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Mike
is a young man trying to discover the truth about his father. All
that his mother, Allison, ever told him was that he was a lawyer and
that he left. She refuses to tell him anything more, and gets upset
when Mike announces his transfer to a building site near her parking
enforcement patrol. She encourages him to quit the job and go to
college and to stop listening to all that jazz. Mike just smiles and
shakes his head. Later on at the construction site, Monica shows up
as a building inspector and asks Andrew, the foreman, for some
building permits. He doesn’t have them, but assures her that they
have been pulled. Monica suggests that they use the internet coffee
house to check online. Andrew sends Mike to help her. On their way
into the coffee shop they pass by Gloria who is selling record albums
from a sidewalk booth. Inside, Monica shows him how to find things on
the net. He asks can she find people? Monica doesn’t see why not, so
she begins a search for a lawyer named Simon K. Miller, Mike’s
father. Mike goes outside to look at Gloria’s records, then Monica
comes out with bad news, she can’t find Simon K. Miller. Tess, also
looking at the records, asks Gloria where she saw that name. Then she
remembers and produces an old jazz album featuring Simon K. and the
Chattanooga Express. Simon is amazed and goes inside to play the
record on the Juke Box. Once the record gets going, a local homeless
man comes in and grabs it, saying it’s his record. It’s him. Mike
has found his father, but Simon gets scared and runs. When
confronted, Allison admits that Simon was a musician, but she says
that that is why he left them. Mike tries to track him down, but soon
discovers that not only is Simon homeless, but he’s also suffering
from paranoid schizophrenia. He finds Simon and takes him home, much
to Allison’s agitation. Simon refuses to take his medicine, and in
the midst of one of his hallucinations, sets fire to Mike’s room. He
runs. When they finally find him again, it takes the angels to bring
him out of his delusion state and into the arms of his family, who
will see that he gets the help he needs.
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