Oh, dear Lord.
Is this how therapy works?
I don't know, Sam.
- Did you like being married? - Yeah, I did.
What were the good parts?
When she went with me twice
to Kenny Chesney concerts.
How was that?
That's not a question that you ever need to ask,
ever, because they are always awesome.
And she liked it, too?
I wouldn't say she was a full member of No Shoes Nation.
So, I told you I was a transport supervisor in a warehouse,
but really I'm a restaurant inspector
with the Department of Public Health.
I figured if I told you the truth, you'd write it down in your notes
and the police would find it.
What's No Shoes Nation?
That's, uh, Kenny Chesney's community of fans.
I've been to, uh, 27 concerts,
and that's, that's not even a lot.
My friend Shane, he's gone to 78.
You said it's a community.
Yeah, and a lifestyle.
It's peaceful.
Everybody's happy.
The central idea of No Shoes Nation...
is love.
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You said to tell you before I did it again.
I went there last night. I was gonna...
I've never stopped myself in the middle before once I start.
I don't bring people back here,
but you said to talk to you first, and so I...
stopped myself and I brought him here, and I'm talking to you. But it is...
it is so strong.
Let's sit.
So, I'm about a half a second away from going in there
and taking that shit-fuck asshole off the face of the earth.
You and I talked about protecting your mother
in moments like this. Do you think that...?
That didn't work. I told you my father fucked me up.
- Okay, okay. - You need to fix me, or I'm gonna...
Okay, we're going to try something else, then.
Let's distract you from the feelings that you're having right now.
- I can't. - I think maybe you can.
We have to give you some physical distance.
I want you to go to work.
Just have a regular workday.
Think about it.
You don't want to call in sick
on a day when someone has gone missing.
That could look suspicious.
Just go in,
do everything normally,
and we'll see how you feel at the end of the day.
They like me in there. I don't want them to see me like this.
I understand, but you have a bigger problem right now.
Just try to go to work.
Time and even small daily experiences
can alter people's states.
- I can't just go to work. - You can!
You can.
If you're too anxious, call home
and have your mother put me on the line for a phone session.
Fuck.
Please...
Please let me go.
Please.
I haven't done anything.
Where am I?
What the fuck is going on here?
I barely know anything.
- I'm chained to this... - Can you talk louder?
I can't, there's someone upstairs.
- Oh, my God. - I've been here for days.
This fucking lunatic...
Be quiet for a minute.
I think he feels terrible, Doctor.
He really wanted to do what you said.
I think you should tell me more about what happened to him,
about his father.
I can tell you all about it,
but I don't think it's going to give you the answer
to why he does what he does.
He was always...
just... Sam.
- Hey. - Hey, Sam.
- Hey. - No doughnuts?
Oh, shit. It's my week?
Mr. Efficient forgot something?
We won't tell anyone.
Are you still out there?
I'm here.
Who was that?
Was that his mother? Do you...
Do you know these people?
I'm his therapist.
The guy who has us down here...
That was his mother, yes.
Who is this guy?
I think I may be able to stop him from killing us.
I'm working on it.
It's not easy.
I don't understand.
He's not going to kill you, right?
If-if-if you're his therapist.
Well, he doesn't seem to fully respect
the patient-doctor relationship.
So, Richie and Ellen, I need you to get there at 7:00.
They made a big fuss last year
and had trouble getting started on time.
If Gertrude's is back this year,
I would recommend their breakfast burrito.
I wish someone wrote a letter like that about me.
What?
The letter that Gertrude's wrote about you.
How do you know about that?
Kyle reads it to us every time we fuck up.
Right? Let's hear it.
- Come on. - Come on, let's hear it.
All right.
"Dear Mr. Donohue,
"I am writing to commend your employee Sam Fortner
"for his outstanding work helping expedite the approvals
"of Gertrude's Burrito Hut to participate
in this year's Sip and Savor."
Hello out there?
I'm here.
I'm scared.
I know. Me, too.
My parents...
If I don't come back...
if I just disappear...
My poor parents.
I can't see.
My face is covered,
and I can't move a fucking inch.
Oh, God.
- That sounds horrible. - Are you blindfolded?
No.
You can walk around out there?
I'm chained to the floor, but I can move around a little bit, yes.
What's it like?
There's a big sliding glass door.
A yard.
No other houses around.
Are your hands cuffed?
No.
God, he really trusts you.
Can't you knock him out or something?
I'm not young, and this guy...
I can't just knock him out, no.
I'm sure the police are out looking for me.
And now with you missing...
My parents, they're calling the police, that's definite.
My kids, well...
my daughter at least,
would have figured out that I was missing within a day or two.
