Ratched (2020) s01e03 Episode Script

1
[doorbell rings]
[door shuts]
[monkey squeaking faintly]
[monkey squeaks]
Good day, Miss Osgood.
I hope I'm not disturbing you.
Not at all.
I trust Darvis has offered you
some refreshments?
[man] I'd just as soon get down
to business, if that's all right with you.
[Miss Osgood] Naturally.
[man clears throat]
Where'd you find him?
-A mental hospital in Northern California.
-[scoffs]
No, he's not a patient.
He's running the place.
He goes by the name
of Dr. Richard Hanover now.
He must have falsified his credentials
with the American Hospital Association,
because he's taken over stewardship
of Lucia State Hospital.
He's managed to dazzle Governor Wilburn
into making his facility
the flagship in his war on mental illness.
Yeah, well, he dazzled us, too.
Insipid nonsense, and I fell for it.
I can't believe I allowed him
to do what he did.
I'll never forgive myself for that.
[lighter snaps loudly]
There is the matter of payment.
Normally I'd charge for expenses,
but the $10,000 we agreed on
is more than generous.
How's 250,000 clams?
Dr. Manuel Bañaga is a monster.
He's brilliant, charismatic,
but he's insane, and he doesn't know it.
That really makes him the most dangerous
kind of person there is, don't you think?
I can't rest until I know he's dead.
Well, I gotta say,
for a quarter million dollars,
I'm confident I can make that happen.
[Miss Osgood] Hm.
I want you to decapitate him.
Once his head is removed,
I want you to bring it to me.
Of course, there'll be logistics involved,
and discretion is extremely paramount.
But of course you know that.
I want to give his head to my son
as a gift for his 21st birthday.
My hope is that we'll put all of this
behind us once and for all.
[exhales deeply]
Do we have a deal?
We do, Miss Osgood.
I'd say we do.
[boy] Mother, is that you?
Of course, darling. It's dinner time.
And what do we have tonight?
[mock gasp] Oysters Rockefeller.
And…
boeuf bourguignon…
-[scoffs]
-…and…
Ooh.
Sweetbreads.
I want dessert first.
Now, we have talked about this.
[shouting] What is for dessert, Mother?
Boston cream pie.
[boy grunts]
Hm.
Mm.
-Nummy-num?
-Mm-hm.
Mm.
Nothing but the best for this boy.
[haunting classical music playing]
It's open.
You wanted to see me, Doctor?
Yes.
[sniffs] What is that smell?
Your olfactory capacity
is positively godlike.
They are lilies of the valley, Doctor.
Why did you do that?
Well, your office smells a little damp
this time of year,
so I thought,
"What better than lilies of the valley
to announce that
spring has finally sprung?"
I hate that smell.
Reminds me of a whorehouse in Manila.
I'm going to get a cluster headache.
I'll remove them at once.
Nurse, wait.
I called you here because of
two of our lobotomy patients,
-Mrs. Cartwright and Miss Blix.
-Right.
Nurse Ratched informed me
that she came upon the two of them
engaging in an act
of lesbian fornication.
Excuse me,
Nurse Ratched came to you directly?
I am head nurse.
That is a brazen breach of protocol.
-I'll have her reprimanded--
-No, stop.
The sodomy is alarming for two reasons.
One…
the lobotomy has clearly failed to cure
the primary complaint of one patient,
and seeing as how I am not aware
of Miss Blix displaying
lesbian proclivities before,
the procedure may have actually triggered
deviant sexual behavior in the other.
I'm not sure I see your point.
Because I've not arrived at it yet,
Nurse Bucket.
I've installed a new contraption
in the shower room,
in the basement below H Ward.
It came all the way from Switzerland,
where they had tremendous results
with this sort of hot and cold treatment.
I've written up a set of protocols
I'd like you to administer
to both patients.
Oh, so…
so I'm to take the lead, so to speak.
Well, as you just elected to remind me,
you are head nurse, are you not?
[chuckles]
Or has your status changed
in the course of this conversation?
[chuckles] No. Yes. I mean…
yes, I am.
