Shrink (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Burn Rubber - full transcript

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I was so happy to hear
that this slot opened up.

You have no idea. I was
about to spend five years

in Mississippi at a different program.

It was the only program
that I was accepted to.

But I was born at this hospital,

and I... I don't know.

I feel like Samba returning to,

you know, the Pride Lands.

Uh, Simba?

Yeah. Yeah, Simba, sorry.



It's been a long time
since I saw the movie.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

Uh, well, David, even on the savanna,

the grass dies out occasionally,

and the elephants have to

find new watering holes.

Mm.

I-I can't continue this
metaphor any more.

Uh, there's been some changes

since the last time
that you and I talked.

Okay.

Uh, our surgery program
has lost its funding,

and we're only able to
offer one residency slot.

Ooh, man.



Well, my heart goes
out to all the people

that are getting, uh, you know,

bounced from the program.

But I'm now very flattered

that I'm getting that slot, and...

Yeah, you're one of those
people who got bounced, David.

What?

We're gonna have to withdrawal

our offer of residency.

You... No, you can't. You can't do that.

I'm afraid I have to, David.

No, I mean, you can't do that.

I turned down the only residency

program I was accepted into.

I can't back on that.

I was told that this slot was mine.

I... I know. I know.

Look, there is a slot.

It was created by a wealthy donor,

but he gave it to his son.

What kind of hospital is this?

Some rich fuck's kid gets my spot?

That rich fuck is my brother.

Oh, well, that clears
up the math on that.

Well, fuck your nephew,
and your brother.

- And fuck you, for that matter.
- Hey, come on.

There's no need for that
kind of language, Mr. Tracy.

No, fuck you! And it's
Doctor... Dr. Tracy.

Well, not here, it isn't.

[DOOR SLAMS]

DAVID: 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.

Thanks for meeting in the car.

We found a rat in the garage,
just wanted to be safe.

Oh, yeah, dude, no sweat.

Oh, I just know it's not ideal.

No, man, this is cool.

I mean, I like being in cars and stuff.

Okay, good. Yeah. All right.

We could go to, like,
Wendy's or something after.

No, no, I got another
session after this.

Let me just get my notes.

Oh, we could go during, too.

I'll just get this...

Oh, God damn it. You can't...

- We're in a car.
- Yeah, we're in a car.

We're not moving. We're not driving.

I have other people coming into this...

Maybe the problem is

that because you only have
one giant fight once a year,

everything gets bottled up.

Yeah, that is the problem,
and it's also the point.

Otherwise, we would be
fighting every single day.

This way, we knock it all out,

and we move on with our lives.

- Is it that bad?
- Yeah.

I am a beast.

She's exaggerating. It's not that bad.

Oh, no.

I can feel it coming.

DAVID: How's it going with your mom?

I told her I'm not gonna
talk to her anymore.

She keeps acting with her bullshit.

We talked about using
harsh language with her.

Did you say the word "bitch"?

Well, ever since I was 4, she's
been a big, old, fat bitch.

JANINE: I am not a nice person
to you, and you know it!

You are a nice person to me.
We're in love.

I'm an insane bitch to you,

and you look at me, and you smile,

and then you do things
like bring me flowers,

and it fucks me up.

You deserve flowers.

What the fuck?!

- I'll tell you the fuck.
- What?

- I love you.
- Oh!

We're supposed to be together.

You're really not appreciating
the value of words.

Okay, please, don't. We're in a car.

You need to...

The car is the safest part for a fire.

No, it's not.

The rubber... You can't burn rubber.

Yes, you can. The expression
"Burn rubber" exists

because you burn rubber.

You're thinking about lightning.

Okay, cars can catch fire at any time.

No, lightning starts
fire, and then fire...

- to avoid that, you go into a car.
- A lot of things...

- Dude, are you gonna hit me, dude?!
- No!

I will never... ever...
fucking marry you.

I don't believe that.

He is fucking obsessed
with getting married.

I like planning weddings!

