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Viktor.
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Viktor.
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Wake up, Viktor.
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You were having a nightmare.
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Didn't you read my book?
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I said not to wake
the person up.
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Sharper than it looks.
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I mean, a little.
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Good.
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And it's perfectly normal
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to want to kill a patient that's
leaving therapy prematurely.
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CHARLIE:
Your dream.
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Auschwitz.
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Viktor Frankl is lying there,
having a nightmare.
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Remember what he said not
to do, in his book?
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Reality is worse
than a nightmare
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when you're in Auschwitz--
don't wake him up.
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I woke him up.
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Maybe the dream
is trying to say...
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the human spirit can prevail.
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You should keep working,
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keep being a therapist,
no matter what.
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How's it saying that?
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I don't know.
That's in his book.
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Or maybe it's telling me,
don't die like a fucking sheep.
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Sam!
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:
Sam!
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I know it's early.
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I'm sorry to wake you up,
but there's some things
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that we need to discuss.
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We need to talk
before you go to work.
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Please sit.
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I don't think that you should go
to see a new therapist.
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Sometimes it's true, a patient
needs to try somebody else.
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But sometimes it is a way
of running away.
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And I think that
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is what is happening here.
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And I think we're making
real progress.
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You are opening up more
than you ever did before.
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You are trying
to contain your impulses,
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even if we haven't found
anything that works yet.
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I know things are getting
worse right now.
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It's part of the process.
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It's where the cliché
comes from,
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things get worse
before they get better.
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I've come to care
about you, Sam,
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as I always do
with my patients.
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You and I have developed
a relationship.
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No matter how strange
the situation is,
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that's the bottom line.
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Therapists and patients develop
genuine feelings.
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I know there are feelings,
but...
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I told you, it's not working.
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And I'm going to see
Mr. Buchella next week.
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That still gives us a week.
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Let's see what we can
accomplish, hmm?
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At least send you off to him
in the best shape we can.
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I know what you're trying to do.
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Of course, I'm a human being.
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I don't want you to get
another therapist
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and then kill me.
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Sam, you can leave this room
at any time,
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you are not chained
to the floor,
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but I have some things
to say.
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I am going to tell you
about a man named Viktor Frankl.
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He was a psychiatrist in Austria
in the 1930s and '40s.
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He survived the Nazi
concentration camps,
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and he wrote a book called
Man's Search for Meaning.
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And his main point is that
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people need meaning
in their lives,
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probably more
than anything else.
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And I think that is a way
for you to take your next step.
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So, the deepest place
that we can find meaning
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is in relationships.
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We all need friends and romance,
people to be close to.
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For everyone,
that's what fills us up.
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That's what makes life
good to live.
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And without it,
anyone can go to dark places.
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So, like Mary.
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Yes, like Mary.
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When I was with her,
I didn't feel any different.
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I understand,
but you're changing now.
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If you had a girlfriend now,
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I bet it would be different.
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For some reason, I'm just,
I'm not...
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I'm not great at meeting women.
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How did you meet Mary?
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We went to high school
together.
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We were, like, friends, kind of.
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And then my mom went to her
for physical therapy
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when she broke her wrist,
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and Mom gave her my number.
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That's good.
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Obviously, when she called,
you handled it well.
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Maybe you're better with women
than you think.
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What attracted you to Mary?
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I, I-- can we not talk
about Mary, please?
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ALAN:
Why?
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She didn't want
the marriage to end.
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But she didn't know
if I loved her.
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Loved loved her.
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Maybe I could get
some meaning from Hara.
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Our kid in Bangladesh.
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Mary and me would lie in bed
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sometimes and she would pretend
that we were all together.
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Us and Hara.
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Mm-hmm, that sounds nice.
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But then, other times,
if she didn't understand
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or agree with something that
I was trying to say to her,
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she would... get really upset.
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She... did I tell you she
complained all the time?
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She wasn't...
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Wasn't what?
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I don't know.