Um… [forced chuckle]
I am very eager
to deliver you
the results you seek, Doctor.
I will soak the sodomy right out of them.
[knocking]
[door opens]
What are you doing?
Reading.
Reading what?
Leaves of Grass.
Sexually explicit material
is hardly appropriate
for someone with your specific malady,
Mrs. Cartwright.
This book is not allowed.
Homosexual is what Walt Whitman was.
Let's get our minds out of the gutter.
Come with me, please.
It's time for your treatment.
[Mildred]
Why are we bringing her down here?
[man] I don't know.
Might have something to do
with the new equipment
they just finished putting in.
New equipment?
How am I supposed to administer treatment
when I don't even know what it is?
You're not. Bucket is.
Hanover asked her.
We're just supposed to assist
and make sure
the patient doesn't become unruly.
Hello, Mrs. Cartwright.
Nurse Ratched and Huck are gonna help you
into this nice, warm bath.
What are we doing?
[Bucket] We're following instructions,
is what we're doing.
Instructions for a treatment
mandated by Dr. Hanover,
and that will be the last question
I answer from you,
Nurse Ratched.
Bring her here.
That looks very hot.
It's a balmy 99 degrees.
No hotter than baths
every one of us has taken.
Hm. It's actually quite nice.
Now secure the lids.
And relax, Mrs. Cartwright.
We'll now engage the pumps to bring
the temperature up to 119 degrees.
[creaking]
[hissing]
[Mrs. Cartwright groans]
[Mrs. Cartwright continues groaning]
[labored breathing]
-Stop it! It's hot, please!
-Huck. Huck, get her out!
-[pounding]
-Get away from her! This is the treatment.
[panting]
Mrs. Cartwright,
the lesbianism
that has so plagued your life…
[pounding]
…is a nervous impulse
that you evidently can't control.
[groaning]
[sobbing] Please, I'll never do it again.
[gasping]
See? It's already working.
This is what is called hydrotherapy,
Mrs. Cartwright.
It will soothe your nervous impulses.
-[splashing]
-[groans]
-It's too hot. It's too--
-[Bucket] No, no.
It's exactly the right temperature.
Oh, sorry, 117. It actually is too hot.
[steam hissing]
How long does she have to stay in there?
Do you value your employment here,
Mr. Finnegan?
Because I will have you fired,
and with a face like that,
you wouldn't get a job
down at the five-and-dime.
You'd scare all the women
and children away,
even if you are a war vet.
-Just 20 more minutes.
-Twenty minutes?!
We will not stand here
while you boil this woman.
Fine, then you can wait outside!
But this treatment will be administered
in the manner Dr. Hanover has prescribed!
-That's right, just relax.
-[Mrs. Cartwright groans]
[sighs]
All right, the patient can be removed
from the hydro.
[hissing]
Jesus Christ, it's boiling.
Let's get her cooled off.
That's what the cold water bath is for,
Nurse Ratched.
[metallic click]
You gotta be kidding me.
[Bucket] Put the patient
in the cold water bath
for five minutes as prescribed.
[Mrs. Cartwright gasps]
[Mildred] It's okay. Shh.
It's okay. Mrs. Cartwright, look at me.
-[gasps]
-Five minutes.
Five minutes,
and then this will all be over.
[continues gasping]
[Mildred] You're okay.
[whispering] You're okay.
[shudders]
Shh.
You're okay.
[sobs quietly]
You're okay, Mrs. Cartwright.
Get some sleep.
And we will wake you before dinner.
Huck.
Huck!
[breathing deeply]
No patient… is ever gonna go through
with that treatment again.
Do you understand me?
I don't care if it costs me my job.
Do you really mean that?
Because cruel as it is,
what Nurse Bucket said is true.
Where else are you going to find a job,
Huck?
People like us…
places like this…
are maybe where we belong.
I'm not gonna watch
folks gettin' tortured.
What time is it?
-7:30.
-What?!
Why didn't my alarm go off?
I turned it off.
Why?
-You needed the rest.
-[groans]
Look at you, awake for ten seconds,
and already frazzled.
