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Time is a curious construct.

We do not even notice it exists until we start running out.

My name is Raymond Forrester.

Professor of psychology,

University of California, Los Angeles.

This is case file 0 0 0 1.

It is March 1st, 2017.

I have dosed and ingested, a sugar cube,

four times the maximum recommended dose of LSD.

I have loaded a 38 caliber revolver with a single...

round.

In 45 minutes, I will place the barrel of the revolver against the temple of my head

and pull the trigger ending this particular life.

If I have timed things properly,

the bullet will pass through my brain at approximately

the moment of maximum initial,

physiological and psychological impact.

And this will produce

the desired effect.

This case begins on Christmas day, 1960.

All the instructions.

I received a package in the mail from a colleague

and friend of mine, Dr. Timothy Leery.

Contained in the package was a letter.

The letter detailed precise instructions for what I was

to do with the balance of the contents of the box,

which included three sugar cubes an eyedropper,

a vial of clear fluid, which later proved to be LSD

and the "Tibetan Book of the Dead."

Fortunately, I did not follow Dr. Leery's instructions.

Instead, I took a student of mine to the Albatross Hotel

on the beach in Malibu, California

at 21152 Pacific Coast Highway.

It was a New Year's Eve party that night. She wanted to attend.

I convinced Dorothy to ingest the LSD with me in our room.

We then joined the party, which was in full swing.

And this is what happened next.

♪ I remember the day ♪

♪ That I met you ♪

♪ Hand in hand we strolled ♪

♪ Through the park ♪

♪ Then all of a sudden you kissed me ♪

♪ And you started a flame in my heart ♪

♪ There were tears in your eyes when you whispered ♪

♪ That nothing would ever cause us to part ♪

♪ Then I heard you saying darling I love you ♪

♪ And you started a flame in my heart ♪

♪ You said you would love me ♪

♪ Stay with me everyday ♪

♪ And that our love would grow and grow ♪

♪ No burden is too hard for us to bear ♪

♪ As long as we both love and share ♪

♪ Please forgive my poor heart dear ♪

♪ Sometimes the things I say may sound harsh ♪

♪ But no matter darling what might happen ♪

♪ I shall always have that flame in my heart ♪

♪ Yes no matter darling what might happen ♪

Welcome to the Albatross

Whoa, well golly. ♪ I shall always ♪

♪ Have that flame ♪

Paul.

Don't stand there like a log. ♪ In my heart ♪

Do all the bellboys dress like bartenders?

Do all the guests forget to tip?

What's that smell?

It's a wildfire, look out the window.

You can see the smoke up on Point Dume.

Do you think it's dangerous?

The New Year's bash starts at eight.

But the bar's open all day.

Get outta here.

Ah, look, he broke the bag.

You didn't tip him.

He's a bartender, not a bellboy.

You don't tip a bartender unless he brings you a drink.

And from then on they slept separately,

a makeshift carton between 'em.

Well, you got me over a barrel, Dory.

I'll be your Vance but you gotta do something for me.

What is it?

It's a drug.

We ingest this liquid

and then we will record our observations for later analysis.

Oh, you brought your damn dictaphone to a party?

This is a once in a lifetime scientific opportunity.

And I think you're really going to enjoy it.

You wanna skip the party?

The only reason we drove all the way out here,

just so you can talk into your goddamn machine.

You are such a little girl.

I don't prance around like a clown in front of a camera.

I'm a scientist.

My work benefits mankind.

So you're gonna do this.

Aren't you just the greatest?

Yes, I am.

It's settled then.

Or we do both.

Your experiment and my party.

It'd be dangerous.

What are they gonna do?

Kill us for a good time.

This is my room?

This is definitely my room.

Perfect.

Perfect.

Perfect.

Gold.

Gold.

No gold.

I said no gold.

A thousand times no gold.

Undress.

Undress.

Man said no gold.

Good evening.

Yes, um

This isn't your room.

Dr. Raymond Forrester.

Hugo Von Brandt

Excuse me.

Hugo Von Brandt

Hugo Von Brandt

Pardon me?

Your name, Hugo.

Yes, this is Dorothy Crowder.

You might remember her from the pictures.

"Oklahoma Rose?"

The highest grossing film of 58.

Right now that sounds familiar, yes.

That is quite familiar, yes.

And we will see you in the bar.

Hugo Von Brandt

Yes, thank you, thank you.

Brilliant, brilliant.

Whoa, Sally.

What's eating you up?

Nothing.

Really?

It doesn't matter.

Come on, I'm gonna keep on asking.

A couple years back,

I had a big chance to get a big break and it didn't happen.

And someone just reminded me of it, that's all.

Awwww.

But that's the problem with clients.

They give you a costume?

Do you still have it?

They oversimplify things.

So d'you hear that Gene Autry's getting the angels going again in the majors?

They went to all that trouble getting the Dodgers out of here,

Then they bring the hometown team back outta retirement.

Personally, if you ask me,

I think it's a way to get the American leagues out here to LA more often.

I don't know. What do you make of it?

Hugo, this isn't your room.

We've had a complaint.

What about?

There's a leaky faucet.

Oh no, there's no leaky faucet.

There's a leaky faucet.

It's been reported.

Who reported it?

Boss lady.

Boss Lady?

Who is the boss lady?

Sally.

Told me to get down here as fast as I could?

Can't have our guests getting all wet.

Isn't that the point?

All done.

Anything else I can do you for?

Tell Sally, thanks for checking in.

Will do, Mrs.

Miss.

Miss.

Is a little peace and quiet too much to ask?

What the hell kinda hotel is this?

