1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:04,045 DR MASTERS: Previously on Masters of Sex... 2 00:00:04,129 --> 00:00:07,256 It's safe to say that we are not in the best shape financially. 3 00:00:07,341 --> 00:00:08,633 The money will sort itself out. 4 00:00:08,717 --> 00:00:10,176 I've been telling your husband for the last year 5 00:00:10,260 --> 00:00:11,761 he should rent this space. 6 00:00:11,845 --> 00:00:13,846 It'd be better for our end-of-year report. 7 00:00:13,931 --> 00:00:15,014 Oh, you're a Virginia referral. 8 00:00:15,099 --> 00:00:17,975 You've been a very naughty orthopaedist, Dr Langham. 9 00:00:18,060 --> 00:00:19,435 DR LANGHAM: In spite of what you may have heard, 10 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,606 my relationship with my patients is strictly professional. 11 00:00:23,691 --> 00:00:25,400 Let's give a big Cal-O-Metric welcome 12 00:00:25,484 --> 00:00:27,819 to the new face of women's nutrition... 13 00:00:27,903 --> 00:00:30,154 Dr Austin Langham! 14 00:00:30,239 --> 00:00:32,782 Hi. I'm Frank, and I'm an alcoholic. 15 00:00:32,866 --> 00:00:33,866 ALL: Hi, Frank. 16 00:00:33,951 --> 00:00:36,327 Disappearing acts have always been my speciality. 17 00:00:36,412 --> 00:00:38,955 My dad taught both of his boys how to vanish. 18 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:40,039 Didn't he, Bill? 19 00:00:40,124 --> 00:00:41,374 DR MASTERS: I already knew the whole story. 20 00:00:41,458 --> 00:00:44,210 I knew it because it's my story, Francis. 21 00:00:44,294 --> 00:00:46,045 You're one of the bravest people that I know. 22 00:00:46,130 --> 00:00:48,381 You just see what you want and you... 23 00:00:48,465 --> 00:00:49,424 You go and get it. 24 00:00:49,508 --> 00:00:50,967 ROBERT: May I help you, Mrs Masters? 25 00:00:51,051 --> 00:00:53,052 I was wondering if you could use my help. 26 00:00:53,137 --> 00:00:54,804 We need someone to make a sandwich run. 27 00:00:54,888 --> 00:00:56,806 What can I get for you? 28 00:00:56,890 --> 00:00:59,809 Does drinking help to relieve your conscience 29 00:00:59,893 --> 00:01:01,894 about what it is we are doing to Libby? 30 00:01:01,979 --> 00:01:03,438 We have a greater purpose, Virginia. 31 00:01:03,522 --> 00:01:05,148 It hasn't been about the study in years. 32 00:01:05,232 --> 00:01:07,400 We're not gonna find the cure for dysfunction 33 00:01:07,484 --> 00:01:08,860 34 00:01:08,944 --> 00:01:12,155 Tell me, Bill, which sexual dysfunction are you proposing we treat? 35 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:13,322 Mine. 36 00:01:15,742 --> 00:01:17,660 (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) 37 00:02:12,841 --> 00:02:13,841 You're comfortable? 38 00:02:15,177 --> 00:02:16,844 (SIGHS) 39 00:02:17,387 --> 00:02:19,680 I'm not good at staying in one place for so long. 40 00:02:19,765 --> 00:02:20,806 (CHUCKLES) 41 00:02:20,891 --> 00:02:23,351 There was a five-hour wait at City Hall 42 00:02:23,435 --> 00:02:26,479 the day Francis and I decided to get married. 43 00:02:26,563 --> 00:02:28,481 I wanted to come again another day 44 00:02:28,565 --> 00:02:30,316 because usually I'm a whirling dervish, 45 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,152 but Francis sat right next to me, 46 00:02:33,237 --> 00:02:34,904 held my hand, 47 00:02:34,988 --> 00:02:36,948 sang me all the Gilbert & Sullivan 48 00:02:37,032 --> 00:02:38,407 songs he could think of, 49 00:02:38,492 --> 00:02:40,284 just to make the time pass easier. 50 00:02:40,786 --> 00:02:42,370 Husbands generally don't come 51 00:02:42,454 --> 00:02:44,997 for their wives' cappings, 52 00:02:45,082 --> 00:02:47,792 although Frank would have been perfectly welcome. 53 00:02:47,876 --> 00:02:49,502 Not so sure he believed that. 54 00:02:49,586 --> 00:02:52,296 I know you and he had... 55 00:02:52,381 --> 00:02:54,423 Words, recently. 56 00:02:54,508 --> 00:02:55,800 (SIGHS) 57 00:02:55,884 --> 00:02:57,093 If you'd like him here, Pauline, 58 00:02:57,177 --> 00:02:59,011 I could have my receptionist call him. 59 00:02:59,096 --> 00:03:02,765 I'd do it if there were a chance of you two mending fences. 60 00:03:03,642 --> 00:03:05,685 Well, there's really no mending to be done. 61 00:03:05,978 --> 00:03:08,563 Meaning it's not necessary? 62 00:03:08,647 --> 00:03:10,147 Or it's impossible? 63 00:03:12,109 --> 00:03:16,737 He didn't come here to take you to task for anything, Bill. 64 00:03:16,822 --> 00:03:19,282 He's made peace with his past. 65 00:03:19,366 --> 00:03:20,950 The programme has been so helpful 66 00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:22,201 for him in that regard. 67 00:03:22,286 --> 00:03:24,370 I think he just wanted to share with you 68 00:03:24,454 --> 00:03:26,289 all that he's come to understand... 69 00:03:26,373 --> 00:03:28,124 And here I thought you two came to me 70 00:03:28,208 --> 00:03:29,333 for fertility treatments. 71 00:03:29,418 --> 00:03:31,961 We are desperate to have a family. 72 00:03:32,546 --> 00:03:35,965 But I know for Frank that means... 73 00:03:37,175 --> 00:03:38,884 More than a child. 74 00:03:38,969 --> 00:03:39,927 Well, babies are my stock-in-trade, 75 00:03:40,012 --> 00:03:41,554 so let's focus on that, shall we? 76 00:03:41,638 --> 00:03:44,056 Now, what can I have Betty bring you? 77 00:03:44,141 --> 00:03:45,474 Frank, or perhaps a magaz... 78 00:03:45,559 --> 00:03:46,559 (LIGHTS CLICK) 79 00:03:48,770 --> 00:03:50,187 DR MASTERS: Uh... 80 00:03:50,272 --> 00:03:52,732 BETTY: Um, yeah, it won't happen again. 81 00:03:52,816 --> 00:03:53,899 Thank you very much. 82 00:03:53,984 --> 00:03:55,401 (RECEIVER CLICKS) 83 00:03:55,485 --> 00:03:56,777 What on God's earth? 84 00:03:56,862 --> 00:03:58,738 I just got off the phone with the electric company. 85 00:03:58,822 --> 00:04:00,406 I told them to check today's mail, 86 00:04:00,490 --> 00:04:01,866 where they would find our late payment, 87 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:04,452 which they did, so the lights should go back on shortly. 88 00:04:04,536 --> 00:04:06,078 And why was our payment so late? 89 00:04:06,163 --> 00:04:08,414 'Cause I had to wait for cheques to clear 90 00:04:08,498 --> 00:04:09,498 from eight patients. 91 00:04:09,583 --> 00:04:10,833 We owed the specimen lab, 92 00:04:10,917 --> 00:04:13,127 which was threatening to hold up our results. 93 00:04:13,211 --> 00:04:14,629 Then I had to put off the electric company 94 00:04:14,713 --> 00:04:17,715 until Cal-O-Metric's rent came in on the 15th. Should I go on? 95 00:04:17,799 --> 00:04:19,842 I understand things are a little tight. 96 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:23,387 Our only prayer here is to sublet the rest of this floor. 97 00:04:23,472 --> 00:04:24,764 I'm not gonna have my patients 98 00:04:24,848 --> 00:04:25,890 sharing lobby space 99 00:04:25,974 --> 00:04:27,099 with second-rate businesses. 100 00:04:27,184 --> 00:04:29,935 Either it's tenants who aren't so fancy-schmancy 101 00:04:30,020 --> 00:04:32,730 but pay the rent, or you're gonna be doing pelvic exams 102 00:04:32,814 --> 00:04:34,774 with a miner's lamp stuck to your forehead. 103 00:04:34,858 --> 00:04:36,359 I doubt those are my only options. 104 00:04:37,235 --> 00:04:39,320 All right. Here's another option... 105 00:04:39,404 --> 00:04:42,573 If we can't pay the heat this winter, 106 00:04:42,658 --> 00:04:44,950 then we're gonna be hosing down these marble floors, 107 00:04:45,035 --> 00:04:46,661 turning this place into a skating rink 108 00:04:46,745 --> 00:04:48,245 and charging admission. 109 00:04:50,123 --> 00:04:52,667 What's your suggestion for viable tenants? 110 00:04:52,751 --> 00:04:54,502 I'm already looking. 111 00:04:59,716 --> 00:05:01,217 (LIGHTS CLICK) 112 00:05:27,119 --> 00:05:29,161 You don't seem all that surprised. 113 00:05:32,416 --> 00:05:36,127 Was it helpful, pretending to be somebody else? 114 00:05:36,962 --> 00:05:39,296 I mean, did the advice I gave you... Did it help your friend? 115 00:05:39,381 --> 00:05:40,423 To be honest, no. 116 00:05:40,507 --> 00:05:43,175 (CHUCKLES) No. It was a disaster. 117 00:05:43,260 --> 00:05:47,012 I clearly did not understand how therapy works. 118 00:05:47,097 --> 00:05:49,014 Otherwise, I would have realised how ridiculous it was 119 00:05:49,099 --> 00:05:51,225 to think that I could stand in for her. 120 00:05:51,309 --> 00:05:55,020 Maybe she provided you with a reason to seek treatment for yourself. 121 00:05:55,772 --> 00:05:57,189 No, I came for her. 122 00:05:57,274 --> 00:05:58,274 And I'm only here now 123 00:05:58,358 --> 00:06:00,025 because I thought I owed you an explanation 124 00:06:00,110 --> 00:06:01,318 as to why I wouldn't be returning, 125 00:06:01,403 --> 00:06:02,570 as a patient, at least. 126 00:06:02,654 --> 00:06:04,780 I would love to be able to call you in the future... 127 00:06:04,865 --> 00:06:06,490 I find this work fascinating... 128 00:06:06,575 --> 00:06:09,744 If I have any questions regarding my own patients? 129 00:06:13,498 --> 00:06:16,041 Still, I'm wondering if anything we discussed 130 00:06:16,126 --> 00:06:18,586 seems to resonate with you on a personal level? 131 00:06:19,921 --> 00:06:21,422 My relationship with a married man... 132 00:06:21,506 --> 00:06:24,550 All the questions you asked surrounding that, why it ended. 133 00:06:24,634 --> 00:06:26,844 So, that was your affair, not your friend's? 134 00:06:26,928 --> 00:06:29,221 Yes, it was. It is. It continues. 135 00:06:29,306 --> 00:06:30,639 But it's not an affair. 136 00:06:30,724 --> 00:06:33,476 What does the word "affair" connote for you that "relationship" doesn't? 137 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:37,271 Something that's primarily sexual. 138 00:06:38,231 --> 00:06:41,275 And yours is not. No. No. It's... 139 00:06:41,359 --> 00:06:44,361 It's far more complicated than that. 140 00:06:44,446 --> 00:06:47,531 It has been sexual in the past, but it's not now. 141 00:06:49,659 --> 00:06:51,410 You and he... 142 00:06:51,495 --> 00:06:52,745 Don't engage in sex? 143 00:06:52,829 --> 00:06:53,829 No. 144 00:06:55,499 --> 00:06:57,458 And why is that, may I ask? 145 00:06:57,709 --> 00:07:00,169 Uh, because he... 146 00:07:00,253 --> 00:07:01,587 ... is impotent. 147 00:07:01,671 --> 00:07:04,507 DR MASTERS: As you recall, there were two years when... 148 00:07:04,591 --> 00:07:06,133 We were apart. 149 00:07:06,218 --> 00:07:08,052 VIRGINIA: But... 150 00:07:08,136 --> 00:07:11,931 ...since then... Just in the past month, we've been together. 151 00:07:12,015 --> 00:07:14,642 And I've taken care of you each of those times. 152 00:07:14,726 --> 00:07:15,768 You... 153 00:07:15,852 --> 00:07:17,603 ...yourself remarked on the... 154 00:07:17,687 --> 00:07:19,230 ...trend. But... 155 00:07:20,190 --> 00:07:23,692 When Libby had Jenny, she was capped, using... 156 00:07:23,777 --> 00:07:25,820 I have secondary impotence. 157 00:07:26,947 --> 00:07:29,490 I can function... 158 00:07:29,574 --> 00:07:31,116 When I'm by myself. 159 00:07:31,201 --> 00:07:32,701 It's when I'm with a... 160 00:07:32,786 --> 00:07:34,036 A partner. 161 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:35,955 So you and Libby have discussed this, 162 00:07:36,039 --> 00:07:37,581 and this is how you've explained this to her? 163 00:07:37,666 --> 00:07:40,668 Well, there are things that Libby and I... 164 00:07:40,752 --> 00:07:42,378 Don't discuss, and I... 165 00:07:42,462 --> 00:07:43,879 I'm not interested in the explanation, 166 00:07:43,964 --> 00:07:45,714 I'm interested in the cure. 167 00:07:53,890 --> 00:07:55,558 Well... 168 00:07:57,477 --> 00:08:00,729 With any patient, we would... 169 00:08:00,814 --> 00:08:02,606 What? We would explore a cause, 170 00:08:02,691 --> 00:08:05,109 a triggering incident. 171 00:08:05,193 --> 00:08:06,902 Lester, for example. 172 00:08:07,404 --> 00:08:08,654 He said that his... 173 00:08:08,738 --> 00:08:11,240 His problem started when Jane rejected him. 174 00:08:11,324 --> 00:08:13,284 Well, that's Lester. 175 00:08:13,368 --> 00:08:14,451 There's Shelley. 176 00:08:15,370 --> 00:08:16,662 That's when we stopped coming here, 177 00:08:16,746 --> 00:08:17,746 stopped having sex... 178 00:08:17,831 --> 00:08:19,623 ...when you learnt that I was seeing Shelley. 179 00:08:22,210 --> 00:08:24,169 Bill, you know that... 180 00:08:24,254 --> 00:08:27,631 ...Shelley wasn't any kind of rejection of you. 181 00:08:27,716 --> 00:08:29,508 Are you with him now? 182 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:31,093 No, you know that I'm not. 183 00:08:31,177 --> 00:08:32,928 I know. You're not with anyone at the moment. 184 00:08:33,013 --> 00:08:35,347 You're here... With me, so if jealousy 185 00:08:35,432 --> 00:08:38,350 or, or... Insecurity were the issue, 186 00:08:38,435 --> 00:08:40,352 uh, there's no reason for me to feel either. 187 00:08:40,437 --> 00:08:41,896 And yet my... 188 00:08:42,606 --> 00:08:44,732 ...difficulties persist, so... 189 00:08:44,816 --> 00:08:46,692 So how can that be the cause? 190 00:08:46,776 --> 00:08:49,069 The psychology behind these physical problems 191 00:08:49,154 --> 00:08:52,531 is very complicated, 192 00:08:52,616 --> 00:08:53,949 and to understand the "why" of it... 193 00:08:54,034 --> 00:08:55,159 Oh, we can spend forever on the "why" 194 00:08:55,243 --> 00:08:58,829 and not get any closer to finding any kind of cure. 195 00:08:59,706 --> 00:09:03,125 You know, the point, Virginia, is, we... 196 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:06,670 We have an opportunity here, you know, to find a cure... 197 00:09:06,755 --> 00:09:09,506 Not, not just for me, but for millions of men. 198 00:09:11,051 --> 00:09:12,676 We've drifted away from the work. 199 00:09:12,761 --> 00:09:13,928 I... I admit that. 200 00:09:14,012 --> 00:09:16,388 But, but this is the way back. 201 00:09:18,850 --> 00:09:21,894 I'm broken, and you're the one... 202 00:09:21,978 --> 00:09:26,315 You... You're the only one who can fix me. 203 00:09:27,609 --> 00:09:30,903 DR MADDEN: So, you consider the relationship to have a... 204 00:09:30,987 --> 00:09:32,988 ... higher purpose now? 205 00:09:33,073 --> 00:09:34,949 I do. Yes. 206 00:09:35,033 --> 00:09:36,575 He and I, 207 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:38,953 we are uniquely qualified 208 00:09:39,037 --> 00:09:40,162 to develop a treatment, 209 00:09:40,246 --> 00:09:44,166 to prevent countless marriages from dissolving. 210 00:09:44,250 --> 00:09:46,043 Including his? Your partner's? 211 00:09:46,127 --> 00:09:48,671 (CHUCKLES) No, his marriage is not at risk. 212 00:09:50,590 --> 00:09:54,093 You don't think his wife feels the loss of his sexual companionship? 213 00:09:54,177 --> 00:09:55,970 I... Maybe I... 214 00:09:56,054 --> 00:09:59,765 I can cure him and send him back home to his marital bed. 215 00:09:59,849 --> 00:10:01,308 That's very selfless of you. 216 00:10:01,393 --> 00:10:02,935 I... 217 00:10:03,019 --> 00:10:04,520 I was joking. 218 00:10:05,647 --> 00:10:07,856 And I don't think that sarcasm 219 00:10:07,941 --> 00:10:10,651 really has a place in therapy, do you? 220 00:10:10,735 --> 00:10:12,319 Did I misrepresent your intentions? 221 00:10:13,530 --> 00:10:14,697 I think that you are making 222 00:10:14,781 --> 00:10:17,032 some kind of judgement about me. 223 00:10:18,076 --> 00:10:20,619 Doctor, I can assure you, 224 00:10:20,704 --> 00:10:23,372 I am at peace with this situation now. 225 00:10:23,456 --> 00:10:24,456 I think if that were true, 226 00:10:24,541 --> 00:10:26,750 you would have telephoned me to cancel the session 227 00:10:26,835 --> 00:10:28,961 instead of showing up here. 228 00:10:29,045 --> 00:10:30,504 All right. Well... 229 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:33,215 Uh, why don't you tell me? Why am I here? 230 00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:36,176 I think you want me to be all right with you. 231 00:10:41,057 --> 00:10:43,225 In the very short time you've been coming here, 232 00:10:43,309 --> 00:10:45,602 you admitted to deceiving two people... 233 00:10:45,687 --> 00:10:47,479 Me, in pretending to be someone else... 234 00:10:47,564 --> 00:10:48,522 (SIGHS) 235 00:10:48,606 --> 00:10:50,149 ...and your lover's wife, 236 00:10:50,233 --> 00:10:53,652 237 00:10:54,779 --> 00:10:58,198 Is there anyone else you may have deceived? 238 00:10:59,242 --> 00:11:00,451 (SIGHS) 239 00:11:02,620 --> 00:11:04,997 You want me to say "Myself," right, 240 00:11:05,081 --> 00:11:06,915 that I've deceived myself? 241 00:11:14,591 --> 00:11:17,051 ♪ Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird 242 00:11:17,135 --> 00:11:19,053 ♪ And if that... ♪ 243 00:11:20,180 --> 00:11:23,182 Libby promised helping out with this, uh... 244 00:11:23,266 --> 00:11:27,519 Civil rights office wouldn't interfere with dinner. 245 00:11:27,604 --> 00:11:29,688 I'm happy to start dinner. 246 00:11:30,356 --> 00:11:34,109 This little one is out like a light already. 247 00:11:34,986 --> 00:11:37,279 Lullabies never worked with you. 248 00:11:37,906 --> 00:11:40,783 You'd stare at me with that expression that said, 249 00:11:40,867 --> 00:11:43,410 "I will not sleep, ever." 250 00:11:43,495 --> 00:11:44,870 (CHUCKLES) 251 00:11:44,954 --> 00:11:48,332 Whereas Francis would just hum along happily, 252 00:11:48,416 --> 00:11:50,000 even before he could speak. 253 00:11:50,085 --> 00:11:53,170 Always the entertainer, Francis. 254 00:11:53,254 --> 00:11:56,465 He's more serious now, don't you think? 255 00:11:57,634 --> 00:11:58,926 When Francis was a child, 256 00:11:59,010 --> 00:12:02,679 you couldn't see a little darkness in him, under all that light? 257 00:12:02,764 --> 00:12:04,640 He tells me now I should have, 258 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:08,102 that his good cheer was an act of... What did he say? 259 00:12:08,186 --> 00:12:10,312 Self-preservation. 260 00:12:10,396 --> 00:12:12,481 You believe that? 261 00:12:12,565 --> 00:12:15,234 Well, if I've learnt anything, 262 00:12:15,318 --> 00:12:17,736 it's that everyone has their own version 263 00:12:17,821 --> 00:12:20,781 of everything that's ever happened. 264 00:12:22,659 --> 00:12:24,201 (SIGHS) 265 00:12:24,285 --> 00:12:27,579 Francis doesn't like the fact that I have a drink every night. 266 00:12:27,664 --> 00:12:29,248 He hasn't said anything to my face, 267 00:12:29,332 --> 00:12:33,335 but I can see his disapproving looks. 268 00:12:33,753 --> 00:12:36,839 You don't think I drink too much, do you, Billy? 269 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:42,177 I think you drink, uh, as much as you want, 270 00:12:42,262 --> 00:12:44,388 which is as it should be. Huh. 271 00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:47,015 It's that programme of his, 272 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:48,684 if we're gonna be perfectly honest. 