I'm frazzled because I have
an 8:15 appointment with the governor,
and I'm going to be late!
No, you're going to be right on time.
Breakfast is on the table.
Your lunch pail is packed. Hm.
Breathe.
[exhales deeply]
Thank you.
Hm. [kisses]
What?
You went to sleep
without washing your face again.
[chuckles]
That foundation is making
your pores look enormous.
Go with the mineral powder today.
I think it's gonna rain.
[Gwendolyn] The press event
up at the hospital was a masterstroke.
[Wilburn] If you do say so yourself.
Yes. Well, Governor, you--
you handled the whole thing perfectly.
The coverage has been glowing.
I think it's-- it's struck exactly
the right tone for the reelection.
Forward-thinking, humane,
-fiscally--
-This is a good photo here.
What was that nurse's name? Ricketts?
Ratched.
Ratched, yes.
She's got a caboose on her, huh?
-I see.
-Oh, geez.
So I think that the-- the danger here
is in our growing overconfidence.
We haven't seen a poll in several weeks,
and we're not likely to--
What about that murderer?
The guy that killed all those priests?
Edmund Tolleson?
-Mm.
-What about him?
I gotta lean on Dr. Hanover.
Tolleson's gotta be frying
in the electric chair by the convention.
Dr. Hanover's got to declare him
fit for trial.
Well, that will be up to Dr. Hanover.
-No, it's up to me.
-[sighs]
You tell Hanover that he'll get his money,
and he can be kind and gentle
to the rest of those nutcases up there,
but I will be signing
Edmund Tolleson's death warrant.
I don't want to be seen as being soft
on crime, especially a crime like that.
Killing four Catholic priests.
[Gwendolyn] Governor, in some cases,
the way to show strength
is actually to show mercy.
Have I been understood? Hm?
Yes, Governor.
Understood.
[elevator bell dings]
I'm here to deliver
Edmund Tolleson his meal.
Dr. Hanover usually does that.
Dr. Hanover is busy,
and Nurse Bucket asked me to do it.
I don't think that's a good idea.
Tolleson's a mass murderer.
If you get too close, he'll strangle you.
Exciting.
Sounds like a fun Saturday night.
You're free to call up to Nurse Bucket.
I'm sure she'd love to hear your input.
In the meantime, I'm going to follow
the instructions I've been given,
and if you have any more ideas,
why don't you scribble them down?
Maybe you'll write
the next great American novel.
[door buzzes]
[door clicks]
[door clatters loudly]
[Edmund grunts]
I see you've started wearing heels,
Dr. Hanover.
I have your meal, Mr. Tolleson.
I appreciate that very much, ma'am.
Please thank him for me.
Who?
Dr. Hanover.
This is very… humane of him.
I haven't had the pleasure
of a beautiful woman's company
in a very long time.
I'm flattered.
You have quite the striking physique
yourself, Mr. Tolleson.
Eddie.
Eddie.
I have your Salisbury steak.
And your vitamins.
Let me know if there is anything I can do.
Do you mean that?
I'm sorry?
I just mean, uh…
if you really do wanna help me,
there is something you can do, actually.
Although if you're just being polite,
I understand.
I know you have others to attend to.
It's the vitamins.
See, I-- I--
I don't know which one, but I…
I've noticed a fairly prominent…
side effect.
Forgive me, I…
I don't know the medical term, but…
I've had an erection
for the past three days.
It's the…
it's the niacin, it can have that effect.
Uh-huh.
[chuckles]
Well, see, the thing of it is, I…
Uh… I can't get it to go away.
Push-ups just make it…
throb.
And…
well, like, I can't relieve myself,
for religious reasons…
if you take my meaning.
I understand.
[Edmund moans faintly]
I want you to cum for me.
[Edmund moans ecstatically]
[sighs]
[chuckles]
Oh.
You're the most beautiful woman
I've ever seen.
Dolly.
Dolly.
Keep taking those vitamins, Eddie.
Yes, ma'am.
[Edmund grunts quietly]
-[pounds on desk]
-[Dolly] Pervert.
