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[Jordan] Previously:

Cooper is trying for a clinical trial
which might cure his son's MS.

- Do you even want to be in this trial?
- No.

You involve yourself with my family,
I'm going to get involved with yours.

I want to be emancipated.

"You don't mess around with Jim."
Going against the visions? It's risky.

[Nate] Let me see
if I've got this right.

It sounds like there are
two Jim Coopers,

the one you were stalking

- to retain as a client...
- I never stalked.

...and the Jim Cooper who you're now
making a mortal enemy of.

And Jordan's OK with this?

I wouldn't say that, but...

...I wouldn't call Cooper an enemy.

Really? Let's see, you got a court
to greenlight his clinical trial,

and this week, you're helping his
son emancipate. From him.

That guy's not sending you
a Christmas card anytime soon.

I wouldn't expect one
from him either, if I were you.

What? He said something about me?

No, he just kind of
threatened to have you fired,

but he was just blowing off steam.

So getting me fired... this is what,
your idea of a birthday present?

I would never ruin your birthday
or birthday golf.

Can we please not call it
"birthday golf?" It makes me feel six.

By the way,
it is something to worry about.

My hospital, the place where I work...

Half the buildings
there are named after Jim Cooper.

My case has got nothing to do with you.

What? Eli, are you OK?
You seem a little...

You seem a little drunk.

Eli! Eli!

[girl] Wake up!

Mr. Stone, are you OK?

Where am I?

Maybe we should
narrow it down to a planet.

Nate! Come help your dad.

You couldn't lay off the liquor
for one night?

- Nate?
- You're ruining my party.

- It's your birthday?
- Dad, your breath.

Eli, go make some coffee!

Eli?

This is why I didn't want
the party at the house.

You promised this wasn't gonna happen.

Hello, Dad!

- We better get you checked out.
- I'm just a little freaked out.

I was Dad.

It's gonna take me
a minute to recover.

Let's hope you don't
get his hangover.

I remember that birthday.
He ruined it.

It's not like he ruined it on purpose.

No, my 10th and 11th birthdays,
those he ruined on purpose.

- Why are you defending him?
- I'm not.

And your duties as favorite son ended
about ten years ago, you know?

- Someone's still holding a grudge.
- It's my birthday. I'm entitled.

[Jordan] Are you insane?

Because you're not going to represent
Jim Cooper's son. I forbid it.

Are we still doing that?
I mean, we're partners now.

Do we get to forbid?

You look like
your aneurysm's gonna burst.

Might have to do with the fact I've been
getting calls from Cooper all week.

Every time he calls, I assure him
that this nonsense is over.

He's making this kid's life miserable.

That's not our concern.
We're partners now, Eli.

Our fates are intertwined.

If Cooper hears you uttered
one word to his son,

he'll not only leave the firm,
he'll let every client know he left

because his attorneys
meddled in his personal life,

and this firm will be
done before it even started.

What do you want me to do?

When he comes in, you shake his hand,

look appropriately humble,
and apologize to the man.

We're dropping this.

Humbler.

All right, let's get this over with.

[sighs]

Mr. Cooper...

I'm sorry if I have
somehow offended you.

"Somehow?"

You should know that we share the same
primary concern: your son's welfare.

You should know
you understand nothing about that.

- I think what Eli's trying to say...
- I don't care. You work for me.

Do I now?

I can make sure the rest of your career
is spent taking court-appointed cases

- at 75 dollars a pop.
- I'm sure you don't mean...

I've got it within my power
to end your venture

before it even gets off the ground,
and if you want to prevent that

you will not only remove
Mr. Stone from my sight,

you'll remove him from the firm.

Any questions?

Just one.

Do you remember your way
back to the elevator?

This is my office. My firm. My building.

I will not be spoken to like that
within its walls.

The only Cooper we will be
representing is your son.

You'll hear from my
new attorney later today.

What happened to "intertwined fates?"

I didn't enjoy his tone.

- We have to talk.
- OK.

Not here.

OK. You're a little bit crazy.
You know this.

You know what's going on?
Everyone's whispering

- behind closed doors.
- You're doing it without the door.

Someone from here
plugged the leak at Wethersby.

- They're looking for the snitch.
- "The snitch?"

