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Our next view of Dr. Crowe finds him seated on a bench with notes and briefcase, reviewing notes on a 9-year-old boy named Cole Sear, who has a diagnosis similar to that of Vincent Grey. He follows Cole to a church, introduces himself, and apologizes for missing his "appointment".

Our next view of Dr. Crowe finds him seated on a bench with notes and briefcase, reviewing notes on a 9-year-old boy named Cole Sear, who has a diagnosis similar to that of Vincent Grey. He follows Cole to a church, introduces himself, and apologizes for missing his "appointment".

In the following scene we meet Cole's divorced mother, hastily dressing as she prepares to send Cole off to school. After leaving the kitchen for a moment to fetch a tie for Cole, she is astonished to find most of the cabinet doors and drawers open with Cole still seated at the breakfast table. (This brings to mind the typical reasoning of atheists: if the [[fossil record]] appears to show that human beings and animals evolved from other forms of life, then it must be a purely natural process; no supernatural being could have done it (since the supernatural is merely an ignorant myth). Cole must have been looking for something (it couldn't be ghosts, no matter how unlikely it is that a boy could get up, open a dozen doors and drawers, and get back in his seat without even breathing hard or breaking a sweat).

In the following scene we meet Cole's divorced mother, hastily dressing as she prepares to send Cole off to school. After leaving the kitchen for a moment to fetch a tie for Cole, she is astonished to find most of the cabinet doors and drawers open with Cole still seated at the breakfast table. (This brings to mind the typical reasoning of atheists: if the [[fossil record]] appears to show that human beings and animals evolved from other forms of life, then it must be a purely natural process; no supernatural being could have done it, since the supernatural is merely an ignorant myth). Cole must have been looking for something (it couldn't be ghosts, no matter how unlikely it is that a boy could get up, open a dozen doors and drawers, and get back in his seat without even breathing hard or breaking a sweat).

Cole's mother and Dr. Crowe are seated across from each other, not talking, when the apartment door opens and Cole comes home. She tries to get him to talk, by playing a game where she says three things happened to her as if they were true, but are obviously only wishes: winning the lottery, quitting her jobs, eating a picnic and swimming all day in a fountain. Cole's things (wishes) are being picked first for kickball, winning the game, and being carried on his teammate's shoulders. Then Dr. Crowe tries a game with a similar purpose: he must guess something (pretending to "read" Cole's mind), with right or wrong guesses indicated by Cole taking a step forward or back. Right guesses win the boy's confidence, wrong guesses are actually intended to learn something about the boy:

Cole's mother and Dr. Crowe are seated across from each other, not talking, when the apartment door opens and Cole comes home. She tries to get him to talk, by playing a game where she says three things happened to her as if they were true, but are obviously only wishes: winning the lottery, quitting her jobs, eating a picnic and swimming all day in a fountain. Cole's things (wishes) are being picked first for kickball, winning the game, and being carried on his teammate's shoulders. Then Dr. Crowe tries a game with a similar purpose: he must guess something (pretending to "read" Cole's mind), with right or wrong guesses indicated by Cole taking a step forward or back. Right guesses win the boy's confidence, wrong guesses are actually intended to learn something about the boy: