1 00:00:01,747 --> 00:00:04,018 (insects chirring) 2 00:00:08,561 --> 00:00:11,032 (vehicle approaching, music playing) 3 00:00:13,838 --> 00:00:18,747 ♪♪ Drivin' circles around this town ♪♪ 4 00:00:20,685 --> 00:00:23,758 ♪♪ So many times I thought about leavin' ♪♪ 5 00:00:23,825 --> 00:00:27,599 ♪♪ Got my ass kicked tryin' to com... ♪♪ 6 00:00:29,670 --> 00:00:31,740 (metallic creak) 7 00:00:39,155 --> 00:00:42,863 Good luck not eating this. 8 00:00:42,929 --> 00:00:44,733 Pork buns 9 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,304 from Qian's. 10 00:00:49,810 --> 00:00:51,212 (sighs) 11 00:00:51,279 --> 00:00:53,550 (Alan sighs) 12 00:00:56,757 --> 00:00:59,395 What, are you giving me the silent treatment? 13 00:01:02,468 --> 00:01:05,908 Doesn't seem very sophisticated for a therapist. 14 00:01:05,975 --> 00:01:09,181 I'm not your therapist anymore. I'm your prisoner. 15 00:01:09,248 --> 00:01:12,689 I understand why you would think that, but... 16 00:01:14,258 --> 00:01:16,830 ...you have to... 17 00:01:32,428 --> 00:01:34,799 Don't worry. It's not a head or anything. 18 00:01:34,866 --> 00:01:37,371 Oh, that's a relief. 19 00:01:39,877 --> 00:01:42,148 You ever heard of the John Doe Killer? 20 00:01:42,215 --> 00:01:43,751 I think so. 21 00:01:43,818 --> 00:01:45,855 The whole idea was to make it look like robberies. 22 00:01:45,922 --> 00:01:48,761 So the police didn't get one of those task forces going. 23 00:01:48,828 --> 00:01:51,934 So, you know, I took... I took all this. 24 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,405 And... 25 00:01:54,472 --> 00:01:57,277 next think I know, they're calling me the John Doe Killer 26 00:01:57,344 --> 00:01:58,615 'cause sometimes it took 'em a few days 27 00:01:58,681 --> 00:02:00,317 to figure out who these people were 28 00:02:00,383 --> 00:02:01,787 without their IDs and stuff. 29 00:02:01,853 --> 00:02:05,126 And... now I'm kind of stuck with it. 30 00:02:05,193 --> 00:02:06,429 You believe me now? 31 00:02:06,497 --> 00:02:08,501 You don't think I believed you? 32 00:02:08,568 --> 00:02:10,705 I get why it's easier for you to think 33 00:02:10,771 --> 00:02:13,177 that maybe I'm not telling the truth. 34 00:02:13,243 --> 00:02:16,482 I believed you. 35 00:02:25,902 --> 00:02:26,937 Would you like a watch? 36 00:02:27,004 --> 00:02:28,273 No, thanks. 37 00:02:28,339 --> 00:02:30,277 Keep track of time for yourself. 38 00:02:30,344 --> 00:02:32,014 I mean, they still work. 39 00:02:32,081 --> 00:02:34,351 Most of 'em. 40 00:02:39,796 --> 00:02:41,867 ♪♪ ♪♪ 41 00:02:51,653 --> 00:02:54,258 ♪♪ ♪♪ 42 00:03:08,854 --> 00:03:11,961 BETH: It's hard at first for everyone, 43 00:03:12,027 --> 00:03:14,198 but especially someone like you. 44 00:03:14,967 --> 00:03:16,236 Someone like me? 45 00:03:16,303 --> 00:03:17,906 So in your head. 46 00:03:17,972 --> 00:03:22,381 That's where everything takes place, including meditation. 47 00:03:22,448 --> 00:03:25,253 Like I said, it's hard for someone like you. 48 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:26,823 (mutters mockingly) 49 00:03:27,926 --> 00:03:30,430 (laughs) 50 00:03:32,268 --> 00:03:34,506 (door opens) 51 00:03:50,905 --> 00:03:53,276 I'll be home by 5:00. 52 00:03:57,251 --> 00:03:59,956 (metallic creak) 53 00:04:01,493 --> 00:04:03,430 (chains dragging on floor) 54 00:04:03,497 --> 00:04:05,935 (truck engine starts) 55 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,737 (sighs) 56 00:04:42,474 --> 00:04:44,813 (groans softly) 57 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:46,415 (soft clicking) 58 00:04:46,482 --> 00:04:48,654 (softly): Oh, come on. 59 00:04:52,027 --> 00:04:53,730 (grunts) 60 00:04:56,168 --> 00:04:58,240 (rattling) 61 00:04:58,306 --> 00:05:00,911 Shit. 62 00:05:02,982 --> 00:05:04,519 (groans) 63 00:05:04,586 --> 00:05:07,626 -(grunts) -(rattling) 64 00:05:07,692 --> 00:05:09,294 Oh, fuck. 65 00:05:09,361 --> 00:05:11,031 (groans) 66 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,379 (grunting) 67 00:05:27,130 --> 00:05:28,667 (groans) 68 00:05:29,903 --> 00:05:31,807 (sighs) 69 00:05:31,874 --> 00:05:33,878 Ah. 70 00:05:33,944 --> 00:05:35,882 Okay. 71 00:05:35,948 --> 00:05:38,019 (panting) 72 00:05:55,253 --> 00:05:57,825 (rattling upstairs) 73 00:06:00,196 --> 00:06:04,004 (scraping and thudding upstairs) 74 00:06:22,742 --> 00:06:24,579 Thai food tonight. 75 00:06:26,717 --> 00:06:28,687 I got us Kaeng tai pla. 76 00:06:28,754 --> 00:06:32,662 This place makes their own sauce using fermented fish entrails, 77 00:06:32,729 --> 00:06:35,768 which I know sounds gross, but it gives it a lot of flavor. 78 00:06:35,835 --> 00:06:38,941 And then, Khanom moa gang. They use 79 00:06:39,007 --> 00:06:41,378 taro and duck eggs. That's dessert. 80 00:06:41,445 --> 00:06:43,817 You usually can't find it this way. 81 00:06:44,953 --> 00:06:46,690 (grunting) 82 00:07:10,003 --> 00:07:13,442 I don't think you can open that with a plastic fork. 83 00:07:25,535 --> 00:07:28,372 After I do it, 84 00:07:28,439 --> 00:07:31,746 I'm... just... 85 00:07:32,515 --> 00:07:34,586 I bet most people couldn't... 86 00:07:34,652 --> 00:07:37,223 feel like that. 87 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:39,529 It's not a normal feeling. 88 00:07:40,330 --> 00:07:44,171 It's more like... dead. 89 00:07:44,237 --> 00:07:46,676 I need to get better. 90 00:07:46,743 --> 00:07:49,315 Isn't that what you... enjoy doing? 91 00:07:49,381 --> 00:07:54,024 Isn't healing people? 92 00:07:55,928 --> 00:07:59,034 I brought you here so we could work together. 93 00:08:00,805 --> 00:08:04,311 I know you hate it, but... 94 00:08:04,378 --> 00:08:08,252 if you're not going to be a part of the process, 95 00:08:08,319 --> 00:08:10,758 where is that gonna leave us? 96 00:08:19,141 --> 00:08:21,211 ♪♪ ♪♪ 97 00:08:28,561 --> 00:08:30,764 (chains jingling) 98 00:08:36,475 --> 00:08:39,047 (chains jingling) 99 00:09:01,092 --> 00:09:05,299 Successful therapy requires a safe environment. 100 00:09:05,366 --> 00:09:09,441 The patient and the therapist have to be able 101 00:09:09,509 --> 00:09:13,750 to dig into... complicated emotional territory 102 00:09:13,817 --> 00:09:18,594 without anything like fear 103 00:09:18,660 --> 00:09:21,733 hanging over every session. 104 00:09:24,606 --> 00:09:27,277 I don't know what to do about that. 105 00:09:31,686 --> 00:09:33,524 At least I want you... 106 00:09:33,591 --> 00:09:38,299 to make me a promise that while we are in therapy together, 107 00:09:38,366 --> 00:09:43,343 that you will not commit any acts of physical violence 108 00:09:43,409 --> 00:09:46,783 against me or anyone else 109 00:09:46,849 --> 00:09:49,188 unless you talk to me first. 