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''Olivia enters Ian's cell in the Ventrue Correctional Facility. Ian is lying motionless on the bed. She closes the door behind her.'' | ''Olivia enters Ian's cell in the Ventrue Correctional Facility. Ian is lying motionless on the bed. She closes the door behind her.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Good evening, Mr. Kross.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Good evening, Mr. Kross.</p> | ||
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''She pulls out the desk chair and sits down.'' | ''She pulls out the desk chair and sits down.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: This is our eighth session together. I realize that you are still processing your recent loss. I would like to take a step back from history questions and focus instead on where you are right now.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: This is our eighth session together. I realize that you are still processing your recent loss. I would like to take a step back from history questions and focus instead on where you are right now.</p> | ||
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''There is a moment of silence.'' | ''There is a moment of silence.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: I'm in a cell.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: I'm in a cell.</p> | ||
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''Olivia makes a note.'' | ''Olivia makes a note.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: May we begin?</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: May we begin?</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Do I have a choice?</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Do I have a choice?</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: You always have a choice, Mr. Kross.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: You always have a choice, Mr. Kross.</p> | ||
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''Ian grumbles.'' | ''Ian grumbles.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Go on then.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Go on then.</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Thank you.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Thank you.</p> | ||
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''Olivia organizes her notes.'' | ''Olivia organizes her notes.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: In the past week, have you had thoughts of harming yourself?</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: In the past week, have you had thoughts of harming yourself?</p> | ||
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''Ian laughs.'' | ''Ian laughs.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: What do you think?</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: What do you think?</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: What I think is irrelevant.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: What I think is irrelevant.</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Well, then there's one place we agree.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Well, then there's one place we agree.</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: I see.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: I see.</p> | ||
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''She makes a note.'' | ''She makes a note.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: And what about harming others?</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: And what about harming others?</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Currently?</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Currently?</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: In the past--</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: In the past--</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: If so, then yes. You can jot that down, too. Often, even. ''Constantly.''</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: If so, then yes. You can jot that down, too. Often, even. ''Constantly.''</p> | ||
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''Olivia sighs.'' | ''Olivia sighs.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Mr. Kross, I find your tone unnecessary.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Mr. Kross, I find your tone unnecessary.</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Really? I find this whole goddamn thing unnecessary, Ms. Roth.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Really? I find this whole goddamn thing unnecessary, Ms. Roth.</p> | ||
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''He gets up and Olivia looks up at him.'' | ''He gets up and Olivia looks up at him.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Doctor.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Doctor.</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: What?</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: What?</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: You mispronounced the word ''doctor'', Mr. Kross. In our previous sessions, I have tried to build rapport with you. That was a mistake, and I apologize for it. Let me explain this to you plainly, so there's no misunderstanding: I will visit you here in your cell once a week for therapy, until either I decide that it's safe for you to reenter society, at which time you will be free to go... or Marcus decides that it's not safe, and has you destroyed.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: You mispronounced the word ''doctor'', Mr. Kross. In our previous sessions, I have tried to build rapport with you. That was a mistake, and I apologize for it. Let me explain this to you plainly, so there's no misunderstanding: I will visit you here in your cell once a week for therapy, until either I decide that it's safe for you to reenter society, at which time you will be free to go... or Marcus decides that it's not safe, and has you destroyed.</p> | ||
