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Hey, hey, what's going on?

They're out of milk.

How are we out of milk?

Theo! What happened?

I was hungry.

You want to go out for breakfast?

Here, here.

Why don't you just take mine?

Good morning, Theo.

Buck, how are we feeling today?

Hey, hey, Theo. Say hi, Dr. Murphy.

I'm sorry. Theo is really into this smoothie. Theo.

It's Brandon. And that's okay. You can bring your smoothie with you, Theo.

You relax.

I'll bring him back when we're done.

Come on, Theo. I've got some new art supplies I think you'll like.

Sorry. No change is scary.

It's hard not knowing what you're supposed to do. Maybe we saved the

boomerangs from the backyard, yeah? What's the right way to behave?

But maybe there's no right way.

Hey, do you have the trampoline?

Thank God.

Assembly in 30 minutes or less.

We just learn from our mistakes.

Okay, okay, come on. Theo, very funny.

I think they lied.

Theo, that's nuts.

Okay, yeah, good joke. Let me out.

Why were you trying to climb the fence?

Wanting to escape is normal.

Hey, did you forget something?

You have got to stop sneaking into delivery trucks.

Theo, let me out. Right now.

Especially when we feel like we're not in control.

Hey, hey, no, no, not outside.

So you...

You don't think we're making any progress.

Are you writing me a prescription?

A referral to a therapist for adults.

Hey. Hey.

Didn't see you there.

Well, I am here.

Know that now.

You were headed into the kitchen.

Just need a refill.

I can't.

Thank you.

Are you going to put anything in that?

Nope, just gonna drink it black today.

Okay, then Okay,

then How long are we letting this

go on you do not want to get involved in that yeah We should definitely let them

figure this out for themselves You guys are taking bets on how long they're

gonna keep fighting aren't you yep

20 bucks a box.

Get your pick in while the clock runs out.

Why am

I even here? Go, go, go. Fast break, fast break.

Oh my God.

Why can't you catch the ball? Why can't you throw the ball? I did.

Not to me.

Then be where I throw.

I'm the captain.

Who's that guy?

That, my boys?

It's Mikey Jones.

New kid.

What's up?

What's up, man?

Why do we need a new kid?

Newest addition to the Point Sereno team, Mikey Jones with another steal.

Perfectly, and gets the easy score.

Jones on the break. There it is. There it is. Two defenders on him. Behind the

back to Ryan with the slam.

Jones is just playing with his food now.

There's my guy.

Who even is this kid?

Jones.

All alone.

Making them look like little kids out there

It's like he's staging a damn coup.

Really brought them all together.

United the factions.

Beautiful sight, ain't it?

Is everybody here going insane?

Let's go!

It's like Mikey Jones is down.

This could be bad for Point Serena.

Can you tell us what happened?

Up by 10, about to be 12.

Mikey's in the centerpiece right now. A slam dunk for the season.

Second one this year. Sorry, we don't need a play, Rob. Sorry.

Make way, make way, make way. Coming through, make way.

He just caught the ball, grabbed his chest, and collapsed.

All right, and take a look.

Harry, Robbie, cut the gurney.

Hey, if anything happens to him, you're going to have to save me.

Okay? We've never gotten this close to the championship.

Then let us do our work.

Okay. Mikey, can you tell me what you're feeling?

A heart attack.

Cardiac arrest. It has to be.

If that were true, son, you wouldn't be able to pull enough hair to tell us

that. Hey, Mikey, I'm him. This is Eddie, all right?

A heart attack at your age is extremely unlikely.

Okay? We're probably looking at a panic attack.

Mikey doesn't panic. He's a hero.

All right, that's 91 we're talking. Panic doesn't do that.

Asthma? Lungs are clear.

Mikey, are you on any substances that we need to know about?

Absolutely not.

No, nothing.

See what I tell you.

Allergic reaction?

I found this in his bag.

Methylated rub soothes sore muscles, minor sprains, and arthritis pain.

The boy plays basketball, football, and track.

Okay, he's allowed a little tennis album, which, by the way, he also plays.

No swelling, no hives, blood pressure low, and he's tachycardic.

Clot. That's one in a thousand.

More like one in a hundred thousand at his age.

If it's a clot, then that means blood thinners.

And he doesn't have time for me to be wrong.

Mikey, blood thinners can make things a whole lot worse.

If there's anything that you have not told me about, drug use, steroids, STD,

I'm gonna need that right now.

Well, maybe there's one thing I haven't told you.

I'm 33.

