Masters of Sex (2013–2016): Season 3, Episode 5 - Matters of Gravity - full transcript

Previously on
Masters Of Sex...

This kind of smut does
not belong in this hospital.

We'll reconvene in my office.

You should be done

toadying up
to the likes of Fitzhugh.

It's where the study started.

It's also where you were fired.

Sorry about the locks.

I have been
ejaculating prematurely.

You can help
with that, can't you?

We can.



Now, I understand

why you can't be honest
with our daughter,

and I pay the price
every time I call Vivian

and she hangs up on me.

Let me tell Graham.

You're asking
too much, Margaret.

No! No!

Say you're sorry,
you little shit!

I'll never say sorry
to you ever!

I found out something
bad about my mother.

She bring
her boyfriends around here?

What boyfriends?

Come on.
You've met him.

I'm not so sure he's a keeper.



The phone has been
ringing off the hook.

I've got this big-shot perfume
guy from New York who wants in.

Oh! Do I have the wrong night?

I'm sorry, Jo.
I thought it was Friday.

God, you are so like her...

A girl I used to know.

Here it comes again.

The old Dan Logan charm.

The baby didn't cry.

You didn't get up to see why
the baby wasn't crying.

The phone didn't ring.

Mm.

Your neighbor didn't stop by
and borrow some sugar--

Oh, an egg.

She was short an egg.

You didn't have to move
your convertible

to get it out of the rain.

We could try again...

Just to make sure
that it really happened.

Mm-hmm.

What is it?

That's...
my mother's laugh.

It can't be.

Your mother's in...

The living room, apparently.

Get dressed.

And then what?

Hide.

Mom? Daddy?

Oh! Look at you!

Oh-ho-ho!

No person would ever think
you had a baby.

Only a mother.

You look like
a million bucks, honey.

Couple of more pounds
and you'll be back to normal.

What are you doing here?

We thought
if we told you we were coming,

you'd put us off again.

I told her, Gin, I did.

I said no one likes
uninvited guests.

And I told him,

there's no new mother who
doesn't need her own mother.

- Am I right?
- Right.

Is this the robe that
I bought you in high school?

Aren't you happy to see them?

Yes! Of course I am.

I'm-- I'm just...
surprised is all.

Tessie told us
that Tuesdays were best.

Because usually I'm at dad's,

so it's just you and Lisa,
alone.

I told grammy and gramps that
Lisa's just started smiling.

Oh, we cannot wait to see her!

Why don't I go get her?

No! If you wake her up now,

then she'll be up
the rest of the night.

And you must be so tired
from that long train ride,

so why don't I make up a bed
for you in the back room?

But it's early still.

Aren't you gonna offer them
a cup of tea?

He is obsessed.

Oh, I am not, Edna.
Your grandmother exaggerates.

First it was bridges
and skyscrapers.

I read you one article
about the Seagram building.

And then the Space Needle.

Oh, my goodness.
Is it 9:00? Already?

When did it get so late?

...which I am.
I love babies.

Well, if you go to sleep now,

then you'll be all bright-eyed
and bushy-tailed

when Lisa wakes up
in the morning.

So why don't you take
this tea to bed?

How high is the Arch, gramps?

63 stories,
17,000 tons of steel.

I'm telling you, Tessie, it is
truly an engineering marvel--

Aah!

What was that?

Possums.

Again.
We have possums.

Didn't sound like a possum.

It sounded like Santa
jumping off the chimney.

Well, it's more than likely
you got yourself a raccoon, Gin.

Why don't
me and you check it out?

"You and I." Grammar.

I'll get a flashlight.

No! You are not running around

in the middle of the night
with your grandfather,

looking for a raccoon.

That's ridiculous, Tessa.

Why don't I take a look
in the morning,

see if there's a hole in
the eaves that need repairing?

See, now,
if you had a real husband,

that would be his job.

No more nightmares, I hope?

Nightmares?

Believe me,
that is the last time

I try reading that awful
Truman Capote book before bed.

Last night was my night.

I know,
and I felt terrible intruding,

but I just couldn't
fall back asleep.

Every time I closed my eyes,
I would see that farmhouse.

- That poor family.
- Oh.

I'd better get dressed.

We should be leaving soon,
Graham.

I've decided
I'd like to go, too.

I already called in sick.

I told them
I had food poisoning.

No, we've been
through this, Jo.

We are not in bed
at the same time,

so why would we go
to counseling together?

We're in bed together
right now.

