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[Monitor beeping]

[Door closes]

[Monitor beeps faster]

[Air hisses]

[Gasps]

[Ring]

[Ring]

Hello.

Hello, sir. I just wanted
to remind you

that our normal checkout time
is 11 a.m.

But if you'd like
a later checkout time,

I can go ahead and take care
of that for you now.

Sir, would you like
a later checkout time?

Sir?

Hello?

Are you there?

Uh! Uh! Ohh...

No. No.

[Gasping]

[Beeping]

[Dialing]

[Beep]

[Telephone rings]

Hello?

What's wrong?
Nothing.

Well, it's not Sunday.
We talk on Sunday.

I know. I, um, I just
thought I'd call.

Oh.

You scared me.

Sorry.

I thought it was an emergency.

No, it's not
an emergency.

Yeah? Are you sure?

How are your headaches?

Good. I mean--
I mean they're gone.

Yeah? Are you taking
your riboflavin and the magnesium?

In equal doses and a sporadic shot
of B2 like you said.

And sleep? Are you letting
your gray matter rest?

I'm--I'm working on it.

What's so funny?

What? I didn't laugh.

Something's amusing you.
I can hear it.

You can hear
my body language?

I'm a very good listener.

Um...

[Chuckles]

I guess I just--
I think it's funny

how we've been doing this
for 6 months and we've never met.

You know, like one Google
search of me and you'll

find my FBI file photo,

but I have absolutely
no idea what you look like.

I've shaved, by the way,
since then.

I used to be sort of
fascinated with the yeti

and I thought
that maybe if I--

I don't know what you
look like either.

Really?

No.

The only intimate part of you
I've seen is your brain

when I studied the MRI
you sent me.

That's when I said,

this is a guy
I need to get to know.

Thanks. That's really nice
of you to say.

[Cell phone vibrates]

What happened?

Something just happened.

Sorry. It's work.
I actually have to go.

Ok. Well, uh,
we'll talk Sunday.

- Be safe.
- Ok.

Wait. Are you being safe?

Yes. Yes, I'm being safe.

Do you--do you think
he knows about us?

No. As far as I can tell
he doesn't.

And we need to keep it
that way.

Well, my friends, you are
heading to New Mexico.

But pack your thermals,

'cause this case
will make you go "brr."

Our unsub du jour
is taking right legs.

The most recent victim,
Tony Anders.

He was dumped
at a local motel.

He's in surgery now.
Looks like he's gonna pull through.

The first victim, not so lucky.
Richard Hubbell.

He died during
the leg absconding process,

and his body was dumped just over
the border in Juarez, Mexico.

Juarez is on the front lines
of the cartels.

Any drug connections
between the victims?

They both just said no.

Tony Anders had
I.V. bruising

and surgical sutures
on his stump.

So the unsub operated
on both victims.

We're looking at a doctor.

That's a first.

Were the victims
patients anywhere?

No. They were
the vision of health.

Tony had hypodermic
needle marks on his neck.

The unsub could have
drugged him

and brought him into
the hospital for surgery.

Unlikely he could hide
in a hospital.

Even the most experienced surgeon
can't operate without supervision.

The goal of amputation
is to remove dead tissue

to preserve an otherwise
healthy limb.

Any first-year medical
student will tell you that.

But this unsub stitched
the skin flap so tightly

over Tony's stump that it didn't
allow for proper blood flow

and led to gangrene.

He's not a surgeon.

What is he?

A butcher.

What happened?

Shh.

Everything's fine.

Was there...

was there an accident?

It's fine.
Everything's fine.

We just need to operate.

Operate?

No, it's ok. It's ok.
You're in good hands.

Did someone call my wife?
She should know.

I will take care of it.

I should really call her,
because she'll be worried.

I told you,
we'll take care of it.

I, uh, have coverage.

My HMO hospital
is St. Mary's, I think.

Is this--am I
at St. Mary's?

Not quite.

Hey, what are you doing?

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

♪ Criminal Minds 8x04 ♪
God Complex
Original Air Date on October 24, 2012

== sync, corrected by elderman ==

♪

Reid: Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle wrote,

"When a doctor does go wrong,
he is the first of criminals.

He has the nerve
and he has the knowledge."

So, this unsub's got
a thing for right legs

and he's moving fast.

Two victims in a week.
What's the compulsion?

You know, the fact that one of
the victims was left

in a motel room
makes me think it's not

a compulsion at all.
Maybe it's black market.