273 00:12:48,768 --> 00:12:51,228 I mean, good for him, if it helps. 274 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:53,313 All I want is for my sons to be happy. 275 00:12:53,398 --> 00:12:58,152 But I also think it can turn a person into a policeman. 276 00:12:58,236 --> 00:12:59,444 Or an amateur psychiatrist. 277 00:12:59,529 --> 00:13:01,280 Or a member of a secret club. 278 00:13:01,364 --> 00:13:05,951 Has he used the word "amends" with you? 279 00:13:06,035 --> 00:13:08,787 I mean, why do you need such a fancy word for saying "I'm sorry"? 280 00:13:08,872 --> 00:13:10,080 And who will these "amends" help? 281 00:13:10,165 --> 00:13:12,833 It's not like they're making things right... 282 00:13:12,917 --> 00:13:15,169 ...dragging up the past, 283 00:13:15,253 --> 00:13:17,546 spinning it so it only serves them. 284 00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:20,424 Has he forgiven you for something you didn't do? 285 00:13:20,508 --> 00:13:22,050 (SIGHS AND CHUCKLES) 286 00:13:22,135 --> 00:13:26,471 I just said, "Thank you, Francis. That's very generous of you." 287 00:13:26,556 --> 00:13:29,391 But it felt a little like an accusation 288 00:13:29,475 --> 00:13:31,727 that's dressed up to be an apology. 289 00:13:32,854 --> 00:13:34,980 I'm being too harsh. 290 00:13:35,064 --> 00:13:36,315 No, you're not. 291 00:13:36,399 --> 00:13:39,526 (VEHICLE APPROACHES) 292 00:13:39,611 --> 00:13:40,861 My wife. 293 00:13:41,988 --> 00:13:43,822 Home from work. 294 00:13:46,367 --> 00:13:48,076 ROBERT: We split everyone into four groups. 295 00:13:48,161 --> 00:13:50,954 One group takes the towers here by North Jefferson. 296 00:13:51,039 --> 00:13:53,332 There's 10 towers down by Carr Street, 297 00:13:53,416 --> 00:13:55,167 so we'll put two groups on those. 298 00:13:55,251 --> 00:13:59,171 And the rest will start here by North 20th and move West. 299 00:13:59,255 --> 00:14:02,132 So, let's get on the phones and make sure we deliver 300 00:14:02,217 --> 00:14:04,218 the best turnout possible, all right? 301 00:14:07,889 --> 00:14:10,182 Uh, what time is everyone meeting tomorrow? 302 00:14:10,266 --> 00:14:11,975 I need to make arrangements for my children. 303 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:14,102 You're not coming. 304 00:14:14,187 --> 00:14:16,188 You just said you need as many people as possible. 305 00:14:16,773 --> 00:14:18,398 The right people. 306 00:14:21,027 --> 00:14:23,320 I can do as much as anyone else. 307 00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:26,865 Look, we will be knocking on the doors 308 00:14:26,950 --> 00:14:30,035 of dirt-poor negroes with no jobs, no prospects, 309 00:14:30,119 --> 00:14:32,996 and probably already lost any ounce of dignity they ever had, 310 00:14:33,081 --> 00:14:36,667 and we're gonna try to convince them to stop paying rent 311 00:14:36,751 --> 00:14:39,795 on the only decent apartment most of them have ever lived in. 312 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:43,548 I would hardly call a rat-infested slum a decent place to live. 313 00:14:43,633 --> 00:14:45,926 You'd just be one more white person showing up, 314 00:14:46,010 --> 00:14:47,552 trying to tell them how to live their lives. 315 00:14:47,637 --> 00:14:50,347 These folks take one look at you, they'll close the doors. 316 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:55,143 And besides, there's rats in those towers... 317 00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:56,728 And lice, too. 318 00:14:57,272 --> 00:15:00,732 And I think we both know how you feel about lice. 319 00:15:00,817 --> 00:15:03,527 Now, if you're looking for something to do, 320 00:15:03,611 --> 00:15:05,237 you can start by getting lunch. 321 00:15:06,155 --> 00:15:07,572 And no more tuna salad. 322 00:15:07,657 --> 00:15:10,284 We're all sick to death of tuna salad. 323 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:19,042 (MUSIC PLAYING SOFTLY) 324 00:15:19,127 --> 00:15:22,004 Oh, he does give us credit in the footnotes. 325 00:15:23,965 --> 00:15:26,758 "Masters and Johnson... 326 00:15:26,843 --> 00:15:29,886 "Were the first to identify specific stages 327 00:15:29,971 --> 00:15:34,433 "of sexual arousal, four in all, in a 1958 study. 328 00:15:34,517 --> 00:15:37,185 "They have since ceased their clinical research." 329 00:15:37,270 --> 00:15:40,772 Well, I'll just have to call Mr Kaufman 330 00:15:40,898 --> 00:15:42,399 and let him know we are still... Don't call him. 331 00:15:42,483 --> 00:15:45,986 The worst thing we can possibly do is rouse the beast. 332 00:15:46,070 --> 00:15:48,030 The beast? "Only found four." 333 00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:50,115 He's come up with the other two stages 334 00:15:50,199 --> 00:15:52,242 purely to distinguish his work from ours. 335 00:15:52,327 --> 00:15:54,286 It's one study in a small journal. 336 00:15:54,370 --> 00:15:57,622 The American Urology Review is a respected journal. 337 00:15:57,707 --> 00:15:59,791 And everything we did in the past three years 338 00:15:59,876 --> 00:16:03,337 could be erased by Dr Joseph Kaufman, 339 00:16:03,421 --> 00:16:05,756 who has the audacity to list "dormant" 340 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,591 as a stage of sexual arousal. 341 00:16:07,675 --> 00:16:09,301 Well, Dr Joseph Kaufman is wrong. 342 00:16:09,385 --> 00:16:10,802 Yeah, he's wrong, and he's been published. 343 00:16:10,887 --> 00:16:12,387 Bill, I would not overreact to this. 344 00:16:12,472 --> 00:16:13,513 Every name in the history of science 345 00:16:13,598 --> 00:16:15,307 is the name of the man who got there first. 346 00:16:15,391 --> 00:16:17,726 Maybe it is, but it says right here 347 00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:20,687 in this footnote that we were the first ones out of the gate. 348 00:16:20,772 --> 00:16:24,316 And it doesn't mention a thing about dysfunction, 349 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,443 so we definitely have the edge there. 350 00:16:28,863 --> 00:16:30,447 I'll... I'll be right back. 351 00:16:45,922 --> 00:16:48,256 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 352 00:16:54,055 --> 00:16:56,807 When my kids found it, they thought it was a teepee. 353 00:16:57,725 --> 00:17:01,269 They even used it for playing Cowboys and Indians. 354 00:17:02,605 --> 00:17:05,899 I didn't have the heart to tell them it wasn't a teepee. 355 00:17:05,983 --> 00:17:09,152 It was the only dress mommy could still fit into. 356 00:17:09,612 --> 00:17:11,071 But... 357 00:17:11,864 --> 00:17:12,864 Not any more! 358 00:17:12,949 --> 00:17:15,700 Smile, smile. Clap, clap. 359 00:17:18,121 --> 00:17:19,955 (CLEARS THROAT) 360 00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:21,373 That's right, folks. 361 00:17:21,457 --> 00:17:23,875 When Cindy here came to my office three months ago, 362 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,129 she weighed in at nearly 200 pounds. 363 00:17:27,213 --> 00:17:28,713 I was a size 60. 364 00:17:28,798 --> 00:17:30,340 16. A size 16. 365 00:17:30,842 --> 00:17:32,384 The prognosis was bleak, 366 00:17:32,468 --> 00:17:34,428 but the prescription was simple... 367 00:17:34,512 --> 00:17:37,556 Just three small tablets of Cal-O-Metric per day. 368 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:40,725 And I went from overweight to feeling great, 369 00:17:40,810 --> 00:17:42,602 all thanks to Cal-Metric. 370 00:17:42,687 --> 00:17:44,271 Cal-O-Metric. 371 00:17:44,355 --> 00:17:46,565 Cal-O...with an "O." 372 00:17:46,649 --> 00:17:48,942 Why don't we take five to collect ourselves? 373 00:17:49,026 --> 00:17:50,360 (GASPS) Ah. 374 00:17:50,445 --> 00:17:51,987 Can I use the little girls' room? 375 00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:53,530 Yes. 376 00:17:53,614 --> 00:17:54,614 Thank you. 377 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,077 Boy, she is fantastic. 378 00:17:59,162 --> 00:18:01,246 A regular Barrymore. 379 00:18:02,248 --> 00:18:04,749 Say, I ran into Dick Davis yesterday, 380 00:18:04,834 --> 00:18:06,460 a fellow orthopaedist when I was still at Maternity, 381 00:18:06,544 --> 00:18:07,878 and told him what I'm doing now... 382 00:18:07,962 --> 00:18:11,006 Touring the state, starring in television commercials, 383 00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:12,090 helping women from Kennett... 384 00:18:12,175 --> 00:18:14,259 Here's this week's schedule. 385 00:18:14,343 --> 00:18:16,720 Presentation at Vandervoort's Department Store tomorrow, 386 00:18:16,804 --> 00:18:18,221 St. Louis Zoo on Wednesday, 387 00:18:18,306 --> 00:18:20,265 Jefferson County Fair this weekend. 388 00:18:22,185 --> 00:18:24,186 Tomorrow night, 435 Harney Avenue? 389 00:18:24,270 --> 00:18:26,438 What is that, a... A Woolworth's? 390 00:18:26,522 --> 00:18:29,566 My apartment. Oh, and be sure to knock because the buzzer's broken. 391 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:31,610 I don't understand. 392 00:18:31,694 --> 00:18:34,279 Cindy and I, we're... Presenting at your apartment? 393 00:18:34,363 --> 00:18:35,780 Just you... And me. 394 00:18:35,865 --> 00:18:37,657 I thought we could have some special time. 395 00:18:37,742 --> 00:18:39,284 Oh, you're not allergic to cats, are you? 396 00:18:39,368 --> 00:18:41,620 Because I'll be honest... (SIGHS) 397 00:18:41,704 --> 00:18:44,789 I keep thinking about that golden hair on your wrists, 398 00:18:44,874 --> 00:18:47,751 wondering if that's the same gold colour all over your body 399 00:18:47,835 --> 00:18:50,545 or does it get darker as it gets thicker. 