ALL BOTH CHRISTINA DOCTOR DR_CHANCE DR_MARTIN D HAVENWOOD_SCHOOL HOLLY JACKIE JACLYN LUCY MAN NEIL NICOLE POLICEMAN RAYMOND SUZANNE WOMAN DR CHANCE Previously on Chance... DR CHANCE Mrs. Blackstone. I'm Eldon Chance. DR CHANCE It says here that you separated from your husband after he struck you in the face. Shortly thereafter, you became aware of a second personality-- Jackie Black. JACLYN I hate the name Jackie. The only person who calls me that is him. DR CHANCE The patient states that Jackie is daring and extroverted. RAYMOND How was the lecture? Tell us about it. JACLYN Graduate student from the math department was lecturing on the axiom of choice. RAYMOND Why? Would you care? We're a predatory species. I mean, that's the world I deal with every day. And next time we coincide like this that's on you. DR CHANCE Back there. ALL DR CHANCE What's that about? D What you do with it is up to you. DR CHANCE What are you saying? That what you just did was some kind of audition? No. D Why? The rules? You think that's how he feels? There are no victims. Only volunteers. DR CHANCE Oh, God. JACKIE I want to make love to you with my mouth. DR CHANCE Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. No. No. Stop. Stop. BOTH JACLYN JACLYN DR CHANCE You okay? JACLYN Was it Jackie? DR CHANCE I... I don't know. She di-- She didn't say her name, but yes, I believe it was. JACLYN I need to go. DR CHANCE Did you-- Did you drive? Come on. We'll call you a cab. It'll be okay. JACLYN You were still up? DR CHANCE Yeah, well, after what happened earlier, sleep didn't seem like an option. So, what happened after the two of you left the restaurant? JACLYN Nothing. He likes to keep people off balance, in suspense. I didn't see him after we left. At least that's how I remember it. DR CHANCE And has-- has Jackie ever done this before? Has she ever appeared somewhere outside the context of Raymond? 'Cause you said that you had these periods that you can remember, these blank spaces, and then Raymond was there. But he's not here now. JACLYN I don't know. Maybe it's something about you. Hmm. ON-SCREEN TEXT Axiom of Choice DR CHANCE Yeah, well, I admit I was intrigued. It was the "words as words" that interested me. JACLYN It's the "words as words" I like to escape from now and then. JACLYN I didn't know he was violent, not until that day in Marin. JACLYN We had sandwiches, a bottle of wine. JACLYN JACLYN It was all kind of perfect. Driving home, we had a flat. JACLYN He jacked up the car without loosening the lug nuts. It was-- JACLYN --no big deal. RAYMOND JACLYN Funny, actually. JACLYN JACLYN JACLYN Like being struck by lightning on a cloudless day. JACLYN On our way to the hospital, he said he was sorry. He told me how it would be if I tried to leave. When we got home he wanted sex. Before all that happened, there was no Jackie Black. DR CHANCE I met with an Oakland ADA, and, uh, we were doing some cases for them pro bono for one reason. JACLYN You think that will give you some leverage? Someone to talk to about Raymond? Have you heard anything I said? DR CHANCE He's not omnipotent, Jaclyn. There are limits. JACLYN Not until he's dead. Him or me. DR CHANCE Well, if that's what you believe, why did you want to meet? JACLYN You're my knight. DR CHANCE Jackie said that, too. JACLYN Then I guess she was right. Mine? DR CHANCE The lady will be right down. Is there somewhere you can go during the day? Tell them you're tutoring and see Suzanne? JACLYN I don't know. Maybe. That you should even think of all this, the way you stood up to him in that restaurant. DR CHANCE I hardly stood up to him. JACLYN You did. And don't think he didn't notice. JACLYN Oh, my God. So what is all this? DR CHANCE Oh, this is, uh-- It's just a hobby of mine. This connection between sense of smell and memory... JACLYN DR CHANCE interests me. JACLYN Mmm. That's nice. Like a desert after the rain. DR CHANCE Other pathways run through the thalamus. Sense of smell has direct access to the limbic system, which is why emotional, visceral responses to scent are so powerful. Sorry, I, uh-- I can get very boring about this. JACLYN No. I like it when you talk like a doctor. BOTH DR CHANCE Well, the cab's here. We should probably go. JACLYN No, one more. You pick which one. Something you like. DR CHANCE Okay. Uh, this is from the south of Italy. JACLYN DR CHANCE Jaclyn? LUCY You scared me. You're never here this early. DR CHANCE Yeah. Sorry. LUCY Did you sleep here? DR CHANCE Not really, no. I had some things I had to get caught up on. LUCY Oh. For this afternoon? The conference, your presentation. DR CHANCE Shit. LUCY Oh, you forgot. DR CHANCE Shit. Shit. Shit. LUCY Jaclyn Blackstone. I thought we'd