Tonight's episode opens in a diner in Providence, Rhode Island, where a guy shakily drinks a glass of water across a table from a concerned woman (played by Diane Kruger, recently shot to death in a basement pub in Inglourious Basterds and who is apparently Joshua Jackson's girlfriend? Good for him!) who asks if he doesn't want some soup or tea or coffee to warm him up. He says he has trouble keeping anything down, so I guess the other diners ought to be grateful that he doesn't plan to barf anything up while they're enjoying their lattes. He thanks her for coming, since her office told him how busy she is. She nods, and says she's just trying to remember him (and maybe she's distracted by the alterna-universe-or-whatever-signifying lens flares that are going on throughout this scene). "I understand. It was a long time ago. We were just kids," he says.

She asks if that's when he thinks he was "exposed to something," and he tells her that he's seen half a dozen specialists who think that's the only answer that makes sense. She starts taking notes (under the name "Neil") and says she might be able to help him, and he clarifies that that isn't why he asked to see her: "I wasn't looking to make money," he says, and she nods like she's heard this before but explains that if someone's responsible for his illness, her firm can help. Hey, great! Maybe we can see her on television commercials that run during Jerry Springer!

Anyway, the guy says the last doctor suggested he get in touch with other kids he went to school with, to see if they're suffering from any of the same symptoms: "It might help him identify what it is that's making me sick." She apologizes and says it was so long ago that she doesn't really remember names, but then comes up with one anyway: "I do remember one boy. Lloyd, um, Lloyd Becker. He made me eat a bug on the playground. I remember him." They share a laugh about how the name "Lloyd Becker" sounds like a "budding sociopath," and while we're on the subject of daytime talk shows, maybe she can do one of those shows where you confront the bully who tormented you in school and show him that you are now all that, and then Neil reaches across the table and touches her wrist to tell her that she really appreciates her helping her.

Then she's in her SUV driving down the street and telling someone via a hands-free cellphone to make an appointment for Neil Wilson with an oncologist at Rhode Island General: "You know, the one who always calls me 'honey.'" Not that you'd ever use that to your advantage, sounds like.