- I bet it was Jimmy Cagney.
- This is serious.

Our loyalty is being questioned
because we have friends there.

- [cell phone rings]
- You're being a little paranoid.

Hello?

Yes, she is.

Of course.

That was Posner.
He wants to see us in his office.

Both of us. Suddenly?
We're not working on anything together.

Why does he need
to meet with both of us?

Maybe "a little paranoid" is warranted.

Scale of one to ten,
how scary is your Dad?

- Nine.
- Eleven.

That averages out to a ten.

This is just a sit-down
with his new lawyer.

Emancipation is pretty straightforward.
There shouldn't be any surprises.

Hey, sweetie.
How's your day going so far?

When I called and said
"what's lunch look like,"

you didn't think this
was worth bringing up?

Can't believe
you're representing this guy.

A philanthropist committed
to changing the world?

I know, it's almost hard to fathom.

Perhaps if we could hear
exactly what J.J.'s looking for?

Your new client has already heard.

We want him to agree J.J. will not
be forced into his clinical trial,

J.J. will be permitted to stay at his
girlfriend's home until...

His emancipation plan
is shack up with his girlfriend?

Emancipation requires
that J.J. proves he can support himself.

His mother left him
close to 100,000 dollars

- and title to various real estate.
- If J.J.'s MS flares up,

that money's
gone in a year without insurance.

Enough.

All right, J.J., you despise me.
Noted.

Now say goodbye to your new
friends and let's go home.

Please advise your client
to address counsel.

The clinical trial, the swimming,
we'll talk about it at home.

I know what that means.
You talk, I listen.

It's a disease, Dad.

There's nothing you can do about it,

no matter how closely
you manage my life.

We're not doing this in front of people.

- You're coming home with me.
- That's going to be up to a judge.

So... you guys still validate?

- Hey.
- Hey.

- Something I can help you with?
- Do we have new stationery, yet?

I'm using the old WPK stuff.
I just cross out the P and K.

- That's not really professional...
- Hey! There's Angie!

- Angie!
- Perfect.

Eli! I was hoping I'd see you.

What's up?

What's up, doc?

- I never get tired of saying that.
- It never gets old.

You'd think it would,
after 40 or 50 times.

I know. Hey Keith,
you met Patti's daughter?

Actually, we...

Oh! So, you do remember me?

I thought you might have
bumped your head, got amnesia

- and forgot my number.
- I didn't realize you knew each other.

Turns out, we don't.

I thought Keith was a brother
who knew a thing or two

about follow-through.
But that's not him at all.

I've been meaning to call.
I've been swamped here.

It's true. He was just telling me
about his stationery crisis.

There you are.
No stealing my lunch date.

Wouldn't dare. Good seeing you again.

Before I forget, Dr. Melvoy called...

Is he ready to testify?

...from St. Thomas.
He's on vacation for a month.

He's like the third expert
to fly the coop...

More like the “Cooper.”

You mess with the bull, Eli,
you get the horns.

If I don't find someone
with "MD" after their name to testify

J.J. can live on his own,
he has to go back to Daddy Dearest.

If you can wait three more years,
you can have this one.

Pregnancy agrees with you.

Send out an office-wide email,
why don't you?

You haven't told Mr. Dowd yet,
I'm guessing.

Matt thinks my morning sickness
is food poisoning.

He keeps threatening
restaurants with lawsuits.

If only there were
an alternative to lying

to the father of your unborn child...

- You have to tell him sometime.
- I'm just waiting for the right time.

And that would be when?
When he notices your baby bump?

All right, fine. Don't listen
to your father, listen to your boss.

You're litigating a high-stakes,
high-profile case.

My pregnancy is not affecting my work.
To even bring it up is actionable.

It's the fact that you're concealing it

from the father of the baby
who happens to be opposing counsel.

- Which is irrelevant.
- You know it's not.

I need you at a 110 percent.

When you walk into court
and see Mr. Dowd,

can you honestly tell me
you won't be wondering,

"Does he know? Should I tell him?"

No.

It's not fair to the client,
not fair to the firm...

...and yes, this is
your father speaking again,

it's not fair to Mr. Dowd. To Matt.

You're right.

