Mad to Be Normal Page #5

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Well you didn't want

a baby six months ago.

Well I haven't

said I want one now.

Okay.

Okay, let's have a baby.

Yeah?

Hello, Baby.

We have to find a way of

engaging in a truthful dialogue

in a language without

knots and entanglements

and the wee, the

wee barbs of hatred

and spite and

revenge and jealousy

and malice and envy that,

that creep into our mouths

and hide in our words.

Ronnie's working on

threesomes right now.

Yes well, we know how hard it is

to keep a marriage

alive, don't we?

How true that is.

Are you speaking from

personal experience?

Unfortunately yes.

Life

Is a sexually

transmitted disease,

and the mortality rate

is 100 f***ing percent.

Listen I'm serious.

Bedrooms are the most

dangerous places on the earth.

What will you call him?

I don't know.

I was thinking,

I was thinking maybe Shadow.

Shad

Why?

Because that's where

he'll spend his life,

in Ronnie's shadow.

If he doesn't burn

to cinders first.

Don't. Don't.

You are not, you are not

crazy, like the rest of us.

But sometimes I wish I was.

No.

But I'm not.

I'm nothing special.

I'm just ordinary.

Ronnie, he's like this,

this hot bright sun, isn't he?

He could have any

woman he wants.

He picked me,

and when he focuses

his attention on you,

you can just, you

can just burn up.

He makes me feel extraordinary.

Well, he used to.

The only thing he loves

as much as his patients

are his children.

I thought we could be a family.

Maria,

what if I've made

a terrible mistake?

No.

Don't be sad.

- Okay.

I'm hungry.

What's for breakfast?

This is a nice surprise.

John, this might sound

like a dumb question

but are you actually

going to eat that?

- Yeah.

- Okay, well

it's been quite a while

since you've had any food

and that might be a

little bit aggressive.

Let me get you something else.

Nice to have you with us.

Porridge.

In Scotland, we

use salt not sugar.

How are you?

Okay.

Are you able to

tell us what's been going on?

I don't think

you'd understand.

Maybe I will.

Anyway, it doesn't

matter now, it's over.

What's over?

The mission.

I had to count to a

million, one by one,

then back to zero

without stopping.

Why?

It's the only way

to silence the voice.

Whose voices?

One of my voices.

The one that frightened me.

John, have you been

counting this entire time?

Five years.

Oh for f***'s sake.

Electric shock stopped me.

It really hurt my head

and I forgot where I was.

Sometimes the voices made me

deliberately lose track

of where I got to.

Why didn't you talk to us?

The voice wouldn't let me.

It's okay, it's okay.

Can I see my parents?

Of course you can,

yeah, we'll call them.

What was it you wanted, Jim?

And she was delivered

of a manchild,

and when he came

forth from her womb,

the dragon was waiting at the

mouth of the cave to eat him.

You're misquoting

Revelations again now Jim.

I'm so worried about

the birth of this,

of this child, Ronnie.

I'm tormented by it.

Jim, the child is not yet born.

Yeah, but when it is

born, it won't be me.

- Go away!

- Alright, just

- Get out!

- Alright, right, just,

alright, just, good.

Here we go, here

we go, here we go.

Angie, how are you

feeling right now?

Are you doing okay?

- For f***'s sake!

- Alright, alright, alright.

Give her some space.

It's coming.

The head's coming.

- Visualize, Angie!

- Here we go, here we go.

- Visualize, Angie.

- This is my first time, yes.

It's coming.

It's a boy.

- It's a boy.

Shhh.

Dr. Laing, Dr. Laing, could

you say something for us?

Could you say something for us?

Not now.

It's okay. It's okay.

It's okay.

Shhh.

Okay, how do you

guys feel right now,

can you just,

talk to the camera?

Anything you want to say?

- Not now.

- Not now.

Okay, let's just,

just keep on them.

Hello, Gabriel.

Hello.

Hello!

I think we got this.

Should we keep rolling,

you wanna keep rolling?

Are we good?

Keep rolling, keep rolling.

He's perfect.

- He is perfect.

Guys, sorry, have you

got a name for the boy?

F*** off.

Alright, keep rolling.

Hello little baby.

Raymond, could you, could

you just look at the camera?

Could we have a

quiet word with you?

Can we get any close ups?

Can we get close ups?

Come on Barabus, open up.

Open up.

There.

There you go.

Now.

Can't believe it,

forgot the hammer.

Did you know he stole

and ate the placenta?

Yeah, anything goes, but

we have a duty to protect

Well who protects Jim?

He came here for sanctuary.

Ronnie, he might kill someone.

Do you really wanna

take that risk?

Why didn't you

tell me about Jim?

Well I didn't care when

he threatened to hurt me,

but he's talking

about stealing Gabe.

I had to tell someone.

Why didn't you tell me?

I'm telling you now.

So what are you

gonna do about it?

I'm dealing with it.

I failed him.

You failed him?

Ronnie, he's

threatened to kill me.

You know I'd never

let that happen.

There's someone with

him, all the time,

round the clock.

He's still here?

I can't just throw him out.

If I did that every time

someone had a problem

there'd be nobody here.

I will live anywhere you want,

you know that, but

you have to tell me

that we are going to be safe.

The call men, Angie.

Save one soul save the world.

Well let that one

soul be our baby.

He didn't choose to live

in this f***ing mad house.

But do we actually know how

Electro convulsive

Therapy works?

No.

Of course we don't know

precisely how ECT works,

we never claimed we do.

We simply know it does work.

What he fails to mention

is that after receiving EC some people lose their memory,

not to mention

their personality.

Dr. Laing must agree

that this procedure

is the most effective

treatment for severe depression.

No, I don't agree

with anything you say.

After less than five

minutes from first

laying eyes on a stranger,

and without this stranger

even having moved

or uttered a word, he

can have them taken away,

drugged, electrocuted, or have

bits of their brain removed.

That's not entirely true.

You know, the Nazis executed

50,000 psychiatric patients

to prevent them from breeding.

That's hardly relevant.

Well it was f***ing

relevant to them.

Dr. Laing, language please.

Dr. Meredith, I

can only apologize.

I've heard far worse.

- Hello.

- Dr. Laing.

How is she?

The test results have

confirmed her initial diagnosis.

I'm sorry.

What we can offer now

is palliative care.

How long?

It's impossible to say.

Every case is different.

Oh come on, spare me.

What are we talking?

Days, weeks, months, years?

Weeks.

She knows she's very

ill so there's no point

in telling her anymore than

is absolutely necessary.

Well don't you think

she's got the right to know

that she's not gonna

wake up one day soon?

Her mother doesn't

want her told.

Right.

Alright, thanks.

Hello!

Hi, Dad.

How you feeling?

Tired.

Dad, I want the truth.

We've always known

that there was no cure.

So I'm going to die?

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