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Yeah. Thank you.

In our last session, we discovered why

you left your normal routine of study...

and began to travel with the gorillas,

staying with them even at night.

Our next subject to cover is

the reason for... Hey, look.

It fell off the chair.

Mm. Great.

Our next subject to cover

is the reason for...

Are these for me? Yes.

Oh. The reason for the

attack on the rangers...

No pencils? These are safer.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

No pencils.

Are you coming back to the

gym today, Tabibu Juha? Yes.

Am I worth it?

All the mess and blood?

I'm here to do an evaluation.

That's what I do.

Am I so interesting?

You lived as an animal

for nearly two years.

I'd say you were

interesting enough, sure.

I lived as a man

living with animals.

I lived as humans lived

10,000 years ago.

Humans knew how to live

in the world then, before...

Before civilization?

No, before you, Juha,

and all your kind.

Takers.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I was one of you.

I believed in control.

Some control is necessary.

Is it?

The gorillas, they let you stay with them, even at night.

You were becoming one of them.

Are you listening?

Are you listening to me?

Yes.

Not one of them.

Not a gorilla.

Don't you see?

They accepted a man.

They reached across.

They took me in as family.

They welcomed a human being

among them.

That's the miracle.

What about the family

you left behind?

What about Lyn?

We leave her outside of this.

Why? And my wife.

Leave them out.

You think I don't know. I know what

I was, what I lost, what I killed.

She's not dead. She wants to see you.

She saw me at the airport.

She saw what I am now.

You let me be dead to her.

You change the subject, Juha,

or walk away from this.

Which do you want?

For now, I want the forest.

Take me there.

In the forest

for all that time.

Did you ever miss

the contact with any humans?

No. They were there.

I may not have seen them, but I

always knew they were there.

If you were learning

their ease...

Their peace.

Their peace. Then why does

this all end in murder?

There were many murders.

Many? Yeah.

There's a zoo not far from

here where I studied...

and many years ago...

and, uh...

they needed a male gorilla,

a wild capture.

And I did that.

I helped capture him.

I didn't even know what murder

was when I was you, Juha.

You know what murder

I'm talking about.

If you don't talk to me about

this, I can't help you.

I don't want you to help me.

What do you want?

I want you to listen.

And then what? Share it.

With? Whoever you share with,

the people you're close to.

Are there any?

Why don't you tell others?

'Cause I'm not for this world,

not anymore.

What world, then?

In your memories, locked away in

your mind for the rest of your life?

Is that all you want?

No, I want to finish this.

- Finish what?

- Telling you what I know.

What makes you think what you know is any

different than what other people know?

I had different teachers.

Okay, okay.

So I'm supposed to...

pass on your work.

Yeah, for all it's worth.

What made you pick me?

A look in your eye.

You seemed to have half a brain.

Thank you. What look?

That look...

curious, searching,

unsatisfied,

slightly pissed off.

Why didn't you pick

your daughter?

Leave it alone.

Why do you refuse to talk about her?

Leave it.

She wants to see you.

I say we talk about it.

Hmm.

I was wrong about you, Juha.

- Explain that.

- Tell them to open this door. You're not the one, Juha.

- I'm not the one?

- No.

I'm not the one

who cut your medication?

I'm not the one to say if you're competent for

a hearing, a chance of getting outta here?

- I'm the one, Ethan.

- Are you?

I'm the one.

The one in control, huh? Yes.

Who's in control?

So who is in control, huh?

Are you?

Am I?

The guards outside?

The warden in his office?

Yeah? Who's in control?

Testing, testing, testing.

One, two, three, four.

Dr. Ethan Powell,

interviewing Dr. Theo Caulder.

Now, this will be a very simple test.

Pass or fail, life or death.

Ready, Juha? Now, you write on this

paper what I have taken from you.

What have you lost?

Write it! Write it!

Wrong. You never had control.

You only thought you had it.

An illusion, Tabibu Juha!

And what do you control

for sure, huh?

The volume on your stereo, the air

conditioning in your car? What else?

What else? All right.

Another chance. You were nervous.

Too much pressure. Try again.

What have you lost?

What did I take?

Write it. Write it!

You're a fool, Juha.

Ha!

Did you think you were free?

Where were you going at 2:00 today?

Into the gym, right?

In the morning,

your wake-up call.

In the middle of the night when you wake

up sweating, with your heart pounding.

What is it that has you all tied

up, Juha, tied up in little knots?

Is it ambition?

Yeah.

You're no mystery to me, boy.

I used to be you.

Okay. One last chance.

You think I won't do it?

What's one psychiatrist less

to the world?

I'm already deep in the pit.

So what can they do to me?

Last try. Get it right.

What have you lost?

What did I take from you?

Write it.

Yeah. Congratulations.

You're a student, after all.

And you've lost nothing

but your illusions...

and a little bit of skin.

Hi. Hi.

What happened to your face?

Gets a little rough

in there sometimes.

Well, what happened to it?

Duct tape.

Oh.

My father did this to you? Yes.

What did he do?

He was teaching me.

Looks like

a pretty tough class.

Are you gonna quit now?

No. I never quit.

Even when I'm doing something

really stupid, I never quit.

Are you like that? No.

I once played solitaire for 48

games straight until I won.

Solitaire, huh? That figures.

I don't have time

for a lot of people.

Do you have time for one?

Don't get nervous.

I didn't mean me.

Uh, want a drink?

Yes. Let's go out.

Two cars. No date.

You know, it's all right if you need

to hold on to somebody for a minute.

It's all right if you don't.

Doc, you won't believe this.

What is it?

Just see for yourself, Doc. You

got to see it for yourself.

Doc, what you doing?

Hey, Doc, what

do you make of it?

What is this?

Not finished.

Ethan... Take your time, Doc.

What are you making here? The

true history of mankind.

It's a true history.

No fiction, no lie.

Africa, two million years ago.

Humans. Then they moved.

Migrated.

Ten thousand years ago,

civilization. You.

This is me?

Yeah, and me too. Us.

Takers. Who are

the blue people?

They're tribal societies...

hunters, gatherers, planters.

They never killed more

animals than they could use.

They never plowed more land

than they needed.

They fought, but they never waged war.

Never exterminated.

They had a place in the world. And

in the world, they were part of it.

And they shared it.

We changed all that.

Now, what, are we supposed to change it back?

What are we supposed to do?

Move.

Move where? Out of my way.

What, are we supposed to unbuild the

cities, wander off into the jungle?

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