All language subtitles for Dr.Death 07

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

[Rodriguez's "Like Janis"]

* *

- * And you measure
for wealth *

* By the things you can hold *

* And you measure for love *

* By the sweet things
you're told *

* And you live in the past *

* Or a dream that you're in *

* And your selfishness *

* Is your cardinal sin *

* And you want to be held *

* With highest regard *

* It delights you so much *

* If he's trying so hard *

* And you try to conceal *

* Your ordinary way *

* With a smile or a shrug *

* Or some stolen cliché *

* But don't you understand *

* And don't you look about *

* I'm trying to take
nothing from you *

* So why should you act
so put out *

* For me? *

* 'Cause emotionally *

* You're the same basic trip *

* And you know that I know *

* Of the times that you slip *

* So don't try to impress me *

* You're just pins and paint *

* And don't try to charm me *

* With things that you ain't *

* And don't try
to enchant me *

* With your manner of dress *

* 'Cause a monkey in silk *

- ADA Shughart.

- * So measure for measure *

- Thank you.

- *And when I won't see you *

* Then measure it dead *

* 'Cause don't you
understand *

* And don't you look about *

* I'm trying to take *

* Nothing from you *

* So why should you act
so put out *

* And sit there in wonder
and doubt *

* For me? *

* *

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

- Are you under the influence
of any drugs or alcohol today?

- No, sir. [laughs]

I just woke up
from a nap when y'all came by.

That's why I'm still
in my pajamas.

- I see.

Well, we would like
to hear your side of things.

But first thing
is you've been charged

with five counts
of aggravated assault

and one count
of harm to an elderly person.

So you have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say can
and will be used against you

in a court of law.

You have the right
to an attorney.

If you cannot afford
an attorney,

one will be appointed to you.

Do you understand these rights?

- Yes.

- And you waive your right
to a lawyer?

- Yes.

- Okay, then.

Can we walk you
through these charges?

- I've got every case
memorized.

I can tell you everything you
need to know about my patients.

But start here.

Every single surgery
I performed was textbook.

- Okay, then.

Stan Novak.

- Mr. Novak.

Presented
with severe neck pain.

He had difficult insurance.

I was helping him out.

There was significant bleeding,
but luckily, I was able to see

that there was some tissue
growing on the bone.

Appeared to be cancerous,
so I aborted surgery,

sent it off to biopsy,

got him closed up
and off the table.

- And was it?

- Was it...

- Cancerous?

[ominous music]

- No. Neck muscle.

But abnormal.
It appeared to be cancerous.

- Anything else?

- Well, my staff is responsible

for counting
the number of sponges

that are used in surgery,

and they were
all accounted for.

But in post-op, I discovered

that a member of my staff

had left a sponge in his neck.

They should
be held responsible.

Cindy Tremblay
was a very heavyset woman.

I can prove that.

Surgery was textbook.
Lower back pain.

I'd have preferred
to do minimally invasive,

but she was such
a heavyset woman

that the hole was large.
[laughs]

That caused some bleeding.

I inserted the pedicle screw,

but it drifted
a little bit off midline.

But that happens
in about 6% of surgeries.

- Sixty?
- Six.

I make sure everything
is done exactly right.

She was only in a hospital
for a couple days.

Never complained.
Textbook surgery.

Shelley Brennan.

The anesthesiologist
gave her fentanyl,

so there were complications
associated with that.

- Shelley Brennan died
from blood loss.

- But the anesthesiol--

that--that wasn't
a--a surgery problem.

- What about Dorothy Burke?

* *

- You know,

Madeline Beyer
and Dorothy Burke

is a large part of the reason
I came down today.

- You came down today?

- I just thought
it was medically ethical

for me to report those cases
to the board--

to the--to the--to the police.

Because somebody
has to be held accountable.

That's criminal.

On the hospital.