given her to Suzanne Simms. DR CHANCE Yes, we have. Do you want to maybe get us some coffee? LUCY This was in the hallway. Somebody left it by the door. It's not the best wrapping job I've ever seen. DR CHANCE What is it? Who's it from? LUCY I know a way you could find out. DR CHANCE Aah! LUCY What is it? DR CHANCE It's this. There was no note. LUCY Mrs. Eldard. She has an arts-and-crafts studio in North Beach, and she was crushing on you a little bit. You put those two things together and... DR CHANCE Well, I broke it, so... LUCY Here. Well, maybe I can fix it. Oh, and your finger, too. LUCY Suzanne called. She said your text woke her up, your cellphone is off, and you owe her a latte. DR CHANCE Right. SUZANNE You should have told her to go. DR CHANCE Yes, I should have, but the point is Jackie Black is real. She's real, and I saw her. You still don't believe me. SUZANNE You know as well as I do dissociative disorders of this type almost always arrive much earlier in life and from childhood abuse. I mean, we didn't deep-dive into her history, but Jaclyn did say she had a wonderful childhood. DR CHANCE But you said that the work you were doing was behavioral strategies by which she'd say no to her husband. SUZANNE That's true. DR CHANCE Saying you had a wonderful childhood does not make it so. SUZANNE Well... DR CHANCE You know my collection of perfumes? She found it, she wanted to try one. The reaction was like some past horror that she's not even aware of. SUZANNE Hmm. DR CHANCE Now, I can't pursue that, but you could. SUZANNE Just wait a second. Let-- Let me ask you something. How did Blackstone know to come to that restaurant? DR CHANCE I don't know. He either overheard her talking to me or he's tracking her cell or he followed her. SUZANNE Or she told him where she was going. DR CHANCE Who? Jackie or Jaclyn? And why would either one of them do that? SUZANNE I don't know. But I guess I'm going to try to find out. I was speaking to a friend who just happens to have a daughter who just happens to be having trouble in pre-calculus. They're in Oakland, in the hills. DR CHANCE And they're okay with you seeing Jaclyn there? SUZANNE Mm-hmm. DR CHANCE Oh, you are the best. SUZANNE Mm-hmm. I am the best. El, I need you to accept the role you played in this. How you drew Blackstone's focus, and you turned something bad into something even worse. DR CHANCE SUZANNE You know what? Scratch that. From now on, I need you to stay the hell away from her. DR CHANCE I promise. SUZANNE Oh, really? That-- That-- That's just not good enough. Mnh-mnh. DR CHANCE I swear. How's that? SUZANNE That's a little better. DR CHANCE Thank you. DR CHANCE Hey. LUCY He says he knows you. I told Mr. D… DR CHANCE It's okay, Lucy. D We have to talk. DR CHANCE You want to step in here? D Carl said you were asking after the guy who bought your stuff. DR CHANCE Yeah. Uh, the Russian, Mr. Morozov. D I wouldn't go there, brother. DR CHANCE I-I don't understand. D What's to understand? Message you left got the boss a little spooked. Carl's got a reputation. Anything goes out his door is something he's authenticated personally. He can't just tell people he was wrong or shit's been fucked with. He cancelled the check he made out to you, pulled it out in cash. Count it if you want to. We good? DR CHANCE Yeah. D How's it coming with your cop buddy? Blackstone? I've been thinking about him. DR CHANCE He threatened me. D When was that? DR CHANCE Last night. At a Chinese restaurant in Berkeley. I'd gone there to meet Jaclyn, and he showed up. D What kind of threat? DR CHANCE He asked if I had kids, and he started talking about humans as a predatory species. He said if we met again, there'd be trouble. And then this morning, there was a menu from the Chinese restaurant on my car. D There's ways of handling a guy like that because right now, he's the feeder. DR CHANCE I don't even know what that means. D That shit in the alley. How did I work that? DR CHANCE It was very fast. It was very violent. D I made sure they were reacting to me. People talk about self-defense. All bullshit. If I'm defending, I'm losing. I want the other guy defending while I attack. That's how you win in the real world, in a real fight. You want to get down with this cop, you need to turn the tables on him. Right now Blackstone is the feeder, you're the receiver. You've got to turn that around. DR CHANCE And how would I do that? D You might hire it done. DR CHANCE What? You? D First thing would be to gather intel. She says he's dirty. What does that mean? It's not that hard to kill a clean cop. They put themselves in dangerous situations all the time. Any one of them could go wrong. But a cop who's dirty. his whole life