The Method (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 16 - Film 16 - full transcript
FILM 16
Behold,
the judge standeth before the door.
James, chapter five, verse nine.
Dad!
Did you want him to kill Meglin?
He can barely stand.
Did he get away?
Well done.
-How are you?
-I’ll be fine.
Where’s he heading next?
Don’t you already know?
What did you say?
Damn!
Why was Bergich treating him?
I thought he was doing life.
Are you okay?
So, where’s he headed next?
Andryush, use your brain.
He’s been shot…
maybe even fatally.
He hasn’t seen his parents in eight years.
Use your brain!
-Where are you going?
-Back to the hospital.
Do you feel it?
I love you.
Doesn’t it seem odd to you
that Meglin failed to communicate
the suspected location of Strelok
to the police?
On the contrary.
I find it more than normal.
So you didn’t intend to arrest him.
You immediately decided to take him out
without having authorization.
Did you discuss it ahead of time?
There was no need to discuss anything.
What do you mean?
It wasn’t just another case anymore.
It was something bigger.
CANINE MUSCULAR SYSTEM
Just cut.
You’ll die from the pain
without anesthesia.
I won’t die.
I’m needed.
Operate like this.
Tie it to my hand.
Continue.
VETERINARY CLINIC Do you know where he’s headed?
There’s only one place he’d go now.
Where?
Where he knows he can hurt me.
POLICE
We have roadblocks.
We’re checking every car. Nothing.
Search harder.
He’s going there. He’s got no one else.
We ran his name.
Anufriev’s parents died in a car crash
while he was still in boot camp.
-How can they be dead?
-Maybe he’s headed elsewhere.
-Meglin’s orphanage.
-What?
Meglin wants to kill him!
So we don’t get to him!
Get in your vehicles!
ORPHANAGE No. 12
I told you, Meglin.
I want people to know the truth.
Three vaccinations, three series.
Nine, 40…
365.
I’ll pray for humanity. I’ll get through to you.
I’ll make you listen to me.
I won’t let you go on killing.
I got here before you.
There, on the second floor…
there are 15 of them.
Altogether, there are 40 souls. Forty.
This series is complete.
I’ll get some rest,
gather my strength…
wait for you die.
You’re the only one who can kill me.
Well, and then…
the third series.
No.
It’s over.
Freeze! No one move!
Only 40.
I surrender. It was me that called you.
I surrender.
I surrender.
What are you doing here?
Hey, pal, dig me a grave…
and have a coffin ready.
Give him some money.
All right.
He’ll get out and continue killing,
Andryusha.
That’s impossible.
He signed a confession.
He’ll get life. No question about it.
Once he’s in prison,
I’ll make sure he never gets out.
He’s got it all worked out already.
Last time, the court found him insane.
And it will again.
He’ll escape
from the psychiatric hospital.
He’ll escape and start the third series.
I want him dead just as much as you do.
Maybe even more than you.
What do you want from me? What can I do?
Give me a chance to get close to him.
Then I’ll improvise.
“I’ll improvise.”
No.
This thing is too big.
Higher-ups, the press.
You know that.
Then the lives of those he kills
from now on will be on you.
Or are you already used to that?
Are you lecturing me on morality?
Let’s go.
He’s being taken to Moscow tomorrow
for evaluation.
3:00 p.m. From jail to the airport.
You need to see Bergich.
Later.
We have to see this through first.
I promise.
Who lives here?
The backup copy.
Hello. Vitalik is expecting you.
-Hello.
-Some tea?
-Hello.
-Hi, Vitalik.
-What are you playing?
-Take a guess.
I want you to meet Vitalik.
And this is Esenya.
My…
My friend.
Now she’s your friend too.
-Nice to meet you. Esenya.
-Hello.
I haven’t seen you in a while.
-I heard you were sick.
-I’m fine now.
So, let’s begin?
Your training is over.
Vitalik helps me.
You see, I don’t trust computers.
Computers can be hacked.
They can be infected by a virus.
But a person, that’s a different story.
I don’t know how computers work,
but I know how people work.
