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* WideEyedIdealist: Charles admits to David that wanting to see the best in people made him vulnerable to Farouk's deception.
-->'''Charles''': You're right, it's my fault. I've been naïve. [...] See, I came here for friendship. Because I've been to war, David. I've seen what people do. But this Farouk, he... He's a monster.
-->'''Charles''': You're right, it's my fault. I've been naïve. [...] See, I came here for friendship. Because I've been to war, David. I've seen what people do. But this Farouk, he... He's a monster.
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* RedOniBlueOni: David is hot-headed and is determined to kill Farouk, whereas Charles is level-headed and wants to try diplomacy first.
-->'''David''': We need to focus. Killing Farouk. A plan.\\
'''Charles''': David, why are you here?\\
'''David''': I showed you. He ruins me.\\
'''Charles''': Well, maybe we can talk to him. Explain.
-->'''David''': We need to focus. Killing Farouk. A plan.\\
'''Charles''': David, why are you here?\\
'''David''': I showed you. He ruins me.\\
'''Charles''': Well, maybe we can talk to him. Explain.
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* RepeatCut: This occurs several times throughout the episode to demonstrate that the Time Demons are destroying the timeline, so characters sometimes repeat an action or a line of dialogue.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Farouk appears to be a genial host to his guest Charles, but this is just a façade. The Shadow King is a predator who's carefully studying his prey before he moves in for the kill, and he's attempting to lull Charles into a false sense of security.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Farouk appears to be a genial host to his guest Charles, but this is just merely a façade. The Shadow King is a predator who's carefully studying his prey before he moves in for the kill, and he's attempting to lull Charles into a false sense of security.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: In the middle of the shadow play, Farouk's tone unexpectedly becomes lower than his normal speaking voice when he says, "You should never have come" with a sinister facial expression. It's the only moment during the performance where Farouk talks in English, and he's staring directly at Charles (an Englishman); it's a subtle threat to his guest. While Charles is slightly perturbed by the line's delivery, he's unsure if it's just part of the dramatic narration or if his life is genuinely in danger.
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* FoodPorn: At Farouk's palace, the numerous bowls of Moroccan food that are served at dinner look very appetizing. He's a king, after all, so of course his meals would be sumptuous.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Farouk appears to be a genial host to his guest Charles, but this is just a façade. The Shadow King is a predator who's carefully studying his prey before he moves in for the kill, and he's attempting to lull Charles into a false sense of security.
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* SpontaneousGeneration: According to Farouk's chauffeur, the Shadow King emerged from the mud of Morocco instead of being born by human parents.
-->'''Chauffeur''': He is a remarkable being. It's said he had no parents, that the country itself birthed him from the mud.
-->'''Chauffeur''': He is a remarkable being. It's said he had no parents, that the country itself birthed him from the mud.
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** Because Charles isn't aware that teleportation is a mutant ability that David possesses, he doesn't understand how he, David and Switch were instantaneously transported from the dining room to the guest bedroom.
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** Because Charles isn't aware that teleportation is a mutant ability that David possesses, Time Eaters are gradually consuming history (which creates pockets of lost time), he doesn't understand how he, David and Switch were instantaneously transported from end up in the guest bedroom when he has no memory of them leaving the dining room to the guest bedroom.room.
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* TheVoiceless: With the exception of Habiba, the children at Farouk's palace are mute. It's never explained why they're silent, but the fact that Habiba can talk to Charles may indicate that the other kids are under Farouk's MindControl rather than because they physically can't speak.
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* BrokenBird: Because Gabrielle is a Romani Holocaust survivor who had witnessed her entire family being slaughtered by Nazis and she was also a prisoner in a concentration camp, she is ''extremely'' pessimistic. Although she's not suicidal, her conversation with Syd strongly hints that she feels that she's merely existing (rather than truly living) because of a basic survival instinct, but otherwise she's not keen about life. Gabrielle loves her husband Charles and their infant son David, and Charles has provided them with a lovely house in a safe, idyllic suburb, yet her new comfortable environment cannot erase the horrors that she has endured, nor heal the psychological wounds that they've inflicted.