Enter.

A letter for you sir.

You may go.

Thank you, that'll be all.

Lose the blonde.

Leave the key in the lock.

XO, Sally.

Hold a moment.

Did anybody else read this letter?

Not to my knowledge sir.

Who delivered it?

Well, I couldn't say for sure.

But what could you say for sure?

Dark suit, cheap tie.

That'll be all.

It's just a subpoena.

Yes, we go.

Yeah.

I saw The Topanga had a customer this morning.

Not really your busy season.

No, no it isn't.

Saw the car?

Nice looking Caddy.

Wouldn't mind having one of my own someday.

Probably a red one though.

Black is sleek but I think the red agrees with the climate.

Bit suspicious if you ask me.

How do you mean?

Three guys come in that thing yesterday.

Say they're in town scouting some shipping containers.

Some Midwestern tractor company.

Say they're going to a trade show.

Nobody goes to a trade show.

So what do you think they're up to?

Well, if I had to guess, I'd say G-men.

Your girls pay their taxes?

I don't keep the books.

Hmm, well they're not just passing through.

You and the girls ought to mind your manners.

Wise, it's New Year's Eve.

Yeah, happens every year.

It's not a trick?

It's the way we're supposed to do it. It's what it says.

We'll see.

We'll see what happens.

All right.

You go down to the bar.

I'll catch up to you, okay?

I'm Dr. Walt Miner.

I'm here to talk about LSD.

The reason I'm talking about LSD is that I'm trying

to counteract a lot of the popular publicity

that you're reading about this material.

The boss of the Pure Food and Drug Administration

in Washington is a man named Dr. Goddard.

And he describes LSD about as well

as I've heard it described.

He calls it Russian roulette with a sugar cube.

Now this guy scares me to death.

Do you feel anything yet?

With no intention whatsoever of risking my insanity

but I can sit through 12-15 hours, and watch...

No no, no

I'm Dr. Raymond Forrester, Department of Psychology, UCLA.

And I'd like to talk to you a little bit today

about the human mind.

Our good friend and colleague, Dr. Houston Sloan

of the Central Intelligence Agency has opened

a confidential file and is filming a series

of laboratory experiments upon public

in which we will provide LSD 25

and induce model psychosis and or schizophrenia

in the subject's temporarily, of course.

We will not show the full four hours

of compressed psychiatric tests,

but we'll rather focus on the more positive experiences

of our volunteer subjects.

Don't smear my lipstick.

- Oh, you look great, you're fine. - Thank you.

Yeah, get outta here.

My name is Dr. Raymond Forrester.

It is December 31st, 1960.

Nothing yet.

♪ You're very exceptionary ♪

♪ No dictionary can define ♪

♪ what's genuinely indescribable ♪

♪ Very exceptionary ♪

♪ No ordinary phrase can capture you ♪

Everything you do here is illegal.

♪ Now some might say that you're ♪

♪ tremendous ♪ Feel anything?

Wait, sorry, excuse me.

It's a simple question.

I am Dorothy.

Houston Sloan, FBI.

Liar.

- You're right, I'm not. - I knew it.

There's a couple champagnes, huh?

Yup.

Thank you.

You know you can point to anybody's being emblematic of an era.

I choose Jack London.

I mean, he's the perfect embodiment of the 20th century.

He personifies that the conflict of transition

and then the duality of the modern world.

Quite simply, Jack London is two people at the same time.

"Call of the Wild."

It's metaphor for westward expansion and the eradification

of the indigenous people of America.

For this idea of prosperity and civilization.

And bucks departure at the end?

It symbolizes a rejection

of imposed human order of all types.

And a return to a more natural egalitarian meritocracy.

Essentially "The Wolf Pack",

it's a pitch for communism.

You look just like Rock Hudson.

Really?

Yeah, exactly.

Only, not as tall and slightly less handsome,

but otherwise perfectly accurate.

It's amazing.

Old fashioned my old friend.

Hello.

Hugo Von Brandt.

For a lot of reasons I guess,

the climate, the people, the beauty of the whole place.

You ask any guy in Hollywood who Sally Dorsey was, and he'd say trouble.

And Sally

trouble had nothing on her.

She was straight outta the hills arson.

Are you or have you ever been a member of the communist party?

Are you a member of are of the communist party?

Are you a member of the communist party?

Are you now or have you ever been a member

of the communist party?

I'm smart, I wouldn't answer that question.

So you're not a subversive.

Maybe I'm just not smarter.

Already knew that.

As for being a subversive,

it depends on who you ask, Sally.

You remember my name?

A lot of people often forget?

I make an impression of a certain kind.

What kind is that?

A kind that makes them forget.

Forget what?

Everything.

You know what?

They say that if you drink from the river sticks,

you forget everything, but the price is death.

Hugo Von Brandt.

Do I know you from somewhere?

You told me to undress 10 minutes ago.

Did you?

You'd remember?

Oh you'd be surprised.

Just don't wanna see you ending up in a box car.

What line are you in?

Shipping?

Oh, agricultural products out of the Midwest.

Pork mostly, but also some corn.

More corn lately.

Still mostly pig.

Out here representing my company at a trade show.

Supposed to be keeping an eye open,

for new developments and shipping.

Sounds important.

Mmhmm.

Oh, not your buick.

Oh, that don't touch me.

What are you going on about?

Well, I have a tactic.

He means a strategy.

Tactics happen on the ground.

Strategy is the big picture.

In Korea...

No one wants to hear that story again.

No one wants to hear war stories.

Young men should not have war stories.

Young men should have carousing stories.

Is that true?

