Character

Tal Cregg's Father

familial legacy-focused sentimental

Tal Cregg's father owned the family pocket watch, an heirloom Tal produces in the living room amid piano playing and TV commentary. Marco opens and repairs it, noting lost time—a line that doubles as comment on Tal's Alzheimer's. This detail roots the Cregg family's emotional stakes in generational continuity, where the watch evokes enduring bonds and the passage of memory across father, son, and granddaughter C.J.

2 appearances

Also known as: Tal's dad

Tal Cregg's …'s Journey

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2 moments

S4E13 · The Long Goodbye

Losing Time

Absent/past — his memory exerts sentimental pull, underscoring generational continuity and the ache of vanishing recollection.

Mentioned as the original owner of the pocket watch — his existence is evoked by Tal's line 'My dad's,' linking the physical object to lineage and loss.

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S4E13 · The Long Goodbye

Losing Time — Marco Inspects Tal's Pocket Watch

Affectionate and intermittently lucid but undercut by embarrassment and confusion; moments of pride give way to an almost embarrassed acceptance of his own faltering memory.

Tal moves from genial pianist to confused elder; he greets Marco at the door, jokes and nostalgically misremembers details (insisting Marco was in prison), plays piano while listening to the …

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