Not in the sense
I'm talking about.

Glasser says we should
deal with what's real.

This is what's real between us.

Well... what's also real

is the fact
that most of the world

is not nearly as open-minded
as we are.

I'm not ashamed
of what we have.

Neither am I.

But Dr. Masters and Mrs. Johnson
work with couples--

one man and one woman.

They wouldn't know what to do
with three people.

They're the world leading
experts on sex, Margaret.

They, more than anybody,

know historically monogamy
is the exception, not the rule.

Take a look at Sub-Saharan
Africa, the Islamic world...

It's only our retrograde
Western society

that teaches us to believe
the logic of love as scarcity,

as a commodity that's to be
stored up and hoarded.

These people
are my friends, Graham.

I've known Bill Masters
for 20 years.

What the three of us have...

I'm just not ready to share it
with him.

I'm sorry.

Well,
we're on this path together.

We all go at our own pace.

Oh, she is so beautiful.

I think she looks just like me.

Don't you think
she looks just like me?

Just dry toast, mother?

I can't fix you something else?

Oh, I'm watching my weight.

Too many calories in margarine.

I'm back
in my old clothes, mother.

Marjorie Dupont is still walking
around with that baby weight,

and Lance just graduated
high school,

which, frankly, is a miracle.

He's not a very bright boy,
that Lance.

He broke our porch light twice

tossing the morning paper
onto the stoop.

Maybe he just has bad aim.

The first time was bad aim.

The second time was stupidity.

And Marjorie wants me
to introduce him to Tessa

the next time
she comes to visit.

As if.

She's a million times
too good for that boy.

Well, Tessa does have a
little juvenile delinquent in her.

She's been giving me
a hard time lately.

Well, what do you expect?

She's been bouncing
between two households.

She's not bouncing.

Did Tessa tell you
that she's bouncing?

I can see for myself.

It's no way to raise a teenager,
Mary Virginia.

Who's keeping tabs on her, hmm?

And who knows what secrets
she's keeping from you?

Yeah, secrets
such as having her grandparents

show up unannounced.

I really don't appreciate

you telling her not to tell me,
mother.

You used to do that all the time
when she was little.

Buying her candy and saying,
"Don't tell mommy."

Well,
it's a grandmother's prerogative

to spoil her grandchildren.

Of course.
The rules never apply to you.

Oh, and look at you.
What about your rules?

Hitched to a man in name only.

Pawning off his poor baby
to some babysitter

when you're going off
to do your sex work.

It's not "sex work," mother.

"Sex work"
is what prostitutes do.

Well, try and explain
the difference to my friends.

Well, why don't you
tell your friends

that your daughter
has co-authored

a seminal work
on human sexuality

and she's supporting herself,
handsomely, from the proceeds?

You know what this needs?

It needs a little marmalade.

Hi.

You're very
unpopular this morning.

They're all from
Ronald Sturgis and pals,

those religious weirdos
who've been hanging out

in the lobby this whole week.

What happened to you?

Tripped up on my own front step.

Let me fix it.

No, I don't want anyone
touching my--

- Aah! God.
- Oh.

Betty, don't--

The vertebral column
is very sensitive. You can't--

Do you want the pain
to go away?

Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

Helen's got sciatica,

and she's too vain
to give up high heels.

Now just lean back.

I most certainly will n--
Aaaaah!

Aah!

Ah! Betty! Stop!

All right,
let your spine stretch out.

Stop it, Betty!
I mean it!

Sometimes you can actually feel

- the vertebra pop back in--
- I mean it!

Ohh!

Oh. Ooh.

Oh.

Attaboy.

- Oh, you did it.
- Yeah.

Oh. Oh, Betty.

Oh.
That is absolutely...

Doug.

I was... hoping to have
a word with you, Bill.

I'd appreciate a few moments
of your time.

Of course.

Thank you, Betty.
That'll be all.

Look, I feel awful about
what happened the other week.

Seeing you
at that cocktail party,

it brought back some--
well, some strong emotions.

For you, too, I'm sure.

The truth of the matter is,

it's been 10 years since...
the unpleasantness between us.

And clearly, you've gone on to
some impressive accomplishments.

You've got your own practice,

you've got a best-selling book
on your hands.

I think it's high time
that you and I bury the hatchet.

Don't you think?

Well...

that's quite a change of heart
you've had, Doug, haven't you?

I've given it a lot of thought.

In the space of two weeks,

to go from publicly insulting
a man,

calling his integrity
into question,

demeaning his work,

to this... display.