I'll tell him this afternoon.

[Matt] We knew it would happen.

Just a matter of time before we
went up against our ex-coworkers.

- Matt...
- Granted, it's Taylor and Eli,

but we know them intimately...
Half intimately.

- Did you and Stone ever...?
- I have to tell you...

- I plugged the leak.
- Is that a euphemism?

Last week...

I gave Eli the name of the guy who was
spilling that inside info to our firm.

- Idiot!
- It was the right thing to do.

No, not you. Me.

I thought Posner gave
us this case as a vote of confidence.

He gave it to us as a test.
Of our loyalty.

Well, I told you they were...

What?

What is she doing here?

Look, we win the case,
we pass the test. Simple.

[Matt] Hey, you.

Hey.

You don't wanna be
seen kissing the enemy?

What? No. What are you doing here?

I brought you some discovery.
J.J.'s school records.

Things must be tight if you guys
are cutting back on courier service now.

I thought maybe we could talk.

Like about how you
talked some sense into your client?

- Excuse me?
- Come on, Taylor.

This is a grudge match
between your father and Cooper.

The kid's 16 and he's sick. He's
got no business trying to emancipate.

Right, because it couldn't
possibly be that the father

is a controlling bully who treats his
son like a damaged piece of furniture.

Are you kidding me? The guy built
a whole laboratory downtown

for the sole purpose of finding a cure.

When I'm a dad, I hope
I'm that kind of a bully.

You know what? You're right.

I should have sent a courier.

[Eli] I need something from you.

Imagine my surprise. It's not like you
ever stop by just to say "Hi."

You're supposed to be my medical
expert in the J.J. Cooper case.

You were going to keep me out of this.

- This case had nothing to do with me.
- I might've been wrong about that.

My vision the other day...

How happy do you think
my hospital is with me right now?

I'm the guy who helped you sue the
hospital and the chairman of the board.

And you were right both times.

You're changing people's lives.

At the expense of my own.

My vision the other day...
I was at your 12th birthday as Dad.

J.J. is suing his dad.

I'm not sure bringing Dad into this
is the way you wanna go here.

You know how this works.
I wouldn't ask unless I believed

that someone was asking me to.

[Nate] According to his medical records,
J.J. is asymptomatic.

Which in layman's terms means?

That he hasn't had an MS episode
since the one that led to his diagnosis.

And more importantly,
his MRIs continue to show

no significant lesions
along his spinal cord or brain stem.

[Taylor] And if he develops symptoms?

[Nate] Odds are they would be minor.
Tremors, fatigue...

MS is a progressive disease.

That's what these MRIs track,
the progress of the disease.

Fortunately, J.J.'s MRIs seem
to indicate that it's very slow.

What does that mean in terms of his
petition to become an emancipated minor?

Medically, it's irrelevant. There are
400,000 Americans living with MS.

And management of the disease is the
same whether you're 16 or 60.

Except a 60 year-old can drive,
vote, drink, join the Army...

We'll stipulate there are differences
between minors and adults.

It's why we're all here.

Motor dysfunction, paralysis.
Aren't those symptoms

that can get worse without remission?

Yeah, but J.J. has yet
to show signs of those symptoms.

You're basing that
on a thorough examination?

I've reviewed his records. Extensively.

Well, he's got doctors
who've actually examined him...

...extensively.

Out of curiosity, why do you
suppose J.J.'s own doctors

say he's definitively better off
under his father's care?

Even at the best hospitals,
money buys influence.

Doctors tend to tell Jim Cooper
what Jim Cooper wants to hear.

Objection. Assuming facts not in
evidence and generally paranoid.

- Sustained.
- Let me ask you directly,

Is it possible that J.J. could suffer

an MS flare-up tomorrow
that could so disable him,

- he couldn't care for himself?
- It's not likely.

I asked if it was possible.

Anything is possible.

Maybe that's why the law generally
favors kids staying with their parents.

Keith, you have a minute?

I really need to file a motion.

I'm really not one to interfere
in my daughter's personal life.

Depends on whether you consider
threatening to shank me

- with a butter knife "interfering."
- Fair enough.

But you did take her to dinner
and there was no butter knife shanking.

I was happy about that.

