Marionette (2020) - full transcript
Marionette tells the story of a therapist, who loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.
You think you can control this?
Huh?
You didn't expect that, did ya?
Huh?
You wanna see me burn?
Hm?
Get out of my head.
Get out of my fucking head!
Ah! Ah!
What am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
Man, in all his greatness
creates machines that move bags,
very slowly in circles,
round and round.
My new life begins.
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Hello?
- Doctor Winter?
- Dr.Clerk?
Good to meet you finally.
In the flesh, that is.
Thank you, Paul.
I'll show her.
I'm Maureen.
Everyone calls me Maur.
- Marianne.
- No nickname?
- Mm... no.
- Never had one?
- No.
- Hmm.
It shows strength of character,
you are who you are.
Just.. Marianne.
Right, let's show you your office,
consulting room or whatever.
Dr.Mandelbaum's sorry
he couldn't be here himself, but...
he had a family event
that couldn't be avoided.
But we were also happy you could
come at such short notice.
I have to say, we were delighted
when you sent your application in, but
you know that, anyway.
Oh, how was your flight?
Boring.
Boring.
Yeah, I suppose it was.
Still, "how was your flight?"
What people ask, isn't it?
This is it.
Oh, sorry about that.
I will have a word with administration
and have to get that changed.
Okay.
Oh, I have, um, put
your case files out on the desk.
You've got few hours before your
first session, so I hope that's enough.
I can't think why you'd come
here from all that high life.
I've never been to
Upstate New York, but...
I googled it,
it looks wonderful.
I was talking to
my husband last night, um...
is you American position
still available?
Maybe I should apply,
we can do a straight swap.
Oh, I think it's been
filled already.
Oh.. Shame.
That means I'm stuck here, then.
Seriously, though,
why'd you decide to
move to Scotland?
I like rain.
So, um..
I've got my first patient.
Uh, Shall I pick you up at 12:30,
show you the canteen?
If you can survive that
you can survive anything.
Uh.. Yeah.
That would be nice.
- See you later.
- Thank you.
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Corinna?
It's okay for you to
stare at the wall.
We're gonna try something
a bit different from Dr. McVittie.
What do you think?
Shall we...
talk a little?
You don't have to talk
about your Mother being sick.
We can...
talk about anything.
Anything at all.
Hello. I'm Marianne Winter.
Oh, hi.
I'm Tina.
Uh, this here is Manny.
Hi, Manny.
See you later.
It's right here.
What are you drawing, Manny?
I'm...
I'm not Dr. MacVittie.
You don't have to be with me
like you were with him.
I won't tell you what to do.
Now it's you
who is in charge here.
And...
we will do what you want to do.
Are you the pig, Manny?
The...
The lonely one,
staring out?
It's okay to talk.
Sometimes, when we talk,
we can be...
less lonely.
And if you talk, it doesn't mean
you have to be nice to me.
The pig doesn't have to make
friends with other animals,
if he doesn't want to.
But, maybe he can say
why he doesn't want any friends.
No one likes what I say.
Why not?
Because of what I can do.
What can you do?
I make things happen.
Like what?
What can you make happen, Manny?
You.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Hey!
- Hey! I thought it was you.
- Uh...?
- Oh, I... Clinic administration.
You filled in the form
with me this morning.
Of course, yeah.
Sorry.
No. Are you having
a look around town?
Yeah, I suppose.
- You leaving?
- Oh, yeah. You know me, I'm...
I'm heading home.
Kieran is off to
his obscure book club.
Don't ask, it's totally Kieran.
- Book club?
- Yeah, here. Here you go.
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Are you couple?
Kieran?
No, no. No, no.
He is a free bird.
Hm, well.
Anyway, I'm off.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Right, yeah.
You okay?
Is it the rain?
Is it too loud?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I forgot to turn it off.
Hello?
Uh.. Maur.. Uh..
Can you call me back?
I'm with Corinna.
Uh..
Corinna?
Yes.
She is a good girl.
She is a very good girl.
But...
Uh, no, she doesn't
want to talk to me.
But, I'll keep trying.
Okay.
Bye, bye.
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Can you tell me
about this drawing?
What is it?
An accident.
A car comes flying on the corner
and hits the other one.
Ka-boom.
And did you read about it?
Was it one the news?
No.
I made it happen.
You saw it happen?
In your mind?
Do you see images?
Or... maybe you hear things.
You can tell me.
It... It might help.
Pretty scary, doesn't it?
But if it wasn't for me
you wouldn't be here.
There is a gun in your drawer.
That drawer?
Only if you have a look.
And why is there
a gun in the drawer?
I remember
when she used to talk,
she expressed anxiety
about her mother.
There was a time when she
used to look up at the ceiling
and say something like, um,
"See mom, take mom away."
Yes, her fantasies
evolved around her anxiety
that her Mom would eat her.
We never discovered why.
All of this has alluded to in
Dr. Macvittie's notes, but
not treated in any
detail, thank you.
Her step-father says
that when the weather comes on TV
she watches it carefully
as if her life depends on it.
I'm afraid, she has deteriorated
over the last two years,
the mutism and anorexia.
- Relatively recent.
- Hm.
I'll think about it.
Right...
"Emmanuel Craig."
Manny.
A mystery.
I'd like to get hold of his file
from his former residence,
Manchester.
Here's a reference.
Yeah, I'll see what I can do.
Maybe that will shed some light,
but, for the moment,
I've got nothing to go on.
My impression is that
his world view is
some kind of defense system,
some kind of fortress.
- He talks to you?
- Yes, he does.
You probably the only one.
He doesn't talk to his
foster Mother or
anybody else as far as we know.
Still, it would help if could have
a look at the old MacVittie files.
I'm missing the last
two months of his notes.
Yeah, well...
We will look into that, yep.
Anyway, you seem to be
making great progress.
I think, you have done a wonderful job
under the circumstances.
So, thank you, Marianne.
Come on,
that would do little good.
They don't like sudden movements,
so why won't they off!
Oh!
This is hell. Ah!
Sinica smoke house.
Yeah, but the GPS says left.
Damn brakes again.
So, you trust the sign
or the GPS?
Um...
the sign, I guess.
Uh-uh, kids could have
- flipped it the wrong way around.
- Oh!
What else they got to
do around here?
Alright.
Heads or tails?
Heads.
Schrödinger wanted to
prove how ridiculous this idea was
and came up with the example
of the cat in the box.
So, before you have
a look inside the box,
the cat is both dead
and not dead.
Both realities exist
at the same time.
And this, for him, proved
this whole idea is nonsense.
Uh, but it's not.
Because thoughts are energy,
just like everything else.
And they could manifest
themselves in a manner
that we create a reality
about how we observe it.
You know, "what we
think we become."
Doctor, what do you think?
Oh, um..
Well, um...
Our thoughts like
self-fulfilling prophecies.
That's how the way think about of
world end up being our world.
Uh... of course.
Well, I'm a psychiatrist
and, um...
if there is anything
I'm convinced about is that
thought is the root of
all sickness, all trouble.
I... I mean, look at
this book group,
agonizing over
Schrodinger's cat,
and whether the process
of observing reality
actually changes nature?
Don't we have better things
to do with our lives?
I mean, we all needs to
see a shrink if we think
this is a good way of
spending an evening.
So, if thought is our sickness,
what is the cure?
Oh, that's easy.
I prescribe a full lobotomy
for all of mankind.
Hi.
Hi.
Uh...
I live in Mannofield.
So do I.
Great.
Oh, um..
Would you like a ride?
That would be lovely.
Thank you.
I thought you'd never ask.
Okay, let's do this backwards.
Um...
I say something,
an answer,
and then you ask the question
that leads to that answer.
Got it?
What are the rules
of the conversation?
Very good.
How am I at this game?
I own a big shop, second hand.
What do you do for a living?
It's not bad.
What's it like running
a second hand book shop?
It's a good way of making money.
What do you think
about prostitution?
- Uh, next right.
- Where do you want me to go now?
Just here.
Behind the red containers.
Where did your neighbours find you
the last time you had a good night out?
Why don't you come up?
Oh, um..
Sorry, I, uh..
- Uh...
- That's okay.
Uh, thanks for the lift.
- This F... ing car.
- Shh...
- What?
- He might hear you.
- Who?
- The car, of course.
The light.
The light, what does it mean?
What does it mean?
Engine temperature, I think.