What's the going rate
for a leg these days?

Mm, pretty good.

In 2002,
tendons were shipped

from South Africa
to the U.S.

And sold through private
medical and biotech companies.

The body parts trade coexists

with the drug trade
in border towns.

Let's say it's a chop shop.

That means we're looking for
a small team or network.

One that usually deals
with the dead before the living.

Did Garcia find any overlap
with victimology?

Just that they were both
organ donors.

She cross-referencing with the
United Network for Organ Sharing.

U.N.O.S. deals with
vital organs,

but we're talking limbs.

Yeah, but hospitals around
the country are networked into it.

If the unsub is a medical
professional, he might have

access to it, and by
extension, the victims.

Reid, you and JJ go to Juarez
and look at Richard Hubbell's body.

Morgan and Dave,
go talk to Tony Anders.

And Blake and I will investigate
the black market angle here.

Hey.

Detective Gonzalez.

I'm glad you guys
could make it.

I hate the weird ones.

I'm Agent Hotchner.
This is Agent Blake.

Thanks for inviting us.

Absolutely. Come on in.

I've got the board
set up for you in here.

Thank you.
Thank you.

[Cell phone rings]

Go ahead, Garcia.
You're on speaker.

Ok, so I quadruple-checked
with U.N.O.S

and there's no way
the unsub is using them,

because like me, they
quadruple-check everything

and their redundancies
have redundancies,

and so there's no chance
there could be any hanky-panky.

He could still be using
medical records to find them, though.

All right, thanks, Garcia.

Welcome, welcome.

Were you able to contact
the specialist we asked about?

The doctor who sold
on the black market?

Yeah. The prison said no way
they would release him.

We'll just have to go
to him, then.

I remember...

walking out of
organic chemistry, and...

then...

[Monitor beeping]

nothing.

What about
when you woke up?

There was a...

beeping, like that,

and there was a mask...

over my face, I think.

I can't remember, man.
It's all a blur.

Tony, do me a favor.

Close your eyes.

Just humor me, ok?

All right.

Think back to that room.

That bed.

That beeping.

It probably smelled
a lot like this room.

You were out.

You should have
stayed out.

But you didn't.

Now...

Wake up!

[Door closes]

Tony, something just
came to you. What was it?

I can't explain it.

Don't think it,
just say it.

It was a door.

A garage door.

I was in somebody's
garage.

I need to, uh,
ask you some questions.

If you want this to go well,

I suggest you answer
honestly.

Have you eaten anything
in the past 12 hours?

Uh, yeah.

Have you consumed alcohol?

No. Just wait a--

You had surgery before?

Yes. Please, just tell me--

Any complications?

No, no. It was Lasik.

Anything you'd like to ask
before we begin?

Why are you doing this
to me?

Now, I'm going to count
backwards from 10.

10...

Please--please--

9...

8...

7...

6...

5...

4...

[Cell door unlocks]

Good afternoon.
I'm Alex Blake with the FBI.

I'm here to see if you
can cooperate on this--

Let me see the file.

Right now it's just
a missing limb case.

Your expertise can tell us
if he's selling legs

on the black market.

We felt that to find the best,
we should go to the best.

Can you help us, Mr. Smith?

First of all,
it's Dr. Smith,

not Mr. Smith.

Second,

the only way I'll give you
my expert opinion

is if we cut a deal,
right now.

I could do that...

Or I could stop
wasting my time with you.

This guy's not doing it
for the money.

If you knew that for sure
you wouldn't be here.

What I do know is what kind
of medicine you practiced.

What do the eyes go for
in Beijing, a grand?

The skin you sent to Moscow,
that netted you what, 15?

So when you looked
at the last picture,

I know what you saw.

You saw an amateur
who could make a lot more money

if he took more
than the right leg.

After all, you did.

Listen, Agent.
[Door buzzes open]

Actually, it's doctor.

Unlike you,
I still have my degree.

But you have
a good day, Mr. Smith.

It could be dumping
the body down here

was a forensic countermeasure.

Probably, but it's the deviation
in M.O. that stumps me.

Pun intended. Two different victims,
two different amputations.

All right, so what
do you see, doctor?

This amputation
was transtibial,

but the survivor
was transfemoral.

So his leg was cut
below the knee,

and Tony's was cut above.

The cutting here
was pristine,

nerve and vascular dissection was careful,
well-ligated.

I mean, this unsub definitely
knew what he was doing medically.

