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Previously on
"Masters of Sex"
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.
friends from, uh?
acquaintances, really.
oh, we go way back.
love helen.
Unless, of course,
you have a special someone?
I was recently jilted.
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?
there to stop it?
oh, I.
.
I could have stopped it.
I took it.
Like a man.
you a fight fan?
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.
you're moving.
I have a sunburn.
Radiation burn from last time.
which is why I moved.
Common side effect.
We can prescribe
a topical cream.
And fatigue.
I do have reduced
cognitive function.
Losing words and weight.
And hair.
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.
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.
be unaware of, priscilla,
is the fact that my friend
is also a doctor.
I can come in the afternoons.
to think that you would be glad
to extend to dr.
depaul
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.
was having trouble
finding us
a morning appointment.
take the afternoon slot.
Sign us out of here.
yes, since I told you
mornings next week
are completely booked.
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.
for an answer, can you?
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 *** positions,
which is I think
what you're trying to say.
I wish I could do this.
It's completely anonymous.
Your husband
It's 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.
leveled with us.
our fliers in the dead of night.
in broad daylight.
our study had
your full backing and support.
to come to this hospital,
but I assumed you'd bring
your own subjects
white subjects.
White subjects only!
Why is your staff not allowed
to participate?
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 *** 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.
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.
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
already wants to sign up.
Several of them
would participate today
if you weren't forbidding it.
has never seen a lynching.
I have.
have you?
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
*** paper was in my office
wanting to verify
the shocking rumor
that buell green was embarking
on a groundbreaking,
top-secret study
exploring *** sexuality.
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.
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?
anything is possible, madam.
all right.
banana splits.
the more you spend, right?
What about an ice sculpture?
we could do a swan.
I don't want a swan.
you've said in a row all day.
betty, I.
.
I'm watching you,
and it's like you're killing
yourself over all this stuff.
yeah, well, your pretzels
are going into every food fair
in the country.
I mean, gene, honey, it's not
every day a man is syncopated.
I appreciate all this.
It's very sweet of you.
it is.
I've been thinking.
that we're not gonna be able
to have kids of our own
it's been really tough.
I admit that.
So I've been trying to get used
to the idea of adopting, and
I just i can't.
I wanted our kids to be you
part you, anyway.
And when I realize
how much I want to see you
in those little faces
it always led me back to you.
I'm sorry.
That that had too many "you" s
in it.
It's it's okay.
That's why I'm trying to say.
It's not like you don't
frustrate the hell out of me,
'cause half the time,
I want to wring your neck.
and you're mine
that's enough for me.
LIBBY:
uh, dinner is in 15 minutes.
You were saying
something about hendricks?
About his, uh, not wanting
negroes in the study?
hendricks doesn't.
But he's wrong.
And he knows he's wrong.
LIBBY:
why would he say it, then?
'cause it's dangerous for him.
Because all taboos feel
dangerous until they're broken.
Apparently
there's a *** journalist
who is interested in the study
being at buell green.
We're trying to find
this journalist.
Once we can convince him
of the value of the work
and he writes as much,
then what choice
does hendricks have
but to bless *** participation
in the study?
What are you doing?
I don't know.
I
every night, I wonder if they
put on this show just for me.
you watch them?
LIBBY:
no, not every night.
But the situation does
it does concern me.
like some peeping tom.
LIBBY: I'm not a
and what about you,
standing here proposing to do
the exact same thing
stare at negroes.
at a hospital in a study.
LIBBY: oh,
and because it's for science,
it's not the same thing?
I don't feel safe.
they haven't done anything.
Libby, either you change
the situation or I will,
because this
this needs to stop.
excuse me, ma'am.
Dr.
franklin's patients sit on
that side of the waiting room.
I'm here to see dr.
masters.
I'm virginia johnson.
I'm dr.
masters'
research assistant.
Are you here as a patient
or for the study?
from theÂst.
louis chronicle.