Mrs. Beyer--
I mean, Mrs. Brennan--

my--my--my surgery
from the previous day

was still in recovery.

And they just kept on
coming in.

And coming--
it's very distracting.

If I had just been allowed

to follow my surgical training,

you know, and then
my--my medical staff

was also, um, working
against my wishes,

which is very distracting.

And I was trying to help her.

And I do have to say,

these allegitations
of--of drug use?

I voluntary--

I-I-I-I--

I voluntary, um,
voluntary drug tests,

hair and urine,
through this entire time.

Never failed a drug test.

[stammering] And then...

In the first 22 years
of my career,

I never had any--
any suggestions

or allegations of drug tests.

But now all of a sudden,

there's this--this comment.

[laughs] This mention.

And that's coming
from them, obviously.

They are conspiring against me.

- Who's conspiring against you?

- Dr. Randall Kirby

and Dr. Robert Henderson.

[tense music]

* *

[sighs]

Look, I just came down here
to visit my boy.

I'm going back
to Denver tonight.

- Dr. Duntsch,
you're under arrest.

We have to book you.

And you'll be seen by a judge

and taken to holding
to await your bond hearing.

- So I can't go home?

[beeping]

- Hello.
This is a free call

from Dallas County
Correctional Facility.

- Hello?

- Dad.
- Chris.

- The police came by,
picked me up.

- [sighs]
What is it this time?

- They're confused, Dad, okay?

It's those accusations,
my patients.

It's all ridiculous.
I need you to come down here.

Down to Dallas.

The bond hearing's on Tuesday.

- What exactly did they
charge you with?

- Elder abuse.

- Elder abuse? How?

- I told you. It's ridiculous.

But I just need you
to come down.

- Okay.

- And it's probably
gonna be expensive.

- Yeah.
Don't worry about that.

- I need to get out of here.
I should be working.

I just need to get

my medical license
approved in Colorado.

- Your medical license?

- Yeah, yeah, make some money,
hire an elite legal team

to expose this
conspiracy bullshit

for what it is:

professional jealousy
and desperate slander.

- We'll figure something out.

- Tuesday.
- I'm on my way.

[somber music]

- Dad?
- Yeah?

* *

- I love you.

- Okay.

[indistinct chatter]

[phone ringing in distance]

[soft tense music]

* *

- Hi, Mrs. Brennen.

You'll be okay.

* *

- Tubular retractor.

[machinery beeping]

Dr. Morgan, tubular retractor.

Kim.

Tubular retractor.

Kerrison.

- [screaming]

[buzzing tone]

[distorted speech]

- Kim.

[distorted speech]

Kim.

Kim.

I need to see Duntsch.

Shelley Brennan's
blood pressure plummeted.

- [sighs]

It happens.

You stabilize the patient
and keep on moving.

- Is that what you did?
Stabilize Miss Brennan?

- [laughs]

Are you trying to blame me?

- I'm trying to understand how
a simple one-level laminectomy

ends up with a dead patient.

- That surgery was perfect.

We were in and out
in 50 minutes.

- She was in DIC
within three hours.

Her body covered in hives.

- That sounds like
an allergic reaction to me.

That's an anesthesiology
complication.

- You've had quite a few
anesthesiology problems.

- What exactly
are you implying?

- You're not gonna deflect
this one.

- I don't think I like
your tone, Miss Piel.

- I came here
to tell you face-to-face

that you are done at Baylor.

Effective immediately.

- No.

I'm not leaving.

- Do you think I'm asking
your permission?

- The burden of proof
is bouncing

all over your court right now.

I haven't done anything
that warrants a termination.

- James, Sweeney,
Padua, Summers.

- I was investigated
and cleared.

If you fire me now, that's
a breach of our contract.

- Don't make this ugly.
Bow out gracefully.

- [laughs]

- Who are you calling?

- My lawyer.
Lawyers, in fact.

- You think you can win a fight
against Big Baylor?

