His parole officer, Brody (Patricia Clarkson) is suspicious of him, and alludes to a violent crime committed by him and his older brother, Alex. Tom suffers from hallucinations of his late father and his father's dog, hears noises throughout the house, and receives calls from a stranger with a garbled voice, which make him believe that he is relapsing. While swimming in his indoor pool, he has a vision of a girl being drowned, and when the pool closes on him prematurely, he checks its control panel and discovers a tongue preserved in a mason jar, which he writes off as another hallucination.