I thought you said
the unsub wasn't a doctor.

I said he wasn't a surgeon,

but his knowledge
of anatomy and procedure

shows definite medical
training.

Hey, Spence.

The hole in the bone--
it's perfectly circular.

The medical examiner said
that was most likely caused by animals.

It's bored in.
It's like he drilled it.

Not with any surgical tool
that I'm familiar with.

Well, maybe this is what he's
been trying to hide from us.

[Opera plays]

Based on the way
this unsub treats his victims,

we need to look
at this case a different way.

We know it's not for profit
and we know he's not a killer.

So what is he?

A scientist, or at least he sees
himself that way.

Which means he sees his
victims as test subjects.

And if we're right,
we're not going to see

the usual signature
or consistent victimology.

There's no compulsion,
sexual or otherwise.

So there won't be
a trigger or a stressor either.

That doesn't leave
a lot to profile.

Not true. We do have
his medical technique.

And based on the remnants
of Hubbell's surgery,

I think the unsub's
experimenting.

With what?
A new way to amputate?

The hole in his knee
makes us think

it's more radical
than that.

Amputating the leg
is not the unsub's goal.

Reattaching it is.

You think this unsub's
performing transplants?

It explains why he only
wanted Tony Anders' leg.

I think
that's the experiment.

He wants to see
if he can put a foreign leg

on someone else's body.

Can you--

can you help--

can you--can you
help--

Ma'am, the doctor can't
diagnose you over the phone.

Ma'am, I don't know
what you want me to do.

You need to come in.

The doctor can't
diagnose you over the phone.

Please...
I need someone...

No, ma'am, I'm sorry.
You need to come in.

Somebody help me!

Hey, sir, what's your problem?

It's my leg.

Ok, does it hurt?

No, it's been cut.

Ok. Can you get me
some scissors?

Ok, what happened?
Did you cut it?

No.

It's not...

My...leg.

Did the camera
pick up anything?

He dropped him off
a block away.

This poor guy limped
into the hospital

on a leg
that wasn't his.

What's the note say?

The unsub helpfully
suggests

a high dose of cyclosporine
for his patient,

Carl Timmons.

It wouldn't have made
any difference.

I mean, gangrene and sepsis
had already set in.

There's nothing the hospital
could have done.

Reid, you getting
a migraine?

No. No, I haven't had one of those
for months, ever since, um...

This doesn't make
any sense, Morgan.

Well, does it ever,
Reid?

This unsub is supposed to have
a background in science, right?

Why is his science so bad?

He amputated Carl's leg,
sewed it up,

and then reopened
the sutures for transplant?

You find anything
on the knee?

He left his handiwork in
this time.

It's a surgical implant.

Maybe that's what
he was trying to perfect,

transplanting the leg
onto an amputee.

Medically impossible.

You can't graft a leg
onto someone else's stump.

Well, you and I know that,
and this guy must know that,

but maybe he just won't stop
until he succeeds.

A doctor that can't
admit he's wrong?

It's time to give
the profile.

The unsub we're looking for
is a doctor with a severe God complex.

His narcissism
makes him believe

that he can defy human
biology and anatomy.

His narcissism has likely
caused problems in his career.

So look for doctors
who've lost their licenses

or medical students
who've had ethical violations.

With a psychopath
like this,

shouldn't we also be looking
at released mental patients?

We don't think
he is a psychopath.

Psychopaths rarely have
the training and discipline

for medical school
or residency.

So this unsub won't behave
in an antisocial manner.

He's probably successful,
respectful, outgoing.

Hotch: We think that he can
maintain healthy relationships,

and his neighbors
probably know him well.

JJ: And his background
makes us think he lives

a mid- to upper class
lifestyle.

He may be married
and have kids.

If so, he would be
devoted to both.

So don't look for the weirdo
in the van with no windows.

Look for the pillars
of the community.

Yeah, but if he's so well-known,
how's he hiding these operations

from all these people?

Through a psychological
process called doubling.

He acts one way professionally,
but he acts another way at home.

It's occurred before
in history.

Like the Nazi doctors
in Auschwitz and Dachau.

They could separate
their genocidal actions

from their normal lives
as fathers, healers, and husbands.

And like the doctors
under Hitler's regime,

this unsub's sense of superiority
supersedes the Hippocratic oath.

Yes, well, the trial phase
is almost complete.

I'll, uh, I'll send it to you

once I've compiled it.

Yes. Yes, thank you.

That didn't sound good.