- I'm not fighting
Big Baylor.

I'm fighting you.

I have a right
to defend myself.

- I'm not intimidated by you.

- [sighs]

- Let me have one more case.
- There's no scenario

that I let you back
into my hospital.

- Give me one more case,
and I'll let you observe.

- Not a single doctor or nurse
is willing to work with you.

You're radioactive.

- You recruited me from MISI.

I wasn't even thinking
about coming to Baylor.

I accelerated operations
to fill the day.

Bring in money.

- What do you want?
- You know exactly what I want.

- You won't get it.
I want you gone.

You have to be gone.

- Okay.
Fine.

Then we're negotiating.

I'll resign.

You'll write me
a recommendation.

- That's not up to me.
It's up to legal.

Whatever it is,
we'll protect Baylor Plano.

Because we did nothing wrong.

[tense music]

* *

- [sighs]

[knocks on desk]

* *

- [sighs]

- [knocks on door]
Knock, knock.

What is the status of our
application for privileges

over at Dallas Medical Center?

- Why? What happened?

- Oh, nothing.

It's just exhausting
working for people

with limited mental capacity.

[chuckles]

Baylor's out.

Will you follow up with DMC?

* *

[phone ringing]

[gavel bangs]

- The defense is requesting
bond, is that correct?

- That's correct, Your Honor.

However, the state's motion

for $600,000

is not just
generally egregious,

but particularly inappropriate
in this matter.

Dr. Duntsch
is currently unemployed.

And as you can see
from his bank accounts,

submitted as exhibit four,
that his personal assets

do not allow for such a bond
to be met at this time.

- State's response?

- The state agrees.

$600,000 is not appropriate.

We're filing
to deny bond altogether.

- The state's request
is beyond the pale.

Denying bail for a doctor?

- A doctor charged with serious
and flagrant damage

to his patients.

Christopher Duntsch is a flight
risk and a danger to society.

- As it relates to Dr. Duntsch

being a flight risk,

he has ties to the community,
a home, and a child.

And as far as his privileges
are concerned,

Dr. Duntsch has refrained
from practicing medicine

from the moment
his reputation and credentials

were so baselessly questioned.

- Well, I guess, then,
at this time,

the state would like to call

Donald Duntsch to testify.

- Objection. Your Honor.

[laughs]

Don Duntsch is present in court
today in support of his son.

He's not prepared to be called.

- Miss McClung, Donald Duntsch
is on the state's witness list.

It's the state's prerogative
to call him when they wish.

It's your responsibility to
prep your witnesses beforehand.

[tense music]

[indistinct whispers]

* *

- We appreciate you being here
today, Mr. Duntsch.

Where did you travel
in from again?

- We live outside
Denver, Colorado.

- Well, that must be hard

to have Christopher
so far away.

- Well, Chris has chosen
to stay near his family.

His son.

And I'm proud of him for that.

- You seem to place
a great deal of import

on integrity in your life.

- I like to think so, yes.

- Mr. Duntsch, is Christopher

trying to get
his medical license back?

- W--

Well, I think, at one point,

he would have liked
that to happen.

But you know, now,

with all that's going on--

- So you don't know
if his medical license

was about to be reinstated?

To be specific,
a Colorado medical license?

- Uh...

I can't say,

um, decisively.

I, uh--that's not something
he and I talk about a lot.

That's a hard one
for me to answer.

I--I don't know.

- Mr. Duntsch,
did Christopher tell you

he wants to make bond

so that he can go back to work

and raise money for a defense?

* *

- Yes. I suppose that's true.

- Doesn't this all point
to the fact that Christopher,

despite his bad outcomes,

will continue practicing
medicine, no matter what?

[dark music]

* *

- Get the fuck away
from my house!

[gun clicks]
- So I walk out of my office,

and I'm like, "Where's Kim?"
- Enough.

- And all I get
are blank stares.

