Published July 15, 2023, 5:20 a.m. by Liam Bradley
A young woman struggles to piece her life together.
2018 Auckland International Film Festival - Best Actor; Shaw Jones
2018 Austin Revolution Film Festival - Best Actress Feature; Callie Schuttera & Best Drama Feature
2018 Mindfield Film Festival Los Angeles - Diamond Award - Best Feature Film
2018 Webdance Film Festival - Best Editing & Best Directing; Gabriela Ledesma
2017 Women's Independent Film Festival - Award of Merit
Starring: Aubrey Manning, Callie Schuttera, Jonny Loquasto, Laura Harrison, Chelsea Lopez, Shaw Jones, Jennifer Daley, Judith Scott
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so
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i'm trying to remember the first time i
ever thought about killing myself
i was young maybe five or six
and at first it was just a harmless idea
what if i wasn't here anymore
by the time i hit puberty it became like
an infatuation
like an imaginary friend that would
comfort me when i was alone
i knew they weren't normal feelings
but i also knew that i wasn't normal
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hello uh helen daniels and we have three
package options for you and yes
including airfare
yes mrs parker i have been working on
those options for you
i well i can speak with him again
so for the first one i can get you down
to 4.99 including airfare and then also
your hotel discount
hello
mrs parker
hello
hey helen hey hey so i think that i'm
going to be healing a little under the
weather tomorrow if you know what i mean
so i just want to make sure that you
kind of have me covered if i'm not here
hey helen
wow
a dress is perfect because you're in it
thanks hey uh mark do you want to talk
with you a little bit i just haven't
been feeling really well and i was
wondering if you love it
hey guys
grams
what you looking at
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oh uh check
check check check check check
uh i'm not gonna get paid until friday
so if you can cast till then yes
okay sorry about that thank you
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oh by the way she hasn't eaten dinner
yet
be right back
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okay
almost
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hi mark
i i know i am so sorry i will be there
as soon as i can
yeah well it should have been a couple
hours ago
really sorry
okay thanks bye
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oh my god where were you bus
the bus was two hours late
it happens
okay
i already washed and fed her so if you
could just
be here got it okay buy crabs
helen
good to see you hey mark
i am so sorry that i was late this
morning i know it's been happening a lot
it's just look how do you completely
understand okay that's what i've been
telling everyone
i have to let you know there's another
round of layoffs coming down and your
name has been floating around
okay well i will do my best to make sure
it doesn't happen again i swear and and
i i got your back okay just just realize
that anything you ever need i'll be here
for you
oh
thanks
thank you that's that's really nice
so i was thinking
if you're free tonight maybe you and i
go out for a couple of drinks on me
um
uh
i usually have to get home pretty fast
because my grandma they're they're
waiting for me i'm gonna take no for an
answer okay look
we're a couple of adults who work hard
we deserve to have some fun yeah uh
sorry could you just hang on one second
what
miss daniels is that a work caller
helen hello
yeah yeah is she okay you know we have
no cell phone policy okay well
are they on their way
yes
yes i will be right there
thank you
yeah bye excuse me what was that about
i'm sorry i i have to go it's an
emergency
it's it's a number do you think you
could don't touch me i'm just trying to
help you
i know you want me to help
nope
ms daniels walk out that door
you're fired
damn it
get back to work
what's going on is she okay
is she your grandmother yes yes she's my
grandmother is she okay well the oxygen
tanks mean valves
it hasn't been placed in months there
was no backups we changed the air filter
in the main valve of course
the tank is also old i suggest you
order oh okay oh i will i will
i'll just get you to sign
yeah yeah
thank you thank you so much for staying
appreciate do you have a minute to talk
yeah yeah with
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how the night
i have to quit
you know what i'm sorry
i need you
i think what you do for your grandma is
amazing
honestly
but i have to take care of my family too
i get it i get it
just
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it didn't go through
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just
inspire the stuff that she needs i can't
i cannot do that i can't options on
it's fine
sam bye
uh
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it's okay but not as brightly
oh dad was cute
is that grandpa
he smoked a pipe you let him smoke a
pipe
i cannot believe that
hey hey hey
let's leave that on okay
okay
you know what i bet we could find
krampus
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that's the laundry
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i will be right back
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grams you asleep
you already
but you don't notice
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my me
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i uh you know i didn't see the
granddaughter around hmm surprise
surprise
i'm sure she's celebrating right now
don't say that
well
she doesn't have to take care of a sick
old woman and she gets a free house
i wouldn't be surprised if she
suffocated catherine
with a pillow
you don't really think that
like yes i
but he didn't do the
staying power too
the tv encyclopedia said
hey helen this is jenna from work i just
wanted to say happy birthday or happy
almost birthday i know you got fired and
everything but your birthday is still up
on the office calendar and you you know
we grab drinks every friday so if you
didn't have any plans
i do have you should totally stop by
oh yeah mark won't be there
give me a call if you need the address i
don't think you've been there with us
let me know
hello
oh sorry
so sorry
hey jenna girl happy birthday oh thank
you
i wish you got here sooner i'm about to
leave
you're leaving now where are you going
where do you think you're going
hi oh hi
but you stay you make sure everybody
buys you a drink well yeah i'm not
really sure though do not worry because
there are tons of hot guys tell
everybody that you got super fired
they will pity you and it will be
amazing actually can we get shots i
would like shots for my friend here
just one for you and one for you for
later and i'm to bring my friend brian
with me oh god isn't that cool it's
thomas hi thomas it sounds nothing like
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blue
hey
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is
she's
crashing stay with us
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is this her yeah
i heard
she doesn't wake up tomorrow afternoon
they're gonna kill the machine
what about our family oh they couldn't
find anyone
see those fake flowers over there
donated by the gift shop
that's the person
yep
you think she can hear us
she's in a coma you [ __ ]
come on
we have live patients to check on
i can take the tube out okay
all right
let me go
you're okay okay
all right you're all right
i'm gonna give you something to relax
you okay
there you go there you go
now we're gonna take the tube out okay
there we go
now your throat will be sore for a few
days
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oh so sorry for waking you up
how you feeling
oh no
you can't talk yet
sorry
just want to check on you before the end
of my shift my name is tori and i'm a
psychiatric nurse
also i work with dr carol
now she will be your primary doctor and
she'll be around tomorrow
oh
yeah
i'm not supposed to
they gave the other nurses a really hard
time
please
no hit no spin no biting deal
bro you know
i just had a feeling you were gonna make
it
let's touch and go there for a bit
i gotcha
all right you
are
free oh thank you oh yeah you're welcome
oh i bet you're starving oh
here we go
yeah
let's get you some nourishment all right
here we go i'm gonna bring you up here
we go
oops daisy
yep it's fun ride
oh you like pudding
i can get you some extra pudding
you know i can't really get hot stuff
because you know it's hard to transport
and all but pudding they just keep it in
this scraping cabinet and no one's ever
around and
you can just grab lots of them
just hits the spot doesn't it
would you like some help miss daniels
do i know you
not yet
i'm dr carol
hi dr carol
i'll be overseeing your stay with us
while you're in recovery
sounds fun
so i want to
show you your x-rays these are your
internal organs now these little white
spots these are holes uh from the
explosions inside of your wait
explosions i have explosions yes from
the rat poison
calcium cyanide it's been illegal in
this country since 1993.
