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Mrs. Emory.

Thorazine seems to be treating you well.

This place is a refuge, wouldn't you agree?

Yeah, we're having a fine visit today, Dr. Moynihan.

Hello, Mrs. Emory.

I'm told you still won't eat

- your food, Lucky. - But she told me

- I could have this, Doctor... - It's Mrs. Emory.

My family.

- My family. When can I see my family? - What did we say

- about getting excited? What happens? - I'm not getting...

I'm not getting excited.

Good girl.

Each one, teach one, Ella Mae.

I'll mind her, Doctor.

Mind, Lucky.

You have to mind.

She's very lucky.

The authorities in North Carolina

have confirmed your story.

What a sad story.

Prison is not the right place for your wife.

She has a medical condition, not a criminal one.

I just need to talk to her.

- About what she did to your son? - She didn't do anything

- to my son. - Of course. I'm sorry.

- What I meant... - They took her so fast

that I couldn't tell her what I needed to.

What would you tell her?

Mr. Emory, I've seen this behavior before.

I specialize in it.

Did you know that several Negro women,

some in much worse shape than your wife,

have come in here having done some terrible things?

My treatment has proven very successful.

What doesn't help is your coming here

- every day, trying to see her. - She needs to know that I came.

And that I'm not upset and I understand.

At least, I think I understand why she did what she did.

In time, you can tell her.

Now it will only agitate her.

- Doctor, I know my wife. - This is

an involuntary hold. Do you understand

what that means?

That you can keep her for as long as you want.

For as long as she needs.

So we can help.

At least let her see her little girls.

They need to see their mama.

After what they witnessed?

I'm not a child psychiatrist,

but I promise you that would be devastating.

You need to focus on your girls.

How are they holding up?

Children are resilient.

I'll make sure to tell her that you stopped by

and that you and the girls are hanging in there.

But you focus on healing.

Doctor, what treatment?

Honestly, I mostly listen.

I made it just the way you like it.

Milk and two sugars.

That's probably too hot, anyway.

Let it cool off a bit.

Do you notice the wallpaper?

You recognize it?

It took me a while to find the same pattern, but...

I can be pretty determined.

Look.

I had to guess your size.

I got you some things in pink.

I mean, you don't wear enough pink.

Oh, don't fuss with those, Betty.

You don't have to be scared.

Okay? I mean, tying you up,

that was just for your own protection.

Give me your hands.

Udder cream.

Use it on a sow's teats.

It'll get rid of those marks.

Give me your hands.

It's George.

You know me. Hmm?

Hmm.

You're a good woman, Betty.

And I like to think I'm a good person, too.

And I know what

our love would've looked like to people

who just couldn't understand.

A married woman running off with the milkman.

I know it seems extreme.

It's okay.

You'll see.

I want you to know...

that I'm ready when you're ready.

Okay.

- [radio broadcast playing quietly] -

Oh.

What, did you shake it up?

No, I just walked right from the icebox

to just right here.

Um...

- What? - I...

Well, you know, I just was...

- We have some savings. - Where's this going?

- And i-if... - Nowhere good, I'd bet.

What if we just moved?

You know, because with all this,

I don't think anybody would blame us.

Did you hear a goddamn thing Betty said?

Ms. High-And-Mighty.

She thinks she's just better than everyone else.

I think... I bet she took off.

You know, I bet that she just found somebody,

and she took off.

You don't know that.

She's the only one of us around here that had any guts.

Now you just want to cut and run?

- N... - I'm disappointed

- in you. -

- Marty. - Knock!

You see this?

"Compton sergeant shot dead."

- Jesus. - "In a suspected gangland shooting."

What have I been saying all along?

- This is all on us. - Marty,

why don't you just go to the bank first? Just see

- if maybe they could... - Shut up about that!

Seeps through, makes my baby a coward.

What about you? You want to run, too?

A couple of fucking women, both of youse.

- I'm game, Marty. -

Hello?

No, nothing.

Zilch.

I mean, could you blame her, though, if she did?

'Cause you know how Clarke treated her.

And between you, me and the back gatepost...

...Marty thinks

the coloreds kidnapped Betty.

Oh, you know Marty.

If he gets something in his head, he, um...

He won't. I already tried.

I don't know. All this...

My doctor says that all this stress

isn't good for the baby.

But what makes you say that?

'Cause I don't know if I can be so sure.

I think so.

I... I don't even know.

Mrs. Beaumont.

Arnette.

What'd they do?

What's happened to you?

I saw him.

The man.

He spoke to me and-and through me.

When he made you hurt your family...

...did he talk to you?

He told me he could command me.

And his scripture.

He talked like

- he was some sort of god. - Mrs. Emory.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Just... can't be in here.

I-I know. I was just...

Come on, come on. I don't want to get in trouble.

What'd they do to her?

You're in a good place.

There's been a few colored ladies,

you know, troubled.

But the doctor... she specializes in fixing them.

- Making them feel better. - Can she even feel anything?

- Stop talking to me! - Sir.

Sir, can you please get word to my family?

Please? Just one phone call?

Mrs. Emory,

the lady doctor, she listens.

If you make your case plain,

there's no way she won't give you that phone call.

Please.

What if it was your family?

You're locked up in here for days.

They're worried sick.