There wouldn't be any ulterior
motives here, would there, Doug?

Hmm.

You have a son, don't you, Bill?

I'm sure you would do anything
in the world for him,

wouldn't you?

Ronnie is an architect.

Two years ago, he married
a sweet girl, Leelah.

They've been trying
to have a baby. No luck.

But it didn't matter.
They had plenty of time.

Yesterday, a letter
came from the draft board.

My son's been called up.

He won't last five minutes in a war.

Everyone feels the same
way about their child.

Not true.
I wouldn't be worried

if it were either of my two
older boys, Sam or Dale.

But Ronnie's different.

I've got to get him a deferral.

Ah.

If his wife were pregnant,
he'd be III-A.

You are the best fertility
man in the Midwest, Bill.

I have never denied that.

You certainly didn't
take it into account

when you threw me out of Wash U
after 15 years.

I can't undo
what's been done, Bill.

The only thing I can do
is try to make it right.

Well, what exactly did
you have in mind?

Barton, how are you?

I'm fine, thank you.

I'm here to see Margaret.
Is she here?

Yeah,
she'll be out in a minute.

Come on in.

We're going to see
your colleagues, actually.

Oh, I won't keep her long.

You know, I didn't realize

that you were a student
of Rich Huffman's.

Dr. Huffman?

He was my mentor
in medical school.

Well, he tells me
that there's no one in the world

that knows more about bacteria
than you do.

He said you're teaching
over at St. John's.

There's an office
with my name plate on the door,

but the focus of my research
is cholera,

so I spend a good part
of the year abroad.

- Follow the germs.
- Precisely.

Jo, I thought
you were taking the day off.

No reason to now, is there?

Oh.

Hello.

Have you seen
my turquoise earrings?

Did you check
the bathroom drawer?

Yes, I checked the bathroom...

- I didn't realize you were here.
- No, no.

There was just a small matter I
was hoping to discuss with you.

Although it seems like maybe now
is not a good time.

Well, we-- we are
on our way out the door, so...

Well, we've got 10
minutes before we have to leave.

In the meantime,
I'll look for those earrings.

I-I met...

Jo, is it?

- Did you?
- Yeah.

Is that-- is that
Graham's daughter or...?

I don't have
a lot of time, Barton.

Well, I-- you know,
I've thought a lot

about what you said
the other night,

and I-I-I know
how difficult it's been.

I'm sorry.

They kissed on the lips--
Graham and that young woman.

Jo and Graham
are in a relationship.

As in a romantic relationship?

Yes, in fact.

And you know about this?

Jo works at a travel agency.

She's the one who used to book
all of Graham's trips for work,

his trips to India, Kenya.

They started up
a sort of friendship.

He started calling her
when he'd come home

to tell her about his trips.

Eventually, they decided
to take it

beyond the telephone
and meet in person.

Graham likes to call it
"love at first dial."

Yep, they, uh...

She moved in with us
six months ago.

And that's all right with you?

This... arrangement?

Graham and I decided together.

For heaven's sake, Margaret,

you're living in some sort
of... commune,

like those crazy people
you hear about in Berkeley.

Historically speaking,
in most cultures in the world,

monogamy happens to be
the exception.

Historically speaking?

I came here
to give you permission

to tell Graham about my...

About us...

because I wanted you to be
honest with the man you love.

And you can't even be honest
with yourself.

What are you doing, Margaret?

- What am I doing?
- Yes.

I'm living in the
truth-- at least I'm trying to,

which is far more
than I can say for you.

Hate to say it--
in the bathroom drawer.

Well, I am sorry.
I had no idea they were coming.

How long are they staying?

Unclear.

No one is more unhappy
about this than I am.

My mother has a true talent
for insinuating herself

into everybody else's business,
especially mine.

Oh, and she wants to come
into the office for a visit,

so I need you to help me
put on a good face.

I can do that.
I think.

Here's something
that'll cheer you up.

We've been invited back
to Washington University.

Invited back as...?

There's a faculty
consortium tomorrow night.

The keynote speaker
has dropped out,

and they need someone of note.

Fitzhugh is begging for us
to fill the spot.

Fitzhugh?

The chancellor who led
the charge against you--

- against us?
- Mm-hmm.

Bill, they put dildos
on my desk.

I was mauled in the bathroom.
We can't go back there.

That's exactly why
we should go back.

I won't.

No, nothing could induce me

to stand in front
of those people and speak.

