Michael: Every Day (2011) s02e06 Episode Script

1 (groaning) What time is it? I don't know.
10:17? Are you all right? Tired.
I didn't sleep.
- I have an incredible headache.
- You're dehydrated.
- Did I drink last night? - You don't remember? Yeah, you drank.
At at that bar? At the bar, here Here? Did something hap did I do something? I don't wanna talk about it.
- What - (toilet flushing) Hi, boys! Oh, I gotta run.
I gotta pick up the twins from my mother's and drop them off at daycare because I got the lunch shift today.
Hope that things work out for you soon, - honeybunch.
- Oh.
Alright, I'll see ya when I see ya.
Bye! Bye.
Yeah, I don't wanna talk about it.
Gotta get up, gotta get out Gotta get home before the morning comes You're an alcoholic.
- Yesterday was an unusual day.
- You drank at lunch.
- I had one beer.
- Three, actually.
And then you drank the champagne before you tried to poison a moose.
- That was to make room for the pills.
- You drank at the trucker bar.
I mean, you really drank there.
And let's say it was stress-induced drinking I can relate to that, but it was something you said to the stripper - that really sealed it.
- At the bar? - At the hotel, at 4:28.
- What did I say? You said "I'm an alcoholic.
" Did I have sex with the stripper? There was more crying than sex.
- I made her cry? - Not her.
- Oh God.
- Look (clearing throat) I don't know what I said last night I mean, I really don't know what I said last night, but it wasn't necessarily the truth.
In vino veritas.
Is not accurate, is what I'm saying.
It's just an expression, and it's Latin so people give it more weight than it deserves.
OK.
(clearing throat) Maybe there was some truth in there, but you know what? You're seeing who I am, who I really am, after all these years, and that's a good thing.
It's really important for me not to know anything about you.
I don't wanna know that you're an alcoholic or that you killed a guy and had sex with my mother.
You're my therapist.
I need to think of you as Superman.
I can't think of you as drinking and crying and screwing and killing and then ask you to help me with my fear of spiders, you know what I mean? Yes.
I'm erasing the events of last night from my mind.
You should too.
- Oh, they're barely there.
- Good.
So last night never happened.
Hey, boys! Now you know my day job.
What can I get yous? No booze for you.
You have a problem.
I'm not gonna be your enabler.
The meatloaf's good.
Oh! Hey, hi! I got here as fast as I could.
I drove like a teenager on coke, but I'm here for you, just like you are for me.
- Great.
How did you know? - How did I know? That we were stranded and where we are.
- Dr.
Storper.
- Well, you called me, or some woman named Shasta called me and handed you the phone.
- We talked for an hour.
- Oh.
Oh.
You've no memory of this.
- He was really drunk.
- Oh God.
I'm such an idiot.
I'm an idiot.
Meredith was right about you, about me, - about the whole thing.
- No, Meredith was not right.
It doesn't matter that I don't remember the specifics of what I said, because I was drunk when I said them and, you know - In vino veritas.
- In vino veritas.
In vino veritas is Latin for a reason.
It's just that you said some really beautiful things.
You did, that's when I cried.
I meant those things that I said, every word.
Yeah, OK.
Alright, we should get going.
You need to get your stuff.
It's like an hour to Sudbury or something.
You're gonna drive us? - You asked me to.
- You asked her to.
Hey, can we stop at a mall or something? I gotta get a new suit, mine's covered in blood.
- Really? Wow.
OK.
- Great.
- Thank you for coming.
- It's been crazy.
My credits cards were damaged in the accident, do you think you could help me pay the motel and I'll pay you back? David, they weren't actually damaged.
You're broke.
You told me that last night.
I just wish that you would, you know, tell me the truth when you were sober.
OK, the important thing to remember is this.
In that nightmare yesterday, you were the only person I called.
I'm looking for a man, answers to the name of Dashiell.
Middle-aged, tall, pale, sickly, ambiguous sexuality, seriously anxious, probably consuming enormous amounts of alcohol while he's trying to comfort another man who's likely crying.
Oh, and they're both covered with blood.
Have you seen him? - Is this OK here? - Yeah.
You're gonna go park? Yeah.
Ow.
I think he was wearing a ring.
I can still see it, just here.
- You look good.
- Thanks.
- It's gonna go well.
- Yeah, I think it will.
When it's done, do you think you're gonna fly home or I don't know.
Look, you don't have a fear of flying.
You're afraid of something else, but the thought of flying triggers that fear.
Maybe you're not afraid of flying, you're afraid of going away.
- What do you mean? I don't get that.
- Just ace that presentation.
Okay.
Seniors How can we get them to use the internet? In the past, we have simplified it, restricted access, dumbed it down.
But I think that's the wrong approach.
