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"See that shop? There's where I used to work."

Seems she works at a flower shop opposite the grocery shop of which he's a regular patron, say once a week. He can't remember anything at all and she gets all upset. He's got amnesia, it's not exactly his fault. They continue to bicker on the bike where a lapse in concentration almost had him in an accident. Again. Phew. At least that sparked something. He wanders around the almost familiar place, bumping into someone which triggers another jumbled memory of himself running along the same route. Eventually, he ends up at an apartment where two policemen are recording statements from an old woman. He slips into the building unnoticed but *gasp* someone is on his tail. Is that Walter? The place is obviously a crime scene and he paused before a cordoned area when Veronica joins him.

He doesn't recognize the place but Veronica explains that it's her home.

"This is where you live!?"

He opens the door and the crime scene triggers another jumbled memory shows him running frantically away from here - he saw her lying there dead.

"I died at my birthday. So funny." Veronica sadly adds.

"Aaah I remember a c-cake!" Cole said unexpectedly.

His memory still incomplete so he demands to know what she's expecting from him. What did he do? He saw her last - he is the only witness! Crippled with shock, he asks for more details. She doesn't remember much but she remembers seeing his face in her fading consciousness.

"I see you after I closed my eyes. That's why I'm here after you, Cole."

And he had looked surprised then.

"Ah!"

Cole gets flashes of new memory - of a masked man threatening her with a knife. He tells her there was someone else that day - the killer.

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