Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) s01e06 Episode Script

1
Happy birthday.
I heard a noise.
Yeah, I guess
I was just talking to myself.
Okay. Was it just me
or did anybody else
dream a tad more vividly last night?
‐ Whatever is in these, Dee,
keep 'em coming.
‐ I'm not gonna make it.
‐ You're not gonna make it where?
‐ To the end of the week
The end of the year.
‐ Don't you look at me like‐‐ like‐‐
don't stare at me
like I'm a fucking psycho.
‐ We are on the precipice
of something great.
Stay with me. Stay together.
‐ Mom! Mom!
‐ You've got this
Strange effect on me ♪
‐ Mmm.
‐ Who are you? What did you‐‐
‐ Money, money, money
Money, money, money ♪
Can you believe you gave me $128,000?
Ooh! I bet you feel dumb.
‐ Shit.
Son of a‐‐
Ari was never my son.
He's my cousin's son.
‐ You're a small man, Paul Drabble.
‐ Money, money, money
Money, money, money ♪
Faggot.
‐ What did you call me?
‐ He said faggot.
Faggot, faggot!
Faggot, faggot!
Faggot, faggot!
Faggot, faggot!
Faggot, faggot!
Faggot, faggot, faggot!
Shh.
‐ What are you doing here?
‐ I hate bullies.
‐ How do you know what I was dreaming?
I use a little
auditory subliminal stimuli.
I put in a chemical catalyst, and
I can see your past trauma with bullies.
‐ What exactly are you giving me?
‐ What I'm giving you is a story.
This is going to be yours.
It's not connected to the internet,
but the camera is working just fine.
So I want you to document
all of the events
that you see today.
I want you to record them,
to write them down.
I want you to do it all.
‐ Why? What's about to happen?
‐ Well for starters
You are about to happen.
Your whole life
has been about tearing down.
You target the bullies.
Destroy them.
The question is
have you ever nurtured anything?
‐ No.
‐ No.
Have you ever been a vehicle for growth?
‐ No.
‐ I am gonna offer you
the chance to build something.
Something extraordinary.
So
you came here to boost your career.
Instead, you get a legacy,
you get the chance
to be the one who told the world.
‐ Wait. So, what do you mean,
she controlled your dream?
‐ I've heard of it
being done with hypnosis.
She does it with drugs and audio.
Like brain entrainment.
‐ So she knew you'd be having a butt baby?
‐ I'm sorry. Was I talking to you?
‐ No, but you were talking loud enough
that I could overhear your conversation.
And by the way, it's my baby too, Lars.
I know my rights.
‐ Okay. Let's not be the Bickersons today.
We had this lovely party last night.
You know, we‐‐ We all sang and danced.
- ‐ Hi, good morning.
- Good morning.
- ‐ So, what'd I miss?
- Oh, apparently
Masha's been manipulating Lars' dreams
with mind control or something.
- ‐ Drugs and entrainment.
- Whatever.
She's controlling our dreams now?
That explains a lot.
‐ Why, what happened?
Hello, everybody.
How are you all doing this morning?
‐ Uh, not‐‐ not great. I‐‐
I'm not sure what you're doing,
dosage‐wise,
but I had some kind of hallucination
or dream last night where Paul Drabble
was like the size of a, you know,
like a garden gnome.
‐ Oh.
I know it's maybe offensive
to talk about someone's size,
but he's an offensive, tiny little man.
So he‐‐ it's fine.
‐ What was he doing?
‐ He was singing a song from Cabaret.
‐ Willkommen, Bienvenue‐‐ ♪
‐ No, not that one. The‐‐
‐ Maybe this time I'll be lucky ♪
Maybe this time, maybe‐‐ ♪
No.
I don't even know that one.
The, um‐‐ uh, it was‐‐
‐ Money, money, money ♪
Yes, "Money." "Money."
He was singing, "Money, money, money,"
across the floor, by my bed, and then
inside my toilet.
And I mean, I did not come here
to have a Lilliputian‐sized
internet hustler
sing show tunes to me from the toilet.
‐ That must've been terrifying.
‐ Well, it wasn't a good show.
Yeah.
‐ How did the dream end?
‐ I‐‐ I flushed him down the toilet.
Now, if I had told you from the start
that you will gonna flush Paul Drabble
down the toilet, what would have you done?
‐ I would have paid you double.
‐ We are all experiencing new things here.
Zoe. Zoe beautifully expressed
her sense of family to you last night.
Ben, Jessica rediscovering each other.