I understand
you've been looking for me.
yeah yes.
we have.
Please come with me.
oh! oh, my god!
oh, my god.
I missed you.
stay away forever.
the flesh is weak.
never did run smooth.
all of the above.
I mean, are you staying?
I can stay a little longer.
I got to go back to work anyway.
Knock it off.
Mrs.
mendel is coming.
mrs.
mendel's not dead yet?
probably wishes she were.
Harry stepping out on her.
I'm sure that
something with white roses
that keeps coming up.
Poor mrs.
mendel.
She loves her husband.
He loves someone else.
Why don't we, uh
why don't we get you
an apartment?
Move you out of here.
You know, two rooms,
maybe a balcony
overlooking the river.
Would you like that?
There's no reason
that the two of us can't see
each other all the time.
You know, a lot of the time.
You could hang up
this nonsense with al,
and we could just be together.
and I'm your what?
Your mistress?
that's a silly thing to say.
what you're proposing?
men have mistresses.
This is a new start.
for us.
We we have money
for the first time ever.
no, you and gene have money.
money, and money means options.
as your piece on the side.
You and me,
we were never gonna have
the white picket fence ever.
So if an unconventional life
was always in the cards,
then this unconventional life
it's a pretty good one.
will be here any minute.
You should get dressed.
would certainly feel at home
in your waiting room.
it was actually the *** doctor
that insisted upon keeping
our patients separated.
won't allow his own staff
in the study?
I'm glad you tracked me down.
hendricks wants to maintain
the mantle of respectability
here at buell green.
Yet we believe
the *** community here
could actually benefit
from our study.
might also help dispel
some of those stereotypes
about *** sexuality.
our point to hendricks exactly.
this is the reason
you came to buell green?
negroes in the study
from the beginning.
But now that we have,
we are committed
to this line of inquiry.
My only caution to you
would be to remember we're not
here to forward anyone's agenda.
the mandate of our study
is to only go
where the research leads.
meaning it isn't your job
to eradicate the image of,
say, the mandingo
a *** that acts like
an animal, obsessed with sex.
Or the jezebel,
the female equivalent.
women as oversexed and immoral
to the point where a black woman
can't be ***
because she wants sex
all the time.
can be measured.
*** size, performance,
frequency.
As mrs.
johnson says,
we will publish what we find
and let the facts
speak for themselves.
it's about time they did.
what's going to happen to me?
what's going to happen to me.
to your general physician.
You seem to not think of me
as a person,
so I trust you
to tell me straight,
not to sugar coat it.
may slow the cancer,
but it's unlikely to stop it.
Your aphasia will worsen.
It'll be harder to express
your thoughts, to think clearly.
You'll start to sleep
for longer and longer periods,
and you will suffer loss
of bladder and bowel control.
Your family can hire
a laundry service.
what about pain?
You can talk to your doctor
about morphine, but it's
not readily given.
You'll slip
into unconsciousness.
By the end,
you won't know what's happening.
But I'm sure that your loved
ones will do everything they can
to see that you're comfortable.
lillian, wait.
Lillian!
Lilli
lillian.
with treatment.
don't be ridiculous.
is lying on that table,
radiating my brain
in the hopes of having a few
more days to lie on that table
and have more radiation.
why you would feel that way,
but you can't just give up.
Why isn't that the very best
thing I could possibly do
stop hoping, accept what is?
what could happen.
What did the doctor say?
Surely there must be a protocol.
a new trial a month from now,
- a new course of treatment.
even if the odds are 100 to 1,
you could be that 1.
from curing metastatic cancer.
I don't want to spend
what time I have left
fighting a battle
that I certainly will lose.
I don't want to fight with you.
to fight at all, clearly.
You don't even you don't even
want to fight for your life.
I'm sorry.
I.
.
I don't know how to not fight.
What are you doing?
uh god damn it.
