Shrink (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - 1,920 Hours - full transcript

[CLEARS THROAT]

"Pursuant to the requirements

set out by
Illinois Statute 225 ILCS-107,

I am required to inform you

that I am not a licensed
psychologist, psychiatrist,

or a registered therapist,

but that these therapy sessions
are being tape-recorded

to provide a record of the 1,920
supervised clinical hours

needed to acquire such a license."

So do I have your permission
to tape-record this session

as evidence of hours performed?



Yes, sir.

Oh, you don't have to call me "sir."

You're gonna be a doctor one day, right?

Yes, that's my intention.

So you're like a half-doctor now?

Uh, no.

No, there's no such thing
as a half-doctor.

You're either a doctor
or you're not a doctor.

Dr. Tracy?

Uh, here. Present.

Hello, Doctor.

Um, I was going over your intake form,

and the section where you put
your income... you wrote zero.

Oh, yeah. Zero dollars.



- That's correct.
- Okay, so you're not a doctor.

No, I am a doctor.

Okay, well, most doctors
do have some income.

Right, but, uh, I have no income.

Um, I just graduated
from medical school,

but I didn't get a residency.

Okay, so you're not a doctor.

No, I am a doctor.
I just can't practice medicine.

Well, I can't practice medicine, either.

So we're both not doctors.

No.

You are not a doctor.

But basically, I'm doing an internship

where I administer free sessions.

Free sessions?

♪

YOURG: And it's free, though.

Yes, it's illegal for me
to charge money.

That's great.

I wish you were a bakery.

That'd be great to have a bakery
that could not charge.

[CHUCKLES] Yes. Yeah.

I'd eat my weight in cinnamon rolls.

Okay.

I guess we can start there.

I'd like to eat my weight
in cinnamon rolls.

Oh, okay.

Is food an issue?

That is... That's the big one.

All right. Great. So, um...

- Purging. Binge and purge.
- Gotcha.

- Yes, yes. Okay.
- Gotcha. Yeah.

Can I just talk to Dr. Virgil?

Sir, either you make zero
dollars or you're a doctor.

Which is it?

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

Could that...

[RINGING CONTINUES]

Could that be for you?

[SIGHS]

[RINGING CONTINUES]

[RECEIVER PICKS UP]

Hello?

The doctor will see you now.

So, you remember me?

Of course.

You were the counselor
at Forest Park Elementary

when my dad passed away.

I remember you very well, David.

- How's your mom doing?
- She's doing good.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

She's just...
is always kind of cheerful.

My stepdad's...

Oh, you have a stepdad?

I do, yeah. I have a stepdad.

- How's that been?
- Uh...

good.

He's... a benign human being.

Stepbrother is...

Our relationship is, uh...
is one of, um,

two animals that aren't
going to eat each other

but have no interest
in seeing one another.

You're not close.

We're... Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh...

David, what can I do for you today?

Oh. Okay.

Well, I've decided
I want to do what you're doing.

You want to be a clinical therapist?

Yes, please.

What led you to this decision?

Well, I really want to help
people, you know, for money.

I mean, as a profession.

Well, you have always been
a very empathetic person, David.

- You could tell that from when I was a kid?
- Of course!

Why, 'cause I was crying all the time?

Well, your dad had died.

That's why you were crying all the time.

Well, some people go silent
for a while after a...

You did not go silent.

No.

I did not go quietly
into that soft night.

Is it... Am I getting that... I think...

Well, they say that
about someone who's died.

- Oh.
- But...

What's the quote?

"Do not go softly into that good night."

- Good night. Into that good night.
- Yes.

I did not go softly
into that good night.

Well, you didn't die, David, so...

Right, yeah.

My father went softly
into that good night.

- I know he did.
- I went loudly into...

mourning?

- But you made it through.
- I did.

- And here you are.
- Here I am.

- And you want to be a therapist.
- I do, yes.

All right, well, the requirements

for the state of Illinois
for something like this

are two years of full-time supervision,

1,920 hours of face-to-face
patient sessions.

Oh, yeah. I know that, and I'm all in.

- I already passed my CCE exams.
- Good.

All I need is a supervising therapist

to sign off on my hours.

And I've already got
a whole bunch of patients.

Oh. Uh, let's slow down here.

You're already seeing patients?

What clinic are you affiliated with?

Are you doing this through a practice?

No, I do it independently in my garage.

You're doing therapy in a garage?

[WHISPERING] My freedom
is being taken from me.

There's so many things
that I want to do,

and I can't do anything because of her.

