Escaping the Madhouse The Nellie Bly Story (2019) Based on a True Story

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Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019) is an inspiring historical drama based on the true story of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly. Determined to expose injustice, she goes undercover to reveal the truth about a hidden world that few dared to question. Through courage and compassion, she changes lives and helps bring hope to others. This powerful film celebrates bravery, determination, and the importance of standing up for what is right, with a captivating performance and rich storytelling.

Transcript

00:00:00To be continued...

00:00:30My name is Nellie Brown.

00:00:41Poor girl was found wandering the streets of New York, confused and disoriented.

00:00:45They sent her here to us.

00:00:47The New York papers have dubbed her the mystery girl of Blackwell's Island,

00:00:51because when she was found, she had complete amnesia.

00:00:54The only thing she knew was her name.

00:00:56Who said he's talking about her?

00:01:00He continued to run her picture, hoping someone will recognize her,

00:01:04and while quite a few people seeking lost wives or daughters have made their way to our island

00:01:08in the hope of a happy reunion,

00:01:12no one has claimed her.

00:01:13And you say she has no recollection at all of who she is or how she came to be in this place?

00:01:24I'm afraid that's correct.

00:01:25She has not a single memory to comfort her.

00:01:29Newspapers said she was a pretty girl.

00:01:32I can't say she's pretty at all.

00:01:34Not in my estimation.

00:01:35No, gentlemen, this woman is definitely not my wife.

00:01:42This woman has that to comfort her.

00:01:45She speaks in a high tone for a loony with bats in her belfry.

00:01:50Sun-star play.

00:01:51I guess they all want to see the mystery girl.

00:01:59Sorry to keep bringing you in here, Nellie.

00:02:02I fear some of your visitors read about your case in the papers and come simply to satisfy our curiosity.

00:02:08Of course, we're obliged to see them in case they can shed light on who she really was.

00:02:13And myself, even without memories.

00:02:15Memories are the self as much as bricks are the house.

00:02:19And you, dear girl, are homeless.

00:02:21I have a home.

00:02:22I feel it.

00:02:23I have feelings that just now when that man...

00:02:27Feelings are not...

00:02:28Dr. Ingram, I believe Nellie's memories still exist.

00:02:32They're just cloaked.

00:02:34And as her primary doctor, it is my duty to help lift that cloak gently over time.

00:02:41Now, Nellie, I'm afraid it's time for you to go back.

00:02:46Before I go, may I please have my shoes loosened?

00:02:51The vault is so tight, I cannot feel...

00:02:53No, my dear girl.

00:02:55Your doctor shall not stoop to loosen your shoes.

00:02:58The bare idea!

00:02:59Dr. Ingram, they're fastened so tightly, they're interfering with her circulation.

00:03:03Where's the key?

00:03:04Matron Grady attends to the patient's physical needs.

00:03:08You are new to Blackwell, Dr. Josiah, but you will soon discover that our patient's shoes are locked tightly for good reason.

00:03:18I'll walk you back.

00:03:19New York.

00:03:32That's where I live.

00:03:34If I could just get off this island and go back there, I'm sure I could remember something.

00:03:40Nellie, you can't leave this island until you've recovered your memory.

00:03:43I can't recover my memory on this island.

00:03:46I feel like Tantalus.

00:03:48My memory, like the water, always receding.

00:03:51Never allowed a drink.

00:03:53You're well-versed in Greek mythology.

00:03:55But not my own history.

00:03:58Back in the office, you started to say that you felt something.

00:04:01Was it a memory?

00:04:03No.

00:04:04It was more like a feeling.

00:04:06A dislocated feeling can be the footprint of a memory.

00:04:10Can you describe what you felt?

00:04:11I felt a flash of affection for a man.

00:04:17Did you recognize him?

00:04:20No.

00:04:22He was familiar.

00:04:24Father, brother, someone here?

00:04:27I can't conjure his face.

00:04:29Just a flash of an image.

00:04:30When I heard that man say the word bats.

00:04:35Something having to do with the word bats.

00:04:39This is excellent.

00:04:41This feeling about a man.

00:04:43The word association.

00:04:44This could signal you're about to have a breakthrough.

00:04:47Or I could just really like baseball.

00:04:52Nellie.

00:04:54Don't give in to despair.

00:04:55You have every reason to hope.

00:04:59Now more than ever.

00:05:07Beg pardon, Matron Grady.

00:05:09The new doctor, Dr. Josiah, ma'am, is waiting in your office.

00:05:13Oh, we don't want to keep the young doctor waiting now, do we?

00:05:25Oh, is that too big?

00:05:28Is that good?

00:05:30Are you my love?

00:05:32You're the prettiest.

00:05:33That's right.

00:05:35There you go.

00:05:37Are you my lovely bird?

00:05:40It's my bird.

00:05:41My sunshine.

00:05:42Yes, there you go.

00:05:45All right.

00:05:49They should have told me you were waiting.

00:05:51I'd like to discuss Nellie's feet.

00:05:54Oh, how unusual for a doctor of the mind to take an interest in the other end of our girls.

00:06:02Yes, well, it would seem the nurses have fastened her boots a little too tightly today.

00:06:07Did they?

00:06:08I'll have a word with them.

00:06:10Yes, thank you.

00:06:11And if you would, please, loosen them now.

00:06:14Oh, I can't do that.

00:06:16But you have the key.

00:06:17Dr. Josiah, you haven't been with us very long.

00:06:26There are 45 patients in this hall.

00:06:29That's 90 shoes in the morning and 90 shoes at night.

00:06:34One hundred and eighty turns of the screw every day and every night.

00:06:39And do you know how many staff nurses I have in my employ?

00:06:44I do not.

00:06:46Three.

00:06:47Well, in that case, I would be happy to do it myself if you'd be so kind as to hand me the key.

00:06:51I'd just like to point out that if we adjust one pair of shoes, we are going to be on our knees all day long,

00:06:58adjusting everyone's shoes, and then they will slip out of them on their own.

00:07:03And what with fevers going around, well, then we would have to call in the real doctors.

00:07:10Oh, I mean the ones of the body, not the thoughts inside it.

00:07:16Matron Grady, the thoughts inside a body have a direct impact on that body.

00:07:21The health of one determines the other more often than not.

00:07:26Shall I sit down or is the lecture over?

