Growing up is hard.
But sometimes, making peace with the people in your life
is even harder.
And for me, it was a long journey.
I made a lot of mistakes.
Hey, what is that?
What is this? This scratch right here.
I'm sorry, sir, but that was there when you brought it in.
It took a lot of little steps,
But there was one tiny stutter,
One false move...
And I came crashing back to earth.
? The Forgotten 1x12 ? My John Original Air Date on February 9, 2010
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Hey.
Lindsey's out of town, so, um...
I thought we'd work here.
You guys can come in if you like.
Wow.
I always imagined what it would look like,
but now to finally see it, it's like...
Wow.
So, uh, do we have carte blanche?
Full access. Know what it means.
You know, like at Lindsey's, Walter can make a sandwich,
Tyler can leave the toilet seat up. That's him.
Need a plant. There's no grub.
This corkboard's weird.
Okay, soon as you guys are done investigating my apartment,
maybe we should take a look at this.
We got a John Doe, mid 20s, fell to his death
from the Loman building on Michigan Avenue
about three months ago.
Russell says the P.D. haven't gotten a tip in a month,
So, uh, she thought maybe we could help.
Or it could've been a suicide.
I mean, if that's what the police think,
It might explain why it's not really a priority.
Maybe he fell or got pushed?
that's a big building. And no one saw anything?
Nah, first of all, it happened at night around 2:00 am
And second, all the M.E. knows
Is that he fell from one of the higher floors.
Those have balconies and terraces.
Uh, where are the photos?
You don't want to see 'em.
I, uh, I had Chicago P.D. crop some of the close-ups.
These are for you.
The, uh, bones in his face were completely destroyed. Good luck.
It's not much to go on, really.
He was wearing a charcoal gray suit from hugo boss.
Those are real expensive, right? Why are you looking at me?
He was also wearing these.
That's an interesting choice. Why with the suit?
I mean, was he trying to be hip?
Or he had a job where he had to dress nice,
But you only see him from the waist up.
Like, uh, he's a news anchor.
you know what?
I have a lot of good ideas a lot of--most of the time.
Sometimes. All right. Well, maybe they're, uh,
Some kind of specialty shoes, and we'll get lucky.
Now this is for you. Whoa. Is that fish?
Not fish--snake. Snake scales.
They were embedded in his clothing.
Wow, he really was an anchorman.
Oh! We know any, uh, snake experts from the network?
We need more specifics. All right, I'll try and find one.
If not, I will become one.
Can we get some food?
Yeah, in the kitchen. Top right-hand drawer.
They're in a binder-- takeout menus.
You keep your takeout menus in a binder?
Yeah. Is that weird? Yeah.
You need a plant.
So when did Tyler say that the sketch would be ready?
Uh, tomorrow. Maybe.
It's not easy.
Huh.
Well, these would be good for you.
Those are called "straitjacket."
Is that a, uh, shoe you wear in a rubber room?
Uh, we're wondering if you sell these.
We went to a couple of mall shops, and they sent us here.
Sure. Those are radii.
We're the exclusive distributor in Chicago.
They're pretty expensive. We don't sell very many.
Uh, do you remember a guy coming in here--
About, uh, 6 feet tall, sort of brownish hair--
A few months ago?
Do you have a picture of him?
Not yet.
He might have been wearing a business suit.
Oh, yeah.
I remember that guy.
He had these outrageous moves.
When I was a kid, having the hottest kicks
Was the most important thing in the world.
And now they reminded me of the kid I used to be...
And the ones I wanted to help.
Do you remember if he said where he worked
Or, uh, why he was dressed so nicely?
These radii-- what kind of people wear them?
What are they for? Fashion, skating.
Some people just collect them and never wear them at all.
What about that guy? I don't know.
He's in here every couple of weeks.
Not the nicest guy in the world. Hmm.
excuse me.
Um, those shoes you're wearing-- they're pretty cool.
Do you know anybody else who might wear a similar type,
Maybe multicolored, like these?