Confusion. She just walked out.

- Are you high?

- I gave you the chance
to get in, ground up.

And you just walked out.

You walked out on me,
walked out on the empire.

- You're goddamn right I did.

And seriously?

You're slithering
around my house?

How sad.

You're making this
pretty fucking easy, Chris.

I'm filing a restraining order
against you.

Stay away.

You never had an empire.

[dramatic music]

You never will.

* *

[indistinct rap music]

* *

[indistinct rap music]

* *

[Ultramagnetic MC's
"Ego Trippin'"]

- * Keepin' busy
in the place *

* *

* Fort Greene Mission Posse *

* 2Love's in the house *

* South Bronx *

* To the girl Chris *

[tires squeal]

[crashing]

* *

[beeping in distance]

[dog barking in distance]

[siren wailing in distance]

- [grunts]

[grunts] Shit.

- We should be celebrating.

- Defense will argue
this isn't a criminal case.

They'll say it should be
settled in malpractice court.

- How do we counter that?

- I've talked to his patients.

Their stories,

anyone with half a heart
will feel for them.

- And what's the "but"?

- This isn't just about
his medical skills.

Defense will say,
and it's hard to disprove,

that these were accidents
or the fault of others.

So we gotta make it
about the man.

About what made him, about
his choices, his character.

We need to show that this
all started way before Dallas.

I'm gonna talk to the people
closest to him.

His friends,
girlfriends, teachers.

- [laughs]

- What?

- Skadden?
- We already tried that.

And what got back to us was,
"He came out of there trained."

- I contacted U.T.
and Semmes-Murphey,

asked for his training hours.

This is what they gave me.

- 683 cases.

- Of which
only 230 were spinal.

- How many should there be?

- Well, there's
no required minimum,

but a good number
would be around 400.

- That's his residency.
Where's Semmes-Murphy?

- Told me they
don't keep records.

- Oh?
- Not required to by law.

But according to them,
he had enough.

I'll hear it from
the horse's mouth himself.

- I'm not sure that's

the end of the horse
he best represents.

- We should help her.

- I'm not going to Memphis.

- No. God, no.

Never again.
- [sighs]

- You want to come to my house?

- Your parents home?

[whistles]

Here's Duntsch's Facebook page.
You're gonna love this.

Listen to this horseshit.

"The sound of the sea
grows near.

"I feel waves upon my heart.

"All I want, all I need,

the answer awaits
at the start."

Well, he's a better surgeon
than he is a poet.

- Duntsch holds three patents.

Two with Ilya Burkov
and Katya Melnikov.

Registered to a company
called Discgenics.

- Discgenics, okay.

D-I-S-C-G-E-N-I-C-S.

[beeps]

Discgenics.

- Hello, doctors.

- Hey! Do svidaniya!

- Hello, doctors.

- I appreciate your
willingness to speak with us.

I know this puts you
in an uncomfortable position,

but we wanted to ask you

about Dr. Duntsch's time
at Discgenics.

And now, it goes without saying

that we will protect
your identity.

We don't want to get you
in any trouble.

- Trouble? What trouble?

- Well, it seems everyone

is afraid to talk
about Christopher Duntsch.

- We're not scared.
We're Russian.

- [laughs]
- What do you want to know?

- Anything and everything
you can tell us.

[suspenseful music]

Hello? Hello?

* *

- What, you got hamsters
powering your Wi-Fi here?

- I don't think that's how
Wi-Fi works, actually.

- Yeah.
I don't know why I did that.

- [choppy audio]
And they decided it--

that it was--
for him to be away.

- Yes, but he still
had to complete stage four.

- Could you repeat
what you just said, please?

- Which part did you miss?

- The drug part
or the investor part?

both: All of it.
- We missed all of it.

- I was saying that Duntsch
met with investors.

Skadden among them.
Everything was fine until--

- We don't know it was drugs,

but it was definitely
something.