00:07:28I'll move on to the demonstration.

00:07:30The key, please.

00:07:46Little bird.

00:08:02And now, Miss Brown, can you tell us how your thoughts improved now that your body is relieved?

00:08:08They are transformed entirely.

00:08:12And thank you for your indulgence.

00:08:14Fevers are going around, that's all I'm saying.

00:08:18Tight shoes mean a tight ship.

00:08:20I've never lost a patient on my watch, sir.

00:08:26Your arrivals are ready for the bath, ma'am.

00:08:28Hmm.

00:08:30Well, why don't we have Brown give you a hand with the bath,

00:08:36now that she's been transformed?

00:08:38This island may have been a hog farm once, but Matron Grady likes her piggies clean.

00:09:05Bad time.

00:09:07Bad time.

00:09:10Who goes first?

00:09:16You.

00:09:21All of it.

00:09:23Be gentle with her.

00:09:24You had your bath already, Brown.

00:09:26Don't make me give you another.

00:09:27I actually, I don't need a bath.

00:09:28I had one last night and I won't be here long.

00:09:30They'll come for me.

00:09:31Yes, I'm sure they'll be here any second.

00:09:33I have to feed my baby.

00:09:34If I don't give suck, I'll lose my milk.

00:09:36If you don't get into that tub, you'll lose a lot more than that.

00:09:43Okay, let her have it.

00:09:44Pretend you're jumping into an icy lake.

00:09:47Do it!

00:09:49Stop that, I said.

00:09:52Where is everybody going?

00:09:54They're going to breakfast.

00:09:55It's just like the chair in Georgie's nursery.

00:10:04They bring him to me in the mornings to nurse.

00:10:08Swaddled in his little blue blanket with the tiny ducks.

00:10:13No, no, no, you can't sit here.

00:10:15It's Matron Grady's.

00:10:17Does she have a baby too?

00:10:19Oh, God forbid.

00:10:20I brought his little blue blanket with me, but the nurses took it away.

00:10:28I miss my baby.

00:10:31Oh, shh.

00:10:34Come on.

00:10:36We have to go to the cafeteria before they lock us out.

00:10:39Come down to Kew in lilac time.

00:10:56Tis not so far from London.

00:10:59Come down to Kew in lilac time.

00:11:04Tis not so far from London.

00:11:07And we will wander hand in hand, in love, in nature's wonderland.

00:11:15Wander!

00:11:16And we will wander hand in hand, in love, in nature's wonderland.

00:11:25Very good.

00:11:26Remember, our annual ball is this week.

00:11:29It's a very nice gift from the Charities and Corrections Commission.

00:11:32And I expect everybody to help prepare for it.

00:11:37Bless, O Lord, this food to thy use, and us to thy service.

00:11:46Amen.

00:12:01A ball at an asylum?

00:12:04You ever heard of such a thing?

00:12:05We have it every year.

00:12:07It's a ritual.

00:12:08Ritual and routine are the cornerstones of the Matron's Cure.

00:12:13So, do we pretend they're at a real ball, like a New York Society ball?

00:12:19It is a real ball.

00:12:20There's music and dancing and socializing.

00:12:24There's just a bunch of sick people dancing with each other on an island of lunatics.

00:12:27And that differs from New York Society in what way, precisely?

00:12:44Are we meant to eat those?

00:12:46Best not to look when she's feeding the bird.

00:13:01Not if you want to keep whatever sanity you've got left.

00:13:04I was told this would be a rest cure.

00:13:07I rather thought it would be like Dr. Kellogg's sanitarium.

00:13:10You sound like you're from the smart set.

00:13:12I am a daughter of the American Revolution and one of the first families in New York.

00:13:16Oh, yeah?

00:13:16How are you?

00:13:18She still is who she was.

00:13:19We all are.

00:13:21She's so touchy about it because she don't know who she was.

00:13:25It's true.

00:13:25I don't remember anything from before my treatment.

00:13:29What kind of treatment did they give you?

00:13:31I honestly couldn't say.

00:13:33All I know is I woke up and here I am.

00:13:37They can't hold you captive just because you lost your memory.

00:13:40They can do whatever they want.

00:13:43I was a chambermaid.

00:13:44I'm here because I outlived my money.

00:13:48They threw me in here on account of how I made my money.

00:13:51You see that woman?

00:13:52Johari.

00:13:53She only speaks Swahili.

00:13:56And Rosa is from Mexico.

00:13:59Yeah, they don't speak United States.

00:14:01That's all what's wrong with them.

00:14:02Then they should hire a translator.

00:14:05They're going to die in here.

00:14:06We're all going to die.

00:14:08We're all going to die.

00:14:16Nobody even knows we're in here.

00:14:19Who cares?

00:14:22Well, I feel sorry for you,

00:14:26but I am from one of the very best families on Park Avenue.

00:14:30Yeah, right.

00:14:32You don't know she isn't.

00:14:33When my husband and my brothers find out I'm here,

00:14:36they'll be on the first boat out to get me.

00:14:38You may rely on it.

00:14:40After all,

00:14:42I am still a Hollister.

00:14:45Mrs. Hollister served pink lemonade and rainbow sandwiches.

00:14:48Mrs. Hollister.

00:14:49Mrs. Hollister.

00:14:50Star.

00:14:51Star.

00:14:52Hmm?

00:14:52Star.

00:14:53Star.

00:14:54Star.

00:14:55Star.

00:14:56Star.

00:14:57Star.

00:14:58Star.

00:14:59Star.

00:15:00Star.

00:15:01Star.

00:15:02Star.

00:15:03Star.

00:15:04Star.

00:15:05Star.

00:15:06Star.

00:15:07Star.

00:15:08Star.

00:15:09Stop it!

00:15:10It's too tight!

00:15:11Dr. Josiah said!

00:15:12Dr. Josiah said!

00:15:13Dr. Josiah said!

00:15:15You raise your voice to me one more time,

00:15:18and I'll have you thrown into the retreat.

00:15:21There's places in there your pretty doctor will never find you.

00:15:26Now get to bed!

00:15:29All of you!

00:15:30Fuck.

00:15:31I miss my baby so much.

00:15:37If I could just touch his little blanket.

00:15:42The first few nights are the hardest.

00:15:46Honey.

