ALVIN AMY CARL CHANCE CHRISTINA CYNTHIA DI HYNES KIRSTEN LORENA LUCY LYNDSAY MAN NICOLE PEPPER REPORTER ROBERT WINTER CHANCE Previously on Chance. HYNES Woman found with her throat cut. Kid shot in the head breaking into a car registered to Ryan Winter. I'm gonna need you to get into Ryan Winter's head for me. CHANCE You were attacked by a stranger, targeted for whatever reason. If you were choked like that for longer than 40 seconds, you wouldn't be here. CHANCE Winter is here in my office. Change rattles him. If I keep him here, can you get into his house? DI Already out the door, doc. NICOLE You spread that shit around about me and John. PEPPER Chill out. NICOLE And then just sit here. You are not my friend. PEPPER Whatever, stalker freak. WINTER Someone's broken into my house and taken things, moved things. What they stole has no value other than to me. CHANCE Did you call the police? WINTER He is the police. Detective Kevin Hynes. LORENA It really freaked him out, what you did. Look, I don't give a shit, but I can't lose this job. In case you get hungry. DI Why didn't you scream when you saw me in the house? LORENA 'Cause you're not scary. WINTER When I was eight, I was standing on a train platform. This woman had come out of the crowd and grabbed him and tossed him in front of a train. I found a way to cope. NICOLE There's this asshole. Bullied me or whatever. DI Any time somebody bullies you, you should thank them every day. Learn to stand up for yourself now. Anything can be a weapon. NICOLE Thank you. LUCY Hey, take a bow. CHANCE For what? LUCY Your good work made this happen. Ryan Winter just donated a million dollars to the unit in Josefa's name. KIRSTEN Pinch me, right? This is too good to be true. CHANCE I agree. KIRSTEN What? CHANCE I don't think you should take this money. KIRSTEN What do you mean, don't? Based on what? CHANCE Well, he's a patient with a head trauma, for one thing. KIRSTEN We've accepted money from victims and families of victims before. I mean, not this much money, but they donate all the time. It's not unethical. It's what helps keep our doors open. CHANCE Will you will you just listen to me for a second? I'm just concerned that this donation is gonna come with strings. Access. This is not the type of guy who can give a million dollars and you just leave it at that. KIRSTEN Fine, he can have my parking spot. CHANCE I'm serious. KIRSTEN So am I. Do I really have to tell you what a million dollars means for this unit? CHANCE I know, I know. I just I just don't want him to distract from the people who actually need us. Yeah? Whoa, Christina. Slow down. She with you now? Okay. Uh, I'll meet you at my place in 20 minutes. KIRSTEN Nicole? CHANCE Yeah. I got to go. I'll call you later. KIRSTEN Hey. This money? It'll be a good thing. DI Folic acid and iron. And a stool softener for the iron side effects. LORENA You know, they have flowers here. DI Folic acid helps protect your baby against birth defects, and the iron prevents anemia. LORENA What's your name? DI Di. LORENA D. I have a doctor, D. An OB for the baby. She tells me not to eat raw fish and weird cheeses or whatever. And she tells me to take vitamins, so I do that. But thank you. DI Okay, then. LORENA So, you're stalking me at the supermarket 'cause of birth defects? Hmm? Then why? DI Your boss. He's a very bad man. LORENA That's all I know, is bad men. You're gonna have to say more than that. DI He kills people. LORENA What people? DI Women, mostly. LORENA So he's gonna kill me? DI Doubt it. That'd be too obvious. Although I guess you never know. LORENA You a cop? DI No. LORENA Good. You ever kill anybody? DI Nobody anyone would miss. LORENA So, what do you want from me, anyway? DI I just figured you should know. LORENA Yeah, that's an answer. But it's not the whole answer. You like Chinese food? DI Sure. LORENA Golden Pagoda, tomorrow, 200. You can take me to lunch. The baby likes the chicken in black bean sauce. DI Sure. LORENA Good. You can tell me the rest of the answer then. CHANCE Nic thanked Pepper? CHRISTINA Right after she broke her nose. And that Pepper is a piece of work, just pretending to be her friend so she could humiliate her. CHANCE So, what now? CHRISTINA Expulsion. Possibly. I don't know. I'll know more when I talk to the Dean tomorrow. CHANCE What time? I'll come with you. CHRISTINA There's another shoe. CHANCE Of course there is. CHRISTINA Her