110 00:09:49,255 --> 00:09:52,595 You mean you want me to talk to you before I...? 111 00:09:52,662 --> 00:09:54,197 Yes. 112 00:09:54,264 --> 00:09:56,670 -So you can talk me out of it? -So I can 113 00:09:56,737 --> 00:09:59,676 try to help you... 114 00:09:59,743 --> 00:10:01,680 get out of it. 115 00:10:01,747 --> 00:10:05,487 So together, we can try to understand 116 00:10:05,555 --> 00:10:09,829 where this terrible need is coming from, and to address it. 117 00:10:10,998 --> 00:10:13,637 You have no idea what it's like. 118 00:10:13,703 --> 00:10:16,308 -I understand. -These fucking people... 119 00:10:16,375 --> 00:10:20,216 I work with a lot of people with very serious, 120 00:10:20,283 --> 00:10:23,356 almost impossible-to-resist compulsions. 121 00:10:23,422 --> 00:10:28,065 Making this kind of commitment is key to the process. 122 00:10:30,437 --> 00:10:34,044 -I don't think it's the same. -I'm not saying it's the same. 123 00:10:40,357 --> 00:10:42,427 I'll do my best. 124 00:11:03,804 --> 00:11:05,440 (sighs) 125 00:11:05,507 --> 00:11:07,778 (clattering upstairs) 126 00:11:09,515 --> 00:11:12,453 (soft clattering continues) 127 00:11:17,631 --> 00:11:20,904 (birds singing) 128 00:11:22,875 --> 00:11:25,146 (sighs) 129 00:11:27,685 --> 00:11:30,725 (inhales, exhales) 130 00:11:30,791 --> 00:11:33,563 And actually, it was my wife's idea. 131 00:11:33,630 --> 00:11:36,402 Uh, she's known Chava's mother her whole life. 132 00:11:36,468 --> 00:11:41,078 So, if we have anyone to thank, it's the rebbetzin. 133 00:11:41,145 --> 00:11:43,015 Chava can keep up with your son 134 00:11:43,082 --> 00:11:46,288 in-in both the intellectual area and with humor. 135 00:11:46,355 --> 00:11:48,459 Oh. 136 00:11:49,461 --> 00:11:50,765 I'm so sorry. 137 00:11:50,831 --> 00:11:52,535 I should have brought a real knife. 138 00:11:52,602 --> 00:11:53,536 -Oh, no, no. -No. 139 00:11:53,603 --> 00:11:54,939 It's fine. 140 00:12:00,249 --> 00:12:02,788 (exhales) 141 00:12:10,002 --> 00:12:12,173 -I was going to eat that. -This isn't funny. 142 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,915 ALAN: I'm upset, too, but we need to let him be. 143 00:12:15,981 --> 00:12:17,451 Oh, please don't tell me you don't hate this 144 00:12:17,518 --> 00:12:18,787 just as much as I do. 145 00:12:18,853 --> 00:12:20,390 He's rebelling, Beth. 146 00:12:20,457 --> 00:12:22,160 Everyone does it. 147 00:12:23,128 --> 00:12:24,899 (exhales) 148 00:12:29,576 --> 00:12:32,447 (chains jingling) 149 00:12:32,515 --> 00:12:34,417 (sighs) 150 00:12:40,329 --> 00:12:43,303 So, should I tell you more about my life? 151 00:12:43,369 --> 00:12:45,172 Sure. 152 00:12:48,514 --> 00:12:50,851 (sighs) 153 00:12:50,918 --> 00:12:52,286 There's this guy, 154 00:12:52,353 --> 00:12:55,561 uh, and I can't stop thinking about him. 155 00:12:55,628 --> 00:12:58,633 I wish you knew what this feels like. Uh... 156 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:00,905 I did an inspection a while ago 157 00:13:00,971 --> 00:13:04,646 at a... a Greek restaurant in Garten. 158 00:13:04,712 --> 00:13:07,417 Greek, but a-a modern take. 159 00:13:07,483 --> 00:13:11,025 They do these moussaka-filled gyozas 160 00:13:11,091 --> 00:13:14,364 that just... dissolve in your mouth. 161 00:13:14,431 --> 00:13:16,235 I actually used to go there with my wife, 162 00:13:16,301 --> 00:13:17,939 even before I inspected it. 163 00:13:18,005 --> 00:13:20,110 You're married? 