[WHISPERING] Like what?

Writing. I want to be a writer.

Did you write a lot before?

That's not the fucking point, man.

You're making me feel good.
I'm supposed to be making you feel good.

[LAUGHS] Well,
it's a two-way street, baby.

- Oh.
- If this relationship is gonna work,

- it's got to go both ways, okay?
- That's very nice of you,

but I-I really should focus
on you and your problems.

I got so many problems,

you don't even want to know about.

What's going on? How are you feeling?

- For real?
- Yeah. I got time.

I guess I need to work on my confidence

and everyday interactions...
on the bus or the workplace.

- Oh, okay.
- Dating.

The train. Everything.

I hate this.

- This?
- I hate talking about this.

- Oh. But you're doing great.
- I hate it so much.

- I hate you so much.
- Me?

Me and my brother are having
trouble with each other.

I can relate.

I finally stood up for myself.

That's good. What does that look like?

Uh, I picked up a jar
that was on the coffee table

and I hit him in the head
like six or seven times.

- A jar?
- Wow. That feels good to talk about.

No, no, no. No.

He was breathing when I left
this morning.

- This happened this morning?
- Yeah.

You need to call someone
to make sure he's okay.

- I can call the apartment.
- Okay, yeah.

Call the apartment. That's a good idea.

- So you're seeing another therapist?
- Yeah.

- And you're paying another therapist?
- Right, but...

I wanted to talk to you about the stuff

that I don't want to talk to her about.

If that makes sense.

Okay, the shortest summary possible.

Um...

I'm half-a-million dollars in debt.

- I don't...
- Damn! [LAUGHS]

I'm sorry. That is outrageous.

- I wasn't even done.
- Oh, shit.

Okay, sorry. Keep going.

Where do you think your lack
of confidence comes from?

[CHUCKLING] I don't know.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

You don't have to apologize for that.

It was stupid. [CHUCKLES]

- No, it wasn't stupid. It wasn't.
- Sorry. Sorry. [CHUCKLES]

You really don't have
to apologize for it.

I don't know how to stop. [CHUCKLES]

All right, well, the second I walked in,

I thought you were an idiot.

You look like a-a complete idiot,

and I was like, "This is gonna
be a waste of my time."

We're kind of dressed the same.

- So, it's him? He picked up?
- Yeah.

- Okay, good. He's okay?
- He's kind of mad.

- Yeah.
- I'm sure he's mad.

You hit him in the head with a jar.

[WHISPERING] I am never alone... ever.

[WHISPERING] Well, you're
alone when you use the restroom.

No. I'm not.

Everywhere I go, she's there.

Do you know what it's like
to be a grown man

who can't shit alone?

- No, I don't.
- Of course you don't.

That's what I tried to talk
to my real therapist about,

is, um...

See, now it's just gonna be like...

But I know you're a real therapist,

but I know that you're not, actually.

But, anyway, my real therapist
is really good,

and so I'm really trained

to, like, say what my first thought is.

I ruined a really good relationship.

I totally cock-blocked myself
professionally.

I live with my parents.

We've all done that.

- I spent six months in a basement.
- Let me rephrase that.

I live with my parents, and I'm
half-a-million dollars in debt.

Okay, well, that makes a lot more sense.

- Okay.
- Yeah.

You're gonna be there for a while.

[WHISPERING]
I know this is awkward timing,

but our session is over.
I have another appointment.

[WHISPERING] Fine.

I'll see you next week.

- No, fuck you!
- No. No.

- And there's more of that coming if you...
- Hang up.

No. Just hang up. Hang up.

- Hey, man.
- Dr. Dave.

What's all this stuff?

Uh, this is tanning oil.
This is empty bottles.

For every one of these,

I can put three of these
bad boys on the street.

You're cutting tanning oil?

Yeah. I'm gonna make bank, son.

Isn't that illegal?

The only way I'm getting in trouble

is if they can prove I'm a supermarket.

I can't deal with this.
I'm going inside.

Oh, yeah, okay. I get it.

Dr. Dave doesn't approve,

but Dr. Dave loves watching my cable TV.

What did you say?

"Entourage," "Ballers," "True Blood"...

I pay for all that shit, bitch.

I don't watch any of those shows.

Okay, "Ballers," but none of the others.

I'm just saying, man.
You're giving me the high-hat

while I'm the one pulling in
all the dough, see?

What are you, in a Bogart movie?

"Yogurt movie"? What's a yogurt movie?

Oh, you don't know
what a yogurt movie is?

