ALL BETH BETH_AND_CLARK CLAIRE CLARK CLARK_AND_ROSS DIANE ED HOT_CHIP JONAH LATRELL MEGAN MILES ROSS SAMANTHA SOFIE WOMAN CLARK Previously on "Mind Games"... ROSS What the hell is she doing here? MEGAN Who's that? ROSS My ex-wife. CLARK Our new office manager. CLARK Claire calms me down, Ross. She's like a magic feather. SAMANTHA With a job like this, I could use what I know but stay out of trouble. ROSS Sam, I'd love to help you out, but right now, we can't even afford to pay for our light bulbs. BETH You paid me to get Clark to fall for me. You didn't say I wasn't allowed to fall for him. WOMAN I know you. You're Beth's friend Ross. CLAIRE You claimed you met Beth for the first time in the lobby. CLARK My brother -- He'll be here any second. He's r-really excited to meet you guys. We were gonna put some music in here. The office so it wasn't so quiet. Also, music...activates a-a certain -- CLARK There he is! Thank God! ROSS LATRELL Ross -- ROSS Not right now. CLARK Guess we-- Let's start. ROSS Peekaboo. SAMANTHA Aah. I always sucked at hide-and-seek. Until recently, I would just stand there with my eyes closed... LATRELL Ross, he definitely needs you -- SAMANTHA ...and try to be invisible. ROSS What are you doing here? SAMANTHA Clark hired me. Look, I-I went to him because I was afraid it would be an awkward conversation for you. ROSS 'Cause I'd already said no. SAMANTHA And that was awkward for you. I could tell. But Clark said that you would yell at him for hiring me. He said that you don't have any faith in his decision-making. So if you're gonna say no... ROSS Again. SAMANTHA ...just say it now, and I'll leave. I seriously don't want to cause any problems between you guys. ROSS No. SAMANTHA Oh. ROSS I mean, no, no, it's fine. SAMANTHA Really? ROSS Yeah. SAMANTHA Re-- Oh, well, thank you. Seriously. No, j-just don't -- don't tell Clark that I told you. You know, let him do it his way. DIANE She was such a normal, happy girl. She had friends. She was getting almost all A's at Northwestern. ED This video was shot last week. MILES JONAH It's a gift to us. The Earth is a gift to us. ROSS Kids experiment. When I went to college -- CLARK You didn't go to college. ROSS I went to college. I just didn't keep going. ED It's not college. It's him -- Jonah Cain. JONAH The Earth is a gift to us! If I gave you a gift and then went to your home and found that gift in the garbage with the Styrofoam plastic containers and the animal bones, well, that would make you a bad friend. DIANE She went to one of his awareness workshops, which is, I guess, how it starts. At first, she would just come home on the weekends and tell us we were doing everything wrong, like most kids, I guess. ED Most kids don't call their mother a murderer. DIANE Ah, yeah. The Earth -- I was -- I was murdering the Earth. ED And then she dropped out of college because of him. We didn't even know till her best friend called... DIANE Gabriela. ED ...and asked if we'd heard from her. DIANE So we hired a private investigator, and he told us this Jonah forces his people to cut off all ties to anybody they know. She -- She won't even speak to us. She says we're not her family anymore. She might as well be...gone. ROSS So, it's like a cult. CLARK No, it's not like a cult. A cult is exactly what it is. ROSS Maybe with no smiling? CLARK It's a cult. MILES We have been studying cult indoctrination on a microlevel for years. CLARK And -- And this guy's a textbook operator. ED That's why I said, from day one, we should go in there and take her back. DIANE Except you being in jail doesn't really solve the problem, does it? ROSS Also -- And please understand we want to help you any way possible, but Sofie is 18. She's free to choose. CLARK No, she's not. ROSS What? CLARK No. At least not in her own mind. Guys like this Jonah -- They manipulate their victims into feeling like they have no choice. They prey on people in high-stress situations -- kids in college, children of divorce. They erode their sense of self, maybe give them new names. ED "Ocean." Apparently, she's Ocean now. ROSS Hmm. CLARK Oh, look, look. You