parents are pressing charges. Aggravated assault. CHANCE Aggravated? CHRISTINA They're saying the book was a weapon. A "blunt instrument." The hospital's holding her overnight for observation. CHANCE That's standard concussion protocol. Okay, well, I'll I guess I'll go talk to the parents. CHRISTINA And then I'll handle the Dean. Eldon, uh she's gonna be charged with a felony. Is there a scenario where she goes to jail or some kind of, like, juvenile detention center? CHANCE No. That's not gonna happen. CHRISTINA I really thought that we were over this. I. She was doing so well. CHANCE I'll go talk to her. CHRISTINA You ever think that maybe this is our fault? I mean, she's so bright and-and beautiful and young and unjaded and unspoiled. I don't know where this is coming from. I mean, the stalking last year, and now. I-I keep thinking that the only common denominator is us. CHANCE You had nothing to do with this. NICOLE Pepper humiliated me in front of basically everyone, so forget putting anything behind me or starting over. Not to mention ruining any chance I had at making any other friends besides her. And the rest, as they say is history. CHANCE Look, Nic, I-I understand the impulse. I do. I just. NICOLE You ever feel like your life is just some ride? You're at a carnival, you strap yourself in, and then somebody else decides how fast or high you go? CHANCE But you do have control. Might not always feel like that, but. NICOLE Yeah, but even before this. So many times I'd get up in the morning and think, "Here we go again." Walking the school halls, worried, wondering what's next. What's out there waiting for me now? But today with Pepper, I was what was waiting. And, to be honest, it felt awesome. CHANCE Look, after what Pepper did, you had every right to be upset. This is not the way to deal with it. NICOLE Really? You tried walking and reading at the same time lately? CHANCE Look, do me a favor. In the future, you talk to me first. NICOLE Well, I tried. And I could not find you anywhere. So I talked to D. CHANCE Di? NICOLE He thinks we should thank bullies. CHANCE What? We Thank them for what? NICOLE Well, he says everyone else just wants to keep us weak and calm. But bullies challenge us. Show us how to handle adversity. Give us insight into who we really are. CHANCE Mm-hmm. So this is who you really are now? NICOLE I don't know. I just know that whoever I was today, I like her way more than who I've been. CHANCE This is not smart, you being here. You got no way of knowing whether you're gonna run into him. HYNES I wouldn't have had to come if you'd answer your fucking cell. Besides, you said you were gonna keep him from coming in here. CHANCE He noticed and wrote a check so big no one cares what I think. HYNES Well, his story about the kid thrown on the train tracks? The woman's name is Amy Debbs. Has a history of mental illness, in and out of psych wards until July of '82, when she tossed this kid on the tracks at Emeryville train station. CHANCE So then it really happened. Winter was telling the truth. HYNES Yep. And there's more. The kid, on the grace of fucking God, ends up under the train or beside the train and survives. And Debbs was arrested on the scene and brought straight in to be processed. But no one ever claims the kid. CHANCE In 1982, Winter would have been six or seven. HYNES Yeah. I could never get anything on Winter's childhood. And the things I did get, I couldn't be sure wasn't some revisionist history done after he shot into rich people stratosphere. And I didn't even know where he was originally from or if Winter was even his name. CHANCE And where is Amy Debbs now? Do we know? Is she still alive? HYNES Patton State Hospital. CHANCE Right. Well, I know one of the deputy chiefs of psychiatry down there. I'll give him a call. See what kind of cocktail they've got her on. She can talk to me. HYNES About? CHANCE About why she tried to kill her son. LUCY The VOVC. I'm one of the schedulers. WINTER Right. LUCY Thought what you did was pretty cool. WINTER Thought what I did? I've done a lot of things. LUCY Oh, right. The donation. The ginormous amount of money. Thought it was pretty awesome. WINTER Oh, yeah. Well, thanks. It was pretty awesome, wasn't it? Have you worked there a long time? LUCY The Unit? No. But I used to work for Dr. Chance when he had his own practice. WINTER No kidding. You know, I'm working with Dr. Chance