Look up "yogurt movie."

I know what a yogurt movie is.

Yeah, what's your favorite yogurt movie?

[BOTTLE CLATTERS]

RENETTA: David.

- Yeah, Mom?
- I need your help.

I just can't crack
this refrigerator puzzle.

This iceberg
is the size of a bowling ball

and it won't fit in the crisper,

but I don't want it to get all gunky.

Well, just cut it in half
and put one in each drawer.

Okay, Mom. All right.

Oh, David.

I'm so glad you're home.

Well, I have a medical degree,

so if there's any other problems
around the house,

just let me know, all right?

If you can't open a jar

or you need to put a thing
in a smaller thing, just...

Whatever you have, I'm around.

Do you need to run?
Can you have a sandwich,

or do you have to have
one of your chats?

Sessions, Mom. They're called sessions.

Okay.

The food journal is awesome.

- Yeah?
- Yeah, really helpful.

- All right, Yourg!
- All right. Yes, me!

Oh, that is great
'cause I spent about three hours

at the library looking
for a book on eating disorders

that didn't have any God stuff in it.

Oh, tough to duck that guy.

Everything in moderation.

- So, you hate him?
- No, I don't hate him.

I hate the sounds that come out of him.

The words? You mean what he says?

No. Like everything.

Like swallowing, chewing, breathing.

Do you hear him right now?

- I-I honestly don't hear him breathing.
- [SCOFFS]

See? It's her. She's got sonar.

She's like a bat.

I don't know.

If you want to tell me
a little bit about yourself

or if you want to tell me, you know,

what your favorite TV show is
or your favorite band.

- I don't know.
- Oh. Um...

Well, I-I like movie soundtracks.

- You do?
- Yeah. I like "Armageddon."

I'm actually a huge Owen Wilson fan.

- Oh, yeah! Me too!
- Yeah.

"We're going to space. All right."

[BOTH LAUGH]

"Get off the asteroid. All right."

"You know what, I like the asteroid!

Screw it! I'm staying
on the asteroid. All right?"

"This is like deep blue
hero stuff. All right."

[BOTH LAUGH]

"Bruce Willis, lighten up, you know?

You got a beautiful daughter.

Someone's gonna fuck her. All right."

[BOTH LAUGH]

Oh, yeah, and I'm saving
a fortune on cranberry sauce.

- Cranberry sauce?
- The foundation...

The loose foundation of the purge meal.

- Oh, yes. Yes.
- Yeah.

You can't build a purge meal on a solid.

You got to... You got to have something

loose at the bottom
so that the rocket...

- Yeah.
- Right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

From now on, whenever you say
something negative,

I want you to put a positive spin on it.

How would you rephrase

"This dumbass fucking asshole
is ruining my life"?

I wouldn't.

- Yeah.
- Remember when he was leading

the graham cracker up from her...

Puts 'em in her panties.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

I do that all the time.
I put graham crackers in my panties.

[CHUCKLES]

[LAUGHING] I don't know why I said that.

I will write that down.

- Oh, don't...
- "Puts graham crackers..."

- No, can't stop me.
- [CHUCKLES]

"...in her panties."

And then I'm gonna put
an arrow to "Normal."

[BOTH LAUGH]

That's my diagnosis?

Yeah. And I got to write stuff down.

- Yeah.
- I don't want to miss a thing.

Very nice.

- [CHUCKLES] Oh.
- Oh.

Whoa, whoa. Uh, David, how many
people are you seeing?

Well, at least 20,
but I've lost track at this point.

Some people come in
and then they don't come back.

Do you take notes?

Yeah, I've got them right here.

Oh, uhp! I don't need to see them.

Yeah, I take notes.
I write down the time.

I've got, like, a nickname system.

You have nicknames for your patients?

Yeah. Just as a tool
to remember them by, you know?

Um... "Night screamer."

"Bestiality curiosity guy."

"Cookie monster."

"Old one-ear."

Uh, he's actually an old guy.

He's got both ears, though.

Justin Laver.

Well, that's not a nickname.
That's his name.

Please do not use his full name.

That is in direct violation
of the IPACC.

Sure. Right. The...

- Illinois...
- ...Illinois.

...Psychological Association
Code of Conduct.

Code of Conduct. Yes.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

- I... Yeah. He's "Marshmallow Hands."
- David...

- He's got short, stubby fingers.
- Do not describe him anymore.

You won't find him. He's not on Google.

- I Googled him.
- You shouldn't be Googling him, David.

Well, he was my first session.

