1 00:00:26,235 --> 00:00:27,817 (LAUGHING) Tag, you're it. You're it. 2 00:00:27,903 --> 00:00:29,940 No, I tagged you last. 3 00:00:30,030 --> 00:00:32,067 Uh-uh. Yes. Want to go fishing? 4 00:00:32,157 --> 00:00:33,613 There's no fish in there. They're frozen. 5 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:35,065 No, they don't freeze. 6 00:00:35,202 --> 00:00:37,364 What do they do, just die? No. 7 00:00:37,454 --> 00:00:38,694 Hey, look at this car! 8 00:00:38,789 --> 00:00:40,245 (ALL EXCLAIMING IN AWE) 9 00:00:40,707 --> 00:00:42,744 Beauty. Isn't that neat? It's gotta be a Ford. 10 00:00:42,834 --> 00:00:44,199 No, it's not a Ford. 11 00:00:44,336 --> 00:00:45,701 Yeah, it is. Then what is it? 12 00:00:45,796 --> 00:00:48,629 I don't know, but it's not a Ford- I've been in one. 13 00:00:53,011 --> 00:00:55,298 (TALKING INDISTINCTLY) 14 00:01:06,149 --> 00:01:08,140 Hey, Leonard, what are you doing? 15 00:01:09,111 --> 00:01:11,193 What's it look like? 16 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:12,941 Somebody might be coming. 17 00:01:13,073 --> 00:01:14,734 Keep a lookout, James. 18 00:01:17,244 --> 00:01:18,655 No one's coming. 19 00:01:18,787 --> 00:01:20,152 My turn's next. 20 00:01:26,670 --> 00:01:28,581 JAMES: What's wrong, Leonard? 21 00:01:57,868 --> 00:01:59,825 WOMAN: Leonard, honey. 22 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:01,201 What? 23 00:02:01,371 --> 00:02:02,452 You better get dressed. 24 00:02:02,539 --> 00:02:04,997 Your breakfast is just about ready. 25 00:02:07,878 --> 00:02:09,744 Hey. Come on. We're gonna be late. 26 00:02:09,838 --> 00:02:11,829 Hi, Oliver. James. 27 00:02:13,175 --> 00:02:14,882 (CHATTING) 28 00:02:30,609 --> 00:02:33,101 TEACHER: We're going to begin today with a history test. 29 00:02:33,195 --> 00:02:35,527 Keep your eyes on your own papers, 30 00:02:35,614 --> 00:02:36,945 and then, at the recess bell, 31 00:02:37,032 --> 00:02:39,239 bring your composition books up to my desk. 32 00:03:33,463 --> 00:03:35,079 So what are we gonna do this afternoon? 33 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:36,876 I don't know. 34 00:03:37,175 --> 00:03:39,212 (DOORBELL RINGS) 35 00:03:40,554 --> 00:03:41,885 MRS LOWE: Hello, boys. 36 00:03:41,972 --> 00:03:43,133 BOY: Hi, Mrs Lowe. 37 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:45,260 Can Leonard come out and play today? 38 00:03:45,392 --> 00:03:47,383 No, I'm sorry. Better not today. 39 00:03:47,477 --> 00:03:49,388 Well, how about tomorrow? 40 00:03:49,479 --> 00:03:51,720 I'm afraid he won't be well by then either. 41 00:03:51,815 --> 00:03:53,556 When will he be well? 42 00:03:53,692 --> 00:03:55,478 I don't know. 43 00:04:01,158 --> 00:04:03,069 Thanks for coming by. 44 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,151 (DOOR CLOSING) 45 00:05:17,108 --> 00:05:20,146 WOMAN: Good morning. Bainbridge Hospital. May I help you? 46 00:05:20,237 --> 00:05:22,194 One moment, please. 47 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:23,395 Excuse me. 48 00:05:23,532 --> 00:05:24,647 You gotta ask her. 49 00:05:24,741 --> 00:05:26,903 Good morning. Bainbridge Hospital. May I help you? 50 00:05:26,993 --> 00:05:27,983 Thank you. 51 00:05:28,078 --> 00:05:30,365 Dr Horowitz, can you hold the line a minute? 52 00:05:30,455 --> 00:05:32,196 Bainbridge Hospital. Can I help you? 53 00:05:32,290 --> 00:05:35,328 Yes, Dr Franklin and Dr Tyler are both in a board meeting. 54 00:05:35,418 --> 00:05:38,001 Can I take a message, or would you like to... Bye. 55 00:05:38,088 --> 00:05:39,419 Yes? 56 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:44,084 Yes, I'm Dr Malcolm Sayer. I have an appointment. 57 00:05:44,177 --> 00:05:45,759 Take a seat, please. 58 00:05:45,846 --> 00:05:49,555 Bainbridge Hospital. May I help you? Thank you. 59 00:05:49,641 --> 00:05:52,599 Bainbridge Hospital. May I help you? 60 00:05:52,686 --> 00:05:54,222 I can connect you to the cafeteria, 61 00:05:54,312 --> 00:05:55,848 but then they will have to page him. 62 00:05:55,939 --> 00:05:57,270 All right. Well, just. . . Thank you. 63 00:05:57,357 --> 00:05:59,644 Bainbridge Hospital. May I help you? 64 00:05:59,734 --> 00:06:02,567 Well, Dr Franklin and Dr Tyler are both in the boardroom. 65 00:06:02,654 --> 00:06:05,817 I can take messages, or you can call back in about 45 minutes. 66 00:06:07,409 --> 00:06:11,118 When you say people, you mean living people? 67 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:12,410 Mmm-hmm. 68 00:06:13,665 --> 00:06:18,751 Well, I'm here to apply for a research position in your neurology lab. 69 00:06:18,837 --> 00:06:20,453 Neurology lab? 70 00:06:20,964 --> 00:06:22,580 We have an X-ray room. 71 00:06:22,674 --> 00:06:27,510 This is a chronic hospital, Doctor. The position is for staff neurologist. 72 00:06:27,596 --> 00:06:30,304 You will be working with patients, people, yes. 73 00:06:30,390 --> 00:06:32,051 A doctor doctor. 74 00:06:32,142 --> 00:06:33,724 Doctor. 75 00:06:33,810 --> 00:06:37,269 The Carmel Institute. Tell me about that. Anything with patients there? 76 00:06:37,355 --> 00:06:38,561 Earthworms. 77 00:06:38,648 --> 00:06:39,809 I'm sorry? (CLEARS THROAT) 78 00:06:39,900 --> 00:06:41,686 It was an immense project. 79 00:06:41,776 --> 00:06:45,986 I was to extract one decigram of myelin from 4 tons of earthworms. 80 00:06:46,323 --> 00:06:47,313 Really? 81 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:50,149 Yes. I was on that project for five years. 82 00:06:50,827 --> 00:06:52,443 I was the only one who believed in it. 83 00:06:52,537 --> 00:06:54,244 Everyone else said it couldn't be done. 84 00:06:54,998 --> 00:06:56,033 It can't. 85 00:06:56,166 --> 00:06:57,827 I know that now. I proved it. 86 00:06:59,502 --> 00:07:02,335 Maybe before at Saint Thomas... 87 00:07:03,506 --> 00:07:04,587 All research? 88 00:07:04,716 --> 00:07:05,797 Yes. 89 00:07:06,176 --> 00:07:07,257 This isn't even going to work at all. 90 00:07:07,344 --> 00:07:08,584 Ben, we're totally understaffed... 91 00:07:08,678 --> 00:07:09,588 ...and we really need someone. 92 00:07:09,679 --> 00:07:11,090 He's never worked with human beings. 93 00:07:11,181 --> 00:07:14,264 His research talents would be wasted here, sir. 94 00:07:14,976 --> 00:07:16,808 Excuse me, but... 95 00:07:17,604 --> 00:07:19,720 I think you're clearly looking for someone 96 00:07:19,814 --> 00:07:21,851 with more of a clinical background. 97 00:07:21,942 --> 00:07:24,229 As much as I need a job, 98 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:27,107 there must be 100 more applicants suitable for this position. 99 00:07:27,197 --> 00:07:28,403 Thank you anyway. 100 00:07:28,490 --> 00:07:31,107 Dr Sayer, back in medical school... 101 00:07:31,201 --> 00:07:32,783 You couldn't have graduated medical school 102 00:07:32,869 --> 00:07:34,655 without some clinical experience. 103 00:07:34,746 --> 00:07:38,034 You took a pulse, you took a temperature, did diagnosis. 104 00:07:39,834 --> 00:07:41,575 There you have it then. 105 00:07:43,213 --> 00:07:45,204 You do want the job, don't you? 106 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:52,260 Hey, it's this way, Doc. 107 00:07:53,098 --> 00:07:55,214 You spend much time at chronic hospitals? 108 00:07:56,977 --> 00:07:58,263 You'd remember. 109 00:07:58,395 --> 00:07:59,726 Guess not then. 110 00:08:01,982 --> 00:08:03,143 Hi. 111 00:08:03,274 --> 00:08:04,480 ANTHONY: Hey, Christina. 112 00:08:04,567 --> 00:08:09,061 You see, Doc, we got MS, Tourette's syndrome, Parkinson's disease. 113 00:08:09,155 --> 00:08:12,022 Some of 'em we ain't even got a name for. 114 00:08:13,743 --> 00:08:14,983 How are you? 115 00:08:15,078 --> 00:08:17,490 SAYER: Excuse me, but what are all these people waiting for? 116 00:08:17,622 --> 00:08:19,613 ANTHONY: Nothing. But how are they supposed to get well? 117 00:08:19,708 --> 00:08:21,073 They're not. They're chronic. 118 00:08:21,167 --> 00:08:22,657 We call this place the Garden. 119 00:08:22,752 --> 00:08:25,119 Why? 'Cause allwe do is feed and water them. 120 00:08:26,089 --> 00:08:27,375 Thanks, man. 121 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:32,171 Mr Kean, I would like to ask you... 122 00:08:32,262 --> 00:08:35,095 I was born in 1911 in Kingsbridge, New York! 123 00:08:35,181 --> 00:08:37,513 I came here in July, 1955! 124 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,762 Prior to July, 1955, 125 00:08:39,894 --> 00:08:43,478 I resided at the Brooklyn Psychiatric Centre, Brooklyn, New York! 126 00:08:43,565 --> 00:08:45,772 Prior to that, I was a person! 127 00:08:47,277 --> 00:08:50,144 (WOMAN SCREAMING) 128 00:09:24,022 --> 00:09:25,638 Gets easier. 129 00:09:26,357 --> 00:09:28,815 You don't think it will, but it does. 130 00:09:32,197 --> 00:09:33,653 (DOOR CLOSES) 131 00:10:05,438 --> 00:10:08,726 (BARKING) No, Buttercup. Good. 132 00:10:08,817 --> 00:10:10,774 No, go to your house. Go. 133 00:10:10,860 --> 00:10:12,021 (GROWLS) 134 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:13,810 Go home! 135 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:15,604 Good. 136 00:10:15,740 --> 00:10:19,108 (BARKING) 137 00:10:22,122 --> 00:10:23,112 (WHIMPERING) 138 00:11:06,332 --> 00:11:08,414 Morning, Doctor. 139 00:11:08,668 --> 00:11:10,784 I have a new arrival for you. 140 00:11:12,172 --> 00:11:15,460 She was brought in late last night. Here's her file. 141 00:11:25,852 --> 00:11:27,263 (DOOR CLOSES) 142 00:11:27,437 --> 00:11:30,099 Hello. I'm Dr Sayer. 143 00:11:33,568 --> 00:11:35,684 Do you know where you are? 144 00:11:39,407 --> 00:11:41,444 Can you hear me? 145 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:23,315 Diagnosis. 146 00:12:35,964 --> 00:12:37,875 Medical insurance. 147 00:12:40,301 --> 00:12:41,837 Oh, God. 148 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:08,169 SAYER:Her name is Lucy Fishman. 149 00:14:08,264 --> 00:14:10,471 She was found by neighbours with her sister 150 00:14:10,558 --> 00:14:12,390 several days after her sister died. 151 00:14:12,477 --> 00:14:14,639 She has no other living relatives, 152 00:14:14,729 --> 00:14:17,642 and they say she has always been as she is now 153 00:14:17,732 --> 00:14:20,099 with no response or comprehension. 154 00:14:20,193 --> 00:14:21,649 And yet... 155 00:14:24,447 --> 00:14:25,937 A reflex. 156 00:14:27,116 --> 00:14:30,029 If she batted it away, I might call it a reflex. 157 00:14:30,119 --> 00:14:31,985 But she didn't. As you can see, she caught it. 158 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:33,946 It's still a reflex, Doctor. 159 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,202 I'm sorry. If you were right, I would agree with you. 160 00:14:36,292 --> 00:14:39,626 It's as if having lost all will of her own in which to act, 161 00:14:39,712 --> 00:14:41,794 she borrows the will of the ball. 162 00:14:41,881 --> 00:14:43,872 DOCTOR: The will of the ball? 163 00:14:43,966 --> 00:14:45,331 Excuse me. 164 00:14:46,928 --> 00:14:48,464 This is ridiculous. 165 00:14:50,973 --> 00:14:53,180 You're trying to make a good impression, right, Doctor? 166 00:14:53,267 --> 00:14:55,258 You're trying to make a good impression. That's it, isn't it? 167 00:14:55,353 --> 00:14:57,640 You're still settling in. 168 00:14:57,730 --> 00:14:59,312 Miss Costello, will you see to it 169 00:14:59,399 --> 00:15:01,390 that Dr Sayer's patients that are waiting outside 170 00:15:01,484 --> 00:15:02,849 are rescheduled for tomorrow? 171 00:15:02,944 --> 00:15:04,309 Yes, sir. 172 00:15:05,530 --> 00:15:07,066 Borrows the will of the ball. 173 00:15:09,325 --> 00:15:10,486 That's great. 