—[Jake awakens suddenly, wounded in an unknown desert area with no memory of who or where he is, why he has a strange bracelet on his left arm or how he became wounded. Jake has a picture of a woman in his pocket. He attempts to get the bracelet off his arm with a rock to no avail and is then found by three men on horseback and their dog. The three men surmise that Jake may be worth a bounty given that he is wounded and appears to be wearing half a hand-cuff on one wrist. Jake manages to overpower one of them, arm himself and kill the other two. He takes their clothes, guns and one of their horses. Jake puts the picture of the woman in his hat and then takes the dog with him. Jake then heads into the town of Absolution, sneaks into the back of a church, finds a few medical supplies and begins to clean himself and his wound but he is quickly discovered. The preacher, Meacham, holds Jake at gunpoint, but when Jake says he was just bandaging himself, the preacher takes pity and stiches up the wound. Jake then comes out and watches as Percy Dolarhyde messes around. When Percy comes up to Jake for a Donation, Jake punches him out. Percy then shoots a citizen by accident and is arrested. Jake then goes into the saloon.]—

Jake was sitting in the saloon drinking whiskey that had been given to him 'on the house' by the barmaid for what he'd done.* (Kneed Percy Dolarhyde in the crotch because he deserved it.) He watched as someone (you) approached him from the corner of his eye and sat down beside him, just looking at him. [Jake doesn't remember anything about who he is, what his name is, what the metal was on his wrist, or who he used to be before he woke up on the ground in the desert.]

Jake glanced over at you and cleared his throat, "I'm just here to drink." He spoke before he gulped down his glass of whiskey and poured another one. When you continued to stare at him he exhaled impatiently and looked at you again, "do I know you?" He said flatly, making it seem like more of a statement rather than a question.