- Mary's newest witness is a security officer from Chicago named Ed Fogerty, who becomes enraged when told that his placement with WITSEC means that he cannot have visitation with his son Miles. Not wanting Ed to bolt from the program, Mary and Marshall try to arrange for Ed to have visitation with Miles that is supervised by the Marshal's Service. But they discover that the address and telephone number for Ed's ex-wife seem to be phony - and then become bewildered as they gradually conclude that Ed's son never existed.—aldanoli
- Chicago, Illinois Well, hello, darkened shipyard. Eddie the security guard checks on two guys unloading late at night. He bores them with astronomy talk, hyped to share it with his young kid. Then Eddie walks off to make his rounds. One man in the van says to the other that they've got 40 minutes. Eddie realizes he forgot his astronomy catalog back on the dock and cuts his rounds short. He finds the two guys mid-crime. One pulls a gun on Eddie. Eddie responds by putting his hand on the button of a forklift with a full load and threatening to drop it on one's fancy car. Using that leverage, he tells the guys to get in the car, which they do. One tells him to be sure to keep his mouth shut. "I will," Eddie says as they get in,"...definitely think about it." He drops the boxes on the car, trapping the men, and takes off running.
Ed Fogerty enters the program as Ed Flint.
Mary and Marshall brief Eddie on his new life. The guys were part of an international car smuggling ring, not good. Eddie asks about his son Miles. News to M & M. Mary tells him if the kid's not in the program, he can't visit. Eddie isn't happy. If he doesn't get to see his kid this weekend, he'll refuse to testify.
Mary calls the Asst. US Attorney and reams him out. Then they find the paperwork, but it's unsigned. Mary fobs it off to Eleanor to deal with.
M & M visit Eddie. They've got good news and bad news. He'll be allowed to visit Miles at a neutral location, but the contact info for his wife is no good. Her phone has been disconnected and she moved. He can't believe that she'd do this. To top it off, Mary has to take his picture of his kid.
Mary promises Eddie they'll find her.
Back at the office, they search for Caroline Fogerty, the oncology nurse. They've found no divorce paperwork, no custody papers... Eleanor walks over and Stan invites her to show them what she's got, "hon." The needle skips and everybody pauses to take in the cutie pie name, which Eleanor tries to pass off as a friendly salutation. Then she says she found no birth certificate for Miles. Which can only mean one thing. "He's Amish," Mary suggests. That, or he doesn't exist.
Mary visits Eddie, who at first doesn't believe she's serious and then, when he realizes she is, he starts hyperventilating and crying. Mary appears to believe they might exist.
Brandi walks by a homeless man on the street and sees him shaking. She asks him if he needs help.
At the office, Mary reports that Eddie believes he has a son. They think they're dealing with a mental health issue. Dr. Shelley Finkel, the psychologist who helped Mary after her kidnapping, drops by.
On the street, Brandi tries to get an ambulance to come for him, but it's taking forever. She lifts him to his feet and he tells her to go. She flags a car.
The shrink sees no mental health issues in his files and suggests they check him for a brain tumor. At the hospital, they find nothing wrong. Shelley tells Mary they have to be delicate, since the delusion might be the only thing holding Eddie together.
Shelley meets with Eddie, asking him his wife's maiden name and lots of other small details.
Marshall checks missing persons, but finds nothing. He finds that Eddie was telling the truth about his in-laws. Marshall called them and they confirmed she's an oncology nurse who was married to a guy named Ed Fogerty. She just moved to Seattle.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Brandi waits in the hospital waiting room with her new homeless friend. He's Native American and she can't understand what he keeps repeating. The nurse finally takes him back when Brandi claims he's having chest pains.
At the office, Marshall has spoken with Ed's ex. She and Ed met on a cruise, got married on the Panama Canal. The marriage lasted six months and there is no Miles. She has blue eyes, just like Eddie. Marshall and newly single Shelley share a dork moment explaining that the kid in the picture had brown eyes and couldn't be theirs.
Mary, Marshall and Shelley talk to Ed. He looked up Shelley on-line and is mad they're treating him like he's crazy. He says he needs to go think, but instead he takes off running. They lose him.
At the office, Stan has the transcript of a 911 call Ed made to report a missing person. Stan gets a call.
There was a sighting of Ed out in the middle of nowhere. They go there. Mary hops on an ATV and peels out, leaving Marshall and Shelley to dork out together.
She asks him out. "I'm flattered, but I'm in the middle of a man hunt," he says.
Mary calls. She found a trail and some disturbed rocks. She looks over the small cliff and finds Ed crumpled on the ground below.
She runs down to him. His ankle is hurt. He says he saw Miles at one point, but then he fell and hurt his ankle. She asks what he was wearing and Ed describes the same clothes from the photo.
Marshall and Shelley head back to Stan and call for a helicopter.
Night has fallen in the desert and Ed explains the stars to her. He says something is all his fault. She asks what and he says what happened to the boy in the picture. Mary walks Ed through the two-blue-eyes-can't-make-brown explanation. Ed says he doesn't know who the boy in the photo is, but he can show her where he's buried.
Chicago, one day later Search teams comb a park. Ed watches on crutches. They're two hours in and nothing. And then they find two bodies, but Ed has completely shut down and won't talk at all.
Shelley explains that Mary has to make Ed understand his new reality. She talks to him, asking him how it began. He was working in the stockyard and he heard noises from a container. They're not supposed to open them, but he did. He found "Miles" and two others. One must have been his mother because she had his picture. He buried them. He didn't leave his apartment for two weeks, he stopped eating. He says he would have died if Miles hadn't come along.
At the hospital, the nurse tells Brandi they found a blood clot, she saved his life. They brought a translator in. He's Navajo and someone from the tribal council is coming to get him. The phrase he kept repeating means "healing spirit." Brandi gathers her things to go. She sobs.
Back at Ed's Albuquerque home, Mary tells Ed they found the guys who were doing the human smuggling. She got him a new house, one with a good view of the night sky. He looks through his new telescope. "It's amazing what you can see when you open your eyes," he says.
At the office, Marshall's working late. Mary pries for date information. He and Shelley went to coffee. She was telling him about her year of singlehood after breaking up with her depressed ex, and then the ex called, crying. So much for that.
Mary brings out her office booze and pours them some. "You've still got me," she says.
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