174 00:15:12,161 --> 00:15:13,822 Okay. Thanks. Thank you. 175 00:15:14,539 --> 00:15:15,574 Welcome. 176 00:15:15,665 --> 00:15:18,532 Let us know if she catches anything else. 177 00:15:43,109 --> 00:15:46,773 I'll be fired. It's all right. I'll go back to school. 178 00:15:49,365 --> 00:15:51,197 I forget something? No. 179 00:15:51,284 --> 00:15:55,198 I just wanted to say to you I preferred your explanation, 180 00:15:55,413 --> 00:15:59,873 and that I'll look after things for you until you've settled in. 181 00:16:02,211 --> 00:16:03,747 Good night, Doctor. 182 00:16:04,172 --> 00:16:05,537 Thank you. 183 00:16:07,049 --> 00:16:08,960 Thank you very much. 184 00:16:32,408 --> 00:16:33,773 Hello. Hi. 185 00:16:33,868 --> 00:16:35,825 I'm Dr Sayer. I'm Waheedah. 186 00:16:35,912 --> 00:16:37,198 Waheedah. How are you today? 187 00:16:37,288 --> 00:16:38,449 I'm fine, thank you. 188 00:16:38,539 --> 00:16:40,530 (SCREAMING) 189 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:46,085 Yes. Oh, uh... 190 00:16:46,422 --> 00:16:48,754 Sorry. What form? 191 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:51,758 Yes, I'll hold. Mmm-hmm. 192 00:16:57,225 --> 00:16:59,432 SAYER: Oh, uh... 193 00:17:00,311 --> 00:17:02,723 Three, four, one, two... 194 00:17:02,897 --> 00:17:04,479 Oh, thank you. 195 00:17:05,441 --> 00:17:06,931 Bye. 196 00:17:15,952 --> 00:17:17,442 Hello. 197 00:17:35,221 --> 00:17:37,428 (TV PLAYING) 198 00:17:37,515 --> 00:17:40,803 Yippie! We made it, Orville. We're in orbit. 199 00:17:40,893 --> 00:17:44,011 Goody. Now we can try being weightless. 200 00:17:44,105 --> 00:17:45,812 (LAUGHING ON TV) 201 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:49,732 Let's celebrate with delicious Nestlé's Quik. 202 00:17:49,819 --> 00:17:52,436 Nothing makes chocolaty milk like Quik, you know? 203 00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:55,443 That great Nestlé's chocolate flavour is out of this world. 204 00:17:55,533 --> 00:17:57,490 Out of this world. 205 00:17:57,577 --> 00:17:59,033 Hello, up there. 206 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:01,987 Time to recharge with delicious Nestlé's Quik. 207 00:18:03,165 --> 00:18:07,033 N-E-S-T-L-E-S. Nestlé's makes the very best... 208 00:18:07,128 --> 00:18:09,415 Chocolate. 209 00:18:34,238 --> 00:18:35,649 Lucy. 210 00:18:36,198 --> 00:18:38,815 Um, you're out to the pole. 211 00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:53,545 Could... Anthony. Anthony. 212 00:18:54,216 --> 00:18:58,005 Could you help me move this? 213 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:19,605 Excuse me. 214 00:19:36,676 --> 00:19:39,168 Lucy, you're almost there. Come on. 215 00:19:58,531 --> 00:20:00,568 Here's the water, Lucy. 216 00:20:00,825 --> 00:20:02,486 Here it is, Lucy. 217 00:20:04,495 --> 00:20:06,486 The water is... 218 00:20:18,592 --> 00:20:21,630 Must be all that Jell-O they give you. 219 00:20:21,721 --> 00:20:25,385 Jell-O, Jell-O. Day after day. 220 00:20:26,684 --> 00:20:30,973 Red Jell-O, yellow Jell-O. Every day Jell-O. 221 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,393 WOMAN: Hurry up. You don't want to miss the laundry truck. 222 00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:41,901 I forgot to tell you Mrs Cooper passed away. Remember her? 223 00:20:41,991 --> 00:20:44,653 She was nice. Always a kind word. 224 00:20:44,827 --> 00:20:47,489 Her dog, I could have done without. 225 00:20:47,788 --> 00:20:48,949 Excuse me. 226 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,326 Hello. 227 00:20:53,419 --> 00:20:56,252 Does he ever speak to you? 228 00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:58,705 Of course not. Not in words. 229 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,837 He speaks to you in other ways? 230 00:21:02,344 --> 00:21:04,506 How do you mean? 231 00:21:04,597 --> 00:21:06,053 You don't have children. 232 00:21:07,141 --> 00:21:08,176 No. 233 00:21:09,185 --> 00:21:11,677 If you did, you would know. 234 00:21:19,570 --> 00:21:21,607 SAYER: This is atypical schizophrenia. 235 00:21:22,740 --> 00:21:25,573 Atypical hysteria, this one. 236 00:21:28,496 --> 00:21:30,487 Atypical nerve impairment. 237 00:21:31,582 --> 00:21:34,825 No change since last examination. 238 00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:37,994 No change or therapy recommended. 239 00:21:38,088 --> 00:21:39,578 Very nice. 240 00:21:40,633 --> 00:21:44,968 This one is no change, September 11, 1944. 241 00:21:45,054 --> 00:21:46,215 Sorry. 242 00:21:48,766 --> 00:21:50,723 That's 25 years. 243 00:21:51,101 --> 00:21:52,307 You'd think at a certain point 244 00:21:52,394 --> 00:21:55,637 all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something. 245 00:21:55,731 --> 00:21:56,721 Mmm-hmm. 246 00:21:56,816 --> 00:21:58,398 But a typical what? 247 00:21:59,443 --> 00:22:00,649 Doctor. Yes? 248 00:22:00,736 --> 00:22:04,445 Want to go for a cup of coffee somewhere or something? 249 00:22:04,907 --> 00:22:06,147 Tea? 250 00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:10,284 Oh, normally I would say yes. 251 00:22:10,955 --> 00:22:12,411 I made other plans. 252 00:22:12,790 --> 00:22:14,497 Right, right, right. 253 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:15,744 Well, some other time. 254 00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:16,950 Oh, yes. 255 00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:18,375 I'm over here. I'm right there. 256 00:22:18,462 --> 00:22:19,577 Good night. Night. 257 00:22:28,097 --> 00:22:30,384 (PLAYING SLOW MELODY) 258 00:23:10,222 --> 00:23:12,463 Encephalitis lethargica. 259 00:23:13,809 --> 00:23:15,891 Where is it? Where is it? 260 00:23:16,270 --> 00:23:18,056 Encephalitis lethargica. 261 00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:24,775 JANITOR: I'm sorry, Doctor. I thought someone left the lights on. 262 00:23:24,862 --> 00:23:27,445 I found it. I found the connection. 263 00:23:27,531 --> 00:23:30,523 They all survived encephalitis years before they came here. 264 00:23:30,618 --> 00:23:32,609 See? In the 1920s. 265 00:23:32,703 --> 00:23:34,114 That's very nice. Isn't it wonderful? 266 00:23:34,204 --> 00:23:35,694 Yes. I'll come back later. 267 00:23:35,789 --> 00:23:37,029 Please. 268 00:24:00,856 --> 00:24:03,223 How many have you found there? 269 00:24:04,526 --> 00:24:07,484 Five. And I believe there are more. 270 00:24:10,032 --> 00:24:11,693 How are they? 271 00:24:13,035 --> 00:24:17,199 Just as you described them back then. "Insubstantial as ghosts." 272 00:24:18,916 --> 00:24:22,875 Only, I guess many of them were children then. 273 00:24:24,713 --> 00:24:25,953 Yes. 274 00:24:26,048 --> 00:24:28,836 Children who fell asleep. 275 00:24:32,179 --> 00:24:36,673 INGHAM: Most died during the acute stage of the illness. 276 00:24:37,267 --> 00:24:41,101 Those who survived, who awoke, 277 00:24:41,188 --> 00:24:44,556 seemed fine, as though nothing had happened. 278 00:24:44,692 --> 00:24:49,903 We just didn't realise how much the infection had damaged the brain. 279 00:24:51,824 --> 00:24:55,783 Years went by, five, 10, 15, 280 00:24:56,954 --> 00:25:01,164 before these strange neurological symptoms would appear. 281 00:25:02,042 --> 00:25:03,999 But they did. 282 00:25:06,588 --> 00:25:09,421 I began to see them in the early 1930s. 283 00:25:11,385 --> 00:25:14,343 Old people brought in by their children. 284 00:25:14,430 --> 00:25:17,343 Young people brought in by their parents. 285 00:25:19,059 --> 00:25:23,895 They could no longer dress themselves or feed themselves. 286 00:25:24,273 --> 00:25:27,106 They could no longer speak in most cases. 287 00:25:27,568 --> 00:25:29,479 Some families went mad. 288 00:25:30,821 --> 00:25:34,280 People who were normal were now 289 00:25:36,994 --> 00:25:38,359 elsewhere. 290 00:25:39,997 --> 00:25:41,954 What's it like to be them? 291 00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:44,324 What are they thinking? 292 00:25:45,753 --> 00:25:47,039 They're not. 293 00:25:49,798 --> 00:25:53,132 The virus didn't spare their higher faculties. 294 00:25:53,594 --> 00:25:55,005 We know that for a fact? 295 00:25:55,637 --> 00:25:57,127 Yes. 296 00:25:57,890 --> 00:25:59,051 Because? 297 00:25:59,141 --> 00:26:02,725 Because the alternative is unthinkable. 298 00:27:07,751 --> 00:27:11,289 I'm all for fixing this place up, but what are we doing? 299 00:27:11,380 --> 00:27:13,371 I have a hunch. 300 00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:15,923 Excuse me. Sorry. Excuse me. Sorry. 301 00:27:16,218 --> 00:27:18,630 What's been stopping Lucy from crossing to the fountain? 302 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,427 Nothing. Exactly. 303 00:27:20,514 --> 00:27:22,346 The visual field just stops. 304 00:27:22,432 --> 00:27:23,467 There's a void. 305 00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:25,971 There's no pattern, no visual rhythm, 306 00:27:26,061 --> 00:27:28,393 nothing to compel her to keep going. 307 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,970 COSTELLO: So we're making something. 308 00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:31,935 SAYER: Exactly. 309 00:27:33,527 --> 00:27:35,438 All right, Lucy. 310 00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:23,073 She's looking out the... 311 00:28:32,794 --> 00:28:36,458 Where is it? Is this the right issue? 312 00:28:37,966 --> 00:28:41,425 This is last year's. I can't find it. 313 00:28:43,263 --> 00:28:45,504 I'd like to know more about your son. 314 00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:47,010 Certainly. 315 00:28:52,064 --> 00:28:55,682 Something was wrong, they said, with his hands. 316 00:28:55,776 --> 00:28:57,767 He couldn't write any more. 317 00:28:57,861 --> 00:28:59,943 He couldn't do the work. 318 00:29:01,073 --> 00:29:03,815 I should take him out of school, they said. 319 00:29:03,951 --> 00:29:05,567 He was 11. 320 00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:09,073 Slowly, he got worse. 321 00:29:09,164 --> 00:29:11,576 He'd call me, and I'd come in, 322 00:29:11,667 --> 00:29:14,125 and he'd be sitting at his desk in a trance. 323 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:16,915 One hour, two hours. 324 00:29:17,172 --> 00:29:19,209 Then he'd be okay again. 325 00:29:21,176 --> 00:29:25,170 One day, I came home from work, found him in his bed. 326 00:29:25,639 --> 00:29:28,882 He kept saying, "Ma, Mom." 327 00:29:31,228 --> 00:29:33,185 His arm like this, reaching. 328 00:29:34,564 --> 00:29:36,646 "What do you want, Leonard?" 329 00:29:36,733 --> 00:29:39,896 He never spoke again. It was like he disappeared. 330 00:29:41,321 --> 00:29:45,360 Later that year, I took him to Bainbridge. 331 00:29:47,494 --> 00:29:52,534 It was November 14, 1939. 332 00:29:53,709 --> 00:29:55,666 He was 20 years old. 333 00:29:56,336 --> 00:29:57,997 What did he do for those nine years 334 00:29:58,088 --> 00:29:59,954 he was staying in this room, Mrs Lowe? 335 00:30:00,048 --> 00:30:01,379 He read. 336 00:30:02,009 --> 00:30:05,092 He loved to read. He read all the time. 337 00:30:05,178 --> 00:30:06,668 Really? 338 00:30:08,348 --> 00:30:10,510 Well, that's all he could do. 339 00:30:31,872 --> 00:30:33,203 That's enough. 340 00:30:37,377 --> 00:30:38,833 Leonard? 341 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,588 All right, Leonard, we're finished. 342 00:30:47,346 --> 00:30:52,056 Nothing, nothing, nothing, and nothing. 343 00:30:52,142 --> 00:30:54,304 Don't tell me. It's one of your statues. 344 00:30:54,394 --> 00:30:55,475 Exactly. 