The investors want to see
all my data.

And you're not ready.

I came close last night,
but...

I'm in trouble.

Ok, breathe, honey.

We're gonna
get through this.

If they pull their funding--

- They won't.
- we lose everything.

The equipment in the garage,
the house.

It's not going
to happen.

How do you know that?

Because I know you.

But you have to let
yourself off the hook

if you're gonna
figure this out.

I almost had it,
you know?

That's what's
so frustrating.

If I could just get it
right one time,

you and I can--
we can lead a better life.

Honey,
I have a great life.

Don't worry about me.

Worry about those little
mice out in your lab.

Hmm. Well, I hate
to tell you,

but I've moved up from mice
in the last couple of weeks.

Ok. Whatever critters
you have out there,

I don't want to know.

But if it's a choice
between them or the house,

well, a couple more might have
to give their life up to science.

[Laughs] Oh, I love you
so much.

[Laughs]

Mmm.

Stop worrying.

Mm.

Well, these are doctors
and med students in the area,

and there are a lot of
washouts who fit the profile.

What about the prosthetic
attachment from Carl Timmons' leg?

Is there anything
identifiable on it?

Yeah. I just sent you the
chemical breakdown from our lab.

It's mostly a thick polymer

designed to withstand
the constant mobility of the leg.

So the resin
is coated in plastic?

Mm-hmm. It's a combination
of organic and inorganic materials.

That's probably
to stave off rejection.

Garcia, is the resin
biodegradable?

As a matter of fact, yes.
How is it you know everything?

All this time we assumed he's a doctor.
But what if he isn't?

What if he has the training
in cutting and stitching

but never went
to medical school?

Where do you get
training like that?

I see.

So you think this man
is a mortician.

It's one of the theories
we're pursuing.

But we think
this implant

is the key
to his training.

Is this something
your employees would use?

Yes. We use it for reattachment
on our dearly beloved.

Sometimes they come to us
in more than one piece,

and we need to perform
some...reassembly

for an open casket funeral.

The biodegradability
is for what, cremation?

Precisely.

And unlike a surgeon,

a mortician would want
to reattach a limb

at a movable joint
like a knee or an elbow?

It's easier to use dead bone
than muscle or vasculature.

[Footsteps]

Would you excuse me?

Thank you for your help.

Of course.

So, we know the unsub
got started

in a place like this,

but how's he finding
his victims now?

Well, he's equipped
his garage with medical equipment.

He might not be a doctor, but he
could be posing as one.

Look, I'm sorry,
but I can't remember

anyone like
you're talking about.

Now, just take a second
and think.

Is there any medical
care that you've had

that this guy could have
had access to.

I haven't even been sick
lately.

Did you change
doctors?

What doctor?
I'm in college.

How about student
health services?

Or an outreach
on campus.

A health drive.

Maybe you gave blood.

Wait a second.

Yeah. I give blood
all the time.

Morgan:
When was the last time?

A couple weeks ago.

It was a long line because there
was just one guy in the truck.

What did the guy
look like?

I don't remember.

I was more focused
on the needle going into my arm.

But you gave him your contact info,
your medical history.

Yeah. Absolutely.

That's how he found you.

Hi.
Hi.

You said there was
something wrong with my test?

It's probably nothing. We just
need to take another sample.

Help...

- What is wrong?
- Help me.

Please...please...

help me.

Please.

I can't.

The victim's name
is Maria Rodriguez.

First time he's operated
on a woman.

He transplanted
a left leg this time.

She died from blood loss.

There's no gangrene
on the transplanted leg,

which means
the surgery's fresh.

You think he still has
the other woman?

It justifies his haste
in dumping her here.

Why didn't he go
to the desert or a hospital?

It also means he's
speeding up his surgeries.

Reid, where are you going?

Reid.

Yeah, yeah, I'm still
combing through morticians.

Garcia, I actually
need something else.

Can you tell me where
the nearest pay phone is?

Sorry?

Pay phone.
Like a phone you pay

to make phone calls on.

Oh, my sweet analog Luddite.

That is what your cell is for.

Garcia, please.

Ok.

Someone is being mysterious.

It's gonna take me a second.

Pay phones gave gone the way
of the Dodo birds.

They don't show up
on Google maps.

All right,
try local telecoms.

Yes, I know that.
I'm doing it right now.

And there is one
5 miles away.

I just texted it
to your cell phone,

which you can also use
to call people.

Thanks much.

Alex.