Well, I'll speak
for both of us, then.

Tell them the battle is over,
and they have lost.

It begins with the woman's knees
astride the male,

facing forward, her pubis
perched above his erection.

And then, with
a minimal amount of touching,

the tip of the man's penis

is inserted
into the vaginal opening.

Just the tip.

I insert it or Graham does?

You do.

Graham, your job is
to do as little as possible.

Just remain totally passive.

Passive.

Graham--

He's--
he prefers to be in charge.

And I have to say,
I prefer that, too.

I-- I've had partners who've...

left it up to me
to make things happen,

and it hasn't worked out so well
for either of us.

Well, in order
to treat the problem,

you both need to be open

to exploring
different sexual dynamics.

Oh, Margaret
is far more open-minded

than she's giving herself
credit.

- Aren't you?
- And you?

I just don't know how I'll
be able to maintain an erection

if I don't stay... active.

Perhaps your prematurity

is linked to this drive
to be in charge.

You're anticipating
what it feels like

to cross the finish line
before the race has even begun.

What you need to do is take
your foot off the accelerator.

Yes. You be the car,
and let Margaret drive.

And I just do nothing?

You focus on what it
feels like to be inside her.

Resist the temptation to move.

Let the urge to orgasm subside,

and you will become
desensitized.

And once that happens, Margaret,

you can allow Graham's penis
to penetrate more deeply,

stopping at each point
to establish that new baseline.

Mm.

And if I feel
as though I may orgasm...?

You immediately withdraw.

And, Margaret,
you apply the squeeze technique.

Now, you place two fingers
on the side of the penis,

facing Graham.

I'm so sorry.
Uh, did we--

did we establish whether or not
you're circumcised?

- We did. He is.
- I am.

All right.

So you place two fingers here,

on the coronal ridge--
one above, one below.

Here. Why don't you
give it a try?

The cowardly,
the unbelieving, the vile...

- Just one moment.
- ...the murderers,

the sexually immoral.

Those who practice magic arts,
the idolaters and all liars--

they will beonsigned to the
fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Betty, call the police.

This is the second death,
Dr. Masters.

I called your office
an hour ago.

It's been a long afternoon, Lib.

I got here as soon as I could.

I told Betty
that it was an emergency.

Well, we had
an emergency of our own.

Oh. Someone present with a
case of ejaculatory incompetence?

No.

In fact, a group
of Bible-waving lunatics

descended upon our waiting room
and wouldn't leave

until the police cleared them
out, one by one.

Now, what was so important
that I had to rush home?

Your son
was beaten up at school.

And he came home
with a bloody gash over his eye

and his shirt torn.

Well, what happened?

He refuses to tell me.

All I can guess is that some
bully decided to pick on him.

- Where is he now?
- He's in the bathroom.

I cleaned him up
and told him to sit in there

- until I could find the iodine.
- I'll take a look.

Please be gentle
with him, Bill.

He's shaken up enough
as it is, okay?

I'll talk to him myself.

I'd like to know what happened.

I told you.
I got into a fight.

What precipitated it?

Was someone picking on you?

Were they teasing you?

It doesn't matter.

Well, it matters to me.

I started it.

My friends and I...

We were playing football
at recess.

And another boy,

he-- he was trying
to take the ball away.

Mm-hmm.

And we asked him
to stop, but he wouldn't.

So I made him.

And trust me, I don't look
half as bad as he does.

You shouldn't be
getting into fights, John.

You need to focus
on your studies.

Smells like my grandma.

Can you elaborate?

Mm.

She used to keep a tin
of licorice in her purse,

and when I did something
naughty, she wouldn't spank me.

She would bribe me with it.

Her heart rate didn't go up.

Not significantly, no.

So it wasn't a sexual response?

To my grandmother?

Let Lester try.

Wanda Petrowski.

She wore something very similar
to this one.

We used to sit in her parked
car, and she would list for me,

one by one, the reasons
she wouldn't let me kiss her.

Is failure an emotion?

That would be my emotional
response to this.

Let's not get worried yet.

It's just a demonstration.
Let's try another scent.

No, these stories don't
get at what I'm looking for.

What is it
that you're looking for?

Not just what people
think they feel.

Something more unspoken.

Let me give you an example.

There was this gal
I used to see.

She was pretty enough
and very friendly.

But she really only cared
about two things--

her gin and her orchids.

She used to breed show orchids
as a hobby,

and the more gin she drank,
the more she talked about them.