That's war stories are for old men,

old farts at the lodge, right?

Unless you screwed the whole Chinese army in that case,

maybe we wanna hear your stories.

Maybe you can keep your war stories.

What's your name again?

Dorothy.

- Dorothy. That's a lovely name. - I am Dorothy.

Thank you.

Cheers everyone.

Cheers Mr. Paul

Yes, do what I say.

It's easy.

Cheers.

What does it say?

You're not wrong who deem that my days have been a dream.

Yet if hope flown away in a night or in a day,

In a vision or a none, is it therefore the less gone?

That all we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

It's a poem.

Who wrote it?

Edgar Allan Poe.

Hmm, there's something on the back.

That's just additional instructions.

Lysergic acid diethylamide.

Hmm.

It's a drug.

Mmhmm.

Synthetic.

Synthetic.

Yeah, it's a...

What do you call it, a psychedelic.

Here, it's right here.

Sugar cubes.

LSD.

You dose the sugar cubes

and then you consume it.

The drug produces intense feelings of euphoria.

It changes your entire perceptions.

It's a transcendental experience.

Let's try it.

I'd be happy

to test you under the effects of the drug,

within the confines of my research.

You always have to make it about work. Why can't it just be fun?

Isn't it the most fun when it's both?

I suppose so.

What time is it?

I've gotta get down to the party.

Dorry's gonna kill me. You gotta get outta here too kiddo.

Right, I'll see myself out.

Hey.

What do you got in your hand?

Nothing.

You're lying.

If you're thinking of spiking the punch, you don't let anybody catch you.

I have always hated Hugo.

The problem with Hugo is that he is programmed to infuriate,

to test limits, to push until something breaks.

Everybody, can I have your attention please?

We are circulating free drinks.

So please come grab,

grab a glass.

And raise them high.

Thank you, thank you.

The host of tonight's event has a few words.

I'm a romantic by nature

and all these changes I've made to this place

when I purchased her

that piece of utter and complete vacancy

and optimism spoke to me.

That friends,

it's not a picture.

It is a window to the outside world,

beyond the walls of The Albatross.

It's the rhyme of the ancient marina from Points

this hotel draws its name.

Day after day, day after day, we're stuck.

No breath, no motion.

As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean,

water, water everywhere,

and all the boards that shrink.

Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.

And to that I say, no, no, no, no.

The Albatross says who needs water anyway.

To The Albatross and to its guests.

Oh, live, live forever and ever,

and drink your fill and love your filth.

Gentlemen, ladies, please drink into the year.

1960, you were good while you lasted,

but you were not good enough.

So now let's have our fling with 1961 everyone.

Yes, cheers.

Here, here.

To 61.

1961.

Absolutely.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Newton, Massachusetts.

Dr. Timothy Leery.

Dr. Leery?

Dr. Leery?

Yes, who's this?

This is...

It's a bit early.

It's Forrester.

You sent me a package.

I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean.

Oh, when I have my head close to yours, I can

That's not the ocean.

So we are in this moment,

we are in this moment.

We're in this moment.

I, I, this.

You want it to end?

We've gotta go upstairs.

Yes let's go upstairs.

No, no, no, no, no, we're on an expedition.

Let's go upstairs.

Okay, carry me.

Oh, for the love of God,

leave this place.

.

London is the very embodiment of the modern America.

I'm sorry, I dunno what you mean.

You sent me a package.

It had three sugar cubes and an eye dropper in it.

And a copy of the "Tibetan book of the Dead".

Yes, that's exactly it.

I received the same package Christmas morning.

That's, from whom?

From whom?

From you, Dr. Forrester.

It was from you.

The box came with instructions about what to do with the contents of the box.

There is always this creeping doubt

that I am not who I think I am.

.

And they rolled, engine 71

There is not a single solitary individual

in this entire world that controls what I think or feel.

I see things, I hear things, sure.

You want me to start at the beginning?

Cause quite frankly, I don't think you're

understanding the words that are coming outta my mouth.

I don't have a lot of friends.

My family and I,

if my family had a great deal in common with me,

I do not know.

This world ain't what it appears to be darling.

World has changed.

Everybody's all grown up.

You ever had a dream that was so real you woke up in it,

except you were still dreaming?

What if this is like that?

It is 1972 and I am old enough

that I am well past caring what other people think

about what I say I see or hear.

Would everybody feel like that?

Reality is not what appears, you know?

We'll talk about something else.

Did I ever tell you what was on that empty lot?

I'm confused.

You wanna get a room?

Excuse me.

To sleep in.

No.

I'm afraid I can't help you.

I just moved in across the street.

By yourself?

With my husband.

Lewis.

Yeah, you know him?

I know of him.

Nice to meet you.

What were you doing by the fence there?

I'm sorry, is that your property?

No, I wouldn't go on that lot.

Why, something bad will happen?

Yeah, you get arrested for trespassing.

What was on that lot before?

Hotel

The Albatross.

You know that why'd you ask?

Why did it burn down?

Bad luck.

Just like its bad luck to bring up buried things.

I don't believe in bad luck.

It was the only place that burned.

It was.

Were people hurt?

Yeah, they were hurt.

Mmhmm.

Some folks figured it served them right.

Served who right?

The folks that got hurt in the fire.

Why would it serve them right?

Because it wasn't a hotel.

It was a bordello.

A what?

Whores, honey?

I can't begin to explain what is happening.

People are right not to believe me.

If I am who I say I am once I pull this trigger,

then this record is the proof of my claims.

The key to a psychological experiment is to provide stimuli.

At this point the question of what is reality seems quaint.

This is real.

