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Lisbon hated leaving Jane but she knew that there was no point sending anyone else out to get Pete, she was their best chance at getting him to the hospital.
She bangs on the trailer door.
"Pete is Agent Lisbon, open up, Jane needs you."
She jumps when a voice comes from around the front of the trailer.
"Agent Lisbon, you're going to bang that door down and you'll have Sam's wroth to contend with. So Patrick needs my help again?"
"We found him, Mae had him. He's in hospital with numerous injuries but Mae did something to him, hypnotised him so he's has awful dreams. They are so bad they had to restrain him to stop him from hurting himself and they get worse each time."
"Wow, who would have thought that Mae was that good, I didn't thing anyone could hypnotize Patrick."
"She used drugs."
"So how can I possibly help."
"Jane said Mae used to have a booth where she did some hypnotism."
Pete scratches his head.
"Yes. Yes she did, she would roll it out occasionally,"
"Did you ever watch her?"
"Sometimes, she even hypnotised me once…to help me lose weight."
He laughs.
"I think I managed to drop fifteen pounds. As I said she wasn't very good. Those must have been some powerful drugs she gave Patrick."
"We need to know the trigger she uses so we can get a hypnotist to undo it."
"Why not ask Mae, or did you lose her?"
"She's dead."
Pete spits on the ground.
"Good riddance."
Lisbon's getting impatient.
"You're our only option."
"Okay, let me get my jacket."
As Pete goes in to the trailer, Lisbon offers up a prayer of thanks and a plea that it will help.
When Pete enters Patrick's hospital room, it's obvious that he's in real trouble. Although Patrick's never been a big man, he looks shrunken under the blankets. His features are hollow, and his complexion grey caused by pain and weariness. He still summons up a smile as he clasps eyes on him.
"Hey Pete, good of you to come."
Pete approaches the bed.
"Well what else could I do, I can never resist the charms of a beautiful woman, even if she is a cop."
Jane closes his heavy eyes momentarily, his entire body and mind is screaming at him to sleep. He's using every mind trick in the book to keep himself from falling asleep. He reluctantly opens them and then closes them once more as the room spins. He counts to five before slowly opening then again. Pete and Lisbon are standing over him looking concerned.
"Jane are you all right?"
"Shall I get some one Patrick?"
"No, I'm fine, just a little dizziness that's passed. Since your here I take it you did watch Aunt Mae do her hypnotist routine?"
"As I told your protector here, she hypnotised me once, what good it did me."
Jane feels a surge of hope boosting his energy. Everyone looks to the door as it opens and the doctor and a woman enter the room.
"Oh good, shall we have a party?"
Lisbon hushes him.
"Behave yourself Jane."
"Mr. Jane, this is Doctor Caber, she's a skilled hypnotist and is here to help you. Is this your friend."
Lisbon does the speaking for Jane, feeling she has to do something to help him.
"Yes, this is Pete. We just got here, so we haven't discovered what he knows."
Jane is staring at Doctor Caber, who steps forward.
"Hello Mr. Jane, I've heard about you and it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm not as skilled as you are at hypnotism but I hope I'll be able to help you."
Jane nods in response then turns his attention back to Pete.
"Pete what I'm looking for is when you saw Aunt Mae do her hypnotism she would have touched the subject in some way, on the shoulder, tapped the knee, placed her hand on their arm...or something like that, can you remember her doing anything like that?"
Lisbon notices Jane wincing as he moves is body slightly, she rests her hand on his arm.
"You're in pain Jane, do you want some medication."
Jane looks towards her.
"I'm fine Lisbon, the pain helps me stay awake.
He turns back to Pete, his movement slow and laboured.
"Can you remember?"
Pete shakes his head.
"I'm sorry Patty, it was so long ago."
This disappointment lays heavy in the room.
Doctor Jarvis is checking his notes and reading the machines. At the news he looks to Jane.
"Then I'm going to sedate you, you need to rest, this is hampering your recovery. We'll work on the problem while you're sleeping..."
Jane interrupts him.
"I don't want another nightmare doctor."
The desperation in his voice is clear for everyone to hear and tells Lisbon a lot about how tired he is that he's not masking it. An idea strikes her.
"Why don't we try re-enacting an hypnotism session, maybe that'll jog Pete's memory."
They all turn to look at her as if she's gone mad.
"Have Doctor Caber pretend to hypnotize me and see if Pete remembers anything."
Doctor Caber shrugs.
"Worth a shot."