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Oh, God.
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What the fuck?
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Help! Help!
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Help!
Help!
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Help! Help!
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Help!
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Okay.
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Okay.
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GENE:
Hello, Dr. Strauss.
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Uh, my name is Gene Bollinger.
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I was hoping
to get started in a course
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of psychotherapy.
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I thought you might be able
to help me
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with some of my problems.
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So, uh, yeah.
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I guess I'll call you back,
uh, if that's okay.
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I'm a little hard to reach.
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Yeah, okay, thanks.
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SHOSHANA: Hi, it's Shoshana.
Leave a message.
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-Hey, honey. It's Dad.
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Just checking in.
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I'm in sessions until 8:00.
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Bye-bye.
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What can I help you with, Gene?
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My dad beat the shit out of me.
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A lot, uh, when I was a kid.
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And I think it fucked me up.
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That's a tough thing
to go through.
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You said it fucked you up.
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In what ways?
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All ways.
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Like I'm not content.
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I don't have a good social life.
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I get angry.
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That's the sort of thing
you help people with, right?
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Yes.
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So, I read your book.
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Oh.
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-What'd you think?
-It was good.
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I thought, you know,
this guy is a real expert.
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Mm-hmm.
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Well, I've been doing it
a long time.
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COLLEEN:
I'm sorry for your loss.
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That's what
normal people say, right?
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ALAN:
How does it feel
for you to say it?
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COLLEEN:
It just, um...
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...just seems like
what I hear people say.
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But I mean it.
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Well, that is
the important part.
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Gene, I wanted to ask you
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about your sunglasses.
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I think it might be
a good idea for you
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to take them off, so we can see
each other better.
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I have eye problems.
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ALAN:
Oh, what's wrong?
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GENE:
Light hurts them.
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They're oversensitive.
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You've seen a doctor about it?
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Two doctors.
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Well, we're out of time.
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Isn't that my line?
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I'm trying to take care
of your needs again, aren't I?
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I think so.
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He hit me.
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All the time.
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When you say "all the time,"
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could you be any more
specific about it?
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Pretty much all the time.
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-Thank you.
-Thank you very much.
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-Alan, welcome.
-Chaim, how are you?
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Baruch Hashem.
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-You?
-I'm well, thanks.
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-I'll be in the back.
-Oh.
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Okay.
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-Hi, Ezra.
-Hi, Dad.
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It's Mom's guitar?
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Mm-hmm.
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I figured you should have it.
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You're the only one
in the family who plays, so...
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I don't play anymore.
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GENE:
That's it, 'cause you'd expect
anybody to save their own ass,
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but he'd rather die
than use her as his excuse,
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-like, uh, disgrace her.
-I think
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I have actually heard
that one before.
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Right, it's a classic.
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You know, Gene,
I've been thinking.
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It's been a while
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since we started
talking together.
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And I've noticed that...
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...you're not really
opening yourself up to me.
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Whenever I ask
for stories or details,
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you have a tendency
to get kind of vague
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or you start telling me
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about country music songs
that you like.
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And I've noticed
that I myself am feeling
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a little frustrated
by this process.
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And I'm wondering
if you're feeling that as well.
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Usually when one person feels
that way, it's kind of mutual.
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I don't know.
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I guess it's not working
the way it did in your book.
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ALAN:
Gene, in order
for this process to work,
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you have to be able
to tell me things
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that are not easy to tell.
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To be open and truthful.
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Maybe I'm not cut out for this.
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'Cause I'm... I'm trying.
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I really-- I'm trying.
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In my experience...
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...anyone who has come this far,
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who has made the choice
to come to therapy
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and keep hammering away
at the hard things...
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...they can be helped.
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I'm so sorry. I know this sucks.
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I'll be right back.
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Gene, what the hell's going on?
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I mean, what the fuck?!
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Let me out, let me out,
let me out of here.
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Let me out of here
right now, Gene!
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-Gene!
-You take it easy.
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Last night you were screaming.