the tiniest dosage is lethal
but of course you knew that
must not be that lethal
fortunately for you you didn't turn off
the stove which set off your alarm your
neighbors heard it
and called 9-1-1
well aren't they sweet
look could we just cut the [ __ ] here and
you tell me when i get to go home
well that is entirely up to you my job
is to make sure that you are not only
physically healthy but mentally stable
so that you can go home
or to a psychiatric facility
i'm sorry are you talking about a mental
institution
you can't do that
yes i can
if i think that you're a danger to
yourself or others
yeah so you're telling me i need to
impress you
hello
no not not necessarily
okay then what
tell me what i need to do to get the
hell out of here
when you are
able to walk on your own
we'll have a meeting in my office
you try to have a good weekend
yeah you too
can i get you a walker maybe you can get
out and get some fresh air
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where in the hell is the [ __ ]
cafeteria
this can't have any placards to tell
people where to go in this stupid
[ __ ]
i'm sorry can i help you with something
what um no it's just
you know you don't have to use those
gowns
the [ __ ] are you talking about
never mind
um you're looking for the cafeteria
right it's on this floor
of course it is
thanks
you know it's actually um
that way
you know maybe i am just getting some
exercise okay is it any of your goddamn
business no
all right
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so
well this has been a real wake-up call
you know i guess it never occurred to me
that i really might die
and now that i've seen the consequences
it's like
it's like i have a whole new perspective
on my life and i know that i have to
keep going because that's what grams
would have wanted
that's very impressive
i just hope you can give the same
enthusiasm to your treatment as you just
gave that little speech
excuse me do you have any idea how many
people try that on me
try what i'm i'm just telling you like
this was a one-time kind of thing
i mean i left the stove on for christ's
sake that's gotta be a cry for help
right cry for help
do you realize since you've been
admitted that you've not had one phone
call not one visitor and i just have to
wonder
what exactly are you living for
does it really matter
yes it matters your life matters no not
my life
does it matter to you
or to anybody in this hospital for that
matter because apparently if my coma
lasted a few more hours you guys were
gonna kill the machines
and we would not be having this
conversation
who told you that
tell me it's not true
well there's a lot of co-factors that go
into a decision like this i'm sure there
are you know there's irreversible brain
damage
24 hours daniels you have experienced a
tremendous amount of trauma
trauma
are you talking about the rat poison
the drooling and the sweating and the
black dots popping in my mouth
or me looking for my teeth in my own
vomit because i thought they fell out
you think that was trauma are you
[ __ ] stupid
all of that and i was still having a
better day than the one before
this
is the drama
you know the sooner we do this the
sooner you get to go home
okay let's talk a little bit more about
your family history
are there any medical conditions in your
family that you're aware of
miss daniels
think you forgot to water your plant
i may have
are there any medical conditions that
you're aware of
no
not that i'm aware
your father died in a car accident
correct
yep
and your mother
ran away
your grandmother
you know your clock is wrong right
your grandmother
she died of als and i'm pretty sure that
you have that information already yes i
do
have you reconsidered my suggestion
about you taking medication
well i've been on antidepressants my
whole life and it doesn't really feel
like they worked well then let's look at
a new dosage maybe another medication
we'll just figure out what works
whatever you want
all right
on a scale of one to ten
one being least likely ten being most
likely
how often do you have suicidal thoughts
what about your job do you have other
sources of income
no but my grandma left me some money not
a lot but it should cover me until i get
a new job
hey helen hey
tori and what about health insurance uh
you were on your grandmother's plan
right uh no she was on medicaid why is
tori here do i need two therapists uh
miss daniels uh helen
there's been an issue with your health
insurance and tori is here to walk you
through it
okay
so we've been in contact with your
previous employer's insurance
and when you got fired
you also lost your medical benefits
what as of right now
you're responsible for all medical bills
incurred at this hospital no no i had a
contract like um
like pension coverage or something the
incident is being listed as a suicide
attempt which means that your home
insurance is not likely to cover the
damages of the house
you've had so much improvement lately i
know it seems like a lot it is not a lot
tori
i told you not to cradle her um
could you excuse me please i uh
i need some air
what is wrong with you diane you know my
views on coddling patients i know she
she may be a little rude and sensitive
selfish i was gonna say willful you have
a soft spot for
no i do not oh really really
because i understand that you've been
smuggling pudding to her
just
the occasional chocolate
hey it's going girl
i didn't mean to scare you
it's fine
uh fine i'm robert i pointed you in the
direction of the cafeteria over there
yeah yeah i remember are you okay
hey uh come here just sit down for a
second
i'm fine just for a second
i got it i got it
uh should i call the doctor call the
doctor
okay well then just put your uh head
between your legs and breathe through
your nose
okay
okay
so uh
uh
bad day
yeah i guess you could say that
keep breathing you you want you want to
tell me what happened
apparently i do not have insurance and i
cannot afford to stay at this [ __ ]
hospital
are you sure this actually works i don't
know do you feel any better
no no not really just
so
you said apparently you don't have
insurance what happened there um
i uh i got fired from my last job
and insurance i guess is saying that i
quit so i get no [ __ ] benefits
my doctor's being pretty soulless about
it who's your doctor
um her name is uh dr carol she says that
i should see my new debt as a challenge
damn why not
yeah for a psychiatric professional she
seemed a little out of touch oh i'd be
so pissed oh i am pissed
this is you pissed
oh yeah like like lightheaded and
panicked and yes no no no no come on you
