"Libby:" "Previously on masters of sex..." "You sleep with your mouth open." "We don't sleep here." "Get dressed." "I saw them last night leaving the hotel." "How did I not know they're sleeping together?" "I've shared nearly everything with you." "You should share with me." "Lillian, I'm not that interesting." "Dr. Masters, I don't have lice, I swear." "If you won't sit down, leave." "And you won't be welcome back." "You couldn't have kids?" "Why didn't you tell me?" "You never would have married me then." "Tatti greathouse just called." "She said that you were fired." "Dr. Greathouse:" "No hospital in the midwest" "Will even let you step through their doors." "Why do I have to hear everything about my husband thirdhand?" "You just have to trust me right now." "I feel comfortable in speaking for my partner when I say" "How pleased we both are to be bringing our work here, together." "(theme music playing)" "Virginia:" "Do you think he's dreaming?" "Libby:" "I read once that dogs dream of running" "In great open spaces." "How would they test for that?" "In animals or babies?" "Are you sure it's okay that we stopped by this way?" "Of course it's okay." "You know how it is." "I was just driving around, trying to get him to sleep," "And suddenly there we were, outside your front door." "It's good to see you." "He has much more hair than last time." "You haven't seen him in a while." "And I'm sorry for that, libby." "I've been..." "You've been busy." "No, I understand." "I wish bill were the type to show off baby pictures." "I did put one in his wallet, just in case." "I haven't seen much of bill either." "That's going to change, right?" "I have to admit, gin, I was shocked by the news." "Just completely caught off guard." "Do they know at maternity?" "Uh..." "About what you two are doing?" "You haven't given dr." "Depaul notice?" "Not yet." "I don't blame you waiting to see if this sticks." "A third hospital in as many months?" "I understand why it's enticing to him." "To have the study readily accepted" "After the resistance at memorial." "(stammers) don't take this the wrong way," "Because baby john was born there and I received excellent care." "But bill going to work at buell green?" "I cannot understand it." "Can you?" "It's quite a surprise." "He's not just rolling downhill, gini," "He's picking up speed." "From chief of obstetrics at maternity," "To taking a staff position at memorial," "To walking out and heading to the negro hospital?" "I don't know what to say, libby." "Where to from here?" "The state penitentiary?" "(keys clinking)" "Have you eaten?" "I'm not hungry." "Your way of saying, "let's skip dinner and move to dessert?"" "Look again, it's not what you think." "It's the key to your new office at buell green." "Not the obvious choice, I admit." "But they're a fine hospital, open to new things," "They fully endorse the study and my bringing you aboard." "That seems like a decision you could've discussed with me first." "Maybe." "But timing aside," "This is fabulous news." "Calls for a toast." "Uh..." "We can finally get back to work." "And you can stop selling those ridiculous diet pills." "I'm sorry, bill." "How did you see me coming aboard at buell green?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, as what?" "What is my official title?" "My responsibilities?" "My salary?" "We work all that out, of course." "When?" "I'd like to know those things before I decide to upend my life." "I want to be very clear on what you're offering me." "How about an opportunity to finish what we started?" "How about the study?" "I would just like the specifics spelled out, ahead of time." "In writing." "I see." "As I've proven myself untrustworthy." "Because I have two children I'm supporting." "If you end up leaving this hospital," "Like you left the last one and the one before that," "What guarantee do I have they will keep me on without you?" "I don't have the luxury of jumping ship on a whim." "I don't have the luxury of not selling those ridiculous diet pills." "I don't understand." "You shouldn't assume I'll just come" "Running whenever you call, bill." "I do have other opportunities." "And they are?" "I'd like to know." "What opportunities do you have outside of diet pills?" "A job with lillian." "She's doing very important work." "Work I'm very much part of." "I'm sure she'd make it worth my while to stay." "I don't think you want to play that hand." "It's not a hand." "I