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the competition. Signed an NDA.

MAN:
You should cancel

her filet for that.

I'm teaching next semester and

feeling a little overextended.

WOMAN 2:
How about you,

Dr. Banks? Too busy?

Not as busy as my partners.

What do you need?

BANKS:
Getting warmer, but, no.

(DIERDRE CHUCKLING)

Uh...

Thirty thousand?

Ah!

Fifty thousand.

Really? Wow.

Yes.

Really.

What do you have to do?

Go to a few meetings, recruit

some patients, track some data.

So you'll be even busier.

Yes.

(SIGHING) But the flip side is

that if, for instance,

the buttons on this shirt

suddenly fell off,

I would be able to buy a new one.

(BOTH LAUGH)

Oh, I see.

EZRA:
Mom?

BOTH:
Mmm.

DIERDRE:
Yes, honey! In here, sweetie.

Just unpacking.

I was having a bad dream.

Oh, love.

Oh!

Honey, you're in luck. Jon

is very good with dreams.

Yes, I am.

So, he's gonna help you.

Back to bed, sweetie.

Do I have to dream when I sleep?

Yeah, I'm pretty much sure we all do.

They don't all have to be bad.

Albert Einstein, remember him?

EZRA:
Yeah.

He figured out relativity in a dream.

And Paul McCartney wrote entire songs.

And I dreamt of your mom before

I even met her. (EZRA LAUGHING)

So what are you going to dream about?

(INAUDIBLE)

(BOTH MOANING)

(PANTING)

(PANTING)

Whoever makes this drug is

going to be f***ing rich.

(LOUD MUSIC PLAYING)

Em!

Em! It's the middle of the night.

Turn down the music!

Em?

Are we expecting someone?

Em, can you hear me?

What are you doing?

MARTIN:
Can't she

stop taking drugs?

Isn't there an alternative

approach... No!

God, no.

I can finally sleep.

I have some energy.

We had sex.

It was like we were actually together.

MARTIN:
Maybe something else

would do the same thing.

Absolutely. There are

still other SSRIs, SNRIs.

EMILY:
No.

I've tried everything else.

You don't know, Martin.

You've never had this. You

don't know what it's like.

Okay? Every afternoon

it's like...

It's like there's this

poisonous fog bank

rolling in on my mind,

and I'm paralyzed.

If I have to start over, I think

I should see a different doctor.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

I understand your frustration.

(SIGHS) What do we do?

BANKS:
There are things we

can do to make this work.

Other medications

we add to the Ablixa,

one is designed to

deal with sleepwalking

while the Ablixa helps you get

a handle on your depression.

MARTIN:
I'm going

to Otisville today.

They finally approved

me to see Hellman.

He's thinking we might want

to set up shop in Houston.

He's got a lot of

connections down there.

I thought we were going to

move back to Greenwich.

(SIGHS)

I'm sure that we can find

great people in Houston, too.

I want to be totally clear that I am

being paid to participate in this study.

If you don't want to take

part, I totally understand.

There are other meds besides

Delatrex I can prescribe.

So, my medication is free.

I don't have to report it to my

insurance company or anything?

For as long as you choose to be a part

of the study, your meds are free.

Oh, that's great.

We'll start today.

WOMAN:
Emily, I don't understand.

It's almost 4:
00.

What happened?

I got on the train, and I

just forgot to get off.

Martin is thinking about moving us,

and I'm just

really...

WOMAN:
(SIGHING)

Go home, Emily.

But you have to know

this can't happen again.

It's not working for me.

(SIGHS)

(DOOR UNLOCKING)

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

Hey.

Hey. Hey...

What's happening?

They gave it to the guy from Citicorp.

Oh, I'm sorry, D.

(SIGHS) It's f***ing hopeless.

Emily?

Hellman says you are

going to love Houston.

What'd you get me?

Em?

Em?

God damn it. Em?

These f***ing pills.

Em.

You sleeping again?

(GROANS)

Stop!

Ahh!

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Em, call somebody.

Help me.

Call somebody.

Help me.

(CHATTERING ON POLICE RADIO)

Did he hit you?

Did he threaten you?

(EMILY SOBBING)

Was anyone else here? Who

else was coming for dinner?

What?

I was asleep and I...

I woke up and I saw him.

He wasn't...

He wasn't moving.

And that's all...

That's all I remember.

BANKS'. Dr. Siebert.

Hello, there. I'm sorry to bother you.

It's Jon Banks.

It's about Emily.

Uh, there's been an incident.

MALE DETECTIVE:

No sign of forced entry,

nobody else on the

building security camera.

The prints on the knife are hers.

BANKS:

Where is her lawyer?

She doesn't have one.

Just kept talking about you.

No sign of struggle

on either one of them.

She made the 911 call herself.

We had an appointment last night

that she didn't show up for.

When was the last time you saw her?

Four days ago.

And what was she like?

Any idea why the dinner table

was set for three, Dr. Banks?

She doesn't remember anything

about a guest. Kids?

BANKS:
No, she didn't

have children.

She was taking these.

For depression, right?

I've seen the ads.

She ever talk to you

about something like this?

I'd like to speak to her,

if that's possible.

You can talk to her at Rikers.

It's possible, you see,

that she was asleep.

What?

She walks in her sleep.

That's maybe why she

doesn't remember anything.

It's a side effect of this medication.

She's had other episodes.

She kills people in her sleep, too.

Stand up, please.

And turn around.

ASSISTANT D.A.:
She ever

tell you anything to

make you believe she could

be violent, or that he was?

And before you answer that

or tell me about some kind of

patient-doctor confidentiality thing,

let's just think

about the future here.

The future?

Well, this goes one of

two ways, doesn't it?

See, either she's a murderer or

she's a victim of

her medical treatment.

In which case, you're the

target of a big civil suit.

Either way, someone gets punished.

Her or you.

The state's enjoyed working with

you in the past, Dr. Banks.

I'd like to see you consulting

with us on this one.

This is different.

Is it?

I never want to see

another pill again.

They want me to take something else.

Another pill to help me sleep.

I don't understand

why this is happening.

Is there any way that

somebody else did it,

and made it look like me?

I don't think so.

(SOBBING)

That's not what the police are saying.

I killed the wrong person.

BANKS:
I don't know what else I could

have done. She wanted to stay on it.

Jon. You can't

follow them around

taking things out of their hands

they might use to hurt themselves.

We see them for an hour a day,

maybe a couple of times a week.

I think they're going to charge her.

With what?

You said she has no memory.

No criminal intent.

They can't do that.

ATTORNEY:

A man in Arizona.

He killed his wife,

threw her in the pool,

took off his bloody clothes, put

them in the trunk of his car.

Woke up the next morning,

no memory of it.

Didn't even know she was dead until

they charged him with the crime.

Neighbors even saw him

throw the body into the pool.

He was acquitted last year.

A woman bludgeoned her husband while

on vacation in Sanibel Island.

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