you you can do better than that get up
you just told me to sit down yeah i know
what i said stand up for a second get
out okay all right all right
try this with me okay okay
don't look around nobody comes out here
anyway just do don't think
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how do you feel
yeah
right
yelling is good oh but look i gotta i
gotta run but
you're gonna be okay yeah
yeah i think so thanks
um
i'm helen by the way
um robert
hey look
you ever decided like
actually get insurance
use that
answer me
i think i said no please just put her in
my group but you know tori
i love that you believe in people i i
really do but i don't think that she's
ready to be discharged yet well how much
longer do you want her to stay
a week i don't know
you know she can't afford that
her labs are good her organs are working
better you said she's been opening up
she's had one
good session one
put her in my next group and we'll keep
an eye on her
okay
here's your paperwork
my paperwork you will be meeting with me
every wednesday at three and group
therapies fridays at five
it's a 20-week program provided you make
progress for every uh session you miss i
add two
is that clear
uh clear
wait
are you telling me that i'm free
yes you're free to leave
but if you relapse
or i feel that you're at risk i will
make sure that you get outside help you
understand
you mean from a mental hospital yes yeah
yeah i understand
um
thank you
good luck ms daniels
see you on wednesday
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you
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i told them i can't make that kind of
payment
okay
excuse me is this the unemployment
center
this is some more [ __ ]
five minutes yeah right five minutes
what are you looking at
it's like i live
i'll be here
before i get in there my cow will be
dead before i get in there
someone give me a bed and squeeze me
some aj
i think i might even trip
about you time
okay
hey
um i'm sorry are you closing for the day
on fridays we close at 2.
did you make an appointment no i didn't
even know that i could make an
appointment but i have a number
ma'am i'm really sorry that we can't
assist you today but feel free to take
one of our job listings packets
thanks
and azt they increased their prices
again on me
has me a little worried got to keep an
eye on my cd4s my white blood cells
now because if they come down
a little too low then
i become a walking death sentence
aids
it's okay they're making these amazing
cocktails nowadays
they just got me hopeful and grateful
for another
moment all right well thank you
everybody so much for being here really
glad you made it
hey
hey is everything okay
oh yeah i'm just still looking for a job
i mean a decent paying job
give yourself a break
it's only been a couple weeks
something's gonna come up yeah but my
bills are probably gonna come up first
well
just try not to stress too much
are you staying yeah yeah is that okay i
just i wanted to find a couple more
places to drop my resume on the way home
yeah okay
well i guess i'll see you next week then
okay
and now call me if you need anything i
will
bye bye tori
hi
yes i'm looking for robert
uh uh mr perkins
no probably not
okay
can i just leave a message
yeah helen daniels
wait
don't you need my number
yeah yeah it's 513.
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hello
okay
uh
next wednesday another meeting perfect
all right
okay appreciate it thank you take care
well hello
girl well hello
health insurance guy
pretty clever huh oh yeah hey by the way
i'm really sorry i gotta squeeze you to
my lunch break hey no problem i'm just
appreciative that you called me back no
absolutely look i would have called
sooner but i was out of town hey could
you do me a favor have the car brought
around thanks
wait are we are we leaving leaving like
the whole building
okay
right okay look jeff just just listen
all right i'm i'm not gonna take
anything less than five million okay
huh
a sandwich
yeah no not you
you tell skylar that i am set on a five
million two-year contract with two
percent royalty
yeah no yes i'm still here
okay
yeah that sounds good
okay well
just call me back if you need me
perfect all right
great oh
um okay
what was that about
campaign for a new line of nail clippers
for pets
i didn't know that you guys insured pets
oh we like money
we insure everyone
including our new employees
okay um could you could you hold this
please okay thank you um
uh
i printed off my resume for you and i
know i already warned you that it's not
long
i'm a really fast learner and i know all
the basic computer programs i'm also a
pretty decent typer but i don't know
much about the paralegals you have the
job
i'm sorry what
it's not that fancy kind of boring
but there's a lot of room for promotion
and you get your own office
really
really really
are you sure
yes i'm sure but i thought we were gonna
have an interview not a sandwich
okay i have one question
look i'm gonna be honest
people at that hospital talk
there's no secret why you were admitted
so
interview question
okay
why'd you do it
you mean like why did i try to yeah
wow
okay
um
wow i did not prepare that question
i guess
i just didn't want to do life anymore
but you do now you
you want to do life
well i
i'm here i'm i'm trying
okay
okay
simple but solid answer
you really don't have much of a filter
do you
go get used to that
look i'm not here to judge you helen
i just had to ask
i didn't have to but i wanted to
yeah
yeah jeff we're on our way back okay
good
hey
hey can i ask you a question sure
and it's not that i'm not grateful and
please don't change your mind but
why would you want to hire someone like
me someone who can type no no no come on
you know what i mean like
do you exclusively get your employees
from the psych ward
not always
welcome to your kingdom
hey look i've got a meeting in 10 you
have any questions for me uh yes uh
quick recap if i can uh okay i'm doing
research on malpractice
and i should start with the old
institutions because they have a paper
trail and then after i add them to the
computer then i move on to the new
institutions which should already be
online yeah yes look if you have any
other questions just ask lisa
who's lisa
lisa helen helen lisa i gotta run you
two have fun okay
hi
hi
cool
how are you feeling
i'm all right
your blood count
slightly low
is this why you wanted to meet me we
could we just
text this stuff
i heard that you hired helen daniels oh
yeah that's right
you know she's a patient of mine
i do
so
so
you're 20 years older than she is and
just a little while ago she ate rat