345 00:30:55,562 --> 00:30:56,927 How did I guess that? 346 00:30:57,022 --> 00:30:58,262 Pass the salt. 347 00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,442 But what about this? 348 00:31:04,363 --> 00:31:06,946 (CHUCKLING) What do you mean this? It's a strobe. 349 00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:09,314 You're wrong. 350 00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:11,491 All of this before is the strobe. 351 00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:14,282 This is me saying his name to him. 352 00:31:17,751 --> 00:31:19,162 Excuse me. 353 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,962 What does that mean? 354 00:31:33,809 --> 00:31:34,890 (EXCLAIMS) 355 00:31:34,976 --> 00:31:35,966 Sorry. 356 00:31:36,061 --> 00:31:37,267 Right down the middle, big guy. 357 00:31:37,354 --> 00:31:39,095 Come on, hum it in there. Hum it in there. 358 00:31:39,189 --> 00:31:40,771 Home run. Home run. 359 00:31:40,857 --> 00:31:42,814 PATIENT: I can catch a ball. 360 00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:44,812 Hey, Doc, throw me the ball. 361 00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:47,144 Throw me the ball. Throw me the ball. 362 00:31:48,198 --> 00:31:50,314 I can catch a ball. 363 00:31:51,451 --> 00:31:52,941 Doc! Hey! 364 00:31:56,957 --> 00:31:58,914 SAYER: Is this all of them? COSTELLO: Yes. 365 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,206 Bring them in here with the others. 366 00:32:19,896 --> 00:32:22,479 I should have given David his divorce. 367 00:32:22,566 --> 00:32:25,524 I just thought he really would want to be a father to his son. 368 00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:27,396 (KNOCKING ON WINDOW) Excuse me. 369 00:32:28,196 --> 00:32:31,029 The patients have all been given their morning medication. 370 00:32:31,116 --> 00:32:32,606 That's good. 371 00:32:33,577 --> 00:32:35,864 Dr Sayer was hoping you'd have some free time. 372 00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:38,036 Want to come with me, please? 373 00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:41,790 Beth? Yeah. 374 00:32:44,713 --> 00:32:47,080 SAYER: This is one of the most beautiful arias ever written. 375 00:32:47,174 --> 00:32:49,381 Watch them closely for any reactions. 376 00:32:50,093 --> 00:32:52,130 (OPERA MUSIC PLAYING) 377 00:33:11,406 --> 00:33:13,397 "Call me Ishmael. 378 00:33:18,288 --> 00:33:19,528 (CLEARS THROAT) 379 00:33:19,623 --> 00:33:22,991 "Some years ago, never mind how long precisely, 380 00:33:23,084 --> 00:33:25,166 "having little or no money in my purse 381 00:33:25,253 --> 00:33:27,915 "and nothing particular to interest me onshore..." 382 00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:32,040 Leonard, I know you can hear me. 383 00:33:32,135 --> 00:33:35,469 I want you to try and respond when I speak your name. 384 00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:38,054 (OPERA PLAYING) 385 00:33:38,141 --> 00:33:40,382 You see, it's not just any music. 386 00:33:40,477 --> 00:33:43,265 It has to be the music that's right (OPERA STOPS) 387 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:44,891 for them. 388 00:33:47,192 --> 00:33:51,106 (BIG-BAND MUSIC PLAYING) 389 00:33:51,196 --> 00:33:55,064 ANTHONY: It's like they're only moved by music that moves them. 390 00:33:55,158 --> 00:33:57,525 I haven't found anything that moves Bert yet. 391 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,172 They'll sit there like that all day if I let them. 392 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:15,217 I have to play the first card. 393 00:34:23,311 --> 00:34:24,426 L. 394 00:34:27,607 --> 00:34:28,938 Leonard. 395 00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:31,099 L. 396 00:34:33,738 --> 00:34:35,820 (PURPLE HAZE PLAYING) 397 00:34:57,971 --> 00:34:59,461 This is Frank. Mmm-hmm. 398 00:34:59,556 --> 00:35:02,344 If you could just help me get him to his feet. 399 00:35:02,434 --> 00:35:04,766 There's something else that reaches them, Doctor. 400 00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:07,094 What? Human contact. 401 00:35:07,188 --> 00:35:10,055 If you could just stand over there for a minute. 402 00:35:10,358 --> 00:35:12,065 He can't walk without me. 403 00:35:12,152 --> 00:35:14,018 If I let go of him, he'll fall. 404 00:35:14,988 --> 00:35:17,195 I'm not gonna let you fall. 405 00:35:18,074 --> 00:35:22,113 But he'll walk with me anywhere. 406 00:35:24,998 --> 00:35:28,662 It's like the ball, only it's my will he's borrowing. 407 00:35:28,752 --> 00:35:30,834 The will of another human being. 408 00:35:55,612 --> 00:36:01,278 We begin by moving the pointer to "L" for Leonard. 409 00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:05,240 Now when I sense you begin to move the pointer, 410 00:36:05,330 --> 00:36:07,412 I'll stop and you take over. 411 00:36:07,582 --> 00:36:09,664 Do you understand? 412 00:36:09,751 --> 00:36:11,788 All right, I'm beginning. 413 00:36:15,924 --> 00:36:17,255 Very good. 414 00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:29,100 No. Maybe I didn't make myself clear. My fault. I. . . 415 00:36:40,949 --> 00:36:43,862 "L." Good, good. 416 00:36:44,285 --> 00:36:46,276 Now the "E." 417 00:36:47,914 --> 00:36:49,450 "K." 418 00:36:49,541 --> 00:36:51,703 Dyslexia, isn't it? 419 00:36:51,793 --> 00:36:54,410 "E." Good, good. 420 00:36:56,548 --> 00:36:57,788 "Sg" 421 00:37:00,844 --> 00:37:02,050 " P. " 422 00:37:04,055 --> 00:37:05,966 You're spelling something else. 423 00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:59,812 SAYER:His gaze from staring through the bars 424 00:37:59,903 --> 00:38:04,363 has grown so weary that it can take in nothing more. 425 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,159 For him, it is as though there were a thousand bars, 426 00:38:09,245 --> 00:38:13,079 and behind the thousand bars, no world. 427 00:38:15,043 --> 00:38:19,287 As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, 428 00:38:19,380 --> 00:38:23,590 his powerful strides are like a ritual dance around a centre 429 00:38:23,676 --> 00:38:26,885 where a great will stands paralysed. 430 00:38:29,182 --> 00:38:33,176 At times, the curtains of the eye lift without a sound, 431 00:38:33,269 --> 00:38:35,055 and a shape enters, 432 00:38:35,146 --> 00:38:38,229 slips through the tightened silence of the shoulders, 433 00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,307 reaches the heart, 434 00:38:40,401 --> 00:38:41,857 and dies. 435 00:38:49,202 --> 00:38:51,034 Have you heard of a drug called L-dopa? 436 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,155 What? 437 00:38:52,247 --> 00:38:54,955 It's a synthetic dopamine. 438 00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:57,829 Yes, I did. For Parkinson's patients. Yeah. 439 00:38:58,378 --> 00:38:59,584 Why? 440 00:38:59,712 --> 00:39:00,918 Nothing. 441 00:39:01,005 --> 00:39:03,167 MAN ON MEGAPHONE: Sign the petition now. 442 00:39:03,258 --> 00:39:04,714 Thousands of young men are dying every day. 443 00:39:04,801 --> 00:39:06,291 Excuse me. Sorry. 444 00:39:06,386 --> 00:39:09,595 Help us get out of this illegal war. Sign up now. 445 00:39:09,681 --> 00:39:13,675 MAN: A hundred years would have to pass before modern neuropathology 446 00:39:13,768 --> 00:39:15,679 would even allow us to actually 447 00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:18,933 locate the damage in the Parkinsonian brain. 448 00:39:19,566 --> 00:39:20,601 Yes. 449 00:39:21,734 --> 00:39:25,352 With our development of the drug L-dopa, 450 00:39:25,446 --> 00:39:27,028 we can, for the first time, 451 00:39:27,115 --> 00:39:30,483 promise the Parkinsonian patient a more normal life. 452 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,652 By administering L... 453 00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:37,789 Thank you. Yes. 454 00:39:38,459 --> 00:39:40,450 I'm very curious about this drug, 455 00:39:40,545 --> 00:39:44,129 and I wonder if you've come across anyone who might have... 456 00:39:44,215 --> 00:39:46,582 Excuse me, Doctor... 457 00:39:47,802 --> 00:39:48,883 Sayer. 458 00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:50,631 I'm curious if you've come across 459 00:39:50,722 --> 00:39:52,383 any patients with encephalitis... 460 00:39:52,473 --> 00:39:54,180 After I'm through, Dr Sayer. 461 00:39:54,809 --> 00:39:56,299 If you wouldn't mind. 462 00:40:00,148 --> 00:40:01,388 Excuse me. 463 00:40:01,482 --> 00:40:05,771 Well, as I was saying, by administering L-dopa... 464 00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:13,696 Do you think a simple Parkinsonian tremor taken to its furthest extreme 465 00:40:13,786 --> 00:40:15,993 would appear as no tremor at all? 466 00:40:20,293 --> 00:40:21,909 Are you talking to me? 467 00:40:22,003 --> 00:40:23,164 Oh, yes. 468 00:40:26,174 --> 00:40:29,212 Imagine that you accelerated a simple Parkinsonian hand tremor 469 00:40:29,302 --> 00:40:31,509 to the point of immobility. 470 00:40:32,889 --> 00:40:34,379 Suppose there's a patient with 471 00:40:34,474 --> 00:40:37,057 all the Parkinsonian compulsions accelerated, 472 00:40:37,143 --> 00:40:40,681 the hand tremor, the head bobbing, ticking, quickening of speech. 473 00:40:40,772 --> 00:40:43,355 Might they not all cave in on themselves and, 474 00:40:43,441 --> 00:40:45,978 in effect, turn a person into stone? 475 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,607 I don't know. Maybe. 476 00:40:51,908 --> 00:40:54,991 Well, do you think L-dopa would help the situation? 477 00:40:55,078 --> 00:40:57,035 Dr Sayer, right? 478 00:40:57,413 --> 00:40:58,528 (CHUCKLES) 479 00:40:59,624 --> 00:41:02,958 I'm just a chemist, Doctor. You're the physician. 480 00:41:03,044 --> 00:41:04,910 I'll leave it to you to do the damage. 481 00:41:12,679 --> 00:41:14,841 Well, you know, Freud believed in miracles, 482 00:41:14,973 --> 00:41:17,135 prescribing cocaine like it was candy. 483 00:41:17,225 --> 00:41:19,091 And we all believed in the miracle of cortisone 484 00:41:19,185 --> 00:41:21,392 till our patients went psychotic on it. 485 00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:22,560 And now it's L-dopa? 486 00:41:22,647 --> 00:41:25,685 Well, with all due respect, I think it's rather too soon to say that. 487 00:41:25,775 --> 00:41:27,391 Well, with all due respect, Doctor, 488 00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:30,068 I think it's rather way too soon to say that. 489 00:41:31,072 --> 00:41:33,404 Let the chemist do the damage, Doctor. 490 00:41:34,701 --> 00:41:36,066 But I... 491 00:41:48,423 --> 00:41:49,913 Dr Kaufman? Yeah. 492 00:41:50,008 --> 00:41:52,090 Did you read this case? 493 00:41:52,176 --> 00:41:54,918 "New drug lets shaking palsy patients eat Jell-O." 494 00:41:55,013 --> 00:41:58,347 Yes, I read them, Doctor. I read them all, dutifully, soberly. 495 00:41:58,433 --> 00:42:02,552 All 30 cases had Parkinson's. Mild Parkinson's. 496 00:42:02,645 --> 00:42:07,014 Your Parkies, Doctor, if that's what they are, haven't moved in decades. 497 00:42:07,442 --> 00:42:09,058 Perhaps you should look at it again, sir. 498 00:42:11,738 --> 00:42:14,730 You know better than to make a leap like that. 499 00:42:15,450 --> 00:42:17,032 You want there to be a connection. 500 00:42:17,118 --> 00:42:18,654 That doesn't mean there is one. 501 00:42:19,620 --> 00:42:22,362 What I believe, what I know is 502 00:42:22,457 --> 00:42:24,164 these people are alive inside. 503 00:42:26,961 --> 00:42:30,079 How do you know that, Doctor? Because they catch tennis balls? 