Oh, my God,
I can't believe this.
This is incredible.
Who we are,
what we've done.
We are Scientific Re-Patterning.
[CROWD CHEERING]
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
You know,
before I came out here today,
I was backstage working
on my speech
and I noticed
that there were no collisions.
Nobody was getting
in anyone else's way.
Everybody had
a sense of purpose,
of direction.
They belonged.
And I realized
that I was watching this pattern
where everyone knew exactly
what to do and where to be,
but without disrupting
anyone else's flow.
[♪♪♪]
They were embraced
by the same energy.
They were connected.
Connected by the pattern
that the work needs
in order for it to get done
efficiently and comfortably.
[ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS]
Hey, Danny, it's Mom.
Listen, honey.
All that stuff,
you know, that happened?
I never meant to hurt you.
Everything's gonna be all right.
Goodbye, Danielle.
I love you.
No matter what happens.
STAFFORD:
We re-pattern
through the transitions
and the precepts.
We learn to live.
We crave life.
Would you guys stand up?
These guys
have re-patterned.
[CROWD CHEERING]
They've transitioned.
Thank you, guys,
and welcome.
[CROWD CHEERING]
WOMAN:
Yeah!
STAFFORD:
Singularity,
courage,
resolution,
integrity,
pride,
and finally,
transcendence.
The goal is transcendence.
Believe ,
and be free.
[CROWD CHEERING]
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
CAROL [ON RECORDING]:
I never meant to hurt you.
Everything's
gonna be all right.
Goodbye, Danielle.
I love you.
No matter what happens.
John Stafford is responsible
for your mum's suicide attempt.
Are you asking or saying?
I'm just telling you
what you wanna hear.
My mother placed this call
from John Stafford's
office phone.
I came here prepared
to pay you whatever it takes
for you to take her away
from that man and SRP.
Why not start
at the hospital, Danielle?
I did go to the hospital first.
She's not there.
Where is she?
Back at the mother ship.
She won't speak to me.
Stafford won't let her.
Well, how do you know that?
I know it.
Trust me.
I'm gonna expose
John Stafford
for the scam artist
that he is.
All I care about
is my mother.
She says, smiling.
I beg your pardon?
What hospital
did they send your mum to?
Stanton Park.
CAL:
Loker, Torres, now.
Is he taking the case?
If he doesn't believe me,
why's he taking the case?
You had him
at "suicide."
[CAR ALARM BEEPS]
Mr. Gareth Sunderland?
Dr. Sunderland.
Can I help you?
Like you helped
Carol Ashland?
I'm sorry?
Carol Ashland.
Last night? Overdose?
Are you, uh...?
ELI: Police?
Do we need to be?
We're from
The Lightman Group.
I'm Ria Torres,
this is Eli Loker.
Maybe you've heard
of Dr. Lightman.
Oh, you have?
Good, so enough about us.
Carol Ashland.
You need more time
to think of an answer
that sounds
like the truth?
I'm not permitted
to discuss this.
Doctor-patient
confidentiality.
Gastric lavage would be
the standard treatment.
It's stomach pumping.
Batting a hundred so far,
but she's not at the hospital.
Isn't attempted suicide
an automatic three-day hold,
doctor?
A very negative approach,
if you don't mind my saying so.
It's a simple question.
Doesn't violate any laws.
I evaluated Mrs. Ashland.
She's not at risk
to herself or others.
She's receiving
the appropriate care.
Would that appropriate care
be Scientific Re-Patterning?
Three for three,
Loker, not bad.
Fear dilates the pupils,
limits visibility,
reaction times.
You might wanna
take the bus.
It seems simple at first.
Identify the negative patterns
that are holding us back.
We have to break down
the problem.
Tap the infinite energy within.
Can I get more volume
on my left monitor?
I can hardly hear myself.
CAL:
What a load
of old bollocks, John.
Your name is John,
right?
♪ Dream
Send me a sign ♪
♪ Turn back the clock
Give me some time ♪
♪ I need to break out
And make a new name ♪
♪ Let's open our eyes
To the brand new day ♪
How you doing?
You all right?