is a dangerous situation. You just need to pay attention. Where does he go? Who does he see? When is he most vulnerable? DR CHANCE I think-- And I know I asked, but I think I'm gonna have to stop you there. I want to handle this on my own. D No shit. How's that going? DR CHANCE It's a work in progress. D Awesome. But while you're progressing, he's still the feeder. So think about that. WOMAN Here you go. LUCY Hi. Okay. Ah! Okay. A map, a program. We are in Saavedra Hall, apparently, hosted by the Center for Geriatric Medicine. Exciting. Here's a name tag for you to wear around your neck. DR CHANCE But will it support my weight, is the question, in the event that I elect to pass the time hanging myself? LUCY That's not funny. DR CHANCE It's Vladimir and Estragon. "Waiting for Godot." You know, when they brought "Godot" to America, it opened in Miami in this dinner theater. It was billed as the laugh riot of two continents, and it bombed. So then they put it on for prisoners in Sing Sing. People said it wouldn't work. They wouldn't get it. It was too highbrow. Of course, they did. Laughed their asses off, 'cause it spoke to them where they lived. LUCY In Sing Sing? DR CHANCE In a place of existential dread. To make a meaningful cognitive assessment, you first have to determine where the person lives existentially, in which state anxiety, depression, isolation. LUCY Mm-hmm. DR CHANCE That is what the methodology we're here to present is gonna account for. Could really change the game for patients. That's what we want to do. It's what I want to do. LUCY Yeah. DR MARTIN Dr. Chance. Eric Martin, Stanford Geriatrics. How are you? DR CHANCE Good, thank you. How are you? DR MARTIN Good. We met at, uh, Fort Miley Vet Center. DR CHANCE That's right. May I introduce Lucy Baek, my office manager? LUCY Hi. DR MARTIN Nice to meet you. DR CHANCE Grad student in clinical psych at Berkeley. DR MARTIN Oh, fantastic. Nice to have you here with us, Ms. Baek. LUCY Thanks. DR MARTIN And I will see you onstage in, uh, 15. DR CHANCE 15 it is. DR MARTIN Can't wait. DR CHANCE Good. Hey. LUCY Give me a pound. DR CHANCE Give me a break. DR MARTIN In addition to his work as a forensic neuropsychiatrist, you may also be familiar with his interests in the field of cognitive assessment. Dr. Eldon Chance. ALL DR CHANCE Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Martin, for that very generous introduction that I will try to live up to. Uh, good afternoon, everyone. How are we feeling today? ALL DR CHANCE Now, I wanted to begin by... I, uh... I'm sorry. That-- That, uh... It's...not hard to understand the-- uh, the popularity of-- of, uh, assessment tests that claim to offer a global composite score. I-- We-- We have to be, uh, aware of the-- the danger. LUCY I mean, you had this, and then all of a sudden, it was like panic mode. I-I didn't know what to do, if I should go up there or what. Are you all right? I-I have to stop. I'll just meet you at the car. What's going on? DR CHANCE I-I don't know. I'm sorry. Yes? CHRISTINA Please tell me Nicole is with you. CHRISTINA Oh, my God, Eldon. I called the school, and I called the police. She left school before lunch. DR CHANCE W-What did the police say? CHRISTINA "Who are her friends?" and "Who was the last one to see her?" DR CHANCE Do we know? Who-- who was the last person? CHRISTINA Yeah, it's Shawn. It's Shawn. But all she could say was she saw her before lunch. She was heading toward the marina, and she thought she was coming home. I mean-- I mean, even if she's gonna lie, she'd still call. DR CHANCE Do we have-- Do we have Shawn's number? CHRISTINA Yeah, I talked to Shawn, So did the police. Are you listening? DR CHANCE This is my fault. This is all my fault. CHRISTINA What are you talking about? No, please, don't do that. Please, just focus. I need your help. I can't do this by myself. NEIL Hey. Hey. CHRISTINA Neil. NEIL Sorry, I-I went all over. Nothing. DR CHANCE Hey, uh, I'm-- I'm gonna drive. I've got to drive. CHRISTINA No, no, where are you going? DR CHANCE I just-- It's better than sitting here. I can't. NEIL I really tried everywhere I could think of. DR CHANCE Well, maybe you don't know her as well as you think. DR CHANCE Hello? NICOLE Daddy? DR CHANCE Oh, God! Nic! NICOLE Dad? DR CHANCE Oh, God! Ohh! Oh. Are you okay? What ha-- What happened? NICOLE No, I'm fine. It's okay. DR CHANCE Jesus! Wha--? Does-- Does your neck hurt? NICOLE Dad, can we just go, please? DR CHANCE No, come on. Nic, look at me. Open-- Open up your eyes wide. Wide. Now follow my finger. NICOLE No, Dad, I'm fine. DR CHANCE Nic. Okay. All right. All right. Well, is this the guy? Thank you, sir, for letting her use the phone. DR CHANCE