504 00:42:32,633 --> 00:42:33,998 I know it. 505 00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:38,461 How many did you think I'd let you put on it? 506 00:42:38,556 --> 00:42:39,796 All of them. 507 00:42:42,185 --> 00:42:43,721 Some. 508 00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:44,892 One. 509 00:42:46,856 --> 00:42:48,187 One. 510 00:42:48,941 --> 00:42:51,774 With the family's consent signed. 511 00:42:57,283 --> 00:42:58,318 (DOOR CLOSES) 512 00:43:00,328 --> 00:43:02,820 Leonard has Parkinson's disease? 513 00:43:04,332 --> 00:43:05,493 No, um... 514 00:43:07,335 --> 00:43:10,168 Well, his symptoms are like Parkinson's. 515 00:43:11,506 --> 00:43:13,338 But, then again, they're not. 516 00:43:15,176 --> 00:43:17,884 Then what will this medicine do for him? 517 00:43:19,430 --> 00:43:22,172 I don't know what it will do for him, if anything at all. 518 00:43:23,267 --> 00:43:25,008 What do you think it'll do? 519 00:43:27,271 --> 00:43:28,352 I'm not sure, 520 00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:31,181 because it was designed for a totally different disorder. 521 00:43:32,485 --> 00:43:34,317 What do you hope it'll do? 522 00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:39,193 I hope it will bring him back from wherever he is. 523 00:43:42,537 --> 00:43:43,823 For what? 524 00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:47,030 For the world. 525 00:43:50,336 --> 00:43:53,704 What's there here for him after all these years? 526 00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:57,415 You. 527 00:43:58,761 --> 00:44:00,251 You're here. 528 00:44:39,260 --> 00:44:41,126 All of it. Please. 529 00:44:59,197 --> 00:45:01,438 With 200 milligrams, he showed no response. 530 00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:03,899 Maybe the acid in the orange juice neutralised it. 531 00:45:03,993 --> 00:45:05,199 Maybe he needs more. 532 00:45:05,286 --> 00:45:06,401 Maybe he needs less. 533 00:45:10,124 --> 00:45:12,081 I'll try it in milk. 534 00:45:47,578 --> 00:45:49,194 500 milligrams. 535 00:45:56,671 --> 00:45:58,662 I'll call if there's any change. 536 00:45:59,674 --> 00:46:00,789 Yes. 537 00:46:09,141 --> 00:46:10,506 Thank you. 538 00:46:12,436 --> 00:46:13,676 (SNORING) 539 00:46:19,402 --> 00:46:20,483 Night, Sara. 540 00:46:20,611 --> 00:46:21,692 Good night. 541 00:47:42,276 --> 00:47:43,562 (SNORING) 542 00:49:01,689 --> 00:49:03,179 It's... 543 00:49:04,024 --> 00:49:05,514 quiet. 544 00:49:07,945 --> 00:49:09,435 It's late. 545 00:49:10,531 --> 00:49:12,192 Everyone's asleep. 546 00:49:18,622 --> 00:49:20,704 I'm not asleep. 547 00:49:21,709 --> 00:49:22,995 No. 548 00:49:23,711 --> 00:49:25,201 You're awake. 549 00:49:36,265 --> 00:49:37,755 May 1? 550 00:49:55,576 --> 00:49:56,816 Me. 551 00:50:50,798 --> 00:50:53,460 (CARS HONKING) 552 00:51:04,395 --> 00:51:05,635 SAYER: Leonard. 553 00:51:09,817 --> 00:51:12,024 There's someone here to see you. 554 00:51:28,794 --> 00:51:31,035 Ma. Ma. 555 00:51:33,465 --> 00:51:34,876 Mom. 556 00:51:36,343 --> 00:51:37,879 My baby. 557 00:51:39,847 --> 00:51:42,134 (MRS LOWE CRYING) 558 00:51:56,989 --> 00:51:58,650 My name is Eleanor. 559 00:52:00,242 --> 00:52:01,357 Eleanor. 560 00:52:04,204 --> 00:52:05,990 It's a pleasure to meet you. 561 00:52:07,291 --> 00:52:09,703 It's a pleasure to meet you. 562 00:52:14,548 --> 00:52:16,539 Ladies. Ladies. 563 00:52:16,634 --> 00:52:18,716 Now what'd I do? 564 00:52:21,513 --> 00:52:23,424 MARGARET: Oh, my goodness. 565 00:52:25,893 --> 00:52:28,055 How do you do, sir? 566 00:52:28,646 --> 00:52:30,557 My name is Margaret. 567 00:52:31,398 --> 00:52:32,638 Margaret. 568 00:52:34,234 --> 00:52:36,100 Beth. Beth. 569 00:52:41,950 --> 00:52:43,111 Anthony. 570 00:52:46,955 --> 00:52:50,038 Anthony, how are you? 571 00:52:51,418 --> 00:52:54,126 Great, man. How are you? 572 00:52:55,297 --> 00:52:56,833 Great, too. 573 00:52:56,924 --> 00:52:58,164 (LAUGHING) 574 00:52:58,258 --> 00:53:00,545 All right, Len. 575 00:53:01,845 --> 00:53:03,381 Did you meet him? Didn't he look good? 576 00:53:03,472 --> 00:53:04,883 (LAUGHING) Yeah. 577 00:53:05,474 --> 00:53:07,465 (ALL LAUGHING) 578 00:53:07,559 --> 00:53:09,300 MRS LOWE: Don't eat so fast. 579 00:53:09,436 --> 00:53:11,177 MARGARET: He's doing fine. 580 00:53:11,271 --> 00:53:13,729 ANTHONY: Well, I mean, he's starving. 581 00:53:13,816 --> 00:53:16,524 I don't think that I could deal with losing 30 years of my life. 582 00:53:16,610 --> 00:53:19,022 Could you? I can't even imagine it. 583 00:53:19,655 --> 00:53:21,692 (ALL LAUGHING) 584 00:53:24,493 --> 00:53:26,530 He does realise it, doesn't he? 585 00:53:33,585 --> 00:53:35,997 Leonard, if you could turn this way please. 586 00:53:36,088 --> 00:53:38,375 This is a camera called a Polaroid. (CAMERA CLICKS) 587 00:53:38,465 --> 00:53:39,796 Thank you. 588 00:53:41,260 --> 00:53:44,002 Takes a picture in less than a minute. 589 00:53:44,096 --> 00:53:45,552 Amazing. 590 00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:48,802 Now, if we could try this. 591 00:53:54,148 --> 00:53:56,185 Splendid. That's wonderful. 592 00:53:56,275 --> 00:53:59,518 I'd like you to walk now to the end of the room. 593 00:53:59,611 --> 00:54:01,397 Good. Ready? 594 00:54:02,406 --> 00:54:03,896 Go. (STOPWATCH CLICKS) 595 00:54:05,367 --> 00:54:06,903 Very good. 596 00:54:06,994 --> 00:54:08,530 Very good. 597 00:54:12,332 --> 00:54:14,289 And back now. 598 00:54:20,048 --> 00:54:23,211 (STOPWATCH CLICKS) That was very quick. 599 00:54:23,302 --> 00:54:24,713 Let me get some more film. 600 00:55:21,276 --> 00:55:23,813 You have to at least lay down. 601 00:55:23,987 --> 00:55:25,978 You need the rest. 602 00:55:32,830 --> 00:55:36,573 I'm afraid to close my eyes. 603 00:55:37,084 --> 00:55:39,041 If I close my eyes, I'll... 604 00:55:39,127 --> 00:55:40,492 You'll sleep. 605 00:55:40,712 --> 00:55:45,206 When you wake up in the morning, it'll be the next morning. 606 00:55:45,843 --> 00:55:47,333 I promise. 607 00:55:57,104 --> 00:55:58,594 ♪ Baby's boat 608 00:55:59,690 --> 00:56:01,681 Jd A silver moon 609 00:56:02,317 --> 00:56:04,274 ♪ Sailing in the sky 610 00:56:05,904 --> 00:56:09,522 ♪ Baby's fishing for a dream 611 00:56:10,617 --> 00:56:13,279 ♪ Fishing near and far 612 00:56:14,454 --> 00:56:17,572 ♪ Sail, baby, sail 613 00:56:18,792 --> 00:56:21,454 ♪ Out upon that sea 614 00:56:23,088 --> 00:56:27,753 ♪ Only don't forget to sail 615 00:56:27,843 --> 00:56:31,632 ♪ Back again to me 616 00:56:34,308 --> 00:56:37,642 ♪ Baby's fishing for a dream 617 00:56:38,395 --> 00:56:41,308 ♪ Fishing near and far 618 00:56:42,566 --> 00:56:46,730 ♪ His line a silver moonbeam is 619 00:56:46,820 --> 00:56:50,404 Jd His fate a silver star 620 00:56:51,491 --> 00:56:54,654 ♪ Sail, baby, sail 621 00:56:56,371 --> 00:56:58,738 ♪ Out upon that sea 622 00:57:00,667 --> 00:57:04,911 ♪ Only don't forget to sail 623 00:57:06,173 --> 00:57:09,131 ♪ Back again to me 624 00:57:11,219 --> 00:57:12,675 ♪ Baby's boat 625 00:57:13,889 --> 00:57:16,051 and The silver moon 626 00:57:16,141 --> 00:57:18,724 ♪ Sailing in the sky 627 00:57:19,311 --> 00:57:22,724 ♪ Baby's fishing for a dream 628 00:57:23,857 --> 00:57:26,349 ♪ Fishing near and far 629 00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:31,654 ♪ Sail, baby, sail 630 00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,862 ♪ Out upon that sea 631 00:57:37,871 --> 00:57:42,160 ♪ Only don't forget to sail 632 00:57:42,876 --> 00:57:45,914 ♪ Back again to me ♪ 633 00:57:48,173 --> 00:57:51,882 (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR RADIO) 634 00:57:54,554 --> 00:57:56,215 (INDISTINCT) 635 00:58:01,478 --> 00:58:03,970 What a wonderful place the Bronx has become. 636 00:58:20,497 --> 00:58:21,612 That's my school. 637 00:58:21,707 --> 00:58:22,742 Really? 638 00:58:26,253 --> 00:58:27,288 (SPITS) 639 00:58:31,883 --> 00:58:32,998 Is that classical? 640 00:58:33,093 --> 00:58:35,926 You can pick any different type of music you want. 641 00:58:37,055 --> 00:58:39,797 (ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC PLAYING) 642 00:58:40,392 --> 00:58:41,473 What's that? 643 00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:42,766 It's rock and roll. 644 01:00:08,563 --> 01:00:09,678 Come on in. 645 01:00:09,815 --> 01:00:10,896 No, no, come back in now. 646 01:00:10,982 --> 01:00:13,098 There's something that happened while you've been away. 647 01:00:13,193 --> 01:00:15,605 It's called pollution. I don't think this is wise, Leonard. 648 01:00:15,695 --> 01:00:19,780 Leonard. That's not wading. That's swimming. Come on, Leonard. 649 01:00:19,866 --> 01:00:22,904 Leonard, I don't know if the hospital is covered for this. 650 01:00:24,329 --> 01:00:25,364 Leonard. 651 01:00:26,123 --> 01:00:27,204 Come on! 652 01:00:27,624 --> 01:00:29,114 No. No. 653 01:00:29,209 --> 01:00:31,166 Come on in. 654 01:00:36,883 --> 01:00:38,794 Leonard, the tide's coming in. 655 01:00:40,137 --> 01:00:42,003 (WHISTLING) 656 01:00:56,069 --> 01:00:58,151 That's the periodic table of elements. 657 01:00:58,238 --> 01:01:01,230 I can date my introduction to science by that. 658 01:01:02,576 --> 01:01:04,692 It's wonderful really. 659 01:01:05,912 --> 01:01:08,244 It's the universe at its essence. 660 01:01:08,331 --> 01:01:10,948 You see, you have your alkali metals, 661 01:01:11,084 --> 01:01:13,746 you have your halogens, your inert gases. 662 01:01:13,837 --> 01:01:17,751 Every element has its place in that order. You can't change that. 663 01:01:18,884 --> 01:01:21,751 They're secure, no matter what. 664 01:01:22,596 --> 01:01:24,507 You're not married? 665 01:01:25,390 --> 01:01:26,630 Me? 666 01:01:27,309 --> 01:01:28,595 No. 667 01:01:30,187 --> 01:01:32,178 I'm not very good with people. 668 01:01:34,399 --> 01:01:36,811 I never have been, Leonard. 669 01:01:37,110 --> 01:01:39,101 I like them. 670 01:01:40,906 --> 01:01:44,900 I wish I could say I had more than a rudimentary understanding of them. 671 01:01:47,454 --> 01:01:50,116 Maybe if they were less unpredictable. 672 01:01:52,375 --> 01:01:54,537 Eleanor would disagree with you. 673 01:01:56,630 --> 01:01:57,961 Eleanor? 674 01:01:58,465 --> 01:02:00,422 Miss Costello. 675 01:02:01,927 --> 01:02:03,838 Of course. 676 01:02:05,847 --> 01:02:07,804 She's spoken to you about me? 677 01:02:11,603 --> 01:02:13,264 What did she say? 678 01:02:14,481 --> 01:02:20,227 That you are a kind man, that you care very much for people. 679 01:02:26,326 --> 01:02:29,489 I would like to put the rest of the group on the drug. 680 01:02:29,579 --> 01:02:31,490 And I realise this may be somewhat expensive. 681 01:02:31,581 --> 01:02:32,867 When you say expensive, 682 01:02:32,958 --> 01:02:34,665 do you have any idea how much money you're talking about? 683 01:02:34,751 --> 01:02:37,493 Yes, I talked to Ray. I have an estimate. 684 01:02:38,797 --> 01:02:40,037 Thank you. 685 01:02:40,131 --> 01:02:42,498 The pharmacist says to put all the others 686 01:02:42,592 --> 01:02:44,959 on the same dosage as Mr Lowe would be... 687 01:02:46,513 --> 01:02:47,674 $12,000. 688 01:02:48,515 --> 01:02:49,596 How much? 689 01:02:49,724 --> 01:02:50,759 $12,000. 690 01:02:50,850 --> 01:02:52,090 A month? Yes. 691 01:02:52,185 --> 01:02:55,052 I can't go before the board with that, Doctor. 692 01:02:55,563 --> 01:02:58,180 I was thinking of speaking directly to the patrons. 693 01:02:58,692 --> 01:03:00,433 The few patrons that this hospital has 694 01:03:00,527 --> 01:03:01,938 already give what they can, Doctor. 695 01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:03,564 We'll have to convince them to give more 696 01:03:03,655 --> 01:03:05,237 than they're accustomed to giving. 