Doctors Lightman and Foster,
from the Lightman Group,
good morning.
Morning.
Dr. Sunderland called.
He's a friend
of Scientific Re-Patterning.
Oh, yeah.
STAFFORD: Welcome.
We're actually in the
same line of work, doctor.
We help people find
a positive truth.
I'll bet you do.
And then some, eh?
These are two of our initiates.
Well, our initiates
are back at the office
digging up crap
on you, mate.
How's Carol Ashland
doing?
She's doing very well.
Thanks for asking.
No. She's very well
considering.
That's what you mean,
right?
She's in a re-integration
session. Part of our program.
Oh.
Well, maybe
we should come back later.
CAL:
Yeah. With some of our
police initiates.
We're here on behalf of the
concern of Carol's daughter,
Danielle.
Right. Yes, Carol mentioned her.
She wanted her to leave SRP.
You really don't like
Danielle, do you?
Carol's come a long way.
I'm not sure why her daughter
would want her to leave.
So you have
nothing to hide at all?
Suppose I interrupt
Carol's session,
so you see her
and decide for yourselves.
Think positive.
That's what I always say.
Carol?
This is Dr. Lightman
and Dr. Foster.
Hello.
Sorry, were you
talking to me?
Only you was looking
at God over there.
Carol,
we're here on behalf
of your daughter, Danielle.
She's very worried
about you.
Please tell my daughter
not to worry.
There's--
She's always worrying.
She's as bad as my mother,
always getting into my business.
You know,
you can leave
with us right now.
If you like.
I hear you, Carol.
I really do.
Sure you didn't hear what you
wanted to hear from Carol?
Look, she's trapped in there
with those SRP robots.
Because you read it
on Stafford
when you told Carol
she was free to leave with us?
She's terrified of him.
No, what you saw
in Stafford, not Carol.
Man's a snake.
You've got nothing
on him.
When I've got nothing,
that is when
I really start to worry.
No, that's prejudice talking,
not science.
[SHOUTS]
Where are you going?
We were gonna go out
get coffee.
What's wrong
with our coffee?
I don't know.
Nothing.
Keep digging on Stafford.
You can go out
for coffee.
You don't have to do
everything he says.
He's right.
This coffee is good.
Go get the coffee
you like.
Now.
Oi, oi.
Dad, uh, this is Liam.
Liam.
No, I got nothing.
What happened Dick-I-Mean-Rick?
Shut up, Dad.
CAL: No, it's...
It's well out of order.
You're right.
You said you were
just leaving?
You asking me to leave?
Sorry. Can I just
call you later?
Yeah.
It was nice to meet you.
I hear you're writing
another book. Can't wait.
Yeah.
Don't hold your breath, son.
EMILY:
Dad, he was just being polite.
LIAM:
See you tomorrow, Em.
He seems
like a nice boy.
Does everything have
to be a confrontation?
What?
I was being nice,
you know.
Considering, you know,
I just come home from work,
you know, hard day,
nose to the grindstone and that.
I just want a little bit
of peace and quiet.
Maybe a touch
of the old telly, you know.
Just like any normal dad,
with their normal daughter.
Well, you picked
the wrong house for that.
I know what your game is.
What?
You think you can mess with me
by getting an 8-foot boyfriend
who's built like a brick.
Oh, he's a good guy.
[PHONE BEEPS]
Does he treat you well?
I think
you'd really like him, Dad.
Liam. Short for William.
Willie.
Is that a work text,
Dad?
I think
you better get going.
Can I have my hug now?
RIA:
These people all share the same
essential characteristics:
A projection of certainty,
a sense of their own
infallibility,
a sense of being called
to a global mission and so on.
We need to find SRP members
to talk to.
Or ex-members.
Find out what's going on.
Oh, yeah. I have been looking
and, uh, I found Jane Prescott.
Ex-member, very prolific
on the blogosphere.
Let's see if she wants to,
uh, come out and play.
Carol?
Oh, I want some
of what she's smoking, please.
[CHUCKLES]
Thank you for coming back,
Dr. Lightman, Dr. Foster.