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''Ian starts to speak and she holds up a hand.'' | ''Ian starts to speak and she holds up a hand.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: I have no problem with your silence. I will continue to come down here, every week, until you talk to me or until you are dead. But Marcus doesn't have my patience. Or my sympathy for your situation.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: I have no problem with your silence. I will continue to come down here, every week, until you talk to me or until you are dead. But Marcus doesn't have my patience. Or my sympathy for your situation.</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Fuck your sympathy!</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Fuck your sympathy!</p> | ||
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''Olivia sighs.'' | ''Olivia sighs.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Again. Unnecessary.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Again. Unnecessary.</p> | ||
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''She gathers her notes and stands up, walking to the door of the cell.'' | ''She gathers her notes and stands up, walking to the door of the cell.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: ''Fine.'' If it's the only way out of here.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: ''Fine.'' If it's the only way out of here.</p> | ||
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''Olivia pauses and turns to face him.'' | ''Olivia pauses and turns to face him.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: If it's between this and an urn, I'll take this. Barely.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: If it's between this and an urn, I'll take this. Barely.</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Your reluctant agreement is noted. Now let me give you my terms.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Your reluctant agreement is noted. Now let me give you my terms.</p> | ||
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''Ian starts to speak and she holds up a hand.'' | ''Ian starts to speak and she holds up a hand.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Silence is not a problem for me, but antagonism and veiled threats certainly are. If you raise your voice to me, attempt to threaten me, or act in any way that makes me feel uncomfortable, our session will immediately be over for the week. If you ever put your hands on me or use your disciplines on me, our therapy will be over permanently. Do you understand?</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Silence is not a problem for me, but antagonism and veiled threats certainly are. If you raise your voice to me, attempt to threaten me, or act in any way that makes me feel uncomfortable, our session will immediately be over for the week. If you ever put your hands on me or use your disciplines on me, our therapy will be over permanently. Do you understand?</p> | ||
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''There is a pause.'' | ''There is a pause.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Yeah. Fair enough.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Yeah. Fair enough.</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Good. I'm glad. I look forward to working with you. Enjoy the rest of your evening, Mr. Kross.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Good. I'm glad. I look forward to working with you. Enjoy the rest of your evening, Mr. Kross.</p> | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Wait! I thought we - Shit. What do you want? Just - just tell me what you want to know and let me out of here.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:IanFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>IAN: Wait! I thought we - Shit. What do you want? Just - just tell me what you want to know and let me out of here.</p> | ||
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''Olivia pauses, then walks to his desk and picks up his journal. | ''Olivia pauses, then walks to his desk and picks up his journal. | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: The truth is always a good place to start.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: The truth is always a good place to start.</p> | ||
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''She puts the journal on the end of his bed.'' | ''She puts the journal on the end of his bed.'' | ||
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|<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Only you know what that is.</p> | |<div style="float:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0px;">[[File:OliviaFace.png | left | 50px]]</div><p>OLIVIA: Only you know what that is.</p> | ||
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Scene Summary: What Makes a Man II
| What Makes a Man II | |
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| Chronicle | New York Chronicle |
| Game Date | December 12, 2014 |
| Real Date | December 4, 2015 |
| Characters | Ian Kross Olivia Roth |
| Locations | Ventrue Correctional Facility |
| Previous Scene | We All Want to Go Home (Ian) What Makes a Man (Olivia) |
| Next Scene | All That Remains (Ian) Everything Comes Down to This (Olivia) |
| Content Warnings | Captivity, Suicide |
| Original Scene | What Makes a Man II |
What Makes a Man II is a scene from the New York Chronicle featuring Ian Kross and Olivia Roth. It depicts Ian grudgingly agreeing to undergo therapy with Olivia as his psychiatrist.
Scene Summary
Olivia enters Ian's cell at the Ventrue Correctional facility, where he is lying silently on the bed, and closes the door behind her. She greets him and is not surprised when he does not respond, thinking back to his recent bereavement and violent response to it. She sits down at his desk and offers him her condolences, asking him to tell her how he is doing right now. He answers that he is in a cell. When she asks if they can begin, he asks if he has a choice, to which she replies that he always does. He agrees and she begins to ask him questions.
Ian admits that he has been suicidal and has also thought frequently about hurting others, but his abrasive tone causes Olivia to pause the session, especially after he repeats that he thinks the therapy is pointless. He fails to use Olivia's title, prompting her to correct him and tell him that his only options are to go through therapy with her until she recommends his release, or wait for his sire Marcus Aurelius to destroy him instead. She reminds him that Marcus doesn't share her patience or sympathy for him, to which he replies that he doesn't want her sympathy.