How many kids have you got?
One daughter, one son.
Shoshana and Ezra.
- Interesting names. - Jewish.
My wife's a cantor... was.
We have five grandchildren.
What's a cantor?
They sing the prayers at a synagogue.
She died, Beth,
a few months ago, cancer.
My mom had cancer. That's why I came back home.
Hmm.
My son...
he wasn't so dutiful.
It was complicated between he and his mother.
They were so enmeshed when he was a kid, and then
he became Orthodox.
Like an extreme Jew,
very religious.
- I don't believe in God. - Yeah.
Well, at the moment...
He wants to talk to you.
Hello?
- Please charge phone. - Sorry.
The battery's low. I forgot to put it on the charger.
- Okay, what's...? - I can't do this. I tried.
- I-I think if you just... - I'm coming back.
- I have to do it now. - Slow down, slow down.
I think that you have some choices that you're not seeing right now.
Yeah, I've told you that you have choices.
Mom, I don't have a choice. Why don't you understand?
I understand. I'm not saying it's easy.
- I'm saying that it's possible. - Please charge phone.
Tell me what you have been doing at work today.
I just finished a staff meeting.
I'm supposed to be filing my assignments.
But I'm just sitting here, staring at the fucking paperwork,
'cause every time I look at Kyle, it gets worse and worse.
That's your supervisor?
He's the one who sent me back to that restaurant.
Please charge phone.
It is not surprising that this is difficult.
Everything you're experiencing makes sense.
This is exactly the point that I want you to try to push through,
and I know that it may not seem this way.
- But you are doing very, very well. - Please charge phone.
Just the fact that you are staring at that paperwork is progress,
- even if it is painful. - Listen to the doctor.
Can you try to meet this challenge, as difficult as it is?
I don't know.
I want you to stay at work until the end of the day.
- Please charge phone. - Okay?
- I'll try. - Good.
And then, after work,
can you go to one of your concerts?
Uh, the No Shoes Nation concert? You go to them, right?
He's in fucking California right now. I'm not going to California.
I have tickets for Chicago and Kansas City. I got to go.
Please charge phone.
What was that?
What happened? I couldn't really hear it.
He was calling me from work.
Is he going to kill me?
It sounded like he's going to kill me.
Okay.
Will you give my-my family a message,
if it happens?
Uh, yes. Yes, of course.
They're at Taverna Petraki.
That's the...
the place with the pastitsio and the udon noodles.
Yeah,
that's one of my dishes I came up with after I got back from Asia.
You came up with that?
I was working with all these different ingredients
while I was traveling.
I just kind of put some of it together when I... got back.
I was working in the restaurant late one night.
And my mom, she was...
at home, so fucking sick.
And I was like, what can I make her
to get her to smile?
So, okay...
Mom and Dad...
I love you.
Is that okay?
I think...
I think that's the main point.
You know what? You know what?
See, your story never gets old. It never gets old.
You don't like it?
Okay.
- Here we go. - Thank you, Grandma.
- Thank you. - You're welcome. Let me take this.
- Thank you, Grandma. - Thank you.
Hey, is that him?
Is he coming back?
- Keep quiet. - Okay. Okay.
Nothing's working.
I'm not so sure about that.
After all, you haven't done anything yet.
Let's keep trying.
You're just gonna tell me to go into work every day?
It's a dumb idea. All I did was think about it
all day long, which I knew would happen.
- You controlled yourself all day. - 'Cause I didn't want anyone to see.
This is uncharted territory for both of us.
That means we are going to have to...
- It's time. - Wait, wait. Sit down.
This is a good time to keep talking,
when things are so raw.
Did he see you when you took him?
- I know I didn't see you. - No.
Maybe on some level that was intentional.
You gave yourself the option
to let him go as we work through this.
This...
This one deserves it.
You have resisted this impulse with him
for a long time.
Months, four months. That's incredible.
That shows a real capacity to control yourself.
When I was smoking, even going a week...
That's... that's a terrible analogy.
I can't. I'm just... I'm gonna... I have to do it now.
Stop, stop. Stop.
Go see your ex-wife.
Does she live around here?
Go see her right now.
That sounds strange,
but it might give you the emotional shock
that moves you into a different space.
- I don't understand. - You had
a genuinely emotional relationship with her, yes?
Seeing her might shift you out of your current state.
And anything that you can do to put this off
gets you further away from your impulse to do it.
You brought me here because I am an expert,
and I can help you.
Trust me.
Could you turn off the noise machine, please?
Is he gone?
Yes.
I'm not doing so good here.
I know.
I'm... I'm really not doing so good.
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