- A reformed alcoholic is visited by his young son Jerry; but he doesn't have a son called Jerry.
- Alan Coombs is working at the office of a real estate agency with his co-worker Brad that offers a drink to him before leaving, but he refuses. When Brad is leaving the office, Alan's young son Jerry arrives to meet his father and enters the office. However, Alan does not have a son named Jerry and takes him to the police precinct believing he is participating of a prank. When he arrives at home, his wife Sharon, and his teenage son Petey are ready to have dinner, but a police officer calls Sharon and brings Jerry home. Alan asks who the boy is and Sharon and Petey believe he is drinking and hallucinating again. Who is Jerry?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Alan Coombs (Vic Tayback) has recently started working at an office. He's been quite successful after recovering from his alcoholism. When his colleague Brad (Jon Jacobs) offers him a drink, he just says no, and his colleague drinks both glasses of staff. Jerry (Chris Hebert) appears and asks Brad whether Al Coombs is here. When Jerry talks to Al, he calls him "dad". Al takes Jerry to the police station as he hasn't seen him ever before.
Back home, Sharon Coombs (Kelly Jean Peters) is preparing dinners and talking to her eldest son Petey (Billy Jacoby-Jayne). The police call on her, as they've got her son Jerry there. Al is frustrated when Sharon starts telling him how he could have done that to his kid. Jerry talks about the colleague who smelled like having drunk alcohol. Al remembers Petey, but not Jerry. Sharon threatens Al when both of their children have gone to their rooms to sleep. Al can't remember Jerry at all, and Sharon tells him that she's not going to put up with his alcoholic behaviour again, that she will leave him for good with the children. That night, Al goes to present his excuses to Petey, but it's Jerry in his room.
The following morning, at the breakfast table, only Sharon and Jerry are present. Petey had asked his mother to spend the night at a friend's, and that's why he isn't there. Al asks Jerry when his birthday is, and where he was given birth (at a local hospital nearby). When Alan goes to the office, as usual, he's got an unkempt look to him. He's a bit late, but his colleague tells him that Alan went home two days ago, and that his successful business has been cancelled as the lady who wanted to buy the property liked Al best. .
Sharon phones Al in his office, to say that she's leaving him as she can't put with all that misery again. Al knows that he's lost his job... again. He goes home and finds it empty. He has a vision of Sharon and Jerry talking about how Al betrayed them because of his alcoholism. After the vision, Al starts tearing the place to pieces. He finds a bottle of whiskey and finally drinks it up. The following morning, he is in a terrible bad shape on a dirty bed in an empty room.
Later, another day, Brad offers a drink to the most successful realty seller of the office, but the new worker, Roger Johnson (Paul Jenkins) refuses it. So Brad drinks both drinks again.
When Brad is leaving, Jerry enters again, and asks to talk to his father, Roger Johnson. Roger can't recognise Jerry as his son as well.
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