What now?

Five. 35.

I knew it!

Imposter! I told you!

All of you!

You get held back?

No, I came back to high school. This guy is such as hell.

Sweet gosh, I... Hold on.

Maybe you should have put your head between your knees. I'm not that

flexible.

We're going to forfeit every game we won this year. I'm sorry, coach.

I'm sorry, everybody.

I'm sorry I let you down.

Have you had any work done to look so young-ish?

Botox? Filler?

Fillers from where?

Some guy.

Any chance they were illicit fillers?

I don't know.

It's not illicit.

Off-market fillers use silicone, not hyaluronic acid.

Then no thinners.

If that's silicone in his blood, then the thinners will just make his lungs

bleed out.

It's a silicone embolism.

High flow, too. Keep the fluids wide open. He needs a pulmonologist before

his respiratory failure. Let's go. Get him on the gurney.

Don't feel too bad, coach.

Could have fooled me, too.

Because you're looking real old these days. Yeah.

I guess I just peaked in high school.

When you're up that high, when you're seen, you're loved, why would you want

to climb back down?

All right, let's get him transported.

We still love you, Mikey!

What?

Oh!

Presbyterian 118 inbound.

What are you doing? Don't feel bad for him.

He's a millennial.

Did you guys hear that Mikey got arrested?

For what?

Pretending to be a high school student.

That's a crime?

There's apparently more than one. My mom said he's done it before.

In two states.

Yeah, criminal impersonation and trespassing.

What adult wants to go back to high school, much less three times?

What do you mean? High school is great.

No responsibility, never accountable for anyone but yourself. Sounds right up

your alley.

At least I got to experience the joy of being a kid.

Instead of thinking life is nothing but a series of rules and regulations to

follow. I'd settle for you learning just how to follow one. Okay, well, why don't

you try breaking one? You might be a less miserable person.

Oh, because you seem so thrilled with your life. You know what?

Dispatch, this is Captain 118. We are so on the way.

You hear that, everyone?

We're going to an accident.

Can't we?

All right, dispatch, we've got five, six vehicles. We need every ambulance you've

got in the area and the second alarm.

Buck, walk the cars, make them safe. Harry, Robbie, you go with them. Eddie,

Hen, divide and conquer.

Everyone else, let's shut these roads down. Come on, let's move, let's move!

Sir?

Sir, hold on. I got you.

What the hell?

Hang on, buddy.

This is gonna hurt a little bit, okay?

Eddie, how we looking?

Someone tried to tourniquet it below the womb.

Feeding it, not stopping.

All right, let's get him transported and get some fluids here. Hey, let's get a

gurney over here!

Hey! Hey, stop!

You could be paralyzing her right now. Please leave that for my team.

I need a seat collar and a backboard over her, potential spinal.

Sorry, some guy told us to take it off. Unless it's fire or immediate danger to

life, it's better to wait for the paramedics.

Hey, Cap, I don't like the look of this one.

Yeah, coming to you.

Let's go, guys. I need a medic over here.

You're on the way. I got you. Go. Keep your head stable. Yeah.

What do we got?

Compound fracture.

His buddy said somebody tried to set it, pushed the bone right through the skin.

I think he's in shock, but he's got a distal pulse.

Copy that.

Ramirez, you need immediate transport at the blue sedan.

Compound fracture.

What the hell is going on here?

Hey, Cap.

Go for Jim.

Come take a look at this.

You good?

Yeah, I got it. All right.

Hey, Cap.

Some bystanders just got injured trying to pry open the car door. Their bags

went off. Let me guess. Someone told them to. Yeah, how'd you know? Just a

hunch. All right, listen up. I need every single bystander in this

intersection gone. You hear me? Right now.

Cap, over here.

She lost a lot of blood.

You see that shot of glass right there?

It was a hairline from her iliac artery.

Someone pulled it out.

Who would remove that?

The guy did it.

Said he was going to stop it at the source.

The guy? What guy?

The doctor.

He was right over there.

He must have left when help arrived.

Did you say doctor?

Yeah. Doctor of what?

So he wasn't a doctor?

Well, we haven't identified him yet, so we can't be sure. But according to your

husband, everything the man did was medically incorrect.

So you think he might have hurt these people on purpose?

Well, I need to rule that out as a possibility.

I was told that he called in just a little after 11.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's when we talked, but he wasn't the one that

called.

911, what's your emergency?

There's a car accident.

A shoe fell and flowered.

It's bad, really bad.