It's probably just...
Oh, god.
What did I tell you?
He was listening.
So, our car doesn't want us
to get home today, huh?
It wants us to have
an adventure?
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Her fantasies evolved around
the anxiety that her Mom would eat her.
We never discovered why.
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Has... has somebody
been in my room?
Uh, no.
I don't think so.
I mean, Manny.
Has Manny been in my room,
maybe before his session or after?
I think I would've noticed.
- In my drawer...
- Look, I'm really sorry,
but can we do this tomorrow?
It's just, I'm running
really late.
Thank you.
Hey, your phone is ringing.
Hello?
I knew you did that.
Who is this?
You have to kill him
before he kills you,
you understand?
You understand?
Who?
Hello? Who is this?
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It's the essential idea.
- Shall we start?
- Yeah.
See, I don't know, I just feel like
it was he himself a sick person.
- Are you leaving?
- Yes. Um...
I'm going home.
I have some stuff... to do.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Bye.
- Bye.
It is a problem of
how our decisions
change the world in which
we make those decisions.
- Who wants to start?
- Yeah, I'll give a go.
Um, I think,
the idea's always been there,
Uh, change of mind.
Like, back in childhood kids
would always ask
if they left the playground,
would the playground still be there.
That's the same thing with
the tree that falls in the forest.
You have a yacht?
So revere.
It's hardly a yacht.
And it's my brother's.
Well, you're just gonna
look at her?
Hop on.
- You alright?
- Yeah.
Can you steer it for me?
Give me your hand.
It's alright.
- Uh..
- Just hold on.
Yeah?
You know how these works?
What do you mean?
I've done this once before, but...
Once?
Are you tired?
Oh, you should spend
some time with my patients.
Listen, I have to ask, um...
You wearing a wedding ring.
I should take it off.
Engine trouble?
Wanna ride?
I can take you in to Steamburg.
Greg will take care of you there.
- He's got a tow truck.
- Great. Thanks.
Seneca smoke house!
Best smoked ribs
for miles around.
We're all about
the trout, actually.
Well, then you should stay
at the Steamburg motel.
Then you can get there tomorrow,
after your Jeep has been fixed.
Hell, maybe even tonight.
Look, I'll call Craig
down at the gas station.
Sir?
Where is my husband? Sir?
It was an accident.
He died.
My.. Husband?
I... I came here to
start a new life.
Oh, Jesus.
That's terrible.
Ever since I
got here, it all
seems so unreal,
like when I got on that plane
I left one universe and
entered another.
Like it's slowly being erased.
But I keep asking myself,
what if...
we were taken other turn?
What if we hadn't
decided to go on the trip?
What if...
we left a few minutes later?
I just keep thinking...
Don't think.
That's where all
the trouble begins,
thinking.
- I know there is no reason...
- Don't...
think.
I've been sent here
to stop you thinking.
- Manchester Social Services.
- Yeah?
Emmanuel Craig
confirmed transferred to
Aberdeen for fostering
after parents death,
- but no further information on the file.
- Oh, come on.
There must be some record,
on his background,
- who his parents were, how they died.
- No, yeah.
You would have thought so.
Would you check on it
one more time?
- Yeah, sure. Leave it to me.
- Okay.
Any other issues?
Yes. I have a question.
I got a phone call last week
from some mysterious person,
who seem to be
in a highly anxious state.
He told me
I should kill someone.
Is that just British eccentricity or
should I be worried?
Well, I's sorry Marianne,
I think this is best ignored.
If this person gets
through to you again,
please ask him to call me.
Well, I think that's all for now.
Thank you.
I'm afraid, it must be Albert.
Albert MacVittie, you predecessor.
As you know,
he had some problems.
He was institutionalized
some time ago.
I heard about it.
It's not a well kept secret.
Yes, um...
It's sad.
It's a terrible thing.
He is a close friend.
Still, his final notes
would be very helpful.
Really, Marianne,
these were written
too much under the influence
of his paranoia.
It's best to make a fresh
start with this patient.
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Emmanuel was discovered at home
in a malnutrition ed
state by the police,
after his mother's body
had been recovered.
He was made a ward
of the counsel.
Jesus.
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I just wanted to come and
see where you work.
Yeah?
Wow.
- One in a million.
- Hm?
What?
Isn't that a bit
boring?
Depressing?
- Oh, um...
- Yeah, well. That's all
counsel ward, you know
what I mean.
All these panelings ripped out,
you know, you need some
nice bright walls.
In... In... Ouch!
You're vicious.
- You need therapy.
- Thank you.
This just came into the shop
and it made me think of you.
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
Pleasure.
What?
How did you know?
Know what?
- This is my favorite book.
- Very funny.
- It is.
- Is it?
- Is it really?
- It is.
Oh, that's...
I suppose, it's odd.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Why don't we take
the boat out tomorrow?
- Sure.
- Yeah?
I will take you
to the Island Muck.
- Muck?
- Muck.
That sounds
very...
Is the door locked?
It's very naughty.
You draw
a lot of accidents, disasters,
don't you, Manny?
What interests you
about disasters?
What do you thinking of
when you draw them?
Did it scare you?
The gun.
I know it did.
Well, I looked in the drawer,
but I didn't find anything.
- What are you drawing now?
- I just want to make it happen.
He's under water?
Who's Kieran?
The man with the messy hair.
Is he swimming?
No.
He can't swim.
Not this time.
Shouldn't he be saved?
No.
MacVittie was obsessed by him.
- He was?
- Hm.
Developed a more bit
obsession about the boy.
He spent a lot of time
in the library,
reading and researching.
I don't know
what he was after there.
It's probably
the first sign we noticed.
It's so sad, really.
I mean, MacVittie was
an old grump maybe, but...
he was a good person inside.
Well, he certainly has wide
research interests.
It's just horrible.
He work with a guy and then he
get sectioned and
the next thing you know
he set fire to himself in
the mental hospital roof.
He what?
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"God is with us."
- Doctor.
- Hi.
Can I talk to you for a moment?
Yeah, yeah.
Come in.
So...
how is he at home?
Still the same.
Very quite.
He hasn't spoken to me yet.
He has a tendency to
draw these disasters,
people dying.
Do you think that's bad?
They said drawing was
good for him. I mean...
it seems to have calmed him.
I just wish he would
speak to me.
But then when I think about
what he's been through and
how his life changed so suddenly...
The say his mother
was a lovely woman.
And quite religious,
but very bright and lively.
Before that.
She was American,
like you.
You knew that?
- His mother? Really?
- Hm.
Well, I'm not American.
I just live there, since
post-grad medical school.
Look,
I know this might
sound strange, but
do you know...
Is there anyway Manny could
have gotten hold of a gun?
It was found in
the consultation room.
And I just...
Of course, we don't know if it
was Manny who put it there.
What is going on?
It's probably nothing.
But we have to investigate.
No, probably, Manny doesn't
have anything to do with it.
Please, don't mention it to him.
Yeah, but...
- Sorry.
- Don't worry.
Melissa?
Why are you throwing
things downstairs?
Get into you room.
I's trying to talk with doctor.Go.
- Hello, Manny.
- Don't be horrid.
Why won't you show
me the drawing?
Are these one's here?
What's in there?
The future.
Right.
So you found the gun, after all.
Well,
why did you put it there, Manny?
To frighten me?
It was there because
you found it.
What do you mean?
You made it real by looking,
by opening that drawer.
"Cat is dead and not dead."
Right?
Is that so?
Okay.
Now tell me, Manny.
How did you do it?
With the gun.
Oh, you wanna play games?
Tell me about the man,
the man you drew today.
How did you know his name?
What do you know about me?
Why did you call him
Kieran, Manny?
Why did you say he was drowning?
You know, I can take all
the drawing stuff away,
and you'd have to answer me!
How'd you know his name, Manny?
- Now, talk to me!
- Ah, ah!
- No! Help, help!
- Are you alright?
It's alright, it's alright.
What's going on? Sh...
Sir?
Have you seen Kieran?
The guy from the yo-yo boat?
I'm supposed to meet him here.
No?
Did you, maybe,
see him go out sailing?
No?
Okay.
Hi, It's Kieran.
It might be difficult to call me
for the next few days,
so, leave a message,
I will get back you you.
Kieran,
I have been waiting here
for an hour for you.
Could you please call me?
It's fucking freezing here.