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Maybe she didn't have
enough meaning in her life.
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I wish I could meet her.
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Why?
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If I could see
the two of you together,
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I could help figure out
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if this is the right direction
for you to go in.
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Therapists can figure out what
two people go best together?
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It's hard to predict
what couples will work.
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But sometimes we can make
a pretty good guess
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about what won't work.
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Mm.
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This is going to sound
kind of strange.
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But I wonder, is there a way
that I could meet her?
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I mean, not in person,
but...
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On the phone?
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Yeah, maybe, or...
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Maybe you could have her over
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for lunch or dinner, upstairs.
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You could leave the door open,
talk loudly.
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That's a terrible idea.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Or, you know,
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my daughter, with her kids,
had this nanny cam.
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And she could see and hear
everything
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that they were doing in
their room.
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Maybe you could get
one of those.
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And I could watch
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and hear you two interacting.
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And then I could give you
my professional opinion.
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That feels like it would be...
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not honest.
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It's normally not healthy
to spy on another person,
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especially someone
you are trying
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to explore
a trusting relationship with.
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But these are
extreme circumstances.
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Hmm.
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Mom?!
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Can you come down here?
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I'm inviting Mary over
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for brunch.
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What?
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I'm inviting Mary
over for brunch.
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Dr. Strauss wants to meet her,
he's gonna watch on a nanny cam.
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I'm not sure I...
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You want Mary to come over?
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I was telling Sam he needs
to develop more relationships
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in order to expand the meaning
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in his life.
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I think that kind of meaning
can start to help take the place
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of his problematic obsessions.
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But... Mary?
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-Shouldn't it be someone new?
-Maybe.
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But my thinking is,
he's already gotten very far
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in his relationship with Mary.
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-And at this point,
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-he has a strong need to...
-She's coming.
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Tomorrow at 10:00.
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Well...
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I always liked Mary.
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You already got Elias
killed.
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That wasn't totally your fault.
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But if Sam chokes Mary to death?
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That's a hundred percent on you.
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What do you want me to do?
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I'm not the Terminator.
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I stab him with this bullshit
half-knife,
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what, is he just gonna lie down
on the floor and bleed out?
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I'll be lucky if I get
one good jab in.
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But with Mary upstairs,
I can stab him,
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scream,
and she'll call the police.
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Him going for this
is a fucking miracle.
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It's a gift from God.
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Except you're assuming,
when you stab him
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with your foot cream tube
and scream for help,
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his mom won't just whomp Mary
over the head with a frying pan.
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Right, that's what I'm assuming.
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A Hail Mary with Mary.
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Can you hear me?
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I can hear!
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They didn't have these
when my kids were babies.
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-Dr. Strauss.
-Mm.
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You're not gonna...
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You probably think
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that I wouldn't hurt Mary
because I care about her.
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And that's true.
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But if-if you did
something stupid
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and she found out
that you were down here...
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if you created a situation where
I had no other choice, I...
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Sam, my only goal
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is for this brunch date
to go well for you.
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What are you serving?
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Indian from Maruti.
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Mmm, does Mary like Indian?
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No, not that much.
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I... you know, Sam,
I would encourage you
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to think about what she might
like to eat.
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You're the host,
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and you want her
to have a good time, right?
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Yeah.
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That's a good idea.
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What do I say to her?
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Well... you guys used
to talk, right?
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Yeah.
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Would you be comfortable
trying some role-play?
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That's where you practice
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a situation that you're going
to be in.
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I can play the part of Mary,
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and we could just try
to have a conversation.
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Like a real,
like a real conversation?
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Yes.
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Why don't you try saying,
"How have you been?"
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How have you been?
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How, how have, how have you--
how have you been?
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How have you been?
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Pretty good, how about you?
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Pretty good, pretty good.
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Pretty good, I've been pretty,
I've been pretty good.
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I've been pretty good--
can I be Mary?
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Uh... sure, yes.
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Let's try that.