I've got units on the way. How many people are hurt?

I don't know.

Let me ask the doctor.

Hold on. There's a doctor on the scene? Let me talk to him.

Who's this?

Hello? Hi, this is Maddie at 911 Dispatch. Who am I speaking with?

I'm Jerry.

I understand you have medical training?

Yeah, inside an OR, not out here on the asphalt.

I don't even have my kit with me.

Matt, that's okay.

Jerry, we're going to work together. Just walk me through what you're seeing.

I have a man here. He's bleeding from his bicep.

Is there anything around you to make a tourniquet?

Yeah, yeah, just that thing.

Now, this is going to hurt. I'm going to lift this up, okay?

I'm sorry. I know, I know. Deep breath.

I know. Keep some pressure on that. I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

This pressure's holding. 130 over 85.

He's fighting.

He's good.

Hang in there, sir. Can I get some help over here, please?

Got a rider down, not moving. Are they breathing? I don't know.

Be very careful. Get that off.

Try to pry that door open.

Yes, now, please.

Okay. We've got a man here.

Looks like we've got a broken arm.

I would let the paramedics take that one.

Oh, wow.

Got another driver down.

Excuse me, everybody. Let me through, please.

There's a lot of blood coming from her abdomen.

It's okay. Just stop it at the source.

We're going to have to keep pressure on that, okay? We're doing great.

Jerry, backup is arriving now.

Thanks for the assist.

No.

Thank you, Maddie.

I missed all the signs.

He said that he didn't have a kit, and then a minute later, he was giving me a

blood pressure reading.

You need a cuff.

The equipment that he said he didn't have, I... I should have caught that.

I will get a copy of the audio and a transcript for you to take with you.

Thanks, Sue.

Why would someone lie about being a doctor?

I guess nobody questions a doctor.

Same reason nobody questions a badge.

You put on authority and people hand you the trust before you even earned it. So

what do you think this is? Some sort of sadist?

Oh, I have a word for whatever he is just yet.

But we might have something better.

Oh, Maddie, this is Detective Jace Newell. We're working the case together.

I pulled traffic cam images.

There's our guy.

The back of someone's head's not going to get us very far.

It won't.

But a plate might.

That right there is his car.

Looks like we're making a house call.

You see one of these guys stranded? You plug it in.

It's not like your phone.

Can't let this drop to 10%. Oh, my phone's always 60 or above.

Checks out. Is this the student who stocked the PPE cart?

Dr. Fortner, this is Mae Grant.

You've seen her around?

The gloves are in the top drawer.

Yes, I figured the PPE we use the most should go there.

Easy access, and it shaves him off.

What? The gloves on the top door bumps the booties to the bottom. I've worked

in this ER for two decades.

The booties are never on the bottom. Imagine a trauma patient.

Hemorrhaging in my bag. Blood.

Pooling on the floor, I reach for a booty. The booty is not forthcoming. Oh,

that means it takes an extra two seconds for me to find that booty.

Then what happens?

You have blood on your shoes, which are very nice, by the way. I get blood on my

shoes. Then I may slip. Then we have two traumas. Or I track it into another bay.

Now we have a hepatitis outbreak. Do you understand what I'm saying, Grant? Yes,

loud and clear.

Um, thank you for your feedback. It's extremely helpful. Fix it.

Foreigner's a persnickety bastard on three hours sleep.

He came up bullied by his attendings, you know?

Now he thinks he has to punch down in order to toughen you up. It's the

culture. But I should have stalked the cart the old way.

Correct.

Also, don't say thank you for the feedback.

What are you, a customer service rep?

I was being nice.

ER docs don't have time for nice.

They just need you to do your job.

Oh, thank God. I thought nobody was going to show up to take the report.

Excuse me?

You're here because I wanted to report my husband being missing?

What kind of accident?

A multi-car collision.

Oh, God.

Please tell me Jerry's okay.

He wasn't directly involved, though he was there.

Was it his fault?

Why would you ask that?

Well, I just assumed he started drinking again.

Your husband's in recovery?

He's almost 14 months over.

You said that he wasn't directly involved. What does that mean?

It appears he stopped and tried to render aid.

I don't understand. Where is my husband? We don't know. We're looking for him,

too. But we do know that he was at the scene.

Mrs. Thomas, what does your husband do for a living?

He's a tax accountant.

Can you think of a reason why he would represent himself as a doctor?

No.

Well, he comes from a family of doctors, both his siblings.

His mother is a retired pediatrician. His father was a surgeon.