Have you seen my archive?
-I have.
-They tried to steal it twice.
Once, they set fire to it.
I made a backup copy.
Vitalik is an eidetic.
-Do you know what that means?
-No.
He has a phenomenal, flawless memory.
He can remember everything
he’s ever heard or seen.
Every word, every letter.
Everything that I found out, I archived.
And I saved it with him, as well,
just in case.
He knows everything, all I did.
Thank you.
He has the answers to all your questions.
He knows what was in the missing pages…
what happened to the missing people.
The backup copy.
The most complete.
It’s impossible.
Vitalik.
Hello. Hi, Vitalik.
What are you playing? Take a guess.
I want you to meet Vitalik.
And this is Esenya.
My… My friend.
Now she’s your friend too.
Nice to meet you. Esenya.
Hello.
I haven’t seen you in a while.
I heard you were sick? I’m fine now.
So, let’s begin?
Your training is over.
Vitalik helps me.
-You see, I don’t trust computers.
-That’s enough. I get it.
You can ask him.
You wanted to find out something.
Go ahead.
This was why you wanted to train with me.
Come on.
Need help?
-Irina Ignatovich.
-I don’t want to. Stop it!
Irina Ignatovich.
Case number 345.
Date of birth: 1967.
Place of birth: Kirov.
Diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia.
The official version:
Went missing in 1991
under obscure circumstances.
She’s currently being held
at a neuropsychiatric hospital
in the care of Dr. Bergich
under the name Olga Berestova.
Ask him.
Olga Berestova.
Olga Berestova. Case number 244.
Date of birth: 1968.
Place of birth: Moscow.
Diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia.
The patient committed several murders
attributable to this illness.
Since 1991,
she was married to Andrei Steklov.
This is Maksim Ognarev.
I was telling you about him.
And this is my wife Olya.
-It’s a pleasure.
-It’s a pleasure.
The initial evaluation indicated
a combination of syndromes,
including schizophrenia, as well as
antisocial personality disorder.
The patient was prescribed
hospital treatment
under the supervision of specialists.
She was later allowed
to live with her family.
Socialization within the family
had a positive but unsustainable effect.
The disease continued to progress.
The patient grew increasingly withdrawn
from her social surroundings.
The patient would actively interfere
in the spouse’s work.
Olya!
Periods of remission would be followed
by psychosis and outbursts of aggression.
At the insistence of the spouse,
Andrei Steklov,
the patient was involuntarily committed
to a psychiatric facility
and underwent treatment for a second time.
Due to the progression
of psychotic symptoms,
complete social isolation
was strongly recommended.
Having been placed in a long-term care
psychiatric hospital,
Olga Berestova spent over two years there.
During a period of sustained remission,
she gave birth to a daughter.
What?
I thought of a name.
What is it?
Esenya.
Do you like it?
It’s an unusual name.
Well, she is very special.
What’s the difference?
Just switch the two pictures!
No. For me, it’s a big difference.
What’s the difference? Tell me.
Having violated all norms
of professional conduct,
Andrei Steklov talked the chief physician
into switching the medical records
of the two patients.
What’s the reason?
And, instead of Olga Berestova,
it was Irina Ignatovich
who remained in the hospital.
MEDICAL RECORD
BERESTOVA, OLGA
With the assistance of his colleagues
in the federal prosecutor’s office,
Olga Berestova’s passport
and personal information
were transferred to the identity
of Vera Steklova.
The disease continued to progress.
In order to put an end
to further violent outbursts,
Vera Steklova was secretly eliminated.
My mother was a murderer.
But you still haven’t told me
who killed her.
Does it matter?
She was simply stopped.
Was it my father?
It wasn’t him.
She asked him to, but he couldn’t.
But there’s no way he didn’t know.
Did he have someone else do it?
He loved her.
You call that love?
It’s easy to kill an enemy.
It’s hard to kill someone you love.
You have to truly love them.
I’m just like her, aren’t I?
Who am I?
You’ll find out soon.
POLICE
What are you going to do?