Look, I'll wait another half hour,
if you're not coming
could you at least
let me know? Okay.
Bye.
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Hi, It's Kieran, It might be difficult
to call me for the next few days,
- I didn't disrespect you.
- No.
You just sat there
nodding and smiling
- as if it's okay.
- They're professionals.
It's their job...
Turn down the damn music!
What?
What?
Nothing.
What are we doing today?
Watching you.
The way unpack, so inefficient.
The number of times
you cross the kitchen
could be cut in half
with a different system.
Jesus.
Well, I must put that on my list of
things do to, "improve unpacking".
Ever heard of eternal recurrence?
It's where you try to do everything
perfectly, even the small things,
in case you condemn to
repeat them eternally.
Yeah, if that's true,
I work on my tennis, if I were you.
I repeat eternally,
what are we doing today?
I was gonna catch up
with some work.
Let's go for a picnic.
- The Finger Lakes.
- Oh!
There will be crowded.
Day trippers, geriatrics.
Well, what about Elgin?
Miles away.
Yeah, but once we there,
we can head west,
towards Warren.
That place of yours,
you were always talking about,
the... the smoke house.
You made my day.
He wanted to go...
He wanted...
Heads.
The car.
Damn
car.
It's God's country, ain't it?
But, you got to
look out for bears.
They are everywhere.
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Kieran?
Kieran, it's me!
I thought it was biblical.
Like in Genesis, when
God drowns the world in anger.
He offers Noah an olive branch,
a symbol of peace.
God is compassionate,
- even in anger.
- Sorry.
Have you seen Kieran?
I'm... I'm really...
- I'm urgently looking for him.
- No.
But I think, Markus might know.
- Okay, it's great.
- Just wait a second.
Hello? Kieran?
But isn't that the point,
the earthquake?
He seems to punish both
good and evil people equally.
There is no guiding deity,
- no god to judge.
- That's to assume
a simplistic view of God.
The whole point about God
is that he works in
mysterious ways.
Our duty is to do our
best to follow his laws.
But our benefit
in the afterlife,
events like the earthquake
are like tests of faith.
Are you serious?
That's what I believe, yes.
I didn't think adults
still believe this stuff.
He... hello?
I mean, except those lunatics
who fly planes into buildings.
Oh, do you?
Have you seen
Kieran last couple of days?
So, all this, everything,
it's all planned, all controlled by
your great God up there?
Yes, He is the creator
of all things.
Kieran!
And depending on what I do
I might end up in eternal
bliss or damned in hell!
That's what I believe, yes.
Kieran?
Can I help you, Madam?
- Do you live here?
- No.
My... boyfriend lives here.
Then you had an arrangement
to meet him here, did you?
No.
So, for you...
we're all naughty
school children
being judged by
this loving, punishing
creator of wonders?
Such lunatics!
What's your
home address, please?
13 F, Park-hill road.
You've been listening
to loud music this evening?
I mean,
if that's the case, I'd rather be a
a..pig in-in-in shit!
Or vegetable.
And banging on doors here?
Yet, might then I wouldn't care
that I'm some kind of Marionette
in some sadist fantasy!
Have you had an argument
with your boyfriend, Ma'am?
No, It's... I'm just...
I'm trying to...
We're not marionettes.
God gave us freewill.
If this stories already been written
how can the characters
have freewill?!
Uh, misunderstanding, perhaps?
- Forget it.
- We write the story.
Then we are Gods!
But no!
Can I write my husband
back to life?
Can I?
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- I see you have found your way in.
- I was looking for a phone number.
And more, I suppose.
Look, I'm so sorry.
It is kind of an emergency.
I received a phone call
today from
Mrs. Malacca, Manny's
Foster mother.
She told me that
Manny was in a state of anxiety
after you have
visited him yesterday.
And that you'd involved
in some kind of
tussle with your patient,
trying to grab some
drawings from him.
I didn't want to believe it, but
do you have some
- private problems, Marianne?
- No!
- I'm fine.
- Oh.
Look, It's not my place to...
to say anything about what
to do outside of working hours
as long as it doesn't influence
your functioning here,
but, um...
I can smell the
fragrance of alcohol
on your breath from
over here, Marianne.
Maybe..
Maybe a short break
would do you good.
He is in number 10, on the left.
Okay.
Excuse me.
Excuse me, miss.
Excuse me, miss,
can you open the door?
- Excuse me, miss.
- It's in the glass piano.
A glass piano?
Which glass piano, dear?
Doctor?
Dr. MacVittie?
I'm Dr.Winter.
I'm your successor
at Victoria Clinic.
Is it about him?
I knew you would come
and see me about him.
As you know by now, he...
control everything,
even here.
Uh, listen,
there must be an
explanation for all this.
Can you remember?
When was the first time
he drew something terrible?
What did he draw?
Did...
Did something particular
happened that day?
He's in my mouth.
I can taste him.
And the noises in your walls?
Did he do the trick?
The gun in the drawer?
He did.
Here.
You have to kill him.
Kill him.
Kill him before he kills you.
Or...
Or you can...
just put a bullet
in your own head.
It's the only way.
Doctor?
Please.
Try to remember.
Stay with the facts.
When did he start drawing?
What did he draw?
No, fuck!
MacVittie.
Where did he go?
I think he went
down, to the left.
Hi, It's Kieran.
It might be difficult to call me
for the next few days
Kieran, don't go
out of your boat.
By no means,
go out of your boat.
It's dangerous.
I have every reason to believe
it's very dangerous,
trust me.
Call me and I'll explain.
Bye.
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Manny's father?
What's going on here?
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Either he controls things
or he simply foresees them,
and draws what he sees, yes.
That must be it.
He only foresees them, remember.
He knows things about me
and draws them to frighten me.
But I'm in control.
Everything I do is
determined by me, not by him.
Turn on the engine.
Turn off the engine.
Turn it on again and
drive 30 feet.
Laugh.
Say, I'm in control.
I'm in control.
Laugh again.
I determine what I do,
not that child.
I'm in control.
Get some sleep.
Get some sleep.
It'll be okay.
Recess in the morning.
Manny is just a boy.
A child is just a child.
He's just a child.
Now, I have a quiet drink.
Quiet.
Quiet.
And try to call Kieran.
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Hi, It's Kieran.
It might be difficult to call me
for the next few days,
so, leave a message,
I will get back you you.
- What happened?
- The boat was unmoored.
Drifted off.
Someone saw a strange
woman messing with the boat.
Police said it was
his girlfriend.
- The foreigner?
- Aye.
They're looking for her.
There he is!
Oh, god!
What are you drawing, Manny?
The worst thing in the world.
What is the
worst thing in the world?
The future.
I can destroy everything.
Don't you remember being burned?
How you died?
You're nothing.
When I leave the room
you don't exist.
You're just in my head!
Can you get me out of your head?
Black!
Black, black!
Black?
I'll destroy the clinic,
the hospital,
the world,
big people who put me
in the dustbin!
And what do you draw?
My draw is real.
- How is that?
- I'm the only one who is real.
I made everything.
I decide when
the bronze age would come.
I am God, and
you're God's doctor.
And I'm going to
put you in hospital
and get a new doctor
from far away.
And then I'm going to kill her,
and then I'm going to
destroy everything!
Everything!
Ah, ah!
No, no!
Don't hurt him!
Yah!
- Why did you pick me?
- No, no!
Why did you kill him?
- No!
- Why!
Why me?
Why me?
- I don't know!
- Why me!
Because I'm an unbeliever?
No!
How far back does it go?
Did you kill my husband, too?
Let me go home!
So, you didn't plan
this one, then?
There are some things
you don't control.
- Like this!
- Stop!
So, you...
So you believe me now?
But you're too late.
No, you're too late.
- What do you want?
- I want my life back,
how it was.
Police.
Get out!
She's got a gun!
Uh..
What's your plan for me?
Is this it?
Who are you?
Why are you doing this to me?
Doctor Winter,
my name is Inspector Blaine.
Can you just send us a signal
that you can hear me?
I didn't control this.
You made this happen.
You decided to find the gun.
You went out looking
for the the drawings.
- You decided to bring me here.
- So, now it's my fault? Right?
So, it's my decision
whether I shoot you.
Hm?
I'll make you a deal.
Give me my life back
and I won't do it.
Give me my life back!
Dr.Winter.
Please send us a sign
that you can hear us.
Dr.Winter, please
don't use the gun.