164 00:13:20,176 --> 00:13:22,214 I was. 165 00:13:23,316 --> 00:13:26,055 That was one of those things I didn't, uh, tell you 166 00:13:26,121 --> 00:13:27,591 'cause I couldn't be fully truthful. 167 00:13:27,658 --> 00:13:31,699 Anyway, uh, there were items in the prep cooler 168 00:13:31,766 --> 00:13:33,269 that weren't dated, 169 00:13:33,335 --> 00:13:36,108 and the refrigerator door seal needed to be replaced. 170 00:13:36,175 --> 00:13:38,547 And these aren't uncommon things, 171 00:13:38,614 --> 00:13:40,049 but they need to be addressed, 172 00:13:40,116 --> 00:13:42,788 and they affect a restaurant's rating. 173 00:13:42,855 --> 00:13:45,661 I explained it all to the guy who runs the place, 174 00:13:45,728 --> 00:13:48,332 the owners' son, and... 175 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:51,706 he didn't think it was a big deal. 176 00:13:51,773 --> 00:13:53,911 I told him it was. 177 00:13:53,977 --> 00:13:56,783 He said I should come back in a week, 178 00:13:56,850 --> 00:13:58,520 and everything would be fixed. 179 00:13:58,587 --> 00:14:00,724 I said the current wait time for reinspection 180 00:14:00,791 --> 00:14:03,128 in Lincoln County is seven months. 181 00:14:04,933 --> 00:14:07,370 He thought I was trying to get a bribe. 182 00:14:08,172 --> 00:14:10,944 And he starts talking to me 183 00:14:11,011 --> 00:14:13,282 in this funny way, like... 184 00:14:15,019 --> 00:14:17,592 ...he knows how things really work, 185 00:14:17,659 --> 00:14:19,863 and I don't, 186 00:14:19,929 --> 00:14:22,434 and I'm just some piece of shit. 187 00:14:23,336 --> 00:14:25,974 And when people talk to me like that... 188 00:14:33,022 --> 00:14:35,093 Anyway, I just left, 189 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,165 which is what I do in those situations. 190 00:14:40,403 --> 00:14:42,542 Then a couple weeks later, my supervisor, 191 00:14:42,608 --> 00:14:46,516 Kyle, tells me to go back right away 192 00:14:46,583 --> 00:14:49,454 and redo the inspection, no reason given. 193 00:14:49,521 --> 00:14:51,893 And when I went there, everything is fixed, 194 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,197 and the guy barely looks at me. 195 00:14:55,332 --> 00:14:57,103 Smug. 196 00:15:01,947 --> 00:15:03,282 When was this? 197 00:15:03,349 --> 00:15:05,755 (smacks lips) I don't know. 198 00:15:05,821 --> 00:15:08,459 About four months ago. 199 00:15:08,527 --> 00:15:10,931 And I haven't stopped... 200 00:15:10,998 --> 00:15:13,435 thinking about him. 201 00:15:16,208 --> 00:15:18,546 Every single day. 202 00:15:21,118 --> 00:15:23,388 I'm trying not to... 203 00:15:25,995 --> 00:15:29,167 I-I usually can't stop, but... 204 00:15:34,579 --> 00:15:36,682 I don't know if other people have this. 205 00:15:36,749 --> 00:15:38,285 Do other people have this? 206 00:15:38,352 --> 00:15:41,993 People get obsessed with interactions they've had, yes. 207 00:15:44,699 --> 00:15:47,170 I-I went back to the restaurant... 208 00:15:48,940 --> 00:15:51,812 ...the same night, and I parked across the street, 209 00:15:51,879 --> 00:15:54,250 and I waited until they closed. 