Front door!
I can't let it in unless I see it.
I know what the rules are. I'm just asking if you can make an exception.
There are no exceptions. That's why we have rules.
I know what a rule is. I'm just telling you...
You don't have an X-ray machine back there?
You don't have an X-ray machine?
No. I've got to see it.
I bet you're not going to miss that drive.
Or the ambiance.
I would've gone a lot further.
You know, they gave me a brochure on reintegrating.
Yeah? Yeah.
A social worker came by.
What did he say?
Go slow.
We can go slow.
- Hey. - Hey.
I just wanted to remind you that I won't be coming in tomorrow.
That's right. It's the big day!
You must be thrilled...
Yeah.
And excited and nervous and...
And I wanted to thank you, just for everything.
You've been so understanding.
Oh, I'm sure there's more to it than what's on the news, so...
I know, but to a lot of people you say "insider trading,"
and it may as well be murder. You just stop existing.
So, thank you for everything.
I wasn't sure what I should wear.
I tried to find something new to buy,
but I couldn't find anything that looked good.
Honey, you look beautiful.
And I can only imagine how you're gonna look to him.
Oh! Oh, Mama.
Oh.
Come on. Let's get out of here before they change their mind.
I'm sorry.
Babe, you remember that hedge fund manager I met inside?
Marshall Hellman?
The Stanford guy? Yeah.
Super smart. He was in for some tax thing, but he'll be out soon.
He's got money in Dubai and a lot of connections.
I can get us back to where we were, Em.
I promise. I can make that happen.
Okay, baby.
Thank you.
I don't understand what you're saying! Just relax!
Hello.
I'm Dr. Banks.
This guy's on something, okay? Listen, just relax!
Officer. This guy's on something.
He came swinging at me.
Stand back and let me talk to him.
He was trying to hold up a taxi.
You understand? He came at me!
Augustin? Augustin.
He's fine.
What is it? What's going on?
He saw his dead father driving the taxi.
What?
He saw the ghost of his father. He was a cabbie.
So I was right. He's nuts.
No. It's grief.
Just grief painting pictures in his brain.
He sees ghosts.
He's Haitian. It's not unusual for Haitians
to see their loved ones shortly after they die.
Weird for me and you, but it's perfectly normal for him.
Right, what do you have next?
MVA in bed eight, with minor head trauma, in need of a consult.
Double shift today?
Better living through chemistry.
Miss Taylor.
Yeah? I'm Dr. Banks.
Oh, they said I might have a concussion,
but I don't have to stay here for that, right?
Uh, we have to wait for the CT scan results to know that.
I have a couple of questions for you.
How's your head?
It hurts.
How was it before you hit the wall?
What do you mean?
How have things been going with you?
Generally speaking.
Why are you here?
I'm a psychiatrist, Miss Taylor.
Normally,
when people hit things with their car,
there are skid marks on the pavement.
A brick Wall's a pretty good reason to use the brakes,
turn the wheel.
You didn't do that. You went straight in.
It says here the attendant told the police
you were pretty upset before you got in the car.
Now, the insurance company are gonna check the brakes,
but I prefer to just ask you.
Did you try to hurt yourself this morning?
Do you still want to try and hurt yourself?
Emily.
How do you feel about staying here for a few days?
Here? Mmm.
No, I can't stay here.
Martin just got home and I have to be there for him.
Is that your husband, Martin?
Yes, and he just got out of prison.
I have to be there, and I have a job. I have to go into work.
He doesn't make any money yet.
Are you married?
Yes.
Okay, what if you got out of jail
or you were away for a long time and you come home
and your wife is in the mental hospital?
We waited for four years. I can't stay here.
I think you may have tried to hurt yourself this morning, and...
It was a mistake. I lost it for a minute.
I promise, that's not going to happen again.
Do you have an office? Mmm.
Well, I could come see you at your office.
I could come as often as you want.
I could come two or three times a week.
I was in therapy once before,
and I remember that structure really helps with hopelessness.
I promise. I just really want to go home.
Okay. So we'll release her to you,
um, but I want to see her in my office this week. That's the deal we made.
I just had no idea this was still going on.
Oh, honey, I think she must have been putting on a brave face.
She was afraid to tell you. She was afraid to tell me.
I want to start her on this. It's called an SSRI.
It affects the neurotransmitter in the brain called serotonin.
What does that do exactly?
Basically, it helps stop the brain from telling you you're sad.
In a few weeks, she should start to feel better.
No, of course. Of course.
It was soft. Absolutely, it was soft in that first...
But we are going to tighten it up.
Sure, that's what we do.