We just want to talk.
Yeah, he jumped onto a fire escape?
From one fire escape to another fire escape
In, like, three seconds. He flew!
Bouncing off walls. Yeah. Just bing, bong, bing. It was crazy!
You want me to arrest him or get his autograph?
We went back to the clerk. He goes by the name "Gekko."
Picks up new shoes twice a month. Yeah, pricey shoes.
You think this guy's trouble? Or he's in Cirque du Soleil.
I'll run his name, but unless someone can track him down,
There's not much we can do. Please, please, please, please.
I just--could I speak to somebody from missing persons?
Or, uh, just a detective of some s--
I've come a long ways for this.
Uh, can I help you? Oh, yes, thank you.
Uh, this was posted by a group called the Forgotten Network,
But I thought I should come to the police instead.
My name's Bill Ramey.
I think these belong to my son.
His name was Benjamin Ramey. He was 13.
Benjy was taken from my front yard
ten years ago up in Evanston.
I live in Colorado now, but I've never stopped looking for him.
He'd be 23, graduated from college,
Working his first job.
You see, he's--he'-he's grown up in my mind.
Um, and he loved Chicago.
Mr. Ramey, I'm incredibly sorry for what happened to you,
But, uh, we haven't even posted a sketch yet.
Can you prove any of this?
Yeah. These shoes.
Benjy collected them, uh, even when he was a kid.
If they were rare or one of a kind,
He just had to have them,
And he kept all these mixed up colors.
And the hair and the eye color match Benjy's, too. Look at--
I know this sounds crazy,
But when I saw this posting..
I just knew.
Uh...
A few years ago,
I had an artist do an age progression.
That's Benjamin. That's my son.
And I believe that's the boy that you found.
And I'd like to see him.
He could be right about our Doe.
Eh, I don't know. I mean, there's no identifying marks.
There's no photo been released of our victim yet.
Here's the missing persons report.
His son did disappear. So he was telling the truth.
I just got Tyler's e-mail.
Whoa.
Hey, it's me.
You tell him to fax it over with the contract by 3:00,
or the deal is off.
Yeah, I know he said 6:00, but he's a lawyer...
He says a lot of things.
Wait, wait, Cathy...
Let me call you back.
Park who? Parkour.
L'art du déplacement.
which in english means...
it's like...
Avoiding every obstacle.
Which in english means... What--what is it? A sport? Are they competing?
they have competitions,
But it's more like a state of mind...
Or movement.
So I'm here...
And I need to go over there, right?
Now most people would just go around,
But in Parkour, you go up...
Hey! Hey, hey, hey!
And over.
What's the point? Uh, you know,
Parkour gives you a sense of--of accomplishment,
Like nothing can slow you down.
So maybe our guy was park-ing off a building and he fell off.
Parkour-ing. And in a business suit?
Well, we're gonna have to find
Some of the real dudes who do this.
If our Doe had the Parkour sneakers,
He might've been a thrill seeker.
And someone in that world knew him
And what happened to him.
Alex?
Alex Donovan? Uh, may I help you?
Yeah, the police sent me. Who are you people?
Who are you?
Maxine Denver.
And this is Simon... My brother.
This was taken three years ago.
A few months later, he just walked out of our lives.
My family did everything we could to try and find him.
I had the street smarts, big mouth.
But Simon--he had the brains. Just, he was a little lost.
Well, u're one of the top executives
for the biggest real estate developer in the city.
You seem to have done pretty well.
That didn't make it any easier on my brother.
He was already hard on himself anyway.
My mother and stepfather wanted him to be just like me,
And he wanted something else.
Did that upset him or depress him at all?
He didn't jump off that building, detective.
He was a kid. You know, he wanted to get a job,
Figure it out, go to college later.
We all grow up at different times.
I mean, I had a rolodex in sixth grade,
Simon--he had a skateboard like most kids.
Was he involved with something called Parkour?
The jumping thing. Yeah.
