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Go on, I got it, I got it.

It’s.

I was going to say it's really nice!

Got a great personality I'm sure.

You alright?

I can work with this.

You sure?

There must be so much history here.

Strange to think we're now a part of it.

There's like

three other bedrooms if you don't like this one.

It's not the room.

I'm going to make this work for us, Nia.

I Promise.

I know.

Because if you don't.

You back yet?

Oi!

Finally!

Ooh you making pancakes?

Nope!

There you go.

Oh.

Look, your blood pressure is going to thank me

when you're older.

Living with you is going to give me higher blood pressure

than any food.

Hm. Forbidden fruit.

I'm going to take a walk.

Where?

Look. I just.

I just really want you to be careful, alright?

Look.

If it's just going to be the two of us,

I can't be your only hobby.

Nia, wait.

I had a Snickers on the way home.

What you doing?

I am not clearing that up.

Is that revenge for the Snickers?

Well.

You bring me to Norman Bate's house

what else do you expect me to do in my spare time?

Want to hear something funny to cheer you up?

Go on.

It's Dark.

Just say it.

It's funny how you can die in a house fire,

yet still be cremated.

Fucking hell, Nia.

I suppose Dad would have laughed at that.

Mum not so much, but.

How's your unpacking going?

It's not.

You bored yet?

I started bored.

Come on. Let's do something fun.

You know, this wasn't exactly what I had in mind

when you said we should do ‘something fun’.

You used to love playing chess together, though.

Alright keep it down. No need to tell everyone.

Don't touch it.

You know,

it was never the chess that I wanted to

spend time with.

Oh come on.

I'm pouring my heart out, you can't look at me like that.

I know I should have been there more for you.

I should have been there to cheer you on at matches,

and help with homework,

and just be a shoulder to cry on.

I, I didn't need all that.

I just, I needed, well.

You.

I can't change the past, Nia.

But I promise.

Look.

I promise, I am here now.

And I am not going anywhere.

OK?

As long as we've got a roof over our heads,

food in our stomaches,

maybe I'll feel like I've done something right.

Well that just got serious very quickly.

Jenga!

Right.

I'm going to go to the shops, get us some picky bits,

you know, real food, and maybe a couple of alcoholic beverages

and we'll get this party started.

Nia?

You going to go on your own?

Alright.

Are you alright!?

Yea, just slipped.

On what?

No, just slipped.

I leave you for five bloody minutes!

Come on.

Dion, it's OK, it's OK.

Who are you?

Dion, It's me.

It's me!

Stop, stop, stop!

What are you doing in my bedroom!?

Where’s Nia?

Calm down.

Nia!

Where’s my sister?

Your sister?

She’s not here.

No one is.

Nia!

Nia!

Nia!

Nia!

Nia!

Dion.

Just breathe.

What's happening to me?

I don't know how much you remember.

Or if you're even aware of what's happening right now?

What do you remember exactly?

Remember, what?

Why are you here?

In this house?

Our house burned down.

Me and Nia, we got this place.

OK, Dion, I've been dreading having to explain this to you.

But your entire family died that night in the fire.

No, I know that.

No, everyone.

Including Nia.

No, no, no.

No she couldn't. I was just with her. There's no way.

Can you explain exactly where that was?

Here! In this house!

Dion.

Would you like to know what really happened?

- That is what... - Wake up!

Nia.

Please, wake up!

- Nia! - I need you to wake up!

Nia!

- Nia! - Dion, please.

Oh my God.

- I don’t know what to do. - Nia!

Oh my God, please wake up.

Oh my God.

Please just wake up I need you to wake up. Please!

Wake up!

Ah, Nia!

Are you alright?

Yeah. Let's get inside.

Are we going to talk about this?

Or just sweep it under the carpet?

I mean,

I'm fine either way, it's your funeral.

I don't know.

Maybe I was dreaming?

I think it was more than a dream.

Do you want to know what really happened?

