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Previously on Masters of Sex. It's my first day back. Goodbye, old job. The

whole space up here belongs to Masters and Johnson now. I'm the new girl. Betty

can also help with the books. I'm not sure I can scrape together this month's

rent. You will scrape, Flo.

I was wondering if I could fill one of those on call.

positions in return for your waiving the charge for mrs holden's in my room what

do you want with coral just because you're coral's boyfriend doesn't mean

brother i want us to get back together i've moved on austin barbara i thought

that you and dr great house there was a sexual we did everything just not the

normal way in terms of you were participating in the study don't feel

bad about rejecting me you're not gonna take my mother's money i had to help you

son i couldn't not not again Did you know that we haven't had sex in over a

year? I think Bill is under a lot of pressure.

Nothing's happening.

How long do you want me to try?

Rita Hayworth.

Ruth Taylor.

Lana Turner.

Marilyn Monroe. They're all doing it.

Rhinoplasty. Chin implants.

Facelifts.

Lift as in a little... Basic elevation and re-draping of the skin.

Remember in med school they used to say plastic surgery was for cleft palates

and burn victims.

People are finally realizing just because you're born with one face...

Doesn't mean you're stuck with it.

Obstetrician, plastic surgeon.

Two of Rochester Medical School's alumni made good.

You were supposed to be an English professor.

For 15 minutes, maybe.

You still read the way you used to?

Melville in a day, Tolstoy in a week? I don't have the time anymore.

Well, you didn't have the time in school either, but you still managed it.

Suffering has been greater than all other teaching.

I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.

Charles Dickens. I know who it is.

You wrote that to me.

That was the last letter I ever got from you.

Whenever you boys are ready.

What are you doing?

You came all the way from Kansas City.

Absolutely not.

No, this is my treat, Frank.

End of discussion.

Professor Tolan used to say you were the biggest pain in the ass to ever grace

his lecture hall.

I see some things don't change.

It was great seeing you.

Really.

You don't think I drove six and a half hours to discuss Marilyn Monroe's nose

job, do you?

I don't know if you heard.

But after all my years of bachelorhood debauchery, I finally settled down.

I did.

Through the grapevine.

The grapevine.

Congratulations.

As soon as we got hitched, first thing, I cleared out my office, set it up as a

nursery.

Pauline and I, we've been trying.

But a year on, I'm starting to worry.

I'm hoping you can help us.

I do know a few fertility specialists in Kansas City, but

I could easily have made a recommendation over the phone.

Why would I see a stranger in Kansas City when I'm sitting here talking to

the leading fertility expert in the Midwest?

So we have rejected 126 subjects from the study due to dysfunction. That's

nearly a third of all applicants.

In the future, we'll make a special note of subjects presenting with dysfunction.

We can build a patient base from there. Or from here.

M25106, NV.

Son of a bitch.

Wake up.

Impotence.

F3421, NV, dyspareunia. Is it supposed to feel like knives?

M-28-364, Envy.

Ejaculatory incompetence. Don't hold back on my account.

Envy? Non-viable.

You kept them all.

Why?

Well, if they're brave enough to come in, we should at least keep a record of

that bravery, don't you think?

You're a magician with those fingers.

Well, what brings you in today, Miss Packer? My arches are as flat as old

soda pop.

At work, I'm hobbling up the stairs like a polio baby.

Girl in the building, Virginia Johnson.

She saw me, said, Flo, you need Dr. Langham, and you need him now.

Oh, you're a Virginia referral.

Yeah, I work right next door to her. At Calimetric?

No kidding.

You know, my wife, uh, my ex-wife used to work there, too.

Oh, I know.

I was her boss.

Oh, the stories I used to hear about Elise Langham's husband.

You've been a very naughty orthopedist, Dr. Langham.

Well, with what I'm seeing here, Ms. Packer, I think you may be a prime

candidate for surgery.