697 01:03:07,575 --> 01:03:09,532 Perhaps if they see Mr Lowe. 698 01:03:09,869 --> 01:03:11,610 I think you overestimate the effect 699 01:03:11,705 --> 01:03:13,821 that Mr Lowe has on people, Doctor. 700 01:03:13,915 --> 01:03:15,531 We're talking about money. 701 01:03:56,708 --> 01:04:00,042 SAYER: There was extreme rigidity of the axial musculature. 702 01:04:00,754 --> 01:04:04,418 This is a gross impairment of the postural reflexes, an autonomic dysfunction. 703 01:04:04,507 --> 01:04:07,124 It's a brain stem type of rigidity. 704 01:04:07,218 --> 01:04:08,879 A meningismus. 705 01:04:08,970 --> 01:04:11,462 What's most striking is the profound 706 01:04:11,556 --> 01:04:14,594 facial masking or deafferentation, 707 01:04:14,684 --> 01:04:18,222 which we now know should not be confused with apathy or catatonia. 708 01:04:25,362 --> 01:04:27,603 SAYER: Some things could reach him though. 709 01:04:28,156 --> 01:04:32,741 The mention of his name, notes of a particular piece of music, 710 01:04:34,371 --> 01:04:36,328 or the touch of another human being. 711 01:04:40,210 --> 01:04:42,542 But these awakenings were rare and transient, 712 01:04:42,629 --> 01:04:44,461 lasting only a moment or two. 713 01:04:44,923 --> 01:04:47,085 The rest of the time, he remained, as you see him here, 714 01:04:47,175 --> 01:04:50,543 in a metaphorical if not physiological equivalent 715 01:04:50,637 --> 01:04:52,924 of sleep or even death. 716 01:04:53,014 --> 01:04:56,006 This was his condition when first found by me 717 01:04:56,101 --> 01:04:57,512 in a remote bay of this hospital 718 01:04:57,602 --> 01:05:01,596 and the quality of his life for the last 30 years. 719 01:05:09,989 --> 01:05:11,946 Now? SAYER: Whenever you're ready. 720 01:05:15,328 --> 01:05:17,695 My name is Leonard Lowe. 721 01:05:17,789 --> 01:05:19,575 it has been explained to me 722 01:05:19,666 --> 01:05:22,749 that I have been away for quite some time. 723 01:05:27,173 --> 01:05:28,663 I'm back. 724 01:05:37,892 --> 01:05:40,429 (INDISTINCT) 725 01:05:46,943 --> 01:05:50,152 Okay, here we go. 726 01:05:52,198 --> 01:05:53,188 Take her away. 727 01:05:53,366 --> 01:05:54,356 Okay. 728 01:05:54,451 --> 01:05:55,566 Thank you very much. 729 01:05:55,660 --> 01:05:56,741 Sure. 730 01:06:16,389 --> 01:06:18,881 (SNORING) 731 01:06:34,032 --> 01:06:35,397 Dr Sayer? 732 01:06:35,783 --> 01:06:37,740 What is it? It's a fuckin' miracle. 733 01:06:46,252 --> 01:06:48,243 Where are my glasses? They're on your face. 734 01:06:48,338 --> 01:06:49,544 Thank you. 735 01:07:09,442 --> 01:07:11,433 Beth, close the door. 736 01:07:12,153 --> 01:07:13,643 I'm talking. 737 01:07:19,077 --> 01:07:20,567 Light. 738 01:07:23,164 --> 01:07:24,654 I'm Rose. 739 01:07:24,749 --> 01:07:26,205 Go stand up. 740 01:07:26,292 --> 01:07:27,578 Hello? 741 01:07:33,633 --> 01:07:35,499 Where is this? 742 01:07:38,972 --> 01:07:40,462 I'm walking. 743 01:07:42,100 --> 01:07:44,091 Who are you? 744 01:08:03,204 --> 01:08:06,367 Thank you for coming. You see, things are a little different today. 745 01:08:06,457 --> 01:08:07,697 Miriam. 746 01:08:07,834 --> 01:08:09,165 Come on, Miriam. 747 01:08:11,421 --> 01:08:13,287 SAYER: Miriam. Miriam. 748 01:08:15,425 --> 01:08:17,041 (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 749 01:08:21,180 --> 01:08:22,466 Lucy. 750 01:08:26,394 --> 01:08:29,386 I had the strangest dream. 751 01:08:29,480 --> 01:08:31,391 I have to take your blood pressure. 752 01:08:31,482 --> 01:08:34,725 I've been sitting for 25 years. You missed your chance. 753 01:08:35,862 --> 01:08:37,853 MARGARET: Are you okay? 754 01:08:39,616 --> 01:08:41,402 I need some makeup. 755 01:08:42,076 --> 01:08:44,033 Okay. I think we can take care of that. 756 01:08:44,912 --> 01:08:48,371 And I need some dye for my hair. Black. 757 01:08:49,626 --> 01:08:51,913 Black? Rose, are you sure? 758 01:08:52,045 --> 01:08:54,377 Yes, it's always been black. 759 01:08:54,464 --> 01:08:57,377 Dr Sayer, something about fruit trees. 760 01:08:57,467 --> 01:08:59,424 Prune the fruit trees. 761 01:09:00,094 --> 01:09:01,425 I will. 762 01:09:01,554 --> 01:09:02,635 (SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 763 01:09:02,722 --> 01:09:07,683 I want a steak, rare. Mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans. 764 01:09:07,769 --> 01:09:11,353 I was aware of things, but nothing meant anything to me. 765 01:09:12,190 --> 01:09:15,353 There was no connection to me. There was a war or two. 766 01:09:19,072 --> 01:09:22,440 This morning, I went to the bathroom all by myself. 767 01:09:24,661 --> 01:09:26,777 Do it, do it, do it! 768 01:09:28,414 --> 01:09:31,031 I think I liked him better the other way. 769 01:09:34,212 --> 01:09:35,873 Where'd they go? 770 01:09:35,963 --> 01:09:38,751 Rolando, can you speak to me? 771 01:09:40,134 --> 01:09:42,296 It's Miss Costello. 772 01:09:44,639 --> 01:09:46,755 Do you understand me? 773 01:09:51,771 --> 01:09:53,102 Lucy. 774 01:09:54,607 --> 01:09:55,938 What year is it? 775 01:09:57,026 --> 01:09:58,516 What year is it? 776 01:10:03,074 --> 01:10:04,985 It's '26, silly. 777 01:10:06,202 --> 01:10:07,363 BETH: Miriam. 778 01:10:08,579 --> 01:10:10,445 Come on, Miriam. Be a sport. 779 01:10:12,417 --> 01:10:14,749 Don't touch. Don't touch, Miriam. Don't. 780 01:10:14,836 --> 01:10:16,998 I'm getting tired of this. 781 01:10:17,088 --> 01:10:19,079 Come on, Miriam. 782 01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,296 I'm convinced. 783 01:10:27,140 --> 01:10:30,053 WOMAN: "Like crowds storming the Bastille, 784 01:10:30,143 --> 01:10:32,305 "the mighty Mets stormed their locker room 785 01:10:32,395 --> 01:10:35,979 "shortly after 9:00 on their night to remember, 786 01:10:36,065 --> 01:10:37,180 "and touched off 787 01:10:37,275 --> 01:10:39,812 "one of the loudest, wildest, wettest 788 01:10:39,986 --> 01:10:42,523 "victory celebrations in baseball history. 789 01:10:43,781 --> 01:10:48,116 "Released from bondage and ridicule after seven destitute seasons, 790 01:10:48,202 --> 01:10:49,818 "they raised the..." 791 01:10:50,580 --> 01:10:52,696 Lolly, Lolly, Lolly. 792 01:10:59,172 --> 01:11:00,662 Sidney. 793 01:11:03,009 --> 01:11:04,499 Hi, Sidney. 794 01:11:04,719 --> 01:11:05,834 Hi. 795 01:11:18,900 --> 01:11:20,937 Are we gonna go to the same place? 796 01:11:21,068 --> 01:11:23,105 Well, actually, I don't know. 797 01:11:23,196 --> 01:11:26,609 Everybody, stay together, stay together. Come on, bring up the back. 798 01:11:27,074 --> 01:11:28,690 ANTHONY: Everybody stay together. Come on. 799 01:11:28,785 --> 01:11:30,367 Bye! Bye! 800 01:11:31,829 --> 01:11:33,160 Bring Leonard back. 801 01:11:33,247 --> 01:11:34,863 Anthony, will you get Leonard? It's all right. 802 01:11:38,211 --> 01:11:39,918 ANTHONY: Leonard. Leonard. 803 01:11:40,046 --> 01:11:42,413 Len, Len. Come on, come on, come on. 804 01:11:45,134 --> 01:11:47,091 Everyone, please stay with the group here. 805 01:11:47,178 --> 01:11:48,885 Hurry up! 806 01:11:49,013 --> 01:11:50,720 Come on, now. Stay together. 807 01:11:56,145 --> 01:11:58,227 Okay, everybody, we gotta get on! 808 01:11:59,398 --> 01:12:00,433 No pushing! No pushing! 809 01:12:04,195 --> 01:12:06,903 I wanted to ask you how my father's doing. 810 01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:08,230 Try and make room. 811 01:12:08,324 --> 01:12:10,440 You know, Ma, maybe you shouldn't go. 812 01:12:10,535 --> 01:12:13,573 No, of course I want to go. Don't be ridiculous. 813 01:12:13,663 --> 01:12:15,574 I'm gonna take the stairs. MAN 1: It's crowded. 814 01:12:15,665 --> 01:12:16,746 I'll meet you down there. 815 01:12:16,833 --> 01:12:17,868 You go another time. 816 01:12:17,959 --> 01:12:19,870 SAYER: You can't be there, Leonard, or the door won't close. 817 01:12:19,961 --> 01:12:22,703 SAYER: Thank you. Bert, stop jumping! 818 01:12:26,592 --> 01:12:27,798 Sidney's going. 819 01:12:27,927 --> 01:12:29,167 He's a patient, Mom. 820 01:12:29,262 --> 01:12:30,752 He's not the same kind of patient. 821 01:12:30,847 --> 01:12:32,337 Yeah, but he's still a patient, Mom. 822 01:12:32,431 --> 01:12:33,466 You're not a patient. 823 01:12:33,599 --> 01:12:34,714 I'm your mother. 824 01:12:35,434 --> 01:12:38,176 Are there any other mothers going? 825 01:12:39,856 --> 01:12:42,974 Wait a minute. Now, what have you done to your hair? 826 01:12:43,776 --> 01:12:45,437 Yes, Bert, that's a tyre. 827 01:12:45,611 --> 01:12:47,227 I know it's a tyre. I'm not an idiot. 828 01:12:47,321 --> 01:12:49,312 There's your bus. 829 01:12:49,407 --> 01:12:50,818 Have fun. 830 01:12:53,494 --> 01:12:54,984 Treat me like an asshole. 831 01:12:55,121 --> 01:12:56,657 We'll take care of that, Bert. 832 01:12:58,082 --> 01:12:59,243 BETH: See you, guys. 833 01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:02,621 Bye-bye! Bye! 834 01:13:11,804 --> 01:13:12,965 Are you ready, Leonard? 835 01:13:13,055 --> 01:13:15,387 I've decided not to go. I'm gonna stay here. 836 01:13:15,474 --> 01:13:16,430 Why? What's wrong? 837 01:13:16,517 --> 01:13:17,882 I'm okay. I just... 838 01:13:19,020 --> 01:13:20,306 Wave. 839 01:13:23,316 --> 01:13:24,647 (HONKING) 840 01:13:26,736 --> 01:13:28,226 Doctor, Doctor. Come on already. 841 01:13:28,321 --> 01:13:29,732 I'm coming, all right? 842 01:13:29,822 --> 01:13:31,312 Leonard, are you sure? Yes. 843 01:13:31,407 --> 01:13:32,989 Are you all right? 844 01:13:33,075 --> 01:13:35,612 I'm fine. See you later. Have a good time. 845 01:13:35,703 --> 01:13:37,819 Doctor, come on. I'm coming. 846 01:13:39,290 --> 01:13:40,451 Bye, you guys! 847 01:13:40,541 --> 01:13:41,656 Bye, Leonard. 848 01:13:41,751 --> 01:13:43,287 Bye-bye. Bert, will you sit down? 849 01:13:45,046 --> 01:13:47,003 WOMAN 1: Fish sticks, please. WOMAN 2: Okay. 850 01:13:48,466 --> 01:13:50,457 Okay, here you go. 851 01:13:51,719 --> 01:13:53,175 Hi. 852 01:13:54,138 --> 01:13:56,095 Meat loaf, please. 853 01:13:58,309 --> 01:13:59,595 There you go. 854 01:13:59,727 --> 01:14:01,013 Thank you. 855 01:14:01,103 --> 01:14:02,264 Meat loaf. 856 01:14:02,355 --> 01:14:03,436 Meat loaf, too. 857 01:14:06,692 --> 01:14:07,853 Thank you. 858 01:14:09,028 --> 01:14:11,144 There you go, okay? 859 01:14:12,156 --> 01:14:13,396 Next. 860 01:14:15,159 --> 01:14:16,866 Are you following me? 861 01:14:19,246 --> 01:14:21,829 I'm sorry. I was only kidding. 862 01:14:21,916 --> 01:14:24,032 I saw you upstairs just now. 863 01:14:25,836 --> 01:14:27,497 Are you visiting someone? 864 01:14:28,214 --> 01:14:29,796 Uh, no. 865 01:14:29,882 --> 01:14:31,668 You work here. 866 01:14:33,052 --> 01:14:34,634 I live here. 867 01:14:35,721 --> 01:14:37,712 You're a patient? 868 01:14:39,392 --> 01:14:41,349 You don't look like a patient. 869 01:14:42,561 --> 01:14:44,051 I don't? 870 01:14:44,730 --> 01:14:46,095 (CASH REGISTER CLINKS) 871 01:15:00,287 --> 01:15:02,654 I've always loved Carnegiea. Haven't you? 872 01:15:02,748 --> 01:15:04,330 Look, Dr Sayer. 873 01:15:04,417 --> 01:15:05,828 What is it, Anthony? 874 01:15:05,918 --> 01:15:07,408 You choose this place? 875 01:15:07,962 --> 01:15:09,123 Why? 876 01:15:09,255 --> 01:15:10,416 I always come here. 877 01:15:10,756 --> 01:15:13,043 Why? I mean, don't get me wrong, Doctor. 878 01:15:13,134 --> 01:15:17,093 This is a nice place, but after the first hour, it loses something. 879 01:15:18,014 --> 01:15:20,472 Miss Costello, Anthony seems to think the group is bored. 880 01:15:20,558 --> 01:15:22,048 They are. 881 01:15:22,935 --> 01:15:25,552 Well, I thought about taking them to the opera house, but... 882 01:15:25,646 --> 01:15:26,932 The opera? 883 01:15:28,607 --> 01:15:30,473 The Museum of Natural History? 884 01:15:30,568 --> 01:15:32,354 No, no, I don't think so. 885 01:15:32,445 --> 01:15:35,107 Just a lot of dead stuffed things. 