Masters of Sex

Previously on "Masters of Sex"...

it's the key to your new office at buell green.

They fully endorsed the study and my bringing you aboard.

After the dust-up yesterday,

I thought it would be best

if we kept our patients away from each other.

My god.

So, uh, you guys are friends from, uh...?

Acquaintances, really.

Oh, we go way back.

I really think al would love helen.

Unless, of course, you have a special someone?

No, I was recently jilted.

I'm never going back to that hospital.

It would be irresponsible to stay on.

I am scared, though, for what's ahead.

He is a rough customer... robin.

And he does have a temper.

But when it's late,

and it's just the two of us...

alone in our bed, well...

I'm sure you can understand how hard that is to leave.

Why did he break your nose?

I don't remember.

And there was no one there to stop it?

Oh, I..I could have stopped it.

I took it.

Like a man.

You a fight fan?

Not really.

Then what brings you here?

I want to see how it ends.

I could kiss you now.

We don't kiss.

No. don't move.

I want to.

No.

Don't move.

Don't move.

You're moving.

I have a sunburn.

Radiation burn from last time.

Mm-hmm.

And it itches, which is why I moved.

I'm sorry. what?

Sunburn.

Ah. yes.

Common side effect.

We can prescribe a topical cream.

And nausea.

And fatigue.

I do have reduced cognitive function.

Losing words and weight.

And hair.

Don't move.

Thank you for your concern.

Your lack of interest is rather liberating, actually.

I could likely say anything to you and you wouldn't blink.

I was raised by vampires.

I drive getaway cars in my spare time.

I once had intercourse with a corpse.

Then look again, please.

It's much better for me to take her in the mornings.

Well, then, perhaps

you can find someone else to bring her.

I mean that it's much better for her.

By the afternoon, she's very tired,

so perhaps you have a patient

who prefers taking an afternoon slot.

You aren't proposing

I ask someone to move their appointment

in order to accommodate your friend, are you?

Virginia, let's just go.

What you may be unaware of, priscilla,

is the fact that my friend is also a doctor.

I can come in the afternoons.

And I would like to think that you would be glad

to extend to dr. depaul... virginia.

...the same professional courtesy that...

it's me. mariel.

Oh, you don't recognize me because...

ta-da... i'm down two sizes.

Look... loosey goosey.

Don't you look wonderful.

Virginia introduced me

to the most wonderful diet program.

And priscilla here was having trouble

finding us a morning appointment.

Virginia, take the afternoon slot.

Sign us out of here.

Yes, since I told you

mornings next week are completely booked.

Completely?

This is why we call you "priscilla the hun."

we do. it's not even a secret.

Uh, I'll see if mrs. marmo

is willing to switch her 10:00 a.m. on wednesday.

Does that work for you, virginia?

That would be wonderful.

Thank you so much.

You just can't take no for an answer, can you?

As you can see, we screen very thoroughly.

We do an intake with you first, of course.

It's impressive.

Guess what I'm wondering...

um, my q-question is...

you can ask me anything.

Well, sometimes,

in the bedroom, I mean, with roger...

that's my husband...

I wonder if different ways of being intimate would produce...

different results?

Well, first of all, we would be happy

to have both you and your husband

as participants in the study together,

and I could see to it

that you could experiment with different sexual positions,

which is I think what you're trying to say.

I wish I could do this.

You can. It's completely anonymous.

Your husband...

it's not my husband. It's dr. hendricks.

I'm sorry?

Dr. hendricks has forbidden staff

from participating in the study.

I mean forbidden.

So, as much as I'd like to

can't lose my job.

You should have leveled with us.

Instead of ripping down our fliers in the dead of night.

I removed them in broad daylight.

You promised me

our study had your full backing and support.

I did allow your study to come to this hospital,

but I assumed you'd bring

your own subjects... white subjects.

White subjects only!

Wait here.

Why is your staff not allowed to participate?

Bad idea. According to whom?

Charles, if your intention

is to move history forward, as you put it to me,

you better come up with a better reason than that,

otherwise you are a man spouting revolution

while in reality, you're just toeing the party line.

No doubt there's a gurney waiting for you somewhere.

Find it.

You're not familiar

with the history of medical research in the negro community.

Why, if you mean...

I mean negroes forced

to undergo risky experimental surgeries,

dosed with radiation,

cut open to find brain abnormalities

which could explain their propensity to violence.

I have heard...

you've heard

that negroes have been thought to require

near lethal doses of x-rays to penetrate their skin.

And now we have you and miss johnson,

two white researchers,

who wish to watch through glass as negroes copulate.

In our study, subjects understand

the parameters of their participation.

They know exactly what is expected of him or her and why.

But the impression, bill.

The associations the good people of this community

have with their hospital...

your staff already wants to sign up.

Several of them would participate today

if you weren't forbidding it.

Most of my staff has never seen a lynching.

I have. have you?

No.

Did you know most of the times

they castrate a man before they string him up?

Why do you think that is?

Fear... i suppose,

based on erroneous stereotypes,

stereotypes a study like ours could begin to dispel.

Bill, trust me when I tell you

you have stepped into something you do not understand.

Already it's creating more of a headache for me than I need.

Just this morning,

a journalist from a local negro paper was in my office

wanting to verify the shocking rumor

that buell green was embarking

on a groundbreaking, top-secret study

exploring negro sexuality.

But is that not moving history forward,

the very thing you implored me to do?!

We'll move history forward.

Mark my words.

We just won't do it by burning my hospital to the ground.

Now, if you don't mind, I came in here to take a leak.

Unless you'd like to watch.

Uh, let's, uh, start with shrimp cocktail

and then steak and lobster for the main part.

Uh, and then how about hot fudge sundaes for dessert?

You can do hot fudge?