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Our story takes you down
this shadowed path...
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to a remote and guarded building
in the English Midlands:
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Melbridge County Asylum.
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Grimly proud of its new military wing...
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which barely suffices...
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in this autumn of 1918...
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to house the shattered minds...
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of the war that was to end war.
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Now, Mr. And Mrs. Lloyd...
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I should warn you
that even if he is your son...
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he may not recognize you.
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His memory is affected,
and he has trouble with his speech:
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The result of shock.
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He was picked up by the Germans...
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in a shell hole near Arras in 1917...
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close to death
and with no means of identification.
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When he returned to consciousness
in a German hospital...
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he could remember nothing at all
of his past life.
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He had no name...
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he had no family
with whom he could correspond.
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Six months ago, he was exchanged
through Switzerland and sent here.
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I sincerely hope he proves to be your son.
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I believe that he could be cured...