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* BrokenBird: Because Gabrielle is a Romani Holocaust survivor who had witnessed her entire family being slaughtered by Nazis and she was also a prisoner in a concentration camp, she is ''extremely'' pessimistic. Although she's not suicidal, her conversation with Syd strongly hints that she feels that she's merely existing (rather than truly living) because of a basic survival instinct, but otherwise she's not keen about life. Gabrielle loves her husband Charles and their infant son David, and Charles has provided them with a lovely house mansion in a safe, idyllic suburb, yet her new comfortable environment cannot erase the horrors that she has endured, nor heal the psychological wounds that they've inflicted.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Father and son share the same grin.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Father and son share the same grin.]]
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* BrokenRecord: While Charles is visiting the mind of his son David, the latter's multiple personalities exclaim "Daddy!" non-stop. Charles is so disturbed by the growing number of Davids calling out for their father that he has to use his telepathy to escape from David's deranged psyche.
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* ArcWords: "You should never have come."
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* WhatIsGoingOn:
** Because Charles isn't aware that teleportation is a mutant ability that David possesses, he doesn't understand how he, David and Switch were instantaneously transported from the dining room to the guest bedroom.
--->'''Charles''': How did we get here? But we were just in the dining room.
** Soon after, Charles is inside David's mind, and he hears pounding from behind the various closed doors. He has no idea that his son suffers from dissociative identity disorder, so Charles is naturally confused by the noise.
--->'''Charles''': What, what is happening? What are you not telling me?
** Because Charles isn't aware that teleportation is a mutant ability that David possesses, he doesn't understand how he, David and Switch were instantaneously transported from the dining room to the guest bedroom.
--->'''Charles''': How did we get here? But we were just in the dining room.
** Soon after, Charles is inside David's mind, and he hears pounding from behind the various closed doors. He has no idea that his son suffers from dissociative identity disorder, so Charles is naturally confused by the noise.
--->'''Charles''': What, what is happening? What are you not telling me?
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* LuredIntoATrap: David explains to his father Charles that he has been caught in Farouk's web (the latter likes to think of himself as a spider).
-->'''David''': He wanted you to come. You thought you were looking for him, but he was looking for you. [...] Listen to me. Tomorrow he attacks, and you fight Farouk in the astral plane, your power against his, and you think you win. But all that happens is you kick him out of his body and into mine.\\
'''Charles''': S-So we leave. Now, we go home. Your mother, she's waiting--\\
'''David''': No, he won't let you. It's a trap. You're in a trap.
-->'''David''': He wanted you to come. You thought you were looking for him, but he was looking for you. [...] Listen to me. Tomorrow he attacks, and you fight Farouk in the astral plane, your power against his, and you think you win. But all that happens is you kick him out of his body and into mine.\\
'''Charles''': S-So we leave. Now, we go home. Your mother, she's waiting--\\
'''David''': No, he won't let you. It's a trap. You're in a trap.
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* StalkerWithoutACrush: When Charles arrives in Morocco, he's very uncomfortable with how much Farouk knows about him even though they're total strangers. Farouk's chauffeur greets Charles (who "wasn't expecting a welcome") at the Moroccan landing strip with a hand-painted portrait of the latter in his military uniform, so that means Farouk is aware that Charles is a former UsefulNotes/WorldWarII British army officer. The chauffeur then adds "And my king is most excited to meet you," to which a puzzled Charles asks "He knew I was coming?", and the driver replies "It's all he's been talking about." Farouk obviously found out that Charles was heading to Morocco and checked which flight he was on. The Shadow King's obsession with his guest becomes even more evident when they meet face-to-face because the former identifies the latter as an artist ("The ease of your lines betrays an intense discipline"), scientist, soldier and father. The last comment makes Charles especially uneasy and he inquires "You know my family?", and Farouk answers "Little David? Beautiful Gabrielle? How could I not? Your every particle practically sings about them." Before Charles can say anything further, Farouk distracts him with an invitation to dinner. As David would later point out, Farouk has lured Charles into a trap.
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* LackOfEmpathy: David ruthlessly exploits Switch's TimeTravel ability (which is ''extremely'' taxing for her body) to the point where her teeth are falling out, she experiences RapidAging, and now she's dying. He has zero regard for her well-being, and he continues to insist that she must wake up and help him even though she desperately needs to rest. Charles disapproves of David treating Switch like a tool instead of a person.