Now, I'm not much for flowers
that don't smell,

and I hate gin.

But still,
I was drawn to this woman.

What does your wife
think of this story?

This was a long time ago.

And all I know
is that every time

I had to do business
in Pittsburgh,

I thought how much I didn't want
to hear about those orchids,

and I still called her anyway.

Now tell me--
what's the test you could do

to help me understand
why I picked up the phone?

Tightening of the scrotum.

Blood flow to the penis?

And when she opened the door,

half the time I wasn't even sure
she remembered my name,

but she still let me in.

What's the test that tells us
why she did that?

Lubrication
of the vaginal walls.

Maybe hardening of the areolae.

I want them to smell my
perfumes while we test those things.

- Okay, I'm out.
- Me too.

I'm paying you for
the Cadillac of sex research.

That's what I expect to get.

Grandma?

Grandma. Grandma!

Oh.

What are you doing?

Have you seen
what's under here?

No one's vacuumed
under here for months.

Do you want me
to do that for you?

Oh, would you mind
an awful lot?

It's just mom hasn't done any
in a while, hers or mine.

Of course she hasn't.
Just leave it here.

Thanks.

Mom, do you want to join us?

We're having a little dessert.

Oh, you all enjoy.
I'm cleaning.

There's nothing more satisfying

than cleaning for somebody
who doesn't have time.

I know you feel
your mother's hard on you,

but it's because she worries.

She doesn't worry about me.

She worries about how things
look, how I look.

She wants to polish everything
until it shines, including me.

She does it
every time she visits.

It's just like she used to do
with those beauty pageants.

Do you remember the one
in Topeka?

Had to drive in the car with her
for eight hours.

The whole way there, she made me
press on my front teeth

with a popsicle stick,

as if I could somehow fix
my overbite before we got there.

She knew how happy you'd be
to wear that winning sash.

No, she wanted to see
me in the sash.

What kind of mother puts an
8-year-old in a beauty pageant?

But, honey, she didn't
put you in the pageant.

You entered yourself.

You saw it in a magazine,

filled out the form,
and sent it in.

Then you begged your mother
to drive you to Topeka.

If she pushed you too hard,
it's 'cause you didn't--

She didn't want you
to be disappointed.

"Once the female
has mounted the male,

she takes the penis
and slides the tip..."

Okay.

I'm gonna take it and put it
inside just a little bit.

- How's that?
- That's good.

Mm-hmm.

Don't move.

Mnh-mnh.

I want to.

I feel like I'm...
suppressing a sneeze.

Just sit still.

Try to think of it
as if you're--

you're lowering yourself
into a warm bath,

letting yourself adjust
to the temperature.

Mm.

Mm, that's good.

A little deeper?

It's working.

It's-- it's working.

Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Just-- just feel it.

Just let yourself
dissolve into me.

Okay.

Could you not-- not do that?

Not-- don't close your eyes?

Don't close your eyes.

Does it say that
in the instructions?

No, that-- that's just for me.

Oh.

- I'm looking at you.
- Really?

I see you.

Well, I've decided
to take the high road.

Right off the top, I'm going
to acknowledge the university

as the birthplace of the study.

Have you seen your son?

Oh, he looks fine.

Boys that age heal quickly.
There won't be a scar.

Um, I went through
his book bag this afternoon,

looking for his lunchbox, and...

I found this folded up
at the bottom.

"Dear Johnny,
I am sorry that I punched you.

I promise that I will not
do it again.

From Dennis Daughtry."

Johnny made the whole thing
up, about starting a fight.

I called the school.

Apparently, this Dennis has been
picking on him for weeks,

taunting him
and calling him names.

Then, this morning,
he and four other boys

held Johnny down on the football
field, punching and kicking him.

They said they
wouldn't let him go

until Johnny gave in and
admitted that he was a sissy.

Eventually, the teacher saw what
was happening and broke it up.

She made Dennis
write an apology note.

I was gonna suggest that we both
call the parents tomorrow.

No.

No, leave it-- leave it to me.

Dennis?

Dennis Daughtry?

Apparently,
you can spell your own name.

Well, that's--
that's impressive.

Although you do seem
to have a little trouble

with some of the bigger words.

Leave me alone.

Don't you walk away from me.

Now, you swung these knuckles
into my son's face.

You did. Yes, you did.
I know you did.

I know.
Don't deny it.

I'm a doctor.
I know things.

For instance, I know
that you're, what-- 13?

But you're in Johnny's grade.

