26.

Henry sits in an interrogation room within the local town police precinct, and he is left there alone for a good half hour at which point the two detectives who had picked him up from room 211 at The Mulberry Hotel, enter the room.

Henry sits on one side of a rectangle metal table and the two detectives sit quietly opposite him. With his memory loss he has no way of knowing if he has done anything wrong so if an accusation comes his way, he cannot even begin to defend himself. A big cause of worry is that bag of money he awoke to, do police know of it and if they do, they it then how can Henry offer any kind of defense to any possible accusation?

At that almost complete loss for why he is here, and why he had been named as Doctor Archer; Henry speaks first.

'So ... what? Am I in some sort of trouble or something?'

'Not as such, not yet anyway' speaks one detective.

'Then I am free to go?'

'You can leave anytime you like' speaks the other detective. 'However, as we said earlier, we have questions to ask of you.'

'Such as?' asks Henry with an element of relief and a hope that his relief if not all so obvious to those before him.

'Doctor ... Doc, can I call you Doc?'

'You can call me whatever you like' says Henry trying not to be too definitive one way or the other to knowing or not knowing his actual name.

'Good, then Doc it is.'

'So, Doc ...' speaks the first detective. 'You do know you have been missing for three months now, right?'

'Missing? I don't get you ...'

'Your wife reported you missing three months ago?'

'Wait ... what? My wife?'

'You do remember your wife ...' says the first of the two detectives to have spoken. If they are looking to catch their guest off guard, then they have already done that by speaking the word wife.

'Yes ... wife' says the other detective. 'We received reports that you have been seen around town over the past couple of days and we traced you back to room 211 of The Mulberry Hotel.'

'My wife ... where is she?'

'On her way to the precinct sir, is there any reason as to why you would not want her notified of your current location?'

Henry is hesitant to answer though answer he does as his hands clench together upon the table and his focus too is upon that table. 'No, no reason at all.

'You don't sound all so convincing.'

'Could you tell us where you have been for the last three months?' the detectives continuing to alternate who speaks.

Again, Henry is hesitant to answer. 'I have been around town for the last two days ... staying at The Mulberry as you know ... before that ...'

A knock comes to this interrogation room and the door opens the instant the knock stops. Another man sticks his head into the room and speaks. 'Missus Archer is here and wanting to see her husband.'

The door bursts open and in comes a woman with whom Henry does not recognize one little bit. Before she even begins to speak it is clear that she more than seems to recognize him, so he stands to greet her unenthusiastically. This also happens a little too soon for both the detectives liking for they would like to ask their guest as to what business he had with the particular hotel room they discovered him within.

'Alex ... oh my God ... I thought you were dead ...' she hugs him the instant she gets to him and holds him tightly for a moment or two and he returns the hug, as much at a loss as he has been since he first woke two days previously.

Then she takes a step back and thumps him, then thumps him again. 'Where the hell have you been? You scared the bejaysus out of me.'

Before he can begin to answer or think of any kind of reply, the shouts of 'daddy ...' are called out. Two young children have followed this strange woman into the room and have immediately come to greet the man that see as their father. So, this is real? He has a wife and two children ...? Apparently, this is something real. Of course, this brings a multitude of questions.

Where indeed has he been for the last three months? Did he leave his wife and kids on purpose? Why? That passport he discovered in a car which had rested not so far from where he woke, why does that list him as Henry Patrick Corbin? And probably more immediately, how is he going to explain anything to his wife?

'C'mon ...' she says taking him by the hand and having given him an odd look. 'I'm taking you home and you can begin telling me everything, and you better not be in any kind of trouble.'

'You did say I am free to go, right?' Henry asks of the detectives.

'We did' one detective answers as he and his partner are in their own moment of being lost.

A move out of the room is made and as Henry gets to the door a hand reaches for his right shoulder. He stops and turns.

'You never did answer our question' a detective speaks.

'And what was that?'

'As to where you have been prior to the last two days ...'

