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"I didn’t say I found it I found it"

"And you did go to the residence of Mack and Jane Skozie, whom you’d never met before, and verbally harassed Mr Skozie on his front porch Is that a fair state, struggling to fit theh the holes Got them out of order, but he didn’t care Get dressed Get out of here Clear of this town

"Walking around with a potential brain injury is not on the list of ss to do," Jenkins said He had risen out of his chair

"There’s so here," Ethan said

"I know, that’s what I’ve been trying to--"

"No This town The people in it You So to sit here, let you fk withwith you, Ethan No one here is fking with you Do you have any idea how paranoid that state to determine if you’re in the throes of a psychotic episode"

"Well, I’ot theive me if I don’t take your word on that ‘An abnorenerally characterized by a loss of contact with reality’ That’s the textbook definition of psychosis, Ethan It could’ve been caused by the car accident By seeing your partner killed Or so"

"Get out of my room," Ethan said

"Ethan, your life could be--"

Ethan looked at Jenkins across the rooe, ested the real threat of violence, because the psychiatrist’s eyes ide, and for the first time, he shut up

Nurse Pam looked up from her paperwork behind the desk in the nurses’ station

"Mr Burke, what on earth are you doing up and dressed and out of bed?"

"Leaving"

"Leaving?" She said it like she didn’t comprehend the word "The hospital?"

"Wayward Pines"

"You’re in no condition to even be out of--"

"I need ht now The sheriff told ht the sheriff had them"

"No"

"You sure about that?"

"Yes"

"Well, I can put onmy time Do you knohere they are?"

"No"

Ethan turned away fro

Nurse Pam called after him

He stopped at the elevator, punched the down arrow button

She was co now--he could hear her quick footsteps on the checkered linoleum

Turned and watched her approach in that lovely throwback of a nurses’ uniform

She stopped a few feet away

He had four or five inches on her A few years as well

"I can’t let you leave, Ethan," she said "Not until we knohat’s wrong with you"

The elevator doors screeched open

Ethan backed away from the nurse into the car

"Thanks for your help, and your concern," he said, pressing G three tiured out"

"What?"