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It's so good to see you again,
Mary, how have you been?
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Pretty good, how about you?
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Um, I've been doing okay.
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A lot going on at work.
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How are things going
at work for you?
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Pretty good.
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I don't want to do this.
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Dr. Strauss.
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If...
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If Mary and I had a baby...
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...would it be like me?
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Nobody knows how their kids
are going to turn out, Sam.
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This is the, uh,
Waldorf salad from Milo's.
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Oh... I love that.
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But you didn't have to get me
something special.
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You get gas when you
eat Indian food.
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Mm.
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The salad's great.
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Mm.
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A Jew was sentenced
to death.
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A British guy says...
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No, he's French.
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French guy.
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A French guy said to kill him
with the guillotine.
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He's-- he's sentenced
to death, too.
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That's the-- they're all--
so the British guy--
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there's another British guy
there, and...
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The British guy...
sentenced to death...
263
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he wanted to be shot
264
00:21:27,369 --> 00:21:30,497
in the head, he says,
265
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"Uh, shoot me."
266
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So they shoot him in the head.
267
00:21:33,834 --> 00:21:38,380
And the Jewish guy--
they said, "How?"
268
00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:40,382
They said, "How?"
269
00:21:40,465 --> 00:21:45,220
And then the Jewish guy says,
"Old age."
270
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I'll be right back.
271
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CANDACE:
Some more tea?
272
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MARY:
Oh, no, I'm good, thank you.
273
00:22:06,533 --> 00:22:07,701
CANDACE:
I have all these kinds of tea.
274
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A whole cabinet.
275
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I don't even remember
buying it all.
276
00:22:14,082 --> 00:22:15,667
:
It's going really bad.
277
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I don't,
I don't know what to say.
278
00:22:18,628 --> 00:22:21,340
I think you should try asking
her a question.
279
00:22:21,423 --> 00:22:25,177
Either what's going on at work,
or how's her family?
280
00:22:27,095 --> 00:22:29,598
Okay.
281
00:22:29,681 --> 00:22:31,475
CANDACE:
How are your parents, Mary?
282
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MARY:
Normal, I guess.
283
00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:35,771
Why is this so hard?
284
00:22:35,854 --> 00:22:38,982
It just is.
It's hard for everyone.
285
00:22:39,066 --> 00:22:40,692
CANDACE:
Your dad okay?
286
00:22:40,776 --> 00:22:42,694
MARY:
Yeah, he's doing okay.
287
00:22:42,778 --> 00:22:45,822
He's not walking
like he used to.
288
00:22:45,906 --> 00:22:48,241
Mom thinks he needs
cataract surgery.
289
00:22:50,827 --> 00:22:52,704
At our age, it all goes wrong
290
00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:55,248
one thing at a time,
but I'm sure he'll be fine.
291
00:22:55,332 --> 00:22:57,501
MARY: Yeah, that's what he says--
"It'll be fine."
292
00:22:57,584 --> 00:22:59,419
But then we'll be, like,
in the middle of dinner...
293
00:23:00,837 --> 00:23:03,256
You're gonna get
that girl killed.
294
00:23:05,092 --> 00:23:07,844
CANDACE: It's easy to take it
for granted.
295
00:23:10,430 --> 00:23:12,349
MARY: I've been trying
to exercise more.
296
00:23:12,432 --> 00:23:14,518
CANDACE:
Good for you.
297
00:23:14,601 --> 00:23:16,603
I should get back up.
298
00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:19,898
MARY:
It's so boring.
299
00:23:22,275 --> 00:23:24,277
You don't like
the lox and bagels?
300
00:23:24,361 --> 00:23:26,029
CANDACE:
I wish.
301
00:23:26,113 --> 00:23:27,447
One day.
302
00:23:27,531 --> 00:23:29,533
I'd rather have Indian.
303
00:23:30,575 --> 00:23:33,245
Okay. I might need more advice.
304
00:23:33,328 --> 00:23:37,666
MARY: You know that pill that stops
you from having a heart attack?