Put the gun away.
If you don't want to
show yourself,
please just waive
from the window.
Which life?
Bring him out here,
you mad bitch!
Take her back to the car!
We want you to show the child,
show that he's unharmed.
This isn't my life.
I don't do mad things like this.
You made me do this!
Now, you're gonna have to
make me good again.
You controlled me!
- Dr. Winter...
- Now you sort it out!
We're waiting for the boy.
But I'm only a child.
Please, show us the boy,
you've got 10 seconds
to show us the boy.
I'm only an ickle, ickle boy.
Then when I shoot you
you die?
- Yes.
- Ten.
- I'll die.
- Nine!
- Or when you shoot
- Eight.
- Everything will seize ti exist.
- Seven... six.
- Everything.
- Five!
Four!
Three!
- I know you won't shoot.
- Two!
My husband?
Where is my husband?
God, God.
Please God, bring my husband okay.
Save my husband and
I will believe in you.
I will worship you.
I will.
- I'll have faith.
- Ma'am?
I will have faith.
Please, God. Please.
Ma'am?
Can you hear me?
Josh?
You've had a bad concussion.
Your arm is broken,
but you're okay.
Marianne...
- You?
- Nothing but a few cuts.
Like a miracle.
I was lean back towards you
then airbag pressed me down.
That guy,
the driver, he died.
I think I will go back to
work on Monday.
- So soon?
- Yeah.
- Woo-hoo!
- Welcome back!
Well, I should have near fatal
accidents more often.
Very funny.
Thank you.
It's very sweet.
Welcome back, dear.
Aw-paw.
- Look what the kids did.
- Oh, that's so cute.
You know what I was thinking about,
for a summer vacation?
I was thinking about Scotland.
Scotland?
Great.
I'll walk in the mountains, but...
- what will you do?
- We're already had a vacation at the beach
and I wanted to cheer you up
after the accident, so.
Let's go somewhere wet and
gloomy this time, okay?
I've been thinking about
our disagreement.
I don't want to talk about it.
Why not?
I don't want to have
an argument now.
What makes you think
there will be an argument?
Are you serious?
Are you serious?
Only two, I promise.
A girl and a boy.
Whatever you want.
What made you change your mind?
The accident.
Uh...
Come on, you win anyway.
Yeah. I just...
Um...
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What?
Nothing.
What is it?
We have been to Scotland before.
We have?
- When?
- I had this dream,
it didn't feel like a dream.
I was in Scotland
and you were dead.
Thanks.
There was this boy.
A boy?
You mean, our son?
A patient of mine, I think.
Mh... tell me about it
in the morning.
I'm just... I'm just gonna...
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I had this incredibly vivid,
detailed dream last night
like I've never had before.
It was amazing.
Just like a total world system,
like, created in my head.
There was this boy,
a patient of mine or something,
and he controlled reality.
Basically, he was god.
He created everything.
He created me, this clinic,
this kind of version of Scotland,
Aberdeen, whatever.
I've never been to Scotland,
but it was incredibly realistic,
detailed place with like
street names
and, well, phone numbers.
I knew my boyfriend's phone
number, for Christ-sakes.
In the dream. And this boy
who was my patient,
he created me and this world
and everything, like a God,
as some kind of test.
And then it got
very scary as I had to
prove that he was wrong,
that this child
who thought he was
God wasn't God.
I had to shoot him,
which is when I woke up.
- Sounds intense.
- It was so incredibly real.
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
What do you mean by that?
Maybe you came back to
work a bit too quickly.
Everyone is so pissed off
that I'm happy for it.
- Marianne?
- Like if I'm not grumpy or negative
there must be something
wrong with me.
It was just a dream
for Christ sake.
Do you believe in
alternative universes?
Is one universe not
enough for you?
That dream I had,
that Scottish life I saw.
What if that is the real life?
And that boy created this here
like a game,
as some kind of test?
There was a test in the dream.
I can't remember what it was.
- It's just a thought.
- It's a silly thought.
And you've never
been to Scotland.
In this universe.
Marianne, stop thinking
about this, please.
Focus on what is here, now.
My lecture went really well,
by the way. Thank you for asking.
- Students even applauded.
- Great.
What if I call him?
- What, the boy?
- No.
This Kieran.
The man I...
Baby, It's not about him.
It's about knowing.
Hello?
- Hello?
- Is it you?
Who is there?
You... Your name?
Tell me your name.
What?
It's...
It's Marianne.
Who?
Marianne Winter.
Who is Marianne?
Who is this?
Marianne?
What are you doing?
I'm going to Scotland.
- I have to go.
- What are you talking about?
Marianne?
This is crazy.
Hey!
Hey!
Marianne?
Marianne!
But you know about this patient.
Maur.
Maur is your nickname, right?
We talked about him many
times in the staff meeting.
He suffered from severe
trauma, he drew.
He drew pictures continuously.
Look, I know this place.
I know you!
I know what I'm talking about.
What about Dr. MacVittie?
Albert MacVittie,
the doctor who was sectioned.
He... He jumped off the roof.
He set himself on fire.
Okay, okay, come on.
Let's just check the files
- and see if...
- Madam.
We've never heard of this patient.
Please.
Apart from the fact that
we're not allowed to give names
or details of a patient,
so could you please leave
the building, now?
- You need hand, Pete?
- No, no. It's alright.
She's just leaving.
You need to leave the building.
Fine.
Sure.
Okay.
Clever-clever.
You've got it right.
Right?
I was all a test.
But you failed it,
so I decided to
give you one more chance.
I've decided to let
you remember.
Open it.
Have a look.
Then you will know everything.
Don't you want to know
what happens next?
What would it matter?
It's already in there.
- It's all been fixed.
- No.
Just like the drawings
I found before.
It would change everything.
See, the drawings would
never have existed
without you finding them.
Only if you have a look.
Remember?
It was your decision,
like you decided to call him.
Oops! So, that was
your fault, after all.
He was awoken by a phone call
in the middle of the night
and then slipped
down the stairs.
Bang-bang-bang.
Banged his little head.
No!
What do you want from me?
To go home and
live my life in fear,
one day you would
take it all away again?
You wanted him back,
- didn't you?
- Please.
Go away.
Please.
Make me unaware that you exist.
Please.
_
Hello?
Marianne...
you have to come home.
Did you see the news?
There was a freak storm up here,
a hundred miles in hour wind
and lots of accidents.
The roof collapsed.
And Marianne..
Josh...
we don't know where he is.
Please, don't do this to me.
Please.
Please, save him.
Please, help me.
Please.
Please.
Leave me alone!
Manny!
Manny!
What do you want?
You've had your test.
Wasn't that enough?
Please.
Please, just go away.
Please.
Leave me alone.
You need me!
Is that it?
No.
You-need-me.
This isn't about me, is it?
It's about you.
This is all you.
_
I've had a breakthrough.
It took me a while to work it out.
Why do we destroy
the one we need?
Because we don't
want to be helped.
Because he's frightened.
Very frightened
Life used to be so wonderful
like a dream.
It must have been
an awful shock for him,
the night his father died.
One day
divides happiness from hell.
One event.
One choice.
And then six months later,
his mother was gone too.
He must have blamed himself.
Could he have saved her?
Was it all his fault?
Why did this happened to him?
Why did God take away
his parents?
And so, he shut himself off,
refused to speak.
It must have been
a terrible experience for him.
Quite threatening.
All of these questions
and the guilt,
the shock,
fear.
To deal with all this
he found a way out,
a way to exile
his fear and suffering.
He escaped into a world
in which he has full control,
a world where he is God.
See?
I don't exist.
You don't exist.
In fact, none of these is real.
We all exist in the mind
of a 10 year old boy.
Am I right, Manny?
I know you're out there.
I know you're listening.
_
Hey.
Are you alright?
What's up?
You can tell me.
I want you to know
you can always tell me.
Just get my hand and pinch me
if you want to say something.
I know what's
going on inside you, Manny.
I'm the voice inside you head.
I can feel your yearning.
You don't want to live
in this nightmare anymore.
I can help you.
How?
Because I believe in you.
Because I know one day...
you'll come out of your silent,
empty fortress
and enter this world.
- The world?
- I know.
It's so huge
and frighting.
But, Manny,
it's also so full of light.
You don't have to be
afraid anymore.
Just, imagine it to be different
and the world will be
a better place.
Hey, sweetheart.