Oh, I can't wait for surgery.

This week's our yearly sales conference. I don't want to be dragging around like

Quasimodo in the bell tower.

I could offer you a cortisone shot.

In the long run, I recommend you consider losing weight.

You're putting tremendous pressure on your feet. Some men like a lady with

curves.

You?

In spite of what you may have heard, Miss Packer, my relationship with my

patients is strictly professional.

Sure.

But somehow I can't help but to think that if I lost 50 pounds and dropped 10

years, you might be whistling a different tune.

Look, I made some very foolish decisions in the past.

Decisions that have made my life here at the hospital a living hell.

Passed up for promotion the last two years, and my colleagues actually call

me Don, as in Don Juan.

Frankly, I would give anything to walk through that door and never come back

here again. Start over somewhere else, somewhere new. But seeing as that's not

going to happen, the best thing for me to do is to stay out of trouble.

So, if you don't mind, I will ask the nurse to prepare your cortisone shot for

you.

Nurse?

While I have your attention,

I thought you might

be interested to know that we're being audited.

The IRS wants $4,000 in taxes with interest.

You said we were exempt from taxes. No.

I said companies that apply for and receive 501C non-for-profit organization

status under the Internal Revenue Code were exempt from taxes.

You haven't applied?

No, because in order to apply, you need to have a board of trustees like I told

you two months ago. I'm working on that.

Libby and I are having dinner tonight with Sam Duncan.

I'm assuming that if I can convince the chief of police to join our board,

others will follow.

You're going to convince him?

Why not?

Virginia? Yes?

You got any plans tonight?

Not at the moment.

Well, you do now.

Subjects are unmarried and randomly assigned.

Darkening of the areola?

I was thinking, what if every dysfunction had a male version and a

female version?

Meaning?

Meaning, look at normal sexual functioning. There's a kind of symmetry

to it.

Swelling of the testes in men, swelling of the vulva in women. So what if the

opposite were true, too?

Vaginismus could be the female equivalent of impotence.

Impotence has a significantly higher rate of occurrence than vaginismus.

Kinsey puts it upward of 27% of men that have trouble achieving erection.

Granted, that's anecdotal, but Wilhelm Steckel makes the number closer to 50.

You've looked into this already?

Preliminary research, only.

Um, I was wondering if I could take an extra couple hours for my lunch break

tomorrow. It's just, um, it's my dad's funeral is all.

Oh, I'm so sorry, Lester.

Yes, of course. Take all the time you need.

Actually, if I could leave a little early today. I'm trying to write my

eulogy. I was a whole night working on it, but I just can't seem to crack it.

Why don't you try it out on us first?

Really? I guess you could use some feedback at this point.

My dad had a long, happy life. He was a lawyer.

He loved his family.

That's all I have so far.

That's a fantastic start.

And maybe the rest of it will come a bit more naturally if you were to try.

I don't know, maybe something visual.

My cousin, for example, she had a slideshow at her wedding.

To be honest, it was not very good. But yours, I think, would be terrific.

Climax.

Nervous?

Thirsty.

Five dollars for prime rib? That is highway robbery.

If it goes well tonight, it'll be worth the price.

I still don't understand why you need a board.

When you go to the grocery store, why'd you buy Campbell's soup? Why not some

other variety?

I know Campbell's is good.

You trust the name, the label.

That's precisely what a board is. It's packaging.

And the right packaging is what will allow us to get our tax-exempt status so

we can get through this audit in one piece. You've been audited?

Here they are now.

Caroline is just at her wit's end with the veiled prophet ball. The thing is,

our study, it isn't really about sex at all. Do you know what the number one

cause of divorce in the state of Missouri is?

Sexual dissatisfaction.

And the children of divorce, as I'm sure you do know, they're ten times more

likely to pursue a life of crime. An alarming statistic with a clear

correlation. If we can save even one child from the scourge of divorce... And

we feel we've done our small part.