poison for breakfast
you okay
uh well first of all
i'm just friends with helen
and diane you should know me better than
that also you're her doctor
supposedly wanting her to succeed so why
would you have a problem with me giving
her a job yeah well yes you're right i
want her to succeed
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i don't know maybe i've just been doing
this too long
it's just in the last few months she's
been making little to no progress
she got a job
that's a big milestone
well robert you can't go running around
picking up lost little puppies every
time you want a playmate
i think
i'm trying to tell you that i just want
to show her a little bit of compassion
seems like a concept you might have lost
touch with
maybe you have been doing this a bit too
long diane
maybe you're right
but my advice to you is um just keep
this
strictly professional
okay thank you i am
i will um
i will definitely keep that in mind
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hello
oh
hello
is this working
hello
hey
mr perkins asked me to tell you that
when the phone rings press one
i i think i tried that
obviously not
hello
hey
glad you got the message i'm done with
my meeting
you want to grab some chinese
i love chinese
oh my god
what i don't love chinese that much
excuse me what are you embarrassed to be
dining with me now um since you're
paying i think i'm gonna say no
exactly
what was your uh meeting about today no
no work talk at the table that's my
mom's rules
fair enough
can we at least talk about you though
because i feel like you already know too
much about me
okay
what do you want to know
really
i cannot talk with my mouth full that is
nasty
oh so now i'm next i didn't say you were
nasty just like the acts of doing this
no i didn't no wait you just said you
just said that
oh
okay um
tattoos
one
i can't show you
scandal-ish
okay
um
are you married divorced
how bad was it
not bad
just
sad
sorry to hear that
oh thank you thank you
all right you first
don't worry about money the best things
in life are free oh [ __ ] off it does not
say that
that's what do you want me yeah look at
it
oh my god of course the rich guy gets
that cookie what is your say
okay
you kidding me
what
nothing there's no fortune no
okay are you okay no it's just like
you tried to kill yourself and now you
have before my god that is so not funny
what is wrong with you
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i want to talk about my my stepdaughter
chloe
and
when i first met chloe she was 15
and i'm a teacher and
so i'm kind of trained to really look
for things
that are concerning my mom and my dad
had me at a very young age um
my mom was
20 at the time
um
my dad was 18. since they were very
young they were kids and the music scene
and
uh an accident happened in that accident
was me
ah to this day it's so hard to talk
about but
at 28 i was uh i was diagnosed as
back then hispanic depression diagnosed
me with major depressive disorder and
gave me some pills but
even with the pills i didn't feel like i
was being battle
and then there was this one day
that i felt like
there was no tomorrow it's hard to
explain but i just didn't feel like um
there was a futile
hit with bamboo sticks i was hit with
the belt buckles
i used to try to
hide those things from school
i hear them for a long time from
everyone my family knew a little bit
about it
but a lot of them kind of looked the
other way or they don't really know how
to intervene actually by the time she
was 18 19 she was she was doing some
harder stuff she started doing meth and
um
coke and uh eventually
heroin i've spent many nights
in a in a closet
either with a gun in my mouth or making
a noose or
whatever but
it
still is part of me every day
it's kind of bad that i look for the
highs after the lows
because they could last two weeks but
you're just waiting to get that high
back
so you can accomplish things there's
only two ways i'm going to take
all these pills and either i'm going to
feel better or i'm not going to be alive
anymore i try to kill myself when i was
like eight years old just tied my neck
with like an ironing board and try to
use the cord and i couldn't figure out
how to do it and
passed out and they found me in the
laundry room
hanging out of her bedroom window um
with the sheet tied
around her neck
and
she was she was
dying she was
choking killing herself
and i pulled her in and i was able to
unwrap it and you know call
call for the squad to come and i just
rocked her and rocked her and rocked her
and she said
i don't want to die but i don't want to
live i need to find a place in between i
had just this horrible pain in my
stomach
and i didn't know at the time if it was
from
the drugs that i took or if it was just
the regret that i was feeling and the
pain in my that i was still feeling
inside of me because i still felt like i
needed to die
it's an evil little thing manic
depression because it's always there you
know it's there but you never know when
it's gonna
come up on you you sent her to a
treatment center
um for six weeks
we thought everything was going to be
really good and
three days after she
she was released
her and her boyfriend overdosed together
there's always someone out there that
can
relate to your issues and that uh
no matter what you think your life
always matters and you can help someone
else too and maybe that's a good reason
for you to keep going and maybe that's a
good reason to have purpose
thanks
you know this used to be a closet
that's why there's no windows
fun fact
it's hallie right
okay
i know that you know my name i'm sure
you've realized that robert is a very
busy man
so
to make it easier on him and you
if there's anything you need at all it's
better if you just come to me first and
why is that exactly
i'm robert's executive secretary i've
been here for two years i work very hard
i know when he's stressed out i know how
he takes his coffee i know where his
extra ties are in case he spills food
which he does all the time
okay so you're like his nanny
cute
look i fully support robert's charitable
pet projects i really do
but he's an executive
and you have a ged
you get what i'm saying is this making
sense
oh yeah yeah i see what you're saying
and you know what you're actually right
i do have a ged
and isn't it funny how we ended up in
the same place anyway
hmm
look it's been really great chatting
with you and everything but uh
i think i'm gonna have to ask you to
step out of my closet
thanks
have fun with this
oh
man oh hey hey
what's all this
my job
something wrong
what
no
no all those institutions they had or