00:15:50Have you ever seen me before outside?

00:15:55Outside of this place.

00:16:06I'm sorry, Nelly.

00:16:08Yeah.

00:16:09I've never known you before tonight.

00:16:11But if you want me to say differently, I can.

00:16:16I can tell them you're my cousin.

00:16:18And you can leave with me when my brothers get here.

00:16:23I'm so cold.

00:16:30The shoes.

00:16:31The baths.

00:16:32The recitations.

00:16:33She makes it impossible to think straight.

00:16:35Try not to transfer your frustrations with your recovery onto Matron Grady.

00:16:39Do you know?

00:16:40After baths, they open all the windows just to watch us shiver.

00:16:44More likely for the fresh air.

00:16:46No.

00:16:47You don't know her.

00:16:49Bridget McGinnis told me Matron Grady beat her with a broomstick simply for asking for a

00:16:54drink of water.

00:16:55Mrs. Cotter.

00:16:56They stripped her naked and they threw her into the baths.

00:16:59They threw a sheet over her face, held her down until she nearly drowned.

00:17:06Every woman in this place has a story to tell.

00:17:08That these women honestly believe these stories does not make them true.

00:17:11Most of these women are not insane.

00:17:14Yes, some were born silly or forgot themselves with age.

00:17:18But most have been made crazier by this place.

00:17:22Injected with chloral and morphine.

00:17:25Made to sit silently from morning till evening.

00:17:28Taxed with back-breaking labor with no purpose.

00:17:32She has us hauling rocks endlessly like Sisyphus.

00:17:36Yes, there are some women here with broken minds, but most of them, these women are not

00:17:42insane.

00:17:43I am not insane.

00:17:48You think I'm raving?

00:17:49There's nothing wrong with passion.

00:17:51As long as it doesn't tip over into mania.

00:17:55Am I crazy?

00:17:58I don't feel crazy.

00:18:02Amnesia is my particular area of expertise.

00:18:08Amnesia, more often than not, is the result of some hidden trauma.

00:18:14It creates a kind of blockage of the mind.

00:18:20A trauma?

00:18:22You told me about Miss McGuinness and Mrs. Cotter.

00:18:30What about you, Nellie?

00:18:33What happened to you?

00:18:36I don't know.

00:18:39That must be the focus of our work together.

00:18:44As for Matron Grady, well, she's apparently enjoyed many successes in this institution.

00:18:49And what I wrote in your file, you're one of them.

00:18:53It was Grady who administered the treatment that brought you back to reality.

00:18:57But my memory is destroyed.

00:18:59Nellie, when you arrived, you were talking gibberish.

00:19:02All you knew was your name.

00:19:04But your Grady's treatment wasn't the cause of that.

00:19:07No, I suppose not.

00:19:10I did remember a name.

00:19:13Hollister.

00:19:14Was there a similar feeling of fondness as when you heard back?

00:19:19No, this was different.

00:19:20It was, um, just more like a memory.

00:19:24I distinctly hear myself saying or reading the name.

00:19:31The Hollisters are a prominent family.

00:19:32They're frequently written about in the newspapers.

00:19:34Yes, yes, that's it.

00:19:35It was a newspaper.

00:19:37I, um...

00:19:40Close your eyes.

00:19:49If you can, imagine you're holding the newspaper.

00:19:53And try to feel it between your fingers.

00:20:06I can smell the ink.

00:20:07Good.

00:20:08And, and, and there are flowers on a desk.

00:20:12Excellent.

00:20:13Okay, now, slowly, when you're ready, I want you to look up and tell me where you are.

00:20:22Oh, I can't.

00:20:35Every time I have a handle on something, it just falls away.

00:20:40I can't think in this place.

00:20:42I can't think in these shoes.

00:20:44Are they still bothering you?

00:20:46Told the nurses not to fasten the manacles, so...

00:20:51Tightly.

00:20:54So have another word with Matron Brady.

00:20:56In the meantime, I've procured my own key.

00:21:01If you'll permit me.

00:21:05Yes, please.

00:21:06Please.

00:21:07Now, every day when you come to me, I can loosen your shoes.

00:21:28So you can think.

00:21:33It would probably be best if this were to remain our secret.

00:21:41Of course.

00:21:42Thank you, Doctor.

00:21:44Sorry, what are your thoughts?

00:21:55I think I know why you became a doctor and not a baseball player.

00:22:11Well, in my defense, I think it's only the second or third time I've picked this thing

00:22:17up.

00:22:18Now, back in England, we grew up playing quite a different bat and ball game called cricket.

00:22:22Yes.

00:22:23No, I think I'll spare myself any further blushes.

00:22:27Come on, let's see if you can do better.

00:22:29Did you buy this just for me?

00:22:31For my son, actually.

00:22:33Oh, you have a little boy?

00:22:35Uh, a girl.

00:22:37But I didn't know it admittedly when I got the bat.

00:22:41Girls can play games too.

00:22:43You should give this to your daughter.

00:22:44Show her how to use it.

00:22:46Yeah, I'm not sure my wife would approve.

00:22:52Right.

00:22:53Let's see what you got.

00:22:54Ready?

00:22:55Ugh!

00:22:56Oh, problem.

00:22:57So, any images?

00:22:58Feelings?

00:22:59No, nothing.

00:23:00It's like my memory has nothing to anchor it.

00:23:05Nothing that's really mine.

00:23:07Dr. Josiah, will you do something for me?

00:23:10A favor?

00:23:11Of course.

00:23:12As long as it's in service of your recovery.

00:23:13The new patient, Lottie Hollister.

00:23:14She misses her baby very much.

00:23:15Yes, I know she does.

00:23:16I think it would help her if she could sit in the rocking chair in the hall, even for

00:23:18just a few minutes.

00:23:19just a few minutes.

00:23:20Under your supervision, of course.

00:23:21You're asking if I can supervise a woman using a rocking chair.

00:23:22I think she can manage that without me.

00:23:23Well, of course she could if she could, if she could, if she could do something for

00:23:24the last night.

00:23:25Oh.

00:23:26So, Dr. Josiah, will you do something for me?

00:23:27A favor?

00:23:28Of course.

00:23:29Not as long as it's in service of your recovery.

00:23:30The new patient, Lottie Hollister.

00:23:31She misses her baby very much.