305
00:23:37,749 --> 00:23:39,209
There are all these people
306
00:23:39,292 --> 00:23:42,671
who just eat whatever they want,
don't exercise,
307
00:23:42,754 --> 00:23:45,674
and then they take
these pills called statins.
308
00:23:47,509 --> 00:23:48,677
CANDACE:
Maybe that should be plan B.
309
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,096
-MARY: Probably.
310
00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:54,599
Heart attacks--
they don't really scare me
311
00:23:54,683 --> 00:23:56,143
too much, though.
312
00:23:56,226 --> 00:23:58,895
Strokes, on the other hand.
313
00:23:58,979 --> 00:24:00,689
I don't think it runs
in the family,
314
00:24:00,772 --> 00:24:03,066
but, well, who knows?
315
00:24:08,405 --> 00:24:10,991
So, how have you been doing
at work lately?
316
00:24:11,074 --> 00:24:12,909
Good.
317
00:24:12,993 --> 00:24:15,120
Um, do you remember Carolina?
318
00:24:15,203 --> 00:24:18,206
-Mm.
-She left about two months ago,
319
00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:21,042
and they haven't replaced her,
so I'm doing everything.
320
00:24:21,126 --> 00:24:22,586
SAM:
Are they going to replace her?
321
00:24:22,669 --> 00:24:25,797
They haven't even listed
the position yet.
322
00:24:25,881 --> 00:24:28,800
You're gonna have to keep
doing all of her work.
323
00:24:28,884 --> 00:24:29,926
That's not fair.
324
00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:33,555
Yeah, well, fair...
325
00:24:39,019 --> 00:24:41,354
You're never going
to believe this, but...
326
00:24:41,438 --> 00:24:44,316
I kind of miss the La-Z-Boy.
327
00:24:45,775 --> 00:24:47,068
It's very comfortable.
328
00:24:47,152 --> 00:24:49,529
-Hmm.
-Yeah.
329
00:24:49,613 --> 00:24:52,657
I could, I could bring it back
330
00:24:52,782 --> 00:24:53,783
-if you want.
-Oh, no, that's okay.
331
00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:55,660
-No?
-No.
332
00:24:55,744 --> 00:25:00,165
MARY: I have other good chairs,
and the couch.
333
00:25:00,248 --> 00:25:02,334
That chair was his father's.
334
00:25:05,545 --> 00:25:07,380
My father beat me up a lot.
335
00:25:08,548 --> 00:25:10,425
When I was a kid.
336
00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:13,303
That's why I went into therapy.
337
00:25:14,596 --> 00:25:15,972
MARY:
Oh...
338
00:25:16,056 --> 00:25:19,017
Sam.
339
00:25:23,021 --> 00:25:24,648
MARY:
So, my parents got a new cat.
340
00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:29,027
The old one, well,
he's not old...
341
00:25:31,112 --> 00:25:33,198
Let me help you with that,
and then I need to get home.
342
00:25:33,281 --> 00:25:34,783
CANDACE:
No, no, dear, just let me do it.
343
00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:41,790
Help, Mary, I'm Sam's prisoner
down here!
344
00:25:41,873 --> 00:25:43,583
Call the police! Help!
345
00:26:01,017 --> 00:26:04,020
SAM: So, uh, okay, let me
walk you to your car.
346
00:27:02,829 --> 00:27:04,706
Mary left.
347
00:27:06,124 --> 00:27:08,043
She said
348
00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:13,131
she thinks it's good for exes
to have a friendly relationship.
349
00:27:14,341 --> 00:27:17,886
And she thinks that we should do
this once a year.
350
00:27:20,388 --> 00:27:22,057
What are you feeling?
351
00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:25,685
Mary's not going to get
back together with me.
352
00:27:27,103 --> 00:27:29,898
How does that make you feel?
353
00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:31,191
Bad.
354
00:27:33,068 --> 00:27:35,028
Sad.
