Every Breath You Take

Hey Mom?

Yeah?

What sound did the drum kit make

as it fell down the metal?

I have no idea.

Ba-dum-tschh.

You're funny.

Thank you.

We'll have to tell that one to your dad.

He'll like that.

Boy: They always win.

Woman: They don't always win.

Are you nervous.

Maybe I just thought this year would be different.

Honey.

Sometimes we need to do things that scare us, you know,

in order for us to grow.

Boy: Yeah.

Anyway, those are new skates too, so...

Boy: I've gotta keep doing it.

That's the spirit, kid.

Couch: ...five push-ups!

Philip: Is she up?

She'd better be.

This is not a vacation.

She's trying, Philip.

She got kicked out of school.

It's not like she robbed a bank or anything.

Morning Dad.

Morning Grace.

Grace: Morning, Lucy.

I'm running late.

Follow me for one of my favourite features of the home

is this smoke marble island.

I mean, do you believe it?

After everything I've done for her?

Have you told her how you feel?

You think I could...

just say how I really feel?

And we have two spare bedrooms just off of the family room.

I'm sorry you feel so...

Empty?

There's no other word to describe it.

Empty.

Grace: -Take care. Client: -Bye.

Letting someone go is hard to do.

So it wasn't easy.

Six months doesn't feel like a long time

to be with someone, you know.

Well, it's long enough to know

that Eric was not a healthy relationship for you.

Yeah.

Every word that I said to him, the stronger I felt.

Okay, good.

And why do you think that is?

Because of you.

I think you're giving me too much credit.

I don't think I am, Doctor Clark.

Okay.

There are things I'm probably going to miss.

Okay.

Tell me about that.

Daphne: How smart he is.

Charming and intuitive.

But the things I won't miss,

Oh, my god...

His rigidity, his inflexibility.

His constant need to just know exactly what I was doing

and to be in control of my life.

Okay, I'm sorry.

It's my fault, okay?

Like even being here, seeing you,

this thing that I treasure and this...

this thing that he knew saved my life?

He hates psychiatry.

He said they're all charlatans and frauds.

Really?

Yeah.

Look, I think you should be really proud.

I mean, it's one thing to face a hard truth

and it's another to act on it.

Yeah.

I was thinking about this summer.

What if we went to British Columbia, huh?

Rent that place on the lake that we all used to love?

Maybe.

Yeah, a family vacation like we used to do.

Um, sorry, I'm...

just have got a lot to catch up on.

Okay.

Philip: Hello, everybody.

We're joined today by the Dean of this prestigious school,

Dr. Vanessa Fanning.

There she is.

Give her a round of applause.

Go on, Doctor Clark.

Thank you.

Um, there is a clinical case study that I'd like to share

with you all today.

The patient's name, we will call her Mary.

She's a 22 year-old female.

She's one of two siblings.

She came from a wealthy west coast family.

She and her older brother were raised on an estate

their paternal grandfather built.

Her father struggled with bipolar disorder,

her mother struggled with depression.

And when Mary was 11 years old, her mother took her own life.

Beginning in her freshman year at college,

the patient made the first of several suicide attempts.

When Mary began treatment with me,

she was on three separate psychotropic medications.

After spending 14 months in a private psychiatric facility,

it was clear that we needed a different approach,

and that standard therapy was not going

to help this young woman get her life back on track.

So...

I did something that I have never done.

I stepped back from my usual methodology as her doctor.

And I sat in that room with her

as just another troubled human being.

Someone who was flawed and frightened.

Someone who was regretful,

someone who had experienced trauma myself.

I told Mary my whole life story.

I told her things that I had never told anyone else.

I told her things that I had never told my wife.

I did this because I wanted Mary to understand

that she wasn't alone, that her despair wasn't foreign to me.

I wanted to take the cap of shame off of her experience.

In four months, her symptoms disappeared.

In six months, she was off all of her medication.

And after 14 months, she's been doing so well

that she's started to write a book about her illness,

and she's taking charge of her relationships.

At long last, Mary's life is back on track.

That was a great lecture you know.

Vanessa, I know what you're thinking.

Look Philip, it's... it's great that you've had this

breakthrough with your patient.

It's obviously affected you in a positive way as well.

That is not what you're thinking.

Come on.

Ethically, this is a grey area.

Sharing such personal information with a patient.

Okay.

I'm just concerned about your well-being as well as hers,

given everything your family's been through.

We're fine. We're fine.

I do want to say I'd feel more comfortable

if your patient would still continue with her meds,

for the benefit of both of you.

You're so old school.

Philip.

You're gonna have to trust me.

All right.

-Okay. -I will.

How are Lucy and Grace doing now?

-They're okay. -Good.

They're doing well.

I look forward to seeing Grace tonight...

if we're still on.

Tonight, yeah.

If we're still on.

Okay. I'll see you later.

Hey Daphne.

Doctor Clark?

Yeah, what's up?

She's dead.

Joan.

My best friend, she...

Oh, no. Daphne...

She's dead.

Oh, my god.

What happened?

She was jogging in Forest Park.

In Portland.

It was a hit and run.

Somebody hit her with a car.

Okay.

Okay, listen to me.

She was killed.

Daphne, listen to me.

Look. I know what you're afraid of.

I'm not like that anymore.

I just needed someone to talk to.

Okay, because I can be there in one hour if you need me to.

I know.