the Battle of Huntersville.

That's not even poss-- but how would you do that?

Yeah, what do you do? Excuse yourself to go change?

- I mean... - I'm just gonna throw this out there.

- Yeah. - What if he was a spy?

A spy? But for who?

You tell me. Your machine.

Well, I'll do what I can. I'll put--

- Put it in. - Oh, you know what I'm getting?

And I've never gotten this.

- I got a question mark. - What does that mean?

It doesn't know. It's never seen this before.

- You've jammed the whole system with this. - I'm getting synonyms.

I'm getting traitor, deserter, coward.

Okay. Don't bother. Don't worry.

You know what? Let me dig into this.

We've got a reenactment coming up this weekend.

- Rick, what do you think? - Yeah, Tom, you gotta do one of these.

- That would be great. - Rick: This is the real thing.

- You're welcome to come if you'd like. - I would love that. Thank you.

If you do that, then I'll show up with some information and--

'cause I'll tell you, where there's smoke, there's fire.