I've gotta do that thing
with the motion.

Uh...

Why haven't you called my daughter?

I've just been so slammed...

Tell me the truth.

Really. I've just been slammed.

But I'll call her.

I will.

[Patti] Eli, can we talk?

Is it something that can wait

until after Matt and Maggie
kick my ass in court?

Not really. It's about Angela.

- Is she OK?
- She's fine.

But I was talking to Keith about her
and I think he's hiding something.

- You know I'm half psychic.
- Yeah? Which half?

What?

I said, which half of you is psychic?

- Eli, have you been drinking?
- Come on.

I'm going to get you some aspirin.
Drink some water.

Drink the water!

[Eli] Daddy.

Dad, wake up.

Uh... What happened?

You were trying to read me something in
your book and then you passed out.

Um...
Hold on.

What's going on? Where's the cake?

The... The cake?

You were supposed to
pick up the birthday cake.

Perfect. First, you scare
the crap out of my friends

by passing out,
and now you forget the cake?

There's still time.
He can still get a cake. Right Dad?

Yeah, sure.

- Everyone's going home!
- Stop yelling at him!

- Just wanted to show me something!
- You mean this?

What the hell is so important
about a crappy notebook?

I need to see that.

"Dear Eli... Remember this, Eli...

Eli's gift... His gift..."

You know, maybe you should've just
pretended it was Eli's birthday.

Then maybe you would've
remembered the cake.

[Frank] It's gone, Eli.

Are you sure?

You threw the journal into a flaming
barbecue. Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

I just thought that maybe after I left,

you know, part of the book survived?

You were right to get rid of it, bro.

It's dangerous to know too much.

But now I don't know the things
I'm supposed to know.

This latest vision was about the book.

My dad was writing
something important in there,

but I couldn't read it.

Well, what do you think
God's trying to tell you?

I don't know.

He's teasing me with these visions.
They're getting more oblique.

Last week He told you,
"Don't mess around with Jim."

He sung it to you.
It couldn't have been clearer.

You chose to defy Him.

OK. True. But He also sent
the burning building vision

and that went nowhere.

Give it time, Eli. We're on His
schedule. He's not on ours.

[telephone rings]

[elevator dings]

Hey, Chuck.

Mr. Dowd. Bearing gifts.

Tokens of my appreciation
for your amazing daughter.

Delivered in person, no less.

I'm sure you heard about our little...

I have.

I figured it's the least I can do.

Let me be the first
to say congratulations.

What father doesn't harbor the dream
of one day being a grandfather?

Huh?

Oh, dear God.

Oh, my God.

OK, so to recap,
you're saying Taylor is...

- You didn't know.
- Not so much, no.

- Not how you were supposed to find out.
- You think?

She told me she was going to tell you.
You're here, carrying gifts...

- That's a bear for God's sake.
- It's an apology bear.

For pissing her off earlier today.

It appears I'll be needing your florist.

Do you have any idea what you've done?
The board is furious.

Doctors in this hospital
testify all the time.

Not against its biggest donor.

That bought him his
name on the side of a building,

- not the right to bully and intimidate.
- No one has been bullied.

- What's this little chat we're having?
- It's a friendly warning.

Frank. Is Eli OK?

Yeah. This is about his case.

I gave my pound of flesh this morning.

You need to go back. Tomorrow.

- Eli doesn't know it, but you do.
- You got a tarot card that says so?

It's in the book.

My father's book?

The book that Eli told me he burned?

I came to tell you, in confidence,
you need to go back.

Your dad wanted you in
that courtroom tomorrow.

If I get sick... sicker...

...I've got a support system.

Friends, doctors...

...my coach and his family,
my girlfriend, Jen, and hers.

None of those people is your father.

Right. My father, who offered my
girlfriend $25,000 to leave me alone.

He said that she was
a distraction from my getting well.

My father, who filled
in our swimming pool

when I said I didn't want
to be part of his clinical study.

If I stay with him, the only
thing I'd have left is MS.

Your Honor, I'd like permission
to allow Mr. Cooper

to engage this witness
directly on cross.

- Excuse me?!
- Objection!

There is precedent for this.

On Judge Judy, maybe.

Mr. Cooper would be exercising
his right to self-representation.