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* LackOfEmpathy: David ruthlessly exploits Switch's TimeTravel ability (which is ''extremely'' taxing for her body) to the point where her teeth are falling out, she experiences RapidAging, her face is swollen, and now she's dying. He has zero regard for her well-being, and he continues to insist that she must wake up and help him even though she desperately needs to rest. Charles disapproves of David treating Switch like a tool instead of a person.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Farouk is presented in a more negative light when he allows the children to torment his caged pet monkey for fun. After hearing it screech in protest, the compassionate Charles expresses pity at the monkey's mistreatment ("Poor creature"). Farouk then dismisses his guest's concerns about the animal's welfare ("Let [the kids] enjoy their games").
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* UnreliableNarrator: Charles is in a state of bewilderment once he arrives at Farouk's Moroccan palace, being uncertain if he can trust his eyes. For instance, the chauffeur (who was behind Charles and standing next to the car) seems to magically appear from behind a curtain at the front entrance, yet Charles never saw the chauffeur run past him to enter the palace while Charles was walking from the car to the doorway. These odd moments continue throughout the episode and enhance his sense of disorientation (e.g. Charles is eating dinner across the table from Farouk in the dining room, and then suddenly Charles is seated next to Habiba at the palace's theater while still chewing his food). As Creator/HarryLloyd elaborates in [[https://collider.com/harry-lloyd-legion-season-3-interview-charles-xavier/ this interview:]]
-->Charles, suddenly, is now in the realm of someone else with seemingly even greater powers than he. He's constantly waking up in a different place, and he feels like he's in a dream. You realize, watching Creator/DanStevens' performance, from the first two seasons, there are so many times when he seems to be reacting to something that's not there, and it's very staccato and confused, and it's almost like he's in a dream. I found this Charles, who was quite composed in [Season 3] Episode 3, suddenly becoming more like his son, in terms of how he's reacting to baffling situations.
-->Charles, suddenly, is now in the realm of someone else with seemingly even greater powers than he. He's constantly waking up in a different place, and he feels like he's in a dream. You realize, watching Creator/DanStevens' performance, from the first two seasons, there are so many times when he seems to be reacting to something that's not there, and it's very staccato and confused, and it's almost like he's in a dream. I found this Charles, who was quite composed in [Season 3] Episode 3, suddenly becoming more like his son, in terms of how he's reacting to baffling situations.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Charles is in a state of bewilderment once he arrives at Farouk's Moroccan palace, being uncertain if he can trust believe his eyes. For instance, the chauffeur (who was behind Charles and standing next to the car) seems to magically appear from behind a curtain at the front entrance, yet Charles never saw the chauffeur run past him to enter the palace while Charles was walking from the car to the doorway. These odd moments continue throughout the episode and enhance his sense of disorientation (e.g. Charles is eating dinner across the table from Farouk in the dining room, and then suddenly Charles is seated next to Habiba at the palace's theater while still chewing his food). As Creator/HarryLloyd elaborates in [[https://collider.com/harry-lloyd-legion-season-3-interview-charles-xavier/ this interview:]]
-->Charles, -->'''Lloyd''': Charles, suddenly, is now in the realm of someone else with seemingly even greater powers than he. He's constantly waking up in a different place, and he feels like he's in a dream. You realize, watching Creator/DanStevens' performance, from the first two seasons, there are so many times when he seems to be reacting to something that's not there, and it's very staccato and confused, and it's almost like he's in a dream. I found this Charles, who was quite composed in [Season 3] Episode 3, suddenly becoming more like his son, in terms of how he's reacting to baffling situations.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Charles is in a state of bewilderment once he arrives at Farouk's Moroccan palace, being uncertain if he can trust his eyes. For instance, the chauffeur (who was behind Charles and standing next to the car) seems to magically appear from behind a curtain at the front entrance, yet Charles never saw the chauffeur run past him to enter the palace while Charles was walking from the car to the doorway. These odd moments continue throughout the episode and enhance his sense of disorientation (e.g. Charles is eating dinner across the table from Farouk in the dining room, and then suddenly Charles is seated next to Habiba at the palace's theater while still chewing his food). As Creator/HarryLloyd elaborates in [[https://collider.com/harry-lloyd-legion-season-3-interview-charles-xavier/ this interview:]]
-->Charles, suddenly, is now in the realm of someone else with seemingly even greater powers than he. He's constantly waking up in a different place, and he feels like he's in a dream. You realize, watching Creator/DanStevens' performance, from the first two seasons, there are so many times when he seems to be reacting to something that's not there, and it's very staccato and confused, and it's almost like he's in a dream. I found this Charles, who was quite composed in [Season 3] Episode 3, suddenly becoming more like his son, in terms of how he's reacting to baffling situations.
