"The mind, that ocean where each kind does straight its own resemblance find;"
"Yet it creates, transcending these, far other worlds, and other seas."
Heather!
I saw we have cockroaches.
Blessed are these bugs, George!
Because they will inherit the earth, if we are not careful.
Based on a novel of Ursula K. Le Guin
Lousy mixture barbiturates and dexedrine.
All dated this week.
which means they're not all from your pharmacy card, Mr. Orr.
Who'se card did you use?
Look, I have to have names. They called for me, I don't have a choice.
-Well, he borrowed my card. -That's not true.
True? The truth is just a lie the computer hasn't got on to.
Here's my number. 247.602.603.
I'd take it easy if I were you.
Man here hadn't found you...
How you're doing?
You shouldn't have said that I used your card, Mannie.
Now better that than they findin out where you did get it from.
Stealin' from hospitals does get you put away, George.
What's it to you wheather I get put away or not?
Well I don't want prison visiting just to beat you at chess.
Want me to put on the TV?
I know what's on. I dreamed it last night.
You ought to be careful now, George.
Go to court, call for plea,
Don't tell them about that dreamin' stuff.
Jellyfish time now. Float and drift, float and drift.
You know what I'm sayin'?
Allright, tell me now Mr. Orr, so I dont't go in there after a first offence treatment
findin' out you have done time for half a dozen other things.
-I haven't. -I hope not.
You understand how the system works?
Mr. Orr. First time you get benefit of doubt innocent until otherwise,
that sort of thing.
Second time, they process you without an attorny, and will give you the full "trancap" routine,
that's where they give you the lie detectors,
sodium pentathol, voice stress analyser,
and a brain scan, all in one neat little pakage.
-Isn't that against kind of a law? -Civil liberties?
Haven't heard that in a long time. I'm afraid that's from the good old days.
-Were things better in the good old days? -It's just a figure of speach Mr Orr.
I know. I just wondered if you remember when things were different.
You ought to get some sleep. You look terrible.
And try not to jawn in front of the judge.
It makes a terrible impression.
-You're presently unemployed Mr Orr? Yes, your honour.
-Is that the result of your addiction? -I guess they're connected.
-You're a hospital orderly. -Yes, your honour.
We can't have drug addicts in positions like that, can we now?
You better get yourself cleaned up if you want to go back to work .
-No priors? -No, your honour.
Owner of the pharmcard pressed charges? No, your honour.
You do realize Mr Orr that I can make you an obligatory?
Yes, your honour.
My client appreciates the gravity of his offence your honour.
Allright, Mr Orr. You're amended to a court appointed therapist on a voluntary basis.
-Do not abuse this consideration. -No I won't, your honour.
-Good. Next! -Case nr.937.
"The black market at a time of national shortage"
"is unfair, immoral, and criminal"
"giving as it does, disproportionate advantage to the wealthy."
Nice surprise...
Yes!
Do you like a game?
-You always beat me, Mannie -But you're improving
and improvement has its own rewards.
We have eliminated disease and now the population is out of control.
so we have food rationing, and black market.
One thing leads to another. Have to keep that in mind.
It's my fault.
You take things too personal, George! But you have your therapist to talk about that.
you ever noticed how therapist spells "the rapist"?
No, I never did.
You think they should do something about that.
"In these times, it is essential to take care of basics."
"Make shure all your meals contain the proper nutrients and vitamins."
"If you are in any doubt of what they are, contact your local centre nutritionist"
"to be adviced instantaniously."
"Illness is not a private matter."
"Your community has the right to know the health of its members."
"And you have the right to insist on disclosure of their health problems."
"Have a nice day!"
George Orr? Oh sit down! Dr.Haber will be with you in a moment.
Illegal pharmcard usage.
Uppers, downers, and stabalisers, overdosage
voluntary, no criminal record...
Another casualty of the pharmaceutical Inc's, Penny.
-Lost... so I describe him. -Really?
He did bring out the maternal in you, did he?
OK ehm, go have the little lost boy in place. Thank you Penny.
Mister Orr...
Excuse me. I'm dr.Haber. Ehm, have a seat please.
George, if it's allright to go right to first names?
It's quite a habit you got yourself into. I see you claim to suffer from bad dreams.