right now. LUCY Yeah, I know. WINTER You do? LUCY I mean, I don't know-know. I mean, I know you are. I do the scheduling. I don't know anything else, so don't worry. Oh, wow. It literally sounds like I've never had an adult conversation before. WINTER So, how long have you known him? LUCY Couple of years. Um, I used to run his practice. Anyway, I just wanted to say that what you did was amazing, and we all really appreciate it. WINTER What is your name? LUCY Lucy. Baek. WINTER I'm Ryan Winter. But you know that. LUCY Mm-hmm. Not just because of stalky scheduling weirdness. Also because I'm kind of a tech nerd. WINTER Well, those and Star Wars are my two favorite kinds of nerds. You know, I'm actually speaking at a thing. LUCY Oh. WINTER That you might like. It's a conference on mixed reality. LUCY Oh, um, yeah, uh. It's just with work and my kid, it's a little hard to get away for last-minute stuff. WINTER You're a mom? LUCY Yeah. The single kind. WINTER Well, listen, if you can get away, here's the information. I. It could be interesting to you. I'm. So, bye. LUCY Bye. CHANCE Hi. I'm Nicole's father, Eldon Chance. I just wanted to check on Pepper. Tell you how sorry we all are that this has happened. ROBERT Not as sorry as you're gonna be, pal. CHANCE I understand your being upset. ROBERT Oh, do you? Because I didn't see you sleeping in a plastic chair all night while nurses came in to check your daughter's pupils every hour. CHANCE Pepper has a nasal fracture. Thankfully, there's no sign of concussion. I just spoke with the attending physician. ROBERT What? You talked to her? CHANCE I'm a neuropsychiatrist. I work with a lot of head trauma patients here. ROBERT Yeah, it figures, huh? It's always the shrinks' kids that are the fucking. CYNTHIA Robert. Just take it outside, okay? Both of you. CHANCE Maybe this is not the best time. ROBERT What was your first clue? CYNTHIA Bob, please. CHANCE Once again, I'm so sorry that this has happened, and maybe when you're ready, we can all sit down and talk about what to do next. ROBERT Your daughter fucking broke our daughter's nose. There is nothing for us to talk about at all. Okay? That's what lawyers are for. CYNTHIA Okay, come on. Get your stuff. Let's get out of here. WINTER Lyndsay. Lyndsay. LYNDSAY Yes. WINTER Where's the brief. LYNDSAY Right here. WINTER Thank you. Listen, a talk and a lunch, too, is too much for me. I'm not gonna be able to do it. LYNDSAY I'm sorry. I told them that you probably wouldn't be staying to eat. Did you call them yet? WINTER No. LYNDSAY You want me to do it? WINTER No, I will. But just not right now. Is the car here? LYNDSAY Out front. You know, trespassing is a crime. WINTER Yeah, I know that. But what am I gonna tell them? That Detective Hynes broke into my house and rearranged my shirts? That I wouldn't even have known he was here, except he stole my rock? I would tell me to fuck off. LYNDSAY Be that as it may. WINTER I hate when people say that. Why is he doing this? Why is he doing it again? It's been four years. Why is he doing it? LYNDSAY Because he wants to torment you. And he is. And you can't let him get away with it. We can't. We have to deal with it. WINTER Okay. But not right now. I can't think about this right now. LYNDSAY And you don't have to. I'm here for that. ALVIN You act like you didn't start this whole shit here. Like you didn't just wake up one day and say, "Fuck them. This is how it's gonna be." CARL Yes, one day I woke up, but I never said fuck you or anyone. And you know it. Don't you put that on me. ALVIN I guess you can just remember it however you want to remember it, huh? CARL What I want is for you to tell me what else I can do to help you now. DI Carl still jawing at that guy in the alley? CHANCE Yeah. DI Goddamn toyboys. CHANCE What the fuck were you doing talking to Nicole like that? What were you thinking? DI Careful, Doc. Lacquer's wet. CHANCE Fuck the lacquer. She broke a girl's nose. DI Didn't tell her to do that. Just showed her how. CHANCE Yeah, you showed her how, all right. How to get fucking suspended and probably expelled from a public school. How to go to prison for assault. She's 16, D. She's a child. She-she. DI A confident member of the tribe who isn't afraid to stand up for themselves? Who's ready to deal on her own with the reality of the world? CHANCE What are you, a life coach? Listen to yourself. DI This isn't a