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Silas, Silas!
I'm Good. I'm good.
Just got caught on...
Silas?
Come on. Come on.
I got you.
Come on. Come on, come on.
Good. Okay, hey.
Hey, look at me. Look at me.
Silas. Silas, look at me.
Hey, come on, man, you need to snap out, man. It's Willis.
Come on, man. I need you to snap out it.
What's your name? Can you tell me your name?
What's your name, Silas?
Silas, Silas.
Silas?
Where you think you're going?
Marco found buried treasure in the woods.
And if you don't tell, I'll give you some, deal?
And I won't tell mom that you know her phone password.
Whatever.
Hey Alex, what's going on?
Oh, nothin'.
Bet it goes all the way to China.
Like that movie with The Rock
If it was anywhere close to that deep,
there'd be lava everywhere, and we'd be dead.
Well, duh.
So who goes first?
Goes where? Down there?
Yeah. We gotta check it out.
Not afraid, are you?
- I'm at the bottom. - Throw me the flashlight.
Come on, guys. Hurry up.
Well, maybe if you just climb the rope.
Kaine, is that you?
Ellie, do you hear that?
Hear what?
Pull me up. Pull me up!
Pull me up!
Kaine.
Pull me up! Pull me up!
Pull harder, Liam.
Help, help. Pull me up, ah!
It's stuck or something.
I just gotta be one of the guys.
I just gotta play it cool. Can't be distant.
It's the only thing that's gonna stop me from making partner
for those bastards.
Yeah. Looked rough.
Hey, it's not that simple. You know what they'll say?
They'll say that I flirt.
They'll be like, "Look at that body."
Mm-hmm, they'll think that I slept with Abramson.
Me.
Well, sweetheart, maybe you have to pick your poison.
You know, behave in a way
that get you what you want. - I'm sleeping with Abramson.
I know that, Caroline. I know.
Ain't leaving, you have to make a choice.
You don't know.
You don't know because...
- I'm a man. - Because you're a writer.
You know, you don't know business stuff,
'cause you write, and that's okay.
I mean, Hemingway wouldn't know business stuff.
And Hemingway wouldn't be a designated driver.
Well, you're no Hemingway.
And that's a good thing.
Hey.
What?
Hey.
Yeah. What?
How fast do you think we can get rid of Bethany?
Oh, oh.
Um, pretty fast.
Good.
Joseph?
What in...
What's goin' on?
It's Kaine. They say he fell.
What?
In the wood...
How did he fall into the hole?
He didn't fall. He's just stuck.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Kaine, Kaine?
Hi, my name's Bethany.
Are you okay? Does anything hurt?
Can you tell us what happened?
Can you talk?
Oh, Jesus.
Kaine, Kaine?
I got him. Get the rope, help me up!
Hang in there, buddy.
I got you, buddy.
Hang in there, buddy.
I gave him a muscle relaxer
to ensure that he doesn't pull anything
But he is in a coma?
Yes, Ms. Allen-Stern.
But the CAT scans show that his brain is functioning,
which is good, but it's erratic,
and doesn't correlate to any typical cerebral activity.
Dreams?
Unlikely, his cardiac arrhythmia
and slowed breathing aren't particularly uncommon.
But that steady double beat you saw on the monitor,
that is atypical.
What are the odds that he's gonna wake up?
It's hard to say.
Hopefully he will.
Though when, we can't know.
And there is a possibility
that if he does regain consciousness,
he may not be the Kaine you remember.
So what do we do?
Well, we keep him on life support, the IV, the catheter,
and we wait, and see what happens.
Any information regarding
what triggered this would be helpful.
Of course.
Thanks.
I'm so sorry.
I don't know how he,
I guess when I went to the bathroom
- Stop. - He must've.
Okay? It's not your fault.
These things happen.
I can stay if you need help.
No, go ahead and go home and get some rest.
Bye, Bethany.
So when can I see Kaine?
I'm sure that your dad will
be able to...
Come on.
You can go ahead
Help you?
I just need to speak with Marco.
Oh, I said can I help you?
I'm Caroline Allen-Stern.
I'm Kaine's mother. You must be Mr. Bricker?
What's up?
I just wanted to ask Marco some questions.
He's not talking.
Okay, if I could just give you my card then,
and you'll give me a call when he's able to talk then?
I just need some more information.
- Lawyer? - Don't try to put
this on Marco.
He'd never done this by himself.
Yeah. You can't blame Marco.
Derringer girl said your boy went down first.
Look, I just wanna know how your son found the shaft.
Okay, there might be some liability
that we need to look into.
Are you threatening us?
No, I meant liability for the property owner.
Maybe there's trespassing
Look, I'll tell you right now, I don't see myself letting
some lawyer lady drag me to court.
Now if you don't mind, we've had kind of a long night.
- I- - I said if you don't mind,
we've had kind of a long night.
I do hope Marco feels better.
Yours too.
Okay.
Look, it's fine. Nobody comes around.
And what's your name?
Oh, dad's home.
What'd you say?
Dad's finally home.
Hey, Alex.
Hey.
- Hey, sweetie. - Hey.
- Hey, we need to talk. - Hey.
- Yeah. I got your text- - Now!
Can you, or Beth...
Hey, sweet. - Hey.
Okay.
Look, I'm glad that you're praying.
What you should be doing is spending time
with your daughter who's been at home alone.
So when, if Kaine opens his eyes,
I don't want an empty room to be the first thing he sees.
And it's not like you
- I? - Are make...
I have been working. That's what I've been doing.
Well, I don't have to be home to work.
Oh, well, that's great, because when you insisted
on that add-on, which was not cheap, by the way,
you needed a productive workspace,
somewhere where you could be creative.
How much writing have you got done at the hospital?
Look, I know this is hard to talk about,
but the more that we drag this out,
the more it's going to cost us.
I don't care about the costs.
It's not even about the money, Joseph.
I will not give up my son
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