That's what I said in court. I wasn't encouraged to be more specific.
Probably a good thing. I mean, this is the place for specifics.
So you suffer from dreams and you took these various drugs to... to what exactly?
To try not to dream.
It's a very good thing you weren't very successfull in your effords, because the end of dreaming is death George.
What occurs is a, eh, a condition, known as, if I can be technical here
"central pontine myelinolysis."
Chronic alcoholics suffer from it.
Their blackouts preventing dream functions and ehm, well.
I know it's bad for me, but I can't bear some dreams ...
Why are you so afraid to dream George?
What's so frightening about?
They change things.
-What way do they change things? -It makes me sound insane.
You let me be the judge of that.
Why don't you tell me the first thing you had that you believe changed things.
-It was about my aunt Ethel. -When was this?
-About eh, about ten years ago. -What were the circumstances?
She came to live with me and my mam. She's my mother's younger sister.
Her marriage had gone bad, so she came from L.A. to live with us.
I think she was pretty unhappy. She drank a lot.
And she would start to flirt with me.
She was always in her robe, or half in it.
I would ask her to stop. But she she would just laugh and say
surely a young boy like you is not interested in an old woman like me.
Stuff like that. I hated it.
Did you have sexual dreams about your aunt?
-I guess so yeah, but they didn't change anything. -What did?
I dreamed that she went to L.A. to see her lawyer about a divorce
and that she was in a car crash. And was killed.
And she was.
Prophetic dreams aren't unheard of. Did you actually dream about the accident?
No. My dream was about the policeman calling, talking to my mam about aunt Ethel.
She told me. My mam I mean in the dream
Go on...
When I woke up, I went downstairs, and aunt Ethel wasn't there.
-Did you ask where she was? -No.
-Why not? -I guess I had this feeling that things were all different.
-Like everything had been squeezed. -Squeezed?
I don't know how to explain better than that.
It's just this feeling, back then I didn't know what it was.
Now I recognize it right away but I knew enough not to ask my mother.
And what happened?
When my mother went to work, I searched the house.
There was no sign of aunt Ethel.
Her clothes were gone, her room was empty,...
And I found a newspaper clipping about the accident.
A headon collision on Interstate 5, and it happened almost a year before.
But I dreamed it only that night.
I am shure this is not the only dream you had, that you believe changed things.
Do you remember them always clearly?
I remember this one best, because it was first I guess.
But I know always I've had one, because of the feeling.
The, eh, squeezed sensation...
And eh, nobody but you notices the changes.
-That's the same as being mad, is it? -George, you're no more mad than I am.
Maybe a little delusional.
I think about killing myself, to stop it happening.
well, why don't we just wait, until eh, I've cured you first, OK?
I've given you a prescription for Chlorpromazine. It's pretty exotic stuff.
Just a couple of nights worth let you sleep without dream.
And I don't want you to worry. We're gonna work this all out, OK?
We'll have it sorted out. You just believe me.
Why don't you make an appointment with Penny on the way out.
Orr George.
Delusional psychosis coming from adolescent sexual trauma.
phobic reaction to dream process causing amnesia and personality distortion
Patients own term: "squeezed".
-Hot to trod are we, Mr Orr? -Beg your pardon?
Oh, it's an old saying from way when.
"Hot to trod" means, ehm, like ready for action.
-Oh yeah, I suppose I am. -Well you can go right in!
-George, how do you feel? -Is that a "trancap"?
-A trancap, where did you get that idea? -My public defender told me about it.
Well no. That machine was used by the traditional system.
It was supposed to reveal criminal brainwave patterns
The problem was, that their patterns were the same
as doctors, poets, policemen...
-So what do you use it for? -That's a recording device.
It stores and playes back brainwaves, nothing more, nothing less.
So what's gonna happen?
Well, under my supervision,
and aided by the augmentor, you'll ... sleep and dream.
Come here, don't worry.
With this machine I can see the onset of the dreamstate
I watch the brainwaves change,
I monitor them, and when I see an abnormal pattern,
I use your normal pattern, to alter and control the situation.
-But you won't know what I'm dreaming. -Yes I will.
When I've hypnotized you ... I'll give you a dreaminstruction,
something very soothing, very pleasant. Come on, just relax.