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We're in the woods out here.
Nobody's around.
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I know how upset you are.
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Of course. Anybody would be.
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This isn't as bad as it seems.
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It's bad, I know it's bad, but
I just, I just need your help.
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Look...
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I don't know what you think
you're doing, but this...
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this...
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Unlock this goddamn chain.
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Right now. I mean it, Gene.
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Gene, listen,
you have to listen to me.
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I realize that there's
something inside of you
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that's telling you
that this is a good idea...
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I know, it's-it's not exactly
that it's a good idea,
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I do realize that.
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But, you know,
I'm out of options,
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and I really think
if we can just talk,
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this will, this will be okay.
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-Okay-ish.
-I have to help you see
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that this is wrong.
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Scaring me like this is wrong.
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You have to see that.
I know you can see that.
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I do, I do, I know,
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but... I wasn't getting
anywhere in therapy.
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You said so yourself, right?
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And I think that I know why.
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You see, I-I couldn't...
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I couldn't really tell you
the truth in your office.
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But here, here... I can.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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This-this-this isn't good
for either of us, Gene.
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We have to go back to my office
and work through this together
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before this gets
more out of hand.
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These are leftovers from Maruti,
which is one of my favorites.
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It's surprisingly good
for breakfast.
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This is chana palak.
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Put some of this on it.
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This is sabzi.
It's good with this one.
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For God's sake, Gene, Gene!
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My name's...
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My name's actually Sam.
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Sorry.
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It's important to eat.
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I'm not gonna eat.
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Gene-- Sam.
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You have to listen to me.
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I am listening.
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I am listening.
I know how to listen.
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I understand...
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...this is upsetting for you.
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I get that.
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It's a little scary,
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but this is the only way
that I could... I...
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I need help. I want help.
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I'm asking you for, for help.
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You said therapy can't work
if I'm not truthful.
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I know that you're right, so...
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Mm-mm. No.
No, you don't understand.
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I don't, I don't think you know
what you're doing to me.
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I realize it might take you
a little time
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to get used
to what's happening here.
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Whatever is troubling you,
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we can address it, but not here.
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-Not like this.
-Dr. Strauss, I have
much bigger problems
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than your other patients.
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I have a compulsion...
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...to kill people.
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A compulsion?
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Yeah, I do it.
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-Sam...
-I don't mean
just once or twice.
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Every once in a while I just...
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...do it.
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And this has gone on ever since,
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uh, for a long time.
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And I know I'm fucked up.
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I've read all the books,
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almost everything about,
uh, people like me,
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people who do this stuff,
and I can't...
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I want to stop.
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And I'm trying so hard.
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I'm trying so hard right now,
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but there's this guy,
there's this one guy,
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and I just want to...
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for months now...
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Uh, but I've not done it.
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'Cause I...
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Uh, because I can't.
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Now, you, I wish you knew
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what it was like
to live like this.
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It's not like what they say.
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Right? Where he's like a...
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Have you seen
Silence of the Lambs?
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Where he's like a robot.
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It's not like that.
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Gene.
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-Sam.
-Sam.
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Unlock this chain.
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I'm going to walk out of here
and go back to my office.
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No, we already tried that.
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It didn't work without me
telling you the truth.
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It will be different
now that I know the truth.
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You will come to my office
two, three days a week.
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I cannot help you like this.
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This is just going
to make it worse.
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Let me go.
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I know you'd have to turn me in.
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No, no, no, no, no.
I would not have to turn you in.
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Legally, ethically,
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unless you told me you were
going to commit another crime,
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I can work with you.
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Everything you've told me
so far is confidential.
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I am gonna commit another crime.
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I know I'm not normal.
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But I don't feel crazy.
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I'm not...
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I know this has to end, right?
This has to stop.
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I just, I don't know how.
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This is not the way.
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Well...
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I'm sorry.
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Really, you're the best.
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I met with three different
Jewish therapists.
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I chose you.
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Uh-huh.