He was great at it.
Ever since he was a kid, he used to climb all over everything.
He wasn't bad. He was just... Trying to find his way.
I just wanted him to be happy.
Mr. Ramey.
I-I'm ready to take Benjamin's body.
Mr. Ramey, we talked about this.
Wait. Who are you? I'm Benjamin's father.
Benjamin? Simon is my brother. What is he talking about?
We're ordering D.N.A. tests. I've already done that.
Mr. Ramey, I know that.
I sent your swab in yesterday, we'll do Miss Denver's right now
And when the tests come back, we'll have our answers.
two and a half years ago--
When Simon Denver disappeared.
When will both D.N.A. tests be back?
Thanks. Uh, in a couple of days.
Um, Russell put them in as a rush.
You know, Maxine knew about Parkour--
Not just the sneakers. Yeah, but Ramey's sketch is closer than her photo.
Oh! Snake update.
Here's a tipster.
Uh, works in an animal hospital over in Highland Park.
Says she thinks it's a king cobra scale. That is just weird.
John Doe is carrying around a live, poisonous snake?
Right now our best lead are John Doe's signature sneakers.
And we need to find out where they do this Parkour thing.
Well, the problem with Parkour
Is that the "where" can be anywhere. Russell hasn't had any luck
Tracking down this Gekko character.
Maybe some of the other people who buy at that shoe store
Know him or can lead us to our Doe.
His name might have been Benjamin or Simon?
His name was bigman. He was a little before my time.
He used to hang out around here and some of the downtown parks
A few years ago, then he was gone...
Till about three or four months ago.
He looked different, like a lawyer.
But he stuck around, gave some tips to the new kids.
You do it wrong, you get hurt.
If I could teach someone how to avoid my mistakes,
I was gonna do it.
If not just on a jump or a landing,,
But in life.
Parkour is totally nonviolent,
Nonconfrontational. We build each other up.
Bigman got that. What about this guy?
Is he nonviolent, nonconfrontational?
Gekko?
He's bad news.
You know his real name? No idea.
Any idea where he hangs out?
People say he put a crew together and they're practicing
In one of those old abandoned buildings near Bucktown.
What kind of crew?
Gekko's little gang of thieves.
excuse me, sir. Has anyone asked you
About the man who fell out of the building?
The police were here a few months ago.
It was messy and traumatic and exciting,
And we don't like to talk about it.
Well, the police didn't have a sketch, did they?
Oh, yeah. I remember him. He was a hot, cute weirdo.
A hot, cute weirdo.
I saw him right over there,
Just leaning agast the wall outside the coffee shop,
Couple of times. He just kept staring at it. At what?
The building.
I was sizing it up
Because everything I needed was right inside.
His gaze was fierce.
And by "fierce," I mean determined,
Not "girl, work it out." then this other guy came up to him
And started arguing with him. This guy?
Yep. Dark and intense like a cheetah.
No idea what they were talking about, but it was not friendly.
Honestly, I thought they were about to have
A hot, cute, fierce, weird cheetah fight.
We think he had some kind of illegal animal on him
When he died.
You--you're in charge of corporate leasing, right?
I'm the property manager, that's right.
Are there any companies with offices in the building
That would specialize in that sort of thing?
Maybe import/export kind of stuff?
Retail's all on the street level.
You've seen it--bank, two restaurants, cell phones...
I can get you a list of all the businesses top to bottom.
That help? That'd be great, thanks.
We're sick about what happened here.
Hey. Some people outside saw him a few days before he died.
Sounds like he was casing the building.
And they saw Gekko with him, too. Together?
Yeah. But they might have been arguing.
Gekko was into some bad stuff. And we still don't know
What was going on between him and John Doe.
I'm gonna give Russell a call. I think she should start looking
For this Gekko character a little harder.
Hey, what are you doing here?
Wanted to see where my brother died.
Cool with that?
I'm sorry. I'm just--I'm a bit--
Listen, I get it. Uh, this is Tyler, Maxine.