400 00:18:52,048 --> 00:18:53,632 I'd like to see for myself. 401 00:18:53,716 --> 00:18:54,966 Tomorrow night. 402 00:18:55,051 --> 00:18:56,301 Same rules as the mall... 403 00:18:56,385 --> 00:18:58,720 Do not be late, or you will be fired. 404 00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:01,723 VIRGINIA: I've been doing some reading, 405 00:19:01,807 --> 00:19:05,810 and it turns out that every marriage manual 406 00:19:05,895 --> 00:19:07,437 has suggestions for impotence, 407 00:19:07,522 --> 00:19:10,732 many of which we already know from Betty. 408 00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:12,484 Um, but I've typed up a list. 409 00:19:12,568 --> 00:19:14,778 Well, then you've typed up a list of remedies that don't work. 410 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:19,407 Even if the treatment is not 100% effective, 411 00:19:19,492 --> 00:19:21,826 we can still learn something from each one. 412 00:19:21,911 --> 00:19:24,829 I've already tried all of Betty's quackery on Lester, 413 00:19:24,914 --> 00:19:27,082 nearly gave the poor man a nervous breakdown. 414 00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:29,334 That's Lester, as you said. 415 00:19:29,418 --> 00:19:32,003 Although, the session with Lester did teach us 416 00:19:32,088 --> 00:19:36,091 that it's best to try to resolve this condition with someone familiar, 417 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:38,677 and we are familiar with each other. 418 00:19:46,811 --> 00:19:50,313 So, let's keep it very simple today. 419 00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:55,443 I'll use my hands... My mouth... 420 00:19:57,947 --> 00:20:01,199 ...and you just relax, 421 00:20:01,284 --> 00:20:03,702 and stop thinking about it. 422 00:20:07,832 --> 00:20:11,251 You know, I read somewhere that before Leonardo da Vinci 423 00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:16,506 painted the Mona Lisa, he did 140 failed sketches. 424 00:20:16,591 --> 00:20:18,008 (WATER RUNNING) 425 00:20:18,092 --> 00:20:23,722 And before Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, he ran the 4:20 mile 426 00:20:23,806 --> 00:20:27,851 and then the 4: 12 mile and so on. 427 00:20:27,935 --> 00:20:30,937 We've only covered about a third of the options on this list, 428 00:20:31,022 --> 00:20:34,691 and I have heard that there have been successes with hypnosis. 429 00:20:37,862 --> 00:20:39,362 (THUD) 430 00:20:39,447 --> 00:20:41,323 (GASPS) 431 00:20:45,077 --> 00:20:46,202 You okay? 432 00:20:46,287 --> 00:20:47,954 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, um... 433 00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:49,456 (SIGHS) I'm just... I'm... I'm a little dizzy. 434 00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:51,666 I... I'm okay. 435 00:20:52,376 --> 00:20:54,669 Here, um, come... Come this way. 436 00:20:56,005 --> 00:20:57,380 Don't be embarrassed at all. 437 00:20:57,465 --> 00:20:59,341 I almost went down like a ton of bricks 438 00:20:59,425 --> 00:21:01,426 on my first look at a retreating cervix. 439 00:21:05,139 --> 00:21:07,724 (STAMMERING) Are... You're one of the doctors? 440 00:21:07,808 --> 00:21:09,142 Oh, no. I'm the archivist. 441 00:21:09,226 --> 00:21:11,227 I'm documenting the study on film, 442 00:21:11,312 --> 00:21:13,396 to keep a record of it for... Posterity. 443 00:21:13,481 --> 00:21:15,565 You make movies? 444 00:21:15,650 --> 00:21:19,486 I prefer to think of it as telling the truth 24 times a second. 445 00:21:19,570 --> 00:21:20,862 Le Petit Soldat? 446 00:21:22,031 --> 00:21:23,573 Godard? 447 00:21:23,658 --> 00:21:26,951 So you must have seen a lot of people come in and out of here. 448 00:21:27,036 --> 00:21:28,370 Hundreds. 449 00:21:30,373 --> 00:21:31,998 Does it work? 450 00:21:32,083 --> 00:21:36,086 Dr Masters says that he could cure me of my... 451 00:21:37,338 --> 00:21:39,005 Never mind. (CHUCKLES) It doesn't matter. 452 00:21:39,090 --> 00:21:42,133 Dr Masters can cure anything. 453 00:21:42,218 --> 00:21:45,345 Well, most things. 454 00:21:45,429 --> 00:21:47,347 I mean, some things no doctor can cure 455 00:21:47,431 --> 00:21:50,392 no matter how good he is, right? 456 00:21:50,476 --> 00:21:51,810 You can't operate on the soul. 457 00:21:51,894 --> 00:21:53,269 Only God can do that. 458 00:21:53,354 --> 00:21:55,230 If you believe in that sort of thing. 459 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:58,525 I mean, lots of people do believe, obviously. 460 00:21:58,609 --> 00:22:01,611 Before science, you had to come up with some way of explaining things. 461 00:22:01,696 --> 00:22:05,156 A man in the sky with a beard makes as much sense as anything else. 462 00:22:05,241 --> 00:22:07,367 That's oversimplifying things a bit. 463 00:22:07,451 --> 00:22:08,993 Well, I only meant that... 464 00:22:09,078 --> 00:22:12,664 You know, people need to find meaning in something. 465 00:22:12,748 --> 00:22:16,668 They, they need to believe in something. 466 00:22:16,752 --> 00:22:20,714 Second law of thermodynamics is good and pretty irrefutable... 467 00:22:20,798 --> 00:22:24,175 ...that the universe is hurtling inexorably toward entropy. 468 00:22:24,260 --> 00:22:25,719 So life is meaningless, 469 00:22:25,803 --> 00:22:29,639 and all the pain and suffering is just blind, random chaos. 470 00:22:29,724 --> 00:22:32,183 Thank you for the... The water. 471 00:22:32,268 --> 00:22:33,226 Sorry. I... 472 00:22:33,310 --> 00:22:35,687 I didn't come up with that theory. 473 00:22:36,021 --> 00:22:37,689 Blame Lord Kelvin. 474 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,152 Brand new this morning. Now I know why they were on sale. 475 00:22:42,236 --> 00:22:44,863 (CHUCKLES) You are a lifesaver, Gini. 476 00:22:44,947 --> 00:22:47,949 More an expert since I only buy on sale. 477 00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:50,660 I didn't dare ask for nail polish downstairs, 478 00:22:50,745 --> 00:22:52,871 not that they would notice my run, 479 00:22:52,955 --> 00:22:54,998 not that they would notice if I mimeographed for them 480 00:22:55,082 --> 00:22:56,332 in a Day-Glo bikini. 481 00:22:56,417 --> 00:22:58,084 (CHUCKLES) Yes, well, 482 00:22:58,169 --> 00:23:00,378 they do seem like a pretty determined bunch 483 00:23:00,463 --> 00:23:01,713 down at the CORE office. 484 00:23:01,797 --> 00:23:03,840 They're determined to make this rent strike a success, 485 00:23:03,924 --> 00:23:06,342 which I certainly applaud them for. 486 00:23:06,469 --> 00:23:08,386 A rent strike in this building? Oh, no, no. At... 487 00:23:08,471 --> 00:23:10,597 At Pruitt-Igoe, the projects. 488 00:23:11,682 --> 00:23:15,393 I'm sure Bill didn't tell you since he hates my working there. 489 00:23:15,478 --> 00:23:17,228 The people in the CORE office 490 00:23:17,313 --> 00:23:19,272 think I'm nothing more than some bored housewife. 491 00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:22,025 Well, I'm sure that they appreciate you. 492 00:23:22,109 --> 00:23:25,445 Trust me, they don't, 493 00:23:25,529 --> 00:23:29,073 which is why I'm gonna canvass with them tonight, 494 00:23:29,158 --> 00:23:31,576 even though they don't want me to. 495 00:23:31,660 --> 00:23:32,911 Bill agreed to you going? 496 00:23:32,995 --> 00:23:34,746 (CHUCKLES) 497 00:23:35,664 --> 00:23:37,248 Which is why I need your help. 498 00:23:37,333 --> 00:23:41,169 I'm assuming you two will be working late tonight again. 499 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:46,299 What if you told Bill that your sitter cancelled 500 00:23:46,383 --> 00:23:48,468 at the last minute and I'm filling in for her? 501 00:23:48,552 --> 00:23:50,428 That would explain why I'm not home. 502 00:23:50,513 --> 00:23:52,472 Uh, you want me to lie to Bill? 503 00:23:52,556 --> 00:23:54,849 I could drop my kids off at your house with Henry and Tessa. 504 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:56,434 I would pay for the sitter, of course. 505 00:23:56,519 --> 00:23:59,062 No. That... That would not be necessary. 506 00:24:00,022 --> 00:24:02,273 It's a good cause. 507 00:24:02,358 --> 00:24:05,443 And we'd just keep it between us. 508 00:24:05,528 --> 00:24:10,031 Unless the idea of lying to Bill is too... 509 00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:11,324 ... uncomfortable. 510 00:24:11,408 --> 00:24:13,743 Uh... 511 00:24:13,828 --> 00:24:17,121 It's not, in fact. (CHUCKLES) 512 00:24:17,206 --> 00:24:19,874 What time should I tell the sitter to expect you and the kids? 513 00:24:22,837 --> 00:24:24,796 DR MASTERS: This way. 514 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,047 Ah, Virginia, good. 515 00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:28,633 Uh, I want you to meet Shep Tally. 516 00:24:28,717 --> 00:24:32,846 Mr Tally is a partner at Williams & Kulick Public Relations. 517 00:24:32,930 --> 00:24:35,974 Well, you are as pretty as the first day in June. 518 00:24:36,058 --> 00:24:37,809 Thank you. 519 00:24:37,893 --> 00:24:40,311 Forgive me. I tend to think in terms of commodities. 