That's it. Now, this isn't gonna change anything except maybe your fear of dreaming
Just a little bit. Are you ready? Good.
Will you sit up for me?
This is to ... monitor your heart
Is it comfortable?
A little oldfashioned but, dreams aren't that new here.
I want you to concentrate on the hole, George, just the hole
Watch the hole, and the ring will disappear.
Relax your breathing. Watch the hole.
One in, and two out.
and three in, and four all the way out.
Five in, and six out, George
And close your eyes!
Close your eyes, George!
Can you hear me?
OK, we're going to have a nice dream, Something very vivid, not too exciting.
I want you to think of a horse, George. A big beautiful white horse.
And it's running up, and down,
running up ... and down.
You're not on the horse, you're watching perfectly safe,
far away from the flying hooves.
Now when I say "New York", you're going to enter your dream,
and you're gonna stay there as long as you like
New York!
Having a good old snooze, is he?
Dream deprivation, Penny. It's almost as bad as sex deprivation.
Now look at what you made me do.
Could that have possibly been the mention of the word "sex", Penny?
You know, I could report you for remarks like that, Dr Haber.
Of course you could, Penny, but we both know you won't, anymore then
you take my advice about the clothes that you wear.
-What's wrong with my clothes? -Basicly they're not clothes. They're camouflage.
I suppose you'd have me dressed like lady Godiva.
-Don't you know who lady Godiva is? -Oh, please enlighten me, Penny.
She was this lady in olden times, she rode naked on a horse.
Naked? Sound a bit like wishful thinking.
Excuse me!
What happened?
You had 45 minutes of continuous dream-sleep. Pretty remarkable!!
-How do you feel, George? -I feel squeezed.
Squeezed. I can assure you don't look squeezed, George.
You do have, to say at the least very interesting brain patterns
and I think it would be a good idea if we'd met 3 times a week
so that I can build a profile on you because I
I believe the information would be very valuable.
Come on, I really do.
Before I went to sleep the picture on your wall was of a mountain.
You don't remember that?
-I think you dreamed that, George. -No.
You told me to dream of a horse, a white horse.
Why don't I ask Penny. I'm shure she'll remember.
No, you don't understand, it'll seem just the same to her.
My dreams change things for everyone.
-Penny, would you come in for a minute? -Yes, doctor.
George here was commenting on our Miro, he thought it was rather suggestive...
-It's lady Godiva, hot to trod! -Thank you, Penny.
-I told you. -Yes, you did.
You didn't notice your secretary's clothes were different?
As a result of your dreaming, is that what you suggest?
George, why, why would you change Penny's clothing?
I don't know, but yes.
Certainly in keeping with the lady Godiva motiv, she should be naked.
Come on George, chear up! We'll have a very productive realtionship.
Hot to trod!
-How is it going with the rapist? -I think he's pretty smart.
But he doesn't believe me. Nobody believes me.
Well, you believe you, that's the main thing.
Why is that the main thing? That might just mean I'm crazy.
Believing what you know to be true and nobody else does
doesn't make you crazy. A loony maybe.
No, trust me George. I've been doing this as long as I can remember.
See? I told you you were improving.
"Seat yourself comfortably, preferably in a darkened room, relative quiet."
"Concentrate on the pattern, avoid trying to interprete the shapes."
"The images that flow through your mind. Breethe naturally."
"After the first set is over, get up, walk around."
"And then return in time, to be ready for the next set"
-OK, been dreaming like this since you're 16? -That I remember yes.
But, I mean it's only recently that you resorted to drugs to try to stop them.
Why? Why do you suppose that it is, what prompted that?
-I'm not sure ... I think ... -You think?
I think ... I lost someone. I dreamed him away.
Who is it you think you lost?
I don't know.
Why couldn't you just ly down and dream her back in your life.
-Why do you say "her"? -Well, pretty safe bet I think, you bein' the he.
It doesn't work like that. Even if I knew who she was.
I can't just dream her back into my life.
Dreams just don't come in a straight line. You know that.
That is true. They're a bit mysterious.
So, why don't we see what is in store for us today, right?
OK, George...
Relax your breething and concentrate!
One in ... and five ...
And close your eyes, George!
What shall I have you dream today, that will cause nobody any harm?
Why don't we have you dream, that your brilliant, distinguished looking therapist
deserves an office with a beautiful outside view.