00:23:32Yes, I know she does.

00:23:33I think it would help her if she could sit in the rocking chair in the hall.

00:23:37Even for just a few minutes.

00:23:40Under your supervision, of course.

00:23:42You're asking if I can supervise a woman using a rocking chair.

00:23:45I think she can manage that without me.

00:23:47Well, of course she could, if she were allowed to sit in it.

00:23:51You're saying the patients in Hall 6 are forbidden from using public furniture?

00:23:55Yes. Matron Grady won't let anyone use it.

00:23:59And yet she sits in it all the time in front of us.

00:24:05Follow me.

00:24:15It's just like my chair at home.

00:24:24Well, then you must use it at least once a day.

00:24:28She's in the chair!

00:24:32She's not allowed! She's not allowed!

00:24:34I want to sit and rock.

00:24:36Get away from there! Get away!

00:24:38Get away from there, you, unless you've got the switch!

00:24:40You've got to get out!

00:24:42Go!

00:24:42Just wait your turn. Ladies, if you can, just form an orderly cue to one side.

00:24:46We're all going to need to. Please, girls, if you could, just...

00:24:48What do you think you're doing?

00:24:49It's all right. These patients are under my supervision.

00:24:51I'm like a turn, please.

00:24:53Ladies, please, just to one side, if you can.

00:24:55Please, thank you.

00:24:56It's my turn.

00:24:58You're good.

00:24:59You're good.

00:25:01You're good.

00:25:04I haven't had a turn yet.

00:25:10I'm dying!

00:25:12I've had a turn yet.

00:25:19Ma'am, you have to come quick.

00:25:21That young doctor is letting the patients use your chair.

00:25:23Which patients?

00:25:25All of them, ma'am.

00:25:26Now, Slila, come along.

00:25:42You're good.

00:25:43You're good.

00:25:44You're good.

00:25:45You're good.

00:25:46You're good.

00:25:47You're good.

00:25:48You're good.

00:25:49You're good.

00:25:50You're good.

00:25:51You're good.

00:25:52You're good.

00:25:53You're good.

00:25:54You're good.

00:25:55You're good.

00:25:56You're good.

00:25:57You're good.

00:25:58You're good.

00:25:59You're good.

00:26:00You're good.

00:26:01You're good.

00:26:02You're good.

00:26:03You're good.

00:26:04You're good.

00:26:35One side, girls, please. Just do one side if you can. Thank you.

00:26:46Silence!

00:26:50Who told you this chair was your property?

00:26:51Nobody. I don't need to be told because it is my personal property.

00:26:55And then why is it here in plain sight where everyone can see it and no one can use it?

00:26:59The patients used to use it. All they did was fight over it.

00:27:02There were several injuries. I don't let them sit in it now because I don't have the staff to monitor it all day long.

00:27:09You can see for yourself it's quite a task.

00:27:12But I leave it here as a sense of home.

00:27:17A touch of the familiar for comfort in what can be a most impersonal place.

00:27:27But if you order me to have it removed, I will.

00:27:34No, no, please.

00:27:39No, it won't be necessary.

00:27:42Nurse group, why don't you escort these patients to the farm?

00:27:46I think they could benefit from some exercise and fresh air.

00:27:59Yes, ma'am.

00:28:01Go on.

00:28:03They're hiding in the balls.

00:28:04Let's get out now, Mariah.

00:28:06Get out of the chair, Mariah.

00:28:08They're hiding in the balls.

00:28:10They're fresh in the fire.

00:28:11Let's go of the chair.

00:28:15No, no, no.

00:28:41The star, the sun.

00:29:00It's mightier than the sword.

00:29:01There are people out there who have no voice.

00:29:04Who are you?

00:29:12What are you doing in here?

00:29:14Please.

00:29:15This is mine.

00:29:16This belongs to me.

00:29:18Oh, me heck.

00:29:19I told all my friends the mystery group is in here.

00:29:22They couldn't believe it.

00:29:23They want to know all about you.

00:29:24Everybody does.

00:29:25You're in all the papers.

00:29:27You're famous.

00:29:27You know that.

00:29:29I bet that when you get better, they're going to throw you a parade.

00:29:34I bet they'll take you shopping.

00:29:36Anywhere you want to go.

00:29:38One place I don't want to go is the retreat.

00:29:41I don't want to go there either.

00:29:43No.

00:29:43Will you please hide this from me?

00:29:47Please.

00:29:48Please.

00:29:53All right.

00:30:11What are you doing in here?

00:30:23There's a man downstairs from the Department of Charity and Corrections.

00:30:27He says it's about the ball.

00:30:28Every year, they kick up a fit about paying the quartet.

00:30:34They're tighter than a tip.

00:30:36And close the door behind you.

00:30:51No sitting on the ground.

00:30:57Let's go.

00:31:03No sitting on the ground.

00:31:05What will we do?

00:31:06It's a mall.

00:31:06Pick it up.

00:31:07Nothing.

00:31:09Once we haul them all across the field, Grady makes us haul them all back again.

00:31:13Mind where you're walking?

00:31:23Hey.

00:31:24Hey.

00:31:25You're okay.

00:31:27You're okay.

00:31:28Go straight to your room and hide this in your mattress.

00:31:43Shh.

00:31:44You are only to hold it at night when everyone's asleep.

00:31:48Hide it.

00:31:49Hide it.

00:31:51Do you understand, Lonnie?

00:31:59You're saying you stole this from Matron Grady's office?

00:32:03It's mine.

00:32:04It must have been on my person when I arrived.

00:32:06The nurses confiscate all of your personal belongings.

00:32:09You should see what's locked up in Grady's desk.

00:32:12The cat sat on the king?

00:32:14It's gibberish.

00:32:16A visual representation of your confused state of mind when you arrived.

00:32:20Look at this.

00:32:21Damaris is a 60-year-old woman from Gowanus, Brooklyn, sent to asylum simply for being destitute.

00:32:28That's not gibberish.

00:32:29No, it's not.

00:32:30Jahari doesn't speak any English.

00:32:33A nurse choked her for crying, then dragged her to the closet where her terrified cries hushed into smothered ones.

00:32:39Why would I write that?

00:32:41Clearly, you wrote this after your treatment.

00:32:44No.

00:32:45I remember everything after my treatment, and I have never seen this journal.