don't think lillian regards you quite as highly as you think." "Why do you say that?" "She knows about us." "About the work we're doing." "Upstairs." "Gene, your side of the bed is gonna turn to stone" "If you don't start sleeping in it again." "(sighs) â™ª you're the top you're the colosseum â™ª you're the top â™ª you're the louvre museum â™ª you're a melody from a symphony by somebody" "â™ª you're a something bonnet a shakespeare sonnet â™ª you're mickey mouse â™ª you're the nile â™ª you're the tower of pizza â™ª you're the smile..." "Come on, smile." "â™ª ..." "On the mona lisa â™ª I'm a total wreck I'm a worthless check, a flop â™ª but if, baby, I'm the bottom... â™ª" "(clears throat)" "Gene, honey." "I want you to take my hand, come upstairs with me." "We can gargle, we can... (sighs) ah, christ, come on." "Betty." "I don't know which way is up now." "That way?" "What are you getting at with, "come upstairs with me"?" "That you love me, huh?" "You sing me a song, try to seduce me?" "Though your voice sounds like migrating geese." "First, I was miss melba snyder" "In my high school production of pal joey." "Before they booted me out." "And second of all, you know who you married." "Yes, I got the message." "You're sore 'cause I can't have kids." "I'm sore 'cause you lied." "So yell at me." "Slam some doors, come up with some other idea." "Like we adopt or something, instead of freezing me out." "You want to adopt?" "Do you?" "No." "Not if it's..." "Another sing-along or another invitation up to bed." "Gene, honey..." "I want us to be happy." "I want you to be happy." "If that means bringing in kids that aren't ours," "But would become ours..." "Once we love them." "Once we love them." "Then, yeah." "I could do that." "I got to think about that." "Yeah?" "Okay?" "Okay." "(indistinct conversations)" "I'm hoping you'll find the office suits your needs, dr." "Masters." "It's, uh..." "It'll be fine." "And the dedicated exam room I'd requested?" "Next door." "Although I confess, bill," "I ruffled a few feathers to get that done." "Space here is at a premium." "I'm sure once the staff sees the volume of patients," "Study subjects coming in and out of my exam room," "They'll understand why it's a necessity." "I'm counting on that being the case." "Another thing while you're here, charles." "Um..." "My associate, mrs." "Johnson." "Mmm-hmm?" "She's going to require an employment contract." "We don't offer contracts to any of our support staff." "Guarantee is week-to-week." "I'd appreciate you making an exception." "Seeing as she's essential to my work." "(knocking on door)" "Am I intruding?" "No, no." "Come in, cyril." "I wanted to introduce myself." "Cyril franklin." "Bill masters." "A pleasure." "Gynecology?" "Yes." "We'll be sharing a waiting room." "I've followed your work with great interest." "I'm looking forward to get the staff along in that area." "If you need to refer patients," "I'll do whatever I can to accommodate them." "That's..." "Thank you." "Anything I can do to help." "And are your offices also the size" "Of a rabbit hutch, dr." "Franklin?" "My offices were next door, in what" "Is now the dedicated exam room." "My new offices, they're more suited to mice." "(phone ringing)" "Aren't you going to... (ringing continues)" "Dr. Depaul's office." "I see." "Well, thank you." "Man down in mimeo says he has 10 minutes between jobs" "If you can get him those..." "Those... (sighs)" "Does it matter what I did outside the office" "As long as I'm good at my job here?" "I think it would matter very much to libby masters." "Bill and I are not having an affair." "I don't think piling lies on top of other lies is really..." "Our participation in the study has been unorthodox." "I'll admit that." "Is that how bill pitches it?" "You're subjects in his study?" "Our study." "We are tracking the same physiological data" "As we would with any participant." "Let me understand." "It's okay because you're taking notes?" "Whatever it is or is not," "I have never let it interfere with my job." "And yet you gave away your study, why?" "To punish me?" "For what?" "For something I may have done" "That doesn't reflect the quality of my work?" "You're smarter than that." "This isn't about intelligence." "You were capable of waiting for a job that you earned" "Based on your abilities." "I have two children I'm supporting!" "I don't have the luxury of waiting." "What you've done makes it harder" "For every