Tony. How about you?
What were you feeling?
It looked like tenderness.
You are okay being a little vulnerable?
‐ No. I'm okay.
‐ So we're making progress here.
And now we are gonna build
on that progress.
We have a slightly higher dose.
I mean, you don't have to take it,
it is up to you, but if you do,
there's a couple more rules,
no climbing, no going near water.
We will also employ the buddy system.
So the Marconis, Ben and Jessica,
Carmel, Lars, and Tony, Frances.
- ‐ Love it.
- It's your choice,
but it is safe.
‐ Sounds safe to me.
‐ Cheers?
‐ L'chaim.
‐ Hey, buddy.
‐ Here's mud in your eye.
- Mm.
- Down it.
‐ Et tu, Brute?
And then fall Napoleon.
It's gonna be a glorious day.
‐ Masha?
Uh, can I see you in private?
My concern is about how this psychedelic
might affect or react, you know,
with other medications.
I'm on a few psychotropics.
Um, I was afraid,
um, I might not be accepted here
if you knew.
So I didn't‐‐
Yes.
You're on psychotropics, we know this.
We did your blood work.
It's all right. You're fine.
- Nothing to worry about.
- ‐ Okay.
Well, good. Thank you so much.
‐ But I am gonna need
to tell you something, um
so we can move forward to the next step.
I know
I know why you came here.
‐ I'm sorry?
‐ It wasn't a coincidence.
You came to a retreat,
this retreat, because
I had an affair with your husband.
‐ Oh my God, am I in trouble?
‐ No.
‐ I'm in trouble.
‐ No. Of course,
you're not in trouble.
I mean, unless you're trying to kill me.
- ‐ What?
- Are you?
Somebody is sending me nasty threats.
Somebody wants to scare me.
‐ Really? Not‐‐ no, it's not me.
I‐‐ I came here to know you.
To see what he saw, to‐‐
to see the‐‐ the what and the‐‐ the why.
The why
Finish that.
‐ Well, it's just that you‐‐
You were the catalyst for it all.
You‐‐ You
opened his mind to the idea
that there were beautiful girls
out there to be had
including the pretty
little bimbo he's with now.
Did you know we were in love, Masha?
Masha, he was crazy about me.
We were‐‐ we were in love.
‐ So you came here to confront me?
‐ I came to study you.
To‐‐ to study you, in the hopes of‐‐ of
of becoming you.
And then he‐‐
he might want me back.
- ‐ Oh.
- I'm sorry.
‐ No. I should apologize to you.
I was a different person then, Carmel.
‐ May I ask what was he to you?
‐ You're not gonna like this answer
but he was nothing.
He was a placeholder.
I was consumed with work.
I‐‐ I had affairs with married men
who wouldn't get attached and that was it.
I would never ever hurt you now.
‐ So if you knew my story,
why did you accept me?
‐ I want you to heal.
I want you to get all of this hatred
out of your heart.
I wanna say I'm sorry to you.
Yeah. Yeah. Come, come.
That's right.
Oh, lapochka.
You can trust me.
You're safe with me.
I would never hurt you.
You take the medicine.
‐ I trust you.
‐ Just trust me.
‐ Okay.
Twist to the right
Now towards the sun,
and you come down gently.
Just hip level.
Gently come up, keep breathing.
‐ Are you okay?
‐ Hmm. Wobbly.
We have that in common.
Masha, why are you pushing
this protocol so fast?
‐ Because the time is now.
‐ Is it now or never?
What are we, out of money?
‐ We're not out of money.
‐ Well, I‐I know that this lawsuit
was a big‐‐ pretty big drain.
‐ We're not out of money.
I saw you last night, eating sugar.
The cake?
‐ That was you?
‐ Mm.
It was actually kind of sweet.
You actually‐‐
You actually seemed
kind of mortal.
Like the rest of us.
Giving in to temptation.
‐ I was trying to connect
with the little girl within me.
Did you?
‐ Not yet.
‐ Tony.
Tony.
Your buddy.
- ‐ Oh, Leon.
- Dad?
‐ Oh. Uh, it just, uh,
erupted out of me, huh?
‐ It's normal, it's‐‐
that's a great thing.
- ‐ That's not normal.
- ‐ Wow. Okay.
Mount St. Napoleon onwards.
‐ You sure you're okay?
Oh, perfect. Better than ever.
Wow. Uh, maybe a little water. Yeah.
‐ You're a pretty little thing.
‐ Hey. What are you doing?