I feel
the last time we met
I didn't express myself
clearly enough.
We understand.
You've been through
a lot
in the last
couple of days, Carol.
Oh, I get it.
Carol, I do,
I get it.
Shame, right?
Only you don't wanna
talk about it.
I mean, not yet,
you know, obviously.
I can take a hint.
Right. I feel like
I'll go for a nose about then.
Don't run.
Panics the initiates.
[GROANS]
I'm in the wrong game,
mate.
Oh, we're not
so different.
Well, paycheck
for starters.
How'd you get started
in this racket, then, eh?
It was
a natural transition
from work I did
earlier in my life.
Part of my personal journey.
What,
into the Fortune 500?
It's not about the money,
Dr. Lightman.
SRP is a not-for-profit
organization.
All revenue goes
toward helping people.
If you hold down anger
like that,
all right, that's like
holding down a sneeze.
Sooner or later
you're gonna get hurt, mate.
You know, your negative view
of the work isn't uncommon.
One of your acolytes
tried to kill herself
the night before last.
Let's get one thing clear.
SRP is not a religion or a cult.
We don't have acolytes.
What do you call them
then, eh?
Do you ever wonder how people
see you, Dr. Lightman?
You're gonna tell me.
You override people,
ignore them.
And then when
you feel threatened,
you get mean.
You're a bully,
Dr. Lightman.
I'm a bully.
Without acolytes.
[CHUCKLES]
[♪♪♪]
Do you mind?
This is Joan, it's okay.
I'd like her here.
Thank you, Carol.
I'm pleased
to meet you.
Why'd you
take the pills, Carol?
I can't dwell on that.
It was a mistake and now
I need to redirect my energies
to purging the negative
and focusing on the positive.
Are you happy here?
Yes, I am.
Can't you tell?
Danielle misses you.
She's very worried
about you.
"Misses" is such
a negative term,
but I hear you.
My daughter loves me
and I love her.
Carol, can you say
her name?
Don't be so distant.
Danielle.
[CHUCKLES]
Thank you.
See? We all have something
that we can offer each other.
Yeah.
Oh, of course,
of course.
I'm happy to be here.
Oi.
How you getting along
with this lot, then?
I'm moving
into the Fourth Transition.
The Fourth Transition.
What's that, then?
"Become nothing.
Embrace the void."
Well, that's better
than nothing, I suppose.
STAFFORD:
It's a process.
That's why we're all here.
Glad you could make it,
Dr. Lightman.
I would not have missed this
for the world.
Ready when you are.
STAFFORD: Carol,
let's begin with you, okay?
Tell us about your regression
to Transition Six.
I need the group
to help me.
You need help
self-delivering.
Could you explain
what you mean?
Self-delivering is when we
embrace the positive realities
that we create
for ourselves.
What's that mean, then?
It means we acknowledge
our faults,
things holding us back,
and we re-pattern.
We self-deliver.
Re-patterning is possible
for everyone.
Carol, wake up.
This is a nightmare.
[♪♪♪]
Dr. Lightman, I invited you here
to see our work,
not be a negative disruption.
Right then. Well, I think
I'll self-deliver back to work.
There's room in the van, all,
if anyone needs a lift.
Send my love to Danielle?
Tell her that
I'm where I wanna be
and there's no need
to come back.
I'm happy.
If you stick around,
he's gonna hurt you.
[♪♪♪]
CAL:
Emily?
Hey, what's going on now?
How'd this get here?
I don't know.
I've never seen it before.
How long have you
been home?
Since I last
saw you, why?
And you got absolutely no idea
how this got here?
None. What is it?
You do lock the doors and that
while I'm out, don't you?
Yeah. Why?
All right. Get dressed.
Go on.
[♪♪♪]
You know, I had
plans tonight with a friend.
All right, call
your Willie, all right?
And tell him
you can't make it.
Why?
I want you to proofread
some pages of my book.
I'll pay you.
I'll make it up to you, Em,
I promise.
You can start by
dropping the Willie joke.
Done.
All right.
So you actually
wrote some pages.
I've got
a little problem, Em.
Semicolons.
I never understood them.