Yeah. I think it'll be interesting to regroup after the Dallas groups.
Emily?
Are you okay?
Emily?
Aww!
What happened?
Oh!
These made me sick, too.
I had better luck with Celexa.
I used to draw when I was a kid. Mostly people, though.
Teachers and kids from my class.
Boys that I liked.
Sometimes cats.
I used to try and get their faces perfect.
That's why I came to New York, I wanted to get into graphic design.
I was taking classes when I met Martin.
How did that happen?
I was working at this, uh, bar downtown to help pay for school,
and he kept coming in after work.
And he would just order the most complicated drinks.
Things that I had no idea how to make.
One night, he climbed over the bar
and offered to teach me how to make them.
And he ended up staying until we closed. Then he asked me out.
And you went.
I didn't know who he was or what he did. He was just...
He was just this guy in a suit.
And watched me while I made drinks,
and that made me really nervous.
Then he stared at me like I was a painting.
He had this beautiful sailboat, and he took me out on it.
Taught me how to ski.
He swept me off my feet.
Proposed to me in Maui that winter and we were married by spring.
How old were you?
That was five years ago, so I was 23.
Time goes by so fast.
Is this ever going to go away?
You said you felt depressed before.
Did you see anyone about it last time?
Yeah. In Greenwich, Connecticut. Victoria Siebert.
I had to stop seeing her when they took our house away
and I had to move back to the city.
Do you mind if I contact Dr. Siebert about your history?
No, of course not.
- I saw her four years ago. - Mmm.
For a little over nine months.
She didn't just have the rug pulled from under her,
she had the rug, the home, the husband.
Her entire life, gone.
Even her health insurance. She moved into the city to find work
and I never heard from her again.
I'm glad she's seeing a man this time. I think that will help.
Why is that?
Never felt seen by her father.
Then her husband ends up in jail and she's abandoned again.
I'd be happy to see her have a different kind of experience.
She says you tried her on medication.
Oh, yes. Wellbutrin. Prozac. Effexor.
Really struggled. Mmm.
I remember she had problems with sleep and nausea. Chills...
I'm putting her on Zoloft, see if she can tolerate that.
Oh. Well, maybe she's a candidate for one of these newer meds.
Sometimes the newest thing gives them confidence.
They see the ads on TV, they believe.
I have a patient with some similar issues.
I put her on Ablixa.
Welcome, everyone! Thank you for coming.
We'll be starting the presentations soon,
so if everyone can come in and take a seat.
You know, I may have some samples here. Let me see.
No. I must have given them all away.
Here! Have an Ablixa pen.
Had it been available back then,
I would have prescribed it for Emily after she miscarried.
Miscarried? Hmm.
After he went to jail.
She, uh, hasn't mentioned that.
No? No.
Has he been released yet?
A week ago. Oh!
Well, maybe that will help turn things around.
Hmm.
Look, don't mention anything to Carl or Kayla
about Hellman. It'll just make things easier.
I still think Carl's the one who went to the Feds.
He probably gave us these tickets
because he feels shitty about everything.
I hope these things work.
Hey.
Look, if you don't feel up to this, I can go by myself.
I understand if you don't want to see those people.
All right?
But I got to get back out there at some point.
If I just sit here by myself, I'm just gonna feel worse.
I have to at least try. Dr. Banks would want me to try.
Carl?
Martin! Welcome back.
How are you, sir? Hi!
Emily, good to see you. Hi. Good to see you.
Kayla, you remember this beautiful lady here.
Hi.
Thank you so much for having us.
Oh, my, your dress is beautiful! I love it. It's gorgeous.
Thank you. We're so glad you guys could come.
It's our pleasure. Thanks again.
I'm going to go to the bar and get a drink. Does anyone want anything?
Is that such a good idea?
Yeah, it's fine. I'll be right back.
She looks amazing!
She's doing well.
But going away is hard, and so is coming back, for everyone.
Martin, I just want to say I wish I had done
a better job of reaching out. I really do.
No. That's fine. It's the culture. It's over now.
Good evening, ma'am. Can I get you something?
Yes, a vodka seltzer, please.
There you go. Enjoy!
Thank you.
Em. So, Martin was just telling...
Honey, what's wrong?
I can't do this.
You know, I went through a very bad time last year.
I found a lump.
I just fell apart. I was so depressed,
and, uh, my doctor prescribed something called Effexor.
It really helped.
Can you get Martin for me?
Yeah.
Hey.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry! I can't, I'm sorry.
It's okay, it's okay.
Come here.
Not so close, ma'am!
Thank you.
Oh, the advantages of having a husband who can write prescriptions.