It's fun for me! It's relaxing!

Why would we want to do that?

- I don't want to wear a dress.
- That's cool.

I do not want to waltz.

I don't want a cake.

That's not fair.

Do not cry.

You do have a problem. You swear a lot.

You need to scale that back.

I fucking hate you, dude.

[VOICE BREAKING]
Why are you doing this?!

When you cry, it is just grating.

You're just trying to be
so cool in front of David.

- You're trying to be so cool.
- Now he's gonna cry.

[CRYING] I don't understand
what we're doing here!

- I told you not to cry.
- This is fucking stupid!

- Don't cry!
- No one's crying! I'm not crying!

Yes, you are.

He's crying.

You can even hear that
he runs like an asshole.

You're my best friend.

I love you. Thank you for this.

Okay, it's our third session.

Let's... pace ourselves.

Okay, it's going good.

Yeah.

[HUMMING]

David, have you been smoking marijuana?

No, Mom, one of my patients
just smoked in my car.

Well, I hope you didn't
participate in that.

No. Weed makes me crazy and anxious.

I mean, I assume it would.

You do seem a little anxious.

[SCOFFS] Yeah, I guess I am, all right?

I've got a patient coming
in, like, five minutes.

I'm doing free therapy outside
of a tented-off garage

in a car that reeks like marijuana,

which is extremely unprofessional.

I can't get this water
bottle to work because...

I can't get anything to work,

because apparently, I
suck at everything I do.

Let me help.

[WATER RUNNING]

[SIGHS]

- There you go.
- Thanks.

I'm sorry. I'm such a mess right now.

I've got that stupid med-school
get-together coming up.

It's stressing me out.

And...

I think I'm really, really high.

You are.

- You can tell?
- Oh, my God, yes. Of course.

No. I've got five minutes.

Your eyes look like little pin holes.

So this is great.

You dealt with your lunch and

your breakfast threats. You know.

- Yeah.
- You're really keeping those down.

Under-milking my cereal
so it doesn't have

that looseness to it.

And I found soy. I found a place
that has cheap soy milk...

a place called Happy Foods by me, so...

Oh, you shop at Happy Food?

Oh, it's awesome. Awesome. You know it?

Uh, I've driven by, yeah.

Oh, well, stop the car and
come on in, 'cause it's great.

Oh, you go frequently?

Oh, yeah, it's my regular stop, yeah.

Between what hours to you go?

Uh, well, usually, I'm
buying right before dinner,

so I would say...

4:30 to 6:30.

- I'm trying to stay on that schedule.
- Oh, that's good.

So, somewhere in that neighborhood.

Yeah, yeah, okay. Okay,
well, good to know.

- All right, I'll make a note of that.
- All right.

Hey, can we talk for a sec?

- We can talk for six minutes.
- Okay. [CHUCKLES]

Uh, but about us?

Um, I think we have done some

awesome stuff, and...

and progress

went so quickly that I think I'm good.

What?

I think you fixed me.

No, no, no, no, no. That's
a common misconception.

You can think that you're
fixed, and everything's fine...

I'm not thinking that, I know.
I'm good now.

No, no. Yeah, all right, you can think

that you're better, and you can leave,

but you're not better,
and you can't leave.

David, you fixed me.

- It's not that simple.
- It's over.

Thank you.

David, sometimes patients just leave

whether they're ready or not.

You shouldn't take it so personally.

But he was my favorite.

And you shouldn't be
ranking your patients.

Well, how do you avoid that?

You're obviously attached to me.

We have a professional relationship.

Come on. You can be honest.

I tell great stories. I make you laugh.

I'm one of your favorites.

David, I don't have favorites.

You have to have patients that
you don't like, you know?

I mean, there are those at the bottom,

and then it kind of goes up from there.

Patients that you kind of
like, patients you like,

and then I'm at the top...

Your favorite.

Man, you don't give up anything.

Hey.

Hey.

Your mom asked me to come out here

and talk to you for a few minutes.

Oh.