see how he stands inside the personal space of this kid, eroding his sense of self? See? His tactics are elementary but reliable and totally invisible. ROSS Except to us. We can use them to get your daughter out the same way that he used them to get her in, right? CLARK Oh! Like that game. Do you remember that game? Operation -- where you're trying to get the wishbone out of the little hole, but you don't want to -- you can't hit the sides, 'cause it's so -- it's so stressful. Do you remember that? It's the same. ROSS But what if you could make the wishbone come to you? DIANE You could do that? You can get our Sofie out and make her come home? CLARK Oh, better. We can make her want to come home. DIANE CLAIRE Beth? ROSS Hey, Beth. What's up? BETH Claire called me last night. She wants to have dinner tonight. Why would she do that? Does she know something? ROSS Uh, no, of course not. She works with Clark. Probably just wants to get to know his girlfriend better. It's a good thing. Just don't let her pick Lombardi's. She thinks it's great, but it's not. Bye. ROSS ROSS Hey! CLAIRE Hey. I got to get to work. ROSS I got coffee from that place you like. CLAIRE Oh. Thanks. I'm actually doing tea now, so... ROSS Why did you ask Beth to dinner? CLAIRE Why would you care? ROSS 'Cause if you have a question about something, leave her out of it. Ask me. CLAIRE Right, 'cause if there's anyone I trust to tell me the truth, Ross, it's you. ROSS Try me. CLAIRE Really? Why did you lie to me about meeting Beth? Are you having an affair with her? ROSS What?! No. God, she's my brother's girlfriend. What is wrong with you? CLAIRE Well, because you and I aren't together, so if it were anyone else, I probably wouldn't care, but because -- ROSS No, no. It's nothing like that. CLAIRE Okay. Then what? ROSS CLAIRE Which is why I called Beth. ROSS It's worse. At least you'll think so. Maybe it is. I don't know. CLAIRE Tell me. ROSS Just know I did it because I'm his brother. I'm not some sociopath. CLAIRE Well, there's no reason you can't be both. ROSS To watch him in that stupid teaching job, wasting his brain and his talent on people who didn't even appreciate -- CLAIRE What did you do, Ross? ROSS I paid Beth to get him fired. Make him fall for her, have an affair so he'd be free to work with me. But -- But here's the thing -- She gave back the money. Where you going? Claire! Claire. CLAIRE Where do you think I'm going, Ross? I'm going to tell Clark. ROSS She gave the money -- CLAIRE How can you possibly think that's the issue here? ROSS Look at them. Clark is happy. They're in love, Claire. CLAIRE How can you know that? ROSS Because I hired someone to pretend to offer money to file a lawsuit. CLAIRE Oh, my God. It's just lies. Everything out of your mouth is lies and lies. ROSS The point is, Clark is better off. ROSS Great. See? You want the truth. Then you punish me for saying it! CLARK Up. Me last! BETH AND CLARK CLARK Claire. CLAIRE Hi. CLARK Do you remember how I stopped eating bagels because when they weren't perfectly round, I couldn't concentrate, so I'd nibble around the edges until they were round? CLAIRE Yes. CLARK But then I couldn't eat them because I'd have to spread the cream cheese until it was exactly smooth so I wasn't getting any work done? Beth got a guy at the bagel store to set aside two perfectly round bagels for me every morning. And you know that guy, the bagel guy? I think he's got a crush on you, but you know what I say? Who, who, who -- Who cares? I don't care! CLARK She gets it. BETH CLARK Oh, man. Oh, I'm so sorry. ROSS Everything all right? CLARK Yeah, I think so. Claire? CLAIRE U-Um...yes. Yes. CLARK Great! Everybody's -- CLAIRE Everything's great. CLARK Everybody's great. Let's get to work. We got to get a girl out of a cult. CLAIRE Yes. BETH Oh, you know what? I should probably go, too. CLARK Oh, sorry. BETH Do you still, uh, want to get dinner tonight? CLAIRE Oh. Um, yeah, actually, no. I'm -- I'm, uh -- I'm not feeling so great. Maybe another night? BETH Yeah. Bye. ROSS Thanks. CLAIRE Shut up. ROSS CLARK This is a two-part strategy. Our operative, Megan, made