What's up?
Hi. What are you guys doing here?
We're still investigating the John Doe case.
You mean my brother.
Right. Yeah.
Uh, before he disappeared, is it possible that he was involved
In some kind of illegal animal smuggling operation?
Are you kidding?
I-I don't understand. You guys aren't cops.
We work with the police. That's fine,
But I'm not answering any more of your questions.
Look, we're just trying to help you.
See, that's the thing. I don't really understand why.
Because the police solve crimes. They want to know who did it.
We speak for the victims. We find out who they are
So their loved ones can find out, too.
So many people out there waiting, Maxine--
People just like you.
Hey.
Bill Ramey's here.
Uh, well, I'm with, uh, Maxine Denver right now.
Meet me at the precinct, both of you.
The D.N.A. results are in.
He's nodding. Is he nodding,
"that's my son. I understand. Thank you for telling me"?
Or "it's not my son.
He's still out there and I have to keep looking"? Maxine--
I just--I don't want to be right.
I'm not saying I want him to be right either.
Just try to take a deep breath. Okay?
it's gonna be okay.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Miss Denver, uh...
My condolences.
thank you.
wow, this is hard.
I... I gotta go see my mother and stepfather.
Of course. Of course.
Chicago P.D. Will need to speak with them as well,
As soon as it's convenient. I-I can come with you if you want.
No. I-I appreciate your help...
Ohh. But I think I'd like the police to take it from here.
I'll bring my parents by this afternoon.
thank you.
It's hard for a mother to say this,
But I-I-I think I knew this day would come.
We never knew how to get through to him, and then...
He--he just... Turned his back on us.
He didn't turn his back on you.
Really? He disappeared over two and a half years ago--
No phone call, no e-mail, nothing.
If that's not turning your back, what it? And it wasn't just us, Maxine.
He shut you out, too.
Simon always had a hard time fitting in.
All he cared about was that Parkour stuff.
Ever since he was a kid, he-- he climbed all over everything.
It was fine as a hobby,
But I tried to explain to him that he needed a real plan.
A month--a month before we lost contact with him,
Simon was arrested.
He--he broke into a high-rise downtown--
The Loman building--
The one he died at.
Wait. You didn't tell me this.
You were working on the stadium project,
The big promotion, and--and we didn't want to distract you.
I could've talked to him. I knew the developer of the building.
Simon hadn't actually stolen anything,
So we got him to drop the charges.
But we asked him to leave the house after that.
it was just a stunt.
It was stupid, and I know that now.
They kept telling me to grow up,
But I didn't know how.
The only way I could find myself was to run.
We just never thought he'd leave us altogether.
Did he have any, uh, personal disputes?
Did he owe anyone money?
I lent him money.
$2,000.
He needed it, and I gave it.
I guess it just wasn't enough.
According to Russell,
Simon had a huge fling out with his parents.
She's a pediatrician, and the stepdad's an architect.
Well, Maxine's got it all together, too.
Must have been a ton of pressure.
Well, our Doe's got his name, he's back with his parents.
But if this does become a murder investigation,
We need to take our cues from Russell. Hey.
Brownstones on the block have depreciated by 30%
Over the last five years.
Do you know you're underwater on this place? I do now.
So this is the office.
Uh, office/apartment/storage facility for takeout menus.
This is Walter Bailey, Candace Butler.
We work together. They're part of the network.
You work for free?
Whoa, we don't get paid for this?
I'm sorry about your brother.
Thank you. Simon was...
Honestly, I'm not sure anymore who he was.
But the police are calling it a suicide or an accident.
Either way, closed case.
You don't buy it?
My brother loved life, and he was too good at Parkour
And not nearly stupid enough to fall off a building.
He wasn't a criminal, either.
Someone did this to him.
Who's this guy?
Gekko. We think, uh, he was friends with Simon.