Olivia begins to leave, making it to the door before Ian relents and agrees that he barely prefers therapy to being dead. Olivia looks him over and then tells him her terms and boundaries, including the fact that he is not allowed to touch or use powers on her, and that she will instantly end any session in which he threatens her. He agrees and she thanks him and tries to leave again for the evening, but he stops her, asking what she wants from him. She places the journal she has asked him to write in on his bed and tells him that the truth is a good place to start before leaving for the night.
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What Makes a Man Script Summary
Olivia enters Ian's cell in the Ventrue Correctional Facility. Ian is lying motionless on the bed. She closes the door behind her.
OLIVIA: Good evening, Mr. Kross. |
She pulls out the desk chair and sits down.
OLIVIA: This is our eighth session together. I realize that you are still processing your recent loss. I would like to take a step back from history questions and focus instead on where you are right now. |
There is a moment of silence.
IAN: I'm in a cell. |
Olivia makes a note.
OLIVIA: May we begin? |
IAN: Do I have a choice? |
OLIVIA: You always have a choice, Mr. Kross. |
Ian grumbles.
IAN: Go on then. |
OLIVIA: Thank you. |
Olivia organizes her notes.
OLIVIA: In the past week, have you had thoughts of harming yourself? |
Ian laughs.
IAN: What do you think? |
OLIVIA: What I think is irrelevant. |
IAN: Well, then there's one place we agree. |
OLIVIA: I see. |
She makes a note.
OLIVIA: And what about harming others? |
IAN: Currently? |
OLIVIA: In the past-- |
IAN: If so, then yes. You can jot that down, too. Often, even. Constantly. |
Olivia sighs.
OLIVIA: Mr. Kross, I find your tone unnecessary. |
IAN: Really? I find this whole goddamn thing unnecessary, Ms. Roth. |
He gets up and Olivia looks up at him.
OLIVIA: Doctor. |
IAN: What? |
OLIVIA: You mispronounced the word doctor, Mr. Kross. In our previous sessions, I have tried to build rapport with you. That was a mistake, and I apologize for it. Let me explain this to you plainly, so there's no misunderstanding: I will visit you here in your cell once a week for therapy, until either I decide that it's safe for you to reenter society, at which time you will be free to go... or Marcus decides that it's not safe, and has you destroyed. |
Ian starts to speak and she holds up a hand.
OLIVIA: I have no problem with your silence. I will continue to come down here, every week, until you talk to me or until you are dead. But Marcus doesn't have my patience. Or my sympathy for your situation. |
IAN: Fuck your sympathy! |
Olivia sighs.
OLIVIA: Again. Unnecessary. |
She gathers her notes and stands up, walking to the door of the cell.
IAN: Fine. If it's the only way out of here. |
Olivia pauses and turns to face him.
IAN: If it's between this and an urn, I'll take this. Barely. |
OLIVIA: Your reluctant agreement is noted. Now let me give you my terms. |
Ian starts to speak and she holds up a hand.
OLIVIA: Silence is not a problem for me, but antagonism and veiled threats certainly are. If you raise your voice to me, attempt to threaten me, or act in any way that makes me feel uncomfortable, our session will immediately be over for the week. If you ever put your hands on me or use your disciplines on me, our therapy will be over permanently. Do you understand? |
There is a pause.
IAN: Yeah. Fair enough. |
OLIVIA: Good. I'm glad. I look forward to working with you. Enjoy the rest of your evening, Mr. Kross. |
IAN: Wait! I thought we - Shit. What do you want? Just - just tell me what you want to know and let me out of here. |
Olivia pauses, then walks to his desk and picks up his journal.
OLIVIA: The truth is always a good place to start. |
She puts the journal on the end of his bed.
OLIVIA: Only you know what that is. |
She nods at Ian and leaves the cell.
Trivia
- The recent loss Olivia refers to is the news of Maeve Glaistig's reported death; Ian and Maeve were romantically involved.
- Olivia thinks that there was "a small miscalculation" regarding Ian's former assistant; she is referring to Evelyn Summerfield being frightened and mildly injured when giving Ian the news of Maeve's death.
- Olivia's suggestion of using his journal in this scene finally causes Ian to write the Journal of Ian Kross.