886 01:15:35,614 --> 01:15:37,025 Oh... Well, uh... 887 01:15:39,118 --> 01:15:40,324 Where else is there? 888 01:15:40,411 --> 01:15:41,572 Ask them. 889 01:15:44,373 --> 01:15:47,661 (BIG-BAND MUSIC PLAYING) 890 01:15:50,838 --> 01:15:53,045 (LAUGHING) 891 01:16:20,743 --> 01:16:22,325 Is it legal again? 892 01:16:22,495 --> 01:16:24,077 Yes, for some time. 893 01:16:24,163 --> 01:16:26,074 BARMAN: Ladies, what can I get you? 894 01:16:28,209 --> 01:16:30,200 A Rob Roy on the rocks. A what? 895 01:16:30,294 --> 01:16:32,456 Could you make that a virgin Rob Roy? 896 01:16:37,510 --> 01:16:40,798 I work the night shifts at this diner, 897 01:16:40,888 --> 01:16:45,007 so sometimes before work, I'll come see my father. 898 01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:48,927 He used to go to all the games, 899 01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:51,979 so I like to read him the sports pages. (CHUCKLES) 900 01:16:53,317 --> 01:16:56,150 I don't even know if he knows I visit him or not. 901 01:16:57,196 --> 01:16:59,528 My mother doesn't think so. 902 01:17:00,241 --> 01:17:01,731 But you do. 903 01:17:02,910 --> 01:17:04,366 (CLICKS TONGUE) 904 01:17:04,829 --> 01:17:07,491 Well, sometimes I think I see something. 905 01:17:08,499 --> 01:17:11,082 You know, I think I see a change. 906 01:17:11,627 --> 01:17:17,168 And for a moment, I see him like he was, you know, before the stroke, 907 01:17:19,510 --> 01:17:21,421 and then it's gone. 908 01:17:21,512 --> 01:17:23,799 I don't even know if I saw anything. 909 01:17:24,849 --> 01:17:26,214 Does that make any sense? 910 01:17:26,350 --> 01:17:27,715 Yes. 911 01:17:33,399 --> 01:17:35,891 Okay, my troop, back to the ward. 912 01:17:37,820 --> 01:17:39,936 Come on, Debbie. 913 01:17:40,030 --> 01:17:43,694 Bill, Dion. Come on. Put your fork down. Let's go. 914 01:17:44,869 --> 01:17:46,780 So, why are you here? 915 01:17:49,832 --> 01:17:51,243 I receive medication. 916 01:17:51,417 --> 01:17:52,873 For what? 917 01:17:57,131 --> 01:17:59,498 Without it, I'm sort of like your father. 918 01:18:07,516 --> 01:18:08,972 But I'm okay now. 919 01:18:10,394 --> 01:18:11,884 It's good. 920 01:18:14,231 --> 01:18:17,394 (BIG-BAND MUSIC PLAYING) 921 01:18:20,321 --> 01:18:23,188 ♪ You made me love you 922 01:18:23,282 --> 01:18:24,693 ♪ 1 didn't want to do it 923 01:18:24,783 --> 01:18:27,115 ♪ 1 didn't want to do it 924 01:18:27,244 --> 01:18:30,657 ♪ You made me love you (CLEARS THROAT) 925 01:18:30,789 --> 01:18:32,245 ♪ And all the time you knew it (LAUGHS) 926 01:18:32,333 --> 01:18:34,244 ♪ I guess you always knew it 927 01:18:34,335 --> 01:18:36,042 ♪ You make me happy ♪ 928 01:18:36,128 --> 01:18:37,368 No, thank you. 929 01:18:37,463 --> 01:18:40,205 ♪ And sometimes you make me sad 930 01:18:40,299 --> 01:18:41,505 I really, really... 931 01:18:41,592 --> 01:18:47,463 ♪ There were times, dear, you made me, oh, so glad 932 01:18:48,182 --> 01:18:51,641 ♪ You made me sigh for 933 01:18:51,810 --> 01:18:53,471 ♪ 1 didn't want to tell you 934 01:18:53,562 --> 01:18:55,644 ♪ 1 didn't want to tell you 935 01:18:55,731 --> 01:18:58,098 ♪ I want some love 936 01:18:58,192 --> 01:19:01,435 ♪ That's true, yes, I do, indeed I do 937 01:19:01,946 --> 01:19:05,484 ♪ Give me, give me, give me what I cry for 938 01:19:05,616 --> 01:19:09,735 ♪ You know you got the frantic kisses that I'd die for 939 01:19:09,870 --> 01:19:14,080 ♪ You know you made me love you ♪ 940 01:19:14,250 --> 01:19:15,866 Thank you, Rose. 941 01:19:16,502 --> 01:19:21,963 And I was so sure that he was over easy with bacon, wheat toast and black coffee 942 01:19:22,049 --> 01:19:24,586 that I automatically brought him his food without taking his order. 943 01:19:24,677 --> 01:19:25,917 You know what he says? What? 944 01:19:26,011 --> 01:19:27,877 "You forgot the tomato." (BOTH LAUGH) 945 01:19:28,555 --> 01:19:29,920 Did you bring it to him? 946 01:19:30,015 --> 01:19:33,849 No, we were out of them. That's why I didn't get it in the first place. 947 01:19:35,729 --> 01:19:38,562 NURSE: Visiting hours are from 3:00 to 6:00 every day. 948 01:19:38,649 --> 01:19:41,016 Good afternoon. Bainbridge Hospital. 949 01:19:42,194 --> 01:19:43,400 Well... 950 01:19:44,530 --> 01:19:46,692 It was really nice talking to you, Leonard. 951 01:19:46,865 --> 01:19:49,027 It was nice talking to you, too. 952 01:19:51,537 --> 01:19:53,278 Bye-bye. Bye. 953 01:19:55,541 --> 01:19:57,498 Paula? Yeah? 954 01:19:57,918 --> 01:19:59,079 He knows. 955 01:20:00,546 --> 01:20:01,752 Your father. 956 01:20:02,339 --> 01:20:03,750 He knows you visit him. 957 01:20:11,598 --> 01:20:13,088 See you. 958 01:20:24,445 --> 01:20:26,903 Doctor, these are my friends. 959 01:20:28,615 --> 01:20:30,822 He's my doctor. Isn't he the cat's meow? 960 01:20:30,909 --> 01:20:33,025 I want to show you the sunroom. 961 01:20:33,329 --> 01:20:38,199 (PLAYING ROMANTIC MELODY) 962 01:20:45,007 --> 01:20:46,213 Miriam. 963 01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:49,508 I don't know how to tell you this, so I'm just going to say it. 964 01:20:49,595 --> 01:20:50,960 Your husband... 965 01:20:54,850 --> 01:20:59,014 He was granted a divorce from you in 1953. 966 01:21:01,607 --> 01:21:03,689 (SIGHS) Thank God. 967 01:21:04,860 --> 01:21:06,442 (LAUGHING) 968 01:21:08,781 --> 01:21:12,775 Look at that. Pontiac Firebird, 400 engine. 969 01:21:12,868 --> 01:21:14,029 Firebird. 970 01:21:14,119 --> 01:21:15,234 Now that's a car. 971 01:21:16,330 --> 01:21:18,321 Morning, Lucy. May I have your hand? 972 01:21:19,625 --> 01:21:21,787 Take me away from this place. 973 01:21:26,715 --> 01:21:28,797 Wrong. It's right here. 974 01:21:29,468 --> 01:21:31,084 Guess I lose. 975 01:21:31,220 --> 01:21:32,802 I guess your luck is changing. 976 01:21:33,764 --> 01:21:36,597 Very nice. Very nice. 977 01:21:37,684 --> 01:21:39,425 How's it going? 978 01:21:40,104 --> 01:21:41,185 How's it going? 979 01:21:41,313 --> 01:21:42,428 Yeah, how do you feel? 980 01:21:45,484 --> 01:21:48,977 My parents are dead. My wife is in an institution. 981 01:21:50,864 --> 01:21:54,027 My son has disappeared out west somewhere. 982 01:21:55,911 --> 01:21:58,699 I feel old, and I feel swindled. 983 01:21:58,789 --> 01:22:00,496 That's how I feel. 984 01:22:05,337 --> 01:22:09,456 MRS LOWE: I stopped by the hobby shop. I got more pencils. 985 01:22:09,883 --> 01:22:13,342 And, uh, I got this. 986 01:22:15,013 --> 01:22:17,095 A small T-square. 987 01:22:18,100 --> 01:22:19,431 That's good? 988 01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:20,925 I can use that. Yeah. Good. 989 01:22:24,273 --> 01:22:25,559 Hi, Leonard. 990 01:22:27,734 --> 01:22:28,974 Hi. 991 01:22:32,948 --> 01:22:35,030 That's really nice. 992 01:22:36,535 --> 01:22:38,367 I'll be right back. 993 01:22:39,580 --> 01:22:40,866 Leonard. 994 01:22:46,378 --> 01:22:48,870 MRS LOWE: He never talked about girls before. 995 01:22:50,632 --> 01:22:53,294 Certainly never had anything to do with them. 996 01:22:55,012 --> 01:22:58,755 It's a bit ridiculous, all this girl business. 997 01:22:58,849 --> 01:23:00,135 Don't you think? 998 01:23:00,267 --> 01:23:01,553 He's a grown man, Mrs Lowe. 999 01:23:01,643 --> 01:23:04,010 You know what he said to me? 1000 01:23:04,104 --> 01:23:09,065 I should take a vacation. I should go away for a few days and relax. 1001 01:23:09,193 --> 01:23:12,106 Well, I'm sure he meant you deserve a vacation, which you do. 1002 01:23:14,031 --> 01:23:18,366 I can't leave him alone in this place. He'd die without me. 1003 01:23:21,872 --> 01:23:23,237 Girls. 1004 01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:27,492 (RINGING) 1005 01:23:35,844 --> 01:23:37,426 Hello. LEONARD: Hello? 1006 01:23:38,263 --> 01:23:39,753 Dr Sayer? 1007 01:23:40,849 --> 01:23:42,840 Dr Sayer, I've gotta talk to you. 1008 01:23:43,852 --> 01:23:45,559 Leonard? Yes. 1009 01:23:45,646 --> 01:23:49,059 I think it's important some things were said. 1010 01:23:50,317 --> 01:23:51,773 I just gotta talk to you. 1011 01:23:51,944 --> 01:23:53,355 What kind of things? 1012 01:23:53,445 --> 01:23:55,732 Well, things that matter, things that have happened to me, 1013 01:23:55,822 --> 01:23:59,031 things that I've come to understand. Things, things. 1014 01:23:59,117 --> 01:24:00,824 Where are you calling from, Leonard? 1015 01:24:01,578 --> 01:24:03,285 Your office. 1016 01:24:03,664 --> 01:24:04,870 it's very late. 1017 01:24:04,998 --> 01:24:06,204 Is it? 1018 01:24:06,291 --> 01:24:10,034 Leonard, you stay there. I'll be right over. 1019 01:24:10,128 --> 01:24:11,209 Good. 1020 01:24:11,296 --> 01:24:12,707 (LINE DISCONNECTS) 1021 01:24:12,798 --> 01:24:14,630 (DIAL TONE) 1022 01:24:20,305 --> 01:24:23,172 Leonard. Leonard. 1023 01:24:23,267 --> 01:24:25,884 Dr Sayer, sit down. Sit down. 1024 01:24:25,978 --> 01:24:28,185 Why? What's wrong? 1025 01:24:29,314 --> 01:24:30,804 We've got to tell everybody. 1026 01:24:30,899 --> 01:24:34,642 We've got to remind them. We've got to remind them how good it is. 1027 01:24:34,778 --> 01:24:36,610 How good what is, Leonard? 1028 01:24:37,948 --> 01:24:41,612 Read the newspaper. What's it say? All bad. 1029 01:24:42,286 --> 01:24:43,742 It's all bad. 1030 01:24:43,829 --> 01:24:45,661 People have forgotten what life is all about. 1031 01:24:45,789 --> 01:24:47,621 They've forgotten what it is to be alive. 1032 01:24:47,708 --> 01:24:49,324 They need to be reminded. 1033 01:24:49,418 --> 01:24:53,082 They need to be reminded about what they have and what they can lose. 1034 01:24:53,171 --> 01:24:55,879 What I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, 1035 01:24:56,008 --> 01:24:58,750 the freedom of life, the wonderment of life. 1036 01:24:58,844 --> 01:25:02,257 He kept saying that people don't appreciate the simple things. 1037 01:25:02,347 --> 01:25:06,181 Work, play, friendship, family. 1038 01:25:06,602 --> 01:25:09,845 He was so excited he talked till 5:00 in the morning. 1039 01:25:10,314 --> 01:25:13,227 I don't know whether this is liberation, mania. 1040 01:25:13,317 --> 01:25:14,478 Or love? 1041 01:25:14,610 --> 01:25:15,816 Yes, right. 1042 01:25:16,486 --> 01:25:18,102 What he's saying is absolutely right. 1043 01:25:18,238 --> 01:25:19,854 We don't really know how to live. 1044 01:25:19,948 --> 01:25:21,905 But at 5:00 in the morning? 1045 01:25:22,868 --> 01:25:25,451 Waheedah, how are you? 1046 01:25:25,537 --> 01:25:26,618 I'm fine. 1047 01:25:26,705 --> 01:25:27,695 Very good. 1048 01:25:44,765 --> 01:25:46,347 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 1049 01:25:47,559 --> 01:25:49,049 Mr Lowe? 1050 01:25:49,895 --> 01:25:51,556 Are you all right? Yeah. 1051 01:26:03,033 --> 01:26:04,865 What is it that you want now, Mr Lowe? 1052 01:26:04,951 --> 01:26:06,362 The simplest thing. 1053 01:26:06,703 --> 01:26:08,114 And it is? 1054 01:26:10,916 --> 01:26:12,782 To have the choice to go for a walk 1055 01:26:12,876 --> 01:26:14,708 if I want to like any normal person. 1056 01:26:17,881 --> 01:26:19,747 You are free to go for a walk. 1057 01:26:20,926 --> 01:26:23,088 I am? Alone? 1058 01:26:24,429 --> 01:26:26,215 What difference would that make? 1059 01:26:27,683 --> 01:26:29,640 Look, I'm not a criminal. 1060 01:26:29,726 --> 01:26:33,936 I've committed no crime. I'm not a danger to myself or to others. 1061 01:26:34,022 --> 01:26:37,936 And yet, I'm still not allowed to go for a walk on my own, by myself. 1062 01:26:39,319 --> 01:26:41,651 You didn't wake a thing, you woke a person. 1063 01:26:42,322 --> 01:26:43,904 I am a person. 