You were having some kind of night terror.

Thanks for that by the way.

And then.

Well I thought you woke up in some kind of...

Daze.

Like sleepwalking, except...

It wasn’t.

It was as though you were asleep

and awake at the same time.

Well then I kept trying to wake you up and...

You just kept muttering to yourself about some, woman?

That woman.

I've been having visions of her.

We'll come back to that, but, go on.

The other night.

She was standing at the foot of my bed.

I was here, but I mean I wasn't,

‘here’.

It was so familiar, Nia, but,

Unfamiliar.

She said that.

What?

Next thing I know we were outside walking.

But you know this is real, right?

Here and now, with me?

I know how this sounds.

I believe you, I just.

I don't know what we do now.

Do you need help?

What?

Nothing.

It's her isn't it, the woman?

No, no, no.

Can you see her now?

Nia, please just.

I just.

Nia, Stop!

Nia I'm sorry!

Looks like the weather's picking up, doesn't it?

How 'bout those dodgers, kid?

Boucher hits one out to left field.

It's going.

It's going!

Oh it's gone, the crowd go wild!

No we need to talk about this.

I know. I'm just.

It's happening again isn't it?

No, I've...

Mum explained everything.

Explained what?

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

Nia?

Nia, what?

Nia!

Nia, what are you doing?

What's going on?

You wouldn't talk to me.

I didn't know what else to do, I.

I didn't know who else to call.

thank you so much.

Dion!

Dion. It's ok, it's me.

No, no no.

Nia?

Nia!

Nia!

You're still here?

And so are you.

Well, good morning!

Morning?

It's tomorrow?

Well, only compared to yesterday.

Coffee?

I must have been down all night?

Well, it was quite the day yesterday,

I'm sure you needed your rest.

Is there anything you'd like to ask me?

What is this, therapy?

Well, this is not, no.

But.

‘This'.

This is. Yes.

OK, Dion, let me explain.

And if at any point it feels like too much,

you just tell me to stop.

After you lost everyone in the fire.

You had a complete...

Well, we don't like to call it this anymore, but.

For lack of a better term.

You had a complete breakdown.

You went into something of a comatose state.

And so you were brought here.

For rehabilitation.

With me as your live-in help and therapist.

[Laughs}

Sorry, where are my manners.

I'm Doctor Minos.

- And as for where you've been. - I know where I've been.

OK.

What are we doing here?

Well, funnily enough, you're already in my therapy chair.

Don't get any ideas.

Wouldn't dream of it.

To be completely honest, it's a lot of this, really.

Talking.

Through your emotions, your thoughts.

OK. Let's say...

That I was intrigued on...

Hearing your thoughts on where I’d been.

OK, well.

Hypothetically.

OK, well, hypothetically.

I would assume, where you've been.

Was some form of 'Double Bookkeeping'.

Or 'Derealisation'.

Where you've created a reality in your own mind.

A reality where you feel safe.

Where Nia didn't perish and you could live in peace.

Knowing that you saved her and could care for her.

Masking the trauma of what actually happened.

Look, I know,

this must be,

an extraordinary amount to bear.

But the first thing I need you to understand, Dion, is that,

None of what happened was your fault.

I think that's enough for one day.

But.

Where I was.

With my sister.

It just felt more like home?

I mean, I've got memories there of before.

Whereas here.

There's just nothing.

Well, the mind is a powerful tool.

And even more powerful when you're unaware of what it's

doing subconsciously

But we need to make you understand what is,

and is not, real.

Imagine.

You're standing in-front of a mirror.

You look down and you can see yourself and your surroundings.

But looking up you can see your same self and your

same surroundings in the reflection.

The difference is,

you know that where you're standing is reality

and what you're looking at is a reflection.

How do you know you're not the reflection, though?

There is something I think could help.

If you're willing?

Now, hypnotherapy has a great track record

of helping patients regain some of their memories.

Hang on, you want to hypnotise me?