This world has shape and form.

I can see it, I can touch it, I can taste it.

I don't question reality.

The present is self evident.

The past, memory, history,

that's where the reliability of observations defies me.

So I suppose the question of what is reality

can only be answered in one way.

Okay, listen, Lewis. You can't just bring hitchhikers into our home.

They're fine.

Oh, who are they?

New friends.

That you just picked up on the side of the road?

Didn't you just say this morning that you wanted a little more fun in your life?

Well?

Well.

Well what?

Well, here you go.

They could be murderers.

They're not murderers.

How do you know that they're not murderers?

They would look like a murderer.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my whole entire life.

Easy tiger.

It's just for the weekend.

And then they're going on at the coast.

What's gotten into you?

Kirk, that guy,

I think I know him.

I mean, that's impossible right.

From before?

Yes I'm...

something like that.

Something like what?

It's not like it doesn't matter.

Matters now.

Why?

What did you do?

What?

Did you fuck him?

Nowhere just he's familiar.

Nowhere he's just familiar?

Do you listen to yourself?

I am, I think I am.

You am what?

This is going nowhere.

They were hitchhiking?

- And I picked them up. - Why couldn't you bring me along?

You only get to be angry about one of these things.

I'm not angry.

What are you then?

I don't know what I am.

I don't believe you.

Why not?

If they get dangerous, I will kick 'em out.

Do you often bring unknown house guests?

No.

So why do we benefit from such largesse?

Honestly?

Honestly.

Boredom.

Boredom?

Boredom.

How can you be bored in a house like this

with a wife like that?

How do you know that I'm not gonna sneak

in the middle of the night in your room

and slaughter you while you're sleeping?

I'm a good judge of character.

I promise I won't.

I'll hold you to that.

What do you do for a living?

What do you do for a living?

I tell you but you don't tell me Mr. Lewis?

Hmmm.

I'm an editor.

Newspapers?

Films.

I play cards.

Gambling?

Anything with cards, anything with money.

Hustle.

It's more than that.

When I'm on a rush, it's like,

there's nothing else out there.

I can read people's minds and I don't even have to.

I can tell what people are holding

just by the way they look.

Real birds say,

"look around the table"

"and if you can't find who the sucker is,"

"it's probably you."

That's bullshit.

If you have to look around the table in the first place,

you're already a sucker.

See, everyone has an energy about them.

And I can read that energy.

Well if you're so good at it, what are you doing here?

It's a great spot here. Mr. Lewis?

No what are you doing hitchhiking?

If you got the magic.

Do you have any cash?

What?

Do you need cash?

How much?

Let's say about 50 bucks Mr. Lewis.

Nobody needs $50.

How much do you really need?

A little more.

I know it's more.

How much?

I need $25,000.

No problem.

You're just gonna give me $25,000.

That's what I said.

You got $25,000 for me?

Sure do.

What's the catch?

No catch.

There's a catch.

That's so long.

What do you mean?

I get bored easy.

with men?

With everything.

How long have you two been...

Years.

He seems so young.

We can swap.

Excuse me?

Is that all you two do?

What do you mean?

Bounce around, hitchhike?

It's not all I do.

It's romantic.

I'm gonna go flirt with Lewis.

Why would he do that?

I have no way of knowing.

Yeah, just, I wasn't expecting that.

Oh, come on it's all in your head, baby.

He just offered me $25,000.

Us.

That's rich with.

No, they're different.

He's a film editor, he can't be that rich.

You don't know that though?

Just picked us up off the side of the road.

It's happened before.

A lot.

Just feels like I'm the one that's been taken.

It's not a feeling you're familiar with.

What do you mean by that?

Aren't you just the greatest?

Aren't you?

Answer?

Aren't you?

Aren't you?

Aren't you?

Aren't you?

Aren't you, aren't you?

Aren't you?

Aren't you?

Aren't you?

Aren't you just the greatest?

What is the ranch?

It is a place of anger, of jealousy, of hatred

for you armchair psychologists.

It is the its playground.

A place concocted in dreams to give home to misplaced urges.

I think there's real demons, real demons in this world.

I don't want to think that I am one of them.

I want to think that I am a normal human being,

but I lost control.

The Albatross.

The Albatross burned that night.

And everyone burned with it.

A fire at the edge of the ocean

and no so-called God does a thing.

No Yahweh, no Poseidon,

no animalistic personification of the sea.

- What kinda movies do you like? - I like movies with happy endings.

What does that mean?

That's the kind where everybody gets what they want.

Do you mean where everybody gets what they deserve?

Would you root for the bad guys to win?

Well, bad guys don't think they're bad guys.

Do you think you're a bad guy?

Do you?

Jesus.

I don't believe in movies.

What do you believe in?

Fate.

I'm really sorry that me and Maggie were loud last night.

What?

I'm sorry that we kept you up.

No, I didn't hear anything.

It's a quiet house, isn't it?

Sometimes.

I'm okay with silence.

How 'bout you?

What do you mean?

Nothing.

You are a strange man.

I see things.

And what do you see?

Not that I care, but do you love your wife?

Not anymore.

Do you love Kirk?

I don't think I ever loved Kirk.

Really?

Yeah.

What do you, I mean,

why are you with him?

He's useful.

Useful?

How long have you and Maggie been...

Fucking?

Married?

Three years.

Do you ever get bored?

Constantly.

With her?

Me and Maggie we have a different kind of relationship.

Where are you from?

How long have you been living here?

I think you don't know me very well.

Really?

Yes.

I'd like to.

Well taking me for a romantic walk on the beach

is a great way to begin.