I’m not sure yet.
Get out of the truck! Go! Go!
They say he’s escaped twice.
There’s no way.
I’m telling you.
-This loser?
-I know, right?
Hands in the air!
Get out of the car.
No, I’m not getting out.
I’m not getting out.
Meglin, I need to be in Moscow!
I need to be in Moscow!
I have an evaluation! I-- I’m a phenomenon! I need to be studied!
So that there aren’t others like me!
Remember this place?
When one of ours died,
we’d bury them here.
Meglin, don’t do this! Meglin! They’re buried here too.
Meglin!
Meglin, please, I’m--
I’m begging you!
Fifteen souls.
I want you to suffer.
Meglin.
I want you to feel terrified
and powerless.
Meglin, don’t!
No! I’m begging you!
-You’ll lie here with those you killed.
-Don’t!
No! Don’t!
Just shoot me! Shoot me!
Stop!
-Don’t! Don’t!
-Lie there and picture it!
-Maybe there is something after this!
-Shoot me!
They’re waiting for you there!
Stop!
Listen to her, Meglin!
-Meglin, listen to her!
-You can’t do this! Please!
-Don’t! I’m begging you!
-What if it’s just as terrifying?
-Let me handle this!
-Don’t!
-I’m begging you, stop!
-Just shoot me!
-But it’s for eternity!
-Shoot me!
-Don’t, Meglin, please!
-I think you’ve earned this.
-Please, don’t!
-You’ve earned it.
I’m begging you! Stop!
You earned it.
Stop! Don’t! Don’t!
-Stop!
-Meglin, listen to her!
Don’t! I’m begging you, please! -Please, don’t!
-You can’t do this!
I’m begging you! Stop!
Don’t! I--
Just shoot me! Shoot me!
And I’ll pay for what I’ve done…
here or there.
It was Steklov!
What?
It was her father
who helped me to get out!
So that I’d stop you!
What the--
The blood is on his hands!
No.
He’s lying.
Tell me that he’s lying!
Don’t listen to him. Don’t!
You asked me…
who killed Olya.
It doesn’t matter.
It was me.
She begged me.
I’m tired.
I can’t live like this. Please, do it!
Those were her words.
This wasn’t living.
I was her friend too.
I…
loved her.
So, Rodion, is that it?
So, Rodion, is that it?
That’s it.
That’s it.
And you claim you never saw Meglin again.
No!
Here’s the record in the visitors log.
It proves you were there on the ninth.
I was there that evening to see Bergich!
And you didn’t even pause to see Meglin?
Why?
His symptoms had exacerbated that day. He had already stopped recognizing people.
Just check the medical record.
How did Meglin get the knife
he used to kill himself?
They searched him every day.
I don’t know.
Rodion.
Rodion.
Wake up.
Please. Rodion.
Please.
Wake up. I’m here.
Wake up.
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Rodion.
Wake up!
I’m begging you!
I’m right here! I’m here.
I promised you…
I would hold your hand.
I’m holding it.
Do you feel it?
I love you.
I talked to the doctors.
They say unanimously
that Meglin’s condition was so severe
that he couldn’t have killed himself.
Are you accusing me of something?
No, Esenya Andreyevna.
We have a different task.
Despite all the problems
caused by Meglin’s work,
we can’t deny that it was effective.
We took a risk.
We knew full well that Meglin’s method
could save a lot of lives.
And that outweighed…
his method.
Do you think you understood it?
How would you describe it?
There was no method.
He simply tried
to really pay attention to people.
Why?
What’s the point?
I forgive you.
I’ll never forgive myself.
Then live like that.
What for?
For me.
Well, Esenya Andreyevna…
we don’t have any more questions.
But here’s a proposition.
Sadly, people will always be people.
There are criminals…
and there’s us.
And we propose that you take his place.
With the broadest authority.
Staff, finances--
everything can be worked out.
I’m not interested.
-Why not?
-I don’t want to.
Don’t rush.
Think about it.
I’m listening.
I only wanted to know one thing.
How do you feel…
now that you’re alone?
