The Cold Open: A Father-Son Relationship

It's just too much that of an off-screen character that we don't know for us to really get invested in like, oh my God, who has Ox? Is he okay? I can't. But narratively speaking, if you show us visually why we're supposed to care about Ox, then if you really have to have him essentially be the MacGuffin, then we're on board for it. What if there had been a scene like that at the beginning with Ox where it was like, here was us back adventuring in the late 1930s or whatever?" "I'm getting from this conversation is that Tricia should have done the 20th draft on the script