Which is difficult since he's
not representing himself.

Knock it off.
No one yells in here but me.

You. Girlie. Go.

If J.J. wants you to declare him an
adult,

he should demonstrate
the ability to withstand

- a question or two from his father.
- This is such a blatant stunt,

- she should be dressed as Evel Knievel.
- My court, my discretion, Mr. Stone.

How are you feeling, Jimmy?

Ready for this to be over?

Yes, sir.

Your swim coach,
your girlfriend's family...

Do you really think any of
them care about you as much as I do?

You care too much, Dad.

When you're a father,
you'll see that's not possible.

[J.J.] Mom didn't think so.

Do you understand
that I kept your mother alive

six months longer than any
doctor said she would live?

And she hated every minute of it.

And she hated you.
You need to let me go, Dad.

I... I can take care of myself.

Are you sure about that?

Let's talk about the week
I was in Japan.

You stayed with your coach...

Can we be done? I want to be done.

- Your Honor?
- I got a phone call

in the middle of the night from
an emergency room

thousands of miles away.

- Why were you there?
- It was an accident.

Three pain killers is an accident.

You take twelve,
and it's something else.

That was one night.
I'd just been diagnosed.

You got scared.
I get it. You panicked.

You remember what you said
to me when you got on the phone?

This is hearsay and completely inhumane!

You said, "Why did you
leave me alone, Dad? I can't be alone."

- Do something.
- You don't like me, that's fine.

You're hardly the first
16 year-old who hates his father.

But it doesn't mean that you can take
care of yourself when you can't.

You can hold me in contempt if you want,
but I'm taking my client off the stand.

- He isn't finished.
- Yes, he is.

Well? Are we done,
or am I gonna see the inside of a cell?

We'll take a short recess.

[gavel slams]

- Open court, Maggie. Real nice.
- That was the most disgusting thing...

- How could you sign off on that?
- It was my idea!

Save the indignation.
You would've done the same.

I would never subject a kid
to that kind of humiliation!

- At least you're admitting he's a kid.
- It was unfair surprise!

- You'd be the expert.
- What's that mean?

How about you, pregnant, with my kid?

- I'm so happy for you.
- That's amazing.

Not so amazing when you're the father

and you find out from your ex-boss.

- I was trying to find the right moment.
- Sure, like when he was born,

or took his first steps,
or got into college.

- Eli...
- We're done here, Counselor.

Did you see it?

Maggie embracing the dark side?
Yeah, front row seat.

No, J.J... On the stand. He was shaking.

Of course he was.
His dad was going after him in court.

No, he was shaking, Eli. His hand.

There was a tremor.

It's kinda ironic.

First you're pissed I don't call,

then you ignore me when I do.

Your mom told me where to find you.

I'm sorry I went radio silent.

There's something I wanted
to talk to you about.

Is that Sam & Dave?

I love this song.

Don't pretend you know anything
about Sam & Dave. [scoffs]

Please. Sam Moore & Dave Prater,

the real Blues Brothers.

Their music got me through the Bar exam.

Growing up, I used to dance.

Now, when I'm stressed,

I put these brothers on and I just move.

- Ooh!
- [grunts]

I'm...

I'm sorry, Angela.
We really need to talk.

That's never a good
conversation starter.

After your DUI was dropped,
I got a call from the ADA.

Your blood work came
back positive for cocaine.

I'm afraid you might
have a problem.

What, too much Sam & Dave
while you were in law school?

You forget "innocent
until proven guilty?"

I'm not accusing you of anything.

No, the DA was. You were
just too happy to believe her.

Angela, it is not like that.
Listen, I know some folks...

Amoxicillin, the antibiotic.

Any first-year med student
will tell you that taking this

will give you a false
positive for cocaine.

I have an ear infection,
not a drug problem.

I'm sorry, Angela.
Angela, I'm sorry.

Not more than me.

J.J. has at least two complete lesions
along his brain stem.

You look at the number of lesions,
and the size...

They couldn't
have formed overnight.

He gets a new MRI every few weeks.
No one's spotted any of this?

I think they did.

I looked at all of J.J.'s old MRIs.

I think they stopped filing new ones
about three months ago.