You want to tell me what happened? NICOLE Some asshole hit me and took my backpack... and my phone. DR CHANCE Well, we'll get you another phone. What did he look like? NICOLE I don't know. A homeless guy. DR CHANCE Did he hit you with his fist or with his open hand? NICOLE His hand. DR CHANCE Where did this happen? NICOLE Dad, do we have to talk about this now? DR CHANCE Well, when do you want to talk about it? Your mother's been calling everyone. She called the school, your friends, police. Where were you? NICOLE The park. I'd been for a run, and I was gonna go to the yogurt place. DR CHANCE Alone? You skipped three classes, Nicky. NICOLE I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. DR CHANCE Well, the important thing is you're okay. Are you in pain? NICOLE No, Daddy. I'm fine. Thanks for coming to get me. CHRISTINA I have to take this. Thank you so much for calling, Holly. Uh, wait just a minute. Oh, my God. Oh, come here. Let me-- Ohh. NICOLE It's fine. CHRISTINA Um... this is, uh, Principal Stein from Havenwood. Would you let her know what's happening? Okay, come here. DR CHANCE Hello, this is Eldon Chance. HOLLY Dr. Chance, it's Holly Stein. I don't want to keep you. Just-- Is there any news? DR CHANCE Yeah, she, uh-- She called. She's back. HOLLY Oh, thank God. DR CHANCE Thank you for following up. That's very kind . We appreciate that. HOLLY Oh, of course. Just while I have you, though, something came up that I was gonna share with your-- uh, Christina, anyway, but because she said she called the police... I just thought you both needed to know now. DR CHANCE Hey. How's the cheek? NICOLE It's okay. DR CHANCE Show me? Do you mind? NICOLE No. DR CHANCE I talked with Principal Stein. Your mother's talking to her now. You left an art box in your last-period class. NICOLE You went through my stuff? DR CHANCE Well, yeah, they did. I guess under the circumstances, people were getting desperate. NICOLE Well, there was nothing there, so... DR CHANCE There were some stems and residue. You know the school's drug policy is zero tolerance. NICOLE That's why everyone there is loaded all the time. DR CHANCE Stop it! Now I need to know the truth. Could what was there have had anything to do with what happened tonight? Did you have more in your backpack? Or you were going somewhere to buy something? NICOLE I could do that at school. I told you. It was some crazy guy. DR CHANCE Mrs. Stein says that your grades have slipped. NICOLE What difference does it make if I'm leaving anyway? DR CHANCE Oh, come on, Nic. You're not serious about that. NICOLE How was your speech? Mom said you had to go to a conference to talk about an idea you had that might make money. DR CHANCE Yeah. You remember when I used to fly to Seattle a lot? That was for this. Some doctors up there I was working with. And we kind of dropped the ball, but now it looks like there might be some renewed interest. NICOLE So how'd it go? DR CHANCE A work in progress. You know, that book reminds me of when we were sitting on the porch. You were about 3, and you said the words "outer space" just like that, out of the blue. And I asked you if you knew where outer space was, and you pointed down the street and said, "Down there." NICOLE Well, I guess that's where I thought it was. DR CHANCE What's going on with you, Nic? NICOLE Why did it happen? DR CHANCE Why did what happen? NICOLE Was it Mom's fault? Was it because of her and Neil? DR CHANCE It was no one's fault. NICOLE How can a divorce be no one's fault? DR CHANCE I'm sorry. I don't have any better answers. We'll talk about your grades in school-- all of that-- later. But for now, no more going out alone, okay? We good? We good? Good night. ON-SCREEN TEXT Jaclyn Blackstone DR CHANCE Hello? Is this a bad time? Who is this? You don't have anything to say to me now? HOLLY And while the usual consequence in a case like this is expulsion and we've tried very hard to be cognizant of the big picture here and to be sensitive to how hard it can be on the child, and it is to that end that we are willing to consider the possibility of Nicole's continuing at Havenwood, albeit under strict probation, of course. And moving forward, I think let's discuss the parameters of continuing-- ON-SCREEN TEXT HAVENWOOD SCHOOL DR CHANCE That won't be necessary. HOLLY I'm sorry? What won't be? DR CHANCE It won't be necessary for us to discuss anything further. HOLLY I'm afraid I don't understand. DR CHANCE Which part? Besides the obvious hypocrisy of pretending that Nicole faces expulsion over a teaspoon of herbs when the Layton girl was selling pills on campus last fall, and yet I just saw her in the hallway. CHRISTINA Okay, what are you doing? DR CHANCE