woman who comes after you." "Easier for a man who has designs on that woman." "You have to have a lot of money" "To wait for the perfect job opportunity." "Come from a good family," "Have parents willing to pay for medical school..." "If you're intimating I had it easy..." "Not easy." "Easier." "You had it easier." "You're in no position to judge me." "Nor you, me." "You think I'd throw away my work to spite you?" "Because I disapprove of your personal life?" "Isn't that what you've done?" "You're the girl upset she wasn't asked to the dance" "By the boy she didn't want to go with." "What does that mean?" "You're upset I gave my work" "To someone who could secure its future," "As if you ever truly wanted the responsibility." "Why would I ever entrust my life's work to you?" "When, admit it, you were always" "Going to leave me and follow bill." "(scoffs)" "I'm going down to mimeo to drop off these reports." "Don't perpetuate the sick belief" "That women need to open their legs to get a leg up!" "Oh, my goodness!" "Oh, that is so..." "You're so unlucky." "Did it hurt?" "Does he see me?" "Is it a she?" "No, don't go." "We are listening." "We are." "Oh..." "Raspberries." "We lost him." "Oh." "It happens." "You have be very quiet." "It's..." "It's not that they're shy or anything," "It has to do with energy channels." "Mmm-hmm." "Gene:" "Hey." "My god!" "Betts, your friend helen told me" "We have a ghost in our living room." "Oh, really." "How do we get rid of it?" "Oh, no, you mustn't." "He's such a sweet old man." "His name is paul." "Or saul." "It's paul." "He lived until he was 93." "Then choked on a chicken bone." "You never told me you had a friend that had..." "What did you call it?" "Oh, precognitions." "This morning, buttering my toast, thinking of nothing," "And all of a sudden it came to me," ""hunt down betty dimello."" "Moretti." "It's betty moretti now." "Yeah." "So you guys are friends from..." "Acquaintances, really." "Oh, we go way back." "Betty:" "Mmm-hmm." "Same gal does our hair at clarise's." "Now, betty, gene seems very open." "We can tell him the truth, huh?" "Several years ago, betty saw my sign in the window." "A palm, naturally, outlined in neon." "Okay." "And she came in and wanted to have her palm read." "Well, it turns out she has a very long love line." "Is that right?" "Oh, yes, look..." "Uh..." "Here it is." "See?" "There." "It means true love." "A long love, meant to last the ages." "Gene:" "Well, that would be us, right?" "(laughs)" "How we met." "Aw..." "Look at that, it was there" "(laughing) on your hand the whole time." "Yeah." "I have someone I think would love you." "Know who?" "I can't imagine." "My friend al, known him since sixth grade." "He's a bit of a goof, but has a heart of gold." "I really think al would love helen." "I'll make a reservation for us four at kemoll's." "Gene, don't be cuckoo." "Ooh!" "No." "This is my precondition." "(laughs) precognition." "Unless of course you have a special someone." "No." "I was recently jilted." "Gene:" "Al, too!" "That's good!" "So you both are in need of good fortune in the love department." "Al, his girlfriend just dumped him." "She got the shingles, blamed it all on al." "But she's a little, you know, ooh-yoy!" "Gene, honey, I..." "I don't think helen wants to go" "On a double date with us and al..." "I would love to." "What does a girl wear to kemoll's?" "No matter how long you stare, it's not going to unpack itself." "Uh..." "Human resources drew up a contract" "Specifying the details of your employment," "If you'd like to peruse." "Your office is..." "It's in there." "Next door there's a dedicated exam room," "With a viewing area." "Raising the question of where we'll be resuming our sessions." "Here or..." "At the hotel." "I'm amenable to either." "I was wondering if there's a third option." "Oh?" "Which would be..." "To stop." "We've been at this a while now." "At some point, haven't we exhausted the possibilities..." "Of sexual research?" "That's like saying" "One's done mapping the milky way." "Yes." "Maybe..." "Maybe if we took some time to reassess our objectives." "And what objectives, exactly, are you referring to?" "The scope of our involvement." "The terms..." "We're back to terms now?" "I suppose I'm wondering if our personal participation" "Is a condition of my employment here?" "No." "Then maybe it's better if we..." "What I meant was yes." "Yes." "It is part of the job." "Hotel, then." "Aren't