And the fight against crime.

So all of these volunteers, they're all married couples?

Of course.

I don't know.

Me being on the board of something like this.

I'm going to have to think about it.

You know what I think?

I think we should share a table at the Veiled Profit Ball this Friday.

Mrs. Duncan's been bending her ear about her chairing the leadership committee.

Well, truly, with the economy the way it is, if we don't receive more donations

by Friday, we'll have to make some devastating decisions.

Well, if you are looking for more volunteers, I would be more than happy

to lend a hand. Look at you, one good idea after another.

I wouldn't want to impose, but... It is a great cause, Lib.

Of course it is.

Well, Virginia, you must come too.

I've always wondered about the failed prophet with his strange mask and

costumes.

You'll come with me and Bill.

We'll go as a triumvirate.

Fabulous.

I tried to find an opening in the calendar, but unfortunately all the

regular appointment times were taken.

We don't mind getting up with the birds.

My staff usually opens the office, turns on the lights.

It is such a pleasure to finally meet you.

Although I feel like I've known you forever, really.

Francis has told me all about the trouble you two used to get up to.

Bill was always better behaved than I was. Everyone was better behaved than

you.

Folks who knew him back then, they always ask me, how did you ever get this

bum to stop running around and put a ring on your finger?

It is an impressive feat.

Once you finish filling out the intake forms, I'll be taking samples of

blood, urine, and semen for testing.

Are there any questions?

Pauline and I have been wondering if there's any way to know if the issues

we've been having have anything to do with my disease.

Here. I assumed you knew.

The grapevine and all.

Francis hasn't had a drop in almost a year.

I don't believe past drinking should have any impact whatsoever on your

chances of conception.

Huh.

Well, I can't tell you what a relief that is, Bill.

Sorry, I got stuck with a patient.

I didn't think we had any appointments until ten today.

Where should we begin?

Well,

male impotence, vaginismus, female desperunia, male desperunia.

Well, we're in the volume business.

I suppose it makes the most sense to start where we can make the most

difference.

Male impotence it is.

Start with the sexual history questionnaires look for any patterns

similar backgrounds Psychological abnormalities. I think we should stay

focused on the data without the empirical work. We've gathered Sexual

histories are just a collection of anecdotes. Yes, but the data by itself

only tells part of the story. We're not telling stories We have to devise

practical methods for treating these men

Start by compiling a list of techniques that have already proven a degree of

effectiveness.

Betty might be a place to start.

If you're a taxi driver, you got lousy tips. If you're a mailman, you got

barking dogs.

And if you're a hooker, you got this. Were there any methods in particular

that you found useful?

Hands, mouth, you know.

Whatever worked. In other words, an aggressive approach seemed most

effective. And then it wouldn't be.

Sometimes I'd give the guy a special tonic straight from India.

I'd warn him about it first, though. I'd say, sure you want to take this? Take

too much of it. Your erection might last forever.

And the ingredients were?

Rum and cayenne pepper.

If you could get this guy to believe it, you could get that guy to believe it,

too.

placebo effect we called it punch for suckers and if that didn't work we had a

couple penis bumps lying around but those were a real pain to make your arm

sore for a couple days well clearly this is not just a physical problem once i

was in the back seat with gordon garrett my high school beau he never had any

problems whatsoever with performance but this one night he found his mother's

handkerchief tucked in between the cushions and smelling like her perfume

and that was the end of that exactly most of the time

it's a mental block you know guy feels lousy about himself guy feels guilty

about his wife or his mother or he's got a thing for farm animals or whatever but

you're still stuck with the same problem how to get it up so he can finish off

pay up and Get out.

Hey, while we're on the subject of happy customers, what's this file you left

here? Uh, it's the Masons.

New fertility patients. I saw them this morning.

Early this morning. Ms. Mason was only available before 7 o'clock.

Oh, I didn't see them in the... I'm going to need you to have the lab rush

their test results.