His behavior,
his performance devolved.

- Geoffrey Skadden
was an investor in Discgenics?

- Research, Dr. Henderson.
Research.

You've clearly done none.

- He was one of the first
investors in Discgenics.

* *

- [mumbling indistinctly]

[knocks]

- Hi. Wendy Young?

- I have nothing to say
to you media folk.

- I'm not media.
Name's Michelle Shughart.

I'm the assistant
district attorney

overseeing
the Christopher Duntsch case.

I was hoping to ask you
a few questions.

- Well, you got some kind
of subpoena or something?

- I don't. But I can get one.

Question you in
a more formal setting,

if that's what you're
most comfortable with.

It's up to you.

- Come on.

Mason.

- You were with him in Memphis?

- Yeah. Just for a bit.

A couple of months
before we moved to Dallas.

- But you know
what he was like at home,

in social settings?

- What do you want me to say?

That he was a druggie?

An alkie? A fraud?

- If that's what you have
to tell me.

- You're not
that much older than me.

- Probably not.

- And already a DA.

- Assistant.
- Assistant.

You like your parents?

- Yes.

- Treat you good?

- Very.

- Support you?
- Always.

- Must be nice.
Such a perfect life.

[loud thump]

[dramatic music]

* *

- I'm not gonna help you.

- He deserves it.
His patients, they--

- No, no, no. Stop.

The world's a shitty place.

He dealt them a shitty hand.

Look, I've got a boy
who needs to eat.

Needs a roof, needs clothes,
a piece of crap toy

from the supermarket
now and again.

And I applied
for the good jobs.

Nothing doing there.

And I'm no welfare queen.

'Cause the moment
I start taking money

from the government's
when they start poking around

wondering about Mason's
well-being.

So all I've got right now
is Chris's parents

and their checks.

So yeah,

in case you're wondering,
I'm gonna do what I have to do.

Thank you, Christopher Duntsch.

- Thank you for your time.

- Of course.

- Teresa, Melanie,

this is Mr. And Mrs. Keller.

- Howdy.
- Pleasure.

- Where's Dr. Morgan?

- Newer pastures.
The commute was getting to her.

- She's from McKinney, right?
- She is.

- It's not 20 minutes
from here.

- Are you saying
she didn't like me anymore?

- [laughing]
Hardly possible.

Oh, that's too bad.
She was lovely.

- Still is, I imagine.
Come on back.

You're operating at
the Dallas Medical Center now?

- That's right.
You're my first case.

- [sighs]

- Oh!
- No, I'm sorry.

- Oh, please.
Not at all.

- It dills my pickle

that anybody'd fill in
half a crossword.

- Mm. Incorrectly, at that.
- Hmm?

- I did the same thing not ten
minutes before you walked in.

- [laughs]

So what's keeping you
from doing the Frug?

Neck or back?

- Well, it's my back.

Just one thing after another.

You know. How about you?

- Neck.

Doctor says
I need a "disctectomy"?

Is that how you say it?

- All Greek, far as I hear.
[both chuckle]

- My son's getting married
next year.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.
- Where?

- Nothing's sorted;
he keeps telling me

we got plenty of time
to figure it all out.

- You're gonna be planning it.

- That's the truth.

That's the truth.
[both laughing]

[sighs] Kids?

- Oh, yes.
Yes, but, you know,

weddings now are all...

done and gone for me, though.

- Time for rest, I suppose.

- Doctor's ready for you, hon.

- Oh. Well, good luck to ya.

- You too, dear.
- Your turn, Dorothy.

- Thought you fell in, Earl.

Yeah, I'm up. Let's go.

I'll see you.
- Bye.

[ominous music]

* *

- [sighs]

- Ms. Shughart,
Dr. Skadden will see you now.

* *

- Ms. Shughart.
Please come in.

Nice to meet you.
Won't you have a seat?

- Thank you.