00:32:50Well, I arrived the same day as your treatment, although I doubt you'll remember meeting me.

00:32:57Perhaps you use this notebook as a way to organize the world around you, to reconstruct your mind.

00:33:05I think it's actually quite a pretty bit of therapy, writing that journal.

00:33:10This isn't her idea.

00:33:12She doesn't allow us paper or anything to write with.

00:33:16Aren't you going to at least talk to her about it?

00:33:19And how would I do that without impugning you?

00:33:21You trespassed and stole.

00:33:23You could tell her that you took it.

00:33:27Lally.

00:33:28For your own good, I won't lie for you.

00:33:32We're making progress.

00:33:34Try to follow the rules and focus on your recovery.

00:33:37But for all her gruffness, we must assume that Matron Grady has your best interest at heart.

00:33:44Even if at times her bedside manner can be off-putting.

00:33:52How about I keep that for you here in my office?

00:33:55You can use it whenever you like, while you're with me.

00:34:14I think it's time for you to go back.

00:34:25Today, many of you were exposed to overstimulation.

00:34:43It was not my intention.

00:34:46Henceforth, there will be no more rocking of any kind.

00:34:51At any time, each of you will maintain a restful composure.

00:34:55Until you are deemed by the doctors of this institution to have reaped the benefits of undistracted reflection.

00:35:04Give it to me! Give it back! It's mine!

00:35:09Let it go.

00:35:12It's mine.

00:35:13Hollister, let it go.

00:35:17Where did you get this?

00:35:20Where did you get this?

00:35:21I don't know. I don't know.

00:35:23Well, that's quite curious, because this afternoon, I found my office door open, and the contents of my desk were out of order.

00:35:33Does that ring a bell, dear?

00:35:37No?

00:35:37No.

00:35:38No, but a thousand pities, nurse group.

00:35:41Ma'am, something seems to have happened to Hollister's memory.

00:35:46The retreat, ma'am?

00:35:47Yes, I think so. I think that would be good. It would help restore her powers of recall.

00:35:52No.

00:35:52Oh, how now, brown cow? Did you want to stick your oar in?

00:36:00I took the blanket. I went into your office. I found it, and I brought it to Lottie to comfort her.

00:36:08Did it ever occur to you, brown, that sometimes the smallest things in our possession are too painful for us to bear?

00:36:28I would rather see her carrying a piano than something so freighted with so much anguish as this blanket.

00:36:36You have made this part of her illness, and it will have to be destroyed.

00:36:40No!

00:36:41No, please!

00:36:41No, it's mine!

00:36:43No.

00:36:45It's not your fault, love.

00:36:47This is what happens when we play doctor.

00:36:49And brown fancies herself a doctor, don't you, brown?

00:36:54And I know which one.

00:36:55Indeed, I think we all do.

00:36:58Ah, I was hoping that this would cure itself, brown. I was really hoping.

00:37:02What are you talking about?

00:37:03You have the quick blood in your veins, and it is drawing you into a lustful attachment with Dr. Josiah.

00:37:10You are a very attractive young woman, and he is a very attractive young man.

00:37:18But he's someone else's property, brown.

00:37:23Yes.

00:37:24He has a wife, and I can't let you go into his drawers the way you went into mine.

00:37:30Oh, that's healthy.

00:37:33Have you ever seen a sow in heat, how it rubs itself against the gate to relieve the vicious tingling?

00:37:41That is what this stems from, I understand.

00:37:44But this is not a fog farm anymore.

00:37:49You need relief of a more permanent nature.

00:37:56Fetty, group, you're with me.

00:37:58You let me go! I will tell the doctor!

00:38:01Oh, I rather doubt that.

00:38:04Ladies, good night!

00:38:05You won't want the gentlemen here for this, but I'll keep them if I have to.

00:38:29Up, skirt.

00:38:31Don't you dare!

00:38:32Then you may take your ease in the hole.

00:38:34Whatever this hideous ritual is, I do not give my concern!

00:38:38Sometimes I think we are too hasty letting go of the time-honored traditions,

00:38:43all this talking and cooing and begging people to behave themselves for years on end.

00:38:50And it's so much more efficient to just do a quick-snap procedure and be done with it.

00:38:57This is simply a remedy for the cross-blood.

00:39:05It will drain all the lust out of you.

00:39:11No!

00:39:12No!

00:39:13No!

00:39:14No!

00:39:15No!

00:39:16No!

00:39:17No!

00:39:18No!

00:39:19No!

00:39:20No!

00:39:21No!

00:39:22No!

00:39:23No!

00:39:24No!

00:39:25No!

00:39:26There you are.

00:39:38Soon you'll be right as rain.

00:39:44You don't know what real distress is.

00:39:56When I was a young girl, I was sent to a laundry.

00:40:02They called it a laundry.

00:40:05It was a fever hole.

00:40:08My mom had died.

00:40:11My pa, I never knew.

00:40:14I was a lost girl, just like you.

00:40:18But I was only five.

00:40:21Oh, I was a pretty little thing.

00:40:28You know, a priest's due with pretty little things.

00:40:35A fat lot worse than what I did to you, believe you me.

00:40:40And I came through it.

00:40:42And you will, too.

00:40:45And you know how.

00:40:46Come down to Kew in lilac town.

00:40:50Tis not so far from London.

00:40:53And we will wander hand in hand.

00:40:58In love.

00:41:01In nature's wonderland.

00:41:11And then we'll see you back.

00:41:13Are you all right?

00:41:25Come on.

00:41:26Come on.

00:41:30Come on.

00:41:30It wasn't right, what she did to you.

00:41:55You know, respectfully speaking.

00:41:57They say there's more money in New York City than there's ever been anywhere else.

00:42:02in the whole world.

00:42:03But how could that be?

00:42:03I don't know.

00:42:04I don't know.

00:42:05I don't know.

00:42:06I don't know.

00:42:07They say there's more money in New York City than there's ever been anywhere else in the whole world.

00:42:28But how could that be?

00:42:29Most of us don't even have a pot to petal it.

00:42:35All right.

00:42:36Come on.

00:42:49Come on.

00:42:50Come on.

00:42:53Come on.

00:42:54Come on.

00:42:55Come on.

00:42:56Come on.

00:42:57Come on.

