The Monster Within

Help! Help!

Help!

Help!

Oh! Come on.

Oh, hell.

Ah!

What the fuck?

No!

Help!

Fuck!

No! No!

Come on.

No.

No.

Come on!

Faster! Come on!

Come on.

Mr. Dranger. Have a seat.

Oh, um, Garrett's fine.

Welcome, Garrett.

Um, okay.

Okay, great.

Garrett.

Why do you feel like you need therapy?

Um, good question.

Uh, quite a few reasons, actually.

- Name something that you feel you have a severe problem with.

Obsession.

Obsession? Interesting.

Is it?

- It's interesting that you might recognise that about yourself.

What kind of obsession?

Obsessions.

Okay, what might they be?

Scheduling.

So you don't like to be late?

I like things to have shape.

As in each day?

Each... each week.

I'm a firm believer in exact days and times

that certain priorities

need to be achieved.

Achieved?

What is so detrimental to those things?

I have...

things

that rely on me.

You mean people?

Um,

yeah, I own a farm.

Oh, so small animals.

Are you a married man, Garrett?

No.

Have you ever been married?

Once.

What happened?

She died.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

It's okay.

I can talk about it now.

What happened?

She had a terrible accident.

She...

went somewhere.

She wasn't supposed to go.

- Why wasn't she supposed to go there?

It was dangerous.

Did she know it was dangerous?

No.

Was it her fault?

No.

It was my fault.

- Did it have anything to do with the schedule, Garrett?

Yes.

- So you are blaming yourself for her death?

Uh, I...

- Is this why a schedule is so important to you?

Do you feel if you keep to a schedule now,

nobody else around you will get hurt?

Nobody I care about.

Right.

- Like I said, it's... it's an obsession.

- It's an obsession because you're feeling you might forget something.

- I can't, I can't never forget to do that again.

Forget what, Garrett.

What is it specifically?

To feed it.

On the farm?

Yes.

What did you forget to feed

The beast.

Do you have a dog, Garrett?

- I used to have one of those as well.

Dog attacks happen.

I won't ask the breed.

There's clearly still quite a bit of trauma there.

We'll dig deeper into that in future sessions.

You fucking bitch!

Where the fuck did you go?

Just come on out.

We can talk about this.

It's going to be all right.

Let's just talk.

Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!

How am I getting out of here?

God damn it!

- I ain't got time for this shit.

Stranger.

Nice to see you,

Doc, nice to see you again.

Um, and I can call you Doc.

That's not inappropriate?

Sure, yeah.

Okay.

Okay, um, well, like in the movies, they...

they always call their therapist doc or whatever, you know?

How are you feeling today?

Um.

Fulfilled.

Is that not normal for you?

Um, not most days, anyway.

- Is this stemming from accomplishing something?

Yes.

A goal?

Yes.

- Do you feel great satisfaction from achieving those?

- It's a series of events that go hand in hand.

Why are they so important?

Are they work related.

You could say that.

- This farm of yours, it's a big responsibility.

Very much so.

Tell me about it.

Oh, um,

63 acres.

Uh, Creek runs through it.

Um, we have horses, an orchard.

Sounds very nice.

It's been in my family for generations.

- So it was passed down to you then?

Yes.

Does that weigh on you?

The responsibility?

- What I mean is, does it feel like a constant chore?

- There are certain aspects I did not want to inherit.

Can you give me an example?

My great great grandfather

purchased that particular piece of land

from a group of American Indians a very long time ago.

And that land

came with certain advantages

and disadvantages

for a very long time.

My family was rich in timber,

and in very good fortune.

When my own father ran the farm,

that was a very dark time for me as a child.

My father...

didn't want to follow the rules, you see.

What rules, Garrett?

The farm has to be catered to.

It has to be taken care of.

Every family member that the farm gets passed down to

has to follow a certain set of rules.

One in particular.

Which is what?

You aren't family, doc.

No, no I'm not.

So your property's keeping you a slave?

What? No, I didn't say that.

- It would appear, Garrett, that you hold some resentment

towards that of which you own.

I...I...

- Your fulfilment comes from the pressure being lifted

from the tasks that you complete.

Tasks that you schedule

so your family's past promises are kept.

Does that sound about right?

Yes.

- Garrett, what our families have done in the past

does not need to resonate into the future.

You are your own man.

I am my own man.

- What are the consequences if you do not do some of these things?

It's really only one thing.