Hey.
We have a problem.
You harbor some sympathy
for Edmund Tolleson, isn't that right?
You believe he's insane,
should be spared the death penalty?
I don't know what you're getting at.
Hanover sent Dolly to deliver him
his lunch this afternoon,
and the guard on duty told me
he saw them…
-I-- I don't know how to put this.
-What?
I guess he saw… her…
-Huck--
-She was…
masturbating him.
I will handle it.
-Fill 'er up?
-Yes, please.
[car approaches]
[car door opens]
[car door closes]
[clicking sound]
[attendant] Jesus Christ!
[gunshot]
[gunfire]
[engine revs]
-[tires screech]
-[gunfire]
[car horn honks]
[grunts]
-[gunfire]
-Whoa!
[tires screech]
[breathing fast]
Motherfuck!
[seagulls call]
[soft music playing]
Uh, someone left you a note.
Thank you.
Up to a little hanky-panky, are we?
You run a roadside motel, madam.
You traffic in hanky-panky.
I run an honest business.
Well, then I suppose you shouldn't
stick your nose where it doesn't belong.
You can keep it.
I don't even know what it means.
Must be some sort of mistake.
[knocking]
It's open.
Lock the door, please.
I didn't expect to see you again.
Yeah, well, I guess I was caught
a little off guard by your, uh…
what is it, pretending to be other people?
They're scenarios.
For fun.
When I thought about it,
I guess it kinda was fun.
Why don't you take off your shirt and tie?
So, who am I this evening?
[screaming]
You…
are a handsome young Marine.
Just stormed the beaches of Ormoc Bay
in the Philippines.
-[low flying aircraft roars]
-[indistinct chatter and shouting]
[explosion]
[grunts]
You were thinking about your sweetheart
back home in Kansas.
So, maybe that's why,
when your unit entered an airfield,
you don't notice the machine gun nest
right in front of you.
Cut it off, we are losing him!
The leg.
Saw it off!
[man] No, no, no!
Forty-caliber rounds
tear through your right leg
just below the knee.
You don't feel anything at first…
but as you fall to the ground…
the pain washes over you,
and it's excruciating.
It's excruciating.
Oh. [mock groan] Oh, God, it hurts.
[screams]
What, is it a little bigger
than you're used to?
[inhales deeply]
They take you to a field hospital…
[man groans]
-…fetch the best nurse they can find…
-No!
-[screams]
-[wet slicing]
She tells you, "It's okay, son,
your endorphins will kick in soon,
and you won't feel anything."
And you look up at her,
amazed at her steadfastness,
her bravery, and you realize
you have to have her.
Right then and there.
[breathing fast]
[gasps]
Then what happens?
[whispering] So then…
you make sex with her like a stallion.
Excuse me?
You have intercourse with her
the way a horse would.
You mean I fuck you from behind?
Yes, that's what I just said.
[gasps loudly]
That's right.
Your hands are not soft and comforting.
They are coarse.
You are rough.
You fill her up with your manhood. You…
[man groans]
Whoo!
Thank you.
That was nice.
-[exhales deeply]
-Let me pour you a drink.
I'll have one in my room, thanks.
Should we make this a regular thing?
Well, it sure took the edge off of my day,
I'll tell you that much.
Rough day at the office?
Ah, just a lot of cat and mouse,
chasing a dirty Pinoy all over creation.
Thanks again.
My name is Mildred, by the way.
So, next Wednesday, then?
[exhales deeply] I don't know. Uh…
I gotta say, Mildred…
you were the worst lay of my whole life.
And this?
This is too fucking weird.
[door opens and closes]
[man] I looked in your lunch pail.
You didn't touch your aspic.
Oh.
-Sorry.
-[jazz music playing]
I've-- I've been
a little preoccupied lately.
Fatigue, I think.
Well, I have just the thing.
Gerald and his wife have invited us
to join them
for a lovely weekend of wine tasting
up in Napa.
Hm?
-When?
-Saturday.
I would have asked you first,
but Gerald is chief counselor.