Blake, wait.
Where are you going?

Hotch called. He wants us
back at the station ASAP.

Can you give me a ride
to 5th and Main? It's on the way.

Uh...yeah, sure.
What's at 5th and Main?

I need to talk
to somebody.

Uh...ok, sure.

What...

What happened?

You survived the surgery.

Quite well, in fact.

Surgery? What are you--

oh, my God.

I know.

Congratulations.

Whose--whose leg is that?

Ah. She didn't survive
the transplant.

But you did.

I can't...

I can't move it.

You will, in a few days.

Shh, shh, shh, shh.

Just relax.
[Whimpering]

Now that I've found
a suitable match,

I'll let you rest a little
before we do the next one.

No.

No, wait.

Please. Please.

Don't take my other leg!

Please!

Do you want me to wait?

Uh, you know,
it might take a while,

so I'll just take a cab back.
Thanks anyway.

Bye.

[Brakes squeal]

What's the deal?

Something's not right,
Spencer.

What do you mean?
Why did you come back?

Don't answer a question
with a question.

Look, a while back,
I had some medical issues--

headaches--and there was
a geneticist that I reached out to.

And this has to do
with the case how?

I think that my friend
might be able to help me

see something
that we missed.

You have 4 of the best minds
I know back at the station.

I know, but sometimes
a different perspective

helps me think better, ok?

Why are you being
so ambiguous?

I don't know what you mean?

You're not using words
like him or her.

You're saying things like
"they are," "my friends."

So?

It begs a bigger question.

Why did you ask me
to bring you here?

[Telephone rings]

Can we just talk
about this later, please?

No. Why not Morgan or JJ?

[Ring]
Alex, please--

Just answer the question!

[Ringing continues]

Because I don't want them
to know about her. Ok?

[Ring]

It's nothing bad,
it's just personal.

[Ring]

Ok.

[Ring]

I'm here. I'm here.

Spencer, why are you
calling me right now?

I know. I know.
It's important.

Baby girl,
what'd you find?

Sorry, my love.
There's no overlap

between morticians
and bloodmobile techs.

Most of them are volunteers.

If this guy's running
his own rig,

he's not gonna show up.

What are we missing?

At first I just thought he was
taking whoever was available.

Except he's operating
a bloodmobile.

Yes, thank you, exactly.

That's not an accident.
He's obviously using it as a cover

to screen for something,
and that's why I'm calling you.

I'm hoping that you can help me
figure out what he's screening for.

Maybe the unsub
is an amputee.

So he's working on a solution
for his own condition.

The rest of the profile applies.
He's got a God complex.

He thinks he's perfect.
Infallible, even.

Hard to maintain that
if you're missing a leg.

It's almost ironic.

Most amputees have
a healthier psychology

than this unsub.

You know, what you're describing
reminds me of Josef Mengele.

Yeah, we worked doubling
into the profile.

No, I mean Mengele's
experiments on twins.

He operated on thousands
of them. Why?

I don't know, actually.

He thought he could
repopulate Germany faster

if he could figure out a way
to get women to conceive

with multiple embryos.

So you think this guy's
pursuing his own impossible cause.

What if he's not trying to
fix himself, but somebody else?

That would fit his God complex.

Like who?

A spouse or a child, maybe.

Someone he can ultimately
heal by sacrificing these victims.

Mm.

Ah.

[Gasps]

Shh. Shh.

What is it?
Everything ok?

I need you
to see something.

Before he transplants,
he turns them into amputees.

That's part of his experiment.

What if there's a condition
the victim shares,

something involving
amputation?

It doesn't make sense.
He couldn't screen for that genetically.

Unless it's congenital, something
that caused the amputation in utero?

The way Thalidomide caused
birth defects in pregnant moms.

Exactly. So I guess
the question is,

what else causes
birth defects?

That's a long list.
Chromosomal, fetal alcohol syndrome.

What if we focused on what
causes limb deformities specifically?

Uh, rubella, herpes,
among others.

Herpes is most common,
but it isn't screened for

when you donate blood.

But there are a lot of
different strains of herpes.

You know, chickenpox,
for instance.

If a mother
isn't inoculated

and she passes the virus
in utero, can't that cause birth defects?

Yeah. Among other things,

it can lead
to limb hypoplasia.

The binding of which would
appear similar to amputation.

But if it's a condition
in the mother,

why operate on men
the first 3 times?

Those were trial runs.

Now that he's operating
on women, he thinks

he's found an answer.

