 Harry finds a random piece of information that leads him to track down his long-lost mother. He finds out that she s dead, but accepts the news calmly. When Christine asks him how he cannot feel loss, he coldly retorts that it s impossible to feel loss over someone who abandoned him before he ever knew her. This leads to a visit from Buddy Ryan, Harry s stepfather, who met his mother in a mental hospital... and he wasn t on the staff.