So how many times have you been
held back now, Dennis?

Two? Three?

That make you feel bad
about yourself?

You know why that is?

Because it means you're stupid.

Yeah, that's why you lash out
at other boys, boys like my son,

boys who are smart, boys--
boys who are smarter than you,

better than you.

But you know what?

I know you're smart enough
to know that if a doctor--

if a doctor threatens you,

no one can protect you.

Can they?

Certainly not your father

with his sad little
plumbing business.

No, you're alone, Dennis.

And you know what?

One of these days,

you're going to end up
just like your old man.

You're gonna unclog other people's
shit out of their toilet.

You're looking at a future

where you work with your hands,
Dennis,

so you'd better take care
of them.

All right.
Just go home, clean yourself up.

I thought maybe
lemon chicken for dinner?

With those scalloped
potatoes you make?

Those are so good.
You have to teach me.

Potatoes.
Heavy cream.

So, how did it go
with those new exercises?

Well, it's too soon to say.

We're only
just at the beginning.

Don't be modest, Magpie.

They went well.

It certainly
sounded like they went well.

You were listening?

I was passing by in the hall.

Jo...

You promised that whatever
you learned from those doctors,

you would tell me so that it
could work for us, too, Graham.

- You promised.
- I also told you

that we needed time alone,
together,

to get it right before any
lessons could be passed on.

Well, it seemed like
you were getting it right.

You cannot listen at the door.

It's unfair to us.

We each have our private time,
and this was ours.

Margaret's right, Jojo.

Well, I'm sorry,
but I was scared, okay?

I mean, if he can fix
the problem with you,

he's not gonna
want to work on it with me.

And if you can cure him,
he's gonna love you more.

That's not going to happen.

But she hopes it does.
Don't you? Hope it does?

All right, let's just
sit down and take a breath.

Don't you?

Don't you want him
to love you more?

The truth.

I do, yes.

Yes, I do.

So, where does that leave me?

Well, I guess that leaves you

with your ear pinned
against the door,

terrified of
what's going on inside.

What has gotten into you?

You can't know, Margaret.

You can't know what it's like--
what it feels like,

standing on the other side
of that door...

I know exactly
what it feels like,

far more than either of you.

I spent years and years
and years

worried that I was going to lose
the man that I loved

to something going on
behind some door.

30 years.

My life imploded
into a million messy pieces,

and I tried to scrape it
back together as best I could

until I found Graham.

I fell in love with Graham
on my own.

You were not part of that, Jo.

We didn't have any problems
in bed or anywhere else

until you came along.

Margaret, I won't have it.

Why did you
bring her into this?

I didn't do anything.
We agreed.

We did not invite
your travel agent

over for fondue
and two bottles of rosé

because we wanted to fuck her!

Jo is young and pretty.

There are a million men
in the world for Jo.

That's not the point.

It... couldn't be more the point.

We were happy-- weren't we?--
Before jo?

Yes.

Then why, Graham?
Why is she here?

I have feelings for her.

I wasn't going to lie to you
about them.

I knew I was
going to act on them.

Are you going to show us
inside the exam room?

They're all
currently in use, mom.

Wait a sec.

There are people having
relations in there?

Only if we've been
successful in helping them.

Your daughter's been
very helpful to so many people

who, without her and the doc,

would've had no place else
to turn.

Yes.
But in the middle of the day?

I can finish showing them
around if you want to take a break.

And go where?

You've always wanted
to see Canada.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson.

Virginia said you might stop by.

Great to see you, Bill.

We were just about to impose

and take a look at the Arch
from your office.

Oh, it's not
an imposition at all.

I understand from Virginia

you know a great deal
about its construction.

Bill, how is your lovely wife?

Libby is well, thank you.

Mm-hmm.
And the little ones?

Virginia tells me
that you have three now.

Not so little anymore.

Uh, if you're free tonight,

Virginia and I have been invited
to Washington University

to give a talk.

I'm sure I speak on behalf
of both of us

when I say we'd be honored
to have you as our guests.

Oh.
I-- I think I have a tie.

I would've mentioned it myself.

I just didn't think it was
something you'd be interested in.

Wonderful.

Virginia can put your names down
on the guest list.

You ready for the nickel tour?

Right over here
we have Dr. Masters' office...

Why is your mother
staring at me like that?

You know, Bill, this
looks a lot like the petition list

of people at Wash U
who had you fired.

There's a reason for that.

It is the petition list.

That was Dennis
Daughtry's mother on the phone.