Move.

[Monitor beeping]

[Breathing hard]

Move!

You ready?

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

[Panting] Ok.

Ok.

[Groans]

[Panting]

Honey, are you sure
about this?

I promise. This is everything
we've been working towards.

[Grunts]

I'm ready for you,
you son of a bitch!

Look.

There she is.

There who is?

John--

No!

No!
There who is?

What are you operating on
out here?

I had a breakthrough.

One of my subjects
survived, but she's gone!

- She's gone.
- People?

[Gasps]

You've been doing this
to people?!

Aah! John!

Aah! John! John!

Linda! Linda!

Linda!
No! Help!

[Sobbing]
What's happening?

Garcia, did you get
the mortician's records?

Ready and waiting.

Isolate the married ones.

We're looking for limb
deformities in the wife

caused by chickenpox.

That's about as narrow
as it gets.

Eureka! Linda Nelson,
married to John Nelson.

Quit his job at the funeral
home two months ago.

Sending address now.

Take Rossi and JJ.
Bring him in for questioning.

Thanks.

Aah!

Put down the scalpel.

You come any closer
and I take out her eye.

John! John!

Ok. Ok. You win.

You win.

You can go.

Go ahead.

Ok? You can walk
right out of here.

But please, just--
don't hurt her.

Go ahead.

You can just
walk right out, ok?

There's the door.

See?

Aah!

John! John, stop it!

John, don't do this.

Stop this!

This is my success,
honey.

She showed me what
I was doing wrong.

I don't care!
She's a human being.

FBI!

John Nelson,

put the needle down.

I have potassium
chloride in this.

If you don't get out of here right now,
this is a dead woman.

John, don't do this!

Doctor, the experiment
is over.

If you kill her,
no one will see your work.

My work. My work.

You don't understand.

I've perfected this.

This is my last test.

Drop it now!

Then I can fix you.

I never wanted
to be fixed.

Linda. Linda.

You are the one
that he loves.

You're the only one
that can convince him

what he's doing is wrong.

John.

John, look at me.

Huh.

It's over.

But...

I can make you better.

I'm not the one
who's sick, John.

Now drop the needle...

or I'll tell them to shoot.

[Sobs]

[Gasping]

Oh, John!

It's ok. It's ok.

On your knees.

Let's go.

JJ: "Body and soul
cannot be separated

"for purposes of treatment,
for they are one indivisible.

Sick minds must be healed
as well as sick bodies."

Dr. Jeff Miller.

Ok, kid.

Out with it.

Out with what?

Out with the weirdness

and the secrecy.

That phone call that you could
only make out of a phone booth.

I got a consultation.
What's the big deal?

Reid, you left
that crime scene

and came back
with a major break.

That's one hell of a consult.

Hmm. It was.

All right, you don't
want to talk, that's fine.

But listen.

Seriously, I--

I feel like you and I haven't
had a chance to talk in a while.

It's nobody's fault.
It happens.

But if you've got somebody
new in your life to talk to...

I'd just like to know
who she is.

She's gotta be one hell of a woman
to keep up with you.

Who told you?

Oh, just a little birdie.

You might know her.

Garcia told me.

And she says you have been
acting a little squirrelly.

So I just filled
the rest in.

I don't know what
you're talking about.

Uh-huh.

Play on, playa.

[Kissing sounds]

[Laughing]

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

So I just wanted
to say thank you.

You really helped a lot.

[Chuckles]

I can't believe we've been
able to talk this much.

3 times in one week.
That's a new record.

I know. I like it.
Maybe we could test it out.

You know, talking more often.

Or not.

Uh, I have to go.

But why?

No, it's nothing.

You're not the only one
that can hear body language.

Did I--did I say
something wrong?

I, um...

I'm just not sure it's safe
for us to talk right now.

Do you think it's going
to be like this forever?

I don't know. It's not how
I want us to be, I know that.

My team and I are really
good at what we do.

Why can't you just
let me help you?

No, you can't ask that.

I can help you.

I'm not doing this for me.
I'm doing this for you,

because I cannot let him hurt you,
because if he knew, he would--

[voice breaks]

[Crying]

Please don't cry.

I get it. I get it, ok?

This is--this is how
it has to be.

I understand.

Are you still there?

Yes. I'm still here.

And, yes, this is how
it has to be,

for today, at least.

Ok.

Well, guess I'll talk
to you next Sunday.

Bye.

Bye. Love you.

[Dial tone]

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