1064 01:26:44,950 --> 01:26:47,863 Mr Lowe, are you at all aware 1065 01:26:47,953 --> 01:26:51,617 of the unconscious hostility you're exhibiting toward us right know? 1066 01:26:51,915 --> 01:26:54,282 How could I be aware of it if it's unconscious? 1067 01:26:54,876 --> 01:26:55,957 Nora, please. 1068 01:26:56,169 --> 01:26:58,285 (ALL CHUCKLING) 1069 01:26:58,922 --> 01:27:02,131 I'm curious. What would you do if you went out? 1070 01:27:05,929 --> 01:27:09,593 I'd go for a walk, I'd look at things, I'd talk to people. 1071 01:27:09,683 --> 01:27:12,220 I would decide if I want to go in this direction, 1072 01:27:12,310 --> 01:27:14,768 or that direction, or straight ahead. 1073 01:27:14,855 --> 01:27:17,472 I would do all the things that you people take for granted. 1074 01:27:20,819 --> 01:27:21,934 And that's it? 1075 01:27:22,028 --> 01:27:23,143 That's it. 1076 01:27:26,324 --> 01:27:27,485 All right, then. 1077 01:27:28,702 --> 01:27:32,991 We'll certainly take this into consideration, and we'll let you know. 1078 01:27:33,081 --> 01:27:34,162 Thank you. 1079 01:27:34,291 --> 01:27:35,326 Thank you. 1080 01:27:43,341 --> 01:27:44,502 Dr Sayer. 1081 01:27:46,511 --> 01:27:47,922 SAYER: Are you all right? 1082 01:27:48,013 --> 01:27:49,845 Yeah, I was aware of that. It was nothing. 1083 01:27:49,973 --> 01:27:51,805 I was nervous. What'd they say? 1084 01:27:54,144 --> 01:27:57,432 They said there was insufficient data at this time, 1085 01:27:57,522 --> 01:28:01,356 that continued observation was necessary for a complete diagnosis. 1086 01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:04,317 They said it's a different world out there, 1087 01:28:04,446 --> 01:28:06,403 and you may not be prepared for it, 1088 01:28:06,490 --> 01:28:09,699 and they couldn't be held responsible for what might happen to you. 1089 01:28:10,744 --> 01:28:12,234 They said no. 1090 01:28:18,543 --> 01:28:20,625 What did you say? 1091 01:28:20,712 --> 01:28:22,794 They don't have to listen to me, Leonard. 1092 01:28:22,881 --> 01:28:24,246 Do you agree with them? 1093 01:28:25,967 --> 01:28:27,423 Yes. 1094 01:28:30,847 --> 01:28:33,509 Leonard, I don't think we're out of the woods yet. 1095 01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:36,388 I'm not sure that this is nothing. 1096 01:28:36,478 --> 01:28:40,597 It's an experimental drug, and we need time to evaluate things before... 1097 01:28:41,399 --> 01:28:43,310 Bye. Leonard. 1098 01:28:44,402 --> 01:28:45,767 Leonard. 1099 01:28:46,238 --> 01:28:47,649 Leonard. 1100 01:28:48,198 --> 01:28:49,313 Where are you going? 1101 01:28:49,407 --> 01:28:50,442 For a walk. 1102 01:28:51,493 --> 01:28:53,609 Leonard. Leonard. 1103 01:28:59,876 --> 01:29:01,366 This is Dr Sayer. 1104 01:29:12,597 --> 01:29:14,634 So where you goin'? I'm going outside. 1105 01:29:14,724 --> 01:29:17,136 No, not today you're not. Patients are not allowed beyond this point. 1106 01:29:17,227 --> 01:29:19,138 I'm just going out for a walk. No, no. I'm sorry. 1107 01:29:19,229 --> 01:29:21,596 Don't make it hard on yourself. 1108 01:29:25,861 --> 01:29:26,896 Leonard. Stop for a minute. 1109 01:29:26,987 --> 01:29:28,523 I just want to go for a walk! 1110 01:29:28,613 --> 01:29:32,106 He's not a mental patient. This is unnecessary. Let him go. 1111 01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:34,783 Please, he's not violent. He's not violent. 1112 01:29:36,663 --> 01:29:38,620 Will you let go of him? You will hurt him! 1113 01:29:38,707 --> 01:29:42,621 Will you let go of him? Wait! Stop, please! Let go of him! 1114 01:29:43,795 --> 01:29:47,789 I don't understand it. He was never any trouble before. 1115 01:29:47,883 --> 01:29:51,717 He was quiet and polite and respectful. 1116 01:29:51,803 --> 01:29:55,512 He never demanded anything. He was never disobedient. 1117 01:29:55,599 --> 01:29:57,966 Because he was catatonic, Mrs Lowe. 1118 01:29:59,811 --> 01:30:01,973 I'm speaking of when he was a boy. 1119 01:30:04,107 --> 01:30:05,472 I'm sorry. 1120 01:30:06,192 --> 01:30:08,559 I don't know who that is up there. 1121 01:30:08,653 --> 01:30:10,610 I don't think he knows. 1122 01:30:11,823 --> 01:30:14,815 You've turned Leonard into something he's not. 1123 01:30:14,910 --> 01:30:19,746 It's not us that's defective! It's them! We're not in crisis! They are! 1124 01:30:20,248 --> 01:30:21,283 They are! 1125 01:30:21,374 --> 01:30:23,411 We have been through the worst and survived it. 1126 01:30:23,501 --> 01:30:27,039 They haven't. They fear it! They fear it! 1127 01:30:27,714 --> 01:30:28,875 Because they know! 1128 01:30:29,007 --> 01:30:30,168 MAN: They know! 1129 01:30:31,176 --> 01:30:32,382 They know. 1130 01:30:32,552 --> 01:30:33,963 ALL: They know! 1131 01:30:34,054 --> 01:30:35,215 Because we... 1132 01:30:35,931 --> 01:30:37,888 We remind them. 1133 01:30:39,225 --> 01:30:42,343 We remind them that there is a problem, 1134 01:30:42,437 --> 01:30:45,179 that there is a problem that they don't have an answer to. 1135 01:30:45,941 --> 01:30:48,808 And they'll never be healers until they realise this, 1136 01:30:48,902 --> 01:30:51,018 until they start to see the problem, 1137 01:30:51,112 --> 01:30:54,355 until they start to admit that there is a problem, 1138 01:30:54,449 --> 01:30:56,611 and that the problem isn't us. 1139 01:30:56,701 --> 01:31:00,035 We're not the problem. It's them! They're the problem! 1140 01:31:00,205 --> 01:31:01,661 (YELLING) 1141 01:31:01,748 --> 01:31:03,534 They're the (STUTTERING) problem. 1142 01:31:04,292 --> 01:31:05,874 They're the problem! 1143 01:31:06,044 --> 01:31:08,456 (PATIENTS YELLING) 1144 01:31:10,048 --> 01:31:11,959 They're the problem! 1145 01:31:14,970 --> 01:31:17,928 He's lived for 30 years without the ability to release anger. 1146 01:31:18,014 --> 01:31:19,721 KAUFMAN: As have the others. 1147 01:31:19,808 --> 01:31:22,175 I happen to think his behaviour is more natural than the others. 1148 01:31:22,268 --> 01:31:23,474 Really? 1149 01:31:23,561 --> 01:31:24,847 His tics and his paranoia, 1150 01:31:24,938 --> 01:31:26,645 you think these are signs of normal behaviour? 1151 01:31:26,731 --> 01:31:28,563 Because he's in that place. 1152 01:31:28,650 --> 01:31:29,811 Is that it? Yes. 1153 01:31:29,901 --> 01:31:32,438 We wake him up, and then we lock him up in a cage. 1154 01:31:32,529 --> 01:31:34,816 That's not paranoia. That's a fact. 1155 01:31:34,906 --> 01:31:36,192 The fact is, Doctor, 1156 01:31:36,282 --> 01:31:38,319 that I've got 20 psychotics up there refusing to eat. 1157 01:31:38,410 --> 01:31:41,277 Now, they have no idea why they're refusing to eat. 1158 01:31:41,371 --> 01:31:43,282 How long do you think I should let that go on? 1159 01:31:43,373 --> 01:31:45,364 He knows why. He wants out. 1160 01:31:45,458 --> 01:31:48,917 Dr Sayer, Mr Lowe is not the messiah of ward five. 1161 01:31:49,004 --> 01:31:51,245 He's a man in trouble. 1162 01:31:51,339 --> 01:31:54,172 He wasn't resurrected. He was administered a drug, a drug by you. 1163 01:31:54,259 --> 01:31:57,251 A drug that has fallen short of its somewhat miraculous reputation. 1164 01:31:57,345 --> 01:31:59,336 The others are fine. They show no signs... 1165 01:31:59,472 --> 01:32:01,463 He's been on it longer, Doctor. 1166 01:32:05,603 --> 01:32:09,016 Now, I sympathise with him. I've tried to accommodate him. 1167 01:32:09,107 --> 01:32:10,893 But I will not let him endanger the health 1168 01:32:11,026 --> 01:32:12,812 of the rest of the patients in this hospital. 1169 01:32:18,199 --> 01:32:20,315 SAYER: You can help if you wait for me out there, please. 1170 01:32:20,410 --> 01:32:22,526 Okay, Doctor. Thank you. 1171 01:32:24,039 --> 01:32:26,622 Excuse me. Excuse me. 1172 01:32:26,708 --> 01:32:28,244 MAN: We can't allow it. 1173 01:32:28,334 --> 01:32:29,665 LEONARD: He's all right. 1174 01:32:33,298 --> 01:32:35,084 He's all right. 1175 01:32:45,769 --> 01:32:47,510 How are you today? 1176 01:32:48,313 --> 01:32:50,975 I'm all right. How are you? 1177 01:32:52,484 --> 01:32:53,974 Never better. 1178 01:32:56,696 --> 01:32:58,937 What's the purpose of these gentlemen? 1179 01:32:59,074 --> 01:33:01,315 These gentlemen protect me. 1180 01:33:02,160 --> 01:33:03,992 I wish I didn't need them. 1181 01:33:04,996 --> 01:33:07,237 Someone's trying to hurt you? 1182 01:33:07,332 --> 01:33:08,788 Who? Who? (CHUCKLES) 1183 01:33:09,459 --> 01:33:11,370 That's the thing, isn't it? Who? 1184 01:33:12,045 --> 01:33:15,504 One never knows. Someone I least expect, I expect. 1185 01:33:16,341 --> 01:33:18,252 Look at history. 1186 01:33:19,177 --> 01:33:23,011 Leonard, every patient on this ward thinks there's a plot against him. 1187 01:33:23,098 --> 01:33:25,180 Yeah, well, they're mistaken. They're crazy. 1188 01:33:25,934 --> 01:33:28,050 (LAUGHING) 1189 01:33:32,398 --> 01:33:34,309 You've gotten worse. 1190 01:33:37,821 --> 01:33:39,812 The drug's not working. 1191 01:33:41,866 --> 01:33:44,779 All these things you're experiencing are the side effects of that, 1192 01:33:44,869 --> 01:33:46,701 and they're making you behave this way. 1193 01:33:46,788 --> 01:33:49,371 I appreciate your coming to see me, but I have things to do. 1194 01:33:49,707 --> 01:33:52,916 Leonard. Leonard, please, look at yourself. 1195 01:33:53,002 --> 01:33:54,743 No, look at yourself. 1196 01:33:54,838 --> 01:33:56,454 I have a sickness. 1197 01:33:56,548 --> 01:34:00,007 Sickness took me out of the world, and I fought to come back. 1198 01:34:00,093 --> 01:34:03,882 I fought for 30 years. Thirty years. 1199 01:34:04,222 --> 01:34:07,305 And I'm still fighting. But you. . . You have no excuse! 1200 01:34:07,392 --> 01:34:08,757 Me? I've nothing to do with me. 1201 01:34:08,852 --> 01:34:10,593 You have no excuse! 1202 01:34:10,687 --> 01:34:13,429 You're just a scared and lonely man with nothing! 1203 01:34:13,523 --> 01:34:17,016 No life, nothing! You're the one that's asleep. 1204 01:34:17,110 --> 01:34:19,226 Your medicine could be taken away. 1205 01:34:20,697 --> 01:34:22,358 They can do that. 1206 01:34:23,575 --> 01:34:26,613 You could wake up in the morning, and it won't be there. 1207 01:34:31,457 --> 01:34:32,822 Leonard. 1208 01:34:33,251 --> 01:34:34,741 Get away from me! 1209 01:34:36,671 --> 01:34:39,288 (PATIENTS GIGGLING) 1210 01:34:51,311 --> 01:34:53,393 I'm all right. Thank you. 1211 01:34:54,397 --> 01:34:56,855 I just fell. I'm fine. 1212 01:34:57,442 --> 01:34:58,853 (DOOR CLOSES) 1213 01:37:00,231 --> 01:37:01,562 LEONARD: Sayer. 1214 01:37:19,625 --> 01:37:21,366 Help me. 1215 01:37:38,811 --> 01:37:41,052 Can you walk? 1216 01:37:42,148 --> 01:37:44,606 I won't let them take the medicine away, Leonard. 1217 01:37:44,692 --> 01:37:46,729 We'll work together with it. 1218 01:37:50,907 --> 01:37:53,740 All we're saying is that you're taking an unnecessary risk. 1219 01:37:53,826 --> 01:37:55,737 He's had a reaction to the drug. 1220 01:37:55,828 --> 01:37:57,739 He has acquired some tics, 1221 01:37:57,830 --> 01:38:00,538 but he's not as concerned with his appearance 1222 01:38:00,625 --> 01:38:03,458 as the effect it may have upon the other patients. 1223 01:38:04,212 --> 01:38:06,123 Now, we'll be working with his dosage. 1224 01:38:06,214 --> 01:38:08,501 He's aware of this, and he's prepared for any effects, 1225 01:38:08,591 --> 01:38:10,798 but he wants the others to be prepared as well. 1226 01:38:11,969 --> 01:38:13,551 Now, you've gotta help me with this. 1227 01:38:13,638 --> 01:38:15,254 MARGARET: Yes, Doctor. Okay. 1228 01:38:28,903 --> 01:38:30,393 Hey, Len. 1229 01:38:30,488 --> 01:38:32,320 Welcome back. Thanks. 1230 01:38:35,785 --> 01:38:36,866 Hello, Leonard. Hi. 1231 01:38:36,953 --> 01:38:38,819 How you doing, Leonard? How you feeling? 1232 01:38:38,913 --> 01:38:39,994 You all right? 