half-empty glass. This fucking glass is full. She was my kid, I'd take her out for fucking ice cream and nunchucks. CHANCE She's not your kid. She's mine. DI Think of it as a brushback pitch. At the very least, Nicole showed this Pepper to herself. CHANCE Oh. DI Showed her where that road leads. And I bet Pepper'll give her a wide berth from now on. CHANCE Pepper spent last night in the hospital. She's a mess. Parents are on the warpath, and I don't blame them. DI I do. She's a piece of shit. Pretty sure they had something to do with that. You don't start worrying about your child's morality until they're a teenager, they're already broken. CHANCE Oh, Jesus. Will Will you stop talking to me about parenting? DI It's a good thing, doc. Nicole wanting to stand up. Face her struggle with honor and dignity. That's badass. CHANCE I don't want my daughter to be badass. Not in the way you mean. Not in the way you are. And if she ever comes here again for advice, you better go deaf. DI You're welcome. AMY He sent me signs. I didn't recognize them at first. But when I did, they were everywhere. CHANCE What was the first sign you saw? Do you remember? AMY I had the dishes in the sink, the TV was on, and a child had been mauled by a lion at a zoo in Milwaukee. CHANCE And what did that tell you? AMY That He was coming, and I had to prove myself. CHANCE So what did you do? AMY I told Matthew. CHANCE Told him what? AMY That the Lord wanted me to kill him. CHANCE How old was he when you told him that? AMY Three. His eyes were like stars. I would look in them, and I just couldn't. CHANCE You couldn't-couldn't do what the Lord was asking. AMY No. CHANCE Did He stop asking? AMY I thought so. But then I went into Matthew's room in the morning, and Matthew rolled over on his bed, and he looked at me. And there was a spider on his pajamas. So that night I did it. CHANCE You-you tried to kill Matthew? AMY No. I tried cutting myself instead. But it didn't work. The way He wanted me to do it after that was so much worse. Because I was fighting it. He wanted Matthew strangled and stabbed, cut up because I wouldn't listen. CHANCE Is that when He told you about the train? AMY That's not exactly what He said. CHANCE What did He say? AMY Metal. Metal was His message. I couldn't put my hands on my baby. Not like God wanted me to, not like that. Not cut him and stab him and beat him to death. But when I stopped fighting, I knew. If I stepped out in faith, the train would fulfill Him. It would be quick. It would be enough. HYNES People thought I was crazy, too. I mean, not Amy Debbs crazy, but they washed their hands of me, pretty much. I guess I was glad when the brass shipped me to Fremont. After I, uh, I told myself maybe that's just what I needed, was a clean slate, you know? But that didn't fucking last. I mean, Winter, for me, is like the Princess and the fucking Pea. No matter what I do, that piece of shit keeps me awake. CHANCE Why do you think that is? I mean, to that extent. Is it Travis? Is it 'cause you and he were. HYNES What? Us two were what? CHANCE Forget it. HYNES You know, we weren't, if that's what you were thinking. It wasn't like that. I've only been with women. Almost got married, even, twice. I took the road I-I knew, and once I got going, I ended up where it took me. Till Travis. You know, what I told myself was it was just a mentor thing. Or paternal, like. like a dad and a son. You know, but inside, it all just felt like a load of shit. Everything felt like shit. So one day I just. I just stopped fighting it. And I said to myself, I'm gonna just feel what I'm feeling. Secretly, to myself. In case I was wrong. CHANCE And what happened? HYNES And I guess that's what happiness is. Got a glimpse of it. DI Barrio Cazadores. Your tattoo. The Hunters. Tijuana gang. You affiliated? LORENA It was another life. DI Is that where your baby's daddy is? LORENA You don't take girls out a whole lot, do you? DI No. How'd you become a murderer's maid? LORENA I was a coyote. Just outside of Tecate. I would take people ten, 12 14 hours on foot through the mountains until they were picked up outside Highway 94. I had smuggled so many other people across the border, I figured I could go ahead and smuggle myself over. And I did. I stayed with a friend. She would clean houses under the table, and couldn't make all of her jobs, so I started to fill in for her. And that's how I met Mister