You have any idea how much that costs?

I don't care how much it costs. Just get it done, please.

Are you in a rut?

Do you eat to excess?

Does your husband keep his eyes glued to the television when you step into the

room?

You get the idea.

Our new radio spot. I can't believe Kent Underly is your spokesman. I used to

listen to him on that old radio soap, Hospital of Love, in junior high.

Unfortunately, talent like that doesn't come cheap.

Mr. Underly requires four-star accommodations, although I did get a

fabulous deal on a hotel room outside the city.

I'm flying him in to get the keynote address at our sales conference. Ah.

Well, as I was saying, for just a small donation to the Veiled Profit Ball,

Calimetric will be featured in the program alongside other businesses like

the... Look, I'd love to help you out, Lib.

Can I call you Lib? But with this sales conference, I'm leaking cash like an old

bladder.

I'm sorry to hear that. You gotta spend a mint to make a mint. And I'm sick of

being a big fish in a rain puddle. By 1965, I want Calimetric to be the number

one diet product in America.

Well, in that case, you need to get the message out there.

An advertisement in this year's program will be seen by hundreds of women.

Women, I might add, with significant disposable income.

Rich women.

Unhappy women.

Just imagine the exposure.

See?

Leaking again.

Mind if I join you?

How did you find me?

You wrote your work address on your study application.

And they said upstairs I'd find you here.

Barbara, I feel terrible about how we left things. Please, don't.

Don't feel bad for me.

In fact, I thought maybe you could help us.

I'm setting up for the four o'clock.

I hope I didn't miss too much.

We decided to begin our work on dysfunction with male impotence.

How was it this morning?

I ended up putting together a slideshow like Virginia suggested.

I spent hours digging through old photos, shoeboxes full of them.

178 photos. Guess how many I was in?

Two. So you've always been the one behind the camera.

Just like everything else in my life.

The action seems to be happening to somebody else.

I'm just like those guys.

Those guys? In the, you know, dysfunctional way.

I, uh, I have... Vaginismus is the medical term. When the vagina

becomes impenetrable.

Vaginismus, then. That's... That's why Gil left me.

After two years.

After window shopping for rings. That surprises me a bit.

Most men appreciate a woman open to trying different forms of sex.

Well, not Gil.

His dad was a minister at one of those hellfire and brimstone churches.

So having sex the normal way was hard enough for Gil, let alone putting his...

somewhere other than the one place that...

I can't put anything.

Freud, he did posit things that we learn as children never fully go

away. Even things that we know aren't true. There's a part of us that still

believes them.

Like my neighbor. Sid Pomerantz.

He was this big shot producer Jane met a few months after we'd been in Hollywood.

He goes completely crazy for sending her Tiffany bracelets, taking her to fancy

parties, casting her.

I'm either at home unemployed or babysitting some director's incontinent

bulldog. And all of a sudden, Jane's getting home to her apartment later and

later at night, out painting the town with... Mary Doherty.

She was a sweet girl. She lived up the block from us.

Mary got pregnant at 14.

She kept it to herself.

Then she went into labor a month early and...

Bled to death in her bedroom.

Awful. My mother used to say, if you're a wicked girl, God will punish you.

What if you're a good girl, Barbara, and you wait until marriage, then God will

protect you.

And then one day, out of the blue, I woke up with a figure, and... boys

started to give me the time of day.

I liked it.

All that attention.

But then any time I would be with a boy, Mary Doherty would pop. in my head, and

it'd be like... Like someone flipped a switch.

I just couldn't do anything in the bedroom with Jane.

Since then, I tried once with another girl, twice, sort of, but still.

I'm sorry. This is an inappropriate topic to be bringing up at work.

Not at all, Lester. We talk about these sorts of things

every day.

And it's why we ask about this on our questionnaire, about someone's first

sexual experience.

My brother, Paul, had a friend who liked me.