00:42:58Come on.

00:42:59Come on.

00:43:00Come on.

00:43:01Come on.

00:43:02Come on.

00:43:03My conversation isn't the most scintillating.

00:43:22I thought you'd at least come to get your shoes loosened.

00:43:24I wasn't feeling up to it today.

00:43:27Are you feeling poorly?

00:43:29No.

00:43:30No.

00:43:31I'm fine.

00:43:32You'd tell me if something was amiss, wouldn't you?

00:43:35Well, you could tell me anything.

00:43:36You know that.

00:43:37You'd never be embarrassed.

00:43:38I didn't sleep well last night.

00:43:39That's all.

00:43:40I was anxious to meet with you today.

00:43:41Because my research has borne some fruit.

00:43:43I've read about a case in France where a drowning victim was revived only to have no memory of

00:43:57who she was or what had happened to her.

00:43:59oxygen deprivation.

00:44:00Perhaps there was an accident, something that happened to you, something on or near water.

00:44:08Does that mean anything to you?

00:44:11I have to go.

00:44:12Ellie.

00:44:13What is it?

00:44:14Is it Matron Grady again?

00:44:16Please, I insist you tell me.

00:44:18No.

00:44:19Everything's fine.

00:44:21I simply want to follow the rules and focus on my recovery.

00:44:26As you said.

00:44:28Excuse me.

00:44:29The star.

00:44:30The planet.

00:44:31The sword.

00:44:32The eagle.

00:44:33The bee.

00:44:34There are people out there who have no voice.

00:44:35Who are you?

00:44:36Nellie.

00:44:37Have you forgotten yourself again?

00:44:38It's time for supper.

00:44:39Do you go home to visit your husband every night?

00:44:44This is home.

00:44:45I live on the island.

00:44:47We all do.

00:44:48The ferry ride back and forth alone would take more than the pittance were paid.

00:44:51And that's the only way off this island.

00:44:53You're as much a prisoner as we are.

00:44:54When your brother comes and visits me, you're going to be a man.

00:44:55I'm a man.

00:44:56I'm a man.

00:44:57I'm a man.

00:44:58I'm a man.

00:44:59And I'm a man.

00:45:00I'm a man.

00:45:01I'm a man.

00:45:02I'm a man.

00:45:03I'm a man.

00:45:04I'm a man.

00:45:05I'm a man.

00:45:06I'm a man.

00:45:07I'm a man.

00:45:08I'm a man.

00:45:09I'm a man.

00:45:10I'm a man.

00:45:11I'm a man.

00:45:12I'm a man.

00:45:13I'm a man.

00:45:14Is he doing that with me?

00:45:15He's a fisherman.

00:45:16He has his own boat and everything.

00:45:19You best get going, right?

00:45:21You don't want Matron Grady catching you missing.

00:45:23Home.

00:45:24Come on.

00:45:25He has his own boat and everything.

00:45:35And that's the only way off this island.

00:45:37Come down to Kew in lilac time, tis not so far from London, and we will wander hand

00:46:02in hand in love in nature's wonderland, and we will wander hand in hand in love in nature's

00:46:14wonderland.

00:46:15Bless, O Lord, this food to thy use and us to thy service.

00:46:21Amen.

00:46:22Amen.

00:46:23They said no rocking, she's going to get the whip.

00:46:40Eat your food, and stop that moving around.

00:46:48Stop it!

00:46:49There's going to be a ball happening this week.

00:46:52Won't that be nice?

00:46:53Lottie, you have to eat, or Matron Grady is going to send you to the retreat.

00:46:57They're going to send her to the retreat if she keeps up that rocking.

00:47:00Stop that rocking right now!

00:47:04Please, dear.

00:47:05Think of your baby.

00:47:07Think of little Georgie.

00:47:08Georgie.

00:47:09Georgie.

00:47:10Georgie.

00:47:11Lottie, please.

00:47:14Georgie.

00:47:15Georgie.

00:47:16I said stop that rocking.

00:47:36I'm going to fall.

00:47:38Keep rocking.

00:47:39Stop that rocking.

00:47:41Rock.

00:47:41Keep rocking.

00:47:43Stop it.

00:47:45Stop that rocking.

00:47:46This is the joy of you sent to the retreat.

00:47:49Retreat.

00:47:51Retreat.

00:47:52Retreat.

00:47:53Retreat.

00:47:55Retreat.

00:47:57Retreat.

00:47:58Retreat.

00:48:00Retreat.

00:48:02Retreat.

00:48:03Once again, group, you have overplayed.

00:48:06Put your hands.

00:48:08What are you waiting for?

00:48:10Take us all to the retreat.

00:48:12Come on.

00:48:13Retreat.

00:48:14Retreat.

00:48:15Retreat.

00:48:17Retreat.

00:48:22Lice.

00:48:23I'm afraid there's been an outbreak.

00:48:25Yes, when I think about that senseless performance in the cafeteria, the undulating, it makes sense.

00:48:31You are all struggling with an infestation of these vermin.

00:48:34Now, I know you all desire a turn in the retreat, which you have requested so vociferously, but that's simply not going to be possible.

00:48:43This hall will be quarantined until we are rid of this infestation.

00:48:50Nurse group.

00:48:52Will you examine Hollister, please?

00:48:54Yes, I can see them.

00:48:59Full of nits, this one.

00:49:01Show us.

00:49:02Show us one louse.

00:49:06Do you know what I hear?

00:49:07I hear a child asking their mother if there's flour in the cookie.

00:49:15There's flour in the cookie.

00:49:17There's lice in her hair.

00:49:20You'll just have to take my word for it.

00:49:23Because like a child, you have no other choice.

00:49:25We're going to have to shear the lot of you.

00:49:29No, can't be helped.

00:49:30Must be done.

00:49:31I can't risk this spreading further.

00:49:35And Brown, since you have proved to be such an effective leader, you can go first.

00:49:39Don't touch me.

00:49:43I don't care.

00:49:44I don't have to look at it.

00:49:48Go ahead.

00:49:48What the devil is going on here?

00:49:54Lice, sir.

00:49:55You'll want to keep a safe distance.

00:49:56I wasn't informed of this.

00:49:57Certainly not.

00:49:58It is not the policy of this institution to involve doctors in the patient's hygiene.