Instead, someone simply copied an old
MRI, from when he was asymptomatic,

and filed it with a new date...

...repeatedly.

So they could claim he was asymptomatic?

And the records would back them up.

[knock on door]

It's getting worse, isn't it?

You knew?

I figured, when you asked me to drop by.

My dad kept telling me I was fine.

For months I felt tired.

All over now.

Nate, could you give us a minute?

Hey. Nothing's over. OK?

People live long,
full lives with this disease.

They manage it.

They don't qualify for the Olympics.

I know what you're going through.

You feel like you
lost control of your life.

The day my aneurysm was diagnosed
I went back to my apartment,

and in the mail were all these
bills, magazines...

That was the most terrifying part.

You know, I was dying but the world
kept going like nothing had changed.

What did you do?

I paid the bills.

You ever stop being scared?

No.

But I don't stop living, either.

That's what life is. You just
gotta keep moving forward...

...even when you know that there's
some bad stuff waiting for you,

years or weeks, maybe days,
down the road.

You keep moving forward.

Even when you think you know
what's going to happen,

it doesn't always.

That's what hope is made of.

[Cooper] Still not sure
what I'm doing here.

In a minute you'll be
nostalgic for that feeling.

- What are we looking at?
- J.J.'s medical files.

Fraudulent one on the left,
real one on the right.

- [Jim] Oh, my God.
- [Matt] Wait a minute. "Fraudulent?"

This looks like
his MS has advanced.

- Because it has.
- You saw this?

We're no longer in court.
Do not address my client.

I can't be here.

I want to talk to my son.

Sit down.

Fake MRIs? How do you fake an MRI?

It helps to have big chunks
of a hospital with your name on them.

You figured out why you're here yet?

Why wouldn't you tell your son
he's getting worse?

He did not want to jeopardize
his clinical trial.

This was never about money.

Maybe not for you,
but for the hospital it sure was.

I spent a year of my life...
a year of J.J.'s life...

pushing that clinical trial
through the FDA.

Using him, your own son,
as a prop, your emotional poster child.

Which is why you needed
to hide his symptoms.

Under FDA guidelines, it would've
disqualified him from the study.

I did it for him.

- To cure him.
- I'm gonna advise you to stop talking.

So, what do we do here?

First, you're gonna agree
to J.J.'s emancipation.

Then you're gonna cut him a check
to cover his living and medical costs.

And you're going to go
to the hospital and clean house.

Unless you want me to go to the DA

with a list of the laws
that you've broken.

I'll... talk to the board.

Hi. I understand there was a
breakthrough on the case.

I'm not here about the case.
I asked you not to say anything to Matt.

There was a chocolate bear!

Maybe you did me a favor.

This way, I got the disaster over with.

- Was it really that bad?
- It wasn't pretty.

What kind of man
would he be if he wasn't upset

that you kept this from him?

Are you sure that's how
you want to go here?

You had more than enough time
in which to tell him. Why didn't you?

When Eli and I broke up, I needed...

I needed someone who wasn't Eli.

I don't know anyone who fits that
description better than Matt.

But he was never supposed
to be anything more than a break...

...a relationship palette cleanser...

Things have changed.

Yeah.

Just when I think this job
can't get any harder,

I have to help a kid
process the fact that his life

has just vanished
out from under him.

- It's a calling.
- What?

You called it a job. It's a calling.

Sometimes that's what it feels like.

A really important job with a boss
who everyone else thinks is great,

but I can't figure out
where he's taking the company.

I thought you'd embraced the master plan
of it all a little more, Eli.

I have. I'm trying to be a good solider.

Except for when you weren't.

Messing around with Jim when
God specifically told you not to.

Turns out, that's unclear. I wasn't
supposed to mess around with Jim,

but I won the case anyway.
Both of them.

Cooper's and...

...J.J.'s.

- What?
- J.J... James Junior.

Jim Junior.
As in "don't mess around with..."

My vision last week,
I must have missed something.

I need to see it again, Frank.

Lie back on the table.

Hey! Hey, you!
You've got to get out of there!

J.J.!

What did you see?

Hello Mrs. Phillips?
Hi, my name is Eli Stone.

I'm J.J.'s lawyer.
I need to speak with him.