you going to take off your clothes?" "No." "Because..." "I don't want to." "(exhales)" "So, what are we..." "I want you to strip." "(chuckles nervously)" "No, stand." "Now you're going to touch yourself." "Begin." "(ticking)" "You've closed your eyes." "Is that standard behavior for you?" "(clears throat) I believe it is." "Is that to facilitate fantasy?" "(breathing heavily)" "It's an automatic reflex," "Not a conscious process." "But..." "Yes, I suppose so." "And what are you thinking about?" "You." "You can stop touching yourself." "But I haven't yet..." "Stop." "Come here." "Take them off." "(gasps)" "(virginia moaning)" "(woman chattering on pa)" "Excuse me." "This x-ray solution needs to get to radiology." "Where is radiology?" "No idea at all." "I'm sorry." "I'm new here." "Excuse me." "Good morning." "Good morning." "I put up some fliers for the study on my way in." "Good." "As for today's business, you have the patient list?" "I intend to call this morning, starting with the a's." "I'll inform them of the new location" "And start scheduling appointments as early as..." "Today is fine." "Our doors are open." "Libby:" "I'm not sure I understand." "Robert:" "I came to talk about coral." "Coral?" "Is she not coming today?" "No, I put her on the bus." "I just came on ahead myself." "I was hoping to have a word with you." "Has something happened to coral?" "She told me something recently that I just can't seem to shake." "Every night I ask her how her day was," "And normally she just says, "fine," you know. "good."" "And she loves that baby john." "Thinks that little one walks on water." "Then the other night, she told me that" "Someone forced her head under a faucet and scrubbed at it." "I had to wash her hair." "My infant son had lice." "That must have been upsetting for you." "It was." "And upsetting for coral." "So that's it really." "I'm gonna keep on asking coral how her day was." "And she's gonna keep telling me." "And hopefully she'll just say "fine" and "good."" "And whatever that problem was," "Well, it won't happen again." "Now she doesn't know I stopped by." "So you can go and can keep that between us." "Thank you for your time, ma'am." "(door opening)" "(bell jingling)" "(door closing)" "The lines in your palm don't change," "If you're looking for a reading." "That was some stunt, helen." "So what is it you want?" "Money?" "I already gave you plenty of money." "Yes, I seem to remember you throwing $100 bills" "Out of your new cadillac as you drove away." "That is unfair." "I couldn't sleep for months." "I still can't!" "Well, that makes two of us." "You broke my heart." "We agreed me marrying gene was the best thing." "You agreed." "We agreed there is no future here." "Years and years, going out together as what?" "What?" "Two spinster friends?" "Or living together like sisters?" "Or going to bars where a butch won't serve us 'cause we're not wearing ducktails and gabardines?" "It's pathetic, helen." "We both like dresses." "So we just got to have to buck up" "And do the right thing." "The right thing for you." "You are a cynical woman, mrs." "Moretti." "What I am is a woman who has fucked men for money." "Hundreds of them." "I have seen things and I have done things and..." "I am not apologizing for this." "'cause I got gold faucets now," "A hat for every day of the week." "And I can eat beef bourguignon for lunch if I want." "You still got to sleep with him and not me." "Well, nothing comes free." "Then maybe it will work out for me, too, with al." "You are not going out with al." "You are canceling that date." "I am not canceling." "Stop screwing around, helen." "I'm following your lead." "You are not coming back into my life" "After the hell it took getting you out." "Fuck you, betty." "You got to grab the brass ring." "And now it's my turn." "Our process hasn't changed since" "You had your daughter, mrs." "Tillingsworth." "You'll schedule regular capping sessions." "And will the procedure last as long as before?" "All those hours lying still?" "Some women trying for a second kid look forward to it." "They say it's the only rest they get." "What if I go home immediately after the capping" "And do my bed rest there?" "You had such a good outcome the first time around." "Why tamper with success?" "Earl got me a new car." "And I don't feel comfortable leaving it on the street." "Not for hours on end." "Not in this neighborhood." "I park downstairs without