I don't think seniors are any more confused by the internet than I am.
I think they're afraid of it.
Watch this video, please.
My name's Al Jordan.
I'm 82 years old.
- Do you ever use the internet? - I wouldn't want to mess it up.
We created a mock form that's really a search engine.
Each time you enter a term, it takes you to a related website then you have to find your way back.
- The form has changed.
- Yes.
Now I'm looking outside those, put in Saskatchewan.
Yes.
So I'm gonna leave you for about three hours - Wait, wait.
- What if I break it? You cannot break the internet.
He was scared at first, a little panicky.
He paced, slugged away at the form, swore a lot, but once he figured out his way back to the home page, there was no stopping him.
He was surfing the internet like a 17-year-old.
- So, what did you think? - Worst form in the world, pain in the ass, but it took me places.
In the end, the form itself became a personalized website, a profile page full of photos, life experiences, and friends.
The senior volunteers were scared at first, but they all booked repeat sessions.
They loved that they had a place - on the internet.
Thank you.
- (applause) (snatches of conversation) When will you come to Halifax? You need a bigger team.
My office in Hamilton - serves 81,000 seniors.
- Oh.
This is your whole life now, you realize that? Would the same thing work on kids? I mean really young kids.
Uh, would you just excuse me? Mr.
Renn, what are you doing here? I came to see your presentation, of course.
It was excellent.
- It's wonderful to see you, Mr.
Renn.
- We're all very proud of you.
You had such poise up there.
When you were working with us, I was worried about you.
You had your anxiety issues.
But look at this! You've created a life for yourself and a totally new path.
It's wonderful.
I wish you good luck, Michael, and hope you visit us soon.
- I will.
- Goodbye, Michael.
Boy, you really knocked it out of the park in there.
I quit.
Seriously? - Oh! How'd it go? - Great.
I quit.
- Can you give me a ride to the airport? - Sure.
- You quit? - I'll get my things.
I didn't get what you meant at first, about me being afraid of something else, but I get it now and I know what it is.
Did you plan all this? Well, there was a certain amount of planning involved No, it was instinct.
He's good.
- He's like a brain detective.
- What was the epiphany? I don't wanna say it till I know I'm right.
- I guess this is the end.
- Of? Therapy.
I mean, you got me where I needed to be.
You literally drove me there.
Well, therapy's never really over, remember? Well, not for me, maybe, but I think you need to take a break, seriously.
Yeah, there's some things I'm gonna look into.
- Rehab? - Yeah.
- Debt management? - Possibly.
I'd get an STI test too, if I were you.
Oh I gotta go, I have a plane to catch.
I can't believe I just said that.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
- For so many things.
- OK, well.
- Safe flight.
- Thank you.
What is it about him, this particular patient? I don't know, might have something to do with the fact that you slept with his mother.
- In vino veritas, David.
- (cell phone buzzing) Oh, that's my phone.
Oh.
Hello? David Storper, yes.
Thank you.
Can we stop in North Bay? - North Bay? Why? - My therapist is in jail.
Goddamn Farmersville.
I hate this fucking place.
- So sorry.
- (muttering) - Hi.
- Oh, it's you.
All of the research I could've been doing while chasing this will-o'-the-wisp psychiatrist.
- So, you hit someone? - With my cane.
I struck him across his fat face.
- It was fatter than mine.
- Why? He had a leg tremor and nystagmus.
- That's abnormal eye movements.
So? - It was obvious he was in the advanced stages of Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome.
I told him as much.
That's a neurological disease.
It's brought on by excessive alcohol consumption.
- She knows what it is! - I don't, actually.
Well, you should, seeing the company you keep.
I still don't understand why you hit him.
He called me a nosy old Jew.
Jew, yes.
Old, perhaps.
Nosy, never! OK, well, uh, good for you.
- (beeping) - What is that? That's a flight tracker app.
He should be in the air by now, if he got on the plane.
(humming) Makes you wanna dance, doesn't it? (snoring) I am so sorry.
I feel like I've been in this car for four years.
This seat is incredibly uncomfortable.
I've got lumbar osteophyte that's digging into my liver.
There'll be blood in my urine tomorrow.
- OK, enough with the talking.
- Enough with the talking, Dr.
Dismal? For your information, I wouldn't be here if I hadn't received a call from you, half out of your mind.
That's why I'm here.
No, you're here because you have self-esteem issues, so it's comforting for you to be with someone - who's so massively dysfunctional.
- I hate this man.
Look, I'm grateful that you came to rescue me.
May I suggest that you write down the name of the town next time? Yeah, there's not gonna be a next time, so Of course there'll be a next time.
Donald is a mess.
Look at him.