-->Charles, suddenly, is now in the realm of someone else with seemingly even greater powers than he. He's constantly waking up in a different place, and he feels like he's in a dream. You realize, watching Creator/DanStevens' performance, from the first two seasons, there are so many times when he seems to be reacting to something that's not there, and it's very staccato and confused, and it's almost like he's in a dream. I found this Charles, who was quite composed in [Season 3] Episode 3, suddenly becoming more like his son, in terms of how he's reacting to baffling situations.
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-->'''David's personalities''': We're here for justice. Because you couldn't protect us.\\
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'''David's personalities''': Daddy. The leaver. The great abandoner. Who put a monster in our head and then threw us away. Adoption. Betrayal.
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* BlatantLies: When Farouk inquires about the stranger that Charles has brought to the palace, Charles introduces his time-travelling son David as an old army buddy from World War II. (This is impossible because David was born in the 1950s.)
-->'''Charles''': This is David. An old friend. He was stationed here in Morocco during the war and well, he decided to stick around.\\
'''Farouk''': So, David, where were you stationed?\\
'''David''': Mohammedia. Just outside Rabat. Came in with Operation Torch, like the rest of the meddling Americans.
-->'''Charles''': This is David. An old friend. He was stationed here in Morocco during the war and well, he decided to stick around.\\
'''Farouk''': So, David, where were you stationed?\\
'''David''': Mohammedia. Just outside Rabat. Came in with Operation Torch, like the rest of the meddling Americans.
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* LackOfEmpathy: David ruthlessly exploits Switch's TimeTravel ability (which is ''extremely'' taxing for her body) to the point where her teeth are falling out, she experiences RapidAging, and now she's dying. He has zero regard for her well-being, and he continues to insist that she must wake up and help him even though she desperately needs to rest. Charles disapproves of David treating Switch like a tool instead of a person.
-->'''Charles''': Who is she?\\
'''David''': She's... no one. She's a means of getting here. Of reaching you.\\
'''Charles''': Everyone is someone, David.
-->'''Charles''': Who is she?\\
'''David''': She's... no one. She's a means of getting here. Of reaching you.\\
'''Charles''': Everyone is someone, David.
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* BilingualBonus: The Romanian word spoken by Gabrielle is ''vrăjitoare'', which means "witch."
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-->'''Gabrielle''': My grandmother had the sickness. Spells, moods, she spoke in tongues. I remember her eyes. Miserable and giddy, like a happy death. My mother was 16 when the sickness hit her. In the witching hour, she woke up laughing. Didn't stop for 14 days.\\
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-->'''Gabrielle''': My grandmother had the sickness. She was, uh... ''vrăjitoare''. [[note]]Romanian for "witch."[[/note]] Spells, moods, she spoke in tongues. I remember her eyes. Miserable and giddy, like a happy death. My mother was 16 when the sickness hit her. In the witching hour, she woke up laughing. Didn't stop for 14 days.\\
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* CallingTheOldManOut: David (more accurately two of his multiple personalities) calls out his biological father Charles for abandoning him.
-->'''David's personalities''': We're here for justice. Because you couldn't protect us.\\
'''Charles''': Me?\\
'''David's personalities''': Daddy. The leaver. The great abandoner. Who put a monster in our head and then threw us away. Adoption. Betrayal.
-->'''David's personalities''': We're here for justice. Because you couldn't protect us.\\
'''Charles''': Me?\\
'''David's personalities''': Daddy. The leaver. The great abandoner. Who put a monster in our head and then threw us away. Adoption. Betrayal.
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* BrokenBird: Because Gabrielle is a Romani Holocaust survivor who had witnessed her entire family being slaughtered by Nazis and she was also a prisoner in a concentration camp, she is ''extremely'' pessimistic. Although she's not suicidal, her conversation with Syd strongly hints that she feels that she's merely existing (rather than truly living) because of a basic survival instinct, but otherwise she's not keen about life. Gabrielle loves her husband Charles and their infant son David, and Charles has provided them with a lovely house in a safe, idyllic suburb, yet her new comfortable environment cannot erase the horrors that she has endured, nor heal the psychological wounds that they've inflicted.