But you use them anyway.
Hey, Em.
EMILY: Hey, Gillian.
They snuck this
into my house.
While Emily was there alone,
doors locked.
That ex-SRP member
is gonna be here tomorrow.
Maybe she can help.
These bastards are going down.
You mark my words.
Cal.
Whatever people
may feel personally about
John Stafford
and SRP,
it's been a great help
in my life.
And in
a lot of people's lives.
And John would never
hurt anyone.
But you left SRP.
Why?
You can leave
whenever you want.
When your course work is
finished, it's time to move on.
Broken eye contact,
hesitation.
That's a straight up lie,
Jane.
No, it's not.
I still embrace
the precepts,
but I choose to live
my own life now.
Precepts?
Defensive.
She feels attacked.
CAL:
I'm not trying to attack you,
but from the look in your eye,
you've got a story to tell.
[♪♪♪]
He's in.
I knew John.
In the beginning.
SRP started off
as a beautiful thing.
Just a few of us
exchanging ideas
on how we could
change our lives.
People got interested
and more people came.
We were doing
something special.
We were helping them.
And then what happened?
Money.
And more money, eh?
You hate the money.
Don't you?
Ruined everything.
It changed John.
He appointed himself
our leader.
My boyfriend
at the time,
Martin, he was
the first one to leave.
So where's Martin now?
There was a fire.
The police said
it was an accident.
John said it was
Martin's own negativity
that lit the fire
that killed him.
You blame Stafford.
You blame Martin.
"Blame"
is a very negative term.
You blame yourself.
I blame no one.
You blame everyone.
Head down, eyes down.
Blocking the eyes with the hand.
Shame.
Were you what they call
an initiate?
What are you suggesting?
You're the one doing that,
darling.
You still love him.
I'll always love Martin.
I'm not talking
about Martin.
Stafford's done with you,
though, right? He's through.
How old are you?
I'm 37.
You're outraged
at the fact
that you're being replaced
by younger women, right?
You ever thought of suicide?
Shame again.
Send this one home to Florida
before she goes running
back to Stafford.
Stafford's
a narcissist.
He's his own weak spot.
We wait, he'll trip himself up.
No time for that. He had
his thugs break into my house.
I called him a narcissist,
you make this about you?
Oh, that reminds me.
I want a big
wanky picture of myself
to put up in my office.
Can you just wait
until I get my purse?
You know, it's easy
to be negative.
Everything around us
is designed
to make us think
negatively.
But guess what.
We ain't buying.
Go on, say it.
CROWD:
We ain't buying it.
We ain't buying
because we know a truth
that can't be bought or sold.
I'll just bust in.
Young lady, would you
come up here?
Welcome.
Mind your bag.
That's it.
How long have you been
with us?
Eleven months.
STAFFORD: And how's it going?
Thank you.
WOMAN: Good.
I'm on the Fourth Transition.
Where's Carol?
I don't know.
No one's seen her.
STAFFORD:
I don't think they
could hear you in the back row.
WOMAN:
SRP is the best thing
I've ever done.
STAFFORD:
You can say it.
It's okay,
you're with family now.
SRP's the best thing
I've ever done. Aah!
[CROWD CHEERING]
She's disappeared?
CAL:
Yeah. And he knows it.
[♪♪♪]
CAL:
Dr. John.
Carol Ashland?
Any news?
Would you excuse me?
[CLEARS THROAT]
I don't know
where Carol Ashland is.
That's the truth
and you know it.
You wanna know
why you get up my nose?
I'm gonna
tell you anyway.
Although I don't see
any lies on your face,
also, I can't see
any truth.
I'm sure you thought
you were helping Carol
by coming here,
Dr. Lightman.
Any fear
for her safety?
I can't even
see that, can you?
Maybe Danielle
knows something.
Carol's daughter?
Danielle?
The way you said
Danielle's name just now
you seem more familiar with her
than her own mother does.
CAL:
See?
You know, even though
I don't get sweet F.A.
from your face...
...that?
That's a classic, that is.
[CLEARS THROAT]
So were you ever
a member of SRP?