Ryan's assistant, Lyndsay. DI So, what's it like? LORENA It's really boring. There's cleaning. Errands. And Mister Ryan has talked to me maybe twice. He talks to himself a lot, though. DI What do you mean? Like, he mumbles? LORENA No, more like full-on conversations. DI With who? LORENA Nobody. There's nobody there. It's passionate, or he gets yelling, or maybe he's crying, but there's nobody there. Mister Ryan is not all there. He has his ways. He hates certain plates or a salad plate, he hates. And he has, you know, this beautiful swimming pool, but he never uses the swimming pool. Except maybe one time. One time a man came over and teach him to swim. DI To swim. LORENA Mm-hmm. And he's never been in it since. DI You like pie? LORENA I don't like it. DI Oh. LORENA I love it. DI Awesome. I'm gonna make a quick phone call, and then let's go get some pie. CHANCE What is this? LUCY Pretty awesome, is what it is. Ryan Winter replaced the whole Unit's computers for free. Baller. CHANCE When? Why? Why would he do that? LUCY Apparently he heard someone say something about our computers being slow and shitty, and he just, you know, made the call. No biggie for him, huge deal for us. I'm excited, too. WINTER Hey. CHANCE Hi. Listen, I have to cancel group tonight. Uh, got a family issue. Wondered if you wanted to get together this afternoon. WINTER The two of us? CHANCE If that works for you. I wanted to continue with what we discussed the other day, and I don't want too much time to lapse in between sessions. You like to walk? WINTER Sure. What did you have in mind? CHANCE Beach? Dune Point, just north of the old baths. You know it? WINTER I know of it. CHANCE Great. Meet in about an hour? WINTER Sure. Fine. I hope everything's okay. CHANCE What do you mean? WINTER With your family. With your family issue. I hope it's okay. CHANCE Thank you for saying so. WINTER You're welcome. CARL Oh, D? Is that. is that you, D? DI You're calling my phone, Carl. CARL I need you to come, son. So, there's trouble brewing. I bought a lot of drinks for a lot of people. Bring money now. DI Where are you? CARL I'm at the Admiral's Arms. Quickly, D. DI Coming. SOS from a friend. You game? LORENA Okay. WINTER How do I cope? CHANCE You said that after you saw the boy being thrown in front of the train, you found ways to cope. I just wondered what they were. WINTER Back then it was school. CHANCE How about now? WINTER Work. I run sometimes. Nothing too unusual. CHANCE For me, it was work. And then drink when work wasn't enough. WINTER What are you talking about? CHANCE I had a fall. Actually, in a place not very different from this. WINTER You fell off a cliff? CHANCE Uh-huh. WINTER How? CHANCE One moment I was walking. Next thing I knew, woke up in an ambulance with my head in a cage. My PET scan was not very dissimilar to yours. WINTER Whoa, way to bury a lead, Doc. CHANCE Yeah, well, protocol is we're not supposed to share personal details with patients. WINTER So, did you feel different after? CHANCE Besides the physical effects- double vision, memory loss- I find I am more prone to anger, and it has been pointed out to me that I have grown reckless. WINTER Okay, okay, but you you must do something to-to cope. CHANCE Not really. I just embrace. WINTER Whoa. I think the tide's coming in. So. All right, what the fuck are we supposed to do now? Wait it out? CHANCE Not with this swell. This whole place is gonna be underwater very soon. I hope you can swim. WINTER You're kidding me. It's not funny. CHANCE It's. WINTER That water is freezing. CHANCE It's 56. I caught the surf report driving in. Never thought to actually check and see what the tide was, though. Never occurred to me. Sorry. But you can swim, right? WINTER Yeah, I can swim, but I'm not going in there. CHANCE Hey. Come on. It's just, like, five minutes. It's Go out around thw point. Swell's from the north. That'll help. Easy. I told Dr. Clayton we should have a sign emblazoned over the door saying "Life begins when things go wrong." WINTER Eldon! Eldon! Eldon! CARL And who, may I ask, is this lovely young lady who came to my rescue? LORENA Lorena. CARL Lorena. DI Why this? And why today? Have something to do with that new boyfriend of yours? Guy I saw you to in the alley, all amped up? CARL That was my son, Alvin. My son. Last time I saw him, he was just a little boy. LORENA What happened? CARL I'm gay is what happened. DI