-->'''Gabrielle''': It bothers you because you think you matter. That people matter.\\
'''Syd''': What's the point of living if not?\\
'''Gabrielle''': Have you ever seen a mass grave? All people, with names, with families... now just a pile. What's the meaning of that?\\
'''Syd''': But you're here. You have a child.\\
'''Gabrielle''': All animals fight to live. Whether they want to or not.
-->'''Gabrielle''': It bothers you because you think you matter. That people matter.\\
'''Syd''': What's the point of living if not?\\
'''Gabrielle''': Have you ever seen a mass grave? All people, with names, with families... now just a pile. What's the meaning of that?\\
'''Syd''': But you're here. You have a child.\\
'''Gabrielle''': All animals fight to live. Whether they want to or not.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Gabrielle divulges to Syd that a "sickness" runs in her family, and she inherited it from her mother and grandmother. It's a form of insanity, but the show never explains exactly which mental disorder it is.
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* ArcWords: "You should never have come."
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The beginning of the end.
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* InTheBlood: Gabrielle discloses to Syd that insanity runs in her family, and Syd concludes that Gabrielle's son David got his madness from his mother.
-->'''Gabrielle''': My grandmother had the sickness. Spells, moods, she spoke in tongues. I remember her eyes. Miserable and giddy, like a happy death. My mother was 16 when the sickness hit her. In the witching hour, she woke up laughing. Didn't stop for 14 days.\\
'''Syd''': You're talking about mental illness.\\
'''Gabrielle''': Such a clinical name for something so raw. Like an animal with its heart on the outside.\\
'''Syd''': It's so odd, I never thought of that. It's hereditary, what's wrong with [David]. Why he's like this.
* NightmareSequence: While asleep on the plane ride to Morocco, Charles has a nightmare where he's watching a play where a matador kills a bull. When the matador removes the mask of the dead actor in the bull costume, it's revealed to be Charles who's lying in pools of his own blood onstage. The grotesque Devil with the Yellow Eyes suddenly appears next to him and growls, "You should never have come." Charles then abruptly wakes up out of fright.
* PreviouslyOn: "[[UnreliableNarrator Evidently, on Legion...]]"
* PsychicStatic: Farouk tries to read David's mind several times, but the latter can shield his thoughts, so the only thing that Farouk can telepathically hear is the song "Wot!" by Captain Sensible, which David plays inside his own head in order to confuse Farouk.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: David tells Charles to use his telepathy in order to determine his identity. While probing a memory in the stranger's mind, Charles then sees himself and his wife Gabrielle standing over David's crib from David's perspective, who was a baby at the time. Charles immediately realizes that the man before him is his son.
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* InTheBlood: Gabrielle discloses to Syd that insanity runs in her family, and Syd concludes that Gabrielle's son David got his madness from his mother.
-->'''Gabrielle''': My grandmother had the sickness. Spells, moods, she spoke in tongues. I remember her eyes. Miserable and giddy, like a happy death. My mother was 16 when the sickness hit her. In the witching hour, she woke up laughing. Didn't stop for 14 days.\\
'''Syd''': You're talking about mental illness.\\
'''Gabrielle''': Such a clinical name for something so raw. Like an animal with its heart on the outside.\\
'''Syd''': It's so odd, I never thought of that. It's hereditary, what's wrong with [David]. Why he's like this.
* NightmareSequence: While asleep on the plane ride to Morocco, Charles has a nightmare where he's watching a play where a matador kills a bull. When the matador removes the mask of the dead actor in the bull costume, it's revealed to be Charles who's lying in pools of his own blood onstage. The grotesque Devil with the Yellow Eyes suddenly appears next to him and growls, "You should never have come." Charles then abruptly wakes up out of fright.
* PreviouslyOn: "[[UnreliableNarrator Evidently, on Legion...]]"
* PsychicStatic: Farouk tries to read David's mind several times, but the latter can shield his thoughts, so the only thing that Farouk can telepathically hear is the song "Wot!" by Captain Sensible, which David plays inside his own head in order to confuse Farouk.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: David tells Charles to use his telepathy in order to determine his identity. While probing a memory in the stranger's mind, Charles then sees himself and his wife Gabrielle standing over David's crib from David's perspective, who was a baby at the time. Charles immediately realizes that the man before him is his son.
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