giving it a thought." "My car is an eldorado." "Mrs. Johnson's car is also a..." "Ford." "But it is a very lovely shade of capri blue." "You don't expect to be here permanently, do you, doctor?" "Buell green is a fine hospital, mrs." "Tillingsworth." "Do you imagine I would be here otherwise?" "That I would be satisfied offering my patients" "Anything less than the care that they expect?" "No." "Of course not." "My car has leather seats." "You have a healthy, beautiful baby girl who deserves a sibling." "Now, which one of those two problems would you like to focus on?" "Your young man paid me a visit today." "(clears throat)" "I'm sorry, ma'am." "Robert?" "Coral, I'm older than you and I know" "A thing or two about the world." "Well, why don't you sit down a moment?" "I know you have no mother to guide you." "So I'm just going to tell you this." "Directly." "I'm worried about you being with this boy." "He came here to," "Well, essentially to threaten me." "I'm not going to call the police." "I'm not even sure I'm going to tell dr." "Masters." "But I will tell you." "I think robert is very angry." "He's trying to hide it, but it's very obvious to me." "I could feel it." "So under the circumstances," "I think it's best if you put some" "Distance between you and robert." "Just ease him out gently." "Perhaps start seeing a little less of him." "We live together." "And I should leave him." "I certainly should." "Like you say, he is a rough customer, robert." "And he does have a temper, there's no doubt." "And sometimes we fight." "But then," "When it's late," "And it's the two of us, alone, in our bed," "Well, all the bad stuff just goes away." "He's real soft with his hands." "And his lips." "The way he touches me, his breath in my ear... (exclaims)" "Well, I'm sure you can understand how hard that is to leave." "You being a woman of the world." "But I will think about what you said." "And once I'm finished making dr." "Masters' bed," "Should I make yours, too?" "(indistinct conversations)" "(woman chattering on pa)" "We went through the first run of fliers already?" "The first ones have all been taken." "Unfortunately, to the dump, just south of the city." "A man watched me as I put one up." "I could tell he didn't approve." "Apparently, he took matters into his own hands" "To save the world from our immoral ways." "What man?" "I'll talk to hendricks." "He guaranteed me we wouldn't be interfered with." "A delivery man." "He had this scowl on his face." "Very much like the scowl we've seen on some of our patients" "Since we landed here." "I honestly think" "It's going to take some effort" "To get willing subjects back into the study." "We may lose some of our regulars 'cause they don't want to make the drive to this neighborhood." "Which means most of the study will be made up of negro subjects." "As one would expect at a negro hospital." "Which begs the question," "If our study subjects are primarily colored," "Do we include their data in with everyone else's?" "As opposed to what?" "Separating our subjects by race?" "We've never included negroes before." "We've never excluded them, either." "They simply had no exposure to our recruitment efforts" "At a white hospital." "Now that we're here..." "Just asking" "If there's any value in separating them," "From a research point of view?" "Looking at them apart from caucasian data?" "You do realize they have the same physiology, don't you?" "The difference is merely melanin, skin pigment." "Would you argue that our brown-eyed subjects are sexually" "Distinct from our blue-eyed ones?" "No." "But in this case, people think there's a difference." "(phone ringing) sexually speaking." "True or not, I wonder if it's worth our consideration." "Dr. Masters' office." "Yes, mrs." "Kenworthy." "That's fine." "We can..." "All right." "Thank you." "Mrs. Kenworthy just canceled her appointment." "When does she want to reschedule?" "She doesn't." "Some people use sex as a way to make up." "Have you found that to be true?" "Uh... (stammers) I'm not sure I have found it." "Don't you think there's something healthy about that?" "Healthy?" "In the sense of..." "A good way for a couple to iron out their differences." "I mean, it's not something we do." "But maybe we should." "I'm not angry with you." "You know what they say..." "Love and hate are two sides of the same coin." "Have you been talking to someone?" "What is that supposed to mean?" "That I just stay