You won’t catch me.
Behold,
the judge standeth before the door.
James, chapter five, verse nine.
Dad!
Did you want him to kill Meglin?
He can barely stand.
Did he get away?
Well done.
-How are you?
-I’ll be fine.
Where’s he heading next?
Don’t you already know?
What did you say?
Damn!
Why was Bergich treating him?
I thought he was doing life.
Are you okay?
So, where’s he headed next?
Andryush, use your brain.
He’s been shot…
maybe even fatally.
He hasn’t seen his parents in eight years.
Use your brain!
-Where are you going?
-Back to the hospital.
Do you feel it?
I love you.
Doesn’t it seem odd to you
that Meglin failed to communicate
the suspected location of Strelok
to the police?
On the contrary.
I find it more than normal.
So you didn’t intend to arrest him.
You immediately decided to take him out
without having authorization.
Did you discuss it ahead of time?
There was no need to discuss anything.
What do you mean?
It wasn’t just another case anymore.
It was something bigger.
CANINE MUSCULAR SYSTEM
Just cut.
You’ll die from the pain
without anesthesia.
I won’t die.
I’m needed.
Operate like this.
Tie it to my hand.
Continue.
VETERINARY CLINIC Do you know where he’s headed?
There’s only one place he’d go now.
Where?
Where he knows he can hurt me.
POLICE
We have roadblocks.
We’re checking every car. Nothing.
Search harder.
He’s going there. He’s got no one else.
We ran his name.
Anufriev’s parents died in a car crash
while he was still in boot camp.
-How can they be dead?
-Maybe he’s headed elsewhere.
-Meglin’s orphanage.
-What?
Meglin wants to kill him!
So we don’t get to him!
Get in your vehicles!
ORPHANAGE No. 12
I told you, Meglin.
I want people to know the truth.
Three vaccinations, three series.
Nine, 40…
365.
I’ll pray for humanity. I’ll get through to you.
I’ll make you listen to me.
I won’t let you go on killing.
I got here before you.
There, on the second floor…
there are 15 of them.
Altogether, there are 40 souls. Forty.
This series is complete.
I’ll get some rest,
gather my strength…
wait for you die.
You’re the only one who can kill me.
Well, and then…
the third series.
No.
It’s over.
Freeze! No one move!
Only 40.
I surrender. It was me that called you.
I surrender.
I surrender.
What are you doing here?
Hey, pal, dig me a grave…
and have a coffin ready.
Give him some money.
All right.
He’ll get out and continue killing,
Andryusha.
That’s impossible.
He signed a confession.
He’ll get life. No question about it.
Once he’s in prison,
I’ll make sure he never gets out.
He’s got it all worked out already.
Last time, the court found him insane.
And it will again.
He’ll escape
from the psychiatric hospital.
He’ll escape and start the third series.
I want him dead just as much as you do.
Maybe even more than you.
What do you want from me? What can I do?
Give me a chance to get close to him.
Then I’ll improvise.
“I’ll improvise.”
No.
This thing is too big.
Higher-ups, the press.
You know that.
Then the lives of those he kills
from now on will be on you.
Or are you already used to that?
Are you lecturing me on morality?
Let’s go.
He’s being taken to Moscow tomorrow
for evaluation.
3:00 p.m. From jail to the airport.
You need to see Bergich.
Later.
We have to see this through first.
I promise.
Who lives here?
The backup copy.
Hello. Vitalik is expecting you.
-Hello.
-Some tea?
-Hello.
-Hi, Vitalik.
-What are you playing?
-Take a guess.
I want you to meet Vitalik.
And this is Esenya.
My…
My friend.
Now she’s your friend too.
-Nice to meet you. Esenya.
-Hello.
I haven’t seen you in a while.
-I heard you were sick.
-I’m fine now.
So, let’s begin?
Your training is over.
Vitalik helps me.
You see, I don’t trust computers.
Computers can be hacked.
They can be infected by a virus.
But a person, that’s a different story.
I don’t know how computers work,
but I know how people work.