Yeah.

I don't know if I want you in my head making me bark like a dog.

Nothing like that.

Hypnosis puts you into a controlled

and relaxed state of mind,

where we may boost the mental performance of your subconscious

and start to regain some of those memories you’ve...

Well, misplaced.

Think of your subconscious as your ‘all seeing eye’.

A part of your mind which is always watching and taking notes

even when your conscious-self is unaware.

The problem is.

Your conscious mind and your subconscious mind,

they have trouble communicating with one another.

Hypnosis can improve that communication.

And hopefully,

allow us to travel back to the memories

stored within your subconscious

and bring them to the surface so they become conscious memories

once more.

OK.

OK.

Now sit back.

Close your eyes.

Let yourself relax completely.

Take a deep breath in.

And as you exhale, feel yourself let go.

I’m going to count from five to one

and as I do, you’ll feel your relaxation deepen.

Five. Nice and Comfortable.

You’re safe here. Safe to let go.

Four. Doubling or even tripling your relaxation.

Three. Everything’s peaceful now.

Two. Going even deeper.

One. Here we are.

You’ve got to stop doing that to me.

See, I told you he’d be OK.

Dion?

What are you doing here?

Taking care of you of course.

Doctor Minos?

Doctor Minos?

Dion, it’s me?

You really don’t know who I am.

Do you?

Dion, look at me.

It’s me.

You honestly don’t know?

It’s Doctor Minos, my therapist.

Well.

Yeah, she’s Doctor Minos, but she’s not your therapist.

She’s Aria.

Your wife.

No.

Dion! Are you OK?

It’s OK calm down.

Dion, I’m going to count from one

and when I reach number five you’re going to wake up.

One. Moving your fingers and your toes.

Two. Moving your hands and your fingers.

Three. Lots of energy returning to the body.

Four. Coming back to this place. This time.

Five. Opening your eyes.

Dion?

Dion!

You’re OK, hey, hey, look at me, look at me!

It’s OK, it’s OK.

Look at me, it’s OK.

Aria.

You’re my wife.

It’s OK.

This is a good sign.

I, I.

I don’t...

It’s alright.

You take all the time you need.

I’ll be here whenever you’re ready.

Do you mind if I come in?

What were we like?

As a couple?

I’m afraid it’s not my place to say.

My memories are my interpretation of events.

It would be dangerous for me to fill the gaps in your memory

with my own.

For fear of implanting something your mind doesn’t deem as true.

A false memory as such.

But. Deep, deep inside there.

Is all the truth you need.

You done all of this, just for me?

I watched you fade

And there was nothing I could do to help.

And then one day, you just sat there.

And continued to sit there.

You were truly lost inside of yourself.

There was only so much I could take.

And so I packed everything we owned and I brought you here.

To get you away from everything.

To make a fresh start.

Start the healing process.

So sorry I...

Don’t.

It will all come back with time.

But right now it seems healing isn’t our only goal.

We need to keep you here.

In this reality.

And stop you from sinking into this world that your mind

has orchestrated.

How?

Well that’s for me to worry about.

I think hypnotherapy is off the agenda

for the foreseeable though.

Nearly lost you there.

Place any feelings of anger, fear, worry

in the core of your stomach.

And attach those feelings

to the energy that is now rising slowly through your body.

And as you exhale, feel those feelings evaporate.

As you finally release that energy.

Your eyes are open aren’t they?

No. No, no no. Keep going this is, eh, good.

Dion, meditation is not about closing your eyes.

It’s about being in total control.

Of your mind, body, and - soul.

That is if you believe in the soul?

You don’t have to answer this if you don’t want to.

But as far as your concerned, Nia survived?

Look, as far as I’m concerned ‘this’ could be a false reality.

You could just be a projection of my imagination.

No, I’m serious!

I’m sure you are.

And who’s to say you’re wrong, eh?

You.

No, look.