at home and live this sheltered life?" "I know about the world." "I see things and I hear things." "So are you angry with me?" "Yes." "I am." "A little." "And in the interest of marital health," "I think we should patch things up." "(dr." "Masters grunting)" "Should I slow down?" "It happened already." "I was just very quiet." "The baby." "(continues grunting)" "I called a taxi." "I assumed you weren't coming." "Because I'm the type of person who skips out on a cancer patient?" "Get in." "(indistinct conversations)" "From now on, please don't worry about this room." "I'll take care of it." "Yes, ma'am." "(door opening)" "(vacuum jangling)" "(vacuum whirring)" "Betty, I'm..." "Betty!" "What?" "(whirring stops)" "What are you doing?" "Vacuuming." "(laughs) vacuuming." "In all the time I've known you," "I've never seen you near a vacuum." "Let alone push one around." "I have too vacuumed." "That vacuum has two inches of dust on it." "That's how much cleaning you do." "I'm burning off, you know, (shudders) anxiety." "'cause of what I didn't tell you." "About helen." "Uh-huh." "Truth is she's..." "Ooh." "She's not so good at bathing." "Ah!" "A sponge bath every couple weeks maybe." "And come summer, she's like french cheese." "I didn't notice anything." "Al will notice." "You know how vain he is about his women." "And you know about napoleon and josephine." "The more she stank, the more he loved her." "Let al and helen work it out." "(stammering) it's just..." "It's like the smell reflects what's, you know, inside." "Like she's rotten." "As a person." "I thought she was your friend." "What does that word even mean anymore?" "Plus I got a conscience, gene," "And I can't sit by and watch helen get her hooks into al." "(sighs) hooks?" "Oh." "Oh!" "Hooves more like it, because" "She also has a gambling problem." "Spends 90% of her time at the tracks." "What?" "Every vendor there knows her." ""hel" this, "hel" that." "The hell part's right." "It accounts for her constant scheming." "Always looking for the next pair of deep pockets" "To pay for her, you know," "Her sickness." "(sighs)" "Betty, al loves the track." "Al has deep pockets." "Sounds like a match made in heaven." "Mmm." "(sighs)" "(door closes)" "It's a high compliment when patients of mine refer their daughters." "Although my mother actually saw you at memorial." "The quality of care will be no different here." "Mrs. Johnson will start by taking a fertility history." "It won't take long." "(yelling in hallway) then we'll do a brief" "Physical work-up, we'll draw some blood." "We can do that before or after the physical exam, whichever is... (yelling continues) (loud clattering)" "Woman:" "Stop it!" "Man:" "Say you're sorry!" "Could you excuse us a moment?" "Man:" "Say you're sorry!" "Apologize!" "Right now!" "Apologize to her!" "Say sorry!" "Woman:" "Hands off!" "Mr. Mccaffrey, please!" "He was looking at my wife!" "Let him go!" "Virginia, call the security guard." "Let him go now!" "Not before he apologizes to my wife!" "For what?" "Being in the same room with her?" "For sitting in a chair?" "You son of a bitch!" "Gentlemen, that is enough!" "Maybe you need some reminding whose" "Neighborhood you wandered into." "Oh, you can have this barnyard, nigger." "Dr. Masters:" "Gentlemen!" "(women gasping) (groans)" "As soon as I walked into the waiting room, I remembered him." "Back at maternity," "He was the husband that wanted to be" "In the delivery room with his wife." "The same husband who held her hand and wept" "When we handed him his firstborn." "And then today at buell green," "He was like a neanderthal." "There must be something in the air," "Because I, too, had a similar experience recently." "What do you mean?" "A large colored man banged on our door" "And told me bluntly he didn't like how I was treating coral." "A large, colored..." "Coral's boyfriend, as it turns out." "He was coming here to see her?" "No." "Us." "Me." "Hmm." "If he doesn't like coral working for a living," "He should take it up with her, right?" "Not come here and make threats." "What, threats?" "What did he say, exactly?" "It's more how he said it." "It's even possible coral is lying about us." "First of all, I didn't force her head under the faucet." "So what did you do?" "I washed her hair." "Because she refused to do it herself." "I told you the lice were not coming from her." "You said it was unlikely, bill." "And frankly, you don't know everything." "But