You know they say we fall in love in an instant

and the rest is just denial.

That sounds like a con.

Are you falling for it?

I don't like liars.

Conning is not lying enough.

You know, I'm here to take your money, right?

- You already took a little bit of it. - I did.

I snuck onto that empty lot yesterday.

What did you find?

Nothing.

Did it feel good?

What?

Sneaking?

Yes.

Have you ever killed anyone?

No, I've never killed anybody.

Why not?

I was scared.

Of what?

Sneaking.

Are you scared now?

Wonder when Lewis will be home?

What about Kirk?

What about Kirk?

Let's try by the fire.

Observations indicate that subjects appear to

experience a disassociative view over an extended period of time.

Subjects adopt a fully formed new identity.

And in this state, if left uninterrupted,

it appears indefinite.

However, reapplication of LSD breaks the state,

allowing memories from other incarnations

to converge into a sort of cognitive singularity.

Have you ever done something so bad?

I mean like gotten into,

gotten into someone's trouble

and you didn't know how to get out.

How long ago?

Memories can be strange.

Don't you think?

I think the memories can be wonderful,

Or upsetting.

They can be upsetting.

I don't have upsetting memories.

Everybody has upsetting memories.

Well, if I did, I'd forget about them.

How would you do that?

I lock them in a box,

I'd throw the box away and then they're gone.

Do you think you can do that with people too?

I'm trying.

It's oh, it's just like

you're released or you're free.

I don't know how I can tell you.

I've never seen such infinite beauty in my life.

It's like,

it's like a curtain or a spider web.

Can you see it?

It's right in front of me right now.

Watch.

No good heavens, gee.

It went right through me.

Well could you...

- It passed right through me. - Could you feel it?

Could I, it wasn't any mean.

The fire is winning.

Crackling down the mountain sides.

Roaring through the canyons quick

by a 50 mile an hour wind forcing back men and machines.

Backwards and dark 170 men are fighting the fire.

The fire is winning the...

Drawn to a reported brush fire

in the Newton Canyon area.

And they roll.

Engine 71 from the Zuma station on Pacific highway,

Number 88 from Malibu beach callaway,

number 70 from

What's that?

Good morning.

How'd you sleep?

Fine.

That bother you?

Should it?

How'd you sleep?

I've been doing some strange stuff in this house.

What do you wanna do?

About our guests?

What do you want?

We could ask them to leave.

Well, we probably should.

We could keep 'em.

I don't think you can keep people.

I know.

You're keeping me, aren't you?

Sometimes.

The universe is not flat.

It is a cauldron sitting just over a boil.

But a momentary change in conditions could still

its roiling surface.

Do you remember what the fire feels like?

No.

You should.

Do you?

I don't know.

I don't know.

So many of the changes produced by this drug have been

described verbally.

They have to be.

And here we have the advantage of an artist

who's able to draw a sketch

and you can see all the changes just by simply observing

the various distortions that will take place

in their own portraits.

Just about ready then.

Is it right?

Well about as much as I can do

without distorting it further.

Well, let's show it to Houston.

An excellent likeness, is it?

Yeah.

My watch says it's exactly 12 o'clock.

Hmm.

So it's time to get started with the experiment.

All right.

If you would drink this.

Oh this entire thing.

Yes.

Okay.

It's 400 micrograms of LSD diluted in water.

Okay.

You know we're leaving today.

I know.

You're not gonna say goodbye?

Well, why would I do that? You're just going to the ranch.

Isn't that something that people do?

Only if necessary.

It's not necessary now?

Not this time.

Feels good, the water.

You should come in.

Unless you're scared.

Little scared.

It's two o'clock now and he's flying high.

We're getting ready for the second drawing.

Please note that he does not see any difference

between the two pictures.

How long ago was it that I gave you the original drawing?

Oh, well I don't have any conception

of time passing really.

Well, make a guess.

I really couldn't make a guess.

Well, what time of day do you suppose it is?

Three o'clock.

Three o'clock, about three o'clock.

Well you're only one hour wrong in this instance.

Oh, well isn't that what you said last time?

Well, you were only one hour wrong then too.

Oh, okay.

So is this going backwards in time?

Like a mirror repeating itself?

Well, if you feel that way, sure.

Anyhow, what I would like you to do now is to draw another picture of Houston.

Hmm.

Just like you did before.

Okay.

And while you're doing it, say anything you like.

Chuck.

Anything to say?

They don't look very finished.

Well, do you see any big differences?

No, not really.

No?

Well the eyes seem to me to be the same

and the line of the nose is the same

and the mouth is still sweet mouth.

Okay, fine.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

What's on your mind?

Something's been bothering me.

What's that?

Do you know the children's rhyme

that there's a monkey and a weasel in it?

♪ Ta da ♪

♪ Ta da ♪

♪ Ta da da da da ♪

♪ Ta da ta da at da ♪

What are the first words though?

How does it start?

How...

I have no idea?

What are the first words?

I dunno the words, mate.

That is a pity.

All around.

All around.

♪ All around the Mulberry bush ♪

♪ the monkey chased the weasel ♪

Ah, yes.

♪ The monkey thought it was all in fun ♪

♪ Pop ♪

♪ Goes the weasel ♪

You see things, right?

What was that?

That was horse tranquilizer, Kirk.

And there we go.

There we go.

Come on.

Have glues yet.

We use that for mountain lions up here and we use it

for stallions that ran wild when we go to the ranch.

But unfortunately Kirk, we do not go to the ranch anymore.

Why don't we go to the ranch?

We just don't go very well, there's a pretty good reason for it actually.