have issues with money laundering
abusive authority sudden deaths shock
therapy list goes on nice work uh i'll
take them down to legal later
thanks welcome
oh i've been having trouble getting in
touch with one of the facilities so if
you don't need me i was thinking i would
just
stop by there on my way home
yeah sure of course which facility was
it
the the myth or something wasn't that
like three hours away
well yeah that's why i would need to
leave now
okay why are you acting so weird
i'm not
yeah it's not part of your job and why
you going
well you're not the only one who needs
to get out of the office sometimes uh
miff a mental institution yeah why not
i'll fit in well hey
all right uh well let me uh
let me know how it goes will do
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well i've been here for the past
20 years and i remember every single
patient
even those from way back when
to some degree or another
what exactly is it you want to know
well uh it's not me it's uh ahcpn and
they would like to know any information
you have on a former patient well i'm
afraid i'm not allowed to disclose that
kind of information
um
look uh you should know that this
institution is currently under
investigation for malpractice and
insurance fraud
and there is a lot that we at ahcpn can
do in order to prevent any more
incidents
i'm sure you wouldn't want news crews
crawling all around your facility let me
explain something to you young lady
this facility was
under investigation
decades ago
and those administrators were charged
and prosecuted
since i've taken over malpractice is not
something this institution condones
now
what is it you really want to know
i would like to know
about a patient named margaret daniels
what did you say your name was
helen
helen daniels
do you mind if i see some credentials id
oh uh yeah sure
you look just like here
daniels
margaret your mom
yeah
she was admitted in 1997.
the previous board believed she was
suffering from schizophrenia and
paranoid delusions
wait they believed she was i mean
was she i honestly don't know with all
due respect and everything shouldn't you
know i mean you said you were one of her
doctors right i was an intern at the
time
i didn't get to evaluate her
and truthfully by the time i met her
a clear diagnosis would have been
difficult why
unfortunately your mother was one of
several patients who received regular
shock therapy in 1997 by the time she
passed schizophrenia and paranoid
she was barely coherent daniels margaret
your mom
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yeah no it was pretty much just a waste
of time
oh no there was nothing to find out
really
i'm fine look i'm opening a bottle of
wine that's how fine i am
no i told you that i was oh [ __ ]
oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ]
no
no i'm i'm good i just broke one of the
only fancy glasses that i own
i know it's okay it's okay
shouldn't we like
pray or something
you already made it across
well yeah i mean he deserves to be
buried with dignity
he's
just a
dead rat
yeah but he has a family
and it's my fault that they lost their
rat dad or their rat uncle or their
brat son or whatever
i mean you know you did the right thing
i mean rats carry like diseases and god
so what so does that mean that he has no
feelings and no soul and no purpose
okay well maybe we should should name
the rabbis you seem very attached to him
don't let this get inside your head
genetics are not a curse your mother's
life does not have to dictate yours well
yeah but they can factor in
you know like they do factor in and i
just want to know what level of crazy i
inherited you know that's
kind of difficult to assess
so
aside from genetics how does it feel to
be more or less reconnecting with your
mother
well i'd like to say that it's giving me
some kind of closure but
i don't know
i just have more questions like
like how did she get there and where did
she go when she left us
and was she actually crazy or did they
just fry the life out of her
how did she die
well you can ask to have a records
release to you you are next of kin
oh yeah
i guess i am
hey you replaced your plant nope i just
watered it
how's your medication doing
about the same
some days i'm fine some days i want to
rip my skin off
you know
yeah well it takes a a little while for
the antidepressants to kick in let's
just give it a few more weeks
you got it
all right that's our time
you're making great progress
i am
i'm gonna remember you said that
i'll see you next week
yes you will
in the week after that
and the week after that and the week
after that
thank you
shouldn't you be at work
i'm the boss
what are you doing here
i want to go do something fun but i
don't want to go by myself
ah
what is this a date
you wish oh please
please
oh my god
really you brought me here what are you
talking are you allergic to fun
probably okay
i'm no i am not doing that
oh god
whoa are we on the same team yes
oh i'm at a ball
there yeah yeah okay so we gotta get the
green guys
i thought you said you were good at this
no i lied actually
oh [ __ ]
yeah i'm not gonna lie i told you it was
pretty cool
oh my god
hold him
yeah thanks
hey uh
i know that you've been going through a
lot lately and uh so
with that in mind i uh
decided to bring you a little
little present
you brought me drugs
this is pot this is medical marijuana
seriously don't you have friends
do i have
is this an after-school special
ted shut up
just because i've never smoked pot
doesn't mean that i don't have friends
well
you've never smoked pot
you've never been to an arcade it's like
basically
you're a hermit
i'm not a hermit
okay maybe a little bit
you know i did have friends mm-hmm
then gramps got sick and i wound up
going full-time with my shitty
after-school job
well after your grandma died did you try
to
reconnect with him oh god no it's been
such a long time it would be like
talking to strangers
oh that's gross
give it a second
hey can i ask you a question
yeah
earlier when you um
took your jacket off i couldn't help but
i saw your scars and i just want to
i want to make sure that you're
you know
okay
no i um
i get it you
watched me take my jacket
wait what are you doing
i don't know i just uh wanted to touch
you
okay i think that you're already on
oh come on
all this time and you never thought
about [ __ ] me
no honestly no i haven't
what
do you have a girlfriend or something
boyfriend
i told you i was divorced
so that means that you have to be
celibate
why is it so hard for you to believe
that i just want to be friends
do you think that little of yourself
i know you don't see me like that so