And they were seen arguing outside the Loman building
Shortly before Simon's death. he does the Parkour thing as well,
But from what we understand,
He doesn't use it for self-empowerment.
He might know what your brother was up to in Chicago.
Why haven't the police questioned him?
He might have hurt my brother.
Well, they would if they could find him.
how did you guys find him? From the Urban Kicks shoe store.
He wears the same kind of custom shoes as Simon.
Well, let's track him down. Let's follow him.
You must have a high-tech super van or something. I wish.
The salesgirl told us he just ordered a pair of shoes,
So we know he'll be back.
If you can track a car, maybe you can track a shoe.
I'll place the transmitter right here.
Yeah, I'd push that further.
You wanna wear them out?
He's transmitting.
He's, uh, he's stopped.
He's gone inside.
77 Dalton. That's an old theater.
?
He's up there.
come on! Come on! Move it!
Seth Draper,
A.K.A. Gekko.
You're a tough man to catch up with.
Unfortunately for you, when we caught up with you,
We also caught up
With about 20 stolen flat screen televisions as well.
I had nothing to do with that.
What's this about? This is about you and Simon Denver.
I didn't kill him.
I just saw him a couple times when he got back.
Got back from where?
Wherever the hell he's been
The past couple years before that.
I was with him when he got busted
On B&E at the Loman building, way back when.
After his stepdad bailed him out,
He said he was leaving Chicago to go see the world.
Well, where did he go? Who was he with?
I wasn't with him, lady.
Like I said, I only saw him a few months ago.
He was different--
The suit,
The short hair.
Complete sellout mode.
But that was all an act. How do you know?
'cause I followed him.
He was staking out the Loman and some other buildings, too.
I wanted in on it,
But he said he was doing this on his own.
Planning for "something big." that's all he would say.
Which other building?
The new loft building on Wacker--
You know, the one with the 2-inch window ledge
And the copper gutters. That's my building.
"something big."
We canvassed the park right across from your loft.
People saw him there, too.
We now have proof that Gekko's a thief.
And we know that your brother did run with him for a while,
Even if they'd never robbed anybody together.
No disrespect, but he could've been planning
To rob the Loman or even your building.
Right. In a suit? It was an expensive suit.
He had to get the money from someplace.
An expensive suit 80 people remember him wearing
Doesn't seem like the smarte choice.
my brother was afraid of almost nothing.
If he wasn't going into that building or mine...
Something was making him nervous.
Maybe he was gonna climb the Loman,
Or do some other big stunt and die trying.
What is all this "cobra" stuff? Your brother was found
With baby king cobra scales on his body.
snake wine. Look it up.
Yes, ma'am.
Snake wine.
Whole snakes steeped or infused in rice wine or grain alcohol.
Found in China and parts of Southeast Asia.
Ew.
My father and my mother divorced when we were little.
But my father served in Vietnam. He went back after the war ended
And he brought back bottles of snake wine.
It says here that it's an elixir.
It can heal all wounds. Simon and me
Broke them at the house by accident one time
When we were playing.
Mm. So you aren't perfect. I think you're perfect.
Huckles)
I think my baby brother really did see the world.
Maybe he was in China or Southeast Asia.
Maybe he brought it back as a replacement.
He'd been back about a month before he died.
Why would he still be lugging it around?
Maybe he was planning to give them to somebody. I don't know.
Oh. Hey.
Uh, okay, great. We'll be there first thing in the morning.
Russell says she just found, uh, Simon's apartment.
Huh. Snake wine.
This one plus the one that was on him.
One for his sister, one for his mother.
He had a bunch of brochures and papers
From Lincoln City Bank.
Let me guess. They have an office in the Loman building. First floor.
But he didn't have maps or floor plans--
Small business loan applications.
He wasn't gonna rob it.
He wanted to borrow money.
In the same building that he broke into three years ago.
"something big."
I couldn't wait for her to see it--
A job, a plan, a place of my own.
I'd let her down before.
She never said it, but I felt it.
He was all grown up.
