Session 9

"[crying while sitting on the floor of the mental hospital, holding a dead cellular phone] ...Wendy, it's me, please don't hang up, please! I just wanted to say that... I'm so sorry for what's happened... I'm so lonely here, I want to go home... I just want to hold you, I want to hold my baby... can you forgive me... can you forgive me?"

"It says here that 19 were committed due to disappointed expectations, Hank, they're talkin' about you."

"Madness is just overactive curiosity."

"The icepick method. Insert a thin metal pipette into the orbital frontal cortex. Enter the soft tissue of the frontal lobe. A few simple, smooth, up-and-down jerks sever the lateral hypothalamus... all resulting in a rapid reduction of stress for our little patient here. Total time elapsed? Two minutes. Only side-effect? Black eye. Recommended treatment? Sunglasses."

"[reading the asylum journals] He came into her room at night wearing a black robe. He'd take her and drive her to a wooded area where her grandparents and her mother were, and they'd all have black robes on. They'd take them off and group orgies would ensue... and then they'd bring out the newborn. She was forced to watch as her mother would cut the baby's heart out with a stone dagger. She'd drink the blood; others would eat the flesh. The grandfather and father would fuck her repeatedly. She was forced to have abortions and cook the aborted fetuses."

"Peter Mullan - Gordon Fleming"

"David Caruso - Phil"

"Stephen Gevedon - Mike"

"Josh Lucas - Hank"

"Brendan Sexton III - Jeff"

"Jurian Hughes - Mary Hobbes"

"Larry Fessenden - Craig McManus"

"Paul Guilfoyle - Bill Griggs"

"Charley Broderick - Security Guard"