355
00:27:39,074 --> 00:27:43,161
That was a mistake,
her coming here was...
356
00:27:43,244 --> 00:27:45,121
Why did you have me do that?
357
00:27:45,205 --> 00:27:47,749
ALAN:
N-No, that's wrong.
358
00:27:47,832 --> 00:27:50,168
It wasn't a mistake.
359
00:27:50,251 --> 00:27:52,462
This is very important for you.
360
00:27:52,545 --> 00:27:56,841
To find meaningful
relationships.
361
00:27:56,925 --> 00:28:01,137
It means taking risks
and getting hurt.
362
00:28:01,221 --> 00:28:04,140
Then taking another risk
and getting hurt again.
363
00:28:04,224 --> 00:28:07,686
Until you find
relationships that work.
364
00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:10,689
And that is exactly
what life requires.
365
00:28:10,772 --> 00:28:14,776
-I don't feel good.
-Yes, that's part of it.
366
00:28:14,859 --> 00:28:17,779
And that pain
is telling you something.
367
00:28:17,862 --> 00:28:20,990
You've been following it
in the wrong direction.
368
00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:24,494
But now that you're getting
to know yourself better,
369
00:28:24,577 --> 00:28:26,579
it will tell you
where you need to go.
370
00:28:26,663 --> 00:28:28,832
I promise.
371
00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:31,918
It doesn't matter.
372
00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:34,796
I'm going to see
Mr. Buchella next week.
373
00:28:38,758 --> 00:28:40,218
What are you going to tell him?
374
00:28:40,301 --> 00:28:42,512
I'll tell him the same stuff
I told you.
375
00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:45,473
But hopefully it works with him.
376
00:28:45,557 --> 00:28:47,058
ALAN:
You know...
377
00:28:47,142 --> 00:28:51,354
in therapy, Sam,
you can't push people.
378
00:28:51,438 --> 00:28:53,732
You have to let them
come to their own insights
379
00:28:53,815 --> 00:28:55,734
in their own time.
380
00:28:55,817 --> 00:29:00,405
That being said, I would suggest
and encourage you
381
00:29:00,488 --> 00:29:03,575
to talk with Mr. Buchella
specifically
382
00:29:03,658 --> 00:29:05,201
about what your father
did to you.
383
00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:09,706
I told you all about my father.
384
00:29:09,789 --> 00:29:11,583
It was the first thing
that I told you.
385
00:29:11,666 --> 00:29:13,168
-That is true.
-Mm-hmm.
386
00:29:13,251 --> 00:29:15,712
But you had trouble
giving me details.
387
00:29:15,795 --> 00:29:18,757
It was hard for you to tell me
a really full story.
388
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,801
And for you to go forward
with Mr. Buchella
389
00:29:21,885 --> 00:29:24,721
or anyone, I think
it is very important
390
00:29:24,804 --> 00:29:26,514
that you try to access
391
00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:29,642
those memories and those
deeper feelings about him.
392
00:29:29,726 --> 00:29:31,853
I don't have any trouble
accessing my memories
393
00:29:31,936 --> 00:29:34,731
or my feelings.
I remember everything.
394
00:29:34,814 --> 00:29:37,484
You, you think
that I don't remember?
395
00:29:37,567 --> 00:29:39,611
I think about it all the time,
I think about...
396
00:29:39,694 --> 00:29:43,448
every time he hit me,
every time he looked at me,
397
00:29:43,531 --> 00:29:45,992
the way he looked at me,
the way he hated me.
398
00:29:46,075 --> 00:29:47,494
What the f...
399
00:29:47,577 --> 00:29:51,915
This, this-- Sam,
what's happening right now,
400
00:29:51,998 --> 00:29:53,708
how you're feeling...
401
00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:58,087
When you get so angry
that you hurt someone,
402
00:29:58,171 --> 00:30:01,174
that's a version of what's
happening in this exact moment.
403
00:30:01,257 --> 00:30:04,093
And at the root of it is your
father, as we've discussed.