Carl came out, they cut him off. His family. Wanted him out of their lives and said so. CARL She's sick and dying, Olivia. My wife. Once. Had insurance from her job, but the out-of-pocket expenses crippled them. DI That's what that fucking stolen Mayan shit is about. CARL They needed my help, D. So broke, it forced them to come to me. DI Risked your reputation. Your business. CARL No more than what you and I have done together. DI Yeah, it is. We may fudge names and dates, but the product is all top drawer. You start letting in hot shit, third party assholes, risk it all for what? People who dumped you out like an dirty ashtray. CARL He's my son, D. My first son. WINTER When I left here today, I had no idea what would I almost didn't come back here. I almost died. CHANCE You had a limit experience. That's what philosophers call it. It's a near-death experience. The point of living that lies as close as possible to the impossibility of living. Give you knowledge about yourself that you can't get any other way. Whether you like it or not. WINTER Like when you fell off that cliff. CHANCE Yeah. Going beyond without actually going beyond. How do you feel? WINTER You saved me. CHANCE You would have done the same. WINTER I would like to think so but I don't. Think so. I've done some things that I know are bad. And I don't think I would take them back even if I could. How do you feel about saving my life now? CHANCE Maybe you should tell me about those bad things. WINTER Because you can't decide how you feel unless you know? Fine. Tell me something else, then. Something else that I've wondered for a long time. You remember the story that I told you about the boy on the train platform. If I hadn't seen that I mean, if I hadn't had to explain that to myself, like you said, would I be the person that I am now? Would I do the things I do now, be whatever it is I am if I hadn't been there? CHANCE You want to know what I think? WINTER I think it might be the reason why we met. CHANCE Well, I'll tell you what I think. When you tell me the whole story. WINTER I don't follow. CHANCE The whole story about why you were there. Who you were there. That woman on that platform was your mother, and the boy was you. I knew that when you were telling it to me. I could hear it in your voice. You were testing me to see if I could really hear you. And I can. That's why I saved you. Maybe that's the reason we met. But I still need you to trust me, and you don't. Until you do, I don't think we can keep doing this. Don't forget to have someone go to the beach, pick up your car. WINTER No! LYNDSAY I filed it this afternoon. They promised to look into it further. The sergeant seemed to already know something about your history with Detective Hynes. WINTER Why did you do this? LYNDSAY We had to. WINTER No, I said I said not right now. I said I wanted to think about it. No. LYNDSAY Ryan, I'm sorry. WINTER No, no, no. Oh, God. LYNDSAY Ryan, if you could see you the way that I see you, how upset you are by all this, how-how hurt. I couldn't wait. I couldn't let him do that to you again. You are too good of a man to have to deal with this. I had to do some something. Because we're a team. Aren't we? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. WINTER You are not her. You will never be her. Be glad about that. LYNDSAY I am. CHANCE Mrs. Atkinson. Uh, I'm sorry. I should have called ahead, but I, um, I was hoping maybe we could talk. CYNTHIA Oh, look, my husband's not here, okay? He's at a work dinner. CHANCE Oh. Okay. Well, I can talk out here if it's more comfortable. How's Pepper? CYNTHIA She's asleep. CHANCE Well, I was just wondering if you and your husband would be open to sitting down with Nicole's mother and me and just talking about what happened. Civilly. CYNTHIA No offense, but don't you think the-the time for that would have been the moment before your daughter decided to break my-my daughter's nose? CHANCE Pepper humiliated Nicole in front of the entire school for no other reason, apparently, than a sadistic enjoyment of her own power and moral bankruptcy. A less charitable person might call your daughter broken. CYNTHIA Wow, this is what you call civility, huh? CHANCE Do you know how many kids have killed themselves over things like this? I'm sure you can imagine an alternate landscape in which Nicole takes a handful of pills instead. CYNTHIA I don't know why