We don't go to the ranch anymore because there was a storm.

A storm?

Yeah.

Thunder and lightening spooked one of the horses.

While he went wild in his stall,

he got a chain wrapped around his neck.

He drowned in his own blood.

I guess you could say, Kirk,

that he died from the thrashing.

LA county sheriff deputy Laura T. Jones

took a man into custody identifying himself as Kirk Novak.

Disorderly conduct.

A combination of visible intoxication

and lewd display of public undress

and admission of lewd acts and solicitation

to commit lewd acts in public view with

the arresting officer.

Novak's erratic behavior continued

after more than 12 hours in custody.

Deputy Jones recognized a range

of psychological problems.

So to be clear, any suffix, junior or senior?

Date of birth?

Do you have anything else you'd like to add?

Great, thank you.

It's called a computer sweetheart.

Teach you how to use it later.

Morning sunshine.

You look average.

Yes Partican.

Who's that on the phone?

It's research for a case.

We do that normally?

Uh-huh?

Can you get me some more coffee?

Coffee?

I gotta deal with this rugrat behind you.

Dragged her in off the streets.

She wore me out on the way here.

Yeah, yeah.

I'll bet.

She looks ferocious.

Got your hands full.

I'm Sure that requires all of your attention.

Yup.

♪ You're so quiet hush hush ♪ ♪ I'm in a rush rush ♪

Hey.

♪ You keep me on my toes ♪

♪ Nobody ever knows ♪

Why did you tell that bitch we were divorced?

So I can get outta here.

Why?

Why do you say you're single?

Because maybe I am.

Maybe I'm divorced.

Stop it now. Come on, be honest with me.

How you gonna get outta here, huh? You got your $1,000 to bail you out.

No, that's why you called up my ass.

Hey, how many favors I done for you?

Don't start that.

I'm sorry.

S-O-R-R-Y...

- Shut up. - Why?

Here we go again. You in there, me out here.

Come on just bail me out.

No, I'm not doing that again. I'm not doing that again.

Can we skip the whole thing that you do,

and just move on to the part where I'm not in jail?

Come on now, let's go.

Go get the nice lady sheriff, the bail money.

Oh, you know what? That lady doesn't want bail, okay.

What she want?

I dunno.

Just curious about you.

Is she?

Stop it? Don't get a fucking hard on over that bullshit.

How the fuck did you end up in here with that out there, huh?

So major oh wait.

Hold on look, my foot's out.

Get your fucking foot back in there.

- Come on, y'all you gotta is... - Tell me what you were doing.

I was on the beach without any pants.

Okay, you know what? When you wanna talk, you call me back.

Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey.

I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you. Come on, come on, come on

Aight, aight.

Here's the thing, I was walking down LA Costa beach,

just looking to meet some folks.

And there was this nice group.

They were partying up on this beach house.

And they said,

"Why don't you come join us?"

They invited you up from the beach?

Yeah they did.

What did you have to offer them, huh?

Good time. I was walking down LA Costa beach and they said,

"Why don't you come drink some beer with us?"

And I said, "I will drink your beer, but I will not..."

They just invited you into their home?

"I will not smoke your marijuana." And then I smoked their marijuana.

But just to build a rapport with them.

Oh look, they taught you a fancy new word, huh?

Yeah, I looked it up in the dictionary, so I know how to pronounce it.

And you know what?

What?

When this big star movie star producer rock star type,

I don't know exactly what he was.

When he got real good and high, and he felt real comfortable with me

cause I've been losing a little bit of money

to him at poker all night long.

How much money d'you lose, Kirk?

It's 50 bucks.

- How much money did you lose? - All right it was 500.

Once he was real good and comfortable,

he said he wanted to show me his shrunken head.

Some voodoo things.

Could you get to the point please?

Well, you've got this voodoo shrunken head thing in his safe.

And so he opened up a safe to show it to me, and the rest of the gang.

And I looked at the combination of the safe.

And so I only, I saw there was money in there.

It was like five or six stacks too deep. It's gotta be a million dollars.

Five or six acts too deep.

Now are you sure?

You're not too good at counting last time I checked.

I'm pretty sure it's a lot of money.

So why don't you bail me out and I'll pay you back.

Don't you worry, I'm good for it.

And we go get that money. I bet we can get right back in there.

I bet we get in there twice as fast with you with me.

Why don't you tell me the combination, hmm? What is it?

You promise you let me out, I'll tell you the combination.

You don't trust me?

Yeah, come on, come on.

Let's go get the money.

Come on, let's go get the money.

- You know the combination to this safe? - Life's too short.

Don't you wanna do things that are exciting.

That's what you told me five years ago. Look where the fuck we are.

Hey, this is an occupational hazard.

This is jail, Kirk.

What do you think we do? You used to take it easy...

It's time that you stop making decisions without me.

Oh those are my sunglasses. Give me my sunglasses.

Fine take 'em. I don't want 'em - Thank You. Thank you very much.

Listen to me, I'll let you out of this safe.

- I look pretty good in these, right? - Shut the fuck up.

If I let you out this jail cell, we're going over there right now.

You know the address of this place.

I do know the address. Why don't you tell me right now?

You gotta let me out or I can't tell you.

If I find out you're lying, I'm gonna stick you right back in here, okay?

Okay.

Keep your pants on.

I'm gonna go get lunch and maybe afterwards,

if I feel like it and you remember that combination real good.

I'll come back.

Yeah, maybe I won't be here... When you back.

Sheriff Johns,

you can keep him for another hour or so.

Fuck you Maggie.

All right.

Are you ready to get started?