Hey.
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Huh?
You didn't expect that, did ya?
Huh?
You wanna see me burn?
Hm?
Get out of my head.
Get out of my fucking head!
Ah! Ah!
What am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
Man, in all his greatness
creates machines that move bags,
very slowly in circles,
round and round.
My new life begins.
_
Hello?
- Doctor Winter?
- Dr.Clerk?
Good to meet you finally.
In the flesh, that is.
Thank you, Paul.
I'll show her.
I'm Maureen.
Everyone calls me Maur.
- Marianne.
- No nickname?
- Mm... no.
- Never had one?
- No.
- Hmm.
It shows strength of character,
you are who you are.
Just.. Marianne.
Right, let's show you your office,
consulting room or whatever.
Dr.Mandelbaum's sorry
he couldn't be here himself, but...
he had a family event
that couldn't be avoided.
But we were also happy you could
come at such short notice.
I have to say, we were delighted
when you sent your application in, but
you know that, anyway.
Oh, how was your flight?
Boring.
Boring.
Yeah, I suppose it was.
Still, "how was your flight?"
What people ask, isn't it?
This is it.
Oh, sorry about that.
I will have a word with administration
and have to get that changed.
Okay.
Oh, I have, um, put
your case files out on the desk.
You've got few hours before your
first session, so I hope that's enough.
I can't think why you'd come
here from all that high life.
I've never been to
Upstate New York, but...
I googled it,
it looks wonderful.
I was talking to
my husband last night, um...
is you American position
still available?
Maybe I should apply,
we can do a straight swap.
Oh, I think it's been
filled already.
Oh.. Shame.
That means I'm stuck here, then.
Seriously, though,
why'd you decide to
move to Scotland?
I like rain.
So, um..
I've got my first patient.
Uh, Shall I pick you up at 12:30,
show you the canteen?
If you can survive that
you can survive anything.
Uh.. Yeah.
That would be nice.
- See you later.
- Thank you.
_
Corinna?
It's okay for you to
stare at the wall.
We're gonna try something
a bit different from Dr. McVittie.
What do you think?
Shall we...
talk a little?
You don't have to talk
about your Mother being sick.
We can...
talk about anything.
Anything at all.
Hello. I'm Marianne Winter.
Oh, hi.
I'm Tina.
Uh, this here is Manny.
Hi, Manny.
See you later.
It's right here.
What are you drawing, Manny?
I'm...
I'm not Dr. MacVittie.
You don't have to be with me
like you were with him.
I won't tell you what to do.
Now it's you
who is in charge here.
And...
we will do what you want to do.
Are you the pig, Manny?
The...
The lonely one,
staring out?
It's okay to talk.
Sometimes, when we talk,
we can be...
less lonely.
And if you talk, it doesn't mean
you have to be nice to me.
The pig doesn't have to make
friends with other animals,
if he doesn't want to.
But, maybe he can say
why he doesn't want any friends.
No one likes what I say.
Why not?
Because of what I can do.
What can you do?
I make things happen.
Like what?
What can you make happen, Manny?
You.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Hey!
- Hey! I thought it was you.
- Uh...?
- Oh, I... Clinic administration.
You filled in the form
with me this morning.
Of course, yeah.
Sorry.
No. Are you having
a look around town?
Yeah, I suppose.
- You leaving?
- Oh, yeah. You know me, I'm...
I'm heading home.
Kieran is off to
his obscure book club.
Don't ask, it's totally Kieran.
- Book club?
- Yeah, here. Here you go.
_
Are you couple?
Kieran?
No, no. No, no.
He is a free bird.
Hm, well.
Anyway, I'm off.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Right, yeah.
You okay?
Is it the rain?
Is it too loud?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I forgot to turn it off.
Hello?
Uh.. Maur.. Uh..
Can you call me back?
I'm with Corinna.
Uh..
Corinna?
Yes.
She is a good girl.
She is a very good girl.
But...
Uh, no, she doesn't
want to talk to me.
But, I'll keep trying.
Okay.
Bye, bye.
_
Can you tell me
about this drawing?
What is it?
An accident.
A car comes flying on the corner
and hits the other one.
Ka-boom.
And did you read about it?
Was it one the news?
No.
I made it happen.
You saw it happen?
In your mind?
Do you see images?
Or... maybe you hear things.
You can tell me.
It... It might help.
Pretty scary, doesn't it?
But if it wasn't for me
you wouldn't be here.
There is a gun in your drawer.
That drawer?
Only if you have a look.
And why is there
a gun in the drawer?
I remember
when she used to talk,
she expressed anxiety
about her mother.
There was a time when she
used to look up at the ceiling
and say something like, um,
"See mom, take mom away."
Yes, her fantasies
evolved around her anxiety
that her Mom would eat her.
We never discovered why.
All of this has alluded to in
Dr. Macvittie's notes, but
not treated in any
detail, thank you.
Her step-father says
that when the weather comes on TV
she watches it carefully
as if her life depends on it.
I'm afraid, she has deteriorated
over the last two years,
the mutism and anorexia.
- Relatively recent.
- Hm.
I'll think about it.
Right...
"Emmanuel Craig."
Manny.
A mystery.
I'd like to get hold of his file
from his former residence,
Manchester.
Here's a reference.
Yeah, I'll see what I can do.
Maybe that will shed some light,
but, for the moment,
I've got nothing to go on.
My impression is that
his world view is
some kind of defense system,
some kind of fortress.
- He talks to you?
- Yes, he does.
You probably the only one.
He doesn't talk to his
foster Mother or
anybody else as far as we know.
Still, it would help if could have
a look at the old MacVittie files.
I'm missing the last
two months of his notes.
Yeah, well...
We will look into that, yep.
Anyway, you seem to be
making great progress.
I think, you have done a wonderful job
under the circumstances.
So, thank you, Marianne.
Come on,
that would do little good.
They don't like sudden movements,
so why won't they off!
Oh!
This is hell. Ah!
Sinica smoke house.
Yeah, but the GPS says left.
Damn brakes again.
So, you trust the sign
or the GPS?
Um...
the sign, I guess.
Uh-uh, kids could have
- flipped it the wrong way around.
- Oh!
What else they got to
do around here?
Alright.
Heads or tails?
Heads.
Schrödinger wanted to
prove how ridiculous this idea was
and came up with the example
of the cat in the box.
So, before you have
a look inside the box,
the cat is both dead
and not dead.
Both realities exist
at the same time.
And this, for him, proved
this whole idea is nonsense.
Uh, but it's not.
Because thoughts are energy,
just like everything else.
And they could manifest
themselves in a manner
that we create a reality
about how we observe it.
You know, "what we
think we become."
Doctor, what do you think?
Oh, um..
Well, um...
Our thoughts like
self-fulfilling prophecies.
That's how the way think about of
world end up being our world.
Uh... of course.
Well, I'm a psychiatrist
and, um...
if there is anything
I'm convinced about is that
thought is the root of
all sickness, all trouble.
I... I mean, look at
this book group,
agonizing over
Schrodinger's cat,
and whether the process
of observing reality
actually changes nature?
Don't we have better things
to do with our lives?
I mean, we all needs to
see a shrink if we think
this is a good way of
spending an evening.
So, if thought is our sickness,
what is the cure?
Oh, that's easy.
I prescribe a full lobotomy
for all of mankind.
Hi.
Hi.
Uh...
I live in Mannofield.
So do I.
Great.
Oh, um..
Would you like a ride?
That would be lovely.
Thank you.
I thought you'd never ask.
Okay, let's do this backwards.
Um...
I say something,
an answer,
and then you ask the question
that leads to that answer.
Got it?
What are the rules
of the conversation?
Very good.
How am I at this game?
I own a big shop, second hand.
What do you do for a living?
It's not bad.
What's it like running
a second hand book shop?
It's a good way of making money.
What do you think
about prostitution?
- Uh, next right.
- Where do you want me to go now?
Just here.
Behind the red containers.
Where did your neighbours find you
the last time you had a good night out?
Why don't you come up?
Oh, um..
Sorry, I, uh..
- Uh...
- That's okay.
Uh, thanks for the lift.
- This F... ing car.
- Shh...
- What?
- He might hear you.
- Who?
- The car, of course.
The light.
The light, what does it mean?
What does it mean?
Engine temperature, I think.
It's probably just...
Oh, god.
What did I tell you?
He was listening.