He used to joke that he was the first in his family not to go to medical school.

He bitter about that at all?

No.

Well, I know he feels like he disappointed them.

Especially his father.

So you wouldn't say that your husband's the type of man that would be inclined

to deliberately hurt people?

God, no.

Jerry doesn't have a mean bone in his body.

You said yourself that he stopped to render aid.

He didn't do so good.

Okay, Theo.

Time to go home.

No, we already had ten more minutes.

Five more minutes!

No more minutes. Come on, come grab your backpack.

I don't wanna go!

Theo! So I said, Ms. Shapiro, in our household, no means no. She doesn't want

to turn off the TV.

We don't force it. We let her keep watching.

Hey, Mama.

It's called gentle parenting.

For confidence.

No!

Oh, my God.

Hey, Theo, cut it out.

Theo?

Theo, I said that's enough. Come on.

Hey,

hey, officer.

Is there a problem?

License and registration, please.

I just turned on the car.

License and registration.

Can I ask what this is about?

We got a few calls from concerned citizens about some commotion in the

park.

Right,

yeah. The kid, he wouldn't come with me when I told him, but we're good now.

So, your kid?

I mean, yeah, yeah.

You sound unsure.

It's, um... It's complicated.

Sir... Does this child belong to you or not?

Look, I'm a... Look, I'm his father.

Son, is this man your daddy?

Theo... Sir, let him answer.

Hey, buddy, you can tell me.

No, he's not my dad.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used

against you in the court of law.

Hey, is anyone back there? Come on, this is crazy.

Hey!

Deirdre, thanks for coming. Okay, where's Theo? They won't tell me

anything. Yes, please, get me out of these.

They deputized him, set him up in the captain's office.

Cartoons and snacks.

Okay, well, great. We have cartoons at home. I think it's time we go there. Not

so fast.

You want to tell me what happened?

It was a misunderstanding.

Including a part about you resisting arrest?

They accused me of kidnapping my own kid.

A foster kid.

Yeah. My witnesses said that he was screaming that you weren't his father.

Yeah, he was screaming that I was stealing him. No wonder everyone thought

I was a kidnapper.

Well, my son shouted that I wasn't his mother in the middle of a water park.

And then disappeared down a lazy river.

Okay, so what did you do?

I considered leaving him there.

And then I remembered the 12 hours I spent birthing that ungrateful young

man. And then I flagged down the security guard.

And the guard just believed you when you said you were his mother?

Didn't even ask.

All these months, and he still sees me as a stranger.

Not a parent.

If that's what you want to be to him, you just need to give it time.

It's harder to earn that title after someone else has already held it.

Right.

You're not a kidnapper, Buck.

You're just new.

So it looks like G's last day of school is the 25th. Yeah, Nash's daycare closes

on the 24th. Well, Ann says she could do that day. I'm off on Wednesday.

Which means, barring any stomach bugs or pink eye outbreaks, we just need to be

able to sit for the 27th.

Yeah, what if we didn't?

You mean set them up with Louie and let them fend for themselves?

No, that's not what I'm saying.

What if I stayed home with them and got a part-time job?

Okay, that just became a bigger conversation. What's going on? You're

not happy it worked?

No, I'm happy being back on the phones, but maybe that's the problem.

You know, when you get comfortable, you start letting things fall through the

cracks. Does this have anything to do with that guy at the car accident?

Maddie, he fooled everybody.

Yeah, but he shouldn't have fooled me.

Okay, I always trust my gut on these things. Sometimes the gut is wrong.

Remember when I said sour cream's supposed to taste like that? When I was

in charge, I couldn't shake the feeling that I didn't belong there.

Like, I was a fraud, and all I wanted to do was just get back to the phones. And

now that I'm back on the phones, it's like... I'm missing something.

Some confidence, maybe, but definitely not skill.

Hey, hey. Oh, no.

It's an emergency.

Someone call 911.

No!

Oh, hey, hey. Theo!

So, no medical training whatsoever.

He was in no way, shape, or form a doctor of any kind.

I mean, you could probably tell from the mess he made at the scene.

I mean, honestly, I just thought he was a bad doctor.

Well, he probably knew just enough to be dangerous. You know, his wife said that

he comes from a long line of doctors. His father, his sister, his brother.

Jerry was the first one not to.

A family like that, that's a lot to live up to.

A bottle is a lot easier to live inside of.

How long had he been sober?

14 months.

You know, he had been working all the steps, you know, trying to make amends,

and maybe he still is.