Gallivanting off like that
without your buddy?
‐ Sorry.
‐ How's your head?
‐ I don't know.
It's kind of‐‐
it feels like a puffy cloud
‐ Mm‐hm.
‐ little bit, you know,
like a cumulus cloud,
pretty with a chance of rain.
‐ Anyway, you shouldn't
really go off like that
and stuff, you know.
Oh, right.
Because of the buddy system.
‐ Yeah.
‐ We're buddies.
Right? You and me?
‐ Yeah.
‐ What you want from me ♪
‐ Oh, my God, he's going in.
‐ What?
‐ What?
‐ What'd you say?
‐ I didn't say anything.
‐ You did, you just said,
"Oh my God. He's going in."
‐ Did I say that out loud?
‐ Yeah.
‐ I thought it.
I didn't think I said it out loud.
These‐‐ oh, these mushrooms
are like a doozy‐‐
‐ What does that even mean though?
"Oh my God. He's going in."
What does that mean?
‐ You had a‐‐
a look on your face
like you were gonna kiss me.
So
Were you thinking that?
‐ Yeah, I mean, I was thinking it.
‐ And?
‐ I remembered that
everything I ever touch
I hurt.
Especially the people I love.
I don't wanna do that to you, Frances.
I don't wanna hurt you.
‐ Is that why you didn't kiss me?
‐ That and it would involve leaning
and I don't think
I could do that right now.
I'm pretty dizzy.
I'm afraid I'm gonna fall.
‐ I'll catch you.
God, I've written this scene
like a million times,
I'm sure Paul would say like
it's a very gimmicky scene, but‐‐
‐ Can w just forget
about Paul for a second?
‐ Yup.
‐ Okay.
Full disclosure, I'm a terrible kisser.
‐ So when it is awful‐‐
‐ Just lay it on me.
‐ I'm not gonna make the first move.
‐ I'm gonna make the move.
‐ Are you?
‐ Yeah. Here it comes.
‐ It's kind of funny
you're this big football,
you know, guy.
I mean, he‐‐ like cute‐‐
‐ Must be love on the brain ♪
‐ You weren't kidding. That was terrible.
‐ Thanks.
‐ If that was terrible,
I can't even imagine
what the good one is like.
‐ Oh my God, I'm going in.
What are you doing?
You said you were gonna catch me.
‐ I can't catch you,
I have no upper body strength.
‐ How you doing? You feeling okay?
‐ I feel nothing. I can't feel my legs.
Help.
Sweetheart.
You okay?
‐ Yeah, I barely feel anything.
‐ Well, it hits people at different times.
‐ I'm absolutely bonkers.
It's just really
just a matter of perspective.
It's, you know, trick of the mind
because everything
you think you are is a story
you tell yourself about yourself, right?
- ‐ The vomit was real.
- Yeah, it was.
‐ I'm gonna go for a walk.
No, I think
we should stick together.
I got high once at a Fleetwood Mac concert
and‐‐ and I went wandering
and I got lost for hours.
‐ I'm gonna be okay.
‐ That you won't be
walkin' out the door ♪
When you walked ♪
‐ Zoe.
Oh, boy. Look at that.
Oh, wow.
‐ Lovers forever ♪
Can I ask you something?
‐ Yeah.
‐ Do you ever think about not going on?
‐ What do you mean?
‐ What do you mean, what I mean?
What I said, do you ever think
about not going on?
‐ Jesus, that's, um, a bit of a buzzkill.
‐ I've thought about it a lot, of late.
Before I came here.
Just everything, you know, uh
my career ending, my marriage
my girls.
It's kind of felt like the‐‐
the bottom‐bottom.
And Lars said that thing about
her picking us.
And Masha made that comment
about desperate people that‐‐
I mean, Frances, she picked nine people
who needed to be in a place
where they would try anything she wanted.
I mean, every one of us
drank the Kool‐Aid this morning.
Every one of us.
Except this morning,
I didn't drink out of despair.
I drank out of hope.
Because of what she's already given me.
Because of what you've given me, Frances.
When I woke up this morning,
this morning,
you know what I thought about?
Painting my house.
Maybe getting a dog.
Definitely taking you out to dinner.
That was, um
If I ever do write romance again,
I'm gonna steal that.
‐ So you're basically stalking her?
‐ Well, in a way.
I don't know, studying her.
I mean, I just‐‐
I came with a lot of hate.
Like she was the reason
that I lost my family
or at least the precipitating
factor which
you know, it probably isn't true.