So, our car doesn't want us
to get home today, huh?
It wants us to have
an adventure?
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_
_
Her fantasies evolved around
the anxiety that her Mom would eat her.
We never discovered why.
_
Has... has somebody
been in my room?
Uh, no.
I don't think so.
I mean, Manny.
Has Manny been in my room,
maybe before his session or after?
I think I would've noticed.
- In my drawer...
- Look, I'm really sorry,
but can we do this tomorrow?
It's just, I'm running
really late.
Thank you.
Hey, your phone is ringing.
Hello?
I knew you did that.
Who is this?
You have to kill him
before he kills you,
you understand?
You understand?
Who?
Hello? Who is this?
_
_
It's the essential idea.
- Shall we start?
- Yeah.
See, I don't know, I just feel like
it was he himself a sick person.
- Are you leaving?
- Yes. Um...
I'm going home.
I have some stuff... to do.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Bye.
- Bye.
It is a problem of
how our decisions
change the world in which
we make those decisions.
- Who wants to start?
- Yeah, I'll give a go.
Um, I think,
the idea's always been there,
Uh, change of mind.
Like, back in childhood kids
would always ask
if they left the playground,
would the playground still be there.
That's the same thing with
the tree that falls in the forest.
You have a yacht?
So revere.
It's hardly a yacht.
And it's my brother's.
Well, you're just gonna
look at her?
Hop on.
- You alright?
- Yeah.
Can you steer it for me?
Give me your hand.
It's alright.
- Uh..
- Just hold on.
Yeah?
You know how these works?
What do you mean?
I've done this once before, but...
Once?
Are you tired?
Oh, you should spend
some time with my patients.
Listen, I have to ask, um...
You wearing a wedding ring.
I should take it off.
Engine trouble?
Wanna ride?
I can take you in to Steamburg.
Greg will take care of you there.
- He's got a tow truck.
- Great. Thanks.
Seneca smoke house!
Best smoked ribs
for miles around.
We're all about
the trout, actually.
Well, then you should stay
at the Steamburg motel.
Then you can get there tomorrow,
after your Jeep has been fixed.
Hell, maybe even tonight.
Look, I'll call Craig
down at the gas station.
Sir?
Where is my husband? Sir?
It was an accident.
He died.
My.. Husband?
I... I came here to
start a new life.
Oh, Jesus.
That's terrible.
Ever since I
got here, it all
seems so unreal,
like when I got on that plane
I left one universe and
entered another.
Like it's slowly being erased.
But I keep asking myself,
what if...
we were taken other turn?
What if we hadn't
decided to go on the trip?
What if...
we left a few minutes later?
I just keep thinking...
Don't think.
That's where all
the trouble begins,
thinking.
- I know there is no reason...
- Don't...
think.
I've been sent here
to stop you thinking.
- Manchester Social Services.
- Yeah?
Emmanuel Craig
confirmed transferred to
Aberdeen for fostering
after parents death,
- but no further information on the file.
- Oh, come on.
There must be some record,
on his background,
- who his parents were, how they died.
- No, yeah.
You would have thought so.
Would you check on it
one more time?
- Yeah, sure. Leave it to me.
- Okay.
Any other issues?
Yes. I have a question.
I got a phone call last week
from some mysterious person,
who seem to be
in a highly anxious state.
He told me
I should kill someone.
Is that just British eccentricity or
should I be worried?
Well, I's sorry Marianne,
I think this is best ignored.
If this person gets
through to you again,
please ask him to call me.
Well, I think that's all for now.
Thank you.
I'm afraid, it must be Albert.
Albert MacVittie, you predecessor.
As you know,
he had some problems.
He was institutionalized
some time ago.
I heard about it.
It's not a well kept secret.
Yes, um...
It's sad.
It's a terrible thing.
He is a close friend.
Still, his final notes
would be very helpful.
Really, Marianne,
these were written
too much under the influence
of his paranoia.
It's best to make a fresh
start with this patient.
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Emmanuel was discovered at home
in a malnutrition ed
state by the police,
after his mother's body
had been recovered.
He was made a ward
of the counsel.
Jesus.
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I just wanted to come and
see where you work.
Yeah?
Wow.
- One in a million.
- Hm?
What?
Isn't that a bit
boring?
Depressing?
- Oh, um...
- Yeah, well. That's all
counsel ward, you know
what I mean.
All these panelings ripped out,
you know, you need some
nice bright walls.
In... In... Ouch!
You're vicious.
- You need therapy.
- Thank you.
This just came into the shop
and it made me think of you.
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
Pleasure.
What?
How did you know?
Know what?
- This is my favorite book.
- Very funny.
- It is.
- Is it?
- Is it really?
- It is.
Oh, that's...
I suppose, it's odd.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Why don't we take
the boat out tomorrow?
- Sure.
- Yeah?
I will take you
to the Island Muck.
- Muck?
- Muck.
That sounds
very...
Is the door locked?
It's very naughty.
You draw
a lot of accidents, disasters,
don't you, Manny?
What interests you
about disasters?
What do you thinking of
when you draw them?
Did it scare you?
The gun.
I know it did.
Well, I looked in the drawer,
but I didn't find anything.
- What are you drawing now?
- I just want to make it happen.
He's under water?
Who's Kieran?
The man with the messy hair.
Is he swimming?
No.
He can't swim.
Not this time.
Shouldn't he be saved?
No.
MacVittie was obsessed by him.
- He was?
- Hm.
Developed a more bit
obsession about the boy.
He spent a lot of time
in the library,
reading and researching.
I don't know
what he was after there.
It's probably
the first sign we noticed.
It's so sad, really.
I mean, MacVittie was
an old grump maybe, but...
he was a good person inside.
Well, he certainly has wide
research interests.
It's just horrible.
He work with a guy and then he
get sectioned and
the next thing you know
he set fire to himself in
the mental hospital roof.
He what?
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"God is with us."
- Doctor.
- Hi.
Can I talk to you for a moment?
Yeah, yeah.
Come in.
So...
how is he at home?
Still the same.
Very quite.
He hasn't spoken to me yet.
He has a tendency to
draw these disasters,
people dying.
Do you think that's bad?
They said drawing was
good for him. I mean...
it seems to have calmed him.
I just wish he would
speak to me.
But then when I think about
what he's been through and
how his life changed so suddenly...
The say his mother
was a lovely woman.
And quite religious,
but very bright and lively.
Before that.
She was American,
like you.
You knew that?
- His mother? Really?
- Hm.
Well, I'm not American.
I just live there, since
post-grad medical school.
Look,
I know this might
sound strange, but
do you know...
Is there anyway Manny could
have gotten hold of a gun?
It was found in
the consultation room.
And I just...
Of course, we don't know if it
was Manny who put it there.
What is going on?
It's probably nothing.
But we have to investigate.
No, probably, Manny doesn't
have anything to do with it.
Please, don't mention it to him.
Yeah, but...
- Sorry.
- Don't worry.
Melissa?
Why are you throwing
things downstairs?
Get into you room.
I's trying to talk with doctor.Go.
- Hello, Manny.
- Don't be horrid.
Why won't you show
me the drawing?
Are these one's here?
What's in there?
The future.
Right.
So you found the gun, after all.
Well,
why did you put it there, Manny?
To frighten me?
It was there because
you found it.
What do you mean?
You made it real by looking,
by opening that drawer.
"Cat is dead and not dead."
Right?
Is that so?
Okay.
Now tell me, Manny.
How did you do it?
With the gun.
Oh, you wanna play games?
Tell me about the man,
the man you drew today.
How did you know his name?
What do you know about me?
Why did you call him
Kieran, Manny?
Why did you say he was drowning?
You know, I can take all
the drawing stuff away,
and you'd have to answer me!
How'd you know his name, Manny?
- Now, talk to me!
- Ah, ah!
- No! Help, help!
- Are you alright?
It's alright, it's alright.
What's going on? Sh...
Sir?
Have you seen Kieran?
The guy from the yo-yo boat?
I'm supposed to meet him here.
No?
Did you, maybe,
see him go out sailing?
No?
Okay.
Hi, It's Kieran.
It might be difficult to call me
for the next few days,
so, leave a message,
I will get back you you.
Kieran,
I have been waiting here
for an hour for you.
Could you please call me?
It's fucking freezing here.
Look, I'll wait another half hour,
if you're not coming
could you at least
let me know? Okay.