Well, thanks, Rollie.

Yep.

Well...

Is there anything you
want to talk about?

[CHUCKLES]

Like, just off the top of my head?

Sure. Yeah, whatever's on your mind.

You know, if you got some
Armor All and a paper towel,

you'd get all that dust
off the dashboard there.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, that's good to know, Rollie.

So, what's the deal? They
didn't take the trash?

What, was Monday a holiday?

Uh, yeah, I think Columbus Day.

Ah, Columbus Day.

Yeah, we're celebrating him.

He was a real son of a bitch.

- Yeah.
- We got a holiday for him.

Not a good guy.

No, he was... used to
cut off people's hands

if they didn't find him gold.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

I knew he was bad, I didn't
know he was a hand-cutter.

Yeah. Yeah.

So strange.

Well, you get a Monday off, so...

I'm gonna go back inside now.

All right, yeah.

- All right, thanks.
- Yeah, hey, thank you.

Shit.

[SIGHS]

[MUMBLING] Mom said I
have to come out here

and apologize for the other day.

What?

[SIGHS]

Mom told me I have to come out here

and apologize to you for the other day.

Wow, that seems really
heartfelt. Thanks, Barry.

Do you have Spotify?

Yeah.

Okay, well...

I made you a playlist.

Oh, that's really nice.

Thanks, man. I appreciate it.

Relax, gay-wad.

I just Googled songs

with the word "Doctor" in the title.

Also, "Paradise City" is on there.

That's okay. That's a good song.

"Hot for Teacher" is on there, too.

[CHUCKLES] Nice.

Hey, what about "Doctor, Doctor"?

What the hell is that?

It's got "Doctor" twice in the title.

If you Googled songs
with "Doctor" in it,

it would have come up.

Are you... saying I lied about

how I found these songs?

No, I don't care how
you found the songs.

It'd be a silly lie.

I agree.

All right.

Well, I'm gonna bail before
one of your freaks show up.

They're not freaks, man.

They're ugly on the
outside and the inside.

Are you describing them...

Or... you?

[DOOR OPENS]

Mom, I have like 10 minutes
until my next session.

I get what you're doing. I'm fine.

I want to talk.

Okay.

[SIGHS]

I thought my life was over

when your father died.

Oh, I was so scared.

I thought I had my whole life

all planned out.

And then, suddenly, I was
alone with this little boy,

and I didn't know anything
about boys and trucks

- and wrestling and wet dreams and...
- I didn't have any...

David, this is my session. Let me talk.

[SNIFFLES]

I thought...

that I was doing

everything wrong.

Everything. I mean, I...

There were so many nights

when I would go to sleep

just sure that I had failed.

But then, you know, I watch you...

Doing this

and trying to help people, and

I know I didn't fail.

I reminds me so much of your father.

He was a try-er, too.

I guess the point is

everybody feels like
a failure sometimes.

We all do.

But if you thought you
were nailing everything,

you wouldn't try.

And...

It's the trying that...

Makes you better.

[SNIFFLES]

I think it made me better.

And I think it made you better.

Thanks, M...

Thanks, Mom.

You know, I can't get my seat up, honey.

- It's the lever on the right.
- I've got the lever. I'm doing it.

It just won't move me any.
It's just not going.

Just pull it. Lean up and pull.

I'm leaning up, and I'm pulling.

Okay, well, let me get it.

- No, I've got it. I just...
- Well, hold still, Mom.

No, stop the momentum.

- No, it's...
- Ow! Aah!

There.

- Damn it.
- That did it.

That's a good talk.

Oh, here.

Stop. Just let me, okay?
I'm gonna unlock it.

No, we do it on three. One, two, three.

[CLICK] No.

Just take your hand away from the door.

Just one, two... Just
do what I say for once.

- One, two, three.
- [CLICK]

You went way in front of go.

Oh, yeah, and I'm saving

- a fortune on cranberry sauce.
- Cranberry sauce?

The loose foundation of the purge meal.

Oh, yes. Yes.