He's an anal retentive depressive with narcissistic personality disorder manifested by a gross appetite for drugs and alcohol, which he consumes in gargantuan amounts.
But he loves you.
You two are connected.
That's why he called you from the motel.
You know, every therapist has a patient whom he thinks about long after the session is over, and that patient helps him as much as he is helped by the therapist.
For him, it's this Michael man.
For me, it's Dimitri.
He meant to say David.
He's always getting my name wrong.
No, Dimitri! The great boy I've been treating for PTSD.
He was in Afghanistan.
He's a hero.
Not like you, you drunken murderous bastard.
OK, we can just drop him off anywhere along here.
Sir, I would suggest that you get help before you fly again.
Oh, I'll never be doing that again.
But I did it, didn't I? - Yeah.
- Thanks for all your help.
- I did it! - You did.
Are you up? No, I'm here.
Can I come over? What can I say? - Thank you.
You saved me.
- So your apartment's ready? - Yeah, yeah.
- They did a great job.
It's better than it was before.
I should've burned it down long ago.
(chuckling) OK.
- OK.
- OK.
- Well, goodbye.
- Goodbye.
- I lost the apartment.
- I know.
I don't think I'm capable of taking care of myself right now.
I need help.
I know that's a lot to ask of an ex-wife.
David, I think that you should sleep in my basement.
OK? Come on.
Tomorrow? Tomorrow, can I sleep in your basement? Can you drop me at the office? All my stuff is there.
- Because that's where you're sleeping? - Yeah.
And I've got some business that I have to take care of in the morning.
(She sighs.
) You know, he's right.
Wasserman.
About you and I, this connection.
Yeah.
(insistent knocking) Hi.
Oh, is Sophie asleep? - It's like 12:30.
Yeah.
- Dr.
Storper was right, - I don't have a fear of flying.
- OK? He thought it was a symptom, but not the cause.
He didn't know what the cause was, but I know now.
- OK? - I have a fear of losing you - I have a fear of losing you.
Here.
- Thanks.
See, the flying triggered a panic reaction because it was taking me away from you.
The real life stuff has been taking me away from you.
We talked about this.
We did that on purpose.
I wanna be with you and Sophie.
I wanna help you with her.
I wanna live here, marry you even, if you're into that.
- Whoa, slow down.
- OK, maybe not that part, as long as we're a couple and I'm her father, I guess, because I love her and you too, obviously.
- This is unfair, Michael.
- Your life is so hard right now, - and I swear I can help with that.
- I can handle things.
- I've been handling things.
- I know, I know, I know, but, but I can help with Sophie or cooking or whatever.
I don't want you to have to take care of me anymore.
I wanna help take care of you.
And if I don't, - you can kick me out.
- OK, stop it.
I do not need a father for Sophie and I do not want to get married, oh my God! OK, that's a bad choice of words and I'm sorry.
But child care, yeah.
And cooking, maybe.
And then maybe we could see what happens.
One step at a time.
Thank you.
You start early.
I'm a professional.
What I mean by that is I start work early, but I also go home at 5 PM.
I dreamt I fired you last night.
I have that dream quite often.
You'd know that if you transcribed my dictation.
In these dreams, would I be a projection of some aspect of your personality? Your professionalism, maybe? Is that what you were firing? - I'm not a doctor, but - Sometimes dreams are just wish fulfillment.
- Good morning.
- Rough night? Um, can we talk for a moment? A couple of things.
First, Sammy and I are a couple again, despite your best efforts.
It was an Eriksonian intervention.
I said you two shouldn't communicate, thereby forcing communication.
- An Eriksonian intervention.
- I'm surprised you didn't figure out.
Well, I haven't been at the top of my game lately, which brings me to my second point.
I'd like to offer you my practice.
It seems like a reasonable way of deferring some of the costs of our failed partnership.
I'm taking an indefinite leave of absence.
- OK.
- I have to work on my own problems for a while.
I'm sorry to hear that.
I actually believe that you're a good doctor.
(small laugh) Well, you know, I think you might be a little better than me, which is why I'm trusting you with my patients.
So, Beth has all the files.
I'm sure if you ask her nicely, she'll show them to you.
There's one patient who's particularly important to me.
Michael.
He's going through a transitional phase right now.
You take very good care of him, please.
I will.
I mean I'm not sure whether or not is was the right I think it was thee right decision.
The therapeutic process never ends.
At each stage of life, there are different challenges, different obstacles to overcome Ah!! Oh my G One is never cured.
Someone can spend too much time and mental effort identifying and treating the problems in their life.
The folly in that is that there's no time left for living.
No, that's Sometimes I think I have it all wrong.
Sometimes I think that those things that I perceive as problems in my life are actually the component parts of my life itself.
It's the lens through which I see my life that's broken.
Huh.