Bye.
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Hi, It's Kieran, It might be difficult
to call me for the next few days,
- I didn't disrespect you.
- No.
You just sat there
nodding and smiling
- as if it's okay.
- They're professionals.
It's their job...
Turn down the damn music!
What?
What?
Nothing.
What are we doing today?
Watching you.
The way unpack, so inefficient.
The number of times
you cross the kitchen
could be cut in half
with a different system.
Jesus.
Well, I must put that on my list of
things do to, "improve unpacking".
Ever heard of eternal recurrence?
It's where you try to do everything
perfectly, even the small things,
in case you condemn to
repeat them eternally.
Yeah, if that's true,
I work on my tennis, if I were you.
I repeat eternally,
what are we doing today?
I was gonna catch up
with some work.
Let's go for a picnic.
- The Finger Lakes.
- Oh!
There will be crowded.
Day trippers, geriatrics.
Well, what about Elgin?
Miles away.
Yeah, but once we there,
we can head west,
towards Warren.
That place of yours,
you were always talking about,
the... the smoke house.
You made my day.
He wanted to go...
He wanted...
Heads.
The car.
Damn
car.
It's God's country, ain't it?
But, you got to
look out for bears.
They are everywhere.
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Kieran?
Kieran, it's me!
I thought it was biblical.
Like in Genesis, when
God drowns the world in anger.
He offers Noah an olive branch,
a symbol of peace.
God is compassionate,
- even in anger.
- Sorry.
Have you seen Kieran?
I'm... I'm really...
- I'm urgently looking for him.
- No.
But I think, Markus might know.
- Okay, it's great.
- Just wait a second.
Hello? Kieran?
But isn't that the point,
the earthquake?
He seems to punish both
good and evil people equally.
There is no guiding deity,
- no god to judge.
- That's to assume
a simplistic view of God.
The whole point about God
is that he works in
mysterious ways.
Our duty is to do our
best to follow his laws.
But our benefit
in the afterlife,
events like the earthquake
are like tests of faith.
Are you serious?
That's what I believe, yes.
I didn't think adults
still believe this stuff.
He... hello?
I mean, except those lunatics
who fly planes into buildings.
Oh, do you?
Have you seen
Kieran last couple of days?
So, all this, everything,
it's all planned, all controlled by
your great God up there?
Yes, He is the creator
of all things.
Kieran!
And depending on what I do
I might end up in eternal
bliss or damned in hell!
That's what I believe, yes.
Kieran?
Can I help you, Madam?
- Do you live here?
- No.
My... boyfriend lives here.
Then you had an arrangement
to meet him here, did you?
No.
So, for you...
we're all naughty
school children
being judged by
this loving, punishing
creator of wonders?
Such lunatics!
What's your
home address, please?
13 F, Park-hill road.
You've been listening
to loud music this evening?
I mean,
if that's the case, I'd rather be a
a..pig in-in-in shit!
Or vegetable.
And banging on doors here?
Yet, might then I wouldn't care
that I'm some kind of Marionette
in some sadist fantasy!
Have you had an argument
with your boyfriend, Ma'am?
No, It's... I'm just...
I'm trying to...
We're not marionettes.
God gave us freewill.
If this stories already been written
how can the characters
have freewill?!
Uh, misunderstanding, perhaps?
- Forget it.
- We write the story.
Then we are Gods!
But no!
Can I write my husband
back to life?
Can I?
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- I see you have found your way in.
- I was looking for a phone number.
And more, I suppose.
Look, I'm so sorry.
It is kind of an emergency.
I received a phone call
today from
Mrs. Malacca, Manny's
Foster mother.
She told me that
Manny was in a state of anxiety
after you have
visited him yesterday.
And that you'd involved
in some kind of
tussle with your patient,
trying to grab some
drawings from him.
I didn't want to believe it, but
do you have some
- private problems, Marianne?
- No!
- I'm fine.
- Oh.
Look, It's not my place to...
to say anything about what
to do outside of working hours
as long as it doesn't influence
your functioning here,
but, um...
I can smell the
fragrance of alcohol
on your breath from
over here, Marianne.
Maybe..
Maybe a short break
would do you good.
He is in number 10, on the left.
Okay.
Excuse me.
Excuse me, miss.
Excuse me, miss,
can you open the door?
- Excuse me, miss.
- It's in the glass piano.
A glass piano?
Which glass piano, dear?
Doctor?
Dr. MacVittie?
I'm Dr.Winter.
I'm your successor
at Victoria Clinic.
Is it about him?
I knew you would come
and see me about him.
As you know by now, he...
control everything,
even here.
Uh, listen,
there must be an
explanation for all this.
Can you remember?
When was the first time
he drew something terrible?
What did he draw?
Did...
Did something particular
happened that day?
He's in my mouth.
I can taste him.
And the noises in your walls?
Did he do the trick?
The gun in the drawer?
He did.
Here.
You have to kill him.
Kill him.
Kill him before he kills you.
Or...
Or you can...
just put a bullet
in your own head.
It's the only way.
Doctor?
Please.
Try to remember.
Stay with the facts.
When did he start drawing?
What did he draw?
No, fuck!
MacVittie.
Where did he go?
I think he went
down, to the left.
Hi, It's Kieran.
It might be difficult to call me
for the next few days
Kieran, don't go
out of your boat.
By no means,
go out of your boat.
It's dangerous.
I have every reason to believe
it's very dangerous,
trust me.
Call me and I'll explain.
Bye.
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Manny's father?
What's going on here?
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Either he controls things
or he simply foresees them,
and draws what he sees, yes.
That must be it.
He only foresees them, remember.
He knows things about me
and draws them to frighten me.
But I'm in control.
Everything I do is
determined by me, not by him.
Turn on the engine.
Turn off the engine.
Turn it on again and
drive 30 feet.
Laugh.
Say, I'm in control.
I'm in control.
Laugh again.
I determine what I do,
not that child.
I'm in control.
Get some sleep.
Get some sleep.
It'll be okay.
Recess in the morning.
Manny is just a boy.
A child is just a child.
He's just a child.
Now, I have a quiet drink.
Quiet.
Quiet.
And try to call Kieran.
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Hi, It's Kieran.
It might be difficult to call me
for the next few days,
so, leave a message,
I will get back you you.
- What happened?
- The boat was unmoored.
Drifted off.
Someone saw a strange
woman messing with the boat.
Police said it was
his girlfriend.
- The foreigner?
- Aye.
They're looking for her.
There he is!
Oh, god!
What are you drawing, Manny?
The worst thing in the world.
What is the
worst thing in the world?
The future.
I can destroy everything.
Don't you remember being burned?
How you died?
You're nothing.
When I leave the room
you don't exist.
You're just in my head!
Can you get me out of your head?
Black!
Black, black!
Black?
I'll destroy the clinic,
the hospital,
the world,
big people who put me
in the dustbin!
And what do you draw?
My draw is real.
- How is that?
- I'm the only one who is real.
I made everything.
I decide when
the bronze age would come.
I am God, and
you're God's doctor.
And I'm going to
put you in hospital
and get a new doctor
from far away.
And then I'm going to kill her,
and then I'm going to
destroy everything!
Everything!
Ah, ah!
No, no!
Don't hurt him!
Yah!
- Why did you pick me?
- No, no!
Why did you kill him?
- No!
- Why!
Why me?
Why me?
- I don't know!
- Why me!
Because I'm an unbeliever?
No!
How far back does it go?
Did you kill my husband, too?
Let me go home!
So, you didn't plan
this one, then?
There are some things
you don't control.
- Like this!
- Stop!
So, you...
So you believe me now?
But you're too late.
No, you're too late.
- What do you want?
- I want my life back,
how it was.
Police.
Get out!
She's got a gun!
Uh..
What's your plan for me?
Is this it?
Who are you?
Why are you doing this to me?
Doctor Winter,
my name is Inspector Blaine.
Can you just send us a signal
that you can hear me?
I didn't control this.
You made this happen.
You decided to find the gun.
You went out looking
for the the drawings.
- You decided to bring me here.
- So, now it's my fault? Right?
So, it's my decision
whether I shoot you.
Hm?
I'll make you a deal.
Give me my life back
and I won't do it.
Give me my life back!
Dr.Winter.
Please send us a sign
that you can hear us.
Dr.Winter, please
don't use the gun.
Put the gun away.
