Initial Interview at Time of Commitment
Unknown Man: So, tell me, Mr. McGowan, how do you feel?
McGowan: How do I feel?
Unknown Man: Yes, in simple terms, tell me how you're feeling.
McGowan: You a doctor?
Unknown Man: No.
McGowan: Will you help me?
Unknown Man: Mr. McGowan, I need you to...
McGowan: Look, I'm... I'm scared. I don't know where I am. The lady at the door, she took everything! She took my mother!
Unknown Man: Your mother went home.
McGowan: No, she didn't. She wouldn't do that, she got taken. The lady took her, I know it. Where did she take her to? Let me talk to that lady. I wanna find out where she took my mother! What are these?
[sounds of cuffs/shackles]
Unknown Man: Those are just to keep you in the chair. Please, calm down.
McGowan: Tell me what's going on. Maybe - Where am I?
Unknown Man: Your new home.
McGowan: Aha!
Unknown Man: What is it?
McGowan: If this is home, then where's mother? You said she went home, but you also said this is... I... I got you, doc.
Unknown Man: I'm... I'm not a doctor.
McGowan: Well, you look big for a doctor. I think you're right. You know what? I could take you. Maybe a doctor would fix you up. Hey, these things are hurting my wrists, bud! Hey, what am I supposed to call you? You know, when I'm busting you up for keeping me in here?
Unknown Man: You have no reason to hurt me. I'm here to help.
McGowan: In a pig's ass...
Unknown Man: You have to trust me, Mr. McGowan. We're here to help you.
[strange noise]
McGowan: What's that? Who - who's there?
Unknown Man: No one's there, I promise.
[mic click]
Interview After Being Drugged Up Some Time Later
Unknown Man: Well, Lloyd, you've certainly gone and gotten yourself in real trouble this time.
McGowan: I've never been...
Unknown Man: Do you hear me, Lloyd?
McGowan: I hear it's sunny this time of year...
Unknown Man: They're sending you to the far wing, east ancillary, the 300s?
McGowan: The whole thing, I've never been, he, he went...
Unknown Man: Do you know why you're going to the EA?
McGowan: He tried to go. He tried but he didn't make it.
Unknown Man: Jesus Christ, what have they got you on, Lloyd, huh?
McGowan: Gone... the jungle... probably fell in the jungle... gone.
Unknown Man: Yeah, well, you're going to be gone for a while, too. You killed that girl, right?
McGowan: Gone... he's gone... gone...
Unknown Man: Lloyd, I need - Listen to me. Tell me you killed that girl.
McGowan: The crazy statue there... that it was too far... too far, couldn't do it...
Unknown Man: I'm going to ask you plainly. Lloyd McGowan, did you murder that girl? Don't say no.
McGowan: The ferns are red now...
Unknown Man: Atta boy.
[mic click]
Interview Before Transfer to Darlington, MD
McGowan: What's going on, bud? Things seem scarce around here. Is it spring cleaning already?
Unknown Man: We're transferring you, Lloyd, you and most of the other patients.
McGowan: Transfer?
Unknown Man: Yes, to another institution.
McGowan: What, like Buffalo or something?
Unknown Man: Not quite. We've reached an agreement with a small facility in Maryland, umm, Darlington, Maryland. How do you feel about this?
McGowan: Ah, I bet it's darling!
Unknown Man: Are you afraid?
McGowan: I don't know what afraid is anymore. I don't even know what "feel" is anymore...
Unknown Man: Try to tell me.
McGowan: Look, if I feel anything, it's this. I feel like I've been asleep for the past thirty years and I still can't wake up. I feel like you've been selling me lies. I feel like my mother died before I could ever say goodbye, and my Pappy probably outlived her 'cause that's exactly the kind of asshole he was.
Unknown Man: You're handling this well...
McGowan: You're a funny guy, bud. I'll tell you what, you finally get around to telling me what my deal is and I won't beat the shit out of you as soon as they let me go.
Unknown Man: I guess it can't hurt now.
McGowan: Oh, it still could, believe me.
Unknown Man: I see your point. Lloyd, you were a threat to your family. That's why your mother dropped you off here. She was afraid.
McGowan: She was afraid of my father!
Unknown Man: She was afraid of you.
McGowan: In a pig's ass, she was afraid of me. I was her boy, her baby boy!
Unknown Man: Relax, please, Lloyd.
McGowan: What else are you going to pull out of that backwards noggin of yours, huh? Tell me. Tell me somethin' real good.
Unknown Man: Thirty years ago, you committed a murder.
McGowan: What?!
Unknown Man: That's why you can't place the past few years. You've been medicated and isolated for the majority of that time.
McGowan: I ain't never killed nobody! I ain't my father!
Unknown Man: There was a young woman with anterograde amnesia. Do you remember her?
McGowan: What? I... I don't know... Maybe... I... What are you talking about? I ain't killed nobody.
Unknown Man: Do you remember? She was also a patient of Dr. Richter's.
McGowan: Richter? Ah, yeah, that guy. I remember that guy.
Unknown Man: And the young woman?
McGowan: I... I think so. Rachel? Beatrice? I don't remember her name. What was it? I didn't kill her.
Unknown Man: You, yourself, admitted your memory is missing pieces.
McGowan: I think I'd know if I did that!
Unknown Man: Would you now?
[sounds of cuffs/shackles]
McGowan: You've got some nerve. You're trying to mess me up and get in my head! You can't! Get out! You wake me up from a dream and all my heroes are dead!