Cal got out of the car when Tony did, and has been leaning against listening to the conversation.

And it just so happens that he has a little recent experience explaining away disappearances.

"He's sick," he says. "He wouldn't go to the hospital to get checked out, so we brought my family doctor over, and now he's on bedrest with twenty-four hour nursing and strict orders to not so much as look a telephone. You're gonna need a story for the press sooner or later anyway, and Richard will back us up once I've talked to him because we pay him more for that than even a doctor should be making."