contact with your daughter this morning. Now, using specific behavioral cues, she started to make Sofie bond with her, but making Sofie think that it was her own idea. Did you know that after Hurricane Katrina, 150% more money came in from people whose name started with "K"? See, we're programmed to like what's ours. SOFIE Hi. MEGAN Hi. SOFIE You seem upset. CLARK We even respond far better to someone who just shares the first letter of our own name. SOFIE What's your name? MEGAN Sandra. CLARK So while Sofie thinks that she's drawing Megan in, Megan will actually be working on Sofie, subconsciously blurring the boundaries between them -- frequent touching, mimicry, having an amazing amount of experiences in common. MEGAN Maybe it all started when my parents got a divorce. DIANE Is this our fault? ROSS What do you mean? DIANE Our divorce. ROSS No. Come on. CLARK Maybe. ROSS No. CLARK Maybe. ROSS No. CLARK The cult provides family structure. Any experienced manipulator will use a person's need for family against them. ED So, let's say your girl and ours are buddies. What then? CLARK We carve her away from the group. SOFIE Jonah's leading an awareness workshop tonight...if you want to come. MEGAN Yeah. I already know I want to be a part of what you guys are doing. Um, it's just... SOFIE What? MEGAN My dad. I don't think I can just leave without telling him where I went. No, forget it. I... SOFIE Wait. What if I go with you? MEGAN Yeah? CLARK When the hook is set, she reels her in. MILES Megan uses emotional triggers -- words like "home," "family." She'll talk about things from Sofie's childhood to stir up memories. CLARK So, by the time Sofie's here, on an unconscious level, she's thinking about seeing you guys and feeling positive about it. MEGAN Ooh! Sorry. SOFIE Wait. No, no, no, no. Oh, my God. I used to love this song! MEGAN No way. SOFIE Yes. MEGAN Me, too. SOFIE DIANE Maybe we let her down. You know, when she was little, she used to sleep between us. She was so safe in there. She couldn't fall off the bed. And then we got divorced. It -- It's like one day, she had us both, and the next day, sh-sh-- there was the edge of the bed. MEGAN I cannot wait to meet this guy. SOFIE No, he's amazing. You're gonna love Jonah. He's the most amazing man ever. JONAH Hi. Ocean, who's your friend? SOFIE Jonah, this is Sandra. Sandra is very interested in the movement. JONAH Is that what you're interested in, Sandra? Or are you just trying to make off with our Ocean here? SOFIE What's he talking about? MEGAN Um...I don't -- I don't -- I don't know. MEGAN Hey. ROSS CLARK How'd he spot you? MEGAN I don't know. MILES Well, the techniques are proven, so you must have done them wrong. LATRELL How do you know? You weren't there. MEGAN No, he's right. It's my fault. CLARK No, it's my fault. I underestimated our opponent. ROSS Doesn't matter whose fault it is. Now we know we're up against someone way smarter about this stuff than we thought. We just need to figure another way to get the girl out. MEGAN Yeah, except he told me to tell you you'll never get her back now. MILES Because now he knows we're coming. CLARK So we made it worse. Damn it! I screwed up and now I made it worse. ROSS Shh, shh, shh, shh. CLARK Claire! All right, all right. Let's isolate the problem. Jonah knows that we're coming after Sofie, so he's not gonna let her out of his sight. SAMANTHA So use it against him. I'm sorry. Uh, am I not supposed to talk? I'm kind of new at this. ROSS No, you can talk. SAMANTHA All right, well, he's watching the girl so hard that he's left himself open. CLARK So we make Jonah the target. SAMANTHA Yeah. So, um, what do we know about him? Does he have a record or... MILES I'm not sure. SAMANTHA What about his background? Seriously? This is all the research you did on your mark? LATRELL He's not a mark, and this is not a con job. Do you have any idea what we're doing? SAMANTHA More importantly, do you? MILES I'm sorry. Are you in meetings now? LATRELL Apparently so. ALL ROSS Come on. We're just wasting time here. I say we go in, we kidnap the girl, then we do the mind