Libby, please.

Can we talk about this later?

I-I really need to focus
right now.

I need to understand how
you could have possibly thought

that that was a good idea.

I-I have been wracking my brain.

I didn't handle it well...

but I-I handled it.

You physically attacked
a 13-year-old boy.

I did not--
I did not attack him.

I had a conversation with him.

And that "boy"
is the size of a linebacker.

You don't really think
that makes it okay.

Somebody needed to
teach him a lesson!

What lesson
are you teaching our son?

You cannot let a bully
get away with it!

He has to be made to see
that there are consequences!

Whether it's a 13-year-old boy

or the chancellor
of a university.

Did you know
after Fitzhugh fired me,

they changed the locks?

All my research,
every single piece of data

I collected over three years--
all of it taken away from me.

They had some security guard
pick me up by the shirt collar

like I was some street vagrant.

You know the only thing
I regret?

I regret walking out that door,
giving them the satisfaction.

I should've made them drag me.

This is not about you, Bill.

This is about our son.

And our son needs help.

I am about to go back to
that place and face those same men,

so, Libby, we will
talk about this tomorrow.

Bill Masters
and Virginia Johnson

need no introduction, especially
here at Washington University,

where their groundbreaking study

on human sexual response
was conceived.

That's not a word I use lightly,

because Bill Masters
is a master of conception.

He is a world-renowned expert
in fertility

and a skilled obstetrician,

having brought thousands
of healthy babies

into the wards
of our own hospital.

Now, with his colleague,
Virginia Johnson,

a renowned psychologist
in her own right,

he has published a work
of great scientific import.

We are lucky to have them
on such short notice

to share their findings with us.

63 stories,
17,000 tons of steel.

The new St. Louis Arch
is a grand monument

to those brave pioneers
of Western expansion,

those men and women
who forsook safety

and headed into the wilderness.

Despite the naysayers,

they dreamed of making
the unknown known.

I think it's not a stretch
to say

that, in our laboratories
in Wash U

and now
in our own private clinic,

Mrs. Johnson and I
have taken up the mantle

of that pioneering spirit.

- Margaret?
- Barton.

Uh, I'm here to see Bill.
I don't have an appointment.

I just thought
I might catch him.

He and Virginia are
at Wash U, giving a speech.

Oh.
And yet you're here.

I'm happy
to be done with that place.

There's nothing there
for me anymore.

I didn't expect it
to feel so good,

walking away,
making a fresh start.

Oh, God.

Are those even possible?
Fresh starts?

Haven't you made one?

I came here to thank
Bill and Virginia for their help,

but to tell them Graham and I
won't be returning to therapy.

Oh.

Yeah, it turns out sex isn't
really the problem with us.

It's me.

I-I picked a situation
as far away as possible

from what I had with you--

a man who wanted me so much

he physically couldn't wait
to have me--

who loved women so much
he had to have two of them--

who led a life without secrets,

so there were no devastating
truths to discover,

because I already knew
the worst...

A man who was ready and able to
fix what was broken between us.

Only...

what's really broken, Barton...

is me.

I left Graham tonight.

Just walked out
with my coat and my car keys.

You'd think that'd be
the beginning of a fresh start,

wouldn't you?

No possessions, no personal
attachments, not even a wallet.

And yet, um...

I'm gonna make the same mistakes
all over again.

How could I not?

I'm the same person
I've always been.

I'm looking for the same thing.

I have no idea how to find it.

Oh.

You don't think you've changed?

No. No.

I do.

Oh. Why?

Because you left him.

You didn't wait for him
to leave you,

like you--
like you did with me.

That's the difference.

That's how you've changed.

You know that there's--
there's something more,

something-- something better.

And you know that--
that you deserve it.

Or you would have stayed.

But-- but I'm alone.

I am all alone.

I don't know what to do now.
I don't...

Who do I have?
Where is home?

I-- I think maybe I can help.

I think...

I think maybe...

I can give that back to you.

Vivian, honey?
It's your father.

Am I calling too late?

No.

No, nothing's wrong.

I just, uh...

I have something to tell you,

about your mother and me
and why our marriage ended.

I think it's important
that you know the truth--

the truth about me.

In the future,
when people talk about our work,

I hope that they will say
to each other,

"What was all the fuss about?"

I hope they'll find it
hard to believe

there was ever a time that this
kind of study was necessary.

What a triumph that would be.

Thank you.

We have time
for a few questions.

- Leslie Farber.
- Go ahead.