He's the reason I made partner,
and I feared if I didn't accept right away
it would be rude.
Gerald says it's just a wonderful year
for cabernet.
I can't do this.
Can't do what?
I can't live like this anymore.
With you.
I can't stay in this marriage.
I know it was my idea.
And for the last three years,
this arrangement
has been very helpful for both of us.
Yes, it certainly has!
I made partner!
You work for the governor
of the state of California!
Please lower your voice.
Oh, I've given you a long leash, my dear.
Once a month,
you get to drive on up to Frisco,
and spend the weekend in your dive bars,
and I never ask questions.
And I didn't ask any questions
when I walked in on you being pounded
by Bob the butcher.
No you didn't, and we appreciated it,
Bob and I both.
I've met someone.
I don't know what her situation is.
But I can't stop thinking about her.
Her name is Mildred.
And I…
She haunts me.
You're a wonderful man, Trevor.
But I just know…
if I don't get out of this,
I'm going to die.
You're being stupid,
unbelievably short-sighted.
If you do this, you risk everything…
for you and me.
So, I would appreciate it if you at least
took a few days and thought this through.
I think you owe me that.
Now I need to take a long, hot bath,
if you'll excuse me.
[Bucket] Are you all right, Dr. Hanover?
Yes.
I noticed your car.
Oh, yeah, just some kids with slingshots
shot some rocks at me.
Well, that's just awful, Doctor.
Did you get a good look at them?
What? Yes. I mean, no.
It doesn't matter. I'll…
I'll get the windows replaced tomorrow.
What is it you needed?
Are you worried they're gonna come back?
Who?
The children with the slingshots.
Because I can alert the staff
to be on the lookout
for young hoodlums coming in here
looking for trouble.
No, can we not--
What do you want?
Well, just to give you an update
on the lesbians.
Miss Blix is scheduled
for hydrotherapy this evening,
and Mrs. Cartwright's treatment
went swimmingly, if you'll excuse the pun.
I've just had a follow-up with her,
and she said
that all her Sapphic ideations,
her fantasies and urges
and so on and so forth, have stopped.
She's even stopped
having libidinous thoughts
about the housewife next door
who broke up her marriage.
[gasps]
So it's a modern miracle, Doctor.
Congratulations.
Continue with the treatments as scheduled,
thrice weekly for two months.
Anything else?
Well, yes.
There's the matter of Mr. Dario.
What about him?
Well, no one knows where he is.
His niece telephoned here this morning
asking to speak with him,
and when I told her
that he had been released
to go to his brother's funeral,
she said he wasn't at the funeral.
So, don't you think that's a little odd?
-I'm so sorry to interrupt.
-I beg your pardon!
We are in the middle of a conversation.
[Mildred] I do apologize,
but Doctor, you and I have an early dinner
scheduled this evening, do we not?
Oh, yes.
I'd forgotten.
Thank you, Nurse Bucket.
Dinner?
Yes, Nurse Bucket. It's a meal.
Many people enjoy them.
Doctor,
Lord knows where Mr. Dario is.
We have a responsibility--
Thank you, Nurse Bucket.
I don't know what you're after,
but I will not stand
for this kind of blatant disrespect.
Thank you.
Nurse Bucket is, uh…
She's in love with you.
You know that, yes?
Once she finally accepts
that you don't feel the same way,
she will sabotage this whole operation.
[Dr. Hanover] Hm.
Would you be interested in dinner?
I know a place.
[waiter] Can I offer sir or madam a drink?
Scotch. Thank you. Neat.
The same.
If I asked you a question…
would you be willing to be honest with me?
Why is he hunting you?
Who?
I asked you to be honest.
Why are you being followed?
I…
I don't entirely know what to say.
Just the truth, Doctor.
You obviously committed
some sort of crime.
Scotch for the lady.
Thank you.
And for the gentleman.
Thank you.
I committed a crime, too.
With you.
When we made Dario disappear.
So, of all the people in your life…
wouldn't I be the one
you could trust the most?
I did a very bad thing.
We all do bad things.
No, but…
very bad.
It haunts me.
