Baynes couldn’t communicate well with the Japanese nurses and doctors. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tokyo was in a state of emergency, so Baynes couldn’t have anyone from the team with him. “He sent me a picture of the holes in his arm and said the doctor was checking him out and the next thing I know he’s in hospital bed and his texts were panicked,” says Daniel Moldovan, Baynes’ longtime agent. “No one could get us any answers. We were scrambling for information and trying to keep [his wife] Rachel updated in Australia. I wanted to take the next flight but at that point I couldn’t even get into Japan.”