No one knows how your work
will be received in the future,

but I find myself concerned
about the hidden risks it poses.

Your science takes
the relationship

between man and woman--
husband and wife--

and renders it in numbers,
graphs.

Sex is reduced
to a mechanical process

without any reference
to the human psyche.

Qualities like modesty,
chastity, fidelity, shame--

and most glaring of all,

nowhere in your book
does the word "love" appear.

Sorry.
What was your question, sir?

My question, Dr. Masters,
is where is the love?

Uh...

In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton
discovered what was then known

as the law of universal
gravitation-- gravity.

Take two objects.

The larger object exerts
an attractive force

on the smaller object, pulling
it towards itself, as it were.

An apple falls from a tree.

The Earth, by far
the more massive object,

pulls the apple to the ground.

Simple enough.

Only Newton's theory...

left scientists
a rather puzzling problem.

To paraphrase you, Dr. Farber,
where is the gravity?

It's not something
you can see or touch.

It's not something
you can put under microscopes

or examine from a telescope.

Well, 230 years after Newton,

a German patent clerk
in Switzerland

finally realized that scientists

have been asking
the wrong question all along.

They would never find an object

in all the immensity of space
called gravity,

because, in point of fact,

gravity is nothing
but the shape of space itself.

That clerk-- Einstein--
posited that the apple

does not fall to the ground

because the Earth exerts some
mysterious kind of force upon it.

The apple falls to the ground

because it is following
the lines and grooves

that gravity has carved
into space.

And when we talk about sex,

we do not talk about love,
Dr. Farber,

because love cannot be rendered
into columns and graphs,

as if it were the same
as blood pressure or heart rate.

Love is not a force exerted
by one body onto another.

It is the very fabric
of those bodies.

Love is that which carves
the lines and grooves...

The curvature of our desire.

Great night, honey.

Thank you, daddy.

I really regret these shoes.

Oh. I'll, uh--
I'll bring the car around.

Oh, good.
Thank you, honey.

Did you enjoy yourself?

It was very illuminating.

I'm so glad that it worked out.

You were able to get a sense
of the work,

what kind of contribution
to science

we're making-- I'm making.

I underestimated you.

You did?

Here I thought that you'd
made a mess of your life.

But now I see
that you are this close

to being able to fix things.

Really?

I'm so proud of you.

You are?

All you've got to do is get him
to leave his wife and marry you.

You're so close.

Strike while the iron is hot.

And don't give him a chance
to get tired of you, hmm?

I'll meet you at the car.

Quite an evening.

Bill sure can work a crowd.

I didn't know
that you were here.

I snuck in the back
at the last minute.

I figured a smart investor

tries to learn everything he can
about his investment.

I'm glad I did.
I had no idea

you were so far into the
research on sexual inadequacy.

I can see
the real potential there

for overlap with our products.

Are you all right?

Fine.

Are you sure?
You look upset.

How would you like to
take me to dinner sometime?

You're awfully quiet.

Am I?

For a man who just very
publicly vanquished his enemies,

yes, I would say
you're rather subdued.

You won, Bill.
That's what you wanted.

Aren't you even
a little bit pleased?

I didn't respect their
opinions when they called me a pervert.

I don't know why the hell
I thought their approbation

would matter now.

Then what was the point
of this whole exercise?

I don't know.

As I was walking down
from the podium,

I, uh... listened
to that applause.

All I could think about
was my father.

The time I bought him a bottle
of aftershave for his birthday.

As I was counting out the change
in the drugstore,

the sales lady asked me

if I needed a bandage
for my split lip.

It was his, uh--
his gift to me that morning.

Making that man happy was like
trying to walk to the horizon.

I was never gonna get there.

I'll go check in on the others.

How was your day?

Fine.

Your face is healing well.

That boy
hasn't bothered you again?

Ah.

I remember reading that book.

Yeah, I was just your age
when I read it.

I remember climbing up the--
up the ladder to the attic

and pulling the trap door shut
behind me.

Why?

I didn't want my father
to know where I was.

Why?

He-- he'd have given me chores.

I'd have had to stop reading.

Have you gotten to the part

where Henry faces the charge
and fires his gun?

I used to love that description

of the gun getting hotter
and hotter.

He pulls the trigger
over and over again

until it gets so hot
it's blistering his hands,

but he just won't stop firing--

Where are you going?

John?

To bed.

But it's still early.

How about we watch some TV?

I'm just gonna read in my room.