00:50:03Are we to have this conversation again?

00:50:05I told you, everything you do to the body is related to my treatment of the mind, including hygiene.

00:50:10Lice is a very serious affliction, sir.

00:50:15The agitation, the beastly itching, the bedding.

00:50:17And your solution is to denude these women?

00:50:20Deprive them of their last shred of femininity?

00:50:23Their femininity, sir, is a secondary concern to their safety and well-being.

00:50:27Femininity is a cornerstone of their well-being, madam.

00:50:31The entire point of this institution is to build these women back up.

00:50:36The ones that can be.

00:50:37You know, shear them like sheep.

00:50:40I mean, my God.

00:50:42I think if I hadn't appeared, when I did, she would have lost

00:50:45all these women would have lost the one vanity afforded them.

00:50:50There's not a single mirror on this island, sir.

00:50:54The Department of Corrections and Charity forbids it.

00:50:57So I'm just wondering, who reaps the benefits of their feminine appearance?

00:51:02Not the patients themselves.

00:51:04Certainly not the staff.

00:51:05We're indifferent as to the way they look.

00:51:07I am, at least.

00:51:11Aren't you?

00:51:14Of course, don't be absurd.

00:51:15Then why, sir, do you care if she's bored?

00:51:21Just let her do it.

00:51:25Kerosene!

00:51:27That's how my mother treated lice on the farm.

00:51:30Kerosene?

00:51:30It's rubbed into the scalp.

00:51:32The hair is soaked in it.

00:51:33It's much easier than shearing with less chance of injury.

00:51:36And equally efficacious.

00:51:39I think I would rather have...

00:51:41Kerosene, if that's what the doctor orders.

00:51:44That's what we will do.

00:51:45Oh, my God.

00:51:47Oh, my God.

00:51:49Oh, my God.

00:51:50Oh, my God.

00:51:51Oh, my God.

00:51:52Oh, my God.

00:51:53Oh, my God.

00:51:54Oh, my God.

00:51:55Oh, my God.

00:51:56Oh, my God.

00:51:57Oh, my God.

00:51:58Oh, my God.

00:51:59Oh, my God.

00:52:00You can all thank Brown and her doctor for saving your scalps today.

00:52:06Just don't know how long I'll have to keep you away from the flames after this.

00:52:11I suppose double baths will be in order.

00:52:15And I'd give those lamps a wide berth.

00:52:17You like that?

00:52:18Here's more.

00:52:25That's enough now, group.

00:52:27Finish up.

00:52:27Hey, get back here.

00:52:34Ah!

00:52:38Patience away now.

00:52:39Patience away.

00:52:40Lottie.

00:52:41Lottie.

00:52:43Please, give her the light.

00:52:45Lottie.

00:52:45I always do what you say, and I'm tired of it.

00:52:50Get in the tub.

00:52:51Eat the mush.

00:52:53Take the blanket.

00:52:55This is all your fault!

00:53:00Give me my pipe.

00:53:04And I'll give you back your baby's blanket.

00:53:07I can have it back.

00:53:15I can have it back.

00:53:16Yeah.

00:53:19But first, you must be a good girl and give me back my pipe.

00:53:27You can't speak to me like that.

00:53:31I'm from a first family.

00:53:33I'm a Hollister, and we rule this city.

00:53:38Can't you see who I am?

00:53:40I am the Queen of New York!

00:53:43No!

00:53:44Wait!

00:53:45Wait!

00:53:45No!

00:53:46No!

00:53:47No!

00:53:48No!

00:53:49No!

00:53:50No!

00:53:51No!

00:53:52No!

00:53:53Why are you helping her?

00:53:55Clinder, don't let her die.

00:53:57What?

00:53:58No!

00:53:59No!

00:54:00No!

00:54:01Why?

00:54:01No!

00:54:02No!

00:54:03No!

00:54:04No!

00:54:21That's it, pack it in.

00:54:51Pole music. Pole music.

00:55:21Pole music.

00:55:25I just wanted to help.

00:55:28Ellie, it wasn't your fault.

00:55:30If the blameless be laid at anyone's feet, it should be mine.

00:55:33I have to get out of here.

00:55:38Ellie, I want to be very clear about something that was implied yesterday.

00:55:43My feelings for you, while of the strongest personal regard,

00:55:46should in no way be confused with the feelings I have for, say, my wife,

00:55:51and my love above all others.

00:55:53Of course.

00:55:54If I've somehow given you the wrong impression.

00:55:57No, no, it's Matron Grady.

00:56:00She could see evil in the crotch of a tree.

00:56:02You see, there's that.

00:56:03I can't allow you to draw me into your ambition against Matron Grady.

00:56:07If you insist on acting out against her,

00:56:09I shall have to be very clear whose side I'm on, for your own good.

00:56:13What does that mean?

00:56:14I can no longer talk to you like a normal person?

00:56:17Ellie, you're the only normal person I can talk to on this blasted island.

00:56:22If not for you, I think I might end up a patient here myself.

00:56:26I think you'd have to undergo quite a transformation for that to happen.

00:56:29I was thinking yesterday,

00:56:33I can tell the time of day by the quality of light on your hair.

00:56:37What do you mean?

00:56:39What do you mean?

00:56:41In the mornings, it takes on an almost rosy cast.

00:56:46In midday, it's a deep chestnut.

00:56:49And now, in the late afternoon,

00:56:53it looks like honeyed amber.

00:56:56I have to go.

00:57:01I'm needed in the scullery.

00:57:06Until tomorrow, then.

00:57:07I have to get off this island.

00:57:18Please.

00:57:19You know I don't belong here.

00:57:21The only way off is the ferry, and there's always a guard.

00:57:25Your brother, you said he has a boat.

00:57:28I'm famous.

00:57:31Imagine how famous you'd be if you helped me.

00:57:34You tell the papers.

00:57:37Everyone.

00:57:38Fenton, Brown.

00:57:41There's work to be done.

00:57:45Off you go.

00:57:58Good morning, not yesterday.

00:58:00Any words from Hugh Ray?

00:58:19This is 14.

00:58:24Dr. Ellis Josiah.

00:58:38Bartholomew Driscoll.

00:58:39Thank you for seeing me.

00:58:41Harvard?

00:58:42Class of 79.

00:58:43You a Harvard man?