I couldn't face her or talk to her,
Not just yet.
She always believed in what I could do.
It took me a lot longer to believe in myself.
Travel journals.
He loved to write.
What's this?
Oh, it's a book contract...
With a cash advance.
Huh. At least we know--we know where he got the money
For those nice suits and expensive sneakers.
We found a photosharing account,
But we haven't located a password. "harrison."
Our--our father's first name.
He passed away ten years ago.
I started on the west coast--
Portland, San Fran--
But it wasn't enough.
Bangkok, Paris, Sydney, Australia.
I got my passport stamped 20 times.
Parkour was my ticket around the world.
It paid my way and more.
I haven't been to any of these places.
But I also learned how lucky I was.
And the same skill that empowered me,
I could use it to help other people, too.
He did amazing things.
No, wait. Go back. The, uh, the last one.
That's Bill Ramey.
Bill Ramey checked out of his hotel early this morning.
He's flying to Colorado. I'm sorry I ever believed him.
We have uniforms at the airport looking for him
And we're checking flight manifests right now.
This just also came in. We, uh, spoke to his supervisor.
Apparently he stopped working there months ago,
Placed on mental health leave after threatening a coworker.
What, and you didn't check this before?
We had no reason to. This guy Ramey is a con man. He lied to your face.
I knew there was something off about him.
But his son was abducted.
I mean, that part of the story is true.
I mean, maybe, uh, his pain and anger turned into violence.
What? Why are you defending him? I'm not defending him.
I'm trying to understand him. Well, for all you know, he killed his son and my brother.
You need to find him. we're doing everything we can, Maxine, okay?
We have a patrol car parked outside your parents' house
In case he shows up. We should talk to them because if Ramey did kill her brother...
let's go.
We think Ramey knew it wasn't his son the whole time,
And we're trying to figure out why.
That's kind of sick, isn't it? Unless Simon played along.
Maybe he wanted to be part of someone else's family
Instead of ours. Stop it.
Maxine. He didn't want to be in another family.
Simon went all over the world on his own for two years.
He came back to Chicago a month before he died. He changed.
He did get an apartment, Mrs. Denver.
And, uh, it looks like he'd signed a book deal.
A book deal?
Yeah. Pictures and essays from his trip.
Two days before he died, he had a meeting
With the Lincoln City Bank. I called them.
You called them?
Yeah. He was applying for an urban redevelopment loan.
He said he was gonna combine that with the book advance
To start an afterschool program for at-risk kids.
Simon thought he had to find his own way.
Then he did.
We found Ramey.
Um...
I was in, uh, Paris two summers ago with my wife on vacation,
And there were these kids in front of the Eiffel Tower,
And they were performing all of these tricks.
Parkour. Yes, that's right. And he was with them.
There was some kind of a competition going on.
I didn't tell my wife about it at the time
'cause she wouldn't let me do it anymore. Do what?
Hope.
So I went back...
Uh, later by myself.
And we started talking,
And he said that, uh, he was from Chicago.
And he--he was very vague about his family,
Said he didn't have one anymore.
Did you tell him your suspicions?
No. But we did-- we became friends.
And I followed his travels, and, uh,
He e-mailed me when he got back to Chicago a few months ago,
And I went up to see him and I... Then I was--
I was gonna tell him the truth about who I thought he was. But you didn't.
No. We met for dinner, and I couldn't--
I just couldn't figure out what to say.
Maybe deep down,
I just didn't want to find out that I was wrong.
After that, I tried to contact him a-and I didn't hear back.
And then I saw the--the posting on the network,
And I recognized the shoes...
and I just knew it was him.
And you waited three months to claim him?
well, I... I thought somebody else would.
Look, I'm sorry.
I should've come forward sooner, but-- you told him the truth, he rejected you,
And you were angry enough to kill him. That's not what happened.
We have credit card records
Putting you in an airport hotel on November 15th.
Simon fell from the Loman building
Early the next morning.
Are we gonna find witnesses that saw you arguing with him?