A taxi.
drive you home, lillian,
please, for my sake.
I can't do this for you.
I tried.
but I'm done.
this weekend
is take a trip up north.
I have a little cabin up there.
of the st.
francois mountains.
Fresh air, great fishing,
and it's spontaneous,
and I love spontaneous.
of you, shooting from the hip,
showing up here tonight
completely unannounced.
of course.
We were going to dinner, anyway.
Right?
The more the merrier,
now that we're four.
he needs to be more spontaneous.
are you serious about this?
only one way to find out.
What's this now?
helen wants us to elope.
wait a minute.
Helen proposed toÂyou?
it's crazy, isn't it?
I mean, I've never heard
of a woman doing that.
it's so romantic.
We'll do gene's party tomorrow.
We'll get married the next day.
Gene and betty
can be our witnesses.
so fast!
I just want to make sure that
i mean, are you pulling my leg?
I'm givin' it to you straight.
god, I can never guess it!
one rocco more or less
it's humphrey *** bogart.
who cares who it is?
If you want
to get hitched to me,
I want to get hitched to you.
Come here, baby.
Hey, you want to do that,
you get a room.
You do not do that
in this house.
That is just *** rude!
I, uh, I'm just tired.
You three go to dinner.
My head is splitting.
I got to rest.
tell anybody, but now
all bets are off.
She's being so pigheaded.
she's given up.
I didn't see it coming.
she'd been sick for years.
I didn't seeÂherÂcoming.
I'm always so careful,
you know?
With people.
Always keep that wall up.
lillian snuck in.
but how is it even possible?
She's so rigid and demanding.
She's a complete know it all.
She she's not even
very much fun.
If we're going to be honest.
coming because she's a woman.
sometimes I would look
across our office and think,
"mm, my god.
She is so ferocious.
"
but she's alone.
and she's my friend.
and I don't have a lot of those.
and somehow
lillian snuck around the wall.
And now she won't
even listen to me.
Lillian,
who she she knows me.
LIBBY: it was a friend high up
in the police department.
I simply asked him to check
because I was concerned
about your safety.
it wasn't robert's fault.
LIBBY: so you know
that he has a record.
He's been arrested three times!
How can that not concern you?
you don't understand.
He was walking down the street.
They picked him up
outside a bar.
LIBBY: one arrest was for
assaulting a police officer.
they assaulted him first.
LIBBY: coral!
Listen to yourself!
I feel like
robert's intoxicated you
to the point
where you can't see straight.
why are you doing this?
LIBBY:
because I am uncomfortable.
I'm very uncomfortable with him
and whatever it is
that's going on between you two.
I can't have me or baby john
around someone
with a criminal record.
And I can see
that I can't persuade you
to stop seeing him, so
given that I don't feel
comfortable,
that I need
to keep my family safe,
I can't have him
coming to the house.
I'm sorry, but from now on,
you're gonna have to find
someone else to drive you.
You'll have to make
other arrangements.
LIBBY: I know you think
you have something with robert,
but ask yourself.
Is it really worth it?
All this tumult
for that one thing?
I'll make a call.
My auntie can pick me up
tonight.
LIBBY: okay.
I got the funnies,
if that's what
you're looking for.
alka-seltzer, more like.
an entire bottle
last night after we left.
Al and I were laughing
about when we were kids,
we would double date.
I'd always drive.
I would leave al in the back
seat with his date to have at it
while whatever girl
was stuck with me
would be sitting in the front
seat with her hands in her lap,
wondering
why I suddenly went paralyzed.
'cause from where I'm standing,
it seems like
maybe you like al a lot.
Maybe you got a thing for al.
Don't play dumb with me.
Y-you yelled like a house on
fire when al kissed helen.
was a vulgar display.
in that back seat with al,
have him kissing on you
instead of helen.
Maybe I'm just not man enough
for you.
oh, you can't be serious.