404
00:30:04,177 --> 00:30:08,181
It's not the people you hurt
that you're mad at, it's him.
405
00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:17,190
So you-you think that I kill
people because of him?
406
00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:20,235
Almost instead of him.
407
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,446
Oh.
408
00:30:27,075 --> 00:30:28,743
I get it.
409
00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:52,392
This is a guy named
Edmund Kemper.
410
00:30:52,475 --> 00:30:57,230
He is the one guy who I feel,
he's the only one.
411
00:30:57,313 --> 00:30:59,983
Just, just watch this.
412
00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:04,445
KEMPER :
It was springtime, it was April.
413
00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:07,782
Uh, for two months
I hadn't killed.
414
00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:10,660
And I said it's not going
to happen to any more girls.
415
00:31:10,743 --> 00:31:13,413
It's got to stay between
me and my mother.
416
00:31:13,496 --> 00:31:16,916
That was one week
before I murdered my mother.
417
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,588
I said, she's got to die, or
girls like that are gonna die.
418
00:31:21,671 --> 00:31:24,591
And that's when I decided
I'm going to murder my mother.
419
00:31:24,674 --> 00:31:27,844
In his case, he said publicly
that it was his mother
420
00:31:27,927 --> 00:31:29,470
that he was killing all along.
421
00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:32,223
And when he killed his mother,
that was the end.
422
00:31:32,307 --> 00:31:33,892
It's a very deep
psychological observation
423
00:31:33,975 --> 00:31:36,185
from himself.
It may be very accurate.
424
00:31:36,269 --> 00:31:38,187
Got on the telephone
and turned himself in.
425
00:31:38,271 --> 00:31:40,356
He said it was time
for the killing to stop.
426
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,235
I came out of her vagina, see?
427
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:46,696
I came out of my mother.
428
00:31:46,779 --> 00:31:48,990
And in a rage
I went right back in.
429
00:31:49,073 --> 00:31:51,242
I cut off her head.
430
00:31:51,326 --> 00:31:54,329
And, and I humiliated
her corpse.
431
00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:56,372
He fucked her skull.
432
00:31:56,456 --> 00:32:00,919
It had to stop, it had to stop.
Uh, once my mother was dead,
433
00:32:01,002 --> 00:32:03,212
there was almost a cathartic
process at that point.
434
00:32:03,296 --> 00:32:06,090
-I got physically...
-See?
435
00:32:06,174 --> 00:32:08,009
Kemper said everyone he killed,
436
00:32:08,092 --> 00:32:11,554
he was just killing his mother
over and over again-- me, too.
437
00:32:11,638 --> 00:32:13,431
It's the same for me,
just with my father.
438
00:32:13,514 --> 00:32:14,724
-I don't think that this...
-You're the one who said
439
00:32:14,807 --> 00:32:19,562
I kill people instead of him,
so if I kill him, I'll be done.
440
00:32:19,646 --> 00:32:21,397
I won't have to kill
any other people.
441
00:32:21,481 --> 00:32:22,482
-Sam.
-And if there's one person, one person who
442
00:32:22,565 --> 00:32:24,651
needs to get what he deserves,
it's that piece of shit.
443
00:32:24,734 --> 00:32:26,152
ALAN:
Sam!
444
00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:28,821
Sam, you cannot and must not
kill your father.
445
00:32:28,905 --> 00:32:30,823
This is good.
446
00:32:30,907 --> 00:32:36,079
I feel like... I finally know
what I have to do.
447
00:32:36,162 --> 00:32:37,288
Sam, we, we should keep talking.
448
00:32:37,372 --> 00:32:39,999
We need to keep talking, Sam.
449
00:32:40,083 --> 00:32:41,584
I'm gonna kill my father,
450
00:32:41,668 --> 00:32:45,380
cut his head off,
and fuck his skull.
451
00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:51,135
I'm just kidding, I'm not
going to fuck his skull.