jeez i mean if you don't want to talk
about your scars we don't have to talk
about your scars but just say that
all right
i'm
i'm not trying to kill myself if that's
what you think
that's good
okay um
i'm just gonna tell you what happened
cool
yeah
after i came back from the hospital
i couldn't
i was in the shower and i cut myself
shaving by accident
and it felt
good
it does it feels
great
it's like for those five minutes the
world just stops
and it's quiet and i'm in control and i
feel like i can breathe
have you told dr carol about this
yeah i did we are working on it
okay
it's good i mean you know that i'm here
for you right like emotionally
thank you
i am so sorry about the um
touching you freaked me out a little
there with that yeah sorry yeah
would you want to go get some totally
platonic nachos
totally
do you think they're
[ __ ] god i hope not you know i'm a
born-again version i'm totally saving
myself for him
get in line sister
please
i'm prettier than she is right
of course
you know he does seem
happier
i'm bored what time is it what the hell
are they doing in there it's taking
forever oh do you want to go for hiki
look if anything just do this as a
personal favor robert i would love to
what
she wasn't in any government program she
quit her job
tell her
i promise you this is the last time i'll
ask you for anything i swear
uh you're
killing me here robert but uh let me see
what i can do okay
okay what do you think what do you think
uh you know 48 months
2 apr i mean that's if he's in a bad
mood which means robert yeah
listen all her expenses after you hired
her are covered through the company's
health care for the rest
um i think i can get her 72 months with
a 2.2 apr and if i could legally do more
i would have thank you so much
no problem babe you know i have to wait
until they're done well let's just
pretend they're done shut up
hi
hello oh thank you nice package
it smells just like you
oh
i like balls
oh this one is so much bigger shut up
72 months oh my god oh my god thank you
thank you thank you
do you have a fever or something
you're sweaty
no i don't i mean i think it's a little
hot in here no you're sweating you look
like [ __ ]
sorry if i'm interrupting something
you're not hellanis came for you thank
you
ugh
the only reason you're here is because
your son didn't want you to be alone you
were his charity case this is my house
he wanted me here because he could never
trust you without a pathological life
ruined my son's life he died in a car
accident catherine it's nobody's fault
he was drunk and you knew it don't you
lay around in bed all day every day you
are afraid to leave the house i crave it
you're insane i will not let helen grow
up like this god forbid she turned out
like you get out of my house catherine i
will but i'm taking helen with me
i dare you [ __ ]
i'm calling the police
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helen
helen
hey oh my god you death sorry uh
i didn't get much sleep last night i
think i'm kind of out of it whatever
have you seen robert no why he hasn't
been here since thursday
really
did you call his apartment uh-huh
and the company's driver yes nothing
okay well did you
try his cell phone
are you serious don't you think that
would be like the first thing i would
try oh you never know god we are so
[ __ ] i can't do this do what
we're drowning here
at least when he disappears he usually
answers his [ __ ] phone i don't know
what to tell these people okay just
relax we're gonna find him have you seen
robert no
oh [ __ ]
[ __ ] what
what what who is it skyler
[ __ ] okay okay all right you have to
answer the phone
and say what so you haven't seen robert
shut up jeff it's the phone
hi skyler
yes uh-huh isn't feeling well the
assessment is done robert isn't feeling
well but the assessment is done final
calculations give us a stipend
our final calculations give us a stipend
of 1.2 million
uh-huh oh is that
oh one second
um she's saying something about her
contract for contracts for what contract
what contract
uh bahamas something about bahamas oh
yeah she said she was going to the
bahamas i love the bahamas okay the
contracts go go go go go go go
okay um okay go go robert has signed the
contract robert has signed that our
prediction is for eight months until we
reach our goal for this year eight
months until we reach our goal for this
year yes
okay don't worry about a thing i will
let robert know that you called you just
have a great vacation in the bahamas oh
have so much fun i love it out there she
thinks
[ __ ]
are rude
how'd you do that
do you guys ever pay attention to
anything that's going on in here yeah
this is the only deal we've been talking
about for two months
yes okay that was heroic thank you best
thing i've seen since sly spread golf
clap for you i'm gonna find robert
uh are you thirsty i'm thirsty all right
read us absolutely let's go helen
yeah
uh do you have anything to share
uh
no
no not really
you sure
yeah yeah it's been kind of a slow week
for me
thanks everybody
have a great weekend
hey helen can i uh can i talk to you for
a sec
yeah
yeah what's up uh
is everything okay
i don't know you seem a little
i don't know yeah i mean everything's
fine
um
well it's just that i can't find well
nobody can find robert
your boss yeah i mean he disappears all
the time but
it's been a week so
oh i mean
have you thought about calling the
police no
no i'm sure he'll show up soon just
you know
i'll see you later you know actually i
have something to tell you
oh no
you look serious
well it's
it's just you know you you've been a
little disconnected lately
you've missed a few sessions well i mean
i've been working of course of course
but uh
but dr carol
and i
have decided to extend your therapy
look i'm so sorry i know that you were
supposed to be done next week
but i
have a good weekend tori
wait
helen
[Music]
hello
tori why are you whispering
because i think i found robert
you did
where
dory
oh okay sorry
i was waiting somebody got really close
i'm not supposed to be talking about
without it being an
emergency thought
okay oh yeah robert he's here at the
hospital wait he's
he's at the hospital are you sure
yeah he was admitted last weekend wait a
minute he's a patient
oh my god
oh you're so excited coming here
are you okay why are you here
me me why am i here everybody's looking
for you oh i'm fine i'm here
i think you should leave okay you don't
look fine seriously stop messing around
everybody's eating here
why are you acting like this look it's
my room and i want you to leave
rob
what is going on it's not your [ __ ]