I mean, in many ways, it's actually
just the opposite.
‐ What do you mean?
I just feel like in many ways
she's given us family.
You know, you saw the way
we all were last night, dinner.
We danced.
Listen. Um
full disclosure
'cause you're my buddy, right?
‐ Right.
‐ I just‐‐ I‐‐ I'm just‐‐
I'm a little freaked out that
Frances hallucinated her ex.
'Cause should that happen to me,
I mean, that‐‐ that
I think that wouldn't be pretty.
I attacked my ex with a fork.
What if suddenly, I mean, I don't know,
you should look like him to me?
‐ I‐‐ I don't think that would happen.
‐ No?
Okay.
But what about you? I mean
you just broke up with, uh,
your partner, right?
I mean, do you ever get
any visions of him,
this Ray guy?
‐ No.
‐ Wow, you are
lucky, I guess.
‐ Maybe.
Maybe not.
‐ I knocked your camera over.
‐ That's all right, we're done.
‐ How do I look? Look at the tape.
Beautiful.
‐ Yeah?
Let me see.
‐ Like a young Gloria Gaynor.
‐ Oh! Oh, gee.
‐ You like that?
‐ Yeah.
‐ We're good. We're good.
You look cute.
Ew, what is‐‐
What is that?
Oh my God.
What? Wha‐‐? Why?
Oh my God!
What? What? What?
What? What? Jessica‐‐
‐ My nose! My nose is gone!
‐ What is wrong? What? Look!
‐ My nose!
‐ Your nose is literally‐‐
‐ Look at me!
‐ I'm looking at you don't‐‐
‐ Look at me!
‐ Goddamn it. Your nose
is on your face, okay? Shh
‐ My nose. My nose.
‐ Look, look in the mirror.
You see that? You see your nose? Relax.
You're gonna pass out.
Your nose is on your face.
You see that? You see it?
It's here. It's on your face.
‐ It's okay.
‐ Of course, it was.
Nobody's just gonna steal your nose.
‐ It's on my face.
‐ And it's back, okay?
If somebody took it, it'd still be gone.
But it's here, right?
‐ Now breathe.
‐ Do you have it?
‐ It's on your face.
You have it. We have it.
We good?
‐ Mm‐hmm. We're good. Okay.
Okay.
Hey. Is something wrong?
I heard screams.
‐ Oh, perfect.
Hey, did you give us mushrooms?
You was only supposed to give us E.
‐ Yes, you specifically asked for it.
‐ Well, not to make my nose
fall off of my face.
‐ You have your nose.
You're fine, look.
Told you that.
‐ You're fine.
‐ I told her it was still on her face.
Hey, where she come from?
‐ I don't know.
‐ Hey.
Hey!
What are you doing?
‐ What am I doing?
‐ Yeah. Spinning around like that.
What are you doing?
‐ I thought I saw something.
What?
‐ I'm not really sure.
‐ What do you think you saw?
‐ I don't know.
‐ What? What's going on? Huh?
Did you see Zach?
‐ What?
‐ Oh, my God. Did you? Honey?
Did you see him? Here?
You saw him here, right? Yeah? Zach, Zach.
Zachary, Zachary, Zachary.
Zach. Zach.
Zachary?
I see him! I see him! He's right there.
Where?
‐ I see‐‐
he's right‐‐
I did. He's back.
I saw him.
I saw him. I did. I saw him.
‐ Oh, Zach, Zach?
‐ Hey, Mom. What is with the shrooms?
I guess the zero tolerance policy
is out the window or‐‐
I mean, you should've told me,
I might've stuck around.
‐ I missed you so much.
Oh, my God. Oh, I‐‐
look at your face.
Oh, come here.
Oh!
Look at you.
- ‐ Honey?
- Shh.
‐ What?
‐ I think she's with him.
My boy. Oh, hello, my boy.
Oh.
I wanna believe this is real.
Oh, please, let this be real.
‐ I know.
‐ I love you.
But I want you to tell me why.
‐ You know why, Mom.
‐ Oh, no, I don't. How could I?
‐ How could you?
It's kind of your job, don't you think?
‐ My job?
I don't know what you mean.
Your asthma?
You hung yourself.
‐ The medication.
‐ No, I‐‐ honey, I'm not following.
I don't understand.
It was all listed.
The side effects, you read the pamphlet.
blurry vision,
shortness of breath,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
nausea, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Suicidal ideation.
Ding, ding, ding, winner.
‐ What do you mean suicidal ideation?
Mom, come on.