tricks once she's safe in hand. LATRELL Let me remind you that we don't do anything illegal. Now, I'll put up some signs in the office, if that helps. SAMANTHA It's only illegal if we get caught. LATRELL Oh, good. That'll be a great poster for the lobby. SAMANTHA I'm just saying. CLARK Ross is right! We can't leave anything to chance. I set us back. I got cocky. And now we need a bulletproof, multi-pronged attack with strategies that we haven't even tried before, but I can't think of any because I need Claire! Where the hell is Claire?! ROSS I'll find her, okay? I'll find her. CLAIRE Stop! ROSS Where have you been? Clark is losing it. What are you doing, Claire? Are you moving? CLAIRE You were right. I can't tell him about Beth. It'll destroy him. ROSS What do you think this is gonna do? I mean, you're Clark's magic feather. He'll -- He'll -- He'll spin out if you go. Come on. He already is. Think of that girl and her parents. CLAIRE So, what do you -- what do you want me to do, Ross? What do you want me to do? You want me to just go in there every day, see his face, just lie to him? You know, you and I don't share that particular skill set. ROSS Claire, you don't want to do this. CLAIRE No, I don't. I don't. I wanted to stay here. You remember where I was working before. ROSS Yeah, the -- the dentist's office. Yeah, yeah, great. CLAIRE Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with working at a dentist's office, okay? Okay? People need dentists, and dentists need people to work in their office. But this -- I mean, this -- Look, even if you started this company for all the wrong reasons, Ross, Clark didn't, and it is changing lives. And I got to be a part of that. And then, like everything else in my life, you took it from me. You have this, like, amazing power to take things from me. ROSS Okay, okay. If you mean our marriage, you are the one -- CLAIRE Don't you dare say that it was my choice to talk to the police. I swear to you -- I will kill you with that suitcase and roll your body out in it. I swear to God, Ross. ROSS Taking something from you was the last thing I wanted. I wanted you to have everything. CLAIRE Maybe. Who knows? I mean, who knows anything? ROSS It's why I did it -- for us. The house. I just wanted you to have everything that you deserved. CLAIRE Well, maybe that's your M.O. Maybe you tell people after you ruin their lives that it was all for their own good. SAMANTHA Has he slept? MILES Probably not. SAMANTHA Is that bad? MILES It could go either way. LATRELL Here's something. Jonah's showing up in papers in other cities. LATRELL Looks like he's expanding outside of Chicago. CLARK Claire! Claire! CLAIRE Can we -- Can we talk? CLARK No, no, no. Come to my office. CLAIRE I need to ta-- CLARK Sit over here. Wait. Over there. CLAIRE That's my hat. CLARK Yes, I know. CLAIRE Clark -- Okay, Clark, please don't go through my things when I'm gone. CLARK Well, I needed something to remind me of you, since you weren't here. CLAIRE Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. CLARK CLAIRE Listen, I need to talk to you. I have to leave, Clark. CLARK What are you talking about? You just...Wait. No! CLAIRE Yes, yes, yes. Listen, Clark -- Clark, listen, I was offered a job, okay? At a wildlife foundation in Florida. And it's at -- CLARK I don't believe you. CLAIRE Well, I applied with them a long time ago. It was way before -- CLARK What's the name of the foundation? CLAIRE The Wekiva Wetlands Preserve. And I have been dreaming about working with them ever since I went to Orlando on that trip. Remember my -- CLARK Why is it a better job than this? CLAIRE Well, I get to -- I get to do good work. CLARK You could do good work here. CLAIRE I know, but it is not -- This is not what I want. CLARK Oh, 'cause you want to help snakes? You want to help birds? CLAIRE Yes, and there are otters. CLARK We help people! CLAIRE It's not what I want, okay? It never was. CLARK Is it Ross? What did he do? Did he do something? CLAIRE No. No! Nothing. I just -- I need to go. CLARK CLAIRE Okay? But listen to me. Listen. I feel okay about it because you -- you are doing so well. And you and Beth are happy, and you're in such a good place, Clark. You can do this without me. You... CLARK I'm wearing your hat! CLAIRE You can do this, okay? CLARK No. Please? CLAIRE P-Please? No, this is a good thing. Listen. Please don't make this so -- CLARK No, I can't. I can't do this without you. CLAIRE Yes, you can. CLARK No, I can't. CLAIRE Look at me. Yes, you can. CLARK No, no, no. No! CLAIRE Yes. Yes, you can. CLARK No, no! I can't! Please. CLAIRE Yes, ye-- Okay. Okay. CLARK Okay? CLAIRE Okay. I'll stay. CLARK Okay. Okay. ROSS So, when you say you want to access Sofie's brain -- CLARK We induce trance state and then subconsciously suggest that she leave the cult and go back to her parents. LATRELL You want to hypnotize her? CLARK No. Well, yeah. But hypnotize her makes it sound like a sideshow act. ROSS Yes. Yes, it does. CLARK Hey, we all experience trance states. Did -- Did you ever drive home from work, and then after you arrive, you realize you can't remember any of the turns that got you there? MILES But surreptitious trance-state induction -- That hasn't been tried before since it requires a proximal and suggestible subject. CLARK Um, one in five people are classified as highly suggestible, and since Sofie was talked into joining a cult, I'd say that she qualifies. MILES But trance-state implantation, even under laboratory conditions -- which this is very much not -- that can leave a subject negatively impacted. CLARK A girl is gone...and her family broken apart because of my screw-up. I'd say she's already negatively impacted. ROSS Okay, let's say that she is suggestible. What about the proximity part? CLARK Okay, we distract Jonah, we grab her, and we take her somewhere. LATRELL Again, kidnapping. CLARK No, it's not kidnapping if she wants to go. We fake a kidnapping, scare her, and then when we rescue her from it -- ROSS We're the good guys, and she trusts us. I like it, and I think it'll work. You think it'll work? SAMANTHA Uh, it better, because I know why Jonah said that we would never get to Sofie. A girl who left the cult a month ago wrote in her blog that he's been busing followers from here every few days to start a "sustainable-living settlement in the forests of Monterrey." ROSS California? SAMANTHA Mexico. MILES Ugh. ROSS CLARK Well, then we just do all of the same stuff that I just -- ROSS That you've never tried before. CLARK But we do it really fast. All right, Ross, your team -- work on distracting Jonah. Mine -- prepare for trance-state induction. LATRELL Do you need a gold pocket watch? CLARK No. I need an oscilloscope and a biorhythm sensor from the university sleep lab. Also, optical illusion, boom box, MP3 file with Yucatán trance drumming to induce hippocampal theta waves in a range from 6 to 10 hertz. Hypnotism without the tuxedo -- science. HOT CHIP Hand me down your love. Hand me down your love. Hand me down your love. When I'm losing it. Hand me down your love. SAMANTHA Oh. LATRELL CLAIRE So, guess you're not going to prom with the new girl. LATRELL We're fine. It's fine. I mean, okay. I kind of get why Ross hired her. Maybe she can be useful. But if he's gonna start dragging in people from his old life, then, I mean -- CLAIRE You mean why Clark hired her. LATRELL No, she told me...Ross. ROSS JONAH Hello. ROSS Hey there! Just about finished. JONAH Uh-huh. With? ROSS Eh, the city's putting in all these CO2 monitors in all the buildings in the area. This ain't nothing to worry about. Probably just some desk jockey justifying his job. All right. That looks good. Take care. Thanks for the ladder. LATRELL We have a problem. Who actually hired Sam? CLARK AND ROSS He did. LATRELL And that is our problem. ROSS JONAH Got you. CLARK You really thought you could get away with it? SAMANTHA Ross, I told you that no one would hire me. I told you that. ROSS Yeah, you did. I mean, this is all on me. SAMANTHA All right, look, you and I, we got out of prison at the same time, except I didn't have a brother that I could start a business with. I'm trying here, guys, but I-I can't even get an apartment. I've got no credit. I've got no credit cards. I mean, what am I supposed to do? Get a job at the mall and sell pretzels? I just need to get over this little hump and I'll be okay. But I need something real, like this job, to prove to everyone that I've changed. CLARK But...But you haven't. SAMANTHA I have now. ROSS All right, we need you for this case tomorrow. Then after that, that's it. Come on. ROSS People usually don't change, huh? CLARK They do. It's just...a lot harder if the environmental factors stay the same. ROSS Are you suggesting, for Sam, that working for a company that practices deception isn't quite far enough off the path? Yeah, I think we need some pie. CLARK All right. Apple. ROSS Apple. All right. CLARK Jonah. JONAH Dr. Edwards. Nice to meet the wizard behind the curtain. CLARK No wizard. Just a scientist. JONAH No. The tricks you used on Ocean were impressive. I was excited to see what was coming next. I'm almost sorry I had to pull the plug. CLARK Well, thanks. Thought I'd just throw that first pitch right down the middle, not show the good stuff yet. JONAH Like the hidden camera? CLARK For instance. JONAH Don't feel bad that didn't work. I'm -- I'm so used to keeping my eyes open. I got so many people want to bring me down. CLARK Oh, I can imagine. But when they see your skills, I would say that most people probably wouldn't even bother to try. JONAH Thank you. CLARK Most people. JONAH Well, let's agree that we both have the same goal -- rescue a young woman from a harmful lifestyle and install her into a healthy one. And we use similar tactics to do it, so, in fact, we're actually a lot alike. CLARK No. JONAH The difference is, I do it because I love this planet... CLARK JONAH ...to awaken a young woman's spirit. And you...just do it for the money. CLARK That's not true. JONAH Do you know anything about her home, what her parents's values are, who she is? No? Then why is what you do so good and what I do so bad? ROSS You're in my chair. So, he's already onto us, huh? CLARK Yep. And a day early. ROSS Even better. Hey. You okay? CLARK Yeah. ROSS Eat your pie. ED What do you mean you're not gonna do it? CLARK We're gonna do most of it, just not the part where we make her go back home. DIANE That's the part we want! ROSS This isn't for sure. We're still discussing strategy. CLARK No. No, we're not. Look, I was up all night over this. What we're doing is no different from what Jonah does. DIANE What is he talking about?! CLARK Look, Jonah took Sofie and made her what he wanted her to be. Now you want to take her and make her what you want her to be, and all without her deciding for herself what she wants. ED She's clearly not capable of making decisions for herself. It's why she's in a cult. That's what parents do -- They help their kids make decisions. CLARK Yes, that's true. But, eventually, they all have to do it for themselves. ED And if you're wrong? If she decides to stay with the cult? ROSS Let me just talk with my brother for a minute. Excuse us. ROSS What did Jonah say to you last night? CLARK Nothing. ROSS He got to you, didn't he? He's that good. CLARK No, he didn't get to me. ROSS He's that good. CLARK He didn't get to me. ROSS He got to you. CLARK No! ROSS Yeah. CLARK I...I'm just not gonna...deprogram Sofie, then turn around and reprogram her. ROSS Just do the plan. Her parents didn't pay to hear your personal philosophy of self-determination. CLARK We're not -- ROSS They don't care. CLARK We're not puppet masters here pulling the strings because we can, okay? We're not God. ROSS No, we are Santa Claus, and her parents sat on our lap and asked us to please rescue their daughter from a cult. That doesn't sound like a morally debatable request to me. CLARK Okay, all right. The next time that she does something that they disapprove of or we disapprove of, what then? ROSS What? CLARK I'm not gonna put Sofie back the way she was without making her stronger, able to make her own choices. ROSS CLARK Then we haven't done anything. I want what's best for Sofie. Jonah -- He wants Sofie. That's how we're different. ROSS JONAH Let's go, people! We're