What? You think that's what he was doing out in that intersection?

Working his ninth step?

Maybe. I mean, everything that man did out there was wrong.

But it was earnestly wrong.

And he comforted all the victims. I think maybe he really was trying to

help. Well, maybe next time try not to help with a quart of vodka in you.

Hmm.

You don't think so?

I mean, you listened to the call, Athena. Did the man sound drunk?

Girl, I don't know what Jerry Thomas sounded like on a good day.

But, no, he didn't sound particularly drunk.

Though... There was more than one witness that said his hands were

trembling noticeably the whole time.

14 months sober, you said?

Mm-hmm.

Sponsor, all that.

Well, shaky hands after that long off the bottle, I mean, that's not

withdrawals. Withdrawals is long gone.

And if he were drinking again, then it would more likely steady them.

I don't think this is a relapse, Athena.

I think this is something neurological.

Such as?

Korsakoff syndrome.

Oh, I'm gonna need more than a name. It's a serious memory disorder.

It's caused by a deficiency in thiamine, vitamin B1.

But it is most often associated with long-term alcohol use.

One of its hallmark problems is gaps in memory. Big gaps.

The brain hates holes.

So it'll fill those holes with invented or distorted details.

Conceive full alternate histories without deliberately lying.

Like maybe thinking instead of coming from a long line of doctors that he

actually is one.

Good afternoon, Mrs. Peterson.

Hmm.

No. No, I don't like the look of that at all.

Don't worry, Mrs. Peterson.

We're going to take very good care of you.

911, what's your emergency?

Hello?

This is 911 Emergency Services Dispatch. Is anyone there?

Hello?

If you can hear me, please say something.

Anything.

If someone is there and can't speak, make a noise.

Press a button on the phone, anything, just... Okay, I've got you. Do you need

help?

Great, I'm sending help to you now. You're on a landline, so I already have

your address.

Is someone there with you?

I'm going to take that as a no.

Are you having chest pain or pain anywhere in your upper body?

What about a headache?

Have you noticed one side of your face drooping?

Any unsteadiness or muscle weakness?

Do you have allergies or asthma?

Okay, asthma.

Could you be having an asthma attack? Are you struggling to breathe?

Blurred vision?

Nausea or vomiting?

Do you have a history of migraines?

Have you ever had a stroke?

Are you still with me?

Sounds like you're experiencing expressive aphasia with no other obvious

symptoms. You might be having a stroke.

Paramedics are on the way. Just stay where you are.

Actually, does your house have a furnace?

Did you turn on the heat recently? Maybe for the first time in a while?

This could be carbon monoxide poisoning that can sometimes mimic the symptoms of

a stroke, which would explain why you can't speak.

Captain 157, be advised there's likely a carbon monoxide leak inside the

residence. Copy, dispatch. We're pulling up now.

LASD, we're here to help.

Captain 157, did you find the patient?

Got her, dispatch.

Vitals are a little elevated, but she's alert and on O2.

That's great news.

And confirmed CO leak. My crew's barely through the front door and it's reading

over 600 ppm.

A few more minutes and it'll be a very different story.

Thanks, Captain.

Bolo's out.

Every PCP clinic, specialist, and hospital from here to Mojave. And

there's 2,300 med spas.

You can lose those.

jerry thomas wants to make amends he will go where he thinks he can help so

just 15 000 targets no more if you count urgent cares worry he stumbles on

another car accident you know you just got to ask yourself if you believed that

you were a doctor where would you go golf course his father was a doctor

right yeah he was a general surgeon he uh was well regarded specialized in

Cholestectomies and appendectomies. I wonder if he practiced that at any

particular hospital when Jerry was growing up.

He sure did.

Excuse me, nurse.

Student nurse. I'm Mae Grant. You'll do. Come with me.

Have you assisted in the OR?

I haven't done my surgical rotation yet, but I'm hoping to soon.

Well, it's your lucky day.

Oh, my gosh.

Well, thank you so much for the opportunity, Doctor... Thomas.

Before we go in, I should let my preceptor know. Do it later. This

woman's appendix is about to rupture.

Oh, yes, sir.

You gonna swipe us in?

Me? Of course.

LAPD. We need to speak to an administrator.

Okay. I'm Nurse Bradley, charge nurse. How can I help? Ian Bradley?

Yeah. This is Detective Newell. I'm Detective Grant.

May's mom?

Yes, that's right. Let me page her for you. No, that's not why we're here.

We're looking for a suspect that may currently be in your hospital.

