Glass Page #6

Onlooker:
Twelve! Keep going!

[Joseph looks at the man, presumably thinking about his conversation with the doctor. It's like he loses faith. Night has fallen when we return to the facility. Music is playing and the orderlies, Daryl and Pierce, seem to be done for the night, when they notice something odd]

Pierce:
Right there, right there!

[The silent Elijah is sitting in the hallway, looking forward, sightless. Daryl leans towards him]

Daryl:
Hey, my man. How'd you get out of your room?

Pierce:
You must have left the door ajar. He rolled out toward the noise. Wheel him back in before the doctor sees.

[Daryl directs his attention to the medicin cabinet. Pierce grabs Elijah's chair and wheels him back into his cell]

Pierce:
Oh, you're too nice, Daryl. You got to be firm. They'll walk all over you otherwise. He didn't touch any of the medicines, did he?

Daryl:
No. Right amounts.

[The next day, a door is opened as Elijah gets wheeled into a room. Dr. Staple is sitting in front of Dennis and David, who has been cuffed by his hands and feet]

Dr. Staple (vo):
This will be my final evaluation.

[David then recognizes the man in the wheelchair]

David:
You got to be kidding me. This guy killed everyone on my train. He's a mass murderer.

[He tries to shake the restraints loose, but he can't. A caretaker puts Elijah's wheelchair next to Dennis, applies the brakes before walking away. Dennis glares at David, but Elijah just sits there, twitching, silent]

Dr. Staple:
I understand that the three of you think you are superhuman. That you don't think you are normal. You've convinced yourselves you have extraordinary gifts, like something out of a comic book. I am here to discuss the possibility that you are mistaken. (to Dennis) Can you tell me about Kevin's parents?

Dennis:
(takes a breath) Kevin's mother... hurt Kevin. Kevin's father was gonna get a doctor to try and stop her, but he left.

[He turns his head back to David]

Dennis:
I never wanted any of this.

Dr. Staple:
What?

Dennis:
The killings.

[Among her notes, the doctor finds the note that Karen Fletcher wrote in Split. "Say his name, Kevin Wendell Crumb." Dr. Staple briefly looks at both David and Elijah before she starts to talk]

Dr. Staple:
Kevin Wendell Crumb.

[Dolly zoom, Kevin starts to resurface]

Dr. Staple (vo):
Kevin Wendell Crumb.

Penelope Crumb (vo): (in tandem with Staple) Kevin Wendell Crumb!

[We see a flashback of Kevin's mother, climbing up some stairs and holding a red hot iron]

Penelope Crumb:
What did I tell you?! There is no running in the house, Kevin Wendell Crumb!

[Kevin has been brought into the light, he's crying]

Dr. Staple (vo):
Kevin? Kevin...

Kevin:
Why do you all keep bringing me back? I-I don't want to be here.

Dr. Staple:
The need for the particular story we tell ourselves begins somewhere, Kevin. From a memory.

Kevin:
(confused) What? I don't... Hey, where's that girl? Casey. Sh-She...

[Then Kevin pushed out of the light by Hedwig]

Hedwig:
(holds up his arms) Everybody wants the light now. They're all fighting, et cetera. And Miss Patricia's yelling at me, saying I got to hold on to the light. She said I have one job to do: keep Kevin out of the light. So, I'm sorry, you won't see him anymore.

[The nine year old blows a raspberry as he tugs his collar]

Dr. Staple:
And you have to listen to her, right? Because she's an adult and you're not.

Hedwig:
Duh. Yeah. (wipes Kevin's tears away) Is he crying? Geez, p*ssy. (points at David and Elijah) Listen, I don't know about these other guys, but we are like a superhero. No? We're like... (hums the Superman fanfare) We're not crazy!

[Dr. Staple briefly smiles before turning her attention to David]

Dr. Staple:
David, I don't think this applies just to Kevin and his disorder. Is there a memory? What you're looking for is a moment of weakness that made you possibly entertain the idea of being super strong.

[In a flashback, we're shown this very moment, the moment when David, as a chubby ten year old, was being held underwater and almost drowned. After having been pulled out, a swim teacher performed CPR while someone else gave David mouth to mouth, probably for forty five minutes, as David told Elijah in Unbreakable. We return to the present]

Dr. Staple:
There is a reason I ask you.

[Staple shows David the brain scan that has been made offscreen]

Dr. Staple:
This is your MRI, David. (points) This is your frontal lobe. There is a questionable cloud right here. There is the possibility that that is damage from that train accident.

David:
I'm supposed to believe this means something?

Dr. Staple:
It's just this, plus an anchoring incident, and you would have the pattern for this disorder that I treat.

[She then directs her attention to Elijah]

Dr. Staple:
I hate to see you like this. This is not how I would've done things. I don't approve of how they've handled you. Elijah, because of your condition, I didn't have to do an MRI on you. There are a few in your file. You definitely have one of the markers for this disorder, Elijah.

[She briefly turns back to Hedwig]

Dr. Staple:
As do you, Kevin. These are the medical reasons I'm thinking you have this disorder. Now let's deal with why you think you don't. (to David) How do you know who's good and who's bad, David? Convince me.

David:
It's a feeling.

Dr. Staple:
An intuition? When you see someone?

David:
I have to touch them.

Dr. Staple:
What does the intuition feel like?

David:
A vision. A moment. A sin. You kind of have to interpret it.

Dr. Staple:
Have you ever seen very good magicians, David? I mean, the very best. They are trained as mentalists, and they can do seemingly extraordinary feats. They accomplish these feats by interpreting hundreds of cues that an individual is giving off in a split second. I think you are like these professional guessers, David. You are world-class at it, simply extraordinary at it. But it is based on real things, and you are making the picture. It is not coming to you through mystical means.

[She grabs a paper bag and pulls out the pants that Hedwig had been wearing when he passed David]

Dr. Staple:
These are the clothes that the patient next to you came in with when he arrived. There's red clay staining the pants. It's very visible. Is it possible that you saw something on the news...

[A flashback of the encounter]

Hedwig:
Sorry, bro.

Dr. Staple (vo):
...then saw an adult acting like a child, someone who fit the bill of someone with this disorder, intuited, "This might be the person I'm looking for"?

[Back to the evaluation room]

Dr. Staple:
Saw the red clay and thought he might be hiding in a place with red clay?

David:
No.

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