told me
that they found him wandering in the neighborhood in his pajama bottoms,
filthy and dehydrated, and he couldn't remember which house was his.
And, basically, he's never recognized me again.
I am so sorry.
Doctor, have you ever hurt anyone you loved
in such a way that doesn't even seem like you?
But then you can't go back and make it different.
It's a kind of pain I never could've imagined.
I don't suppose there's any way I can convince you
to come with me and meet him, and see how it is with us?
Mrs. Harkness, you seem like a lovely woman, and I'm moved by your situation.
If I could convince myself it was medically sound, I'd do the work in a heartbeat.
But I can't justify taking that big a risk with so little certainty.
Well... thank you for your time and your honesty.
Dr. McNamara?
Yeah?
You got served.
Can we just order in? I'm not feeling very social tonight.
Let me call you back.
What's going on?
Matt just served me with a restraining order.
I'm not to contact him or come within 200 yards of him.
Coming!
Where's Matt?
I've asked you to call first, Sean.
What do you know about this restraining order?
Restraining order?
He took out a goddamn restraining order against me. Don't act surprised.
He didn't say a word to me.
But, I mean, frankly, Sean, I'm not that surprised.
You're breaking the law.
Matt, we got to talk.
We're family. We don't treat each other like criminals.
You should've thought of that before you acted like one.
Or didn't you know it was against the law to beat your children.
I came to apologize.
Matt, I lie in bed at night reliving that moment when I hit you.
Social services told me you'd probably show up
and try to manipulate me into dropping the charges.
They also said that if you do that, I should report you.
They said these events are never isolated, and you know what? They're right.
I told them how you almost choked mom
when she told you about Christian being my father.
How do you know about that?
Why would you do that?
Did you tell them about your own violence, Matt?
You think you can ignore your own behavior by demonizing me?
Cutting me out of your life?
That's another thing they said.
Abusers always try to make you think that they're the victim.
Yeah, hi. I'd like to report somebody who's in viola--
I think you should go now, Sean.
I'm here to... please--
It doesn't Matter why you came here. This is about Matt.
- You need to leave now, Sean.
- This is vindictive.
Look, I understand your pain.
But until you can express it without frightening us, you're not welcome here.
This is machiavellian bullshit! You're setting me up to get sole custody of the kids.
You should have told me about the restraining order.
Remind me, why do we bother to repair her
when she's only gonna do it to herself all over again when bikini season is over?
I dated a woman who was into self-injury.
She said she felt some kind of release afterwards.
Release from what?
Emotional pain, in her case.
Her father was an abusive bastard.
It makes a weird poetic kind of sense to me.
You treat one kind of pain with another. External injuries are manageable.
I mean, they can be seen and treated, whereas emotional pain is elusive and shapeless.
Is this surgery or open mic night at the lesbian coffee bar?
Um, I thought you should know. There's been another carver victim.
She just called. I put her on the books.
I referred the carver victim to Ian Saks.
I politely explained that we had handled our share of cases,
and that he does very good work.
That's probably for the best.
You know, it's occurred to me that we haven't really talked since the beach.
How's the counseling going?
How are you feeling about that restraining order?
I feel shitty and pretty goddamn hopeless. Your turn.
I didn't take the counseling route, Sean. I've been fine.
Except for some physical issues I thought would abate over time.
Anyway, I hope they find him soon.
What kind of