He wanted to sleep with me, but I didn't want to get pregnant, so I used my mouth

instead.

That was my first.

It was a while after that until I...

Realized that my opening had shut completely.

All that thinking about Mary Doherty, I guess.

What was his name?

You're first.

Paul's friend.

I can't remember.

Is that bad? No.

No, it's just most people can't forget the name of their first partner, even if

they want to.

Hello.

Looking for fashion periodicals? Yes, yes, I am.

Honey, you haven't eaten anything.

You can't let him do that.

I didn't notice.

There's an article in the afternoon edition about that man you saw.

What does it say?

Police found an ounce of marijuana in the victim's jacket.

They think it's some kind of drug deal gone awry.

So I wouldn't feel too sorry for him if I were you.

They don't know who did it?

Still looking for a suspect.

Never should have moved to that awful neighborhood.

Every area has its problems.

I don't remember men fighting for drugs outside of Washington University.

Well, that's why putting together a board is so important.

A reputable board is an essential partner in the raising of funds.

With more cash on hand, we can move the office to a more desirable location.

Oh, speaking of cash, I spoke to Glenn Ellis this morning.

He said you managed to convince him to write a $50 check for the veiled

prophet.

Told me you're a natural salesman.

Is that... Is that something burning?

The casserole.

I feel like a teenager smoking in the girls' room.

What did you say his name was again?

Francis H. Mason, Jr.

You ever mention a Francis before?

Rochester School of Medicine.

Okay, so I snooped through his file.

Graduated 1947.

Bill was class of 43.

They must have been pals.

Who even knew the doc had friends?

He has never mentioned any to me, although he has been acting strangely

the past few days. And the man does like to keep his secrets.

Motility grade is excellent.

Morphology, well above average. For Christ's sake, just tell me.

The sperm count is low.

Two million per milliliter.

Normal is... Ten times that.

It's a random genetic anomaly.

Incredibly common.

In fact, I, uh... I see men with this condition every

day. I can assure you, you and your wife will be able to conceive.

In a lab?

I thought being a plastic surgeon you'd appreciate more than most that nature

doesn't always have to have the last word.

Now, in terms of treatment, I spoke to Howard Graham at Kansas City Methodist

this morning. He feels quite confident in taking it from you.

It hardly makes sense for you to upend both your lives for months on end just

to be treated here in St. Louis.

Why not?

I'm due for a sabbatical anyway. We could...

Find an apartment in the... Howard Graham is one of the leading lights in

the country in fertility.

You'll be in very capable hands, I can assure you.

He's not our doctor, Bill.

You are.

You can take your results to Dr. Graham when you see him tomorrow morning. I've

scheduled an appointment for you and your wife for 9 o'clock. I assumed you'd

be eager to get started.

I'll keep up with your case, make sure everything runs smoothly.

You and I...

Or we'll be in touch.

Like last time?

Good luck, Frank.

It's open!

I wasn't paying attention and I put too much soap in because the whole thing

just exploded.

Well, I can take a look at it if you want.

I'm sorry, I thought...

I thought you were from Sears.

Do you want me to?

No, no, thank you.

Well, I'm here because I saw you yesterday.

Drive by a building.

Yes, my husband works there now. And I was only there raising money for

charity. Actually, for the Veiled Profit Ball. It's an annual... Yeah, I know

what it is. It's a...

One of the oldest traditions in St. Louis, actually.

I never understood it myself.

All those privileged folks paying a fortune to see a man dressed up in robes

and a white hood. I mean, you can drive a couple hours south of here and see

that for free.

I'm very busy, as you can see, so if there's something that I can do for

you... You saw what they did to Leonard.

Leonard Gilroy.

He's the treasurer of the St. Louis office of court.

Congress of racial equality.

He's the one you saw laying on the sidewalk.

I did see that.

Yes.

It was very upsetting.