I had to make sure
he wasn't a serial killer.

I understand.

Given what you just said
about proper procedure,

there's one other thing that might fall

into a gray area for you.

I'm also seeing my best friend, Doug.

You're seeing your best friend?

[TAPE RECORDER CLICKS]

Thanks for doing this, Doug.

Crap.

Thanks again for doing this, Doug.

I might not be able to stay
for a whole hour.

Doug, it's an hour.

I need to tape-record for an hour.

I've been here for two hours,
though, before this.

Yeah, but we were just hanging out.

I-I told you to come over for an hour

and just do this and then leave,

but you came over and putzed around,

picked up every freestanding
object in the house.

Where do you need to go?

I was gonna go to my car.

Okay, you got an hour.

[SIGHS]

So what's been happening?

Not much.

Come on, Doug.

Oh, hey. That guy died.

What? How?

I don't know.

They had a moment of silence
in the store,

so I couldn't ask anybody.

Anyway, I might be able
to get you that job.

Wow. That's great.
I mean, it's not great.

Poor guy.

But I got to start making money somewhere.

I mean, my school loans

are practically a mortgage
at this point.

Well, that's cool.
At least you have a house.

Wait. No, you don't have a house.

No, I do not, Doug.
I do not have a house.

- I just have debt.
- Yeah.

Oh, my God. How am I gonna do this?

Are we done with the session?

Doug, it's been like two minutes.

Okay, so, money is a problem.

Yeah, it's a problem.

And of the myriad of options
available to you

to pay down your debt,

you defaulted
to performing therapy on people.

Yeah. Yes.

It is illegal for me to charge money.

Oh, good, because I have
a lot of credit-card debt

I have to pay off because of my cat.

Credit cards... I am at the foot
of a mountain of debt.

Yeah. My cat got real sick. She...

You would need 51 cats
getting sick constantly...

worms, tumors, no insurance.

One of them would have to have
a massive cat cocaine habit.

I am $586,000 in debt.

Oh, my God.

How... How'd it get that high?

$73,000 for 8 years.
That was medical school.

That's over half-a-million dollars.

I know that.

It's okay. Take your time.

After I graduated medical school,

I applied to six residency programs.

I only got accepted into one of them.

- That's good.
- It's not good. I declined it.

The only reason I declined it

was because an alternate
residency opened up in Chicago.

- That's great.
- It's not great. [SIGHS]

It's a long story, but they lost funding

and they withdrew their offer
of the residency program.

They fucked me.

Hm. Yikes.

Yeah. Yikes.

How do you sleep?

I sleep on my stomach

like I've hit with a hammer and I fell.

But you've been very clear

that what you wanted to be was a doctor.

Yeah, but this default is fine.

It's like if I wanted to be in the NBA

and somebody said, "Sorry,
you can only play soccer.

You're in the MLS." Well, great.

I'm still a professional athlete.

I still get to run around
and use my body to make money.

You know, not like a whore,
you know, but at least I'm still...

Is that a profession
that occurred to you

in paying down this debt?

Being a whore? No.

I'm just curious
where that thought came from.

Online. It came from online.

I don't want to be a whore.

You know, I mean, if someone paid me.

If someone I was super attracted to

that I had
a one-night stand with was like,

"By the way, that was awesome.

Here's 2 grand.
Would you want to do it again?"

I'd be like, "Yeah, sure. Okay."

You know? But I'd have limits.
I'd be like, no choking...

So you did do some research.

Well, yeah, but it's not like

- You did.
- Yeah. Yes.

Thank you, David,
for being honest with me.

Look, I really want to do this.

I'm already part of the way there.

I'm committed. I'm excited.

You helped me so much
when I was in grade school.

Please, just help me this one more time.

All I need is for you to sign off on it.

Okay.

I really admire what you've done so far.

I-I like how prepared you are.

I like that you've done your research.

Great. Great.

But I am not comfortable
being part of this.

What? Why?

It seems to me that you're doing
this for the wrong reasons.

It seems to me that you view therapy

as a lesser discipline,
and with that attitude,

I'm afraid you'll do your
patients more harm than good.

No.

I can do this. I want to do this.

This isn't about you.

This is about them.

That's the part that's missing.

♪

David, I knew what I was getting into

when I cosigned those loans.

And besides, they're just
a couple of ones and zeros

on a computer somewhere.

It's a lot of zeros, Mom.

- Well...
- Besides, if I can't do this...

Sweetie, it's like
your father always said...

"If you're lost in the woods,
keep going."

