The Look of 'The Jacket': Influences from the Avant-Garde Page #5

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- Hey.

God, I should get the heat going.

- Oh, I found out about the little boy.

- Yeah?

Babak? Lorenson used a mild form

of electroshock therapy...

...which disrupted his seizures.

She didn't even know that's what

he was having before.

That's what you have to tell her about.

I think Becker's house is around here

somewhere. I marked it on the map.

- I think this is it.

- You sure?

Yeah. I called the number yesterday

to make sure.

All right, let's go.

Hi there.

You looking for Dr. Becker?

There he is.

How's that work, huh?

God doesn't remember?

Is that it?

- Can I help you?

- I don't know, can you?

- Do I know you?

- I think you do.

- You're his son?

- Nope.

Not his son.

What's the matter, doc?

You look like you've seen a ghost.

But how can you be?

- He died years ago in the hospital.

- Yeah, you killed him. Didn't you?

No, I didn't kill him. The treatment

might've pushed him to kill himself...

No, I didn't kill myself.

I died from a blow to the head.

How did that happen?

All I can remember from the last time

we put him in there...

...he... You came out and

said their names to me.

What names?

People I tried to help.

Who were they?

Nathan Piechowski...

...Jackson MacGregor...

...Ted Casey.

I didn't ask for them, any of you.

- You were criminals sent to me.

- We were patients.

We were patients.

You were criminals...

Hold on a second. So you said I came out

of that thing, and I told you those names?

Well, who do you think

told me about them?

You did.

I'm in that drawer right now.

I don't understand.

You're haunting yourself, old man.

- I didn't put you in Alpine Grove.

- No.

You pumped me full of drugs...

...and you stuffed me

in a morgue drawer.

With every intention of helping you.

And that justifies it?

We're all dead, Jack.

What is it?

- I have to sit down.

- Is everything okay?

- I have to sit down.

- Jack, what is it? Jack?

He's taking me out of there.

- He said it was the last time.

- What?

- Jackie, he said it was the last time. Go.

- Oh, my God.

- What was your address?

- What?

When you were a kid, when we met...

...what was your address?

- Jackie.

- Jack. Jack, stay with me.

It's the last time. The last time.

Jack.

I saw you.

I know what you did to your patients.

Years from now, I saw you.

You told me about Piechowski...

...and Jackson MacGregor...

...and Ted Casey. You told me.

All those guys stay with you.

All of us. We all stay with you.

We haunt you, haunt you.

All of us.

We haunt you.

We haunt you.

Could I...? Could I have some paper?

Paper and a pen.

Need to write something.

Listen, your patient, Babak...

...is having seizures.

That's why he hasn't learned

to speak properly.

Who told you this?

Just telling you something you already

know. You just haven't figured it out yet.

He's not slow, he's having seizures.

Electro...

Electroconvulsion therapy.

You used it on him.

That's how you reset him.

No one would ever use ECT on a child.

I don't know that he is having seizures.

If he is, that could send him into status.

It's a permanent state of seizure.

No, no.

Babak is my friend's son.

I would never risk that.

You will.

Can you just grab the end of that for me?

I've... I've given him a sedative.

Okay.

I'm only gonna do it once.

The settings are very, very low.

- Are you gonna stay in the room?

- Yeah.

Okay, great. If you could just

apply some pressure.

Good.

I'm just gonna press this button.

I'm just gonna set it a little bit lower.

Okay, now I'm at the lowest possible.

Okay.

Here we go.

Okay. We're done, that's it.

We're done. Okay, it's over.

All right. He's all right. He's all right.

Okay. Okay.

Babak?

Babak...

...how are you doing?

Can you say hi, Babak?

Hi, Babak.

You're okay, you're okay.

What do you need me to do?

I need to take this to someone.

This is a secure unit.

There's no way I can do that.

You have to. Please.

- How long do you need?

- Just a couple hours.

I'm gonna die tonight.

It's been decided.

You want me to come in with you?

I'll be okay.

Hey.

Hey.

I remember you.

I remember you too.

- Come in, it's cold out there.

- Yeah.

God. How've you been, Jackie?

- Okay.

- Yeah? How's your mom?

Well, okay.

Do you think I could talk to her?

Hey, Mom. Mom?

- Hey, Jean.

- Hey.

Do I know you?

Mom, this is the guy that fixed the car.

The guy you yelled at.

Okay.

There something you need?

It's something you need.

Jackie, go play in the snow.

- Why?

- Just do it.

Okay.

I don't know how to make this

not sound crazy.

I know it's not gonna make

a lot of sense right now...

...but...

Look. Everything that I want

to tell you is in this letter.

And it's really...

It's very important

that you believe it, because...

Because it just would be a shame

if you didn't, you know?

Okay, I'll read it.

That it?

Yeah, that's it.

Hey.

Petal...

...it's nice.

Don't stop calling her that.

I think she likes it.

Hey.

Hey, wait.

You be good, all right, Jackie?

- Okay.

- Okay.

Jack? Jack?

You okay?

Stay with me.

Put me in the jacket.

What do you mean?

You have to put me in the jacket,

it's the only way. I gotta get in there.

Jack? Jack, come on.

I need you to help me get you inside.

Okay.

You ready?

- All right, you got it?

- I got it.

- That was it.

- Justin!

Put me in the jacket.

- What happened?

- He slipped. He slipped on the ice.

- Let's get him up. Watch his head.

- The jacket.

What are you talking about?

He said we have to get him

into the jacket.

I know the procedure,

but we can't do this to him.

Do whatever you did with Becker.

I was 27 years old the first time I died.

I remember there was white everywhere.

There was war, and I felt alive.

But, really, I was dead.

Sometimes I think

we live through things...

...only to be able to say that it happened.

That it wasn't to someone else,

it was to me.

Sometimes we live to beat the odds.

I'm not crazy...

...even though they thought I was.

I live in the same world as everyone else.

I just saw more of it,

as I'm sure you have.

They'll find my body tomorrow.

You can check it out

if you don't believe me.

I've seen life after my death...

...and I'm telling you this

because it's the only way...

...to help you and your daughter

have a better life of your own.

Jean...

...you're gonna pass out one day

smoking a cigarette...

...and burn to death.

Your daughter grows up living

the same sad life you're living right now.

And she misses you so much.

Sometimes life can only really begin

with the knowledge of death.

That it can all end,

even when you least want it to.

The important thing in life is to believe...

...that while you're alive,

it's never too late.

I promise you, Jean,

no matter how bad things look...

...they look better awake

than they do asleep.

When you die, there's only one thing

you want to happen.

You wanna come back.

Mommy, Daddy, is it time to get up?

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