Flashback

Freddie!

- Hey. - Hey.

Should we go in?

No, no.

No, just let her get some rest.

...temporal lobe where most of the damage took place.

Due to the hematoma

and the CNS pathways being affected,

there's been an onset of Aphasia.

Sorry, it's just, uh...

It's a lot of words now...

really know what any of them mean, so...

I don't think things are ever going back to the way they were.

Some choices need to be made for us to move forward.

Okay.

So, um... I mean how...

How much time does she have, then?

We'll know more in a couple of days.

Is there any hope of her memories returning?

Well, in theory,

every experience we have in our lives

is stored in our brain somewhere.

Identifying patterns in past data

to predict trends in future data

is how all successful organizations make beneficial decisions.

And that's what we do here in data analytics.

Inventory levels, employee break times. It could be anything.

It is all just patterns for us to identify,

quantify and label.

So I see here a bit of schooling in...

Visual Arts?

Yeah, I... That's, um...

Dreams of youth, I guess.

Fred got a new job!

You should tell her about it, Fred.

It's really great.

He's doing really well.

She's not gone, you know, she's still here.

Yeah, no, I know.

- I love you. - I love you too.

Fuck it.

Hello?

- Hel... -

- Hel... -

Come on.

Obey...

Prison...

System...

Language...

Fred...

Cindy?

Don't let me go.

Fucking asshole.

What?

Fred.

Yeah?

What are you doing?

Uh...

Nothing, just...

You know, organizing.

In the middle of the night?

Yeah.

And so our portal-based software

will enable a new level of granular metrics.

Essentially, we need to anticipate our clients' needs

to know what they want before they do.

Now, we to understand how they think before they do.

We need, in effect, to be...

The Art Spirit.

What?

The Art Spirit by Robert Henri.

You borrowed that your senior year

and it was never returned.

Oh, oh. Okay, uh, yeah.

I could see-see what I could do about that.

How do you even remember that?

I remember little Freddie Fitzell.

And, yes, I do remember Cindy Williams,

due to her, well, um, troubles, you know,

attendance and whatnot.

So, I've been having trouble tracking her down.

I haven't been able to find a single trace of her

since graduation.

Well, that figures.

She never turned up

for final exams your graduation year

so she didn't graduate.

She just vanished.

Of course, that was the time

when that awful drug went around the school.

Lost a couple students to it, if I remember.

What was that horrible stuff called?

Uh, Mercury.

It was called Mercury.

I was thinking maybe we could knock down the wall

between the spare room and the closet.

Maybe make a walk-in or a home office.

- - Eventually a baby room?

You know who I saw today?

Who?

Mrs. Shouldice.

Remember, from Fairgate?

Do you believe it, she's still there?

Where'd you see her?

Uh, I went by the school, actually, um...

I don't know, I guess I was feeling nostalgic or something.

What?

Nothing, it's just a little weird.

You wanna choose one?

Sure.

Um...

No, we are not having a purple bathroom.

It says medieval wine.

Why? Goes with the curtains.

We could be like

the couple that matches their bathroom stuff.

Anyone talking during the test will receive an automatic zero.

Anyone getting up from their desk

during the test will receive a zero.

Anyone looking at someone else's paper

will receive a big, fat zero.

Miss Williams?

Are you with us?

Talking. Moving. Looking.

Zero.

If you do not do well on this quiz

it means you have not familiarized yourself with the material.

Which means you will probably fail your final exam,

not graduate high school, not find gainful employment,

which means it will be very difficult for you

to entice the woman of your dreams.

- - Mr. Fitzell, have I connected

D to C to B all the way back to A,

which is where you're sitting, in a way that is sufficient

for you to understand the significance of A?

Yeah.

There's your girl.

You'll have 60 minutes.

And begin...

- now. -

Mr. McDonald, could I go to the bathroom really quick?

When you've finished your test, Mr. Fitzell.

- - Finished!

Hey, man. You got them? Come over here.

Thank you.

- Lobby. -

Lobby...

Language...

...your.

...your.

What?

I'm in... your... lobby.

What the fuck am I doing?

Fred...

It's all right.

Fred, stay with me.

Do you hear me? Stay with me, Fred. Fred.

Fred! Fight! Fred, fight! Get off of him!

Let him go! Fred, fight!

- Fred! - Fred! Don't let me go.

Fred!

Hey.

- You're okay. -

Jesus, what happened?