210 00:16:01,933 --> 00:16:05,574 I've never done anything that they could trace back to me, 211 00:16:05,641 --> 00:16:08,145 but that night, I... I was like... 212 00:16:16,729 --> 00:16:19,000 I didn't do it. 213 00:16:23,142 --> 00:16:25,412 How do you think you managed that? 214 00:16:27,283 --> 00:16:28,854 I don't know. 215 00:16:28,921 --> 00:16:31,425 I didn't want to get caught. I guess that helped. 216 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,333 And you said this was about four months ago? 217 00:16:35,399 --> 00:16:37,304 Yeah. 218 00:16:37,370 --> 00:16:39,608 Just before you came to talk to me. 219 00:16:39,675 --> 00:16:43,550 And you thought I could help you not hurt him. 220 00:16:47,959 --> 00:16:49,562 Mm-hmm. 221 00:16:51,967 --> 00:16:55,574 I need a pen and paper for notes. 222 00:16:59,481 --> 00:17:01,051 I really thought through all the things 223 00:17:01,118 --> 00:17:02,387 that you were going to need here. 224 00:17:02,454 --> 00:17:04,892 I'm going to need a pen and paper. 225 00:17:04,959 --> 00:17:09,501 I'm not going to attack you with a piece of paper. (laughs) 226 00:17:09,568 --> 00:17:13,610 And you can find a pen that doesn't worry you. 227 00:17:16,114 --> 00:17:18,385 The restaurant guy. 228 00:17:19,956 --> 00:17:22,561 The more time that passes, 229 00:17:22,628 --> 00:17:26,770 the less anyone would connect me with that place. 230 00:17:27,538 --> 00:17:30,911 I think it's important to note that you did not hurt him. 231 00:17:30,978 --> 00:17:33,248 But I want to. 232 00:17:34,017 --> 00:17:36,421 I want to right now. 233 00:17:37,825 --> 00:17:40,196 You asked me to talk to you first. 234 00:17:40,263 --> 00:17:43,101 I am talking to you. 235 00:17:46,441 --> 00:17:48,780 It's not really helping. 236 00:17:53,523 --> 00:17:57,296 You've been holding this in for four months, Sam. 237 00:17:57,363 --> 00:17:59,635 I get why it's hard. 238 00:18:11,225 --> 00:18:13,162 (inhales sharply) 239 00:18:13,228 --> 00:18:15,166 (exhales) 240 00:18:15,233 --> 00:18:17,504 (muffled urinating) 241 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,791 (urinating continues) 242 00:18:35,239 --> 00:18:37,243 (urinating stops) 243 00:18:37,310 --> 00:18:39,615 (urinating resumes) 244 00:18:41,385 --> 00:18:43,690 (quietly): Jesus. 245 00:18:48,065 --> 00:18:50,469 (birds singing) 246 00:18:54,211 --> 00:18:55,847 (door opens) 247 00:18:57,885 --> 00:18:59,722 I'm late for work. 248 00:18:59,789 --> 00:19:02,326 Let's have a session after dinner. 249 00:19:07,237 --> 00:19:10,310 (metallic creak) 250 00:19:10,376 --> 00:19:12,714 (truck engine starts) 251 00:19:17,257 --> 00:19:20,597 (truck departing) 252 00:19:24,237 --> 00:19:26,709 (sighs) 253 00:19:27,978 --> 00:19:29,848 (thudding upstairs) 254 00:19:29,915 --> 00:19:34,691 (footsteps, floorboards creaking) 255 00:19:39,835 --> 00:19:41,806 (loudly): Hello? 256 00:19:45,713 --> 00:19:47,784 Hello? 257 00:19:53,028 --> 00:19:55,299 (chains jingling) 258 00:20:00,744 --> 00:20:03,516 (loudly): Can you hear me up there? 259 00:20:04,284 --> 00:20:06,387 I can hear you! 260 00:20:10,396 --> 00:20:12,534 Are you okay? 261 00:20:16,008 --> 00:20:17,711 Can you talk? 262 00:20:20,316 --> 00:20:23,790 (doors opening) 263 00:20:26,629 --> 00:20:28,900 (footsteps approaching) 264 00:20:30,402 --> 00:20:32,674 (sniffles) 265 00:20:35,881 --> 00:20:37,984 (chains jingling) 266 00:20:42,326 --> 00:20:44,665 Hello. 267 00:22:26,969 --> 00:22:29,407 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH