Final Analysis

FINAL ANALYSIS

I had the dream again.

I'm arranging flowers on a table...

...for a centerpiece.

I decorate the flowerpot with fancy paper.

It feels like velvet.

There are three different kinds of flowers.

There are lilies...

...and there are...

Did you reach my sister?

Wait a minute. Let's go back to the dream.

Tell me more about these flowers.

There's nothing more to tell.

Besides, aren't you gonna tell me that we're out of time?

We have a few more minutes. You were late today.

I'm late for everything these days.

What's making you late?

Whenever I leave my apartment, I...

...I have to go back and make sure the stove's off.

And then after I check it...

...I make sure the pilot light didn't blow out when I closed the oven door.

Today I went back eight times.

I didn't get to the store till 10.

What happens when you're late?

Nothing. I mean...

I don't get into trouble or anything.

My supervisor's been trying to get a date with me.

Interested?

In you?

I mean, in him?

I don't know.

It could be that...

...you perform this ritual...

...in order to be late...

...to avoid a prospective lover, or anger him.

You mean I'm passive-aggressive?

You really should talk to her.

To who?

My sister.

She says she knows some things...

...about my mother and father.

Might shed some light.

Maybe those are the things...

...we'd do best to uncover in our work here.

You should really talk to her.

You won't regret it.

She's...

She's a very interesting girl.

Where have you been? I had to ask the judge to break.

- My expert witness is half an hour late! - I was with a patient.

Mr. O'Brien, you may proceed.

In addition to your private practice...

...you are head of Forensic Psychiatry at Overland State Hospital. Correct?

And in that capacity...

...you evaluate and treat hundreds of such cases like the one we have today.

We're all aware of Dr. Barr's eminent qualifications in the field.

May we just proceed?

By all means.

I thought we were proceeding.

My client, Pepe Carrero, has confessed to stabbing his stepfather to death.

The prosecutor...

...has taken the position... I wanna get this right...

"Carrero is a dangerous schizophrenic, who should be locked away...

...in a maximum-security state hospital. "

End quote.

My conclusion was based on the fact that Carrero is a professional pickpocket.

He's been in and out of the system...

The question isn't whether he's a model citizen.

He's already been found guilty.

We're here today to try to figure out what to do with him.

Very eloquent, Mr. O'Brien.

Please continue.

Did you conduct an examination on Pepe?

Yes, I did. I saw him two hours a day over a five-day period.

What did you find?

First of all, I find clearly, Pepe Carrero is not a schizophrenic.

His stepfather was beating him.

And he'd been doing so routinely over a nine-year period.

Pepe had an acute psychological breakdown...

...at the moment when the violence was threatening his life.

In other words, he was temporarily insane.

Unbelievable!

Now, as an expert in the area of the insanity plea...

...what do you recommend we do?

A state hospital...

...is really nothing more than a human warehouse.

There's no therapy offered, only chemical restraints.

Unfortunately, this will not help Pepe.

What Pepe needs is...

...a structured program of intense psychotherapy.

Are you suggesting that the state bear the expense of that treatment?

No, no.

If the state agrees with my diagnosis...

...I'd be happy to take on treatment myself. Free of charge.

Why are you making such a generous and time-consuming gesture?

This is not a gesture.

If Pepe is safe...

...then we are all safe.

Isn't that why we're here?

So I'm gonna see you in my office?

- Twice a week? - Absolutely. Twice a week.

Thanks again, doc. I owe you one.

Stay out of trouble!

One big happy family.

You upset, detective?

Who, me? Upset?

We cops love it when a guy walks, especially on a bullshit insanity plea.

We both know this kid's not dangerous. There was no volition.

I've heard it all before.

If anyone should be crazy, it's me.

Watching months of work go down the toilet because of you.

I'm sensing an ugly hostility here, detective.

Come by the office. We'll talk about it.

I'll tell you what.

I'll stay out of your office...

...and you stay out of mine.

I think he likes you, Isaac.

Around 6:00, this place is crawling with available women.

The only thing that crawls here is you.

I'm trying to give it up.

Isn't that...?

It is. Yeah... Gee, she looks great!

What's the grace period...

...before you can ask your best friend's ex-girlfriend for a date?

Ten, eleven years.

As they say...

If you say anything about fish or the sea, I'm leaving. I mean it.

I was going to say, lust never sleeps.

Some folk wisdom.

Why don't I live vicariously through your conquests?

I got a better idea. Get out of your office and meet people.

- I meet people. - No, no, you meet patients.

You work too damn much. Really.

I can't help it.

It's like my... I got this uncle, right?

He used to sell shoes.

You shake hands with the guy, he looks at your feet.

"Nice instep you got there. What are you, a size nine?"

Same with me. He looks at shoes...

...I look at people's thoughts to figure out what they mean.

You do this enough, after a while people...

They stop surprising you.

I just want to be surprised, Mike.

I'm Heather Evans.

Diana's sister.

Right. Yeah.

She did say I was coming by?

I hope.

Yeah, she mentioned you might be...

...stopping by.

She felt it was important we talk.

She said you might be able to shed some light on her family history.

Yes, maybe.

You want to sit down?

How often does this happen?

What?

A patient's sister coming by and talking to you.

Not very often.

Actually, never.

Never?

What exactly are you trying to do for Diana?

I guess I'm doing what all shrinks do.

To paraphrase Freud, I'm trying...

...to turn her neurotic misery into general unhappiness...

...so she can be like the rest of us.

But she's not like the rest of us.

How do you mean?

Our father...

Our mother left us when we were very little.

And my father and Diana...

My father was...

Let's say...

...he had a lot of problems.

Your father raped Diana?

Yes.

Do you think you can help us?

Yeah, I think I can.

I hope so.

Isn't she beautiful, Dr. Barr?

She said you guys met.

Yes, we did.

Compared to Heather, I always felt...

...like a caterpillar, creepy and crawling.

A caterpillar turns into a butterfly, doesn't it?

Heather's the butterfly.

Isn't that obvious?

I had the dream again.

I'm arranging flowers on a table as a centerpiece.

Lilies...

...carnations.

What was the third?

Remember what we said about the stove ritual?

The stove ritual's over. I haven't done it in a week.

I'm checking the gun now.

I make sure the safety's on and that it's loaded.

Ten times every morning.

What makes you feel that you need a gun?

I don't.

It's Heather's gun. She made me take it.

How does it make you feel...