What are they called again?
It's a beta blocker. Hmm.
Is it bad that I'm doing this?
Everyone takes them.
Lawyers, musicians.
People going to interviews for big jobs.
It doesn't make you anything you're not.
It just makes it easier for you to be who you are.
It's between me and two other people.
A woman from Merrill and a guy from Citicorp.
But Hazlitt says I have the inside track.
Sorry, D. I've got to return this. It's an emergency.
This girl is really struggling.
Dr. Banks, I really need to talk to you.
Emily.
Yeah. I just got your message.
I'm with my wife.
I went to your office, but you weren't there. So I came here.
Could we just go talk?
If it's an emergency, I can admit you.
No. I just, um...
I was getting on the subway and...
And I was like when I was in the car.
I have to go to work. I just need five minutes.
You're going to go to work after?
Okay, five minutes. Okay.
I'm sorry.
Call me after the interview.
Emily, I know this is hard.
But the hopelessness you're feeling is a symptom.
We have to leave that in the past.
A psychologist once said,
"Depression is an inability to construct a future."
But you have a future. At home with Martin.
He's trying to start a new business.
With this guy Hellman that he met in jail.
How does that make you feel?
I don't know. I mean, he's trying.
He's really trying to make things better
and I'm just not helping at all.
I mean, I'm trying, too. I went...
I went shopping to try and make things more exciting for him.
You are trying.
I can't take the Zoloft anymore. I can't. I'm dizzy.
I can't sleep. I have no sex drive.
I understand that.
This woman I work with, Julia, she...
She said she's on this other, new medication, and it's really helping her.
I thought maybe I could try that.
Taylor!
Have you taken Ablixa before?
No.
Some of the side effects may include
nausea, muscle weakness, insomnia, change in appetite,
dry mouth, irritation.
Do you want to pay cash?
There were court seats at Knicks games, fishing trips
to Cape Cod. It was crazy.
One year, Warner-Lambert took us to Hawaii.
I gave a talk for five minutes and played 36 holes.
What did Pfizer have to pay to make their whole thing go away?
Two billion?
Lilly paid over a billion to settle the Zyprexa thing.
Do we have to talk about this? You're ruining my lunch.
A certain rep, who will remain nameless,
gave me tickets to the World Series.
Got my son an autographed ball! Hmm.
If only I'd known you liked baseball.
Where was I for all this?
Some British boarding school, probably.
Well, it's not a violation of the pharma code to buy you doctors lunch
as long as we talk about business for at least five minutes.
Ready? Go!
We're starting a trial for our new anti-anxiety drug, Delatrex.
We're looking for a couple of docs to consult.
It's probably going to run for about a year. Any interest?
I'm out. I'm doing something for the competition. Signed an NDA.
You should cancel her filet for that.
I'm teaching next semester and feeling a little overextended.
How about you, Dr. Banks? Too busy?
Not as busy as my partners. What do you need?
Getting warmer, but, no.
Uh...
Thirty thousand? Ah!
Fifty thousand.
Really? Wow. Yes.
Really.
What do you have to do?
Go to a few meetings, recruit some patients, track some data.
So you'll be even busier.
Yes.
But the flip side is
that if, for instance,
the buttons on this shirt
suddenly fell off,
I would be able to buy a new one.
Oh, I see.
Mom?
Mmm.
Yes, honey! In here, sweetie. Just unpacking.
I was having a bad dream.
Oh, love. Oh!
Honey, you're in luck. Jon is very good with dreams.
Yes, I am. So, he's gonna help you.
Back to bed, sweetie.
Do I have to dream when I sleep?
Yeah, I'm pretty much sure we all do.
They don't all have to be bad.
Albert Einstein, remember him?
Yeah.
He figured out relativity in a dream.
And Paul McCartney wrote entire songs.
And I dreamt of your mom before I even met her.
So what are you going to dream about?
Whoever makes this drug is going to be fucking rich.
Em!
Em! It's the middle of the night. Turn down the music!
Em?
Are we expecting someone?
Em, can you hear me?
What are you doing?
Can't she stop taking drugs?
Isn't there an alternative approach... No!
God, no. I can finally sleep.
I have some energy. We had sex.
It was like we were actually together.
Maybe something else would do the same thing.
Absolutely. There are still other SSRI's, SNRI's.
No.
I've tried everything else. You don't know, Martin.
You've never had this. You don't know what it's like.
Okay? Every afternoon it's like...
It's like there's this poisonous fog bank
rolling in on my mind, and I'm paralyzed.
If I have to start over, I think I should see a different doctor.