He broke his nose, his arm, cracked a couple of ribs and left them outside the

Corps office for everyone to see what they had done.

Well, the newspaper said that... Leonard Gilroy is a history teacher, not a drug

hustler.

And how can they say there was a fight when there were people there the whole

time? And no one saw nothing like that.

I was surprised to read that, too. I had just come out of the building and hadn't

noticed any sort of altercation.

Look, we got a couple of witnesses who saw the truck drive by and saw Leonard

get dumped out the back. And one of them saw the first three numbers of the

license plate.

And so I was wondering if maybe you saw anything.

If there are other witnesses, why are you talking to me?

Because most of them are colored folks.

The few white witnesses won't talk.

And the police aren't about to start an investigation based on the testimony of

a bunch of Negroes.

So if you did see something...

I didn't.

Francis Holden, radiologist from Kansas City.

That patient you brought in this morning, Francis Mason?

Plastic surgeon from Kansas City?

Two went to medical school together, right?

We went to the same school, yes.

And were you close?

We had a complicated relationship.

In what way?

Things didn't end well between us.

Or I don't know.

We drifted apart.

Sent letters for a while, every year, then every two.

Then not at all.

Well, he must have made some kind of an impression on you considering you named

yourself after him.

It's a coincidence.

The universe is full of coincidences. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died

within hours of each other, exactly 50 years to the day from the signing of the

Declaration of Independence.

Right.

Are you going to join me?

I should have stopped after I had my third drink downstairs.

I may have overdone it.

I'm not sure I'd be of much use.

Well, we could try.

A man can tell.

You order something from downstairs?

I'm sorry to disturb you, Dr. Holden, but you're on call tonight.

Something the matter?

You could say that.

He'd been dead for hours.

You need a coroner, not an obstetrician.

He ate himself to death?

Either the lining of his stomach burst or he suffered cardiac arrest.

Hard to say based on his presentation.

Well, maybe he's better off.

Whatever demons this man was battling with, clearly they were considerable.

They can't harm him anymore, can they?

I know, I know. I just... I needed to talk to you.

And then I saw your address in the phone book. I realized you were just a short

drive. There are boundaries. You cannot just show up at my home in the middle of

the night. You can't look for me!

You came to my building, you... You started talking to me, and after all of

that, and letting me pour my heart out to you, now you want to talk to me about

boundaries? Barbara, my children are sleeping upstairs. I'm sorry.

I just, I can't stop thinking about what you said.

I went home, and I took out all the old photo albums back from when I was a kid,

and I thought if I could just find a...

picture of that boy. If I could just put a face with a name that I would be sure

to remember it straight away.

And I did.

I remembered his name.

Paul.

But wasn't your brother... We had this creep that ran

behind our house and... Paul and I spent...

Practically every afternoon there.

We'd catch frogs and have them race.

Silly things like that.

And then we got older.

And we made up new games.

Like... You have to close your eyes and then just hug each

other as tightly as you can.

Or kiss.

for 20 seconds with your mouth open.

And then one day Paul asked me if he could put...

Just to dry it.

And Paul said that if we were careful, we wouldn't make a baby.

And so we continued.

And then one day we were late for supper and my mom came to find us.

And when she saw us there, she just...

Didn't say anything for the longest time.

She just stood there.

And she stared at us with this... This look on her face, not

angry, just...

Sickened.

And then she turned around and she walked home.

And that was it.

She didn't say anything. She never brought it up, but she didn't have to.

Because God saw what we did.

God knew what we had done, and that is why he did this to me. He closed me up

because of what we did.

Because we sickened him.

Having a patient in your home. I didn't know what else to do. Once that kind of

professional boundary is being crossed, you can't simply snap your fingers and

undo it.

I see no other option here besides a clean break.

No. No. I provoked those memories.

I can't just end it like that. That would be cruel.

She needs help, Bill. She's not eating or sleeping.