You you are worth
a dozen als two dozen als.
no more lies,
so if I am disappointing you,
you know, between the sheets,
just
You want the truth?
I was genuinely sickened by that
al-and-helen freak show.
what are you talking about?
They're getting married.
they are somewhere
between the bearded lady
and the monkey man.
I have been putting up with al
because of you,
because you are friends
with him,
that that was too much.
I cannot stand al,
and I don't want to see them
ever again.
helen especially.
just a few facts with you.
I'm wondering
if part of the reason
you were drawn to medicine
in the first place
was due to the fact that
you were sickly as a child.
you suffered two serious bouts
with a fairly rare
blood infection.
which landed you in the hospital
for a three-month stay
when you were 8,
four and a half months at 10.
That must have left a strong
impression on a young boy.
I went into, uh, medicine
because I was focused.
I knew what I wanted to do.
a wide variety of interests
at hamilton college.
You were a boxer.
You learned to fly a plane.
I had a pilot's license.
so?
so why not be a pilot?
as an obstetrician,
you get to bring life
into the world.
became prometheus,
creating man from clay.
if you're trying to imply
I have some sort
of god complex
your story is one
our readers can understand.
You started
under adverse circumstances,
you focused on work
that served the greater good,
and now you're here
at buell green,
having come
from memorial hospital,
where your tenure
was very short.
A month, in fact.
technically, yes.
a physician at memorial?
you talked to doug greathouse?
Doug greathouse is irrelevant
to this story.
there was also an incident
where you put
a fire extinguisher
through a window
at maternity hospital.
This apparently led
to your dismissal.
that is incorrect.
you weren't dismissed?
did not see eye-to-eye.
Miss hogue, the story we agreed
is about the positive effect
of our study
on the *** community
here at buell green.
We also agreed the facts
would speak for themselves.
And from what I can gather,
you've had
a very successful career,
but now with your sex study,
you've met with resistance.
And so you've countered
with resistance.
You've had to.
Which makes you
a revolutionary of sorts,
estranged
from the white community.
from the white community.
like many in our community,
forced to resort
to violent tactics.
well, according to greathouse
and his band of idiots.
Jesus, don't
don't write that.
Look, these these incidents
taken out of context
will be misunderstood,
and I do not want them used
in the piece.
what's included in the piece.
and it's my story.
be our witnesses now?
No, I don't think so.
And and I also have to talk
to you about
about the party the other night.
I know.
al, I'm sorry.
I.
.
I was gonna make up
some story,
like the kitchen caught on fire
or the caterer got run over
by a bus,
but we got a history,
so I'm i'm gonna
give it to you straight.
Betty doesn't like helen.
but they're thick as thieves.
but something's gone sour there,
and and betty is done
with helen.
that is just insane.
I mean, those two
they're so close.
The way they kiss each other
right on the lips
and now they hate each other?
- I don't
What are you talking about?
On the on the lips?
At kemoll's.
That night we all had dinner.
I went out to see if helen
wanted me to order
crème de menthe
when she left the table
because betty was so upset.
come out of the ladies' room,
and suddenly
they're in this lip lock,
like cary grant
and grace kelly
in "to catch a thief.
"
I mean, I had aunts
that used to lip-kiss,
but they were guineas.
Had mustaches.
And that was like pecking.
But helen and betty
wait.
wait.
Al, wait a minute.
I mean, come on.
as I live and breathe.
are you going to let me in?
to salesmen.
I'm not selling anything.
Aren't you always?
You peddle diet pills
in a cancer ward.
that was not my finest moment,
I'll admit.
Please let me in anyway.
I thought
if you had a shopping list,
I could pick up some groceries
for you.
I'm all set.
any errands that need running?
I could, uh
I could take those letters to
the post office, if you'd like.
this one's for my family.
I was going to send it
special delivery.
Can you give it to them
in person?
they're instructions.
There's a family plot
in weymouth.
