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Blue - FULL MOVIE - Award Winning Mental Health Comedy/Drama - Female Director



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

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Directed By: Gabriela Ledesma

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

[Music]

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

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

so

[Music]

[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

[Music]

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]

[Music]

[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

[Music]

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

[Music]

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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