You're back with us, George! Well you certainly spun our dowels today.
-You look different. -Different?
-Do you like your office? -My office, ehm, yes indeed.
They were seen from ever widening prospects...
Are you famous then?
George, I'm well renowned in my profession,
in a small measure, as result of our collaboration.
Here are your notes for your lecture this evening doctor.
Thank you, Penny. You'll be attending?
I wouldn't miss this for anything. How are you today, Mr Orr?
Isn't it nice to see the mountains on a clear day like this?
-"The lathe of heaven." -A catchy little title, eh!
Taken from an ancient Chinese text on dreams, eh ...
no particular modern relevance.
They were inclined to believe that their dreams were fortune telling devices.
My lecture, eh .. has more to do with our machine.
They gave up all the uses of that machine far too early
and basically, it was I who insisted that .. that much more important use
and therapy as a lathe if you like,
tuning our uneven dreams into perfectly finished artefacts.
I shure hope you come tonight, George, cause I think you'll recognize much of what I have to say.
So, you will come.
So with the "Augmentor", we have the prospect of actually making dreams the means of improving our lives.
It would not just simply be enigmatic narratives, but we have to try to decide for an understand in the morning.
If we can dream sane dreams we can live sane lives.
This is the future, and with the "Augmentor", the future is now.
So I would like to thank you for your attention
And after a short break, which I'm shure you'll all enjoy,
I'lle be happy to answer all your questions. Thank you.
Yes!
Mr Orr, have a seat! What can I do for you this time?
Not in violation of your volentary status, I hope.
-No. I wanna see if I can get another therapist. -On what grounds?
Invasion of privacy.
Isn't that rather like woman accusing her gynecologist for touching her genitalia?
-Do you know what an "Augmentor" is? -No.
It's a biofeedback machine. Dr.Haber uses one in our sessions.
Uses it for what?
He records my brainwaves while I'm dreaming
-Why? -He thinks he can control my dreams through it.
-And can he? -He can make suggestions, but eh ...
things don't come out the way one expects with dreams.
He's quite a man, your Dr.Haber! Harvard, Columbia,...
-Presidential appointing. -Those are things he made me dream.
Yes, well ... this, ehm, what did you call it, "Augmentor"? It's not even licensed.
-throughout therapeutic sessions. -I'm not trying to get dr Haber into trouble.
You can't get him into trouble, only he can do that.
I would advise you to forget this "invasion of privacy" complaint.
I think "civil liberties" is the way to approach our concern.
I thought this was something from the good old days.
Yes, now it's still in the book. I think it might actually apply here.
I'm sorry Dr Haber hasn't been able to help you, Mr Orr.
-George, isn't it? -Yes.
-Yours is Heather. -Yes it is.
How do you know my name? I dont't remember giving it to you.
No, no, no, I'm .. I must have .. I must have a .. seen it somewhere.
I will attempt to sit in on one of your sessions with dr.Haber, and ...
-we'll see if you have a civil liberties issue. -You can do that?
Yeah. This Department has oversight in cases like yours and,
well, the use of this machine isn't even authorised.
-Can I tell you what to watch for? -No ...
no you may not.
I will be doing this not as your advocate but as an objective observer.
Is that clear? Good...
That's your time-slot filled, Mr Orr. Good day!
-Is that your husband? -Yeah.
He's in Europe, with the peacekeeping forces.
-That's a difficult job. -Yes it is.
Comfortable, George? Enjoyed the lecture?
I thought is was very persuasive.
And quite mistaken.
In what particular respect?
I don't think you know what dreams are.
Well lets see, the bushmen of the Kalahari desert believe the dream was dreaming us.
How's that work for you?
It's better than thinking you can manufacture dreams to fit some useful function.
George, we shouldn't be adversaries. We're ... partners.
I don't think so. I think you're using me.
-Using you? What, what for? -Personal advancement.
That's not the worst thing. You won't even admit that you believe me.
Pat of what we do in our profession is to enter the patients world.
Not necessarily to believe, but to identify with.
And you can identify with me to the point that you are now a famous psychiatrist,
with a view of a mountain, instead of just a photograph.
George, you'll damage my chair.
I don't wanna do this anymore. I'm a voluntary patient.
