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Uh, could we get you

one of these?

It's got vanilla bean in it this morning.

Uh, no, thank you.

I'd actually like

to get started.

I can give you Powell now in an unused

visitation room and again on Friday.

You and Dr. Murray can work out a schedule

for your time with the other inmates.

The "other inmates"?

I was told you'd be on temporary

staff at our facility, Doctor.

That's the deal.

Well, I was kind of hoping to spend

most of every day with Powell.

This is Harmony Bay, Dr. Caulder.

It was out of date 30 years ago.

It's crumbling under our feet. Two, three

years, they're gonna tear the old girl down.

Meanwhile, we have the toughest

correctional job in the state.

I'm gonna have to ask you to try to

fit in with our scheme of things...

and treat Powell

like every other inmate.

I hope that's okay with you.

Watch the cup for me.

Well, here we are.

Haldol, 20 milligrams,

four times a day?

- How am I supposed to talk to him?

- He doesn't talk, remember?

Dr. Theo Caulder. First interview

with Dr. Ethan Powell.

Dr. Powell,

I'm Dr. Theo Caulder.

I know you've chosen not to speak,

and I respect your decision.

I want to offer to you the

possibility, for your consideration,

that you suspend your silence

just for these sessions,

that you see these sessions

as outside your normal life...

so that you may speak to me,

discussing whatever you like,

then remain silent

for the rest of the day.

These sessions can be

your opportunity...

before you go back

to your silence...

to say to me, to the world,

to your family, whatever you...

whatever you might want to say.

First, Doctor,

I'd like you to say your name.

- Or you can write it on...

- Hey!

Don't do that.

Couple of rules, Doctor:

Don't reach across;

Don't touch the violent ones;

Don't give 'em anything; And don't

take anything from 'em, all right?

- Okay.

- That's what we're here for.

Henry.

Or you can write it

on that piece of paper.

What is your name?

Doctor, what is your name?

Write it on that paper.

What is your name?

Can I see

what you've written there?

Hey.

- Go!

- Hey!

Get him up! Stand up!

That's enough.

Okay, okay. That's it, that's it.

That's it, I'm done.

I'm done.

Hello, Dr. Caulder.

How, uh... How did it go?

The patient is overmedicated

and brutalized.

Well, hell, Dr. Caulder,

do you know where you are?

We have room for 700, but we

have over 1,000 of the worst...

And that's not counting

the psychotics, is it, Alan?

Forty-two highfliers, Warden.

Do you know who Dr. Powell was?

Is that a look, son? I want

the medication reduced.

Hey! Come over here! Go ahead and do

your best job you can here, Doctor,

as long as it doesn't conflict

with our rules.

Hey, ape man!

Just give him

what he wants, Ethan.

Hand it over!

Trade you for the ace.

Now!

Now!

Come on, get him!

Guys! No! Wait!

Please, please! Just check

his pocket, please!

Please, he's got the ace! He's got it!

And it's his ace!

It is his... ace!

- It's his ace.

- It's his ace.

Enjoy, ape man!

Right over there.

Half an hour.

Hi. Miss Powell,

I'm Dr. Caulder.

I need to find a way

to break through.

- We tried that.

- Well, I can do it.

We tried in Africa. We visited the prison there.

He never even looked at us.

- Well, he looked at me.

- He did?

He tried to give me a pencil.

Look, I saw him at the airport.

It destroyed my mother. She's

away, staying with her sister.

She needed a change

of scene and a lot of Xanax.

I'm only here to sell the house,

because she won't live here anymore.

Your father may be very ill.

Really?

I thought maybe

he was just in a bad mood.

Do you want your father back?

Back the way he was?

The way he was. Um... Hmm?

Do you mean... distant,

obsessed with his work,

not concerned with his family?

Yes, I want him back.

What do you want?

He can give me a look at man in his

primitive state... ungoverned man.

Look, I don't want you showing him

off like some madman with a club.

I'm writing an evaluation,

not some grocery-store headline.

This evaluation will be good

for your career, won't it?

Does it matter?

If I can open him up,

I might be able to help him.

Help him?

You mean,

get him out of prison?

Your father might belong

in prison. I don't know.

But I don't think anyone

belongs at Harmony Bay.

And I do need your help.

This is where he worked

when he was home.

You were there. Yes. Once.

I was just traveling through.

I showed up and surprised him.

Stayed a couple days.

He was very happy to see me

and very happy to see me go.

Who took these?

Are there any more?

I set the timer for this

one, and I took the rest.

This is my work.

Okay. Why don't you, um, just

take what you need and then go.

Dr. Theo Caulder. Second interview

with patient, Dr. Ethan Powell.

How are we today, Dr. Powell?

Dr. Powell is unresponsive.

I'm gonna ask you to identify

certain objects, Doctor.

You can speak

or write down your answer.

What is this a picture of,

Doctor?

- The patient makes no sign that he can understand.

- And this?

And this?

And this?

What is this a picture of,

Doctor?

Can you write it down?

And this?

And this?

What is this a picture of?

And this?

- Hey, leave him alone! Leave him alone!

- Goddamn it!

- I told you not to do that! Keep your distance!

- Leave the patient!

- Do not cross this line!

- Back away from my patient.

Back away from the patient!

Okay, Doctor.

It's your ass.

Your silence says, "Yes,

I'm still an animal...

"a wild, dangerous animal.

"You can beat me,

you can cage me.

"I'm not human anymore.

"I have nothing to say...

"not to some shrink across

the table, not to any guard,

not even to her."

But she still wants her father.

She wants you back.

What do you say to that?

What do you say to her?

Good-bye.

Have I made your f***ing day?

Do you wanna die?

Is that what you want?

- Uh, the patient is not responding.

- Quiet.

I'll take that as a no.

Do you want

to stay here forever?

Or do you wanna go home?

Africa? Here?

You wanna go back here?

If I cut your medication, will

you take me there with you?

- You can't cut the medication.

- Shut up!

I will not be yelled at by

some yuppie res... Dr. Murray!

I don't know you very well, but I have

the feeling that you are a tired,

incompetent bag of sh*t

who has found a place to hide.

You overmedicate these men, and you

turn your back when they're tortured.

If I'm wrong,

I deeply apologize.

If I cut your medication,

help you remember,

will you take me with you?

Can you follow me?

Yes. Yes, I'll follow.

But she still wants her father.

She wants you back.

What do you say to that?

What do you say to her?

Good-bye.

How'd you do it?

He chose to speak.

He chose you.

Yes.

Why you?

I don't know.

But I can get inside

of him now.

I just need you to... help

me to understand who he was.

And if I do, you have to get me

in to see him, to talk to him.

I'll try.

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