You can't build the
purge meal on a solid,

you got to have something
loose at the bottom

- so that the rocket...
- Yeah.

Great, yeah.

Yourg.

He still needs me.

[SIGHS]

Hey. I have to go save a patient.

At 2:30 in the morning?

Shit.

Right.

Mm.

Okay, I'll do it tomorrow. Damn it.

JULIA: You dropped something.

Not you, dumb-dumb, Dougie.

Slower.

Attaboy.

It's going really great with Julia.

Oh, I really don't
want to hear about it.

She is the light of my world.

You see how I'm saying I
don't want to hear about it?

She's the candle at the end of the road.

- What?
- She's a bottle of vinegar

that you didn't know that you needed,

but now you look in the
cellar, and you're like,

"Yeah, I'm glad I have that because"...

You're just looking at the shelves now.

You're looking at the
vinegar on the shelf.

But she's also, you know, olive
oil, because she's super...

Those are right there.

You got me there.

What if you find out a
patient has relapsed?

Can you reach out to
them and get them back?

Absolutely not.

If a patient chooses to leave
you, that's their decision.

Okay, I definitely won't do that.

David, you seem a little tense today.

[SIGHS]

Yeah, I am.

I agreed to go to this happy-hour thing

with some people I went
to med school with,

and I'm dreading it.

Why? Sounds like it might be fun.

My ex-girlfriend Amanda might be there.

Mm, I see.

And I just have a fair amount of shame

related to all medical-school stuff,

'cause I feel like I'm
gonna look like a failure

in their eyes, you know?

They all came from wealthy families

or families of doctors, and I didn't.

But I was this close to...
to being in there,

and I'm not complaining,
I'm not whining.

I was afforded a great opportunity.

And, yes, I'm half a
million dollars in debt,

and, yes, my dream
turned into a nightmare,

and I got fucked pretty hard.

But, still, I'm grateful.

It's just now they're all

doing their fancy residencies,

and I'm doing laps
around my neighborhood

trying to pot smoke out of my car.

Excuse me?

Oh, nothing. It's a...

Metaphor.

Anyway, it's supposed
to be a happy hour,

it's gonna be more of a suck-ass hour.

I think it would be less
popular if they called it that.

Hey, that was a joke!

Whoa! I've never seen that before.

[CHUCKLES]

See, I'm one of your favorites.

Oh, it's just a joke, David.

I'm on top.

Mm.

No.

All right, I'm just gonna go.

- Bye, David.
- Bye. Have a good week.

♪

WOMAN: David!

Amanda, fuck.

- Hey!
- Oh! Kim!

Oh, thank God. I thought you
were Amanda for a second.

Oh, God, no. She's on
overnights at the hospital.

- She's not coming tonight.
- [SIGHS]

- It's good to see you.
- You, too.

- You look good.
- Yeah?

No, you look terrible.

Oh, yeah, you look terrible, too.

- Yeah. All right, let's get drunk.
- Yeah?

That was bullshit, what
happened to you, David.

I mean, losing the residency to

that guy's douchebag nephew.

Yeah, man, it should have been you.

- I can't believe that happened.
- Thank you, man.

What are you doing now, anyway?

Well, um... I'm gonna take a year off,

you know, to re-access things,

but my parents also need
help right now, so...

Hmm. Well, I think that's great.

I mean, honestly, this
whole residency bullshit

is exhausting.

Yeah. I was at the ICU for
18 hours the other day.

I could barely see straight.

I can barely see straight.
We should do some shots.

[LAUGHTER]

Came to that quickly.

I like your thinking.
Okay, it's my turn.

I'm gonna order them.
Someone get them, okay?

I'm going to the bathroom.
I'll be right back.

David, really glad you came out.
It's good to see you, man.

Oh, it's good to see you, too.

I didn't want to come out tonight,

so I was kind of worried about it.

Yeah, we do this.

- Yeah, dude, that's epic.
- Yeah.

No, man. Never.