And by definition, voluntary patients ... coöperate.
There is a definition of voluntary...
That's better than obligatory, I can promise you that.
Let's ... try to relax!
I want you to dream, George!
I want you to dream something about the population problem.
Something evolutionary, holistic. All good things.
Just relax, George. This isn't gonna hurt a thing.
Come on, George!
Relax!
That's it, just relax!
Breethe
Breethe in!
And breethe!
Don't fight me now.
"Now in it's second year, the disease Lendrick's virus"
"shows no signs of lessening it's ravages on the predominantly caucasian population."
"As yet stringent quarantine measures have contained the disease to Europa,"
"where serious depolulation has caused a breakdown in government".
How is it going, George?
"... will meet with the president in the nations capital, to discuss..
Ah, you don't wanna watch that stuff. Come on, let's have a game!
Anything that goes to the trouble of happening, was inevitable anyhow.
-I have to get away from him, Mannie. -Ah, you will, George, you will.
How? He can have me made obligatory any time he likes.
I'm helpless.
Oh, he has to show cause and get a court order.
And you can object through your counselor. What's her name?
-Lelache. Heather Lelache. -So, you're not helpless.
-You know what I think? -What do you think, George?
I think I know her. From before. From the past.
Amen to that!
And I don't think she remembers. She's married now.
Well, that happens sometimes. But you know what?
There's always the next time.
Make your move, George. That's the only way the game get's played.
And I need to remind you to conduct yourself as if we've never met.
Ms Lelache, I think, I believe that we've met before. Before the court.
Before you were married.
Look, I got an exellent memory for faces. I don't think so ....
You never had even a feeling?
Why do you think that we've known eachother before?
I mean, you don't even remember where or when.
Because every time I have one of these dreams, everything get's changed around,
reconstructed everything.
It's like we jump tracks and we're heading in a new direction.
Let me ask you something ... when, eh
you're up awake late at night trying not to dream,
do you watch a lot of television?
You know, old shows about double time tracks, alternate universes ...
How did I know your name was Heather?
I don't know how you knew my name was Heather.
Look, I can't help you with these believes that you have.
After this session, can we meet?
-Right. I'll meet you back here. -No, at the Riverside Bistro.
At the Riverside Bistro?
You go there?
No, I've never been there that I can remember.
The why the Bistro?
It's like your name. I have no idea.
-Allright. Meet you ... at the bistro. -Where is it?
On the Promenade. It's rather expensive, Mr Orr.
Maybe I'll dream I'm rich.
-How's your husband, in Europa? -He's fine
Thank you, he has immunity to Lendrick's virus, being Asian.
Oh, good. I do not know why I dreamed that part.
My. What a very big office you have!
-For better to impress you with. -Impressed.
Good!
-So you've come to give us honours, have you? -Random check procedure.
Please!
You've eh ... randomed, onto a very interesting case.
Have you had any training in psychiatric or psychoanalythic theory?
No, I can't say that I have.
Well, may I ask how you expect to make a coherent assessment
of what you're about to witness today?
You'll explain to me what's happening in lay terms,
and ... I'll absorb, observe and report.
and eh, if don't brainfry him, you consider that a passing mark?
something in the likelyhood of that happening?
No, non what so ever, this is a monitoring function, not an initiatory one.
- Mr Orr just arrived. - Thank you, Penny. Send him in.
George!
How are you today?
-Oh, excuse me! This is Ms Lelay. -Lelache.
Ms Lelache, she is from the department of public services.
Just a routine visit... nothing what so ever to do with you.
It is part of that body's function.
George, if you don't mind, since we have a lovely visitor today,
would you mind terribly if we started immediately?
-Good you shure? -Yeah.
You can keep Ms Lelache completely out of your mind.
In fact I'll instruct you to do that in the session.
I don't need you to instruct me on that.
Very well George, as you like.
OK, where shall we direct you today?
Are you still finding the overcrouding in the subways oppressive?
No more for me than anyone else.
Well then. Why don't we just aim at some elbow room.
Wide open country, wilderness, pastoral peace, quiet...
A beautiful place in the country.
So when I count to 5, you'll be asleep. Beautiful place in the country, George!
Peaceful, quiet, beautiful ...
And 1 in, and 2,...
and 3 out, George...
and 4 and 5...