getting close. SAMANTHA Jonah Cain. Cecelia Green -- Green, Meyers & Young. JONAH It's an environmental movement. People are free to join or not to join. SAMANTHA Have you ever seen these men? JONAH Why? SAMANTHA Well, I represent a number of victims who were forcibly taken from situations like your movement, and I'm trying to build enough of a case to make it against the law. JONAH Kidnapping is against the law. SAMANTHA Well, not when they call it "rescuing." My parents forcibly deprogrammed my sister, and two months later...she killed herself. So if this is all that I can do, I'm gonna do it. JONAH What do you need from me? SAMANTHA Evidence. The courts need to see proof that these companies go beyond just exit counseling. And I have a friend at the Sun-Times who said she would write a story if I brought her some and someone to go on record. Now, will this help me in my class-action suit? Yes, but it will also get your movement a lot more exposure than a few Internet videos. SAMANTHA I'm gonna call her and tell her we're on our way. Hi. Can you take us to the Northside on Damen? ROSS Sam has him. Go! CLARK Okay! Everybody going to Mexico, Jonah wants you to start loading up, all right? Mexico group, let's go! Just leave your stuff at the back of the bus. ROSS Hey, Ocean, can I talk to you for a sec? SOFIE Go away. CLARK No, no, no, no, no! ROSS Hey, hey! CLARK Hey, hey! Hey, cross the street. Jonah has a safe place. ROSS I just want to talk to her real -- CLARK Leave her alone! MEGAN What? Go, go! ROSS Go, go! Come on, Miles! Miles, drive! Come on! MEGAN Drive! CLARK Here, here, here, here. In here. SOFIE What the hell was that? CLAIRE Hi. I'm Claire. CLARK That was my fault. Jonah said this might happen. CLAIRE Okay, do you just want me to go and see if they're outside? CLARK No, no, no, no, no. No. I'll go, I'll go. CLAIRE Okay. SAMANTHA She lives right down the street. No, she's not answering. Uh...I don't know. Maybe she's on her way. You know what? Actually, I'm gonna go check and see if she's inside. Um, do you need anything? Do you want anything? JONAH No. I'm fine. SAMANTHA Okay. If a guy comes, will you get me an iced tea? JONAH Sure. SAMANTHA Thank you so much for doing this, really. I'll be right back. CLARK Look Jonah has this place because, unfortunately, people try this stuff all the time. We need a safe house. SOFIE How long do I have to be here? CLARK Oh, you don't have to be here at all, but I'll feel better knowing that it's safe. And when Jonah says that the -- the bus is ready to leave, we'll just put you right back on it. We -- We don't want you going into the next part of your journey with negative energy. That's why Jonah set this place up -- for calming, relaxation, re-centering. CLARK Okay. Just stay here with Claire, and I'll make sure everything's okay, all right? Don't worry. CLAIRE Do you want to just relax or lie down? You can take a nap. I'm right here, okay? I'll be right here. ROSS Where'd you get that camera? It looks like footage from the nose of a missile. CLARK Uh, it's a baby monitor. It was on sale. ROSS All right, what -- what's the optical illusion for? MILES It puts her subconscious mind at war with her conscious mind. It opens up an avenue for the trance state. CLARK And then within 10 minutes, the drum beat should put her hippocampal theta waves between 6 and 10 hertz, putting her right between awake and asleep and in a suggestive state. ROSS Probably the only state where any of this is legal. CLARK Oh, thatagirl. MILES Okay, it's hard to get a good reading through all the bedding, but it looks like her theta waves are down to 10. CLARK Oh. I'm going in. ROSS All right. Wait, wait, wait. CLARK No, no, no. We have a very short window of time here before she passes through the suggestive state. ROSS Clark, Clark, the original goal was to get her away from Jonah. She's away. She's right here. Her brain is in your hands, Clark. Please, just make her want to go home. Take the win. MILES She's at 8 hertz. CLARK Sofie, if you can hear my voice, just nod. Good. I want you to know that you are an independent