Um, sure.

Can you give me the patient's name? He's not a patient. He's a doctor. Or at

least he thinks he is.

Does this face ring a bell?

Is the scrub team still on their way?

Scrub team?

I can page them if you want.

They'll just slow us down.

Now, get me gloves, please.

What size?

Large. Is that like a size 9?

If I stop for your questions, we lose this patient.

Are you okay, Doctor?

Just fine.

You glove up, too.

And gowns for us both.

You're going to open it up with me.

Yeah, I thought he looked familiar.

I hadn't seen him before today.

What's he doing?

It looks like he's doing his rounds.

Is that kind of high?

I thought the McBurney's point was lower. The appendix is always higher

than you think.

Now hand me the cutty thing.

The scalpel?

The scalpel, yes.

Dr. Thomas, I don't think that I can help you with this.

I thought you wanted to be a nurse.

Well, yes, but I'm still new.

And I've never heard of a surgery like this without a team.

It seems like a high-stakes surgery. Because it is.

Which is why you need to stop babbling and hand me the scalpel.

Scalpel.

Did she move?

Twitch, it's normal.

No, Doctor, she's waking up.

Get her more sedative if you're so worried about it.

Shouldn't there be an anesthesiologist here? Talk, talk, talk.

I need to focus.

Doctor, do you know what you're doing?

I'm saving a life.

And it seems you're doing everything in your power to end it.

Then I shouldn't be here.

Where are you going? I can't finish this alone.

I'll find you someone else. Listen to me, young woman.

If you walk through this door, your career is over.

And if I lose that patient, that will be on your head. Do you understand?

I understand.

Now, sedate the patient.

That hall, he's going down. Where does it lead?

To the trauma war.

OR's right through here.

Don't worry, Mrs. Peterson.

Everything's going to be just fine.

It's that one.

LAPD! Hands up!

Man!

Hey, Mom!

You sedated him.

You told me to stop being so nice.

How's he doing?

Every bag of that stuff, I get a little more of my Jerry back.

The doctor said his brain swelling dropped 20%. And all it took was a

thymine drip.

You're very lucky, Jerry. You could have died.

I kind of wish I had.

Sweetheart, don't say that.

I can't believe everything I put those people through.

Put you through after you've already been through so much with me.

You're a good man.

You always have been.

So what's next?

I'm going to jail, aren't I?

I can't answer that.

But all those people from the accident, they're going to recover.

And so are you.

We will take it one day at a time, like we always do.

Even at your sickest, your instinct was to help people. I believe that says

something about you.

Hopefully the judge will, too.

It's my dad's influence.

He was a hero to all his patients, but I couldn't do that.

He never let me forget it.

He loved you, Jer.

In his way.

He's been gone so long, I... I thought I was over it.

Some things... we don't get over.

We just find a way to carry them.

I'm just so grateful that nursing student was there.

She saved your life.

Not just mine.

If you see her, will you tell her thank you for giving me another chance?

I'll make sure she knows.

Maddie, you have a visitor.

Hi.

I'm Carrie.

You saved my life.

Oh, I'm so sorry. I don't recognize your voice.

It's because you never heard it.

The carbon monoxide call. How are you feeling?

Just a little tired.

But other than that, just grateful to be standing here.

Hospital ran some tests and everything came back clear.

That's great.

I made you some cookies.

I used my sister's kitchen. Electric, not gas.

Glad that you're feeling well and baking.

It's because of you.

I don't know how you did it, but you saved my life without ever hearing me

say a single word.

It's because Maddie is the real deal.

Thank you.

911, what's your emergency?

So, in summary, you were right.

I just wasn't ready to hear it. Sorry, what was that?

No, no, no. I overstepped. You didn't ask for my opinion.

I shouldn't have given it.

I just thought I really thought I was doing the right thing.

No one in his family was willing to step up. I didn't want to see him go into a

group home.

I figured, why not me?

Stupid impulse.

It wasn't.

He's your kid. No, he's not.

He's Connor and Cameron's kid.

I'm just the guy who took him away from them.

What are you talking about?

Last time Theo saw his parents, I was carrying him away.

Okay, but Theo doesn't think that you stole him from them. Doesn't he? I mean,

he keeps on trying to run away from me.

He loses his mind any time I try and pick him up. He literally kicked me

upside my head, and I still didn't see it.

See what?

Theo's right.

I am a kidnapper. Fuck, I can't parent a kid I traumatized.

I can't be Theo's dad.