I'd appreciate if you called me sheriff.

All right, baby doll, sheriff.

Name? All right, I'll come back when you're ready.

All right, all right.

Oh, first name?

Kirk.

Spell that.

K-I-R-K?

That's how it's spelled.

Middle name?

Don't got one.

Who that?

You don't have one?

Uh-uh

All right, last name?

Novak

N-O-V-A-K.

Junior, senior?

Esquire.

Are you being funny?

Did that sound... That wasn't a very good joke.

Age?

30.

Which race do you identify with?

Mexican.

I'll come back when you're ready.

Oh, okay, okay, okay. All I want is a little respect and a cup of coffee.

Mainly that I see one right over there, and it is...

Sir, you can earn respect and you can get coffee

once you answer my questions.

Give me a cup of coffee and then I'll be awake.

I am not gonna talk to you anymore about coffee

until you answer the questions that I have.

Alright, deal.

Can I get a sandwich?

No.

All right, I'll answer your questions.

What is your race?

Mexican.

Hair?

Blonde.

Do you dye it.

No.

It's natural.

Eyes?

Guess.

I'm not guessing.

Why not?

You remember? I bet you remember. You're a pretty good sheriff, right?

You see things, you see details and stuff like that.

I reckon you remember exactly what color my eyes are.

- I might. - I'm still asking it.

Then I would know how good... A sheriff you are. Maybe if I knew good a...

I don't have to prove anything.

If I knew how good a sheriff you were, I might,

maybe I have a little more respect for you,

treat the questions a little bit more seriously.

I need to hear you say it.

Hazel.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

What is your address?

You know, I'm not saying I'm homeless or nothing.

I'm just, I, you know.

Transient?

No, I'm not a transient.

I am a traveling man.

Do you have any aliases?

No one's ever called you by a name other than Kirk?

Oh, well, yeah, that's happened a few times.

- What might those names have been? - I don't remember.

Think.

You'd have to ask them.

It wasn't like on a regular ongoing thing. You know more like role playing.

Great.

What happened last night?

Well, I gotta get a cup of coffee before I remember clearly.

Why don't you start telling me what happened last night,

and once I feel like I'm not being lied to

I'll get you a cup of coffee.

It was a pretty big thing. You might wanna hear about it.

I do wanna hear about it.

I think you do.

I do.

Yeah, so could I gotta a cup of coffee and then.

Can you tell me how you got to the beach, and then I'll get you a cup of coffee?

That part I actually, cannot tell you.

- Why? - I don't remember how I got to the beach.

You don't remember how you got to the beach?

Darling that's what I just said.

- Man. - I don't remember how I got to the beach.

If you can't help me, I can't help you.

I do remember where I was before I got to the beach,

but it might be outta your jurisdiction.

Where were you?

I was started Malibu and then we went to Laurel Canyon

and then somehow ended up back in Malibu.

Where in Malibu did you start your evening?

The Lascow residence is 21150 Pacific Coast highway.

It's actually this lot...

Who lives there?

Oh, Lasko,

Oh, Lewis and Elle.

Are these friends of yours?

Are they friends?

Yeah, kind of.

Well Lewis, maybe not so much anymore.

Was anyone else with you?

No.

- No one else was at the canyon? - No.

All right, so the three of you separately?

Yeah.

Went from their home in Malibu?

Yeah.

To Laurel canyon.

From there what occurred?

Oh, well that's where it got a little weird.

What happened?

Oh, we had a good time.

And then later Lewis stuck me with a horse tranquilizer

and tried.

Where on your body?

You wanna see the scar? I'll take my shirt off.

I don't need to see it. I'd like you to explain it to me.

On the gut, the gullet.

Thank you.

Yeah.

What happened?

What usually happens when you get stuck with

enough tranquilizer that takes down a horse, right?

So you passed out, you blacked out?

Next thing I remember is, oh, I don't got a watch.

So somewhere between Mr. Lasko?

Yeah.

Sticking you in the gut with a horse tranquilizer,

Yeah.

You ended up back in Malibu without your clothes?

Do you have anyone in Malibu that can vouch for you?

Well, I reckon Elle would vouch for me.

She's a nice lady.

Yeah.

What is it that you do for a living?

I play cards.

You play cards, what kind of cards?

Oh, poker. Omaha 8 or better, you know that one?

No.

Oh, I'll teach you how. You got a deck of cards.

I don't play cards - I got a deck of cards.

Hands on the table.

Oh, come on now.

- I don't play cards. - Do I seem like a dangerous guy?

Oh, playing cards.

And you don't worry about the cards the guys got.

You just look at 'em.

You know rail birds?

You know what rail bird is?

No.

Rail bird somebody who doesn't play cards,

doesn't play poker.

They just sit around the table and watch.

Rail birds say, "You look around the table",

"if you can't tell who the sucker is, it's probably you."

That's bullshit.

If you gotta look around the table in the first place,

you're a sucker too.

People have an energy about 'em.

I can read that energy.

People's energy?

Yeah.

You're talking to the wrong guy. You're asking the wrong questions.

We'll be getting...

You don't understand what's going on here. All right...

- This is an unusual - No I don't. Why don't you help me?

You need to go check out this old case file

about the Albatross Hotel.

The Albatross Hotel used to sit on an empty lot

next to Louis Lasko's place.

21152 Pacific Coast highway,

burned down new year's Eve 1960.

27 people died.

You check that case file out. You call up your whatever.

Your warehouse or wherever you keep the old files

and you find it and you get it and you look at it, alright?

Diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia,

characteristic symptoms to one or more of the following;

hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech,

symptoms present more than one month consistently.