[inquisitive music]

* *

[indistinct TV chatter]

- Hi, Jerry.
Nice to meet you.

Like basketball?

I like basketball.

Helps take my mind off things,

blow off steam.

I'll jump in.

I'm trying
to establish a pattern

to prove
Dr. Duntsch's recklessness.

From what I can ascertain,

it goes as far back
as medical school.

Is that a fair assessment?

- Yeah.

- Was he properly trained?

- What do you think?

- Did you ever witness him
take drugs?

Mr. Summers?

- Take drugs?
- Yes.

- What's gonna happen to him?

- How do you mean?

- If I tell you all this stuff,

what is gonna happen?

- We'd schedule a deposition
that'll go on the record,

after which you'll
testify in court

and hopefully get a conviction

and justice for you
and the others he hurt.

- So he'll go to prison?
- I hope so.

- I didn't do right by him.

He worked so hard,
harder than everybody.

He never stopped.

And then he takes a job
at a hospital,

someone else makes a mistake,

and they blame him for it,
saying he's a bad doctor.

You have any idea
what that does to a person?

He was depressed.

I just wanted
to be there for him.

He needed a win.

[tense music]

- That's why you let him
operate on you?

For a win?

- I had my neck looked at
right out of high school.

The doctor said
I needed surgery,

but life got in the way.

And then Dr. Skadden
took a look at me.

- Skadden? From Semmes-Murphy?

- Favor for Chris.

And he didn't want to operate.

Said I had a narrow canal
or something.

No insurance.

But...

Chris is the smartest guy
I know.

If anyone could do it,
it was him.

- So the operation
was your idea?

[somber music]

- Yeah.

* *

- If I was in your position,

I'd be upset, angry.

How are you not angry at him
for doing this to you?

- I could have stopped him.

I saw it.

I was strong,
and I could have stopped him.

Kayla tried to stop him.

- Who's Kayla?
- Kayla Gibson.

With him at U.T.

She tried to stop him. [laughs]

But we were just having fun,
you know?

- Do you think he did it
on purpose?

- No.

- Do you think he deserves
to be punished?

- He has a family.

- When was the last time
you saw him?

Has he come to see you
since the operation?

Has he come to check in
on his friends?

- Stop. Stop, stop.

- Has he said, "I'm sorry"?
- Get out, get out.

- He's not your friend, Jerry.
- Get her out.

- He did this to you.
- Get her out.

- Let's go.
- He killed other people.

- Come on.
- Just help me--

- Fuck you!
He's my friend, okay?

- We need you need to testify.
- He's my fucking friend!

He's my friend!
He's my fucking friend!

Okay?

He's my fucking friend!
He's my fucking friend!

Fuck you.
He's my fucking friend.

- I bring you
more glad tidings of joy.

- Thank you.
- [whistles]

I gotta start inventing
some shit.

- What?
- From 2001 to 2006,

Skadden made $27 million

in royalties from Medtronic.

- The largest medical device
company in the world.

That's nothing to them.

- From 2006, "Medical
device maker Medtronic Inc.

"agreed to pay 40 million

"to settle government
civil charges

"that its Sofamor Danek
spinal surgery division

"paid kickbacks,

"including sham royalty
agreements and lavish trips

"to surgeons to induce them

to use the company's products."

Medtronic is not admitting
illegality, of course.

- Was that because of Skadden?

- "Spine surgery patents
are valuable,

"and litigation in this area
is tricky terrain.

"Two of the Medtronic
consultants

"mentioned in
the whistleblower case received

"hundreds of thousands
of dollars from the company.

"Geoffrey Skadden
of the Semmes-Murphy clinic

in Memphis and--"

some other dude whose name
I can't pronounce,

"are highly regarded
surgeon-inventors

"who have played a role

"in developing important
surgery products

"with Medtronic.

"Dr. Skadden said that he has
more than 50 issued patents

"and that he has received
reasonable royalties

"for inventions

that have nothing to do
with his practice."

