The former Air Force Captain John Christopher is seated at the table in interrogation looking much smaller than the lively man that had been interviewed weeks before. He looked as if he was trying to curl himself into a ball and not quite managing to. Based on his haggard appearance a person would guess that he hadn't slept in quite a long time.
Detective Lily Rush entered the interrogation room wondering if playing the sympathy card would be better than trying to break the suspect in front of her.
"I know why you're here. I knew this day would be coming since you arrived at my home." Christopher said sadly.
"Why'd you do it?" Rush asked.
"The dreams started when I learned that my wife was pregnant. I started to believe that I had been kidnapped by a bunch aliens whose leader - who was named Spock - claimed to be from a couple hundred years in the future. I believed that this Spock had told me he was letting me go because I had not yet fathered Shaun, and that he had erased my memory of the encounter and put me in an exact replica of my plane before flying away. By the time my son was born, I believed that the child was part of an alien conspiracy. The last straw for my wife was when she found me with a knife about to cut Shaun open to prove he was an alien." Christopher said.
"My wife moved back to Nebraska with her mother. I decided to get help. I checked myself into a local psychiatric hospital hoping to get treatment. The place turned out to be more of a storage facility for the mentally ill than anything. The medications didn't help and the "Group Therapy" was a joke. I ended up checking myself out. Since I had no money and nowhere to go, I ended up on the street. When I saw Mr. Vagus, I was convinced he was an alien and that he was part of some plot that involved my son." Christopher continued.
The scene changes and we find ourselves back at the motel. Mestral is heading back to his room, passing Christopher once more along the way. Christopher follows him.
"I know what you are!" Christopher yells.
Mestral pauses, then decides to ignore Christopher and continue toward his room. When he reaches his room, Christopher barges in after him.
"If you need a place to sleep, you can have the bed for the rest of the night. I won't be needing it soon." Mestral said, looking at his watch before heading into the bathroom.
Christopher barges into the bathroom after him holding the knife he carried for his own protection.
"I won't let you! You and Spock can't have my Shaun!" Christopher yells as he stabs Mestral - who was in the process of refastening his pants - in the gut. The first stab was fatal. The knife had gone through a vital organ that would have been in a different spot on a human.
After a couple of minutes, Christopher begins to realize that Mestral is dead. He washes Mestral's blood off in the bathroom sink and leaves the room, taking the wallet on the nightstand on his way out.
The scene shifts and John Christopher is led out of the interrogation room in handcuffs. As he is led toward his cell, he is briefly replaced by the man he had been before his life began to spiral out of control, a brown haired blue-eyed man in his thirties wearing the uniform of a fighter pilot.
The scene shifts once more to a ship orbiting Titan. The first message it receives causes the Mission Commander Shaun Christopher to start crying for the first time in years.
The scene shifts once again and Detectives Rush, Valens, Vera and Jefferies, as well as Stillman, the retired detective Walter Marcus and Mestral's step-son Jack are standing nearby as Mestral's body is exhumed from the grave that had been donated by members of the church Detective Marcus attended.
Lily Rush and Scotty Valens both look up at the same time, and see Mestral's ghost watching them for a moment before he vanishes.