I think I am starting to realise that

this other reality isn’t real.

And it’s probably not healthy for me to spend time there.

But.

If you had somewhere,

Where you could visit loved ones that had passed.

Wouldn’t you want to be there?

Yes.

I think that’s my struggle with all of this.

If this other world does exist, even in my mind.

Nia’s there, the whole tragedy never happened.

Why would I want to be here?

Because you have to.

You, you have to live here,

in reality and face your problems head-on.

I appreciate what you’re feeling, I do.

But it wreaks of ‘ignorance is bliss’.

Your body without your mind is mere mechanics.

And your body is here.

In this world.

And if your mind and your body

aren’t connected, living in a real world with real people

then what would you be?

Happy.

No, look, I’m sorry I didn’t mean, I didn’t mean it like...

It’s fine.

Nia, look at him, he needs help!

I promise he’s done this before, he comes back around,

will you just wait!?

What if he doesn’t, Nia, then what?

He will!

Just be patient, please!

Please don’t take him away from me.

Is that all this is?

How selfish.

Do you not worry about how this is affecting him?

How it’s affecting us?

That’s it. I’m calling an ambulance.

No.

Please.

Mum!

Nia!

Dion!

Are you OK?

She called you ‘Mum’?

Aria, she called you...

Mum.

What?

She’s our daughter.

No.

No, no.

No, she can’t.

She’s my sister.

Think, Dion.

Think very hard.

What do you actually remember?

I, I definitely remember.

I remember holding her when she was born.

You were at the birth of your own sister?

It’s not uncommon for siblings to fulfill the role of parents

in family relationships.

But is that all this was?

A fatherly figure, or?

You lied to me.

No. No, Dion, I never...

What else have you been hiding from me?

I need to see her.

Dion, no.

I need to see her!

Dion, look at me!

Nia is gone. You can’t talk to her.

No, no, no. You’re wrong, she’s alive.

Where, in your mind?

That is not Nia. That is your projection.

A memory is not real.

That place is not real. This, here with me, this is real!

Please, Dion.

Stay with me here.

In this reality, and we can work through this together.

And how do you plan on seeing her anyway?

You transitioning, it’s uncontrollable.

But you can control it.

What?

Hypnosis.

No. Out of the question.

- But it worked, Aria. - It didn’t work!

I nearly lost you!

I’m not risking it again.

- Look, Aria... - No, Dion!

Aria!

Aria, stop!

No, Dion, you stop!

Everything I’ve done.

Everything I have been through to try and help you!

You may not remember me, but I remember you.

And I need you here and now and not escaping

to some other world whenever this one gets too tough.

And I need you to start realising that whatever this

other world may be, it’s not real!

And you can’t use it to fix everything!

I am here.

I always have been and I always will be to help you through this

But I have lost you too many times and I will not send you

back there just to lose you again.

- Look, Aria. - Don’t.

Come with me.

I cannot think of anything

I would want less than to send you back there.

I think hypnosis seems to be a gateway into this other world.

And thank could prove really dangerous.

But. If it’s what you want.

Now is your chance to tell me why.

You say that I don’t remember you.

But I do.

I might not remember the first time we met, or our first kiss,

But I remember every moment that we’ve spent here.

Maybe this whole ‘Dissociative Fugue’

Maybe it’s permanent.

And you’ve lost me.

You’ve lost the old me forever.

But what if that’s not what this is about though?

What if this new world is a part of me?

A part of who I’ve become?

Every time I’m there, there’s something pushing me to remember

and forcing these memories to the surface of my mind.

They’re memories that have got no meaning, but,

I don’t know.

Maybe in time they’ll make sense.

There must have been a reason

my mind has created this world and put everything in it.

Why would we strip me of that?

Look.

I just think.

If I could go back and see Nia one last time,

it might,

ignite something

in some deep, dark recess of my mind that,

I don’t know, might push me to remember and,

answer some of these questions.