I'm sorry you feel that way.
I understand your frustration.
What do we do?
There are things we can do to make this work.
Other medications we add to the Ablixa,
one is designed to deal with sleepwalking
while the Ablixa helps you get a handle on your depression.
I'm going to Otisville today.
They finally approved me to see Hellman.
He's thinking we might want to set up shop in Houston.
He's got a lot of connections down there.
I thought we were going to move back to Greenwich.
I'm sure that we can find great people in Houston, too.
I want to be totally clear that I am being paid to participate in this study.
If you don't want to take part, I totally understand.
There are other meds besides Delatrex I can prescribe.
So, my medication is free.
I don't have to report it to my insurance company or anything?
For as long as you choose to be a part of the study, your meds are free.
Oh, that's great.
We'll start today.
Emily, I don't understand. It's almost 4:00.
What happened?
I got on the train, and I just forgot to get off.
Martin is thinking about moving us,
and I'm just
really...
Go home, Emily.
But you have to know this can't happen again.
It's not working for me.
Hey.
Hey. Hey.
What's happening?
They gave it to the guy from Citicorp.
Oh, I'm sorry, D.
It's fucking hopeless.
Emily?
Hellman says you are going to love Houston.
What'd you get me?
Em?
God damn it. Em?
These fucking pills.
Em.
You sleeping again?
Stop!
Ahh!
Em, call somebody.
Help me.
Call somebody.
Help me.
Did he hit you?
Did he threaten you?
Was anyone else here? Who else was coming for dinner?
What?
I was asleep and I...
I woke up and I saw him. He wasn't...
He wasn't moving.
And that's all... That's all I remember.
Dr. Siebert.
Hello, there. I'm sorry to bother you. It's Jon Banks.
It's about Emily.
Uh, there's been an incident.
No sign of forced entry,
nobody else on the building security camera.
The prints on the knife are hers.
Where is her lawyer?
She doesn't have one. Just kept talking about you.
No sign of struggle on either one of them.
She made the 911 call herself.
We had an appointment last night that she didn't show up for.
When was the last time you saw her?
Four days ago.
And what was she like?
Any idea why the dinner table was set for three, Dr. Banks?
She doesn't remember anything about a guest. Kids?
No, she didn't have children.
She was taking these.
For depression, right? I've seen the ads.
She ever talk to you about something like this?
I'd like to speak to her, if that's possible.
You can talk to her at Rikers.
It's possible, you see, that she was asleep.
What?
She walks in her sleep.
That's maybe why she doesn't remember anything.
It's a side effect of this medication.
She's had other episodes.
She kills people in her sleep, too.
Stand up, please. And turn around.
She ever tell you anything to
make you believe she could be violent, or that he was?
And before you answer that
or tell me about some kind of patient-doctor confidentiality thing,
let's just think about the future here.
The future?
Well, this goes one of two ways, doesn't it?
See, either she's a murderer or
she's a victim of her medical treatment.
In which case, you're the target of a big civil suit.
Either way, someone gets punished.
Her or you.
The state's enjoyed working with you in the past, Dr. Banks.
I'd like to see you consulting with us on this one.
This is different.
Is it?
I never want to see another pill again.
They want me to take something else.
Another pill to help me sleep.
I don't understand why this is happening.
Is there any way that
somebody else did it,
and made it look like me?
I don't think so.
That's not what the police are saying.
I killed the wrong person.
I don't know what else I could have done. She wanted to stay on it.
Jon. You can't follow them around
taking things out of their hands
they might use to hurt themselves.
We see them for an hour a day, maybe a couple of times a week.
I think they're going to charge her.
With what?
You said she has no memory. No criminal intent.
They can't do that.
A man in Arizona.
He killed his wife, threw her in the pool,
took off his bloody clothes, put them in the trunk of his car.
Woke up the next morning, no memory of it.
Didn't even know she was dead until they charged him with the crime.
Neighbors even saw him throw the body into the pool.
He was acquitted last year.
A woman bludgeoned her husband while on vacation in Sanibel Island.
They were both asleep at the time. Another acquittal.
I have to tell you, I have been approached by the state
to consult for them as well.
I assumed as much.
I am in a rather difficult spot here. I hope you appreciate that.
I know you are, but if she goes away,
this does not look good for you.
It just makes the whole system look bad.
She ever talk about killing her husband?
No. If she had, I would have reported it.
You spoke to any of the family?
Martin's mother. She's the one who hired me.
We need your help.
You want to talk about it?
A patient of mine was arrested.
For something bad?
Yeah. Pretty bad.
Did the person do it?
Are they guilty?
