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Oh, God.

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What the fuck?

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Help! Help!

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Help! Help!

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Help! Help!

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Help!

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Hello, Dr. Strauss.

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Uh, my name is Gene Bollinger.

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I was hoping to get started
in a course of psychotherapy.

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I thought you might be able to help me

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with some of my problems.

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So, uh, yeah.

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I guess I'll call you back,

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if that's okay.

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I'm a little hard to reach.

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Yeah, okay, thanks.

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Hi, it's Shoshana. Leave a message.

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Hey, honey. It's Dad. Just checking in.

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I'm in sessions until 8:00.

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Bye-bye.

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What can I help you with, Gene?

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My dad beat the shit out of me.

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A lot, uh, when I was a kid.

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And I think it fucked me up.

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That's a tough thing to go through.

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You said it fucked you up.

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In what ways?

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All ways.

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Like I'm not content.

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I don't have a good social life.

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I get angry.

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That's the sort of thing
you help people with, right?

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Yes.

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So, I read your book.

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Oh.

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- What'd you think?
- It was good.

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I thought, you know,

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this guy is a real expert.

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, I've been doing it a long time.

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I'm sorry for your loss.

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That's what normal people say, right?

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How does it feel for you to say it?

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It just, um...

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just seems like what I hear people say.

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But I mean it.

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Well, that is the important part.

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Gene, I wanted to ask you
about your sunglasses.

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I think it might be a good idea for you

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to take them off, so we can see
each other better.

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- I have eye problems.
- Oh, what's wrong?

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Light hurts them.

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They're oversensitive.

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You've seen a doctor about it?

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Two doctors.

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Well, we're out of time.

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Isn't that my line?

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I'm trying to take care
of your needs again, aren't I?

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I think so.

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He hit me.

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All the time.

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When you say "all the time,"

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could you be any more specific about it?

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Pretty much all the time.

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- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.

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- Alan, welcome.
- Chaim, how are you?

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Baruch Hashem.

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- You?
- I'm well, thanks.

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- I'll be in the back.
- Oh.

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Okay.

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- Hi, Ezra.
- Hi, Dad.

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It's Mom's guitar?

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I figured you should have it.

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You're the only one
in the family who plays, so...

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I don't play anymore.

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That's it, 'cause you'd expect
anybody to save their own ass,

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but he'd rather die
than use her as his excuse,

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like disgrace her.

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I think I have actually
heard that one before.

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Right, it's a classic.

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You know, Gene, I've been thinking.

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It's been a while

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since we started talking together.

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And I've noticed that...

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you're not really
opening yourself up to me.

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Whenever I ask for stories or details,

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you have a tendency to get kind of vague

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or you start telling me about

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country music songs that you like.

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And I've noticed that I myself am feeling

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a little frustrated by this process.

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And I'm wondering
if you're feeling that as well.

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Usually when one person feels
that way, it's kind of mutual.

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I don't know.

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I guess it's not working
the way it did in your book.

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Gene, in order for this process to work,

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you have to be able to tell me things

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that are not easy to tell.

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To be open and truthful.

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Maybe I'm not cut out for this.

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'Cause I'm... I'm trying.

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I really... I'm trying.

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In my experience...

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anyone who has come this far,

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who has made the choice
to come to therapy

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and keep hammering away
at the hard things...

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they can be helped.

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I'm so sorry. I know this sucks.

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I'll be right back.

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Gene, what the hell's going on?

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I mean, what the fuck?!

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Let me out, let me out,
let me out of here.

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Let me out of here right now, Gene!

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- Gene!
- You take it easy.

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Last night you were screaming.

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We're in the woods out here.
Nobody's around.

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I know how upset you are.

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Of course. Anybody would be.

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This isn't as bad as it seems.

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It's bad, I know it's bad,

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but I just need your help.

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Look...

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I don't know what you think
you're doing, but this...

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this...

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Unlock this goddamn chain.

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Right now. I mean it, Gene.

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Gene, listen, you have to listen to me.

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I realize that there's
something inside of you

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that's telling you
that this is a good idea...

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I know, it's-it's not exactly
that it's a good idea,

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I do realize that.

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But, you know, I'm out of options,

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and I really think if we can just talk,

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this will, this will be okay.

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Okay-ish.

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I have to help you see
that this is wrong.

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Scaring me like this is wrong.

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You have to see that.
I know you can see that.

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I do, I do, I know, but...

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I wasn't getting anywhere in therapy.

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You said so yourself, right?

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And I think that I know why.
You see, I-I couldn't...

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I couldn't really tell you
the truth in your office.

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But here, here... I can.

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No, no, no, no, no.

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This-this-this isn't good
for either of us, Gene.

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We have to go back to my office

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and work through this together
before this gets more out of hand.

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These are leftovers from Maruti,

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which is one of my favorites.

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It's surprisingly good for breakfast.

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This is chana palak.

156
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Put some of this on it.

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This is sabzi.

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It's good with this one.

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For God's sake, Gene, Gene!

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My name's...

161
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My name's actually Sam.

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Sorry.

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It's important to eat.

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I'm not gonna eat.

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Gene... Sam.

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You have to listen to me.

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I am listening.

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I am listening. I know how to listen.

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I understand...

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this is upsetting for you.

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I get that.

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It's a little scary,

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but this is the only way
that I could... I...

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I need help. I want help.

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I'm asking you for, for help.

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You said therapy can't work
if I'm not truthful.

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I know that you're right, so...

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Mm-mm. No. No, you don't understand.

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I don't, I don't think you know
what you're doing to me.

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I realize it might take you a little time
to get used to what's happening here.

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Whatever is troubling you,

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we can address it, but not here.
Not like this.

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Dr. Strauss, I have much bigger
problems than your other patients.

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I have a compulsion...

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to kill people.

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A compulsion?

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Yeah, I do it.

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- Sam...
- I don't mean just once or twice.

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Every once in a while I just...

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do it.

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And this has gone on ever since,

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uh, for a long time.

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And I know I'm fucked up.

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I've read all the books,

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almost everything about,
uh, people like me,

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people who do this stuff, and I can't...

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I want to stop.

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And I'm trying so hard.

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I'm trying so hard right now,

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but there's this guy,
there's this one guy,

201
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and I just want to...

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for months now...

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Uh, but I've not done it.

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'Cause I...

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Uh, because I can't.

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Now, you, I wish you knew what
it was like to live like this.

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It's not like what they say.

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Right? Where he's like a...

209
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Have you seen Silence of the Lambs?

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Where he's like a robot.

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It's not like that.

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Gene.

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Sam.

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Sam.

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Unlock this chain.

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I'm going to walk out of here
and go back to my office.

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No, we already tried that.

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It didn't work without me
telling you the truth.

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It will be different
now that I know the truth.

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You will come to my office
two, three days a week.

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I cannot help you like this.

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This is just going to make it worse.

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Let me go.

224
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I know you'd have to turn me in.

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No, no, no, no, no.
I would not have to turn you in.

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Legally, ethically,

227
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unless you told me you were
going to commit another crime,

228
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I can work with you.

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Everything you've told me
so far is confidential.

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I am gonna commit another crime.

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I know I'm not normal.

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But I don't feel crazy.

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I'm not...

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I know this has to end, right?
This has to stop.

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I just, I don't know how.

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This is not the way.

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Well...

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I'm sorry.

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Really, you're the best.

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I met with three different
Jewish therapists.

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I chose you.

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Uh-huh.

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