You underlined it.
Right there.
‐ Oh. I didn't‐‐
What are you talking about?
I‐‐ No. I didn't‐‐
Oh, no! No, I‐‐ No, I didn't know! No!
No! No, no! No! No!
- ‐ Mom?
- ‐ No! No! No!
- ‐ Mom.
- No, no!
Honey, Heather calm down.
Okay.
You wanna get up?
Come on, let's get you up.
Let's get you up. Come on.
- ‐ Dad?
- Yeah?
‐ It's gonna be okay. She's gonna be okay.
‐ Oh, yeah.
It's gonna be fine, sweetheart.
Heather?
If you can follow the light
with your eyes.
All right, let's
‐ Where Where has he gone?
It's okay.
‐ Where is my son?
Where's my‐‐
‐ It's okay.
Honey
‐ Where's my
- It's okay. It's okay.
- ‐ No.
No.
Oh, no.
‐ It's all right. It's okay.
It's okay.
It's gonna be okay.
Just a pinch, okay? Okay.
It's all right.
‐ Look at me.
Look at me.
Rest. It's all right.
It's all right, darling.
Darling, it's all right.
All right.
All right.
Napoleon, Zoe, come.
She, uh, had another panic attack,
but she has, uh, had a sedative
and she's resting.
She'll be out for a couple of hours.
Yeah? She's okay, though?
‐ She's gonna be fine.
Absolutely fine.
Delilah, can you go check
on the others for me?
‐ Masha?
‐ Mm‐hmm?
‐ I think we're a little out
of our depths here.
‐ Please D, please do this, yes,
thank you.
Hey.
‐ She was seeing Zach.
- ‐ Yeah. Yeah, we all did.
- Yeah.
‐ You all saw him?
Yeah.
‐ Zoe, you‐‐
‐ Yeah.
Saw stuff I really wish I hadn't.
‐ And you saw him as well?
‐ Yeah. He's a‐‐
he was, kind of, flickering in and out,
all static‐y.
Heather's the one who saw him the most,
it was like they were together
having a conversation.
‐ What was the conversation about?
‐ Um, we heard her say asthma
and then something about his medication.
‐ Suicidal ideation.
She said suicidal ideation.
Zach had just started
a new asthma medication.
Perhaps that was one of the side effects,
I don't know.
I‐‐ I never read the pamphlet,
but
she would have.
‐ Dad?
‐ I am sorry for this.
But this needed to happen.
She had to have this memory come back.
It
‐ Oh. This feels so good.
I'm usually a beach guy.
It's Ray that loves the pool.
‐ Oh. Is anybody else
still wearing their shoes?
I still have my shoes on.
- She said no water.
- No, no, no.
- The water is so nice, you'll love it.
- It's fine.
‐ No. This is dangerous.
She said no water.
She was very specific.
It feels overwhelming, dangerous.
Oh, fuck.
‐ No, it's‐‐ it's amazing in here.
You'll love‐‐ you love the water.
‐ I can't get out of this throne.
‐ Where's Zoe? She'd love this.
‐ Fuck.
‐ Hey, come on in.
Come on in, it's so nice.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Oh, you're right.
It feels amazing.
‐ See?
‐ Water.
Who knew?
‐ Okay. Everybody, out of the pool.
‐ Fuck! I told you!
It's okay.
Are you all staying hydrated?
- ‐ Yes.
- No, no, no.
Not‐‐ Not that water, Ben.
That's filled with magnesium,
potassium, and Himalayan salt.
We're all together.
The Marconis should be here.
- ‐ Oh yeah.
- Yeah, right?
‐ Yes. We must summon them.
Can you summon them for us, please?
‐ Not just now. Heather's, um,
Heather's having a rest.
What sort of rest?
‐ Okay. Please, let's get you all up
to your rooms, okay?
‐ That's right.
‐ Is‐‐ Is Heather okay, first?
‐ She's fine. She's with Yao and Masha.
‐ Okay.
‐ Everybody out.
Hey.
‐ I'm sorry, just don't‐‐ don't‐‐
don't touch me, I just‐‐
I don't like that.
It's okay, Carmel.
Come on.
Let me take you to your room.
Come on. It's okay.
‐ Everybody out!
Hey!
‐ What did you say to Mom?
‐ Have you ever known me to lie?
‐ Just answer my question, shithead.
What did you say to her?
‐ I can only tell people
what they already know.
Like, I can tell you,
you hurt, that you'll be okay.
‐ Zach?
She's awake now.