I didn't kill him, detective. I thought he was my son. Until you found out he wasn't.
I mean, did you really just go to dinner, say nothing
And then just... Let it go?
Okay, after dinner, I followed him.
I had to say something. I-I had to--I had to find out.
What time was this? Mm... 9:00, 10:00 maybe.
Well, where did he go?
Up to, uh, Evanston.
Uh, there was this house
With an iron gate and ivy all around it.
It was somebody's home. I don't know whose it was.
But that's the last time I saw him. I swear.
That's our house. Simon went home.
And a few hours later, he dies in a building downtown. So either he's lying...
Or someone in your house saw your brother alive.
There's been some burglaries in the neighborhood,
So we changed the security code after Simon left.
there's no way he would' been able to get in
Without calling ahead. Considering Simon's skills and the height of this gate,
I don't think he needed much help.
Maybe you should stay here.
I'll hang with you.
we know he came to the house
The night before he died. what are you talking about?
Bill Ramey followed him here.
That's ridiculous. You believe that lunatic?
So you're standing by your story
That you haven't seen your son in two and a half years?
It's not a story. It's the truth.
And if the police dust the top of that fence for fingerprints
Or the windowpanes, they won't find any that belong to Simon?
He used to live here. Of course they will. On the outside?
How about blood upstairs or, uh, forensic evidence in this room?
Look, we know you have connections
With the Loman building.
You used them to bail him out when he was busted.
What'd you do to him that night? I want you two to leave.
He was here, wasn't he? But she wasn't.
Maxine told me that your wife was in the city,
Went to the symphony with her daughter,
Stayed in her apartment overnight.
Simon was here, and so were you.
Sam, what's happening?
Nothing.
I'm calling my lawyer.
Fine. They can meet us downtown.
They wanted me to change.
They wanted me to grow up and become a man.
Maybe I changed too much.
It was Saturday night.
My parents always went out on Saturday night.
I wanted them to come home, flip on the light
And see my face--
Their wayward son returned.
They never made things easy,
But I didn't wanna wait another moment.
I wanted to present them with a complete person,
Someone they could be proud to have as a member of the family.
I wanted it to be a surprise.
And it was...
For both of us.
It was an accident.
They why didn't you call the police?
I panicked. I...
My wife never would've forgiven me.
But I had to get rid of the evidence.
You mean the body?
So then you call your friend at the Loman?
Simon had a guest pass from the building in his pocket,
And he'd broken in there before.
I never thought they'd recognize him.
And if they did, after all the stunts he'd pulled,
They'd--they'd just think he pulled another.
Same old Simon. That's what you were counting on, huh?
But he wasn't the same.
I didn't mean to hurt anyone detective.
I wanted him to succeed as much as anyone.
But when he showed up in my house...
In the dark?
Mm.
He wasn't my son.
I left my family a boy and came back a man.
I did all the right things.
I took all the right steps.
I wanted to be worthy.
And I hope, in the end,
They'll believe that I was.
My name is Simon Denver.
Hello? Hey.
Hey, I'm headed back to the office.
I've been, ooh, n-neglectful. 7,000 e-mails or something.
Hey, you've, uh, you've had a valid excuse.
How do you balance all of this with your real job?
By not having one.
Where's the team? Well, they're out there somewhere living their lives.
Are they a team?
They're just people.
Maybe a little weird, but just people.
Right.
Well, I finished Simon's paperwork for the youth project.
I'm donating all the money to setting it up.
That's fantastic.
My brother came back to Chicago, Alex.
He stood in front of the place that I live,
And he could've called my name out any day of the week,
And I would've heard it.
I could've spent the rest of my life
Wondering why he didn't reach out.
But because of all of this, all of you,
I understand my brother.
I know why he wanted to wait,
And I know how much he loved me.
I'm--I'm glad that we could help.
Maybe I could, uh, help, too.
What do I need to do?
Well, you just, uh, show up.
See you around.
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