The depauls there
go back to the 1800s.
My parents will want me buried
in this plot.
They will insist on it.
But I want my body
to go to science.
All those brave souls
whose bodies taught me
how to be a doctor.
Maybe some medical student
will discover a cure for
ovarian cancer by using mine.
There'd be a nice symmetry
to that, don't you think?
By taking this, you're
promising me you'll see to it,
that my wishes are carried out.
Will you take it?
Good night, mrs.
masters.
LIBBY: oh.
Um, good night, coral.
my auntie is waiting for me.
no doubt miss hogue told you
I would prefer she not go ahead
with this story.
But I read the rough draft
of her piece,
and she presents
the conflict you have
as part of a larger
and righteous battle.
I won't lie.
Makes for good copy.
no doubt it does.
But to be honest,
I'm not worried about myself.
I'm more concerned
about the scientific findings.
I initially told miss hogue
I would let the facts
speak for themselves.
We go wherever the data leads.
But the initial results
have given me pause.
you were just beginning
to bring negroes into the study.
uh, *** participants
since arriving at buell green,
and while *** sexuality
wasn't our focus at maternity,
we had enough subjects
to warrant a control group.
But now by refocusing this data
specifically on
*** performance, physiology,
we found significant differences
between white
and *** subjects.
*** appetite.
Elevated testosterone levels.
I don't think this is a story
you want to publish.
I think you're lying.
my methods are beyond reproach.
you don't want a story published
that paints you as an ostracized
and unstable figure,
so instead, you threaten me.
no one's threatening
me the specter of a story
that claims it's true.
The *** is an animal.
The *** wants your women.
I'm not an errand boy,
dr.
masters,
here to do your bidding.
I'm an editor,
and I will publish that article.
have been lynched and castrated
for the mere perception
of *** aggression,
never mind the scientific
confirmation of it.
you could bully me into this
and I'd just shuffle away
and say, "yes, sir.
"yes, dr.
masters.
I'm sure scared
of what your study might do"?
what kind of a man are you?
well, I'm not the kind of man
who would savage someone's
reputation, his livelihood,
his life's work
because it makes good copy.
Why don't you go look
in the mirror
next time you ask that question?
okay, dr.
masters,
I'm a go look in the mirror,
just like you say.
you publish this story,
and I promise you,
I will publish my findings.
ÂfraudulentÂfindings.
I will prove you a fraud.
you want to take that risk?
My study
may have been shown the door,
but I've got an office
full of accolades.
I've got 25 years
of a sterling reputation.
You know,
I've delivered the children
of every prominent politician,
lawmaker,
and newspaper man in this city.
So why don't you go ahead
and try me?
Let's see who the public
listens to me or you.
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for cheese puffs and champagne?
this, uh, what do you call it?
that's a cummerbund.
this cummerbund off?
betty, come on.
A girl can't take her husband
upstairs for a quickie
before the guests arrive?
What is that?
Is that your attempt to
to reassure me?
Because I'm reassured now.
About al, about all these other
men that you've been with
I know i know that they
didn't mean anything to you.
I know you didn't love them.
any of them.
because you loved helen.
who are you, betty?
Huh? come on.
Just tell me.
I mean, we've been
round and round with this.
Come on.
I think you owe me the truth.
Please, just for once,
tell me, who are you really?
I'm i'm ju i'm just
I'm just a woman who
yes, loved helen,
but that doesn't matter.
You're the one I married.
You're the one
I'm gonna stay married to.
It's just you and me,
hand-in-hand,
despite everything.
and it has been everything.
Every lie imaginable, betty.
Come on.
About your past,
about you having kids.
And I have made peace with
I have made peace
with all of it,
because I found something
that was important to me.
I found someone that I loved.
And now you're telling me that
your heart belongs to helen,
and that doesn't matter,
that I should be happy
about these *** compromises
and half-truths
that are gonna carry us
into old age,
this *** avalanche
that is our marriage!
