The Look of 'The Jacket': Influences from the Avant-Garde Page #3

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Okay, that's great. That was the truck.

Now point to the ball.

Very good.

Wanna hold it? Feels nice. Strong.

I need you to stay with me

for just a little while more, okay?

We'll get there.

Could I have some water?

Could I have some water?

I have some water?

Here you go.

What the hell kind of drugs

are you people giving me?

Just something to keep you calm.

Did you just say something?

I said, the drugs are to keep you calm.

Did you sleep well?

- I wasn't asleep, was I?

- You were asleep for nearly a whole day.

It's December 26th, Jack.

How are you feeling?

- December 26th?

- That's right.

- 1992?

- Yes.

And that's the sun, and you're on Earth.

And I know you know better, Jack.

Who the hell are you?

My mom is dead. 2007.

Jack Starks is dead.

Get out of here, get out!

- You left me in there.

- In where?

You left me in that thing. In the drawer.

And then...

...you put me in a straitjacket.

We were forced to use restraints,

if that's what you're referring to.

- It wasn't a f***ing restraint.

- That's exactly what our equipment is.

Relax.

Don't act like I don't know what's real.

You're suffering from delusions

as part of your condition.

No, I know what's real, I know.

You strapped me into something

and stuffed me in a f***ing drawer.

It wasn't a dream.

I don't know what you're trying to pull,

but I wasn't...

I have to say...

...this is the most resilient I've seen

a patient undergoing this treatment.

I had a patient a few years ago.

His name was Ted Casey.

Ted sodomized a 7-year-old girl.

His lawyers asked me to have a look at him

because after his deeds were done...

...he climbed into the trees

of the forest where he killed her...

...and howled like a dog.

Ted never went to prison because everyone,

including me, believed he was sick.

So he came here. Then one day a little girl

came with her mother to visit her relative...

...and I caught Ted stealing looks at her.

The kind you really have to steal,

if you know what I mean.

I asked Ted then...

...if he could remember what the little girl

who he'd slain was wearing.

"Oh, yes," he said. "I remember it.

I remember it well. "

Those were actually his last words.

What happened to your face?

I was careless. It won't happen again.

I'll say a prayer for you, Jack.

Maybe God will pick up

where the medicine leaves off.

You sure you know where to find him?

Jack.

What are you doing, Jack?

What are you gonna do to me?

I thought I'd just ask you

to come inside with me.

- What if I didn't want to come?

- Well, I'd probably ask you why.

Because I'm not crazy.

You suffer from a delusional disorder.

It doesn't mean you're crazy.

It just means you're confused.

You're here instead of jail because

your condition...

...played a role in your crime.

- I didn't kill that cop, but I don't remember.

Your mind's ability to distinguish

between your fantasies...

...and the real events that happened...

The real events that have happened to me

have been f***ed up, not my mind.

Jack.

I'd like to ask you a question, if I may.

Since when do people around here

start asking for things?

- Okay. Smoke?

- That's what you wanna ask?

No.

I wanted...

I wanted to ask you how your treatments

with Dr. Becker are progressing.

Fine. Fine.

I hope you'd tell me

if that wasn't the case.

Why? Why, what would you do?

What would you do?

I would try to make it stop.

- I'm not sure I want him to stop.

- So it's helping?

They're making me feel like

a different person.

You coming?

We're gonna freeze out here, you and I.

Could get hurt if they catch you

trying to leave again.

What do you know about the sh*t

they do to us in the basement?

What sh*t?

- You know what I'm talking about.

- No, I don't.

Yeah, you do. That jacket.

- What jacket?

- The f***ing drawer.

Now, stop playing games,

you know what I'm talking about.

I know that they take you down there.

I know that they put you in it.

The rest of it, it's...

It's a trip, you know,

it's like a serious vacation.

I found out I'm gonna die.

Well, mortality is actually

a great thing to be familiar with.

I'm gonna die in four days.

That's what I found out.

They find my body in four days.

What are you two yapping about?

We're talking about our ability

to go forward in time...

...to go into the future.

I mean, that's what

we're talking about, right?

Yeah, that's right.

If you need to find something out

when you're in there, just calm down.

The less you freak,

the less you'll trip out.

Yeah, but all this sh*t from before

just comes tumbling...

Yeah, but that sh*t is in the past.

Focus on what you need to get now.

- I gotta get back in there.

- That could be a problem.

- Why?

- Lorenson's got her claws into it now.

When she started getting suspicious of me

was when they stopped putting me in there.

Women.

What do you think I should do?

You could still give Becker an itch.

You might get killed

when he goes to scratch it...

...but seems to me, you're saying

that's about to happen anyway...

Oh, man.

Please continue, Mr. Mackenzie.

Okay.

Well, I've been approached

by the Federal Trade Organization.

And what have they approached you about,

Mr. Mackenzie?

And this is nuts, but...

...they have asked me to head up...

...the Organization for the Organized.

- The Organization for the Organized?

- Yeah, you've heard of them?

No, Mr. Mackenzie, I have not.

That's because there is

no such organization, you idiot.

That is categorically not true.

That is blatantly and manifestly not true.

They have asked me to lead them.

And if you'd heard of them, then they

wouldn't be hush-hush, would they?

What do the rest of you think?

Well...

...I know they exist.

- And how is that?

When I was in the Gulf,

the Organization...

...was recruiting the Organized.

- Is that a fact, Mr. Starks?

- It is a fact.

Because if it's not,

it doesn't help Mr. Mackenzie.

It is a fact. Bona fide and classified.

I knew it. I knew it.

You know, those little f***ers

are everywhere.

They only recruit the best, Mackenzie.

- Calm down, Mr. Starks.

- Stay calm, see, stay calm.

Always ordering us to stay calm, be calm.

Be calm. Be calm.

They order you to order me to be calm.

How are we supposed

to be calm? Look at this place.

So, people, wake up, okay?

Orders come from the top only.

Don't let them order you around.

Long live the Organization.

Long live the Organization

for the Organized.

- Sit down, Mr. Starks.

- No, no, no, you've gotta listen...

Long live the Organization

for the Organized.

Join the Organization.

The Organization needs you.

- Fight the good fight.

- You listen to him.

- You don't listen to me?

- Sit down.

You gotta listen to him.

- Long live the Organization.

- Sit down.

Join the Organization.

You gotta listen to him.

Oh, Starks...

...you are real stubborn.

But there's ways of fixing that.

The less you freak,

the less you'll trip out.

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