did you force her head?" "I didn't force anything." "That is not what happened." "Why are you taking her side in this?" "And his?" "Why don't you take my side?" "I stand up for you." "I didn't do anything wrong." "Libby, you need to apologize." "If someone did that to you?" "I wouldn't just stand on their doorstep in your defense." "Their face would look like mine, I'd make damn sure." "I think you got off lightly with that young man." "The casing we use is made out of bone and tendon." "Some people use wood pulp." "But not us." "I always thought wood pulp was the industry standard." "Like a house on fire, these two." "Mmm." "Can I have more wine, please?" "Al:" "It's a family business." "But funnily enough, not my family." "I bought it." "I love how passionate you are about pepperoni." "(chuckles)" "I also like dessert." "And you smell just like my mom's vanilla pudding." ""well, I heard you're a low-down yankee liar."" "(gene chuckles)" "Oh, that's good." "That's a good one." "Men:" "Um..." "Jimmy stewart." "No." "Gene:" "Gary cooper?" "No." "Alan ladd." "Gene:" "Bingo." "In shane." "Of course." "Anyway, the scent is cingerie." "My mother always wore it, now I do." "A little on the wrists, behind the ears, a few drops in the bath." "In the bath." "Al:" "If we leave alan ladd out of it," "How 'bout I put you in my pocket?" "I would like that, but I bet I wouldn't fit." "No." "Helen, no betting." "Al:" "No." "Listen, with me, it's not even gambling 'cause I worked out a very scientific system." "And I'm happy to show it to you." "Maybe help you minimize your losses a little." "Did betty tell you my secret?" "Yes." "But I don't judge." "Not for a minute." "Well, I suppose I've spent a little" "Too much time on the riverboats." "Plus your afternoons at the track." "Yes." "There's the horses as well." "Gene:" "Who doesn't, right?" "(chuckling)" "Right." "Did betty also tell you about the time" "I heard there was a horse running in the kentucky derby" "Named beautiful betty?" "Aw..." "Odds were 13:1 against." "I bet my last two bucks on that horse." "Gave the ticket to betty." "She was feeling blue about something." "And I told her," ""whenever you feel like the world's against you," ""look at that ticket and know that no matter what the odds are," ""someone's betting on you."" "Huh." "Isn't that nice?" "Yeah." "Did the horse win?" "This story ends in tragedy." "The horse broke a leg." "See, I can't hear that." "It is true." "Hmm." "They had to shoot her." "(gene sighs in disappointment)" "(laughing)" "It does happen." "(women laughing)" "I'll say." "(both continue laughing)" "(laughs awkwardly)" "(laughing continues)" "I guess you know how to pick 'em." "I'm sorry." "This is where my system could come in handy." "(women continue laughing)" "(coughing) um..." "I need to powder." "Gene:" "Oh, that's rich." "(betty sighs)" "You can't do that." "I just did." "(door opens) (gasps)" "After the dust-up yesterday, I thought it'd be best" "If we kept our patients separate." "Unless you're going for stitches next time, doctor." "I don't think this is the right solution." "Good morning, obstetrics." "Mrs. Johnson?" "It seems someone's trying to track you down." "Hello?" "Lillian, what happened?" "They must've said on the phone." "They didn't." "They just said some kind of accident." "Some 10-year-old wandered into the ladies' room" "And found me passed out." "On the floor." "Was it a seizure?" "How would I know?" "One minute, I'm trying to thread my typewriter ribbon." "Next I'm on the floor with a kid screaming over me." "She thought I was dead." "They would only release me to a responsible party." "I didn't know who else to call." "Lillian, let's get you inside." "No." "Just..." "Can we sit?" "Okay." "I'm never going back to that hospital." "As a patient, maybe." "But never again as a doctor." "I'm done there." "They said that?" "I don't want to wait for them to tell me." "It'd be irresponsible to stay on." "Something different every day." "A garbled word." "A forgotten diagnosis." "Ten minutes I can't account for." "You have good stretches." "You were very articulate the other day" "When you were expressing your extreme disappointment in me." "Was I?" "Did I apologize?" "Good." "(chuckles)" "I am scared, though, for what's ahead." "Which means I can't" "Really afford to be upset with you." "Now can I?" "I'd like to speak to you." "Yes, ma'am?" "I know when you came to my door the other