Pepper did this, okay? I've no idea. Maybe it's me, you know? Maybe I'm-I'm the reason. Maybe I'm the broken one. I don't really care what I am anyway, because I know that she knows that I've got her back. NICOLE You want to try it? CHANCE I'm. No, I'm good. Thank you. NICOLE What's wrong? CHANCE Listen, there's something I-I want to talk to you about. It's something I've been putting off for a long time. But so much has happened. I think it's time you heard the truth. NICOLE About what? You're-you're kind of scaring me. CHANCE The reason I think the reason that, uh, frightening things feel good to you I think it's because I had a version of that, myself. NICOLE What are you talking about? CHANCE When I was in my 20s, I was doing my residency, and I met a girl. And it was, uh it was serious. I thought it was serious. And she broke it off. I didn't take it well. I did not take it well. And she moved to San Diego, and I followed. And I followed, and I followed, and, uh, she took out a restraining order. Which I broke. I violated. Many times. So eventually, I was arrested. And I was hospitalized, and I was on suicide watch for 28 days. I could just feel my life unravel. I was powerless to stop it. Then when I got out, I had no money for med school. I... I had nothing left. NICOLE So, what are we? I mean, is it some kind of brain disease? CHANCE No, it's, uh the propensity to compulsion. Think of it as a genetic predisposition. NICOLE To being fucked up? CHANCE Nic, it's. NICOLE Does Mom know? About what happened? About everything you said? CHANCE No, she does not know any of this. NICOLE Oh, my God. Here I've been thinking I'm crazy, and now you're telling me I am. CHANCE No, you're not. That's what I'm saying. You're not crazy. We're not crazy. We just. We just have to figure out a way to make this work for us and not against us. We have to learn how to recognize the triggers and how not to act on them. Trust me. NICOLE Why? You didn't trust me. Letting me go this long thinking that it was me, that I was nuts. Every time you talked to me about what I did, you were lying. Why? CHANCE I was reluctant to admit the possible. I don't know. I Honestly, I. NICOLE Well, how can you not know? CHANCE Because I. NICOLE You're a neuropsychiatrist. You should have told me. You should have told me. CHANCE Well, I-I'm telling you now. NICOLE Well, now's too late. HYNES You call that a fucking plan? You trap him on the beach, you force him to swim, and you count on yourself to be able to save his ass? CHANCE The man is starting to break. It's working. HYNES Because you knew everything was gonna play out just like it did. You were sure. As opposed to he drowns. Or he pulls you under and you both drown. Or-or you drown and he makes it. Or you both get eaten by a fucking shark. CHANCE Listen to me, Detective Hynes. Winter is about to talk. He's already admitted to doing bad things because he was pushed to a place of extremity, somewhere he would never have gotten had he been sitting on a couch. HYNES You know, I don't know, Doc. But what I do know is that you just put everything we've been working toward at risk. This hump at the bar of justice, facing a reckoning before this world for what he's done. What the fuck? CHANCE What? HYNES You're at home, right? Turn on your TV now. Local news. MAN What is The Nightmare Before Chris. REPORTER This morning a couple was hiking with their dog when they found a body. All this a week after the body of Travis Weber was found buried, causing the excavation that led to the latest gruesome discoveries yesterday. HYNES Tell me you're seeing this shit. REPORTER Police are saying that as many as three bodies. CHANCE I'm seeing it. REPORTER And are continuing to search for more. HYNES You-you force this guy to a breaking point, Doc, and push him to an extremity like you said, and he may tell you secrets because of it. But-but what else? What else might you have pushed him to do? Do you even know? WINTER Sorry this was last minute. I'm glad you could get free. You ever have one of those weeks that kind of turns you on your head? LUCY It's sort of an hour-to-hour proposition for me. WINTER I feel like we're getting away with something. I mean, you're sure this is okay? Us going out like this? LUCY I'm actually not sure, because it isn't. But if we just keep this on the DL, we should be fine. I mean, it's not like we're hurting anyone. Right?