Have you seen my archive?
-I have.
-They tried to steal it twice.
Once, they set fire to it.
I made a backup copy.
Vitalik is an eidetic.
-Do you know what that means?
-No.
He has a phenomenal, flawless memory.
He can remember everything
he’s ever heard or seen.
Every word, every letter.
Everything that I found out, I archived.
And I saved it with him, as well,
just in case.
He knows everything, all I did.
Thank you.
He has the answers to all your questions.
He knows what was in the missing pages…
what happened to the missing people.
The backup copy.
The most complete.
It’s impossible.
Vitalik.
Hello. Hi, Vitalik.
What are you playing? Take a guess.
I want you to meet Vitalik.
And this is Esenya.
My… My friend.
Now she’s your friend too.
Nice to meet you. Esenya.
Hello.
I haven’t seen you in a while.
I heard you were sick? I’m fine now.
So, let’s begin?
Your training is over.
Vitalik helps me.
-You see, I don’t trust computers.
-That’s enough. I get it.
You can ask him.
You wanted to find out something.
Go ahead.
This was why you wanted to train with me.
Come on.
Need help?
-Irina Ignatovich.
-I don’t want to. Stop it!
Irina Ignatovich.
Case number 345.
Date of birth: 1967.
Place of birth: Kirov.
Diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia.
The official version:
Went missing in 1991
under obscure circumstances.
She’s currently being held
at a neuropsychiatric hospital
in the care of Dr. Bergich
under the name Olga Berestova.
Ask him.
Olga Berestova.
Olga Berestova. Case number 244.
Date of birth: 1968.
Place of birth: Moscow.
Diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia.
The patient committed several murders
attributable to this illness.
Since 1991,
she was married to Andrei Steklov.
This is Maksim Ognarev.
I was telling you about him.
And this is my wife Olya.
-It’s a pleasure.
-It’s a pleasure.
The initial evaluation indicated
a combination of syndromes,
including schizophrenia, as well as
antisocial personality disorder.
The patient was prescribed
hospital treatment
under the supervision of specialists.
She was later allowed
to live with her family.
Socialization within the family
had a positive but unsustainable effect.
The disease continued to progress.
The patient grew increasingly withdrawn
from her social surroundings.
The patient would actively interfere
in the spouse’s work.
Olya!
Periods of remission would be followed
by psychosis and outbursts of aggression.
At the insistence of the spouse,
Andrei Steklov,
the patient was involuntarily committed
to a psychiatric facility
and underwent treatment for a second time.
Due to the progression
of psychotic symptoms,
complete social isolation
was strongly recommended.
Having been placed in a long-term care
psychiatric hospital,
Olga Berestova spent over two years there.
During a period of sustained remission,
she gave birth to a daughter.
What?
I thought of a name.
What is it?
Esenya.
Do you like it?
It’s an unusual name.
Well, she is very special.
What’s the difference?
Just switch the two pictures!
No. For me, it’s a big difference.
What’s the difference? Tell me.
Having violated all norms
of professional conduct,
Andrei Steklov talked the chief physician
into switching the medical records
of the two patients.
What’s the reason?
And, instead of Olga Berestova,
it was Irina Ignatovich
who remained in the hospital.
MEDICAL RECORD
BERESTOVA, OLGA
With the assistance of his colleagues
in the federal prosecutor’s office,
Olga Berestova’s passport
and personal information
were transferred to the identity
of Vera Steklova.
The disease continued to progress.
In order to put an end
to further violent outbursts,
Vera Steklova was secretly eliminated.
My mother was a murderer.
But you still haven’t told me
who killed her.
Does it matter?
She was simply stopped.
Was it my father?
It wasn’t him.
She asked him to, but he couldn’t.
But there’s no way he didn’t know.
Did he have someone else do it?
He loved her.
You call that love?
It’s easy to kill an enemy.
It’s hard to kill someone you love.
You have to truly love them.
I’m just like her, aren’t I?
Who am I?
You’ll find out soon.
POLICE
What are you going to do?
I’m not sure yet.