If you don't want to
show yourself,
please just waive
from the window.
Which life?
Bring him out here,
you mad bitch!
Take her back to the car!
We want you to show the child,
show that he's unharmed.
This isn't my life.
I don't do mad things like this.
You made me do this!
Now, you're gonna have to
make me good again.
You controlled me!
- Dr. Winter...
- Now you sort it out!
We're waiting for the boy.
But I'm only a child.
Please, show us the boy,
you've got 10 seconds
to show us the boy.
I'm only an ickle, ickle boy.
Then when I shoot you
you die?
- Yes.
- Ten.
- I'll die.
- Nine!
- Or when you shoot
- Eight.
- Everything will seize ti exist.
- Seven... six.
- Everything.
- Five!
Four!
Three!
- I know you won't shoot.
- Two!
My husband?
Where is my husband?
God, God.
Please God, bring my husband okay.
Save my husband and
I will believe in you.
I will worship you.
I will.
- I'll have faith.
- Ma'am?
I will have faith.
Please, God. Please.
Ma'am?
Can you hear me?
Josh?
You've had a bad concussion.
Your arm is broken,
but you're okay.
Marianne...
- You?
- Nothing but a few cuts.
Like a miracle.
I was lean back towards you
then airbag pressed me down.
That guy,
the driver, he died.
I think I will go back to
work on Monday.
- So soon?
- Yeah.
- Woo-hoo!
- Welcome back!
Well, I should have near fatal
accidents more often.
Very funny.
Thank you.
It's very sweet.
Welcome back, dear.
Aw-paw.
- Look what the kids did.
- Oh, that's so cute.
You know what I was thinking about,
for a summer vacation?
I was thinking about Scotland.
Scotland?
Great.
I'll walk in the mountains, but...
- what will you do?
- We're already had a vacation at the beach
and I wanted to cheer you up
after the accident, so.
Let's go somewhere wet and
gloomy this time, okay?
I've been thinking about
our disagreement.
I don't want to talk about it.
Why not?
I don't want to have
an argument now.
What makes you think
there will be an argument?
Are you serious?
Are you serious?
Only two, I promise.
A girl and a boy.
Whatever you want.
What made you change your mind?
The accident.
Uh...
Come on, you win anyway.
Yeah. I just...
Um...
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What?
Nothing.
What is it?
We have been to Scotland before.
We have?
- When?
- I had this dream,
it didn't feel like a dream.
I was in Scotland
and you were dead.
Thanks.
There was this boy.
A boy?
You mean, our son?
A patient of mine, I think.
Mh... tell me about it
in the morning.
I'm just... I'm just gonna...
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I had this incredibly vivid,
detailed dream last night
like I've never had before.
It was amazing.
Just like a total world system,
like, created in my head.
There was this boy,
a patient of mine or something,
and he controlled reality.
Basically, he was god.
He created everything.
He created me, this clinic,
this kind of version of Scotland,
Aberdeen, whatever.
I've never been to Scotland,
but it was incredibly realistic,
detailed place with like
street names
and, well, phone numbers.
I knew my boyfriend's phone
number, for Christ-sakes.
In the dream. And this boy
who was my patient,
he created me and this world
and everything, like a God,
as some kind of test.
And then it got
very scary as I had to
prove that he was wrong,
that this child
who thought he was
God wasn't God.
I had to shoot him,
which is when I woke up.
- Sounds intense.
- It was so incredibly real.
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
What do you mean by that?
Maybe you came back to
work a bit too quickly.
Everyone is so pissed off
that I'm happy for it.
- Marianne?
- Like if I'm not grumpy or negative
there must be something
wrong with me.
It was just a dream
for Christ sake.
Do you believe in
alternative universes?
Is one universe not
enough for you?
That dream I had,
that Scottish life I saw.
What if that is the real life?
And that boy created this here
like a game,
as some kind of test?
There was a test in the dream.
I can't remember what it was.
- It's just a thought.
- It's a silly thought.
And you've never
been to Scotland.
In this universe.
Marianne, stop thinking
about this, please.
Focus on what is here, now.
My lecture went really well,
by the way. Thank you for asking.
- Students even applauded.
- Great.
What if I call him?
- What, the boy?
- No.
This Kieran.
The man I...
Baby, It's not about him.
It's about knowing.
Hello?
- Hello?
- Is it you?
Who is there?
You... Your name?
Tell me your name.
What?
It's...
It's Marianne.
Who?
Marianne Winter.
Who is Marianne?
Who is this?
Marianne?
What are you doing?
I'm going to Scotland.
- I have to go.
- What are you talking about?
Marianne?
This is crazy.
Hey!
Hey!
Marianne?
Marianne!
But you know about this patient.
Maur.
Maur is your nickname, right?
We talked about him many
times in the staff meeting.
He suffered from severe
trauma, he drew.
He drew pictures continuously.
Look, I know this place.
I know you!
I know what I'm talking about.
What about Dr. MacVittie?
Albert MacVittie,
the doctor who was sectioned.
He... He jumped off the roof.
He set himself on fire.
Okay, okay, come on.
Let's just check the files
- and see if...
- Madam.
We've never heard of this patient.
Please.
Apart from the fact that
we're not allowed to give names
or details of a patient,
so could you please leave
the building, now?
- You need hand, Pete?
- No, no. It's alright.
She's just leaving.
You need to leave the building.
Fine.
Sure.
Okay.
Clever-clever.
You've got it right.
Right?
I was all a test.
But you failed it,
so I decided to
give you one more chance.
I've decided to let
you remember.
Open it.
Have a look.
Then you will know everything.
Don't you want to know
what happens next?
What would it matter?
It's already in there.
- It's all been fixed.
- No.
Just like the drawings
I found before.
It would change everything.
See, the drawings would
never have existed
without you finding them.
Only if you have a look.
Remember?
It was your decision,
like you decided to call him.
Oops! So, that was
your fault, after all.
He was awoken by a phone call
in the middle of the night
and then slipped
down the stairs.
Bang-bang-bang.
Banged his little head.
No!
What do you want from me?
To go home and
live my life in fear,
one day you would
take it all away again?
You wanted him back,
- didn't you?
- Please.
Go away.
Please.
Make me unaware that you exist.
Please.
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Hello?
Marianne...
you have to come home.
Did you see the news?
There was a freak storm up here,
a hundred miles in hour wind
and lots of accidents.
The roof collapsed.
And Marianne..
Josh...
we don't know where he is.
Please, don't do this to me.
Please.
Please, save him.
Please, help me.
Please.
Please.
Leave me alone!
Manny!
Manny!
What do you want?
You've had your test.
Wasn't that enough?
Please.
Please, just go away.
Please.
Leave me alone.
You need me!
Is that it?
No.
You-need-me.
This isn't about me, is it?
It's about you.
This is all you.
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I've had a breakthrough.
It took me a while to work it out.
Why do we destroy
the one we need?
Because we don't
want to be helped.
Because he's frightened.
Very frightened
Life used to be so wonderful
like a dream.
It must have been
an awful shock for him,
the night his father died.
One day
divides happiness from hell.
One event.
One choice.
And then six months later,
his mother was gone too.
He must have blamed himself.
Could he have saved her?
Was it all his fault?
Why did this happened to him?
Why did God take away
his parents?
And so, he shut himself off,
refused to speak.
It must have been
a terrible experience for him.
Quite threatening.
All of these questions
and the guilt,
the shock,
fear.
To deal with all this
he found a way out,
a way to exile
his fear and suffering.
He escaped into a world
in which he has full control,
a world where he is God.
See?
I don't exist.
You don't exist.
In fact, none of these is real.
We all exist in the mind
of a 10 year old boy.
Am I right, Manny?
I know you're out there.
I know you're listening.
_
Hey.
Are you alright?
What's up?
You can tell me.
I want you to know
you can always tell me.
Just get my hand and pinch me
if you want to say something.
I know what's
going on inside you, Manny.
I'm the voice inside you head.
I can feel your yearning.
You don't want to live
in this nightmare anymore.
I can help you.
How?
Because I believe in you.
Because I know one day...
you'll come out of your silent,
empty fortress
and enter this world.
- The world?
- I know.
It's so huge
and frighting.
But, Manny,
it's also so full of light.
You don't have to be
afraid anymore.
Just, imagine it to be different
and the world will be
a better place.
Hey, sweetheart.
Hey.
Transcript & Subtitled by Primus V