Chance

Chance: Eldon Chance is a 55-year-old, right-handed neuropsychiatrist.

Of late, he is increasingly aware

of a mental state he finds to be dark and unstable.

This is D. D, meet Dr. Chance.

Chance: Do you remember that furniture we looked at? I do.

You decide you want to make it right?

Chance: Jaclyn Blackstone is a 39-year-old

ambidextrous woman living in Berkeley.

with complaints of intermittent memory loss,

poor concentration, loss of time.

It says here that you separated from your husband

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.

You were in her room just now.

Why didn´t you look in on her?

He´ll kill me.

He said he would, and I believe him.

This was big, even coming here.

It could be for you, too.

I could be putting us both in danger.

I was trying to help someone.

I will not accept

this problem cannot be solved.

Let´s walk.

This is not good. I don´t like this.

If anyone starts shooting, duck.

Otherwise, don´t fuckin´ move.

[ Indistinct shouting in distance ]

[ Indistinct shouting in distance ]

What are you doing?

Calling 911.

Get that kid an ambulance back there.

Don´t.

I´m a doctor, for Christ´s sake.

You´re in the database. I´m not.

If you really want to call someone, use that.

If you really want to call someone, use that.

Woman: 911. What´s your emergency?

There´s uh --

there´s three guys in an alley in the Tenderloin

that need medical attention.

Can you give me an address?

Uh, it´s an alley in the Tenderloin.

Can you be more specific, sir?

In between 23rd and 24th. Enter off Mercer.

Okay, and--

Do you feel better?

You want some water?

You want some water?

Back there.

What´s that about?

That was about me getting right.

What you do with it is up to you.

This cop -- this cheap fuck gun-and-a-badge tough guy,

This cop -- this cheap fuck gun-and-a-badge tough guy,

I´d like to see him meet me somewhere.

What?!

What are you saying?

That what you just did was some kind of aud-- audition?

No.

Why? The rules?

You think that´s how he feels?

Those guys back there, how´d you know they wouldn´t be armed?

How´d you know they wouldn´t have guns?

That it wouldn´t be the two of us left for dead?

That it wouldn´t be the two of us left for dead?

Oh, fuck!

Most fights are over before they start.

Those guys followed us into an alley.

What kind of idiot goes into a blind alley to escape?

Emotion over logic.

They didn´t think.

They just reacted, so they let me dictate.

There are no victims.

Only volunteers.

Only volunteers.

D?

D!

D!

Jaclyn.

Jaclyn.

Jaclyn!

Man does like his scalps.

Morning.

I wouldn´t have stayed late at the office last night

I wouldn´t have stayed late at the office last night

if I´d known you were gonna be here.

Well, I said I would

if Mom and Neil ended up going to the movie.

Remember how I said that?

Although they didn´t actually go out to one.

They ordered one on TV

and pretty much took over the living room.

Again.

He´s living with us now, I guess.

Neil is?

Yeah. I mean, he basically was already,

but he found somebody to sublet his place, so it´s official.

but he found somebody to sublet his place, so it´s official.

Hey, how accurate is this thing?

The Beck Depression Inventory?

It´s kind of weird.

Like, I don´t get how,

"I make decisions about as well as I ever could"

is the answer that´s supposed to show you´re not depressed.

But I do seriously have

basically no interest in other people, though.

And I definitely feel more discouraged about my future

than I used to.

You know, when I administer that test,

it´s in conjunction with other tests.

It´s cumulative.

It´s not a stand-alone diagnostic.

It´s not a stand-alone diagnostic.

You look pretty bad.

Thanks. I slept in a chair.

Well, last time I stayed over,

you said the next time there would be a futon couch

or something for me to sleep on.

Guess what. There isn´t.

Plus, are you ever gonna unpack these other boxes?

It´s been months.

I mean, if you didn´t need any of this stuff,

then why´d you even take it? Okay, who´s for pancakes?

And coffee. You don´t have any.

What do you mean? I -- I have coffee.

You have that stuff that tastes like burning earthworm dirt.

You have that stuff that tastes like burning earthworm dirt.

Also, there´s none left.

We have to go now, though.

I have 10 demerits already this semester.

For what?

Talking in the library and being late.

You have something on your shirt.

Nicole: Are we going?!

Yeah, just -- just give me one second.

Yeah, just -- just give me one second.

Dad! Yeah!

I´ll be right there.

I´ll be right there.

Suzanne: I waited in line 45 minutes for these.

They don´t have them on the menu every day.

Come on. You haven´t taken one bite.

Yeah, my stomach´s not feeling great.

So anyway, I called the Alameda County D.A.´s office.

Volunteered to do the psych evals, profiles,

whatever they need, pro bono.

Okay. If I can get a friend there,

maybe I can put that friend onto Raymond Blackstone.

maybe I can put that friend onto Raymond Blackstone.

If he´s as dirty as Jaclyn says he is.

If Blackstone is even close to what she says,

how is he not gonna find out you´re poking around?

´Cause he doesn´t work there.

He can´t have his finger in everything.

Okay, so you said you had two things.

What´s the other thing?

Jaclyn tutors math.

Now, if she came to my apartment, says it´s for that,

you could meet her there to continue her therapy.

At your apartment?

Ye-- it doesn´t have to be there.

Ye-- it doesn´t have to be there.

The point is to set up some cover

that allows you and her to keep meeting.

Do you really still not see what dangerous ground this is?

Even for someone without your history,

your vulnerability, it would be.

Or is that what you like about it?

Come on, Suzanne.

Jaclyn wouldn´t be the first

to trade in one abusive man for another.

Remember you said that?

So maybe Jackie Black and all the rest of her story

is just about finding one man to save her from another.

is just about finding one man to save her from another.

You don´t believe in Jackie Black?

I don´t know what I believe.

Well, Jaclyn or Jackie Black

or however many of her there are or aren´t,

I can´t imagine any of them

would want to go on getting beaten.

Eldon, why can´t you let this go?

That´s what I´m trying to do. I´m trying to let go.

I´m trying to give Jaclyn to you.

She needs help,

and I´m trying to find a way to let you keep helping her.

and I´m trying to find a way to let you keep helping her.

Or we can -- we can just hope for the best.

I´m taking yours home, too.

Did her other therapist go to this much trouble for her?

Myra something. What was her name?

Cohen, I think.