In this case,
those are two very different things.
I was afraid you would never want to see me again.
I hope you know that if I could trade places with Martin, I would.
I would give anything if there were someone who could make that deal.
I just don't understand how it happened. How?
I don't know.
I don't know. It doesn't fit for me. It's like...
It's like it never happened.
But I don't understand it.
You watch the commercials on TV, people are getting better!
I was getting better. Dr. Banks was really helping me.
But, he just got out
and now he's gone.
I know.
Can I give you something?
What?
I want to make a statement.
People need to know what can happen.
For Martin's sake.
"We go to doctors"
with our sadness
"and our faith in the hope they will guide us toward health."
"But instead I have gone down a path toward a misery.
I never could have imagined."
"And I have taken my loved ones with me."
"My only hope is that no one else follows me to this place."
And again, this is a note from your daughter-in-law.
Yes.
Who may face murder charges.
Yes.
For what a drug made her do.
We invited a representative from Sadler-Benelux, the makers of Ablixa,
to come here this morning
and discuss this very tragic story, but they declined.
However, our Dr. Peter Joubert, in fact, a Manhattan psychiatrist
who specializes in anti-depression drugs like Ablixa,
is here to discuss
the dangers of these side effects.
Peter, if nothing else, this seems a very troubling gray area.
Josh, it is. And that is why the FDA, in 2004,
asked that anti-depressants come with a black box warning...
Which one, zucchini or asparagus?
Because their use was associated with an increased risk
of suicidality in children and adolescents.
Zucchini or asparagus? I don't know. Both.
That warning was expanded to include young adults in their 20s.
Peter, where's the doctor in all this?
What's his or her responsibility?
I'm sure people have a lot of questions for him.
What about the permission slip for the field trip?
Do you have that?
Did you remember? Are you excited? What?
- There he is! Dr. Banks! - Did someone famous...
How long have you been seeing Emily Taylor?
Seeing who?
Did you know that your husband was treating Emily Taylor?
Take him out of here.
What is happening?
Go that way!
What about this picture?
Have you seen the front page of the Post today?
You have no comment about any of this?
No, not at the moment.
Do you have any comment at all about this?
I have no comment. She's my patient. That's all I can say.
What's your relationship?
I saw some press people downstairs.
I think they had cameras.
Is that for you?
There's a back stairway,
if you'd be more comfortable leaving that way.
My wife never liked me coming here.
I'm worried she's going to see something.
It's going to be a "thing."
Was she the one with the blonde hair?
I think I saw her in the elevator. She seemed totally normal.
I'd really like to focus more on what's going on with you.
What was she taking? It's not what I'm taking, is it?
No. You're taking something else.
You'd... You'd tell me, right?
As part of the Office's medical conduct review,
we'll need to have access to your charts and records.
Current and past patients.
Absolutely. Whatever you need.
You went to school in the UK, at Durham.
Mmm.
What made you decide to practice here in the States?
Where I come from, if anyone goes to see a psychiatrist
or takes medication, the assumption is they're sick.
Here, the assumption is they're getting better.
I see.
You first came in contact with Miss Taylor after a suicide attempt.
She drove her car into a wall.
You decided not to hospitalize her?
She described her suicide attempt as a mistake.
And expressed a desire to get better.
Her husband wanted her home as well.
In addition, she had no history of violent behavior.
Driving a car into a wall isn't violent?
I didn't think she posed a risk to others.
I saw her regularly, here in my office,
and consulted with her previous doctor as well.
Dr. Siebert. Hmm.
I've spoken to her.
You also do work at the hospital, a number of shifts.
Sometimes nights.
And you said you're doing pharmaceutical consulting.
That's a pretty large workload.
My wife lost her job.
And we have a boy, my stepson, in private school.
I bought a new place downtown, too.
So, longer hours, higher volume of patients, more stress.
Anything else?
I'll need to ask your partners some questions.
Of course.
They can't come after you for any of this, right?
No, that's not going to happen.
They don't blame me.
I'm just an expert witness.
Like I was on that case with the kid from Uganda
who couldn't stop stealing stuff.
They just need me to explain things to the jury. That's all.
So after the trial, it's over.
Absolutely.
She was sad. Very sad.
Every day.
Did she say why?
No. It is just how she was.
Some people slip.
Some jump. We keep an eye out.
I remember her. Right on the edge.
She worried me.
What makes us human?
What differentiates us from, let's say, insects,
is that we have consciousness.
An awareness of what we're thinking and what we're doing.
If, for example, I'm hungry, lam consciously aware of that.
And so, I go to the fridge and I make myself a sandwich.