Tell me.
It was just, uh…
a few years ago now.
I thought…
I thought I was invincible.
I don't feel that way anymore.
A rich woman,
an heiress to a vast fortune,
she asked me to treat her son,
who she believed was deranged.
When I laid eyes on the boy,
I couldn't believe it.
He had the face of an angel.
-Lovely to meet you.
-Pleasure.
Polite, engaged.
The boy liked to prick people
with needles.
It's a sexual disorder called piquerism.
Mimics the penetrative aspects
of intercourse.
-[gasps]
-He pricked his mother.
-Ow!
-Pricked the cook.
But he was becoming more violent.
He sharpened a leather punch
and stabbed the gardener.
[groans]
He wasn't seriously injured
and stayed on at the job.
So, I took Henry on as a patient…
convinced that I could find the locus
of the inciting trauma.
Have you heard of lysergic acid?
Hallucinogen.
Physicians in Switzerland had just had
some very promising
therapeutic results with LSD.
It seemed to free the mind
of its workaday constraints.
I told the heiress all I would need
was a full day with Henry alone,
so she took a trip
to the other side of the island.
And I introduced the lysergic acid
to Henry.
Standard dose, 20 micrograms.
But the boy said…
You take some, too.
There was no way I was going to agree
with that, so I pretended.
There.
Twenty micrograms for both of us.
[Dr. Hanover groans]
[Dr. Hanover sighs]
Okay.
Okay, Henry, I'm gonna…
ask you some questions, okay?
And I would like you to answer
as best you can.
[Dr. Hanover grunts]
I knew right away something was wrong.
[ghostly shriek]
He poured the whole thing into my drink.
[scratching]
Four thousand micrograms.
About 200 times the therapeutic dose.
[ghostly echoing]
What happened from there I--
I can only describe as a sort of a dream.
I was there in that room, but…
I kept leaving my own body,
and found myself staring at a--
the godhead at the center of the universe.
And then things got very dark.
[ghostly shriek]
Then he just started talking.
It wouldn't stop,
it seemed to go on for months.
[indistinct chatter]
He kept going on about how a deity
had come into his bedroom
and stolen his arms and sewed
someone else's arms onto his body.
That this is why he was so troubled.
That… that the arms were
the source of his psychosis,
and that he wished me to remove them.
I'm gonna be right back, okay?
Don't… don't go anywhere.
[Dr. Hanover] And then he was gone
for what seemed like ages.
Or like he'd never been there
in the first place.
And then he returned…
covered in blood.
Now…
we are going to put these on me.
I knew right away
they were the gardener's,
and that Henry had just murdered him.
Oh, my.
[shudders]
Then I heard him screaming.
[screaming]
I watched the boy saw off his own arm.
[Henry groans]
And when he finished, he wedged
his other arm behind a heavy bureau
and cracked it at the humerus.
[loud crack]
[faint chuckle]
At that point I panicked.
He was bleeding out,
he was going to die.
Tell me you didn't.
So I tried it. I tried it,
with the medical equipment
I had with me, and the saw.
I sliced off the arm that was broken
and sewed the gardener's arms onto his.
Even as it was happening,
I couldn't tell if it was real.
But I didn't want him to die. I…
[voice wavering] I didn't want him to die.
And I knew it couldn't work.
I didn't have the tools.
I couldn't fuse the bones together.
The nerves were all severed.
So I just tried to attach
the blood vessels,
so he wouldn't bleed to death.
And there was Henry the whole time,
-just laughing and thanking me.
-[laughing]
When I finished, I gave him
what morphine I had, and he slept.
And then I ran.
I knew that his body
would reject the new limbs, of course.
They would have gone gangrenous
and practically fallen right off.
From what information I could gather,
Henry's system quickly went septic.
He very nearly died.
But in fact, he recovered.
But only after the infection spread
to his legs,
and they, too, had to be removed.
His mother wants me dead.
And I don't imagine it's a gentle death
she has planned.
She's never going to rest
until she finds me.
Then we have to make sure
that she never does.
And I think I know
how that can be accomplished.