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Thanks.

This is... It's quite a home, George.

You think you deserve it?

What, are you f***ing kidding me?

- I mean, IT consultant?

- Yeah.

What is that?

Do you even know what you do?

I know what I've done, Billy.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

Yeah. Absolutely. How about you, Bill?

What have you done except bum around

the world, soaking up experience...

...so you can be the only one at a party

who knows what they're talking about?

So you can think you've got the right to

ask me such an inappropriate question?

- I'm your brother.

- Yeah.

And I know what's important to you.

Billy, you know, you show up here

out of the blue and ask me to, what...

...justify my career? Justify my life?

It's sophomoric, I think.

Not to mention, at the end of the night,

you'll be hitting me up for some cash.

Boys, there's a birthday party inside.

It's my birthday party.

I'll be outside if I want. Look at this.

I raised two perfect kids, you'd think

I could keep an olive tree alive.

I've seen a lot, George.

Way outside the bubble we grew up in.

Billy, I paid for this, all right?

I paid for all this.

Yeah. Are you making a life,

or have you just been making a living?

- You wanna hit me?

- My wife, Billy. Made my wife happy.

How do you know?

F***.

- Who--?

- What?

What?

You called me.

What? No. No.

I need to see my doctor.

Okay? Dr.-- I need to see a Dr. Sharazi.

Bed adjust. Call button.

You called me.

No, no, no.

I need to see my-- Get my doctor, please.

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January 7, 0300 hours

on Ayabaca, Peru.

I am in the clinic...

...of an ex-Augustinian missionary,

Friar Lazaro Mate.

This is Wyanot Nyira...

...Quechua Indian, age 15.

Does she feel it?

Just a pressure. A little push.

I don't know how that's possible.

- Hey, buddy.

- Hold on.

I am no more than 30 inches

from the procedure.

There is no anesthesia, no antiseptic.

Neddie, Mom needs you to set the table.

No, no, no, just a second.

This is so cool.

He claims it is the demon.

Jesus. Eddie, what the hell is this?

He says he has found her spleen.

- Come on, son, that's enough.

- No, just a second. Hang on.

Wyanot is, according to her family,

a schizophrenic.

Father, is that you?

You truth-f***er.

In the name of God.

Jesus Christ.

This is surgical exorcism.

Look, look, look, that's him.

That's Dr. Falk.

So we will go to

the Shebeen Josie in Goma.

Goma, Lake Kivu.

Congo, Kinshasa.

We're going to Africa.

I don't get it.

Well, it's his website, it's his video blog.

The guy with the glasses,

he's this socioanthropologist, Dr. Falk...

...and he goes all over.

He goes all around the world, sort of...

...like, on the trail of evil.

- Evil. Really?

- Yeah.

Yeah, see, he believes the devil--

Or Satan, you know.

--he expresses himself through people.

And yeah, you know, and then he just--

He posts this stuff online.

- Okay. Let's go.

- Hey, Dad, he's like-- He's fearless.

- Eddie, it's all staged.

- It's not. That's the thing, it's not.

It's real. This is real.

- How do you know that?

- Because I looked him up online.

The guy, he was a professor

at San Francisco State...

...and he just left the university to,

like, live his research.

- His research?

- Yeah. The origin of fear.

The origin of fear. Origin of fear. Really?

- You know what I'm afraid of?

- Fundamentalist Muslims?

No? How about the revenge

of disadvantaged minorities?

What have you been reading?

Dad, you are a white, liberal male

living in a hostile world.

The white male part is what makes you

feel responsible, makes you feel guilty.

- Freshman Psychology?

- Sociology, it's pretty easy.

That's good. Let's go.

- Hey, did you see his glasses?

- Whose glasses?

Dr. Falk's.

You think I can get a pair like those?

Dinner.

There you are.

- Where?

- Still here.

- Where's my wife?

- She's coming.

- Coming?

- And so is Dr. Sharazi.

You're still feeling kind of woozy?

Yeah, yeah. Woozy.

Do you think that you could get up

with my help?

Definitely.

Here we go.

There you go.

This will just take a minute,

and you'll feel so much better.

There's nothing like fresh sheets.

You don't look like a nurse.

No. It's kind of a drag, actually.

Like I don't belong here.

Like I'm not a nurse.

Like I'm not devoted to the welfare

of those committed to my care.

That's from the

Florence Nightingale pledge...

...that I learned in nursing school.

Nursing is all that I ever wanted to do.

And since I've been at Mt. Abaddon...

...I've had three patients ask me to pose

for Internet porn sites.

That's too bad.

Flirting is kind of part of the job, I guess.

I mean, if you wear a uniform

and deal with bedpans and nakedness...

...I think men feel like they have to flirt...

...to overcompensate

for being so exposed.

So vulnerable.

Maybe.

But you don't.

And that's really nice.

Thank you.

I'm sure they're coming any minute now.

Most people have never even

heard of this.

- It's called iatrogenic illness.

- What?

- Say it again.

- latrogenic?

Illness caused by

medical examination or treatment.

That's a hell of a middle school.

Actually, Ned's in high school now.

You go in with one problem,

come out with another?

- Yeah, that's if you come out.

- Andrea.

- What?

- Come on.

It's the leading cause of death

in the U.S.

- What?

- No, no, no, it is. I swear.

I mean, medical error.

I mean, adverse drug reaction, right?

Needless antibiotics.

Infection, unnecessary procedure.

- What a cash cow for you.

- You bet.

In a 10-year period, right...

...7.8 million iatrogenic deaths.

That is more than all the casualties

from all the wars fought...

- ...in the history of the United States.

- Come on.

- I've never heard of that.

- It is true.

The health-care system

is this nation's number-one killer.

But the lawyers are making

the real killing.

Yeah, you got that right.

Hear, hear. To the lawyers.

Mr. Grieves...

...are you with us?

George?

What is...?

What is it? What are they giving?

What are they giving?

I'm just so not here.

- I'm so out of it.

- There's been a mistake, George.

Mistake?

A scheduling error. On the surgical floor.

You're the-- From Iran. You're the...

I am, I am.

That's okay.

He's still under sedation.

I'm gonna get Dr. Lichterhand to come...

...and explain the details

of your surgery.

I'm not a thoracic surgeon. He can--

He'll be here in a moment.

I'll see you shortly.

It's corruption.

I met a guy who's paid 2 grand

as a recruiter.

Paying folks 200 bucks to come in...

- ...and have an unnecessary surgery.

- I saw this.

- I saw this online.

- What's with you and surgery?

The surgery clinics bill

the insurance companies 10, 20 grand...

...to cut on immigrants.

Cubans, Guatemalans...

...Mexicans, Vietnamese.

What, a cosmetic surgery?

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