She has nowhere else to go.

We bring her in as a patient, our patient.

No more individual meetings.

We see her together in the office in a controlled environment.

In terms of treatment, obviously there is significant psychological trauma

underlying the physical symptoms. Neither of us is equipped to be delving

into this woman's psychology. I know that.

But I would like to become equipped.

You know that I've wanted to go back to school.

Well, as a practicing psychologist.

Virginia, first of all, you'd have to complete an undergraduate degree. That's

four years of coursework.

It's an accelerated program.

I've looked into it. Then at least three more years of graduate studies.

Not to mention hundreds of hours of clinical practice before you can even

begin the accreditation process.

It's important to me, Bill.

going back to school. You know that it is. And I fully support it. I'm just

wondering, how does years of study help Barbara in the short term?

All right, then. In the meantime, who is the best psychologist in St. Louis?

Lloyd Madden, maybe? He chairs the program at the University of Missouri.

Well, then, let's call him. We can give him the basics of Barbara's case and see

what advice he has to offer. No reputable physician would consent to

giving a medical opinion on a patient they haven't met.

What, with us as intermediaries?

passing on second-hand advice. What do you suggest, then? Stick to what we

know.

The focus of this study has always been the physiology of the human body.

I see no reason to change course now just because we're attempting to cure as

opposed to simply observe.

Okay, sales ladies, let's take our seats.

The presentation is about to begin.

I didn't sleep a wink last night.

Nervous about your big day?

My spokesman croaked.

I had to drive out to some hotel in Alton to identify the body.

Heart attack?

Cheesecake. Turns out there was a reason he never made it past radio.

It's a blessing in disguise.

What kind of diet company has a 300-pound spokesman?

Plus, it pushed me to do something I've been thinking about for days.

Excuse me, excuse me.

Ladies, ladies, please be quiet. Ladies.

It is with a heavy heart that I announce to you today that Kent Underlee, our

beloved spokesman, has passed beyond this earthly veil.

Now, ladies, even in this dark moment, we must remember, every end...

is a new beginning.

That's why I'm delighted to introduce our new spokesman for Calimetric.

With no further ado, let's give a big Calimetric welcome to the new face of

women's nutrition, Dr.

Austin Langham.

Thank you. Thank you. Stop. You're embarrassing me. Please.

Thank you very much.

Possible somatic causes.

of impotence may include vascular disease, hypothyroid,

diabetes, or other endocrinological conditions.

We've been going for an hour. Should we take a break?

Let's keep rolling, actually.

I realize that after all this time of you filming us,

you haven't had a chance to discuss your own role in the study.

Inspiration. The study.

I mean, in Hollywood, and I know because I've been there, they just churn out the

same old stories.

The western about the outlaw with a heart of gold, or the monster movie

about the scientist that no one will listen to until it's too late.

But here, in this lab, what you do every day,

it's all brand new.

What we do here is not just about observation and discovery, though. What

good is a theory, after all, if you can't do anything with it?

The work we're doing here, it's changing.

We're no longer simply observing phenomena and compiling data.

We're beginning to explore the idea of intervention, working directly

with patients.

Our new mission here...

is not simply to observe.

It's also to heal.

The gown, the gloves, the dancing lessons, the whole thing cost a fortune,

so I was the only one in my class who wasn't a Debbie doctor. In spite of

that, I would say you debuted quite well.

Now, where's that waiter?

The lady will have a gin and tonic. Thank you.

Bill Masters, how the hell are you? Mr. Pearson, allow me to... Mrs. Masters,

what a pleasure.

No, actually, this is Mrs. Masters.

And Mrs. Johnson works with Bill, which is like being married. Yes, only the

hours are worse.

There you two are.

Look who else is here.

The king and his court have arrived.

From the court of honor, the queen of love and beauty is crowned by the veiled

prophet of Coruscant.

It certainly is a fascinating tradition.

It's been going since 1878.