1233 01:38:40,081 --> 01:38:41,446 It's swell to see you, Leonard. 1234 01:38:44,168 --> 01:38:46,000 It got so quiet around here. 1235 01:38:46,087 --> 01:38:48,124 (ALL LAUGHING) 'Cause we're waiting for you. 1236 01:38:51,509 --> 01:38:55,924 ♪ Just a song at twilight 1237 01:38:57,390 --> 01:39:01,008 ♪ When the lights are low 1238 01:39:03,563 --> 01:39:06,521 You're looking good, Len. You're looking better every day. 1239 01:39:06,607 --> 01:39:08,189 Yeah. 1240 01:39:09,068 --> 01:39:12,857 LUCY: ♪ Softly come and go 1241 01:39:13,489 --> 01:39:16,151 What if he's just had enough of it? 1242 01:39:16,284 --> 01:39:18,992 What if it's just a matter of time for all of us? 1243 01:39:23,374 --> 01:39:24,705 There's no medical reason 1244 01:39:24,792 --> 01:39:28,376 to think that what's happening to Leonard will happen to you. 1245 01:39:28,463 --> 01:39:29,874 Why not? 1246 01:39:30,631 --> 01:39:35,421 Well, you're all individuals, and you're well. 1247 01:39:37,263 --> 01:39:39,095 Aren't you? Yeah. 1248 01:39:40,057 --> 01:39:46,975 ♪ Comes love's old sweet song ♪ 1249 01:39:54,572 --> 01:39:57,030 That was lovely, Lucy. 1250 01:39:57,742 --> 01:40:01,201 I learned that song a long, long time ago. 1251 01:40:05,333 --> 01:40:07,244 I know what year it is. 1252 01:40:09,962 --> 01:40:13,205 I just can't imagine being older than 22. 1253 01:40:14,050 --> 01:40:15,961 I've no experience at it. 1254 01:40:18,054 --> 01:40:20,921 I know it's not 1926. 1255 01:40:22,975 --> 01:40:24,966 I just need it to be. 1256 01:40:40,451 --> 01:40:42,442 How are you? 1257 01:40:43,704 --> 01:40:45,240 Never better. (BOTH CHUCKLE) 1258 01:40:49,710 --> 01:40:52,452 How are the others? Are they talking about me? 1259 01:40:53,756 --> 01:40:55,338 They're scared. 1260 01:40:55,424 --> 01:40:57,506 They should be. 1261 01:41:02,139 --> 01:41:04,005 Can you stop this? 1262 01:41:04,767 --> 01:41:06,724 I'm not sure, but I'm trying. 1263 01:41:06,811 --> 01:41:08,427 Don't give up on me. 1264 01:41:08,563 --> 01:41:10,179 I won't. 1265 01:41:23,035 --> 01:41:24,400 425. 425. 1266 01:41:24,495 --> 01:41:25,826 Yes. Okay. 1267 01:41:25,997 --> 01:41:28,614 Here we go. 425. 1268 01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:34,877 MAN: I got a postcard from my son. 1269 01:41:34,964 --> 01:41:37,581 LEONARD: I'm all right, and then everything stops. 1270 01:41:37,675 --> 01:41:40,042 Look at this. I got a postcard from my son. 1271 01:41:40,136 --> 01:41:42,503 There's no warning. It's like a light switch going off. 1272 01:41:42,597 --> 01:41:44,258 it happens that fast. 1273 01:41:44,348 --> 01:41:49,309 Something has to happen to bring me back, a sound or a touch. 1274 01:41:50,271 --> 01:41:52,729 And then I can move again. I'm okay again. 1275 01:41:52,815 --> 01:41:54,180 Thanks. 1276 01:41:58,404 --> 01:42:02,318 It's not that it feels bad. It's nothing. I feel nothing. 1277 01:42:03,367 --> 01:42:05,358 It's like I'm dead. 1278 01:42:07,038 --> 01:42:08,199 Nothing. 1279 01:42:09,832 --> 01:42:11,368 Nothing. 1280 01:42:12,293 --> 01:42:16,787 it gets to be like I'm not a person any more, just a collection of tics. 1281 01:42:18,049 --> 01:42:20,507 Not that I mind them necessarily. 1282 01:42:20,593 --> 01:42:23,335 Sometimes they make life kind of interesting. 1283 01:42:23,429 --> 01:42:26,262 Though I'm not sure who's in control, me or them. 1284 01:42:26,349 --> 01:42:29,137 What I do mind is knowing that they shouldn't be there. 1285 01:42:31,687 --> 01:42:33,098 Back to five. 1286 01:42:33,230 --> 01:42:34,686 Okay, five, five. 1287 01:42:43,282 --> 01:42:44,397 Just a little more. 1288 01:42:44,492 --> 01:42:45,573 Okay. 1289 01:42:46,410 --> 01:42:50,028 It feels good when I'm working. I feel good here. 1290 01:42:51,540 --> 01:42:53,122 The book list is coming along well. 1291 01:42:53,250 --> 01:42:54,832 I'd love to see it. 1292 01:42:54,919 --> 01:42:56,876 It's here somewhere. 1293 01:43:02,259 --> 01:43:04,591 That's all right. Some other time. 1294 01:43:05,721 --> 01:43:07,712 (GROANING) 1295 01:43:07,848 --> 01:43:09,555 Leonard. Leonard. 1296 01:43:10,476 --> 01:43:12,513 (STUTTERING) What's happening? 1297 01:43:12,645 --> 01:43:14,101 You're having an oculogyric crisis. 1298 01:43:14,188 --> 01:43:16,145 Get the camera. Get the camera. 1299 01:43:16,232 --> 01:43:18,269 Bring the camera. Get the camera. 1300 01:43:23,197 --> 01:43:25,279 (BABBLING) 1301 01:43:29,161 --> 01:43:31,243 I can't do this, Leonard. I'm turning the camera off. 1302 01:43:31,330 --> 01:43:34,322 (GARBLED) No, no, no. Watch, watch, watch. 1303 01:43:36,627 --> 01:43:39,540 Learn, learn, learn. Learn, learn, learn. Learn, learn! 1304 01:43:39,630 --> 01:43:41,496 Learn, learn, learn. Learn, learn, learn. 1305 01:43:41,590 --> 01:43:43,627 Learn from me. Learn. 1306 01:43:45,052 --> 01:43:46,417 Six... 1307 01:43:47,805 --> 01:43:49,011 625. 1308 01:43:49,181 --> 01:43:51,843 PHARMACIST: All right, 625. 1309 01:43:52,059 --> 01:43:53,720 SAYER: 675. 1310 01:43:53,811 --> 01:43:55,097 6757 Okay. 1311 01:43:55,187 --> 01:43:56,348 Thank you. 1312 01:44:13,164 --> 01:44:18,079 I can't read any more. I can't keep my eyes in one place. 1313 01:44:18,169 --> 01:44:19,785 I keep going back to the beginning. 1314 01:44:19,879 --> 01:44:21,916 The beginning, beginning, beginning. 1315 01:44:25,426 --> 01:44:27,838 I've let everybody down. I have. No. 1316 01:44:27,928 --> 01:44:29,134 I let you down. 1317 01:44:29,221 --> 01:44:30,302 No, you have not. 1318 01:44:30,389 --> 01:44:32,255 I have! I have! I'm grotesque. 1319 01:44:32,349 --> 01:44:33,555 You are not. 1320 01:44:33,642 --> 01:44:35,303 It's not true, and I won't listen to you talk like this. 1321 01:44:35,394 --> 01:44:37,385 I'm grotesque. I am. Look at me. 1322 01:44:37,480 --> 01:44:38,936 Look at me, and tell me I'm not. 1323 01:44:39,023 --> 01:44:40,889 Tell me I'm not. You're not. 1324 01:44:41,358 --> 01:44:44,726 This isn't me. This isn't me! 1325 01:44:44,904 --> 01:44:46,520 (LEONARD CRYING) 1326 01:44:59,627 --> 01:45:03,916 When my son was born healthy, I never asked why. 1327 01:45:04,882 --> 01:45:06,793 Why was I so lucky? 1328 01:45:06,884 --> 01:45:12,175 What did I do to deserve this perfect child, this perfect life? 1329 01:45:13,140 --> 01:45:16,303 But when he got sick, you can bet I asked why. 1330 01:45:16,393 --> 01:45:20,227 I demanded to know why. Why was this happening? 1331 01:45:23,609 --> 01:45:25,816 There was nothing I could do about it. 1332 01:45:25,903 --> 01:45:29,066 No one I could go to and say, "Stop this. 1333 01:45:29,907 --> 01:45:33,992 "Please, stop this. Can't you see my son is in pain?" 1334 01:45:37,122 --> 01:45:40,410 My son is in pain. Please, stop this. 1335 01:45:41,794 --> 01:45:43,501 He's fighting, Mrs Lowe. 1336 01:45:43,587 --> 01:45:44,918 He's losing. 1337 01:46:11,574 --> 01:46:13,941 Uh, I worked. 1338 01:46:15,870 --> 01:46:18,578 Had friends over, went dancing. 1339 01:46:18,664 --> 01:46:20,575 That's about it. Not much. 1340 01:46:20,666 --> 01:46:22,282 That's great. 1341 01:46:24,211 --> 01:46:25,997 I've never done any of those things. 1342 01:46:26,088 --> 01:46:27,374 You will. 1343 01:46:30,426 --> 01:46:32,667 They'll never let me out of this place. 1344 01:46:36,307 --> 01:46:38,298 And they shouldn't. 1345 01:46:40,019 --> 01:46:43,728 I think I'm still not well as you can see. 1346 01:46:52,114 --> 01:46:54,651 I mean, I feel well when I see you. 1347 01:47:17,556 --> 01:47:20,639 (STUTTERING) I won't see you any more. 1348 01:47:33,280 --> 01:47:36,022 I just want to say goodbye. 1349 01:47:39,036 --> 01:47:41,073 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) 1350 01:48:01,266 --> 01:48:02,597 Look. 1351 01:48:33,716 --> 01:48:36,879 (INAUDIBLE) 1352 01:49:45,496 --> 01:49:46,782 (SOBBING) 1353 01:50:55,774 --> 01:50:57,105 Now? 1354 01:50:57,192 --> 01:50:59,274 SAYER: Whenever you're ready. 1355 01:51:00,737 --> 01:51:02,694 My name is Leonard Lowe. 1356 01:51:03,407 --> 01:51:05,023 it has been explained to me 1357 01:51:05,117 --> 01:51:08,280 that I have been away for quite some time. 1358 01:51:10,622 --> 01:51:11,783 I'm back. 1359 01:51:13,375 --> 01:51:15,286 SAYER: What's it like to be back? 1360 01:51:16,044 --> 01:51:19,287 I thought it was a dream at first. 1361 01:51:19,673 --> 01:51:22,131 SAYER: What made you realise it wasn't a dream? 1362 01:51:24,761 --> 01:51:27,298 When I spoke and you understood me. 1363 01:51:28,390 --> 01:51:30,051 (DOOR OPENING) 1364 01:51:49,536 --> 01:51:51,743 You told him I was a kind man. 1365 01:51:54,917 --> 01:51:59,377 How kind is it to give life only to take it away again? 1366 01:52:01,632 --> 01:52:04,465 COSTELLO: It's given and taken away from all of us. 1367 01:52:06,929 --> 01:52:08,670 Why doesn't that comfort me? 1368 01:52:11,767 --> 01:52:14,134 Because you are a kind man. 1369 01:52:18,315 --> 01:52:20,101 (INAUDIBLE) 1370 01:52:26,907 --> 01:52:29,274 Because he's your friend. 1371 01:53:05,821 --> 01:53:07,732 SAYER: The summer was extraordinary. 1372 01:53:08,407 --> 01:53:11,650 it was a season of rebirth and innocence. 1373 01:53:11,743 --> 01:53:13,404 A miracle. 1374 01:53:13,495 --> 01:53:17,033 Fifteen patients, and for us, the caretakers. 1375 01:53:18,709 --> 01:53:21,952 But now we have to adjust to the realities of miracles. 1376 01:53:23,964 --> 01:53:25,921 We can hide behind the veil of science 1377 01:53:26,008 --> 01:53:28,340 and say it was the drug that failed, 1378 01:53:28,427 --> 01:53:31,044 or that the illness itself had returned, 1379 01:53:31,138 --> 01:53:33,596 or that the patients were unable to cope 1380 01:53:33,682 --> 01:53:36,049 with losing decades of their lives. 1381 01:53:37,019 --> 01:53:38,805 But the reality is 1382 01:53:38,895 --> 01:53:42,684 we don't know what went wrong any more than we know what went right. 1383 01:53:44,151 --> 01:53:48,520 What we do know is as the chemical window closed, 1384 01:53:51,658 --> 01:53:53,774 another awakening took place. 1385 01:53:58,040 --> 01:54:02,580 That the human spirit is more powerful than any drug, 1386 01:54:04,755 --> 01:54:07,167 and that is what needs to be nourished. 1387 01:54:09,634 --> 01:54:14,970 With work, play, friendship, family. 1388 01:54:18,560 --> 01:54:21,052 These are the things that matter. 1389 01:54:23,440 --> 01:54:25,431 This is what we had forgotten. 1390 01:54:30,697 --> 01:54:32,688 The simplest things. 1391 01:54:41,124 --> 01:54:42,330 Well... 1392 01:54:42,417 --> 01:54:44,328 (CLEARS THROAT) Good night. 1393 01:54:44,419 --> 01:54:45,454 Good night. 1394 01:55:37,973 --> 01:55:39,555 Eleanor! 1395 01:55:39,724 --> 01:55:41,010 Yes? 1396 01:55:42,769 --> 01:55:43,884 Um... 1397 01:55:51,361 --> 01:55:52,601 (DOOR CLOSES) 1398 01:55:53,738 --> 01:55:55,069 Eleanor. 1399 01:55:55,782 --> 01:55:57,147 What's wrong? 1400 01:55:59,077 --> 01:56:02,160 I was wondering, what are you doing tonight? 1401 01:56:03,165 --> 01:56:05,076 If you have other plans, I... 1402 01:56:05,333 --> 01:56:07,449 No. Because I was wondering... 1403 01:56:07,586 --> 01:56:09,168 You have no plans? 1404 01:56:09,296 --> 01:56:10,832 No, I have no... 1405 01:56:10,922 --> 01:56:13,960 Because I was wondering if you... We... 1406 01:56:14,050 --> 01:56:16,542 Well, you and I could, um... 1407 01:56:18,263 --> 01:56:20,220 If we could, um, 1408 01:56:21,391 --> 01:56:23,052 go for a cup of coffee? 1409 01:56:24,394 --> 01:56:25,759 Yes. 1410 01:56:26,354 --> 01:56:27,810 I'd love to. 1411 01:56:35,572 --> 01:56:37,483 My car's over here. 1412 01:56:37,574 --> 01:56:39,861 What do you say we just walk? 1413 01:56:40,577 --> 01:56:42,067 Okay. 1414 01:57:20,659 --> 01:57:22,070 SAYER: Let's begin.