- Uh, hold on a second.
- [CELLPHONE BUZZES]

Hey, Kim.

Look towards the bathroom.

Uh, Kim needs help with the shots.

Are you doing free therapy?

I can explain it. Okay,
it's only temporary

so I can defer my loans and
keep my medical license.

Where are you doing this?

My parents' garage.

Well, technically, my car right now.

We found some dead rats, and...
it's a long story.

Just don't tell any of
the guys, all right?

David, if they think it's stupid,

then they're assholes, okay?

I think it's awesome.

Thanks, Kim. I appreciate it.

Oh, buddy.

I'm gonna go to the bathroom,

'cause my bladder really
filled up with panic, so...

Okay.

All right, this one's on me.

Nice.

All right, let's make a toast.
To Dr. David Tracy.

Oh, thank you.

- Cheers.
- Cheers.

And all the free therapy
in his parents' garage!

- [LAUGHTER]
- What the fuck?!

Are Wednesdays at 4:00 open,

because I want to talk
about how hard it is

- to be a real doctor!
- [LAUGHTER]

Yeah, yeah, can I come
in right afterwards

to talk about the exact same thing,

'cause I'm also a real doctor?

- [LAUGHTER]
- Don't laugh at that.

He's just repeating what he said.

Oh, yeah? How does that make you feel?

ALL: Ooh!

Yeah, dude. How did that make you feel?

- Stop fucking repeating things!
- Stop fucking repeating things!

Shut up! None of it is funny.

I'm working just as hard
as you, and I'm trying

to help people. It's the
same fucking thing!

And if we're burning people, Pat,

you went into podiatry 'cause
you have a foot fetish.

That's not true. I just
want to help people's feet.

Bullshit! How many times
has he gotten drunk

and Googled "foot pussy"
in front of us, a million?

[LAUGHTER] Oh, snap!

Sick burn! Dude, David wins that one.

Got to give it up to my dog. Come on.

No. No, man. Fuck this.

How's that make you feel?

Especially you, Brian,
you sick piece of shit.

I can't believe you have
the balls to show up here.

You all should be ashamed
for bringing Brian here.

You know what he did.
You don't want to talk about it.

None of us are gonna
talk about it, all right?

Why was he invited? Why the
fuck was Brian invited, huh?

Look down.

Keep looking down, Brian!

[SIGHS]

Thanks for coming on such short notice.

- Yeah, yeah, what's up?
- I appreciate it.

- Sure.
- So...

Listen, I have a friend

who works at Happy Foods...

who told me that

someone came into the store recently

and bought up all the cranberry sauce.

Okay.

We're close to Thanksgiving.

It's October, Yourg.

Oh. I'll have to get
mine somewhere else.

- [CHUCKLES]
- Right, 'cause you shop there.

Used to, yeah, yeah,
but I mean, if I'm...

You shop there.

- Sure, sometimes, yeah.
- So, one person went in

and bought out all the cranberry sauce.

Come on.

I don't know what you...
What do you want?

Your friend said somebody
bought all the shit.

- I don't know.
- I'm the friend, okay?

I work at Happy Foods.

Why are you working at Happy Foods?

'Cause I'm half a million
dollars in debt, all right?

I have to make money somehow.

I have a part-time job stocking
shelves at Happy Foods.

I know what happened.

I don't understand what you want.

I want you to level with me.

I'm... I've been having a hard time.

I'm not doing good.

You just got so invested in my progress,

that I didn't want to tell you.

You're supposed to be
able to tell me anything.

You want me to tell you I brought
all the cranberry sauce?

All right, I bought all the
cranberry sauce from Happy Foods.

- Okay?
- Are you cool?

- Yeah.
- Cool, are we done?

No, we're not done.

I can't handle being responsible

for your sense of well-being.

I can't. I can't.

The better I do, the better you feel.

I can't take that kind of pressure.

I can't be your best

patient anymore, all right?

'Cause your favorite just fucked up

and shit the bed on eating.

I'm not trying to put
more pressure on you.