business health
so would you please [ __ ] leave
it's none of my business
it's none of my business
god you selfish
[ __ ]
you realized that you could have lied
right
you could have told everybody you were
on vacation
but you just let everybody worry about
you and you let me worry about you
what the [ __ ] is wrong with you rob
knock knock i just need to take a quick
blood sample for cd4 and i will be out
of your hair
cd4 like
like white cells run to you do you have
any
hey look at me look at me don't
comfortable don't
rum
you may not want the life you have oh
come on [ __ ] you rob
don't say that i'm fighting for mine
i just want you to lead me to hell alone
is there a problem there's no problem
get out
that costs movies
how could you not tell me ma'am if you
don't even have to call security
look at me
jesus christ i'm not your [ __ ] dad
helen
get out okay got it
thanks
okay all right okay okay
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stop it get her in okay all right
i warned you this would happen
i told you to leave her alone but i
didn't okay
sorry i don't live in isolation the rest
of my [ __ ] life nobody's telling you
to live in isolation robert
you could have thought this thing
through a little bit
i didn't want her to see me like this
i didn't want to scare i don't know i
just
i guess i panicked and i didn't under
what how did she know it was here i
don't know
the only people who have access to
medical records are
employees and
oh god damn it but
what is it
um
[Music]
i didn't know it was a big deal you
probably should have talked to me first
i i'm i mean they work together they're
friends
what is friends what are you ten
you broke the law tory
but i
i'm i mean i thought you know helen's
been doing so much better
until the past couple weeks and it just
seemed like robert was a big part of
that doing better
see your scars
her scars what what are you talking
about
she didn't tell you did she tell me what
she's been cutting herself
no
she didn't tell me that
wait what she's been cutting herself
so you knew this and you didn't say
anything and essentially told her to
[ __ ] off
what is going on i will tell you later
it's fine damn
i have aids
and
helen just found out
okay
oh
i'm
i'm sorry okay all right listen i'm
gonna i'm going to go to her house and
i'm going to send an ambulance and you
two do nothing but i want to come with
you absolutely not
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so
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[Music]
hey
what's going on here
you okay
um
did you take anything
no
i flushed it good yeah
good girl
she's in here
okay well we're gonna get you up all
right
i'm really tired i know you are
yes you are
i got you
okay come on
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so
[Music]
ugh
[Music]
i appreciate your concern but look if
she doesn't want to take the medication
then i'm in agreement
yes
no thank you
bye
i want to see her
i know you do i just think if if i
apologized it would help
and who exactly would that be helping
look i know you feel guilty but she's
got to get through this by herself
is she okay
she's gonna get worse before she gets
better
mom
i'm so sorry
what are you doing
no
i'm trying to remember the first time i
ever thought about killing myself
i was young maybe five or
six and at first it was just a harmless
idea what if i wasn't here anymore
by the time i hit puberty it became like
an infatuation
like an imaginary friend that would
comfort me when i was alone
i knew they weren't normal feelings
but i also knew that i wasn't normal
and find your center
and breathe
yeah i found myself breathe
big deep breaths i am breathing and find
your center
and breathe oh my god i'm gonna [ __ ]
hyperventilate
and
breathe
and breathe
my new doctor thinks i've replaced my
desires for suicide with self-harming
which makes sense i guess
when i woke up in the hospital it felt
like my imaginary friend died
and i didn't get to go with him
and after that cutting myself was the
only thing that made me feel alive
ironic huh oh yeah
you've got porn
you want to lick with me no thanks
whatever
i mean they have boring stuff for boring
people too
you're really pretty
thanks
do you think i'm really pretty
sure
what are you writing a novel
no it's you know i used to write novels
i mean i like took this english class
junior year i'm sorry could you just
i'm just trying to concentrate
if you could just like
yeah yes
is that what you're writing about
feelings i see the word feelings okay
could you stop looking at this i'm sorry
i just i have a lot of feelings love but
i'm also feeling like
i don't know like a little bit manic but
like kind of like happy but like also
like really sad like really sad because
i miss my family
do you miss your family
yeah yeah i do
but then again i like love it here like
it's like the most amazing place like i
own this place like i am like
one with everyone here like wait a
minute wait a minute you love this place
yeah i love it seriously yeah it's like
a bunch of people like me and it's like
i don't know like you don't feel like
more crazy being here no i feel like
myself like i feel like i can express
myself and like do what i want to do
that's fair
all right show me the porn
okay
i think this one's my favorite i've seen
this magazine like five times i'm
learning all these new techniques to
control my urges
but if i'm being honest with myself i
don't think these feelings are just
gonna go away
maybe that's not the point
you guys are fascinating
i bet you didn't know that california
produces 100 of the nation's dried pigs
98 of the fresh ones california can't
survive without figs and that's a fact
and facts matter
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um they're good for you too i mean low
in calories high in vitamins
and you know what we think the fruit of
the fig is is actually a
a bunch of tiny flowers
the real fruit is the seed
hi
you're sexy
i'm ruby like the jewel
that's a
beautiful name ruby
thanks
so you know about things too
um
ruby can i have a minute with the uh hot
man please oh fine i guess
i'll be waiting
nice to meet you ruby nice to meet you
too sexy man
i see you're making friends
yeah we call her crazy ruby she's uh
interesting
i noticed
hi
hi
uh first of all i i i brought you
something it's called a better basket
it's uh well patent-pending
it's it's all the things you need to get
better in any circumstance there's a tea
and cookies
uh oh and there's the little cactus uh
which is better than flowers because you
don't have to water it
uh candles they're flameless um and and