Not really a question,
that one, love.
So on you go.
How did you find out?
Stafford.
He told you?
In a manner of speaking,
yeah.
I was in SRP
until a few months ago.
It just wasn't for me.
What did he do to you?
I was in the core group.
An initiate.
We had sex every day
for nearly a year.
I'd be in the middle
of something,
someone would say
John wanted me so I'd go.
Anytime, night or day.
Sometimes you wouldn't know
where you were going.
They'd send a jet
and fly you back in the morning.
At first I liked it.
I was proud of myself.
Felt like I was better
than the rest of the women.
But then I saw myself.
What I was really doing.
It got bad.
Really bad.
Some nights I would just
scratch myself.
My face.
I wanted to be ugly.
I didn't want him
to touch me.
But you didn't leave.
You couldn't.
It feels like
there's no world outside SRP.
So you come to see us
about your mum?
But it's not just her.
I wanna kill him.
It could cost you
a little extra.
What are you
so excited about?
RIA:
John Stafford loves a close-up.
Everything's right here.
He's just hard to pin down.
All the distorted
microexpressions,
so I isolated
the most obvious examples.
All right, stop.
Pan on the left.
Go back.
All right, there.
Subcutaneous muscle damage.
No wonder we couldn't
get a read on him.
You care to take a guess?
Surgery.
I was already there.
All right, calm down.
This is the first time
I've seen these.
Wanna see
what he looked like before?
Fire away.
No wonder we couldn't get
a read on him.
Meet Carl Weatherly
from Ontario.
Wanted by the RCMP since 1989
for vehicular manslaughter.
Leaving a wife and a kid.
John Stafford
is not John Stafford.
[CROWD CHEERING]
Thank you.
You are about to begin the
greatest journey of your life.
Look around you.
Meet your new family.
These people will be
with you forever.
Will be with me forever.
Well, by "forever,"
all right, what John means
is for as long as he needs
a family, you know.
Or you or
whoever, really.
Excuse me--
CAL:
How you doing? You all right?
Nice pants.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I'd like to introduce you
to John's wife, Sandy,
and his lovely daughter,
Liz.
On your feet, girls.
Who've been kind enough
to join us from Toronto,
where they've been living since
he abandoned them 14 years ago.
[CHATTERING]
[♪♪♪]
Whoo!
This is
the Stafford family.
Or rather,
the Weatherly family,
as Mr. Stafford was known
before he had to leave town.
Lovely family.
Ahem.
CAL:
John.
Very handsome.
Let's, uh, take a break.
I think we've been
invited backstage
which,
rumor has it,
is a rare honor,
you know what I mean?
Re-pattern
amongst yourselves.
Could you clear this area,
please? Please, now.
MAN:
Right away.
All right, you heard him.
Let's clear this area please.
Well, go on then,
say something.
You talk for a living,
don't you?
They came all this way.
Sandy.
Liz.
Dad.
I'm really sorry.
I was wrong to leave,
but I'm a different person now.
Wrong to leave?
Just wrong?
So everything's good now?
And young and stupid.
I thought you'd be better off
without me.
I really did.
No, he believes that.
He's probably standing there
trying to figure out how to
spin this into a positive.
I don't have to
listen to this.
She never stopped
waiting for you.
Even when
she went to college
she'd call to ask
if you'd come home.
Not even a letter.
[♪♪♪]
Nothing.
You just disappeared,
you son of a bitch.
I thought you were dead.
I hoped
you were dead.
I told Liz you had died,
but she didn't believe it.
She always believed that
she was gonna see you again.
You left us with nothing,
Carl.
Nothing.
[SOBBING]
You're seeing this
for the first time,
but I've been living with it
for 14 years.
Come, Mom.
Let's go home.
This, John Stafford,
is your life.
The only crime I've committed,
the only wrong I've done,
abandoning a woman
and her child,
was done out of youthful
ignorance and stupidity.
Only crime, my ass.
You're wanted
by the Mounties, mate.
That matter was resolved.
CAL: Oh, really?
Oh, well, I'll get right
on that one then, shall I?
No extra charge.