person. You believe that. And when you wake up, you'll believe that if anyone tries to pull you in their direction or, like, talk you into an idea, you're strong enough to think for yourself, okay? Okay. Oh. This stone is strong and solid. And whenever you're confused or pressured, this stone will remind you that you're strong, too, and self-reliant, okay? Good. Okay. Uh...over and out. No. You'll wake up when I count to three. One...two... JONAH I told you guys to make sure no outsiders get in the compound. And I told you to keep an eye on her. SOFIE You got a phone? LATRELL Okay, remember the script. Support her. Don't beg her to come home or try to pull her back. It'll work against you. DIANE Hello? SOFIE Hi. I just...I don't know. I wanted to call. DIANE Good. I'm glad. Well, um...I just -- I just want you to know that...your dad and I love you. And I know we weren't always perfect parents. We made a lot of mistakes. But just know that...the way you turned out, that -- that isn't one of them. And we will always be your family. One of us on each side of you so you don't fall out. JONAH Ocean! SOFIE Okay, bye. DIANE Sofie? Honey? LATRELL Excuse me. CLARK Yeah? LATRELL What happened?! What'd she do? CLARK She got on the bus. ROSS How could you be happy with the outcome? CLARK I didn't say happy. I said satisfied. ROSS It's like a-a magic trick, where you looked like you were gonna saw the girl in half and then you actually sawed her in half. CLARK The plan worked. ROSS T-Tell that to the dad who wants to sue us for the plan. CLARK I said I'd encourage her to take charge of her own life. ROSS Y-You gave her a pet rock and you sent her off to live in a Mexican cult! CLARK By her own choice! What right do we have to -- to make it -- ROSS We have obligation -- What -- What if somebody's about to choose to jump off a bridge? You know, in certain states, there are laws requiring that you help someone in trouble. CLAIRE We did try, Ross, which is why the father can't sue us, even if he wanted to. We tried! ROSS Please! I am so tired of this from everyone. Sometimes, we do know what's best for another person. And I am not gonna sit on my ass and do nothing. CLARK Oh, what are you gonna do, Ross? Go grab her and bring her back? You don't even know where she is. ROSS Down 55. I saw their map. CLARK She's a lot stronger than you think, Ross! She just needs to realize it! JONAH What'd they do to you? Fill your head full of lies about me? About the movement? Try to make you doubt your commitment? SOFIE No. They let me take a nap. JONAH And then they just let you walk? Yeah, yeah. They're up to something. And they accuse me of mind control? This is good, though. It means we're getting to them. It means we're winning. That's why you have to trust me. Filter out the noise, the voices that will pollute the message. It'll lead you back to the lie you were living before you came to me -- the empty consumerism that was consuming you. Blend your voice with my voice. CLAIRE Hey, what was the rock about? CLARK Hmm? CLAIRE The pet rock that you gave to Sofie. CLARK Oh, the talisman. A focusing agent. Our dependencies, our habits, our fears -- They're all just tricks of the mind. Something as simple as a rock can remind the brain to tune out the tricks and turn on the truth. ROSS Where is she? SOFIE Mom. DIANE ROSS Yes, sir. No, we're just very happy it all worked out and we wish the best of luck to all of you. Sofie's dad just called to say thank you. He's sending the check. SAMANTHA Hello. ROSS Hi. SAMANTHA Congratulations. ROSS Aha! CLARK Hey, where's Claire? Does she know about the good news? SAMANTHA Yeah, she was the first one to take the call. CLARK Oh. Well, go get her so we can celebrate. SAMANTHA Okay. CLARK Oh, yeah. I hired her back. ROSS Why? CLARK Uh, because you like her, and she wants to change. And, you know, if I didn't think people could change, I wouldn't be working with you. SAMANTHA Yeah, so, Claire's not here. ROSS Here. Clark. "You'll be okay. You are stronger and more capable than you think." CLARK Birds and snakes, man. ROSS What's that? CLARK It's my pet rock.