520 00:24:40,396 --> 00:24:45,191 Mr Tally was instrumental in helping my colleague, John Rock. 521 00:24:45,276 --> 00:24:46,442 The John Rock... 522 00:24:46,527 --> 00:24:48,361 Who developed the birth-control pill? 523 00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:50,655 That one was a race, I'll tell you... 524 00:24:50,739 --> 00:24:51,865 ... neck-and-neck the whole way. 525 00:24:51,949 --> 00:24:54,868 Well, Mr Tally made sure that Dr Rock came in first, 526 00:24:54,952 --> 00:24:57,579 and he's going to do the same for us with, uh, Dr Kaufman. 527 00:24:57,663 --> 00:25:00,498 This is quite the space. 528 00:25:00,583 --> 00:25:03,501 Do you ever get the urge to, uh, strap on a pair of roller skates, 529 00:25:03,586 --> 00:25:05,295 do a few loops around the lobby? 530 00:25:06,005 --> 00:25:08,840 Uh, never. Once. 531 00:25:08,924 --> 00:25:12,385 I thought we could start with the, uh, archives. 532 00:25:12,469 --> 00:25:14,345 VIRGINIA: This is Lester, our archivist. 533 00:25:14,430 --> 00:25:17,557 Lester, Mr Tally would like to see some footage from the study. 534 00:25:17,641 --> 00:25:20,018 Mrs Johnson and I will join in a moment. 535 00:25:20,102 --> 00:25:21,394 Please. 536 00:25:21,437 --> 00:25:23,354 We cannot afford an ad man... A public relations... 537 00:25:23,439 --> 00:25:25,398 A PR man, who's going to charge us 538 00:25:25,482 --> 00:25:27,483 to turn June into a commodity. 539 00:25:27,568 --> 00:25:29,611 Look, either Joseph Kaufman is a footnote in our study, 540 00:25:29,695 --> 00:25:31,154 or we're footnotes in his. 541 00:25:31,238 --> 00:25:32,405 All... 542 00:25:32,489 --> 00:25:35,158 All I'm asking, for now, is for you to join me 543 00:25:35,242 --> 00:25:37,035 in putting our best foot forward. 544 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,412 Show Mr Tally the value of our work. 545 00:25:39,496 --> 00:25:41,289 (PROJECTOR WHIRRING) 546 00:25:42,458 --> 00:25:46,085 Turns out ejaculate can travel up to three feet 547 00:25:46,170 --> 00:25:49,631 from where the sperm, uh, started its original journey. 548 00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:51,174 (DOOR OPENS) Oh, thank God. 549 00:25:51,258 --> 00:25:54,344 Mr Tally, I think the best way to understand our work 550 00:25:54,428 --> 00:25:57,555 is to start with the four stages of sexual response. 551 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,308 Orgasms tend to be shorter in duration and intensity, 552 00:26:00,392 --> 00:26:02,685 but aside from that, we've seen very few changes at all. 553 00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:04,270 Our study has already invalidated 554 00:26:04,355 --> 00:26:05,897 a whole host of myths, uh, 555 00:26:05,981 --> 00:26:09,651 regarding the effects of ageing on sexual response. 556 00:26:09,735 --> 00:26:11,027 Dr Masters, I'd like you to meet... 557 00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:12,737 Not right now, Betty. Herb Spleeb. 558 00:26:12,821 --> 00:26:15,448 "When life kicks you to the kerb, call Herb." 559 00:26:15,532 --> 00:26:16,658 Herb's a divorce lawyer, 560 00:26:16,742 --> 00:26:18,534 very interested in renting office space. 561 00:26:18,619 --> 00:26:20,912 Mr Tally, why don't we continue to the exam room? 562 00:26:20,996 --> 00:26:22,497 Should the need arise. 563 00:26:24,291 --> 00:26:25,667 (CHUCKLES) 564 00:26:25,751 --> 00:26:28,127 So, as we observe clitoral stimulation, 565 00:26:28,212 --> 00:26:30,213 testicular swelling, skin flush... 566 00:26:30,297 --> 00:26:31,839 We measure heart rate during sexual activity 567 00:26:31,924 --> 00:26:33,841 as well as prostatic contractions, 568 00:26:33,926 --> 00:26:36,094 vaginal elongation, and so on. 569 00:26:36,178 --> 00:26:39,347 So, the two of you catalogue what happens 570 00:26:39,431 --> 00:26:41,224 to the human body during sex. 571 00:26:41,308 --> 00:26:42,600 What else do you do? 572 00:26:42,685 --> 00:26:46,312 Uh, well, we've recently begun a new phase of the study, 573 00:26:46,397 --> 00:26:48,773 treating patients with sexual dysfunctions. 574 00:26:48,857 --> 00:26:50,775 Okay. That's interesting. 575 00:26:50,859 --> 00:26:52,777 It's also, uh, premature. 576 00:26:52,861 --> 00:26:55,279 It's in the early stages. We've barely begun. 577 00:26:55,364 --> 00:26:57,949 But we've already made some major discoveries. 578 00:26:58,033 --> 00:26:59,951 DR MASTERS: Discoveries we're not yet ready to discuss. 579 00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:01,202 But will be very soon. 580 00:27:01,286 --> 00:27:02,954 If by very soon, you mean years from now. 581 00:27:03,038 --> 00:27:05,248 Hey, you know what's great about you two? 582 00:27:05,749 --> 00:27:06,958 This. 583 00:27:07,626 --> 00:27:10,545 The two of you arguing, the back and forth. 584 00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:13,423 You are like every married couple in America. 585 00:27:13,507 --> 00:27:15,258 No, we're not married. 586 00:27:15,342 --> 00:27:16,884 Doesn't matter. 587 00:27:17,177 --> 00:27:19,470 Look, some scientist comes on TV, 588 00:27:19,555 --> 00:27:22,932 starts talking about sex, people are gonna tune out. 589 00:27:23,017 --> 00:27:24,684 Maybe they think he's a pervert, or... 590 00:27:24,768 --> 00:27:26,602 Or maybe they just think he's dull. 591 00:27:26,687 --> 00:27:29,022 But the two of you come on, 592 00:27:29,106 --> 00:27:32,650 both scientists and yet looking like the nice couple next door, 593 00:27:32,735 --> 00:27:34,318 and suddenly I trust you. 594 00:27:34,403 --> 00:27:37,739 I'm... I'm sorry. Us on TV? 595 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,117 CBS is looking for documentary subjects. 596 00:27:41,201 --> 00:27:43,828 Your archivist has hours of footage. 597 00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:45,621 We would focus on the two of you. 598 00:27:45,706 --> 00:27:47,832 We'd make it a human-interest story, 599 00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:49,751 something along the lines of, uh, 600 00:27:49,835 --> 00:27:54,130 "Man and woman researchers plumb the mysteries of desire." 601 00:27:54,214 --> 00:28:00,762 The two of you could finally teach America how to have sex. 602 00:28:00,846 --> 00:28:02,805 On television? 603 00:28:02,890 --> 00:28:04,098 Mmm-hmm. 604 00:28:17,446 --> 00:28:20,031 Uh, you're right. 605 00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:22,241 I overreacted. 606 00:28:22,326 --> 00:28:25,953 Joseph Kaufman is... Is one article. 607 00:28:26,997 --> 00:28:29,415 It's a minor setback. We'll... We'll catch up. 608 00:28:29,958 --> 00:28:31,542 Or we'll come in second place. 609 00:28:31,627 --> 00:28:34,295 Which in this case, would be last place. 610 00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:39,425 You said hiring Mr Tally is not the best use of our resources right now. 611 00:28:39,510 --> 00:28:43,721 I did, yes, and then I listened to him. 612 00:28:43,806 --> 00:28:47,100 Bill, if only one person gets the credit in these things... 613 00:28:47,184 --> 00:28:48,184 I thought Mr Tally was gonna land us 614 00:28:48,268 --> 00:28:50,978 in The American Journal of Medicine, not TV Guide. 615 00:28:51,063 --> 00:28:53,773 It is a less-specialised audience, yes, 616 00:28:53,857 --> 00:28:56,984 but think of all the people we could reach, we could help. 617 00:28:57,069 --> 00:28:58,736 We could alienate entirely. 618 00:28:58,821 --> 00:29:00,154 We already saw what happened to 619 00:29:00,239 --> 00:29:03,658 a roomful of doctors exposed to this work. 620 00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:06,619 Imagine what'll happen when grandma turns on the TV and... 621 00:29:06,703 --> 00:29:09,455 ...and finds the two of us discussing swollen labia. 622 00:29:09,540 --> 00:29:13,251 Or maybe people are ready to hear what we have to say. 623 00:29:13,335 --> 00:29:14,836 Wilhelm Reich died in a prison cell 624 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,963 because of his theories of the human orgasm. 625 00:29:17,047 --> 00:29:19,090 The FBI burnt his research. 626 00:29:19,174 --> 00:29:20,800 Bill, this was your idea. 627 00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:24,929 You hired Shep Tally because you want attention, recognition. 628 00:29:25,013 --> 00:29:26,139 I want to win a Nobel Prize. 629 00:29:26,223 --> 00:29:29,976 I do not want my work reduced to the warm-up hour before Mr Magoo. 630 00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:35,356 I see. 631 00:29:36,817 --> 00:29:38,985 Well, then, would you be able to forgive yourself... 632 00:29:39,069 --> 00:29:41,404 ... if you did nothing 633 00:29:41,488 --> 00:29:45,074 and Joseph Kaufman walked away with the prize? 634 00:29:47,536 --> 00:29:50,788 ROBERT: We'll work in groups. Three to a floor. 635 00:29:50,873 --> 00:29:54,333 Now, the elevators are either broken or will break, so we'll take the stairs. 636 00:29:54,418 --> 00:29:57,628 Be sure to tell the tenants that you're not with the housing authority. 637 00:29:57,713 --> 00:30:01,007 Remember that not everyone will be happy to see you. 638 00:30:03,552 --> 00:30:04,552 Be patient. 639 00:30:05,429 --> 00:30:06,721 Let's go. 640 00:30:07,347 --> 00:30:10,725 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 641 00:30:14,229 --> 00:30:16,063 Put these up in the common areas. 