Well, you did, all right,
whether you wanted to or not.

Well, okay. You know,
we can work on that.

I'll be a better listener.

I won't tell you that
you're my favorite patient.

In fact, you're my worst patient.

- I don't even like you.
- Yes, you do.

- Oh, sorry, okay. I didn't mean that.
- I know.

My point is you can't leave
things like this, all right?

You can beat this if you have help.

I have help.

- Are you seeing someone else?
- Eh.

It really doesn't matter.

- How long?
- It doesn't matter.

- It does matter to me.
- David, it doesn't.

I should just go.

[SCOFFS]

Yeah, fine, go.

[CLICK]

- What's stopping you?
- You locked the door.

[CLICK]

[SIGHS]

[BICYCLE BELL RINGS]

Hey.

Uh, sorry, I thought I
left you a voicemail

canceling our session.

Yeah, I know. Um, you
sounded kind of mopey.

Oh.

What's going on?

I've just had a real shitty few days.

Uh, I got broken up with twice...

- Professionally.
- Oh. [CHUCKLES]

I just didn't think I'd
be good at therapy today.

Do you have a bike?

Okay, lift!

Oh! Oh! Oh!

[LAUGHS] Jesus!

[COUGHING]

Okay.

Yeah.

There is definitely a
rat problem in there.

- You okay?
- Yeah.

- Here.
- Is this safe to wear?

Yeah, it's fine. It's just rat poison.

- Where are we going?
- Uh... It's a surprise.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

Okay.

You okay on that thing?

Yeah, yeah. I've been on a bike before.

- You have?
- I'm just stiff from my car.

Oh, cars turn you on, huh?

No, cars... That's not
what gets me stiff.

- Boom, boom.
- Okay.

- You see this city block over here?
- Yeah.

The whole thing's owned
by the band Styx.

Yeah, after their first platinum album,

- they just bought a whole city block.
- Really?

And they party in every house.

[LAUGHS]

Where are we going?

I wanted to take to you the place
where I had my first kill.

Oh. Am I next?

No, I don't really have a
lust for blood tonight,

but I could make an
exception for a mercy kill.

Oh. Honestly, I'd really like that.

I feel like I deserve one.

[LAUGHS] Off-road!

Whoa, wait!

Cool.

This is really tough
off-roading, by the way.

Yeah, yeah, I know. It's really intense.

I do BMX a lot.

- You do?
- Yeah.

Wow, I thought that
disappeared in the '90s.

Yeah, it did, yeah.

- Very retro.
- [LAUGHS]

Um...

[CHUCKLES]

Are you hungry?

Sure. I could always eat.

People don't like to hear it,

but it's hard for me to put on weight.

- I don't like hearing that.
- Well...

- [LAUGHS]
- All right.

- But...
- But thank you for sharing.

Yeah, I mean, I...

I have little stick legs.

- Aww.
- And...

I have a plump little
butt on the back of it.

[LAUGHS] You do?

- I do, yeah, I have a little shelf.
- Prove it.

- Prove it?
- Yeah.

- You want to see my butt right now?
- Yeah.

All right, hold on.

Let me put the kickstand down.

You really feel comfortable
showing me your butt right now?

Yeah, I'll show you my butt. Hold on.

[LAUGHING] You won't.

I will.

No! Okay, okay!

- Okay!
- You don't want to see my butt?

- I... no, I...
- Look at my butt.

- I do! Don't!
- It's a nice butt.

I'm sure it is.

Just the top half.

Look at the top half.

Look!

Okay, I saw it! I saw it!

Psych. It was the whole butt.

Yeah, I saw.

Hold on. Let me tuck back in.

I can't believe you showed me your butt.

Oh, shit.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

Um... you want to get some food?

I would love to get some food.

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That's not the point.

If you call your mom
a big, old, fat bitch,

she's gonna be upset.
She's gonna take that out...

- Do not...
- Oh, shit.

You can open the door
and cash it outside.

- Oh, shit.
- Yeah, oh, shit.