Now if you observe the computer, you can see the brainwaves George is now creating.
This is a previous brainstate.
Now we know that that dream caused George no anxiety.
We run them parallel, using this one as the control,
and we can modify any unusual patterns.
So when you say it does not initiate, that's not strictly speaking accurate.
This is NOT initiatory. Complementary, would be a more exact term.
Now Ms Lelache, I must ask you to be quiet and observe.
Any input, however trivial, might influence the session. So please.
Is something happening?
I asked you to make no comment of any kind.
Now what you've just witnessed, is what we call a "dream drama".
If it does happen in an un-monitored situation, he would have woken, convinced
that he had made certain changes in the outer world.
And this believe is so intense, that it causes amnesia,
blocking out parts of his life,
and it allows his memory to conform to his dreams.
It is extremely painfull, is unique, and very valuable to science.
-Is Mr Orr being experimented upon? -Experimentend on. No, absolutely not
and I would really resent any inference to that in your report.
Yes, but during his "dream drama", you did try to control his dreaming, did you not?
No external elements were introduced.
It seems to me you yourself were an external element professor.
I am Mr Orr's court appointed therapist.
Yes I'm rather surprised actually that someone as eminent as yourself,
is still taking court appointed patients.
And I am equally surprised that a lawfirm as prestigious as yours
would undertake such a small oversight function.
"Beard, Hall & Stallings" do a considerable amount of pro-bono work.
Ms Lelache. I would like to assure you,
that George Orr's welfare is my pre-eminent concern.
Over the years that he's been my patient, I've grown very, very fond of him.
And the poor man suffers terribly from guilt over things he's not responsible for.
-Such as? -The epidemic in Europe.
-The Lendrick virus? -Yes, he believes he did that,
to control overpopulation.
And what about its appearance here in the US?
And that too I'm afraid so, yes.
-What of this man his family? -Oh, he believes his family is dead.
-He believes... He doesn't know? -No.
I have to go. I have another appointment.
Oh excuse me! Just thought, perhaps, sometime, you and I could have some lunch.
I mean if you're not already spoken for.
"I'm afraid I can't it'd be a breach of professional protocol."
But thank you.
Thank you.
"Yes, Penny, what is it?"
"The lady raises your blood pressure, professor."
Should I be jealous?
Heather!
Where is everyone?
No panic, George. Not rush hour yet.
Who's Heather?
-Heather? -Yeah.
-That's someone I know. -New girlfriend? You've never mentioned her.
Until tomorrow then.
Penny, call Lelache's firm and get me her full name.
"Hot to trod, are we?"
"Another report indicating, that the arrival of the Lendrick virus"
"in the US 3 years ago was unpreventable, was published today in The Times."
-"I've got your new Lady Godiva's first name..." -Heather.
-"But if you already knew, why didn't you tell me?" -Get me security. Right away!
-"Security!" -Yes this is professor Haber.
I'd like to change the status of one of my patients, Orr, George Orr.
He's presently voluntary, I want him made obligatory.
"You'll need a court order."
Yes, I understand about the court order, one will be obtained,
but I want the change be effective immediately.
I want him contacted and detained.
-"Sounds like an emergency." -That's exactly what it is, emergency.
-Manfred? -Hello, Mr Orr.
-It's Manfred, isn't it? -That's right sir.
-How log have I lived here? -At the towers? About two, two and a half years.
-Since the plague! -Haven't heard it called like that in a long time.
-Good afternoon, Mr Orr. -Good afternoon...
-"Mr Orr?" -Yes.
"Mr Orr, this is Ms Lelache's secretary."
"Ms Lelache asked me to phone you regarding you lunch engagement."
My lunch with Ms Lelache?
"Ms Lelache has been waiting almost 30 minutes."
Please tell her to wait. I'm on my way.
-Where were we gonna meet again? "-The Riverside bistro."
Yes, yes of course. Thank you.
Oh Mr Orr, two gentlemen are waiting for you out the front.
I think they may be from the Department of Mental Health.
Dr.Haber must have made me obligatory.
Maybe you should go away for a while, George, to your place in the country.
-Sorry. I'm really sorry. -Yeah this was your idea,
we could have met at my office, at a lot less inconvenience.
No. This is better.
So you wanna know what I think of your professor Haber?