642 00:30:22,404 --> 00:30:24,113 (DOOR OPENS) 643 00:30:33,081 --> 00:30:34,665 (KNOCK ON DOOR) 644 00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:36,834 (CHILDREN LAUGHING) 645 00:30:36,919 --> 00:30:38,669 Good evening, ma'am, I'm... 646 00:30:38,754 --> 00:30:40,630 Robert Jefferson Franklin. 647 00:30:40,714 --> 00:30:42,423 ROBERT: Delila, tonight is serious business. 648 00:30:42,507 --> 00:30:44,842 Oh, nights are always serious for you, Robert Jefferson. 649 00:30:44,927 --> 00:30:46,135 (DOOR SLAMS) 650 00:30:52,517 --> 00:30:54,602 I can't afford to lose my home. 651 00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:55,770 We understand that, ma'am. 652 00:30:55,854 --> 00:30:58,231 We just want you to understand that you have certain rights. 653 00:30:58,315 --> 00:30:59,357 Rights? 654 00:30:59,441 --> 00:31:01,359 I don't even have the right to have my husband live with me. 655 00:31:01,443 --> 00:31:04,946 Look, this apartment, this is all I have. 656 00:31:05,072 --> 00:31:07,365 Yes, ma'am. Nathan, Momma, come inside now. 657 00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:16,707 Uh, Mrs Robinson says she's interested. 658 00:31:16,792 --> 00:31:18,376 She wants to strike. 659 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:19,877 You may have to convince your daughter, though. 660 00:31:19,962 --> 00:31:22,421 Don't worry about that. She'll do what I tell her to do. 661 00:31:22,506 --> 00:31:23,839 Come on, baby. 662 00:31:33,267 --> 00:31:33,307 Double the olive brine, so it's extra dirty. 663 00:31:33,308 --> 00:31:38,562 Double the olive brine, so it's extra dirty. 664 00:31:38,647 --> 00:31:41,315 (SIGHS) The... Oh. 665 00:31:41,692 --> 00:31:43,317 Thank you. Um... 666 00:31:44,403 --> 00:31:46,487 Uh, we need to talk. 667 00:31:47,030 --> 00:31:49,073 You... 668 00:31:49,157 --> 00:31:51,325 Are so handsome. 669 00:31:51,410 --> 00:31:52,827 (BOTH CHUCKLE) 670 00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:55,162 I mean, my God... (CHUCKLES) 671 00:31:55,247 --> 00:31:59,041 If you had curly hair, you would be David. 672 00:31:59,126 --> 00:32:00,251 The one in Florence. 673 00:32:01,628 --> 00:32:04,880 Um, you know how much I respect you, Flo. 674 00:32:05,882 --> 00:32:07,341 And you are one hell of a good boss. 675 00:32:07,426 --> 00:32:09,510 You know just what to say to a girl. 676 00:32:11,346 --> 00:32:12,596 But I have to warn you, 677 00:32:12,681 --> 00:32:16,142 what you're asking me to do tonight, it's, um... 678 00:32:17,394 --> 00:32:18,978 It's just not possible. 679 00:32:19,062 --> 00:32:20,855 Is that right? 680 00:32:22,357 --> 00:32:25,860 You see, when you've been married, uh, for 12 years, 681 00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:28,779 you develop a, a knack for pretending. 682 00:32:29,698 --> 00:32:34,201 Pretending to... To be in-interested in 9/10 of the... 683 00:32:35,871 --> 00:32:38,372 ...chatter that comes out of your wife's mouth. 684 00:32:38,457 --> 00:32:42,168 (STAMMERING) Uh, but no matter how... 685 00:32:42,878 --> 00:32:46,255 How good you... You... You get at pretending, 686 00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:50,468 there are certain things that you... You... You just can't fake, 687 00:32:50,552 --> 00:32:53,095 you know, when a man doesn't feel about a woman 688 00:32:53,180 --> 00:32:55,890 maybe in the same way that she feels... 689 00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,683 She feels about him. 690 00:32:57,768 --> 00:32:58,809 Do you... Do you... 691 00:32:58,894 --> 00:33:01,270 Because, um, he, he, he can... He can try. 692 00:33:01,355 --> 00:33:03,397 Oh, he can try as hard as he... 693 00:33:03,482 --> 00:33:04,565 As hard as he would like. 694 00:33:04,649 --> 00:33:06,275 He, he could lie to her, 695 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,319 and he could, he could also lie to himself. 696 00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:11,364 But... (SIGHS) He... He... (STAMMERING) 697 00:33:11,448 --> 00:33:13,157 But his equipment is not going to function, 698 00:33:13,241 --> 00:33:14,325 do you understand what I mean? 699 00:33:14,409 --> 00:33:16,202 It's not gonna function because his equipment is... 700 00:33:16,286 --> 00:33:19,914 ... is a lot like George Washington and the cherry tree, 701 00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:21,624 it cannot tell a lie. 702 00:33:27,881 --> 00:33:31,967 Looks like your equipment's gonna be just fine, Dr Langham. 703 00:33:32,052 --> 00:33:35,262 (SLOW-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING) 704 00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:36,847 (MOANS, PANTING) 705 00:33:36,932 --> 00:33:38,432 (CAT PURRS) 706 00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:42,144 (CHUCKLES) 707 00:33:49,986 --> 00:33:51,529 Shall we start? 708 00:33:55,325 --> 00:33:56,700 What's the agenda? 709 00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:58,119 Why don't you let me worry about that? 710 00:33:58,203 --> 00:33:59,412 Well, I just think we should... 711 00:33:59,496 --> 00:34:01,664 I just think you need to stop. 712 00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:08,879 Isn't there anything you ever think about... 713 00:34:08,964 --> 00:34:10,214 ...doing? 714 00:34:11,258 --> 00:34:13,092 To me, I mean. 715 00:34:13,176 --> 00:34:15,594 Something unusual? 716 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:19,223 Because I think about doing things to you. 717 00:34:27,732 --> 00:34:30,276 I think about making you powerless... 718 00:34:33,071 --> 00:34:35,072 Completely at my mercy... 719 00:34:38,535 --> 00:34:40,411 ... making you beg. 720 00:34:40,495 --> 00:34:43,497 I don't beg. You know that. 721 00:34:49,463 --> 00:34:50,463 (CHUCKLES) 722 00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:26,957 You can't touch my breasts... 723 00:35:27,751 --> 00:35:32,463 Not with your hands, not with your mouth. 724 00:35:32,547 --> 00:35:33,881 I said no. 725 00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:37,593 You can't touch them. 726 00:35:39,513 --> 00:35:43,182 You can't kiss them... 727 00:35:43,266 --> 00:35:44,892 ...or lick them. 728 00:35:47,812 --> 00:35:49,146 No matter how much you want to. 729 00:35:50,482 --> 00:35:53,150 No, I didn't say that you could move. 730 00:35:53,235 --> 00:35:54,985 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 731 00:36:09,584 --> 00:36:12,336 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 732 00:36:14,339 --> 00:36:16,799 (MOANS) 733 00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:24,306 How much do you want me? 734 00:36:25,809 --> 00:36:28,394 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 735 00:36:34,025 --> 00:36:35,025 I do want you. 736 00:36:35,110 --> 00:36:36,527 I'm going to put you inside of me. 737 00:36:36,611 --> 00:36:37,570 No, wait. Keep talking. 738 00:36:37,654 --> 00:36:38,654 I am talking. 739 00:36:38,738 --> 00:36:39,738 No, don't, don't... Don't touch me. 740 00:36:39,781 --> 00:36:41,448 What you said before, say it again. You're right there. 741 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,704 You feel so good. No, I don't. 742 00:36:46,788 --> 00:36:47,746 You do, Bill. 743 00:36:47,831 --> 00:36:49,832 That's not true, Virginia. 744 00:36:54,421 --> 00:36:55,546 Okay. We can begin again. 745 00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:56,964 No, we... We can't. 746 00:36:59,134 --> 00:37:00,968 It was working, Bill. God damn it! 747 00:37:02,262 --> 00:37:03,762 Just leave it. Okay. 748 00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:12,438 Bill... 749 00:37:14,441 --> 00:37:15,649 (SIGHS) 750 00:37:20,947 --> 00:37:24,575 (CAT MEOWS, PURRING) 751 00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:27,119 (DOOR OPENS, CLOSES) 752 00:37:31,499 --> 00:37:33,250 (DR LANGHAM SIGHS) 753 00:37:35,962 --> 00:37:37,254 Have you seen my, um... 754 00:37:53,813 --> 00:37:56,231 Well, I, uh... 755 00:37:56,316 --> 00:37:59,485 ... hope that was good for you. 756 00:37:59,569 --> 00:38:02,613 Well, I know it was good for you. 757 00:38:02,697 --> 00:38:04,031 Both times. 758 00:38:07,869 --> 00:38:08,869 (CHUCKLES) 759 00:38:10,330 --> 00:38:11,622 (CLEARS THROAT) 760 00:38:12,499 --> 00:38:13,916 Well, now that we've... 761 00:38:15,543 --> 00:38:20,172 Gotten that out of the way, I hope that we can resume our professional relationship 762 00:38:20,256 --> 00:38:24,718 without any sort of awkwardness between us. 763 00:38:27,472 --> 00:38:29,181 What do you mean, "Out of the way"? 764 00:38:31,726 --> 00:38:34,645 This, you know, one-time thing. 765 00:38:41,236 --> 00:38:44,613 Oh, Flo, please, okay? 766 00:38:44,781 --> 00:38:47,533 I love this job. I'm good at this job. 767 00:38:47,617 --> 00:38:49,159 I... I know how to talk to women. 768 00:38:49,244 --> 00:38:51,662 I know how to make them feel like, like, like, like... 769 00:38:51,746 --> 00:38:53,831 Like happiness is one small dose of Cal-O-Metric away. 770 00:38:53,915 --> 00:38:57,668 I know how to make women feel, feel good about themselves. 771 00:38:57,752 --> 00:38:59,128 So do that for me. 772 00:39:00,922 --> 00:39:02,798 Make me feel good. 773 00:39:04,134 --> 00:39:06,635 I used to be young and beautiful, you know. 774 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:09,263 Make me feel like that again... 775 00:39:10,765 --> 00:39:15,769 ...that young, pretty, desirable girl. 776 00:39:18,606 --> 00:39:19,732 Okay? 777 00:39:27,282 --> 00:39:29,616 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 778 00:39:33,079 --> 00:39:34,288 Morning. 