Look, I've got a new family
that I need to protect.
So for all their sakes,
just go.
I'll take care
of my family
and you take care
of your family.
[♪♪♪]
Are you saying something
about my family, mate?
Emily?
Em!
STAFFORD [ON RECORDING]:
The people who are problems
in our lives
will reprogram also,
become less negative.
We change others
by changing ourselves.
We find ourselves placing
expectations on others
which reflect our fears,
and have nothing--
[CAL SHOUTS]
CAL:
Get out here, now. Both of you.
We were just experimenting,
Dad.
Did you bring her here
with this bollocks?
We were trying
to understand the person
who would be
attracted to that.
Don't play with fire, all right?
Neither of you.
Ever.
Dad, seriously?
All right,
take her up to my office.
And stay there,
all right?
Both of you. I'll be back
in a couple of hours.
You got it?
[♪♪♪]
Give me the keys,
give, give me.
Here.
I don't need any more
pamphlets, mate.
Now, I'm keeping the car
for the police, all right?
Walk back to the mother ship.
Okay.
If I see you
in my neighborhood
or anywhere else for that
matter, ever again, all right,
that tire iron is gonna have
a mind of its own. Get me?
I hear you, yes.
Now, you tell John Stafford
this is over.
Okay, it's over.
But not in
a negative way, okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Marvelous.
Now, sod off.
[♪♪♪]
STAFFORD:
Call you back.
You all right, mate?
The trouble with hubris,
Mr. Weatherly,
you know,
we hold on to stuff.
Things we shouldn't.
And we keep them
in places where,
if anyone knows
our original name,
they can find them.
Where's my property?
Where's my private papers?
The cops took the lot,
mate.
What was this place for,
then?
Was it like a record
of your life history, you know?
For posterity?
You plonker, you didn't even
divorce Sandy, did you?
That's gonna cost you
an arm and a leg.
SRP was never
about the money.
Oh, what was it about then?
We helped thousands
of people.
What about
all the other ones?
Did you find
Carol Ashland?
She ran away from you.
She was
probably scared that
she'd have another go at herself
if she stuck around you.
I had something to do
with Carol's suicide attempt?
Taking an overdose
in your office, at your desk.
Saying goodbye to her daughter
on your phone.
What was that about then?
I don't know, I--
CAL:
You ran away from your family
and a manslaughter charge
in Canada.
Did you ever think
of just manning up?
Oh, well, here's your chance,
all right.
We'll call this
the Eighth Transition to jail.
First precept, knife.
The nastiest bastard
you can find in there
within your first day.
After that, I've heard
they'll leave you alone.
OFFICER:
All right, turn around.
[FOLK MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]
Liam.
Dr. Lightman.
Right you are, then.
Dr. Emily?
Dad.
What should we
talk about next then?
Semicolons?
What about sport, eh?
Dad, come on. Just because
he looks like a jock
doesn't mean that
that's all he is.
All right, Mr. Not-A-Jock.
Semicolons.
Go.
Well, you can use
a semicolon as a soft period.
By using a semicolon instead of
a period between two sentences
you show that
those two sentences
have a closer relationship
to each other
than they do
to the sentences around them.
CAL:
As in:
Emily's my daughter,
semicolon,
and I'm having a hard time
adjusting to her
being a grown-up.
Right.
I'll get tea, then.
Bunch of garbage.
Some of that SRP stuff
actually got me thinking.
I mean,
some of it makes sense.
It's common sense dressed up,
so people wanna pay for it.
There's whole shelves at mall
bookstores dedicated to that.
The trouble is men like
Stafford, they prey on you,
they make you feel like
you're lacking something
and that only
they have the answer.
Yeah.
It sounds like Lightman.
Did you get me one?
What's wrong
with the coffee here?
Nothing.
It's a lot to carry, you know,
to have to work through.
I don't think I can do it.
I don't know
what to say to her.
What Stafford did to you,
to your mother,
to all those people,
it's horrifying.
But he's a sociopath.
But we push back.
And we hold on
and we push back.
And we get help from people
who really care about us.
So take this step.
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Take all the time
you need, love.
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