a couple chick flicks with happy endings
and the tory said i should put in some
pudding
thanks
this is really nice
i'm sorry i hurt you
i'm sorry i didn't tell you i meant to
it was
that was my plan eventually and then you
just showed up at the hospital and uh
and i panicked
oh
that was panic
see it kind of felt like a big [ __ ] you
right i know
you came along at a pivotal time
i met you the day i found out about my
self count
you mean
like the white cells and that you were
um yeah
yeah
oh
you remember that day we were screaming
on the balcony
yes
the day i found out i was that much
closer to death
was the same day i met this
really special girl
that wanted to die
so badly
i thought i was helping you
but
i was leaning on you
you know just generally you should
probably try to lean on more stable
people
is there anything else you want to know
about it
uh
how
when
is your wife real
and does anybody at the office know okay
uh how uh blood transfusion
when 1999 i was in the army
wife real
but when i found out i got pretty low
she can handle that hush i can handle it
i got in a real dark place for a few
years there and i just
i made it i made it easier for me it was
what i did
i know what was the other question
oh the office does anybody at the office
know no
no one at work knows
well not that it's any of my business
but
kind of seems like these i forgot my
face
how are you guys doing
good
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yum
hey doc hi helen
uh i have a question
yes so i'm supposed to be released on
monday but my birthday is actually this
friday
well if you want i could redo your
paperwork and let you go thursday that
way you can enjoy your birthday at home
well actually i was gonna ask if i could
have my party here if that's okay i
i was just thinking some friends some
cake nothing big okay if you're sure
that's what you want yes give me a list
of your guests and i'll get them to
security okay great thank you no problem
oh um would it be crazy to ask for
decorations
we don't exactly throw a lot of parties
here sorry right
that's okay um i'll think of something
thank you
happy to help
hey
oh thank you hey i told you not to bring
presents you weren't supposed to it's
your birthday
hi hi
oh
oh robert take it easy not supposed to
be walking i'm not walking i'm standing
hey okay all i have to do is finish my
hair really quick and then we go you
look perfect what is this a diary
no that is not a diary that is a
prescribed journal for my feelings where
do i come in hey
oh hey speaking of my private thoughts
i've been doing a little thinking
and i have decided i want to sell my
grandma's house oh wow
whoa
it's definitely cursed and i think i
could take the money get my own
apartment
and then maybe travel
travel really yeah i've never been
anywhere ah well
i'm in where are we going yeah i've
always wanted to go to madrid whoa you
guys are not invited
this is something i want to do just me
wait i want i need a vacation dude i'm
dying remember hey
okay look i will be here for the whole
pre-dying thing this is just this for
after
all right all right no no more saying
the word dying this is a birthday party
okay she's right she's right she's right
let's go in the chair come on uh hold on
okay all right hey you don't know what
the hell and drive you making you feel
like i'm a damn roller coaster all the
time i got today with roller coasters
yeah i'm sick all right come on
[Applause]
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[Applause]
okay i got presents
happy birthday helen oh i'm sorry i
think you have me mistaken for someone
else my name is miss daniels
you surprised me
it's been a long time since i've been
surprised but
you surprised me and
thank you
thank you
for everything
all right have some snacks have some
punch i made it myself don't be scared
hi
hey guys thanks for coming we have never
been to a
hospital before oh really kind of
expected it to be a little bit more
depressing no it's not bad did they
restrain you no no no
oh were you in one of those padded rooms
oh my god i don't even think that they
have oh my god
guys i'm really
okay yes i can um he can blow him up on
his own no no he really can't with his
lung capacity oh no he was just talking
like off the road oh look a cute nurse
what where run no
see no one there watch a [ __ ]
let's go find a hot doctor you are
welcome was it my idea to invite them oh
yeah oh god
so i was thinking before you go
i want you to train as a junior
executive
when you're done training
you can take a vacation see the world
whatever no rob you don't have to do
this lisa told me about the phone call
with skyler
you are going to be great
thank you
oh
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happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you
happy birthday dear halloween
happy birthday to you
[Applause]
[Music]
okay just put it in the trunk i'll be
right there copy that
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so
[Music]
rob's funeral i like that
do you want like a theme or something
like
circus or mardi gras i wanted irish
style
uh you're not irish so
it's my funeral in it
i want shots for everyone
okay
so
cremation and then
reception is that what they call it
i don't know you know what i mean like
cremation and then party for everybody
lots of shots and then
what like celtic music oh no no no girl
hell no
i want classic rock okay
and whiskey
that'd be a good one
oh well
anything else
yeah this is weird for you
yeah
well no not not weird just
i'm really gonna miss you you know
but i want to be here
and i will be here
until you until i kick the bucket god
please stop saying kick the bucket you
are not 90.
okay
till i
pass away oh that's worse
are you okay
hey hey what can i do i'm okay i'm good
i'm okay
i need a joint
you smoke too much
it helps with the pain and the nausea
and the panic attacks
and [ __ ] plus it's fun
okay
then we smoke
hey
gown girl
hey rob
i love you
i love you too
okay
um
i'm gonna get you that joint
as promised
[Music]
this life is short so you better make it
last
[Music]
helen
[Music]
wait wait
you really not gonna stay
what four is he coming back
no i'm just
you sure you're gonna be okay
yeah
i'm good
my flight leaves in three hours i gotta
make one quick stop first and then i am
out of here
i miss you so much
i'm gonna miss you too
i love you you know that
i love you
all right okay you made me cry come on
okay
bye tori
journey on
[Music]
hey don't forget to call i won't
[Music]
so
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
you
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