No.

You... You'd just get deeper
in the woods then.

Not if the woods are on the edge
of a wonderful city.

There's a slim...
very slim chance of that.

Not so slim because most forests...

Well, lots of them are
endangered these days anyway,

so they're getting smaller and smaller.

- Mom...
- So if you're lost in the woods,

unless you just keep walking
around in a circle,

you're gonna find yourself someplace

- if you just keep going.
- Mom...

Mom, I think I would just get more lost.

Well...

You guys having a secret
little powwow without me?

Rollie doesn't know.

David thinks
that he's done with therapy.

- Oh, really?
- Mm.

So does that mean you won't be having

any more of your little meetings?

Sessions, Rollie.

They're called...
They're called sessions.

Sorry.

If I wanted to let some stranger

stick their nose
in my personal business,

digging around in the dirt for worms,

putting on the gloves

and fishing around
the toilet of the mind...

It's not my bag.

Well, maybe it's not my bag,
either, Rollie.

Maybe I'll just join up with Barry

and become kingpin of the
North Side tanning-oil trade.

What's that whole thing
about the tanning oil?

Uh, Barry.

He's selling diluted tanning oil.

- Smart.
- Yeah.

♪

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[KEYBOARD KEY CLICKS]

BARRY: That's good. All right.

Give him the bottles, fill it up.

Come on, guys. Hold that.

Why'd you put it there? Put it there.

No one can reach it if it's over there.

Cap it. You're making a mess.

Guys!

She's a great therapist.

She helped me a lot when I was a kid.

She's... very honest.

So, this is it.
This is our last session.

No.

No?

No.

What do you mean?

Do you know how many therapists
I've seen in Chicago?

24.

Holy shit!

I mean... Sorry.

No, it's a lot!

It's a ton!

But you're the only one I've ever met

who seems to enjoy people.

Don't get me wrong.

You definitely don't know
what you're doing,

but you care way more

than any of those other assholes
I've talked to.

So, no.

I'm not going anywhere.

You're my doctor.

And thank you. Something's changing.

Yeah. Of course.

In the spirit of honesty, uh...

is it... is it weird to say

I didn't think
you'd be any good at this?

Uh, I mean, no.

Right? Right? Right?

[LAUGHS]

Well, you are rising
above your surroundings.

REBECCA: So, no. I'm not going anywhere.

You're my doctor.

♪

[ENGINE SPUTTERS]

No. No!

Shit, shit, shit, shit!

Damn it.

Oh-ho.

Dr. Styptic.

Car broken?

Maybe you should take it out
to the garage

and talk to it about its mother.

Nice. Can you give me a ride downtown?

[HORN HONKS]

[TIRES SCREECH]

Hey! Hey!

Stop! Stop!

David...

I need to talk to you.
It'll only take a minute.

Why don't we go inside?

Let's have a seat.

Honestly, I don't even think
I can sit down right now.

Okay.

Look, I get that what I'm doing
might be stupid or misguided,

and... and you can even say
that I'm bad at this

or that I defaulted to it

or that this entire thing
is a terrible idea.

But you can't say that I don't
care about my patients.

I spent $40 I don't have

on an app to show a bulimic patient

what happens to the body

when it goes into a starvation state.

And guess what... It didn't work.

So I spent another week reading

about the psychological effects
of bulimia

so that he and I can talk
through it together.

I'm making real progress
with some of these people.

I've got a couple
that hates each other so much,

I've literally never seen them
make eye contact.

But now they're talking.

They say terrible shit to each
other, but they're talking.

And I'm this lady's 25th therapist,

and she thinks I can help her.

[TAPE SLAMS]

So, please, don't tell me that
I don't care about these people.

It's the one thing you can't say.

David.

I don't have a cassette player.

Well, I promise that's what she says.

Have a seat.

David.

I'm going to need you to abide
by certain conditions.

- You're saying yes to this?
- Yes. I am saying yes to this.

Yes. I will abide. I love abiding.

I-I will abide to everything.

Number one, we're going to need
to get together once a week.

Yeah, I can come more.

Number two, if you believe
even for an instant

that one of your patients

is a danger to himself or anyone else,

you have to tell me immediately

so we can take the appropriate steps.

We'll trade phone numbers.
You'll be the first to know.

And, finally, I'm afraid you've crossed

enough ethical boundaries
that I need to say this.

Under no circumstances are you to engage

in any physical relations
with a patient.

Yeah. Yes. Of course. Yes.

- Oh.
- Oh.

It's okay.

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