We then smash cut to Jake, waking up next to Sarah in an entirely different house. Jacob was, he tells Sarah, having a nightmare about living in their dingy Brooklyn apartment. He and Sarah are still together. Even Gabe comes in asking about a noise. "I'm not going anywhere," Jacob tells him.
He does, though. Jacob awakes (again) in his bathtub back in Brooklyn. He recovers, but more confused and disoriented than ever. But a call from an old army buddy Paul (Pruitt Taylor Vince) takes him even further down the rabbit hole. Paul is squirrelly and paranoid when they meet at a local bar, claiming that people are following him, and that he's seeing terrifying apparitions — the same ones Jake is plagued with. When Paul turns on his car's ignition to leave, it explodes.
At Paul's funeral, Jake meets up with the surviving members of his unit in Vietnam. As it turns out, all of them, save one, have been having the same terrifying visions. Realizing that something is very wrong, and that all of them may be in terrible danger, they decide to get a lawyer, Geary (Jason Alexander), to help them get answers from the Army. But after initially agreeing to take their case, he abruptly refuses. Jake discovers it is because the rest of his comrades have decided to back out. When he confronts Geary at the courthouse, he tells Jake that upon investigating, he found no record that he or his friends were ever in Vietnam. They were all discharged after war games in Thailand, on psychological grounds.
