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Over here.

We just pulled

this from the river.

Oh Jesus.

Is this Elliot's?

Yes.

Was he wearing it?

I... I don't know.

Mrs. Walters,

this isn't anything for sure.

No! No! Oh no!

My baby!

I'm so, so sorry.

Yea no she doesn't

want anything.

Well you know,

I'm just gonna make some

anyhow and just in

case she changes her

mind and David will eat

it if she doesn't.

How is she?

She's hanging in there.

Breaks my heart to

see her like this.

I know. I know.

Maybe you should go

and talk to her.

What would I say?

I told you so?

I mean I've been

harping on her so much

lately and anything

I say would...

just sound disingenuous.

I guess there's not

much we can say...

just let her know

we're there for her.

Jo.

Jo, can I come in?

Jo.

Please Ben, not right now.

You know your Dad

said I should talk to you.

Remind me to thank him later.

I know I'm the last

person you wanna see light now.

I just have to tell

you how sorry I am...

About everything.

And I know you told me

not to come over...

I just feel like... everything

that happened is my fault.

This never would

have happened...

if I just listened to you.

K, Ben I know this might be hard

for you to understand but...

Listen I can't run from this.

I can't keep making

excuses for myself.

No matter what you did it was

my job to take care of him.

And I failed.

I'm not making excuses.

I knew Elliot and

I feel horrible.

God.

I just can't believe

he's gone...

You know you don't

even know that.

He could have made it

to the other side.

Maybe wandering in

the woods somewhere.

I know it sounds far out but...

We could go looking for him...

and it would be that crazy.

And at least you'd

be out of here

and you'd be doing something.

K, stop it Ben.

No, this is the child

predator capitol of the world.

K, Ben you're not helping.

Actually...

while I was waiting

for you to come to work,

me, Trey and Josh were

on the rope swing...

and there was this

guy out there...

this strange guy.

We thought he was

pretending to fish.

Wow... a strange guy?

Fishing?

I know. Listen, listen to me.

I did a super fly

off the top and

I almost landed on his line...

and there was nothing on it,

there was no bait, no lure...

So I started watching

him and he just

kept casting his line

out over and over

but there was nothing on it,

he never put anything on it...

I just kept thinking,

dude you're

not gonna catch

anything that way!

What did this guy look like?

Hey.

Hey.

Where's Mom?

She took David shopping.

She'll be back in a little bit.

It's good to see you

out of your room.

I keep hoping to wake up and

this will all just

be a bad dream.

I know kiddo. I know.

What happened Dad?

I mean honestly it seemed

like just last week...

I was gonna get a

track scholarship,

school was great,

running was great...

Ben and I were... we were happy.

And now...

God...

I just want my life back.

I know baby.

It won't ever be

like that again will it?

No

I'm afraid it won't.

Nice pep talk Dad.

Well wait, what do

you want me to say?

Everything's gonna be great...

Life's gonna be

wonderful again...

Look this is

gonna be really hard.

Because you really feel...

and you really care.

And because of

that you're really

gonna have to go through this...

and all the emotions

that come with it.

It's gonna be tough.

But I know that you're tough...

and your Mom and Dad

love you very much...

and we're gonna be here

for you no matter what, ok?

Ben cheated on me Dad.

Oh God...

I'm sorry baby.

I mean that lead

to Ben coming over...

to us fighting... to Elliot.

If that didn't happen...

I'm so hurt, so frustrated.

I know, I know baby.

If that didn't happen

everything... would be so...

would be so different now...

in so many ways.

No, no, no, you can't look

at it that way, baby you can't.

Life's a constant

battle of what ifs...

But thing's happened.

You can't spend your time

wishing you can go back

and change this or change

that 'cause you can't.

What you can do is

you can focus on

what happened and what your role

in what happened is,

and you just try

to grow from there...

try to move on.

That's really all there is.

I just don't know if

I can forgive him Dad.

I know, I know.

You know what you need?

A job with your best friend.

I'm sure I could talk to Michele

about getting you on here.

Yea, that would

actually be really fun but...

I don't know what

to do right now...

my parents are finally

giving me space

to figure things out...

Finally.

Then I think you deserve that...

but I think you should

come here with... me.

Honestly?

I was thinking about moving to

Colorado for a little while...

just to live with my Aunt.

Just to... clear my head.

No. No, no, no, please don't

I mean I totally understand...

but no please don't.

Wait hold on one second.

Chocolate shoe...

Jess... this is Ben.

I need to talk to Jo.

She's not here.

I know she's there.

Just put her on the phone.

I don't think she

wants to talk to you.

Will you just ask her'?

Will you tell her

it's important?

Apparently you're

not safe anywhere...

Want me to tell him to get lost?

Just tell him I'm busy.

She's busy...

and just for the record Ben...

I think

it is really shitty

what you did to her.

But Jess, everything

you're telling

me I tell myself over

and over again...

Please... you didn't even

tell her it was important.

Tell her it's what we talked

about the other day...

I found him.

He says it's important

and he... found him.

Who is he talking about?

Ben, what do you mean?

I'm sitting here looking at the

back of an ice cream truck...

it says Willie Kool's Ice Cream.

K, Ben if you're just doing

this so that I'll talk to you...

That's not it.

I wanna see if

it's the same guy.

Where are you?

Hey.

Hey.

You look really good.

Thanks.

So how did you find him?

I have my ways.

One of Josh's friends

called me up...

told me where he was.

I had everybody and their

brothers looking for him.

So what are you gonna do?

I'm gonna drive up

next to this a**hole.

No, I don't want him to see me.

Then why did you come?

I mean... I wanna see him,

I just don't want him to see me.

I think that might

make this really difficult Jo.

Ben, why are you doing this?

What does that mean?

I mean are you just doing

this so that I'll talk to you?

No, I'm not doing this

just so that you'll talk to me.

Because I believe

something happened to Elliot.

I really believe that.

Wanna...

find out what.

Really?

Yes.

Ok, he's moving.

K, let's stop... Stop.

Stop!

Can't stop Jo, we

have to see his face.

Ben, I know it was him,

I can feel it was him!

I don't want him to see me!

C'mon we need to see his

face, it's gonna be ok.

Alright look at me.

Ben, stop.

Stop!

Was that him?

That's really strange.

Why what happened?

It looks like him.

He's just covered in make-up.

I knew it!

God! I knew it!

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