I was hoping he was with Jen.

How long has he been missing?

Call 911.

[brakes screech]

[car alarms sound off]

[fire ignites]

J.J.! Hey look at me! Look at me!

We gotta get out of here! Now! OK?

Come on, this way! Come on, let's go!

[sirens blaring]

[coughing]

I didn't think it...

I didn't think the fire
would spread so fast.

I don't think that was the problem

so much as starting the fire
in the first place.

What were you doing?

Were you trying to hurt yourself?

I don't know how I ended up there.

I was walking and thinking...

He took the most important thing
in my whole life away from me.

You wanted to do the same to him?

What happens now?

You're going to talk to a guy,
a psychiatrist.

There aren't going to
be any charges filed.

Dad used his influence again.

Mr. Control Freak.

Maybe he tries to control
what and who he cares about.

What, are you on his side now?

The court says you're an adult now,
J.J...

You wanna be an adult, you gotta realize
that there aren't any sides.

It's just people. You've got some
challenges ahead of you.

You might not think
that you need your dad,

but one day you might want him.

And when you do,
you don't want it to be too late.

Hey, thanks.

[Matt] Maybe I'm a jerk.

Well, maybe I'm a coward.

- We just need to figure this...
- Can we talk?

Ladies first.

Look, I should have told you.
But I was afraid.

You know, of this conversation.

Talking about us.

Let's be honest, Matt.
What we have is... temporary.

A ten-month one-night stand.

What were you gonna say?

I was gonna say "let's get married."

Is that a joke?

Maybe. Did you think it was funny?

I never thought this was temporary,
a one-night thing,

even when we had our one-night thing.

You made me want more.
You're still doing it.

Oh...

The baby...
Our baby doesn't change that.

And... the marriage proposal?

OK, that was probably
a little baby-related.

But the rest of it...

Taylor, I just want to be with you.
As a couple. In a relationship.

And all the rest of it... you know,
we'll figure it out as we go.

OK?

Excuse me, excuse me...
I'm looking for Angela Scott.

Angie's not on tonight.

She said if you see a guy looks
like me, that's what you say?

- No really, she's not here.
- I just want to apologize to her.

I was an ass and I just
stopped by to tell her that.

Look, you seem like a nice guy.

And Angie can really
use a friend right now.

Angie hasn't been here in weeks.

She was suspended.

[bells on door jingle]

I thought you might be by.

And I thought that Eli
burned my dad's journal.

He did. It's ash, dude.

So how did you know
that I was supposed to be in court?

What, did you use some mystic
Eastern power to reanimate it?

Yeah. It's called Kinko's.

I put a copy away.

Does Eli know?

There's stuff in there
Eli's not ready to see.

You can't tell him, Nate.

- What does it say about me?
- The journal?

I know that Eli's the one
with the gift. The mission.

But it is affecting my life, too.
My career, my job...

I feel... lost.

So yeah. I want to know.

What happens to
the brother of the prophet?

This was in the journal.

[Dad] "Dear Nathan...

I'm writing to you
because I don't think

you'd hear me now if we tried to talk.

And I don't have the guts
to tell you the truth...

...about me, about what I can... see.

About Eli... And about you.

This is hard to explain,

which is probably why I'm writing
instead of saying it,

but you are going to watch
your brother do some amazing things,

and you'll feel lost in his shadow.

But know this: he won't be able to
accomplish anything without your help,

your love, and patience.

The world is counting on you, too.

That's the future
you've both been handed."

I got a call from St. Vincent's
in-house attorney.

They want you to sign a
non-disclosure agreement.

In return for your signature,
they cut you a very large check.

Wow.

- OK, what's the catch?
- You don't work there anymore.

This is a little bigger than your
standard severance check.

Um-hm.

I know the hospital signed it, but...

...I kind of feel like it's from Dad.

I think that's what
the vision was about.

Why you were involved
in this whole thing.

Maybe it's supposed to make up for...

...everything.

[soft music plays]

The check's not that big, Eli.

[Dad] "You boys are my whole world.

I know what's in store
for both of you and I just cry.

Because I'm so very proud.

I love you, Nathan.

I love you so much it aches.

Happy Birthday.

Love... Dad."