And that might be a load of rubbish

but that’s my reason.

OK.

OK.

As strange as it sounds, I agree with you.

I think this other world is a part of you.

Except I think it’s like a paras

Drawing life from within you

and I think you need to make peace with it.

Before we remove it.

And close the wound for good.

Because I will only agree to this under one stipulation.

This has to be goodbye.

If you truly believe

that visiting there will ignite some long lost memory.

Then I’m willing to help.

But this is the last time.

You cannot rely on some imaginary world

to solve all of your problems.

And I need you to treat this as a form of closure.

OK.

OK.

Now, the second I see you in distress like before,

I’m pulling you out immediately.

OK.

If this works,

this will bring you

immeasurable pain.

I know.

OK.

Rest your head back and close your eyes.

Take a deep breath in.

And as you exhale, feel yourself relax completely.

I’m going to count from five to one.

And as I do, you’ll feel your relaxation deepen.

Mum!

Dad?

I know.

Sorry, I.

It’s OK.

Dion!

Dion!

Dion!

- Mum? - My Boy!

Dad?

No, no. Wait, wait. You can’t.

No, no.

How?

You died?

- What? - Died?

Dion!

Listen to me, they’re not real.

This is all in your mind. Please come back inside.

It’s OK son.

We’ve been searching a long time for you.

Just step outside and we can talk through this.

But how have you?

Dad, is Nia with you?

- Look, come outside and we can - Is Nia with you?

Son.

Who’s Nia?

Sleep.

Sleep!

Sleep!

Get back!

Aria, please, just.

Let him go and then we can talk this through.

No! Dion, I did this for you.

I did this for us.

We could have been so happy.

Aria, listen.

I’m sorry.

I’m so sorry.

I just wanted you to love me.

We were so young.

We only had two years but I wanted so much more for us.

And then you left me.

I couldn’t bear to lose you.

I knew I alone wasn’t enough for you.

You agreed to meet me here

for a weekend getaway to work on our relationship.

And I knew we could have a life together

if you only you could truly experience it first-hand.

Then you would believe in the idea of ‘us’.

I put you into a prolonged state of deep hypnosis.

Implanting false memories that would help make you see

our potential together.

Creating a world full of possibility.

Our happy marriage that was left desolate after the death

of a daughter and your parents.

So we could start a new life together

and rekindle everything that was lost.

But once you awoke

I couldn’t understand where I went wrong.

Your mind rejected the reality I was trying so desperately

to make it believe, and everything was misconstrued.

A daughter you deemed as a sister

and no memory of myself or our relationship.

And so I continued to work with you.

Taking opportune moments to take you into hypnosis

and correct the story in your mind.

And slowly it began to stick

When you called me your wife I could hardly breathe.

And the revelation of Nia being your daughter

it was all I’d ever wanted for us.

And when you finally wanted to see her

it was only then that I knew you were starting to believe.

But.

And, Nia?

Just a character I created.

To help you see what could have been.

I needed you to believe we had a family.

And having lost a child, with us here alone, we could try again!

Start anew. Have everything we ever wanted.

Just leave.

I wish things could have worked out differently.

I know there’s no future for us now.

But I just wanted you to know how much I loved you.

You ready to go?

Yeah, almost.

Dad.

I miss her.

Aria?

Oh.

I haven’t even got a picture of her, you know?

Just memories.

Memories that didn’t happen.

I know son, but.

Those memories will begin to fade as time goes by.

Like so many people that come and go in our lives.

Take all the time you need.

Dion!

Mum. Dad. But you died?

Dion, listen to me.

They’re not real. This is all in your mind.

Please come back inside.

Sleep!

Sleep!

I needed you to believe we had a family.

And having lost a child, with us here alone, we could try again!

Have everything we ever wanted.

And, Nia?

Just a character I created.

Dion!

I did this for you.

Your sister?

She’s not here. No one is.

I did this for us!

Deep inside there, is all the truth you need.