Disorganized speech examples, affective,

Oh God.

Flattening, poverty of avolition, motivation.

Hallucinations are bizarre.

Keeping up running commentary of person's behavior

or thoughts, forces conversing with each other.

Thank you for holding. How can I help?

Yes. Yes, yes...

Thank you. - Hi, can I help you?

You know I...

it's the Albatross hotel arson.

Uh-huh

1959 New Year's Eve.

I don't think we keep cold cases that far back.

Yeah.

I'm not convinced the case even exists, frankly.

Uh, we'll send over what we find.

Great, thank you.

You ever done LSD?

I'd like to continue asking the questions.

I bet you have.

You got that crazy looking little ring on your finger.

Out of curiosity, what date is it?

It's Sunday.

Date, month, day, year?

It is October and it is 28th, I think.

Yeah, 28th.

That right?

What year?

I guess right?

1972.

Do you sometimes get confused

about whether things are real or just in your imagination?

Doesn't everybody?

No.

What about deja vu?

You never had deja vu?

Deja vu?

Deja vu.

Will you explain deja vu to me?

I don't know.

Go get a dictionary.

Pretend I'm a little kid.

Deja vu is when you feel or see something

or hear something that like you already felt

or saw or heard, right?

Have you had problems thinking clearly, for more than six months at a time?

Well I lived with a bunch of stewards, for six months in Chicago once.

Are you able to predict the future?

I don't say the science.

Does it seem like your mind is playing tricks on you?

No.

Have you ever heard sounds like a

person talking when there is no one near you?

You mean like ghosts?

Sure.

Sure.

67, yeah.

Fellow named Rob Anderson and I were walking into this,

I guess it was like a lodge and they had a pool table,

big room in the middle, lot of things going on in there.

And we were walking down this hall from the parking lot

to the main room and we heard people inside

and we heard a conversation right from people inside.

And we got into that room and there was nobody there

and we both heard it.

Ghosts, it was the only time.

Do you worry that you might be going crazy?

I did once.

Just once?

Yeah, I went a little crazy.

You did go crazy?

Well, isn't that a euphemism?

I dropped acid and rode in the back of a pickup truck

from Austin, Texas to see it at a Kuya.

Kuya is this border town.

They got this little strip of restaurants and bars.

And in the middle of that strip,

there is a place called the San Jorge hotel.

We went to that place.

We met this girl from Arizona

and she weren't wearing no shoes.

And maybe I did go a little crazy.

And when was this?

Must've been 69, I think.

Can we do something about these darling please?

Come on.

What did I tell you about calling me, darling?

What did I tell you about not liking these handcuffs?

Do you sometimes feel that there

are unusual things going on that you cannot explain?

It's an unusual world, sheriff?

Don't you feel like there are some things going on that you can't explain?

Are other people plotting to get you?

Plotting seems like a strong word, but I do imagine there are a number of people

in this world that are not entirely enthusiastic about my continued existence.

Have you ever felt that your thoughts are being taken away from you?

I don't even know what that means.

That is a bullshit question on your bullshit form.

I agree.

If you were to answer from your gut,

have you ever thought that your thoughts are being taken away from you?

Yeah, right now, maybe a little bit.

Perfect.

Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Novak.

I'll get that sandwich now?

Hey, hey darling.

Sheriff Jones.

Sheriff Jones.

You wanna drive?

No You drive, you stole it.

I never knew anything like that in all my life.

You know we keep saying it isn't, it isn't it isn't

only to try to explain what it is.

To do all that in two minutes,

An eternity in an hour.

One or two people who said it as well as myself,

and this is what death is going to be like.

Oh what fun it's going to be.

Sheriff Jones.

Ah this one here.

The fire at The Albatross was ruled an accident

by authorities.

Faulty wiring, 27 people dead

because of poor electrical maintenance.

That's not how it happened at all.

I, Caroline Dupree got woken up around 2:00 AM

on New Year's day.

I opened my bedroom window, and I heard a few voices screaming.

When I turned around to run downhill,

I bumped into a young man.

He seemed very much into her.

He was wearing a tuxedo.

I feel ridiculous saying this,

but I felt that he looked right through to my soul.

I don't really remember.

Everything was happening so fast,

but he was already walking away and my husband was hurrying

towards what turned out to be the burning building

of The Albatross Hotel.

What did you do with the instructions?

From you, Dr. Forrester.

It was from you.

I followed the instructions.

I followed the instructions?

I unfortunately did not.

The results were regrettably unforeseeable.

A deadly cocktail of characters and bold decisions.

Characters, people, but in the scheme of things,

a small sacrifice for knowledge,

of course the drug has severely altered

the test subjects' states of perception

and radically compromised their fight or flight

reactions.

Be not afraid and join the dancers and puppets.

Be not afraid and join the dancers and puppets.

Smell's like its gonna rain.

Round their golden houses,

girdled with the gleaming world.

What is it?

It's a poem darling.

I remember.

Don't.

It took you longer than usual

to catch up with me this time.

♪ Na ni nana ♪

♪ Na ni nana ♪

♪ Na na na ♪

♪ Na na na ♪

♪ Na ni na na ♪

♪ Na ni nana ♪

♪ Na ni nana ♪

♪ Na na nana ♪

♪ Na ni nana ♪

♪ Na na na ♪

Right there?

Oh, I've got all day.

Happens every year.

Yes it does, scotch, huh?

Please

You gotta set it to shack.

Louis and I thought we'd take a walk on the beach.

Why are you going with Louis and not with me?

Truly.

You don't,

you don't know how to use that word, do you?