779 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:36,290 Morning. 780 00:39:36,791 --> 00:39:41,295 We're, um, preparing for the second canvass. 781 00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:42,755 It'll be the night after next. 782 00:39:42,839 --> 00:39:44,173 Same time. 783 00:39:54,142 --> 00:39:56,351 How many signatures did we get last night? 784 00:39:56,436 --> 00:39:57,728 In that first wave of buildings? 785 00:39:57,812 --> 00:40:01,106 We're about at 30%. 786 00:40:01,191 --> 00:40:04,276 That's better than you hoped. 787 00:40:04,861 --> 00:40:06,278 Yeah. 788 00:40:08,031 --> 00:40:09,198 Yeah. It's better. 789 00:40:30,678 --> 00:40:31,929 Do you mind if I sit? 790 00:40:32,013 --> 00:40:34,389 I'd like to apologise. 791 00:40:44,692 --> 00:40:46,109 Is that the apology? 792 00:40:46,194 --> 00:40:47,194 No. 793 00:40:47,737 --> 00:40:50,531 Um, this is it. Um... 794 00:40:50,615 --> 00:40:53,325 I feel like I may have offended you yesterday. 795 00:40:53,409 --> 00:40:54,993 Well, I... (CLEARS THROAT) 796 00:40:55,078 --> 00:40:58,580 I hate to break it to you, but you're not the first person to call me a nitwit 797 00:40:58,665 --> 00:40:59,915 because I believe in God. 798 00:40:59,999 --> 00:41:01,208 I don't think you're a nitwit at all. 799 00:41:02,168 --> 00:41:06,338 I was always jealous of people that could believe. 800 00:41:06,422 --> 00:41:10,884 I went to grade school with a guy, Freddy Russo. 801 00:41:10,969 --> 00:41:12,803 He used to always brag that whenever he did anything bad, 802 00:41:12,887 --> 00:41:14,596 all he had to do was go to confession 803 00:41:14,681 --> 00:41:16,473 and it was like it never even happened. 804 00:41:16,558 --> 00:41:18,058 Well, it's not as easy as all that. 805 00:41:18,142 --> 00:41:20,227 I know, but... 806 00:41:20,311 --> 00:41:23,397 There is something comforting in the idea 807 00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:26,775 that you just have to tell the truth and you can be... 808 00:41:26,860 --> 00:41:29,319 Absolved. Mmm-hmm. 809 00:41:31,739 --> 00:41:33,949 I once heard that the greatest sin is despair. 810 00:41:34,576 --> 00:41:36,410 That's true, I think. 811 00:41:37,579 --> 00:41:39,580 When you decide to just give up. 812 00:41:39,664 --> 00:41:41,915 I think I may have done that... 813 00:41:43,334 --> 00:41:44,751 ...given up like that. 814 00:41:47,422 --> 00:41:48,964 I have a... 815 00:41:49,048 --> 00:41:50,424 ...a condition. 816 00:41:52,385 --> 00:41:54,720 I can't do anything in the, uh... 817 00:41:56,931 --> 00:41:58,223 ...with a girl. 818 00:42:00,351 --> 00:42:02,394 Dr Masters tried to help me with it, 819 00:42:02,478 --> 00:42:04,187 but I, uh... 820 00:42:04,272 --> 00:42:06,440 I decided it wasn't worth it. 821 00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:12,696 It was just too painful and humiliating... 822 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,659 ...so I gave up. 823 00:42:21,331 --> 00:42:22,331 (CHUCKLES) 824 00:42:22,415 --> 00:42:24,541 I guess that's my confession. 825 00:42:28,463 --> 00:42:30,130 Okay, here's mine. 826 00:42:31,549 --> 00:42:35,052 I also have a condition, 827 00:42:35,136 --> 00:42:36,762 and I always thought that it was God punishing me 828 00:42:36,846 --> 00:42:39,431 and that there was nothing I could do but learn to accept it. 829 00:42:41,643 --> 00:42:43,310 So I gave up, too. 830 00:42:47,899 --> 00:42:49,107 Greatest sin, right? 831 00:42:49,192 --> 00:42:50,525 (CHUCKLES) 832 00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:54,863 Maybe it doesn't have to be. 833 00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:01,495 I'm Lester, by the way. 834 00:43:01,579 --> 00:43:03,538 Uh, Barbara. Barb. 835 00:43:03,623 --> 00:43:04,665 (BOTH CHUCKLE) 836 00:43:04,791 --> 00:43:06,792 It's nice to meet you, Barb. You, too. 837 00:43:11,005 --> 00:43:13,256 Mmm, did he try the pump? 838 00:43:13,341 --> 00:43:15,425 I think that he would rather jump out a window. 839 00:43:15,510 --> 00:43:17,094 Can you blame him? 840 00:43:17,178 --> 00:43:19,680 Sometimes that cure is worse than the disease. 841 00:43:19,764 --> 00:43:21,223 Mmm. Poor Lester. 842 00:43:22,850 --> 00:43:25,477 You know, it can get under your skin, 843 00:43:25,561 --> 00:43:28,480 that, uh, particular problem. 844 00:43:28,564 --> 00:43:32,943 One guy, he used to come in every Thursday night, 845 00:43:33,027 --> 00:43:35,654 worked at the, uh, florist's shop on Jefferson. 846 00:43:35,738 --> 00:43:37,948 Always brought me something new... 847 00:43:38,032 --> 00:43:42,828 Um, daisies one week, lilacs the next, until... 848 00:43:43,705 --> 00:43:45,122 One time, he came in 849 00:43:45,206 --> 00:43:48,333 and he couldn't get anything going. 850 00:43:48,418 --> 00:43:52,462 So, I pulled out all the stops, 851 00:43:52,547 --> 00:43:57,718 but it was like trying to raise the dead. 852 00:43:57,802 --> 00:44:01,221 So, uh, he got upset and embarrassed, 853 00:44:01,305 --> 00:44:04,683 and I told him, "Come back next week. You'll be fine." 854 00:44:04,767 --> 00:44:06,059 (BETTY SIGHS) 855 00:44:06,144 --> 00:44:07,978 And now every week, he's coming in, 856 00:44:08,062 --> 00:44:11,440 lying there for 30 minutes while I'm going at it, 857 00:44:11,524 --> 00:44:15,360 pretending that maybe this time it'll work. 858 00:44:16,154 --> 00:44:20,240 I start taking Thursday nights off, 859 00:44:20,324 --> 00:44:21,658 and he's... (SIGHS) 860 00:44:21,743 --> 00:44:23,994 He's coming around asking for me on other nights. 861 00:44:24,078 --> 00:44:27,873 And I have the girls tell him I'm out 'cause... 862 00:44:29,250 --> 00:44:34,337 There was something about the way that he looked at me, like... 863 00:44:34,422 --> 00:44:39,426 Like he was in agony and I was the only one that could fix it 864 00:44:39,510 --> 00:44:43,263 and why... Why wasn't I fixing it? 865 00:44:44,182 --> 00:44:47,476 What was wrong with me that I couldn't make it right? 866 00:44:49,854 --> 00:44:51,855 You dreaded seeing him. Mmm-hmm. 867 00:44:58,237 --> 00:44:59,905 (TELEPHONE RINGS) 868 00:45:01,991 --> 00:45:03,116 (SIGHS) 869 00:45:03,201 --> 00:45:04,451 Masters. 870 00:45:06,621 --> 00:45:07,871 What? 871 00:45:07,955 --> 00:45:10,749 Francis, you always said never to let a regular doctor stitch you up. 872 00:45:10,833 --> 00:45:12,417 "You'll look like Frankenstein." 873 00:45:12,919 --> 00:45:14,878 I'm not angry you called me, mother. 874 00:45:15,129 --> 00:45:16,129 (WINCES) 875 00:45:16,255 --> 00:45:18,090 I'm angry you were drinking. (SIGHS) 876 00:45:18,174 --> 00:45:21,051 Oh, honey, for heaven's sake. Don't be ridiculous. 877 00:45:21,135 --> 00:45:24,638 I had one Tom Collins, like I have every night. 878 00:45:24,722 --> 00:45:26,515 That car came out of nowhere. 879 00:45:26,599 --> 00:45:28,475 You're going to blame the other driver? 880 00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,811 (SIGHS) That's where the blame belongs, 881 00:45:30,895 --> 00:45:32,771 and the police officer agreed with me. 882 00:45:32,897 --> 00:45:34,856 I can't listen to this. Why don't you ease up, Frank? 883 00:45:34,941 --> 00:45:36,566 Oh, because this is my fault? 884 00:45:36,651 --> 00:45:38,068 What about what you're doing? 885 00:45:38,152 --> 00:45:39,236 What? Standing here, comforting her? 886 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,863 You are enabling her, Bill. 887 00:45:41,948 --> 00:45:43,698 She was drinking. She got behind the wheel. 888 00:45:43,783 --> 00:45:45,117 One Tom Collins. 889 00:45:45,243 --> 00:45:47,369 You could've been killed tonight. Stop badgering her, Frank. 890 00:45:47,453 --> 00:45:48,662 Our mother has a problem. 891 00:45:50,665 --> 00:45:52,332 You just... Put your head in the sand... 892 00:45:52,416 --> 00:45:53,542 That's it. ...and continue to ignore the fact 893 00:45:53,626 --> 00:45:55,418 that she is an alcoholic. 894 00:45:55,503 --> 00:45:56,962 Alcoholic? Oh... (SIGHS) Alcoholic. 895 00:45:57,046 --> 00:45:59,256 All right, give me that needle, and get out of here. 896 00:45:59,340 --> 00:46:00,423 I am still stitching her. 897 00:46:00,508 --> 00:46:01,550 Not any more. Do not come near me 898 00:46:01,634 --> 00:46:03,426 when I've got a needle near a patient's face. 899 00:46:03,511 --> 00:46:05,554 You two. Don't start. 900 00:46:05,638 --> 00:46:06,638 Look what you're doing to her. 901 00:46:06,764 --> 00:46:08,807 Giving her the best medical care? ESTABROOKS: All right. Enough. 902 00:46:08,891 --> 00:46:11,059 I am the patient, and I say no more fighting. 903 00:46:11,144 --> 00:46:12,269 And I am the plastic surgeon... 904 00:46:12,353 --> 00:46:15,689 And I'm telling you, your privileges here, in my office, are over. 905 00:46:15,773 --> 00:46:17,691 Now, you can either leave of your own accord, 906 00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:19,484 or I will remove you myself. 907 00:46:19,819 --> 00:46:20,944 (SIGHS) 908 00:46:23,030 --> 00:46:24,364 (CHUCKLES) 909 00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:34,207 We're nearly done. 910 00:46:35,710 --> 00:46:37,794 I'll get Libby to come over and pick you up, 911 00:46:37,879 --> 00:46:39,421 and she can take you home. 912 00:46:39,505 --> 00:46:43,133 Please, don't fight with your brother. 913 00:46:43,217 --> 00:46:44,885 Please. 