Hi there! May I tell you the specials?
-The specials... -Oh, I'll have it.
-There's more than one special, sir. -Oh, the first thing.
-I'll have the usual, Tom. -Very good, Ms Lelache.
And you sir don't want to know what the specials are?
No. I'm shure they're special.
Fine. It won't be long.
You really do work at being excentric, don't you?
Ms Lelache, how long have you known me for?
How long? You came to office three weeks ago.
You don't remember representing me on a pharmcard violation,
when you where a public defender?
I think you're mistaken.
Do you remember working as a public defender?
Of course do I remember working as a public defender. That was 3 years ago
You were in room 3007, a little box of a place.
Are you still married?
My husband died. During the hostilies.
How do you know these things about me Mr Orr? You been checking up for me?
No.
I came to your office when you were a public defender.
-Your husband, he was Asian. -How do you know my husband was Asian?
I saw his photograph on your shelf.
Listen, I know this is hard to understand, but it's true.
Do you remember what Dr Haber instructed me to dream about?
Space, elbow room and pastoral things, place in the country...
And I dreamed, that the Lendrick's virus reached this country,
and wiped out half the population.
And now I have a place in the country.
Here you are! Excuse me! Here for you, Sir...
Enjoy your meal!
I'm afraid I can't find any of this plausible.
We know eachother, Heather.
I think we keep knowing eachother through all of these shifts.
Then why don't I remember anything?
Because my dreams, they change things for everyone.
It's like the past never existed.
You can't remember, but you can feel it.
Haber is having me made into an obligatory.
I think he suspects that I know you.
He can't do that. Not without a court hearing.
He's a powerful man. He can fix things.
When I woke up after that last session and you weren't there,
I was so scared that I had dreamed you away again.
I have to go away where Dr Haber can't find me.
Come with me. You'll see then, I'm not the stranger you think I am.
Where would you go?
I have a place in the country. At least, I have a photograph of one.
Please, come with me Heather! We'll get to know eachother.
It'll be like in the good old days.
You get that feeling, you know like "I've already been there"?
A déja vu, I get that a lot.
Sometimes I wake up, and ... sound doesn't feel real...
It's like I can't breathe.
Yes, that's exactly how, how I feel. Like you've been squeezed.
Don't think I ever heard you laugh before,
Very familiar to me ...
I think this is it.
George, just don't dream us out of existence tonight.
I won't.
Promise?
"Professor Haber?" -Yes. What is it?
"There's no sign of Mr Orr at his appartment."
They've been waiting there since they got the news.
"I don't want them waiting, I want them looking!"
"Search the appartment, question the neighbours... Just find him."
"Yes, professor."
-Are you happy, George? -Right this minute?
-Are there any other minutes? -No. I guess not.
Yes, I am happy, right this minute.
George, if you must dream, and you must,
maybe now's a good time for you to sleep.
-You know, now... -While I'm in love?
Is that what you are?
Like it was a dimension...
And yeah, in love. Love all around like air, water, light, time...
That's nice!
They say that you can remember your mother's heart beeting at your back.
The salty sack, a safe sea beneath the ocean's valley
far from their break...
-Where was that photograph taken? -I don't know. Looks nice though...
You look beautiful!
You're awake.
I'm afraid we have to cut back on your dosage.
You find three times a day excessive.
I think, that when your condition stabilizes, once a week will suffice.
Wow, I mean we have to cut back gradually.
You don't want me to go into withdrawal shock.
I think you should have enough to hold your thirst for at least 12 hours
-What if I wake up with a sudden fever? -Then go back to sleep.
-I can't just wake you? -No. I won't be here.
-Where are you going? -George, we can't just sit here.
Haber's already got guys out looking for you.
And I'll have to prepare your appeal as soon as possible.
-And how long is that gonna take? -Only about tomorrow night.
-Think you can last that long? -No!
But, if you have to go would you mind...
stopping by my place and picking me up a change of clothes?
My doorman'll let you in. Manfred, Mannie... You can trust him.
And this Manfred is ehm ...
used to let strange women carry out your belongings, is he?
You're the only strange woman I know, Heather Lelache.
And the only one I'll ever know.
Let's not be getting too far out of ourselves, George.
No. Let's get all the way out of ourselves.
