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As Tad agrees it’s too dangerous, she’s got to get the hell out of here, they hear the noise of a gun being cocked. Jesse pulls Angie behind him to protect her; as he holds out his own gun, she asks what that was? Tad doesn’t know about them, but he votes for "sounds like a gun". As he moves toward a door, Jesse covers him and declares, “We walked right into it.” Tad turns the doorknob and they hear a distorted voice call out, “Jesse Hubbard, welcome back.” Tad, Jesse and Angie look around as the voice continues, “Been a long time, Jesse. 20 years. You're looking good for a dead man.” Jesse shouts, “Who are you?” The reply comes, “We have a lot of catching up to do.” Angie fearfully asks where the voice is coming from? Jesse demands, “Where are you? Show yourself!” Tad gestures to the door, and Jesse pushes Angie aside to safety. He and Tad point their guns and throw open the door on the count of three. “Oh, my god,” Tad gasps. Angie calls out to the men—are they okay? The distorted voice asks, “How does it feel to be back, Jesse? You miss this place?” Jesse calls to Angie that it’s okay. No one's here. It's a recording. She joins them beyond the door, and they all stare at the bulletin board with the pictures and newspaper clippings about Jesse. Angie realizes one of them is his obituary, and he agrees, it’s all him, photos and articles. Angie sees that most of them are from 20 years ago, and Tad says it’s like a shrine. Somebody worked on this. The voice continues, “Remember this place, Jesse? Have you ever seen so much of your own blood? Oh, those were the good old days, weren't they? Does it still hurt, Jesse?” Angie yanks the speaker wire from the wall and asks whose voice that was? Tad says there’s no way of knowing. It was digitally altered. Jesse says it was a setup. This whole thing was a show, “They knew we'd come.” Tad nods, like they're playing a game.

Angie moves a newspaper and exclaims, “Jesse, look.” He sees it’s his police badge. Those bastards took his police badge! Using a handkerchief so he won’t destroy any prints, Tad picks up a videotape with Jesse’s name on it and says this took a lot of effort. Check it out. They’ve got multimedia. Angie doesn’t think she wants to see it. Tad says she shouldn’t have to. He’ll take it home and take a look at it first. Jesse says no, he wants to see it now. The guy put it here for a reason. He asks Angie if she’s okay with this, and she nods, she’s staying. Tad puts the tape in, and the image of Jesse being beaten appears, along with the man’s voice, “Tell us what you know.” Jesse had insisted he didn’t know anything, and just wanted to go back to his family. “You don't have a family,” the man replied as he kicked Jesse again. In tears, Angie exclaims, “Oh, my God! Make it stop!” Jesse says no, wait. The voice… It’s the same voice they heard out there. The voice concludes, “It's time we meet again, Jess, and finish what we started 20 years ago. I'll be in touch. But next time, come alone.” Tad turns it off, and Jesse tells Angie she heard what the man wants. “Well, you're not going to give it to him?” she asks. Jesse begins, “Baby…” Angie says no, this sick game is over! Just being here is insane! This is dangerous enough! “Jesse, if you love me as much as I know you do, you won't see these people—you won't!” He’s not meeting these people anywhere! Isn’t this enough to convince him? This shrine that they made! She just saw what they did to him. They are animals! “Let me finish this,” Jesse tells her, but Angie asks, “By letting them finish you?” Jesse wants to take care of this so she and Frankie can… Angie says can what, bury him again? Jesse insists he needs to make them safe, and she asks if he has to do it on his own? She is just done with that excuse! He has to stop laying this on them being safe. That’s what took him away 20 years ago! When Jesse says he knows she’s angry, Angie exclaims after seeing all this, she wants to kill these people herself! He urges her to calm down, but she says calm down so they can go out for another shootout? That last bullet he took didn't kill him, but it could have. When Tad says it’s not going to come to that, she wonders if he can guarantee that? “No! Do you two really want to take a chance that you won't come back? For your kids to lose a father? Is that what you really want?” Jesse insists she really needs to calm down, but Angie rages that they’re talking about his life! Tad tells her they all know what a miracle it is to have him back. They all want to keep him that way, but she’s got to give them some time so they can figure out how to play this. Angie repeats “play”? So now they’re going along with their twisted game? Jesse sighs it’s not a game, but Angie says these people are monsters. He’s been saying that from the beginning. She didn't know it before, but she does now. But to meet them, on their terms? Jesse insists that’s the only way to end this. Angie doesn’t want to have this conversation ever again. She’s begging him to take this to the police. Tad thinks maybe that’s not such a terrible idea. He’d love to take a look at their database; he can see if they’ve got anything more current on Papel. Maybe he can still figure out what he wants. Jesse knows he wants to make him suffer. He wants to pick up where he left off 20 years ago, “Now, if he wanted me dead, I'd be dead. And you're right, we should get out of here.” Tad agrees, before they come across any other little surprises. He’s going to check on Krystal, Babe, and Jenny, make sure they're all right.

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