You can talk to her.
‐ Frankly, I don't really know
what I would say.
You know
couples rarely survive these things.
These kind of tragedies.
People's lives go on, but
not together.
I've read everything there is
to read on the matter.
The little bud of malignancy
is blame.
When a child dies
and there's blame to be had
That's why I thought when, uh
When I thought it was me
‐ Hmm.
‐ When I'd overslept
and I thought maybe
I could've made a difference.
I was so afraid
that Heather would blame me and leave me.
And I was convinced of it
because if the shoe
were on the other foot,
I'd probably leave her.
Who wouldn't?
Well, you know what,
now the shoe's on the other foot.
She scours the label of every food product
before she puts a morsel in her mouth.
God forbid she come in contact
with a bit of sugar or gluten.
Either she read about the side effects
in that pamphlet or she didn't.
But either way
Hmm.
I'm a pretty forgiving man. I've
I've had to learn to be, but, uh
Yeah. I don't think I can forgive that.
‐ She's the love of your life.
‐ It doesn't matter.
It's not enough.
‐ What do you want, Napoleon?
What do you want
most?
‐ I just want my son back.
‐ Suppose I can arrange that.
I'm not saying I can bring him
back for real,
but I am saying
that reality is a perspective.
‐ "Reality is a perspective."
Mmm.
‐ What does that even mean?
I killed my son.
‐ Oh, Heather. Heather
‐ I killed him.
‐ And I am talking
about bringing him back for you.
‐ As a fucking hallucination.
‐ Psychedelics can be used
to achieve an alternate reality.
The science is here.
And in that alternate reality,
Zachary can exist
because what happened today
was incredible.
All three of you saw Zachary.
It's called shared psychosis
hallucination.
It's‐‐ It's very rare. It's very powerful.
There's usually a dominant player,
a primary inducer.
And there was, it was Zoe.
‐ I don't know what you're saying.
‐ If you let me guide you, help you
you can see Zachary
and you can interact with him,
talk to him, you can.
‐ Via psychedelics?
Yes.
‐ Right. Yeah.
I'm sorry. That just sounds like madness.
‐ But it's not madness.
It's dangerous if it's not
managed correctly,
but it is not madness.
‐ This is why we're here.
This is why you chose us.
‐ Because I wanna help you.
I don't want you to have this pain.
Think of all the people that are living
with this unbearable grief and pain.
Think of it.
If this works
imagine what we can offer them.
Because what we can do
is we can offer them
the chance to relieve past trauma.
We can offer them the chance
to come to terms with it,
to share those terms
with the object of their grief.
Like Zachary for you.
‐ Mm‐mm.
No. I go back to madness.
‐ Heather.
I know pain.
I know it.
And I also know healing.
Put yourself in my hands
and under my care, my control.
I will try to give you your son back.
Well you found my spot.
‐ Guess that makes two of us
that had a wildly original idea.
Yeah.
Wow.
A crazy day, huh?
‐ Definitely strange.
Yeah.
How you doing?
‐ Oh, you know.
‐ I actually do.
I think‐‐ I think we're a little alike.
Yeah.
Like when you had your vision
of your‐‐ your mini‐man.
Like Masha said,
the heart hurts, but our heads,
you know, getting
played for fools.
It‐‐ It‐‐ It's not so much
that‐‐ that they stopped feeling
for us or‐‐ or that
they never felt that much
to begin with.
It is how they made us feel
about ourselves.
‐ Have you noticed that
the other people are starting
to feel better,
you know, in their own way.
I mean, I think I'm even
somewhat improving,
although incrementally.
I just‐‐ I just worry that
it seems like you may be getting worse.
She is gonna try again
with the Marconis.
How do you know?
‐ I overheard them talking about it.
Heather just had
a fully psychotic episode.
They‐‐ They are in no position
to make that kind of decision.
Set aside the legal exposure,
you saw what happened last time.
It won't work.
‐ It might. It almost did last time.
‐ But it didn't.
The Connollys are still stalking Masha.
They're still threatening her.
‐ We don't know that it's them.
‐ Then who is threatening her?
It is a huge risk.
‐ It's the risk that we take.
Look, I believe in what
we're building here.
And you did once too, all right?
The protocol got you well,
it'll be the same for the Marconis.
‐ This is not mindfulness or yoga or‐‐
or even microdosing.
I don't care.
I don't want to be complicit in this.
And I don't want you
to be complicit in this.
We need to get out of here.
‐ Round like a circle in a spiral ♪