Let it be always now for us.
Always now is impossible.
I don't think so. Cause it's what love is. Always now.
Always now ... Say it!
Always now!
Are you shure professor, that you're doing the right thing?
It's the only thing I can, now I gotten us this far, Penny.
When I go under ... just put on Orr's recording.
And then don't speak to me.
Just don't even stay in the room, leave. Do you understand?
But I'm afraid...
Listen, just do as I say, no more, no less, ok?
It's different now. You love her.
You can't dream away someone you love.
That couldn't happen.
-Ma'am? -Oh eh, does George Orr live here?
-He does, but Mr Orr is not home. -Oh no, I know. I'm looking for Mannie.
Ask and he will answer.
That's his bedroom right there.
-Have you known George long? -Oh, it seems like quite a while.
And the closet straight ahead.
I was janitor at his school, and watchman on his first job.
When he was in prison, I was a guard, when he was a patient, I was an orderly.
Since then, it's mainly been elevator man or apartment manager.
-Nice man to watch over, George is. -He is, he is.
I need to get back to George.
Amen to that!
-Mannie, you're just gonna stay here? -That's my job.
You aren't frightened?
I was in the beginning, but I've gotten used to.
-Bye, Mannie! -Good bye.
"Across the country the president has made a special appeal for calm."
"We'll be broadcasting this message until further notice."
"I have declared the country under martial law..."
"to control this outrage of social anarchy."
"There is no cause for panic."
"I appeal to everyone to please stay in your home..."
"for the next 24 hours."
What are you doing?
Dr Haber, Dr Haber, wake up!
Heather!
Mr Orr...
You'll be taking one of our obligatories today.
I'll introduce you. Follow me!
-He likes to be called "doctor". -Is he a doctor?
No, not as far as we know. His memory loss is total.
It's a curious condition.
It has all the symptoms of Alzheimer's, but with a different pathology,
called "central pontine myelinolysis", if you're interested.
Never hurts to know how ignorant you are.
Has he gone out before?
Only in groups, but we think it's time he went solo.
-Is there anything I need to watch for? -Panic attacks
He has only short term memory, and lives entirely in the present moment.
While he's there he's fine, but if he starts to look like he's getting anxious,
just point at something, you know, distract him.
-How are we today, doctor? -Hot to trod.
He has a tendency to be flirtatious. Calls me lady Godiva.
-This is George, George Orr. -Either or...
-This looks nice. Wanna go in? -If it's allowed.
I don't see why not.
Please!
The waitress will be with you in a moment.
Enjoy!
-Are you ready to order? -Ehm, just some tea.
-Well, we have at least 20. -Ehm, we'll have one of them.
Two of them.
-Any particular blend? -I'll have the first on the list.
And for your friend here, if you like the same?
I'll trust that tea when I come to it.
-He'll have number two. -OK.
She's nice!
-So, how did it go? -It went well.
-How was your walk, doctor? -I don't remember.
It was good. We both had a good time.
Good. Well, you can go to your room. That way...
I think it went very well, Mr Orr. He liked you.
-How could you tell? -I just know.
Doctor, who is lady Godiva?
She was this lady in olden times, she rode on a horse ... naked.
Something like a fairy story. You know, once upon a time...
-In the good old days... -Something like that.
-Are you still open? -Kitchen is closed, I'm afraid.
-Just a thea? -Your usual?
I trust that thea when I come to it.
-Where's your friend? -He had to go home.
-He's from the hospital, isn't he? -Yeah.
He didn't seem so bad. Little lost maybe, but...
He can't remember anything that happens after a moment or two
Well, guess that's always now for him then.
I suppose that is for all of us, if we can stay in it.
That's the trick, so they say. I'll be back with your thea.
Excuse me...
This is gonna sound a little...
What, you're gonna say that you know me from somewhere?
-Would that be totally out of place? -Not if it were true.
-Heather Lelache. -George Orr.
-Navi, Heather. -Night, Mannie.
I'll be back with your thea.
-Friend of yours? -Never can tell.
Amen to that!
-Where's you think you know me from? -I was trying to remember.
It's not so much a memory, as a feeling, or a dream...
"The mind, that ocean where each kind does straight its own resemblance find;"
"yet it creates, transcending these, far other worlds, and other seas."