I'm being the feeder. It's very simple. We thank you for your consideration, but we don't need it. I think the last day of the exams is 10 days from tomorrow. That'll be Nicole's last day at Havenwood. CHRISTINA You're the feeder? DR CHANCE I grew weary under that woman's assault-- what they will accept, what they won't, sensitive this, probationary that. If we had money, they'd happily take it, zero tolerance be damned. I thought it was time to end the charade. CHRISTINA Oh, just on your own, without any further discussion? DR CHANCE What's to discuss? Unless you want to pick up the tab? CHRISTINA What is funny? NICOLE The look on Ms. Stein's face. CHRISTINA No. No, it's not. And you and I will talk about this later. DR CHANCE Walk with me a second. She'll be right back. Listen. I'm gonna get busy with that apartment in Berkeley. NICOLE You keep saying that. DR CHANCE Yeah, I'm saying it, and I'm doing it. But I need you to keep your promise about not running alone, okay? NICOLE You still think what happened was my fault. DR CHANCE I'm not saying it's your fault, okay. I just-- It pays to be watchful. That's all. NICOLE Now what? DR CHANCE Now nothing. I love you. MAN Aah! DR CHANCE The patient is a 26-year-old male admitted for psychiatric hospitalization. Tox screen positive for methamphetamine. MAN POLICEMAN Calm down. Calm down. DR CHANCE Prior to admission, patient violated a restraining order issued ex parte on October 8, 1989, in San Diego County Superior Court and was subsequently arrested. DR CHANCE DR CHANCE The patient was a post-grad year three doing a residence in psychiatry at Mass General. He was on call when he encountered the protected party. They subsequently began a relationship of several months, which ended when she abruptly broke things off and moved to San Diego. Unable or refusing to accept this decision, patient took a leave of absence and followed. DR CHANCE For the next few months in San Diego, patient persisted in trying to maintain unwanted contact until ultimately protected party retained counsel, and a restraining order was issued, which patient violated shortly thereafter resulting in his arrest. Diagnosis-- in part-- delusional erotomania. De Clérambault Syndrome. Everyone feels better when a thing has a name. DOCTOR How are we doing here? A little calmer now, I hope. You awake? Eldon. Dr. Chance. D What's up, brother? DR CHANCE You were right. The shit has hit the fan. D Jesus. This stuff legit? DR CHANCE You're asking me if kiddie porn is legit?! How the fuck should I know? That's some of the most hateful stuff I've seen in my life, and yet there it is. It just popped up on my screen. I was about to give a lecture. That could have projected onto screens in front of 100 people. D That's fucked up. DR CHANCE Yeah, fucked up and career-ending. How could that even happen? D Time bomb. Get access to someone's computer, input information, hide it, set it to open on a given day. Day comes-- file populates the computer. You could also rig it to go to e-mail. Everybody you know could get this stuff. DR CHANCE D Laptop always with you? DR CHANCE Yeah. D Then I'd say you got hacked. I'm not the expert, but it can be done. Perp is good enough. DR CHANCE He's a cop. D Couldn't be someone you pissed off in court? Crazy patient? DR CHANCE My daughter was attacked. Some stranger in the street took her bag, hit her in the face. This is Blackstone, D. I know it. And there's more. Some stuff from the past. He broke in. He left it in my car-- some medical records, legal stuff. It's old news, but still damaging if it fell into the wrong hands. D What would that look like? You lose your license? They kick you out? DR CHANCE No, I'd still be a doctor, but I'd be compromised. No one would hire me. You add the kiddie porn to that, and all bets are off. This guy is out to crush me. D He's out to show you he can crush you. There's a difference. He could have you whacked, but he's trying to scare you instead. That says something. My guess-- You're scaring him. DR CHANCE How? D That's what you need to find out. Know what your enemy is afraid of. That's power. DR CHANCE You know, we, uh-- You know, we talked about this once, how I could... hire it done. I'm not talking about killing anyone. Just taking him down. D Going through channels. DR CHANCE Yeah. D Weak, but doable. Right place and time, grab his computer, download files. Might give you something. You could also fuck with him a little. Give him a time bomb. DR CHANCE I...I don't want to get into that. This is not a game. D The question is not "Is it a game?" The question is "Who sets the rules?" DR CHANCE Who's the feeder? D I'll take that to mean you're ready to talk numbers.