- Well, he deserves to get paid
for his inventions.

- [sighs] I guess so.

- This is the SEC
filing for Discgenics.

You can see
that Skadden's listed

as the Executive Officer
and a Director.

That's in 2007, three years
into Duntsch's residency.

Two years after that, he was
admitted into the fellowship.

- Well, how do you like that?
What a coincidence.

Why do you think
Skadden wouldn't mention

that he was an investor
in Discgenics?

- Would you?

- I'd like to think I would.

- But?

- Probably not,
because I'd want to hide it.

Because it's wrong.

How can I be an investor
in his company

and the head of his fellowship
at the same time?

I mean, that's what
we would call--anybody?

- That's the definition of
a conflict of interest, Robert.

- Uh-huh.
- I'm in love with your wife.

I am in love with you.

- I know.
- [laughs]

- The two of you are making
a moral argument,

not a legal one.

And nothing he did
crosses that line.

- I think we can all agree that
he definitely pissed on it.

- That's the American way,
Randy.

- I think we ought to do
something about that.

- Yes. We should.

[upbeat music playing]

* *

- Breakfast for dinner?

- Kayla.

Thank you for coming.

- I turned around twice.

- Wanna sit down?

I'm sorry for springing
that article on you like that.

- Oof, you knew exactly
what you were doing.

I haven't seen him in years.

Not since med school.

- Okay.
- Not sure what I can offer.

- Please, sit.

Did that article make sense?

- No.

- But you're here.

- You talked to Jerry?

- I did.

- And?

- He's in a tough place
right now.

- And he's protecting Chris.

What do you wanna know?

- I'm trying to get a picture
of who he is, why he is.

- You're trying
to put him in prison.

I'm having a hard time
reconciling the person I knew

with the person
in that article.

- It's all true.

In fact, that article

sorta just scratched
the surface.

- He was charming.

Intelligent, focused, handsome.

Very handsome.

- Y'all partied a lot?

- We did what most
med students do.

Work hard, party harder.

He had a wild side,
but didn't everyone?

- Did you witness him
using drugs?

- The thing about med school

is no one cares
how hard you party

as long as you can handle it.

Chris handled it just fine

until he didn't.

It started off with him

handing out tabs
to his friends.

Then he started writing
prescriptions at parties.

I tried to stop him,

but he didn't care.

People knew to go to his place
to get whatever they wanted.

- You're the one
who made the anonymous call

to the program?

- I had to do something.

- What about his training?

- I can't overstate to you

how brilliant Chris was.

I'd say he was
the smartest person in school.

But he's a researcher.

That's his gift.

He had no business
going the surgery route.

If he'd stayed
in the research field,

I think he'd have

one of the biggest mansions
in Germantown right now.

- Germantown?
- They have museums for homes.

Chris and I used to take
drives there on Sundays,

picking out the houses
we'd buy one day.

He'd say things like,

"Me and you, Kayla,
we're gonna run this town

and sleep on mattresses
full of cash."

- A power couple.
- [laughs]

Yeah, it's funny.

It's funny you should say that,

'cause he used to call
me and him

a Black and white power cookie.

[both laughing]

That was Chris.

He'd say silly things
like that.

School was stressful,

and he made it fun.

Whenever I was with him,

it felt like...

things were gonna be okay.

Sorry.

Maybe I should have had
an intervention.

But I was in a top program,

and I didn't want to deal
with any drama,

so I left him.

Who does that?

My parents always taught me
to care for the ones around us.

I didn't do that.

That article,

that is not the man
I fell in love with.

[somber music]

* *

I don't even know why I came.

I don't want to get involved

in any of this.

If you use me as a reference

for anything I said,
I'll deny it.

- I understand, and I won't.

But I appreciate
you talking to me.

- I, um--

I wish you knew him back then.