He takes a short moment and simply says 'good morning detectives' and then Henry is on his way with his family. Things are really set to get going, for Henry has yet to take in just how the woman who has come to him is looking at him. If she is his wife then she sees that he is not quite himself, and of course, there are reasons why this is so, including some with which Henry is not aware of.

Outside the precinct and a little ways away, in the very same vehicle Henry discovered not long after waking two days prior, Red and William sit watching. Unbeknown to Henry, Red and William do observe Henry as Henry leaves the precinct holding onto a child up and against him with his right arm, another child is at his side while quite a beautiful woman moving a couple or so steps ahead of him.

Henry gets into a car with these people and the car soon begins to move off leaving the two detectives who had visited room 211 of The Mulberry Hotel standing just outside the precinct, both observing and being oblivious to the fact they are not the only observers. What else could Red and William do in this moment other than to follow the car Henry currently is in?

A distance is kept though should it really be kept? Should they let it be known that they are following Henry? Has Henry already discovered they are near? After all, he does kinda know the car Red and William are in. As it is, any number of people coming together, all suffering memory loss, must create distrust and suspicion between themselves and those they are associated with.

Red and William cannot know what is going on with Henry though it would appear he is with family so they can only wonder as to if Henry has regained some kind of memory or as to if he ever lost it to begin with. If he hasn't regained his memory, then why is he with these people even if they are family? Would he not question it rather than accept it so readily?

There is plenty for Henry to consider too in this moment if he is at all capable of contemplating anything. He is the passenger in a car he has got into though this development and what is happening could be hitting him, coming as quite the shock.

This woman, she had called Henry by the name Alex, so his possible actual name is Alex Archer, a Doctor Alexander Archer, Alexander as in Sander perhaps? The Sander fellow Henry had come across, he is or was the only one of the nine suffering memory loss not to have come to Room 211 though there was good reason for that, right? Sander had woken in a coffee shop and from there he had been taken to hospital where his life had come to an end the night previous to this morning.

Is Henry really Alex Archer? Can he really be a doctor? Then who set up that passport he had discovered? And to add to that, the passport that Blue handed Archer back in room 211 informing Archer that he in fact is Henry Patrick Corbin?

If anyone in this current moment could put two and two together then they could possibly come up with one hell of a setup, one which could be dating back three months or possibly more? This is all extremely elaborate even to a point that could not be fully thought through for as Henry had left the precinct there was another relevant person watching him, other than those who followed on from room 211, a lady with gold rimmed glasses and hair tied up in a bun towards the back of her head was keeping tabs of her own.

Red and William follow Henry to what appears to be a family home and they observe Henry enter that home with the woman and children they have also observed. At this point they make a call with the phone they have in their possession, calling back to the other phone at room 211 telling of what it is they have discovered.

There is plenty of surprise on both sides of this phone conversation and it concludes with the suggestion that Red and William should return to the hotel so return they do. Henry knows the room and who are there waiting to once again hear from him so when he is ready, as long as he does not wait overly long and does decide to return, he can come back, catch up and maybe things can possibly continue to move forwards, and that is if anything can be thought of as moving forwards.

One thing that had previously been discussed between Henry and Archer was as to making an attempt to find the true identity of a Doctor Archer by inquiring with hotel staff. This idea does not have to be completely abandoned because of what has happened with Henry, for it could be interesting to find out which of them, if either of them, had booked and paid for Room 211 the day before memory loss occurred.

Plus, a return to the building where Archer and Sue had woken separately from each other, can also still be made in an attempt to possibly acquire any further information that place may have to offer. There is also the thought, for Henry at least, that the duffel bag of money he had on awaking within a field is currently in the back of the car Red and William had been following him within. They have the keys, what if they discover the money? And on a lesser note, there is still that wonder about that passport in the car's glove compartment?

If Henry is Archer, then why is there a passport for him in the name of Henry Patrick Corbin? As he is in this moment unaware, there is also that passport Archer now has, telling Archer that he is Henry Patrick Corbin?

Either someone somewhere knows something or what once was known is currently lost and un-retrievable from the heads of up to eight people. It could be thought of as interesting; it could be thought of as odd and with the fact that all this is very real, it comes with multitudes of consequences.