I.
.
I care about you!
care is what you have
for a stray dog
that you find in the road.
Love is what you have
for someone that you share
your bed with.
I cannot hear this anymore.
You want to sell yourself,
you're the
you're the pro here.
Go ahead.
But I will
i cannot sell myself this cheap.
ON RADIO ]
to this song.
At cotillion.
I was 13.
Eight inches taller
than the tallest boy.
they called me "giraffe.
"
not just tall.
Spotted.
well, a few of the boys
must have caught up to you
eventually.
a little piece of you
is always the girl you were
at 13.
fall in love with a boy?
no one's ever been
in love with me, though.
Not that I've known of, anyway.
I've had relations a few times.
No one's ever stayed.
You know, lingered.
And that's what
I've missed out on,
that kind of closeness.
You have that with bill.
with bill.
he loves you.
he never says it.
but you know it.
That's everything, isn't it?
I get my kids to drift off.
I trace words
on their foreheads.
"sleep tight.
"
"eat your broccoli.
"
always play connect the dots.
More like stars.
I see the constellations
in these freckles.
The big dipper.
- ursa major.
oh, and there's lilantha
with her crown and her chariot.
there's no lilantha.
you don't know that myth?
the warrior princess?
Strong? and brave?
And so tall and beautiful
that she struck some men dumb.
Some men very dumb.
but she knew who she was.
And that is why
she burns so brightly.
You can always spot her
in the sky.
I'll see you in the morning.
okay.
in the morning.
LIBBY: ohh!
It was fun.
yeah, it was nice, huh?
what are you doing?
Do you know
it's a federal offense
to tamper with someone's mail?
LIBBY: I'm not tampering.
I'm looking for coral.
I.
.
I didn't see her name
on any of the apartments.
what do you want with coral?
LIBBY:
is that another threat?
Just because
you're her boyfriend
doesn't mean that you get to
Who told you that?
LIBBY:
coral told me.
I'm her brother.
LIBBY: you
you have different last names.
we have different fathers.
LIBBY: but she
she said that you
about your relationship
about what
your leg is bleeding.
What did you scrape it on?
May I?
LIBBY: ow.
what coral told you,
but whatever it was,
it wasn't true.
LIBBY:
I'm fine.
you can stop.
I said s-stop.
Give this to coral.
Please.
This is her severance.
Take it.
Just please take it.
You know what?
You can tell her
that she is fired.
It's me.
I forgot to take the letter.
lillian?
Lillian.
lillian!
I need an ambulance.
My friend, she's taken
sleeping pills an overdose.
I need the address.
Hello? ma'am?
never misrepresented my work.
Ever.
Even as a tactic.
yes, so I heard.
There's nothing more dangerous
than a desperate man.
I can't, uh, continue like this.
at good samaritan
before I left
to build something of my own
this hospital
before I finally turned
my attention
fully and without compromise
to the work I was meant to do.
uh, in a hospital anymore.
I can't be beholden
to others' rules.
God knows who would have me
even if I could
so cut the cord.
My entire life.
No more delivering babies,
surgical privileges gone.
it feels like dying, and it is.
So let's see if you have
the guts to be reborn.
I want your office cleared out
by morning.
I'm sorry.
I must have, uh
you're looking for virginia?
Shelley decklin.
I thought you might be her,
that she lost her key
or something.
to virginia?
her her beau.
I i guess that's who I am.
We were supposed to meet here
tonight,
but so far she's a no-show.
No call, nothing.
and you have a key.
So, uh, you been dating awhile?
Met in the lobby
at the park plaza.
Caught the last round
of the moore/durelle fight.
I r i remember that night.
Anyway, uh, I was, uh,
just passing.
And you are?
Uh, virginia and I
wor uh, work together.
That's all.
can I give her a message?
No message.
LIBBY: what is it?
I'm not feeling very well.
LIBBY: bill.