Get out of the truck! Go! Go!
They say he’s escaped twice.
There’s no way.
I’m telling you.
-This loser?
-I know, right?
Hands in the air!
Get out of the car.
No, I’m not getting out.
I’m not getting out.
Meglin, I need to be in Moscow!
I need to be in Moscow!
I have an evaluation! I-- I’m a phenomenon! I need to be studied!
So that there aren’t others like me!
Remember this place?
When one of ours died,
we’d bury them here.
Meglin, don’t do this! Meglin! They’re buried here too.
Meglin!
Meglin, please, I’m--
I’m begging you!
Fifteen souls.
I want you to suffer.
Meglin.
I want you to feel terrified
and powerless.
Meglin, don’t!
No! I’m begging you!
-You’ll lie here with those you killed.
-Don’t!
No! Don’t!
Just shoot me! Shoot me!
Stop!
-Don’t! Don’t!
-Lie there and picture it!
-Maybe there is something after this!
-Shoot me!
They’re waiting for you there!
Stop!
Listen to her, Meglin!
-Meglin, listen to her!
-You can’t do this! Please!
-Don’t! I’m begging you!
-What if it’s just as terrifying?
-Let me handle this!
-Don’t!
-I’m begging you, stop!
-Just shoot me!
-But it’s for eternity!
-Shoot me!
-Don’t, Meglin, please!
-I think you’ve earned this.
-Please, don’t!
-You’ve earned it.
I’m begging you! Stop!
You earned it.
Stop! Don’t! Don’t!
-Stop!
-Meglin, listen to her!
Don’t! I’m begging you, please! -Please, don’t!
-You can’t do this!
I’m begging you! Stop!
Don’t! I--
Just shoot me! Shoot me!
And I’ll pay for what I’ve done…
here or there.
It was Steklov!
What?
It was her father
who helped me to get out!
So that I’d stop you!
What the--
The blood is on his hands!
No.
He’s lying.
Tell me that he’s lying!
Don’t listen to him. Don’t!
You asked me…
who killed Olya.
It doesn’t matter.
It was me.
She begged me.
I’m tired.
I can’t live like this. Please, do it!
Those were her words.
This wasn’t living.
I was her friend too.
I…
loved her.
So, Rodion, is that it?
So, Rodion, is that it?
That’s it.
That’s it.
And you claim you never saw Meglin again.
No!
Here’s the record in the visitors log.
It proves you were there on the ninth.
I was there that evening to see Bergich!
And you didn’t even pause to see Meglin?
Why?
His symptoms had exacerbated that day. He had already stopped recognizing people.
Just check the medical record.
How did Meglin get the knife
he used to kill himself?
They searched him every day.
I don’t know.
Rodion.
Rodion.
Wake up.
Please. Rodion.
Please.
Wake up. I’m here.
Wake up.
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Rodion.
Wake up!
I’m begging you!
I’m right here! I’m here.
I promised you…
I would hold your hand.
I’m holding it.
Do you feel it?
I love you.
I talked to the doctors.
They say unanimously
that Meglin’s condition was so severe
that he couldn’t have killed himself.
Are you accusing me of something?
No, Esenya Andreyevna.
We have a different task.
Despite all the problems
caused by Meglin’s work,
we can’t deny that it was effective.
We took a risk.
We knew full well that Meglin’s method
could save a lot of lives.
And that outweighed…
his method.
Do you think you understood it?
How would you describe it?
There was no method.
He simply tried
to really pay attention to people.
Why?
What’s the point?
I forgive you.
I’ll never forgive myself.
Then live like that.
What for?
For me.
Well, Esenya Andreyevna…
we don’t have any more questions.
But here’s a proposition.
Sadly, people will always be people.
There are criminals…
and there’s us.
And we propose that you take his place.
With the broadest authority.
Staff, finances--
everything can be worked out.
I’m not interested.
-Why not?
-I don’t want to.
Don’t rush.
Think about it.
I’m listening.
I only wanted to know one thing.
How do you feel…
now that you’re alone?
You won’t catch me.