Damn strange tradition is what it is. But at least the liquor's always first

class. You behave yourself, Sam Duncan.

A toast to Libby Masters, a true Christian saint if there ever was one.

Libby raised $300 in one week. Oh, it was nothing, really.

Here, here.

And have you given any more thought to our proposal, Chief Duncan?

I have a feeling this study of yours is political poison.

Then again, you're not a politician, are you? In fact, we're the opposite of

political men.

Thank God for it.

So, I suppose I'm in.

Shall we head in?

Robert Franklin came to the house yesterday.

Coral's brother.

What do you want?

He said the story in the newspaper about that man in front of your office isn't

true.

There are witnesses, he said, who saw the man being thrown out of a truck.

What's it got to do with you?

I saw the truck.

It almost drove right into me.

He asked me to go to the police to tell them what I saw.

This is not our issue, Lib.

Our issue?

This isn't our issue.

The only reason I volunteered to raise money was to convince Sam to join the

board. I appreciate it. I know you do. It's just... Everything in our lives,

Bill, for as long as I can remember, has been about the study.

The loans we've taken out and friendships that we've lost has all been

for your work.

Work that does not include me.

I just... I don't know... I don't know where I fit in with it all.

Are you with me?

You've just called.

Said he'll meet you tonight at the coffee shop at 9 o'clock.

Dr. Madden is expecting you at 7.

I figured it would be easiest for you to see him after work.

You made me an appointment.

Dr. Madden is an expert in this area. He can help you. You can discuss the

problems that you've been having. I thought that you were helping me. Yes,

but I...

don't have anywhere near the qualifications.

You cannot expect me to sit down with a complete stranger, a man, no less, and

tell him the things that I have told you.

No, I'm sorry, Virginia. I'm sorry, but I can't.

I'm sorry.

I'd like to speak to you about what I saw the other day.

I can't live like this. I've lost my appetite. I haven't slept in days.

And why do you think that is?

Something happened to me a very long time ago.

And somehow, well, it's come up again.

When I grew up, there was a creek that ran behind my house. And in the summers,

my brother and I, we would spend every day down there chasing frogs and holding

our breaths under water.

And then eventually, as we got older, the games,

they changed.

I thought you were going home.

We were.

We discussed it though and we decided we didn't want anyone else doing the

treatments. We've made arrangements.

Pauline found a hotel that accommodates long-term stays.

This was not the agreement.

I didn't agree to anything.

My first week as a resident.

They had me on the emergency medicine rotation.

About two in the morning one night, they bring in this young girl, automobile

accident. She lost control, swerved off an embankment into a ditch, went right

through the glass, skidded across asphalt and gravel for 30, 40 feet.

Her face, I'm sure you can imagine, it was just...

They called in a...

Plastic surgeon from New York City.

I watched him work on that girl for hours When he was finished She

walked out of that hospital with a brand new face the next morning I Switched

my specialty to plastic surgery.

I thought What could be better than being able to give somebody a second

chance?

The embankment she swerved off

It wasn't an accident.

All we'd done was ruin her plans.

Six months later, she corrected the mistake, took a fifth full of sleeping

pills.

You think it's enough to fix the outside.

That's the easy part.

I have to tell you, Bill.

I've spent most of my life pretending you don't exist.

When people would ask me, I'd tell them I was an only child.

My parents only wanted one.

At some point, I'd said it so long, I started half-believing it myself.

my brother back.

I was seeing a married man.

And that bothered your friend.

And not you.

Really, Jen, you're one of the bravest people that I know.

I never saw myself as a threat to the man's wife.

Don't hold me up as an example of anything.

I do love her. I know. She's been a wonderful friend to me.

I feel it was the only way you posed a threat, if you wanted this woman's

husband for yourself.

Yes. I have never... Made a decision with the intention of hurting anyone.

You don't think any of this would hurt Libby? Then you're a fool.