As you spent the next five years of your life in prison in place of Scott Bergson, one of your burglars, you keep replaying that moment in your head. You realized you had swapped bodies with the criminal, and you decided to just stand there like an idiot. The cops didn't believe you. Your family didn't believe you. The man in your body didn't vouch for you. You were caught, taken to trial and sentenced to ten years in prison. Finally, after all that time, you've been released for parole on good behavior.
You stand in the busy street, with just an ankle collar and the clothes on your back. The question burning in your mind is what your body is up to, and whether or not the machine is still working. Without you around, no one knows how to take care of it.
So as to avoid suspicion, you wait two weeks before approaching your old life. You get a job as a garbage man and find cheap board. A couple weeks later, while you're out on the truck, you pass by your old home, and find that it's empty, and your family has moved. After your shift, you go to the library, and a public computer in order to do a little research on your old life. By the magic of social networking, you find your parent's new address, which points to a condo in Florida.
Your sister has an apartment with a few friends, and your brother is apparently in college studying theoretical sciences. "You," are living in the same city. Working at a McDonalds, and apparently mooching off of your friend Ryan who is doing better than you are. You roll your eyes, and want to cry. Scott sure made productive use of his fresh start in life. So where's the machine? Scott might know where it is. There's no way the machine sat in your garage for five years without being discovered by someone else, so maybe your brother or sister found it and know what happened to it.
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