day," "You did it out of concern for coral." "And not necessarily as a threat to me." "So I've thought about it, and yes," "I may have overreacted when I washed coral's hair." "I just had a baby." "And when you have a baby," "Even minor incidents can seem major." "It's in all the books." "My point is, I shouldn't have done that to coral." "I'm sorry." "Common courtesy dictates" "That you get out of the car and accept my apology properly." "I think the person you ought to be apologizing to is coral." "Coral is a different matter." "Coral deliberately disobeyed me." "Pay attention now, coral." "'cause this here is a good lesson" "In white people's inability to take" "Responsibility for their actions" "And do the right thing." "Did you say "white people"?" "Get in, coral." "We're leaving." "(car engine starting)" "(car door closing)" "You should know, my husband works in the negro hospital." "See dr." "Mcalpin down in ophthalmology." "He's the best in the city" "And can make sure there's been no damage to your vision." "Clearly, my vision was impaired to begin with," "Not to see this coming." "I fear I may have misjudged" "How my patients would handle the transition to a new hospital." "We were as surprised as you by the fighting." "Dr. Masters:" "The truth is our patients are reluctant to come here." "Some have had issues with the neighborhood." "Others have misgivings about the mix of patients." "It seems inevitable we're going to lose a few." "Inevitable?" "You're just resigned to that?" "It doesn't mean they won't return in time." "But it may take them becoming unhappy" "With the care someone else provides" "Before they come back to me." "And you're prepared to wait it out?" "Meanwhile, we can serve the patients already here." "And we have the study to focus on." "As long as we can keep your delivery men away from our fliers." "I have to say, I'm disappointed." "I'm not sure what the alternative is." "Dr. Hendricks:" "You ever watch how people get into a cold lake?" "There are the ones that go very slowly, inch by inch." "Even rise up on their tiptoes to stave off the cold." "Then there are those who take the plunge," "Get it over with," "Trust they'll adjust to the cold once it's enveloped them." "If I had time to slowly change people's minds about segregation," "I would've brought in some young, unassuming white resident," "Let patients slowly get used to him." "And then I would've hired another one, and another." "But there's too much I want to accomplish" "To take my time doing it." "Which is why I hired you." "You with your dedicated exam room." "With your essential assistant, your sex study." "You were the cold lake, and I jumped in with both feet." "Thank you." "Dr. Hendricks:" "I knew exactly what I was getting." "A man who showed a room full of doctors" "What the inside of a woman climaxing looked like," "And had his hat handed to him for it." "You didn't ease people out of ignorance," "You exposed them to the truth." "You said this is going to be uncomfortable, but it's important." "And it's going to open your eyes forever." "You and I, we don't look the same." "But we are the same." "We are not men who wait." "You need to make a case for yourself." "You need to call every patient you ever had" "And say this is where you need to be, with me." "That's how you move your practice forward," "How I move my hospital forward," "How we move history forward." "I'm afraid history is outside my purview." "You know that's not true." "You wouldn't be doing this study" "Of yours if that were the case." "Last year," "Martin luther king, jr." "Stood less than a mile from here and said," ""st." "Louis is a city that's moving forward," ""embracing its future, not standing in its way."" "This hospital will be integrated." "Now," "Are you willing to help me do that?" "We each choose our battles, charles." "And wooing patients is not my gift." "Come on, bill." "It's really more virginia's." "Well, then, mrs." "Johnson," "You have your work cut out for you." "I suppose I do." "Hmm." "Did you say that just to appease him?" "About you?" "I said it because it's true." "There are things that" "You are better at than I." "Just as there are things I'm better at, of course." "Of course." "At this rate, I expect to see you" "In the front row at dr." "King's next rally." "Be serious, virginia." "That's not my fight." "But if in helping ourselves, we also help dr." "Hendricks," "I see nothing wrong with that."