Absence of the Good Page #4

by nature, is good.

So when somebody commits an evil act,

they're turning away from who they are.

Their own nature.

They cannot commit an evil act...

without the absence of good.

And that scares you?

Yes.

Have you ever seen an evil act?

Yes.

How did you know?

I knew.

Was your son's death an evil act?

That was an accident.

What's the difference?

Intention.

But the older child

brought the gun to school.

Not to hurt anyone.

Are you really that objective?

I've been through this before,

Doctor.

What would you like for me to tell you?

About my dreams?

- Do you have dreams?

- No.

He's about 30.

Very rigid, strict.

From a poor family,

but he probably lies about it.

He has an acute sense of justice, which

is why he thinks he'd be a good cop.

If he ever applied, he probably wouldn't

make it past the first interview.

Best he could do would be

a private security company.

He has trouble holding any job. He'll

say it's because no one respects him.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I'm sorry, Caleb.

So what do you think?

Jennifer.

What?

My ex-wife Jennifer.

First time I ever danced with her

was to this song.

- What year was that?

- '77.

Twenty-two years ago...

and Roger, our bus driver,

makes our boy...

to be late 20s, early 30s.

Yeah, well, it depends on

when he bought the record though.

- That's all I got.

- Okay.

Here's what I got.

Guy breaks into Lowman's house,

right, kills him...

cleans up, takes the key,

goes to Agnes' house...

does the same thing to her.

Okay. So he goes to all that trouble

to get to the box...

and then leaves it there.

Why?

He did what he came to do.

He didn't need it anymore.

Or maybe he wanted it there.

Still doesn't make him our guy.

He goes to Agnes' house, Glenn.

He goes directly to the shed.

Why?

Because he knew the box was there.

Because he put it there.

Because he lived there as a kid.

So why does he have a key

to the other house?

Follow the map. It leads back to Agnes'.

He wanted to go back.

Because he lived there first.

And he never wanted to leave.

- You realize how thin this is.

- I don't think so.

All we gotta do is place this kid

at either house at the right time.

Help me with this, Detective.

How would you define "thin"?

Lab's gotta rush

on that palm print.

What I'm saying is,

how do we know there is a kid?

This is not just some loony tune

going through his second childhood.

He's out there right now, playing

mumbly-peg with the entire neighborhood.

We don't.

We don't?

You have anything else?

Something to keep me warm at night?

Look, we're workin' on it, Lou.

We'll get you somethin'.

Please do.

-This feels right, and you know it.

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