* *

- Maybe we can try to cut
some sort of plea deal?

- The ADA
isn't offering a deal.

- Well, can you try
to secure one?

- They won't go for it,
Mr. Duntsch.

- 18 months
until the trial starts.

18 months in here.

- Chris--
- No.

No.

This cannot be.

I am not guilty.

They can't do this to me.

- Look, we can go--

- 18 months
until the fucking trial starts!

That's the best
that you can do?

- The system
isn't as fast as you'd--

- Just go. Go, go.

I need to talk
to my father alone.

[sighs]

- This lawyer,
she isn't working.

- She's a good lawyer, Chris.

- What about Mr. Damelio?

Could he work the case?

- Damelio's a tax attorney.

- I'm not going
to make it, Dad.

I can't do this.

- No, don't--Chris.
Don't say that.

- I'm alone.

My friends, my colleagues,

they've abandoned me.

Family is the only thing
I have left.

And Wendy hasn't visited
in months.

She won't bring Mason.

And I need to see my son.

Maybe you could talk to her.

Remind her how important it is
that families stick together.

They never know when they might
need something from us someday.

[indistinct chatter]

[dramatic music]

* *

Can you hear
how loud it is in here?

- Yeah.
- Do you hear how loud it is?

- Yeah, it's loud.

- It's like that all the time.

Everything you say

echoes off the floor,

off the ceiling.

You can't hear yourself speak.

You can't hear the TV.

You can't hear anything.

So people just keep on talking

louder and louder,

and they turn the TV
louder and louder.

And it is like this
all the time.

- I'm so sorry, Chris.
- [scoffs]

Sorry? That's funny.

Because the bond hearing
was your fuckup.

I could be out there
with my son right now

and not begging
for visits from a cage.

You are the goddamn reason
I am in this hellhole.

I'm done.

* *

"I have burned my tomorrow

"and I stand inside today.

"At the edge of the future

where my dreams
all fade away."

"I face all my sorrows.

"Shadows stand in my way.

"At the edge of the future,

"what will happen,
none can say.

"You see only darkness

"as you ran away.

"You know now
you were sleeping.

And your dreams
will turn today."

- It's going everywhere.

- Look.

- Hey, buddy.

[chuckles] Is that for me?

Oh.
- Guess the toy.

- I gotta guess the toy?
- Yeah.

- Okay, what do you think
is in here?

I think...

it's a PlayStation.

- Look.
- Look?

A truck! Oh, my God.

- A PlayStation can't fit

in that big of a box.

- I should have known.
You're right.

A PlayStation can't fit
in that big of a box.

- And it can't fit
in that bag either.

- And I got it all wrong.

- [laughs] Yeah.
You got the whole thing wrong.

[UNKLE's "Burn My Shadow"]

* *

[lock chirps]

* *

- 8,000 people carried
at 8,000 miles.

That's pretty encouraging,
isn't it?

- Yeah, now a whole bunch
of them are profiteering.

They're selling
their torches online

for, like,
thousands of dollars.

People, man. [sighs]

I leave myself in God's

and Dr. Duntsch's hands.

- Stiff competition.
- Dr. Duntsch.

- Josh Baker.

I'll be your
circulating nurse, sir.

You come from Baylor?

- That's right.

- * And my dreams
all fade away *

- [whispers] You got a hole
in your scrubs, sir.

- * I have burned
my tomorrows *

- You said you're
the circulating nurse, right?

- Yes, sir.

- Shouldn't you
be prepping my OR?

- Absolutely, sir.

Mrs. Keller.
I'll see you on the other side.

Now...

let's get you up
and doing cartwheels.

* *

- * And burn my shadow away *

* *

* And burn my shadow away *

* *

* I faced my destroyer *

* I was ambushed by a lie *

* And you judge me
once for falling *

* This wounded heart
will rise *

* *

* And burn my shadow away *

* *

* And burn my shadow away *

* *