You watch him struggling to fit, and having a hard time as everyone makes fun of him and tries to make life impossible. He gets to tired that whatever is being said and done starts to mean nothing. While Tom Murphy is thankful for his mother, he spends so many nights crying because he misses his dad, and has no one, but his mother in his life. There is no one for Tom to talk to or express what he is going through. He has to stay strong for his mother, and knows how it feels to lose someone you care about, so he does not talk about the death of his biological father, Ben Crawford. There is so much we do not know about the World, and Tom Murphy is catching on fast. Before his 21^st birthday, Tom is in a horrible accident. He wakes up in a hospital bed hemorrhaging. The bleeding started on December 4^th, and he does not think much of it. He was in an accident, and is in the hospital recovering.Periodically, Tom looks down on the floor and sees pools of blood gathering below him. He figures he is dying and ready to let go. The charge nurse called Kathy, at Kaiser hospital comes in the room and tells the young man, “I do not want to scare you, but if you do not get a blood transfusion, you are going to go into shock and die.” Tom had already made up his mind that he was ready to die.

However, his father, Ben Crawford does not want to let go of him. Ben takes off of work and spends night and day by Tom’s side, and he is not ready to lose his son. Mrs. Moore, a reporter from FOX News texts Ben Crawford and says, “No parent should have to bury their child.” Ben has connections in Hollywood, so he gets Tom’s favorite actress, Paris Hilton, to come to the hospital and convince him to get a blood transfusion. As Tom is laying in the bed, bleeding to death from a “questionable injury,” Paris Hilton looks him and the eyes and says, “Will you please get the blood transfusion for me?” She he goes ahead. The boy had lost four pints of blood, so he was technically dead, and no one knows how he held on. They infused his blood with two pints of blood and two pints of saline. 15 December, Tom was released from the hospital. He spends time recovering and feels a little different. For the next few years, Tom’s life is a blur, he is inactive. He goes to college, and then while it Statistics class, he gets a phone called that his father, Ben Crawford, is in the hospital, and only has a few days to live. The doctors can perform this experimental treatment to save his life, but it is really expensive. So they take Ben home. While he is laying in the bed, someone pulls his air tube out. Tom hears Ben gasp for air, and everything thinks he is taking his last breath. However, as Tom looks to the floor, he noticed that someone actually pulled the air tube out of his father’s lungs.

A few years goes by, and Tom goes to China. He stays there for three years, and then comes back to America and gets an Apartment in California, but nothing seems the same. Because Tom has been busy and traveling, he does not know anyone, he tries to associate with the people in the fishing village he lives in, but they are all very violent, untrustworthy, or aloof. Tom spends time thinking about how he wishes his father was alive and talks about him all the time. As he is trying to figure a way out of this town, he spends his days writing and reading, in hopes of getting discovered. The town they live in is full of crime and corruption. However, one Summer, something changes. Tom is at the park, getting exercise, and he sees his father, but he does not believe his eyes and think someone is just impersonating him. Later that night, Tom goes out with his father’s friend, Dave. Dave gets Tom really drunk, and then suddenly, Charlie Cotton, one of his favorite celebrity reporters comes out of the blue screaming and hollering at Tom, asking him, “Why are you with this old man, he is dangerous, I see him here without you all the time?!” Charlie kisses Tom on the cheek and tells him that he thinks he is in come kind of mind control program. Tom listens, and thinks Charlie may be on to something. Tom loves Charlie because he is such a cool guy, very nice, and has a great accent. As time goes on, Tom does some research. He learns that humans do not know that much about this World and believes that the internet is allowing a parallel Universe to communicate with ours. He figures that some people are angels, some are demons, and some are humans. He also begins to understand the mind control program is code for the occult. The government has no one to explain the supernatural, so they call the program MKUltra.

Tom really wants to get away from his current living experience, but he keeps seeing his dad, so this makes him happy enough to stay. However, for some reason, Ben Crawford will not physically speak to Tom, it is almost as if he has no voice. The two telepathically communicate, and they also talk online, but never in person. Tom is afraid to approach Ben and start a conversation with him because he does not know how he will react. The people in this environment all act like they do not know what they are doing, pretend to forget the things they say, or respond violently. So Tom keeps going back to the place where he sees his dad in hopes that he will speak to him. Tom’s dad has expressed that he stays away because he does not feel like talking, but then he will show up when he does and they telepathically communicate. However, Tom is getting tired of going to their favorite meeting space, and wants a break, but still goes praying and wishing that he father would finally just open up his arms and tell him he misses him. More and more people are starting to see that Tom is fine, but that there is something wrong with the people in the town and the elected officials. Tom’s dad does express that he feels like he is being watched, and this may be why they do not verbally communicate. The longer people stay in this town, the less they have to say, as it seems words have no power. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle [you]. 1 Peter 5:10