914 00:46:44,969 --> 00:46:46,803 I cannot stand it. 915 00:46:46,888 --> 00:46:48,305 (SIGHS) 916 00:46:48,389 --> 00:46:50,891 (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS) 917 00:47:00,651 --> 00:47:03,153 This doesn't have to end badly, Bill. 918 00:47:03,237 --> 00:47:05,697 Please, um, summon your better nature. 919 00:47:30,473 --> 00:47:31,681 (SIGHS) 920 00:47:32,850 --> 00:47:36,686 I came to you after all these years... 921 00:47:38,147 --> 00:47:39,564 ...with nothing but the best intentions. 922 00:47:41,192 --> 00:47:43,526 After years of despair, 923 00:47:43,611 --> 00:47:46,279 I finally had achieved some clarity. 924 00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:48,490 Clarity that you're an alcoholic? 925 00:47:48,574 --> 00:47:50,033 That our mother... (CHUCKLES) 926 00:47:50,117 --> 00:47:52,494 ... is an alcoholic? Who's next, Frank? Me? 927 00:47:57,458 --> 00:47:58,917 (LAUGHS) 928 00:48:00,878 --> 00:48:02,212 Of course. 929 00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:05,131 It took spending time with you to see it. 930 00:48:05,216 --> 00:48:07,884 You mask it better than most, but... 931 00:48:08,928 --> 00:48:11,012 You have all the signs. 932 00:48:11,097 --> 00:48:15,225 Mood swings, aggression, 933 00:48:15,309 --> 00:48:19,271 impulsive decision-making, chronic lying. 934 00:48:19,355 --> 00:48:20,981 Really? 935 00:48:21,065 --> 00:48:23,233 Who am I lying to, Frank? 936 00:48:23,317 --> 00:48:26,444 (CHUCKLES) Yourself. 937 00:48:32,285 --> 00:48:36,413 We are a family with a shared disease, a corrosive disease, 938 00:48:36,497 --> 00:48:39,958 and if you view us through that lens, 939 00:48:40,042 --> 00:48:45,380 if each of us is able to address our sickness 940 00:48:45,464 --> 00:48:47,007 and treat it... 941 00:48:49,802 --> 00:48:52,262 I believe we can mend what's broken here. 942 00:48:52,346 --> 00:48:57,976 We can find some peace, forgiveness, understanding. 943 00:48:58,060 --> 00:49:01,104 Faith, hope, charity. Christ (CHUCKLES) 944 00:49:01,188 --> 00:49:04,482 You toss around platitudes like it's confetti at New Year's. 945 00:49:05,526 --> 00:49:07,736 I have surrendered. That's all. 946 00:49:09,405 --> 00:49:12,532 Once I accepted my... 947 00:49:12,616 --> 00:49:15,535 ...our affliction... 948 00:49:15,619 --> 00:49:16,786 (CHUCKLES) 949 00:49:16,871 --> 00:49:18,621 ...all that self-pity, 950 00:49:18,706 --> 00:49:22,250 all that resentment I had toward dad... 951 00:49:30,092 --> 00:49:32,052 I hated dad for so long. 952 00:49:35,181 --> 00:49:38,058 Do you remember how he used to drink? 953 00:49:41,896 --> 00:49:46,858 One glass of Seagram's, neat, every night. That was it. 954 00:49:46,942 --> 00:49:48,026 It was much more than that. 955 00:49:48,110 --> 00:49:49,819 No, it wasn't, Frank, and for you to suggest... 956 00:49:49,904 --> 00:49:52,739 It all fits, Bill ! 957 00:49:52,823 --> 00:49:55,408 His drinking, his rages. 958 00:49:55,493 --> 00:49:58,119 For the first time, I understand Dad, 959 00:49:58,204 --> 00:50:02,874 his own feelings of impotence and, and self-pity. 960 00:50:02,958 --> 00:50:04,709 He was being eaten alive, too. 961 00:50:04,794 --> 00:50:06,711 This is our father. Our father was a monster. 962 00:50:06,796 --> 00:50:10,340 Yes, drunks are monstrous, 963 00:50:10,424 --> 00:50:15,428 but our monster was a sick, suffering alcoholic. 964 00:50:16,263 --> 00:50:18,598 He beat us because he drank, 965 00:50:18,682 --> 00:50:20,517 but he drank because he had a disease. 966 00:50:20,601 --> 00:50:24,020 He did not beat you. That, that is not true. 967 00:50:24,105 --> 00:50:26,147 You know he did. 968 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,693 You're lying because, because you're needy, you know, 969 00:50:30,778 --> 00:50:33,905 because you think that somehow, if... If you take my story... 970 00:50:33,989 --> 00:50:35,698 Bill... 971 00:50:35,783 --> 00:50:42,622 Our drunk dad beat you, and then he beat me. 972 00:50:49,588 --> 00:50:50,797 (SIGHS) 973 00:50:56,011 --> 00:50:58,304 But that doesn't have to be the end of the story. 974 00:50:58,389 --> 00:51:01,224 (SIGHS) That's what I'm trying to tell you. 975 00:51:03,686 --> 00:51:05,979 (SIGHS) 976 00:51:07,773 --> 00:51:09,023 I forgive you... 977 00:51:11,569 --> 00:51:13,236 ...for leaving me. 978 00:51:15,739 --> 00:51:17,282 And I forgive our dad. 979 00:51:20,661 --> 00:51:23,163 The man that beat you, that... 980 00:51:24,832 --> 00:51:27,125 ... monster who beat you. 981 00:51:31,881 --> 00:51:34,674 What kind of man forgives that? 982 00:51:37,761 --> 00:51:38,761 I do. 983 00:51:42,183 --> 00:51:43,600 (SIGHS) 984 00:51:52,985 --> 00:51:54,611 (SIGHS) 985 00:51:58,616 --> 00:51:59,949 And you... 986 00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:02,535 (SIGHS) 987 00:52:04,413 --> 00:52:05,747 ... I'm sure you did everything you could 988 00:52:05,831 --> 00:52:07,499 to avoid those beatings, didn't you? 989 00:52:09,376 --> 00:52:11,920 First, you turned yourself into a pathetic clown, 990 00:52:12,004 --> 00:52:13,713 with the jokes and the magic tricks... 991 00:52:15,799 --> 00:52:19,219 Ways to deflect him, try and run and hide. 992 00:52:20,054 --> 00:52:21,221 I did what I had to do. 993 00:52:21,305 --> 00:52:23,973 Yeah, but once I left, you had nowhere left to run, 994 00:52:24,058 --> 00:52:27,143 you know, once the real object of his fury was gone 995 00:52:27,228 --> 00:52:28,770 and he needed a replacement. 996 00:52:28,854 --> 00:52:30,939 This is your story, right? Hmm? 997 00:52:31,023 --> 00:52:33,316 I forgive you, Bill. 998 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:34,734 That's what matters here. 999 00:52:34,818 --> 00:52:36,069 Yeah? 1000 00:52:36,153 --> 00:52:39,572 I bet once he threw the first punch, you begged for mercy. 1001 00:52:39,657 --> 00:52:42,909 What matters is that we understand what happened to us. 1002 00:52:42,993 --> 00:52:45,245 You know I never begged for him to stop. 1003 00:52:45,329 --> 00:52:48,081 I mean, you heard us. You were there. I never begged. 1004 00:52:48,165 --> 00:52:49,832 So... So why did you, huh? 1005 00:52:49,917 --> 00:52:51,334 Maybe the same reason you're a drunk... 1006 00:52:53,045 --> 00:52:55,797 A sloppy "alcoholic"... Sorry... 1007 00:52:55,881 --> 00:52:58,841 With your amends and your steps and your chips, 1008 00:52:58,926 --> 00:53:01,678 clinging to your little code words and your trinkets 1009 00:53:01,762 --> 00:53:05,557 because there is something inside you that is weak. 1010 00:53:05,641 --> 00:53:08,017 You know, you've always been weak, Frank... 1011 00:53:08,894 --> 00:53:11,187 Francis, you know? 1012 00:53:11,272 --> 00:53:14,440 Well, that's your real affliction, is cowardice. 1013 00:53:14,525 --> 00:53:17,151 You are a coward. 1014 00:53:17,236 --> 00:53:18,945 You want to forgive me? 1015 00:53:19,488 --> 00:53:24,284 Okay, forgive me for not respecting you. 1016 00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:26,869 You know, forgive me for seeing you 1017 00:53:26,954 --> 00:53:29,330 for what you really are... 1018 00:53:29,415 --> 00:53:31,624 A weak little boy... 1019 00:53:31,709 --> 00:53:36,504 ...who became an idiotic clown, 1020 00:53:36,589 --> 00:53:41,050 who grew up to become a gutless, pathetic man. 1021 00:53:41,135 --> 00:53:42,176 (GRUNTS) 1022 00:53:42,261 --> 00:53:44,929 (BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY) 1023 00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:46,639 What are you? A girl? 1024 00:53:46,724 --> 00:53:48,600 (GRUNTS) Huh? 1025 00:53:48,684 --> 00:53:49,851 (GRUNTS) 1026 00:53:49,935 --> 00:53:51,811 Fuck you, Frank, you weak fuck! 1027 00:53:54,315 --> 00:53:56,357 (CHUCKLES) 1028 00:53:58,152 --> 00:53:59,402 You been drinking, Frank? 1029 00:53:59,486 --> 00:54:01,154 (BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY) 1030 00:54:01,572 --> 00:54:03,156 Huh? 1031 00:54:03,741 --> 00:54:05,199 See, this... 1032 00:54:05,284 --> 00:54:06,909 ...this is what binds us. 1033 00:54:06,994 --> 00:54:11,581 Him, living on in us, 1034 00:54:11,665 --> 00:54:13,291 not a bottle in sight. 1035 00:54:20,591 --> 00:54:22,091 (SIGHS) 1036 00:54:25,346 --> 00:54:28,181 (DOOR OPENS, CLOSES) 1037 00:54:29,308 --> 00:54:32,644 Bill, I was thinking, it's already so late. 1038 00:54:32,728 --> 00:54:37,065 Why don't we just go downstairs and have some dinner tonight, 1039 00:54:37,149 --> 00:54:38,983 or maybe even just some drinks. 1040 00:54:43,364 --> 00:54:44,989 Oh. 1041 00:54:47,910 --> 00:54:49,285 My brother. 1042 00:54:51,246 --> 00:54:52,455 (SIGHS) 1043 00:55:08,347 --> 00:55:09,722 (WATER RUNS) 1044 00:55:22,361 --> 00:55:24,779 Don't. Don't. 1045 00:55:24,863 --> 00:55:27,573 You don't... You don't have to stay. 1046 00:55:27,658 --> 00:55:31,828 I just, uh, I just couldn't go home... 1047 00:55:33,247 --> 00:55:35,248 ...face Libby like this. 1048 00:55:38,127 --> 00:55:39,335 (SIGHS) 1049 00:56:18,083 --> 00:56:19,625 I abandoned him... 1050 00:56:21,795 --> 00:56:25,131 ...to that monster. 1051 00:56:30,471 --> 00:56:32,722 And then I punished him for it. 1052 00:56:39,146 --> 00:56:41,314 What is wrong with me? 1053 00:56:52,117 --> 00:56:53,451 I give up. 1054 00:56:56,038 --> 00:56:59,916 (BREATHING SHAKILY) 1055 00:57:28,904 --> 00:57:31,531 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 1056 00:57:47,881 --> 00:57:50,216 (ZIPPER UNZIPS) 1057 00:57:53,929 --> 00:57:55,847 (BOTH MOANING, BREATHING SHAKILY)