00:58:43No.

00:58:44Oh, no.

00:58:44I knew a fellow who went there with you.

00:58:47I studied in London.

00:58:49In any case, I have the advantage, as everyone knows who the Driscolls are.

00:58:53Don't hold it against me.

00:58:55I've found being a Driscoll as much predicament as privilege.

00:58:58Predicament that many of us would happily withstand.

00:59:02My office is right this way.

00:59:08What caused me to wire you when I saw the piece in the paper about your mystery girl

00:59:12was the obvious connection to the name.

00:59:16Oh, the girl you're missing is also named Nellie Brown?

00:59:20Nellie Bly, actually.

00:59:22But you can see the similarities.

00:59:24And my Nellie went missing around the same time that your mystery girl showed up.

00:59:28I confess that chances this is the same girl and there must be several hundred Nellies

00:59:33and five points alone.

00:59:34She must mean quite a lot to you.

00:59:37She is, without a doubt, the love of my life.

00:59:42Can you describe her?

00:59:45Describe Nellie.

00:59:46I wouldn't know where to begin.

00:59:50Soft brown eyes, dark hair, self-educated, loves Greek mythology.

00:59:57She had a rough start.

00:59:59Her father died, left her destitute, that sort of thing.

01:00:01But she worked hard.

01:00:03She made something of herself.

01:00:05She's curious.

01:00:07Articulate.

01:00:10Driven to help those less fortunate than she.

01:00:12Tell me, Mr. Driscoll.

01:00:20May I call you Bartholomew?

01:00:23Only my grandmother does.

01:00:24My friends call me bad.

01:00:29Bad.

01:00:35I'm just curious what would lead you to think a girl like that would have wound up here.

01:00:41She doesn't seem disturbed in the least.

01:00:44Or forgetful of herself.

01:00:46I confess I'm not hopeful.

01:00:48But perhaps the test is for me to see your mystery girl and then I'll be on my way.

01:00:52Okay.

01:00:57Yes.

01:01:02Well, it, uh...

01:01:06Unfortunately, it looks like she's already moved on.

01:01:15Her family claimed her and she was discharged just yesterday.

01:01:22Well, that's rotten luck for me.

01:01:27I haven't even recently been posted here.

01:01:29Otherwise, I would have known in advance of your coming and saved you a trip.

01:01:34Well, I'm a terrible investigator.

01:01:37And the deuce of it is Nellie, my Nellie, would have been the perfect person for the job.

01:01:44I don't take you meaning.

01:01:45She's a writer.

01:01:46Reporter, actually.

01:01:47If she had been on the story, no doubt she would have found herself already.

01:01:55Thank you for your time.

01:02:01Wait just a moment.

01:02:02I just wanted to say good luck to you in your search.

01:02:17Well, I'll need it.

01:02:20I can find my way back.

01:02:21Ben, it's beautiful.

01:02:47Ben!

01:02:48Ben!

01:02:49Ben!

01:02:50Where are you going?

01:02:52Stop her!

01:02:54Get her!

01:02:55Go her!

01:02:56Ben!

01:02:59Ben!

01:03:01No!

01:03:02Get her back.

01:03:03Ben!

01:03:04Ben!

01:03:05Ben!

01:03:06Ben!

01:03:07Ben!

01:03:08Ben!

01:03:09Ben!

01:03:10Ben!

01:03:11It's his name.

01:03:11I saw him.

01:03:13This will be the gentleman you saw leaving the island yesterday.

01:03:15Yes.

01:03:16That is his name.

01:03:17He's the man that I, I know I had an attachment to.

01:03:21Was he here looking for me?

01:03:23If he was looking for you, don't you think I would have sent for you at once?

01:03:27But, but I, I remember him.

01:03:30I, I remember being with him.

01:03:32Really?

01:03:33I, I hesitate to even tell you this, but the simple truth is that the man that you saw leaving

01:03:38the island yesterday came to see me, about a mutual friend, a fellow we went to school

01:03:43with, who happens to be in need of some assistance.

01:03:46Well, what is his name?

01:03:48I'm afraid that's all I'm the liberty to say.

01:03:52What is his name?

01:03:54Nellie, there is no Perseus coming to rescue you.

01:03:59You must free yourself with my help.

01:04:04Why won't you tell me his name?

01:04:05I don't care for your turn, and I must ask you to drop this subject.

01:04:09I do not wish to have my private affairs drafted into our discussions.

01:04:12Do you understand?

01:04:14While it's not uncommon for patients to develop feelings of affection toward their doctor,

01:04:19I can't allow you to insinuate yourself into my personal life.

01:04:23I have no desire to insinuate myself into anything.

01:04:27Perhaps not consciously, but maybe, maybe you're embarrassed by your feelings for me.

01:04:35And have therefore unconsciously transferred those feelings onto my friend.

01:04:39I have no such feelings for you.

01:04:45He's saying you've never heard a shameful thought about me.

01:04:50That bird has never flown over here.

01:04:54Not once.

01:04:55I want my notebook back.

01:05:01Your notebook?

01:05:02Yes.

01:05:03I was thinking clearly when I arrived at Blackwell's.

01:05:06That notebook is evidence of that.

01:05:08No, it is.

01:05:08And if I was thinking clearly before my treatment...

01:05:11But you were not.

01:05:11Then it stands to reason that the treatment itself is the cause of my memory loss.

01:05:16What was my treatment?

01:05:17Stop!

01:05:18I...

01:05:19You're descending into paranoia.

01:05:23You must stop thinking about the past.

01:05:25And focus on what is good and pleasant in your immediate surroundings.

01:05:31There is nothing good or pleasant in my immediate surroundings.

01:05:35Lala and Fenton are helping the patient's dress.

01:05:53I'll settle the quartet as soon as they arrive.

01:05:56Very good group.

01:06:01Will you be coming to the ball tonight, ma'am?

01:06:04Someone should wear Hollister's clothes.

01:06:14She should be represented.

01:06:21Are you all right?

01:06:24I will be all, group.

01:06:34była wife's無量.

01:06:42I will really get miejscu, group.

01:06:45Ha ha ha!

01:06:53Ha ha ha ha!

01:06:54Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

01:06:55Oh, ma'am?

01:06:56Oh, ma'am?

01:06:56Yes.

01:06:56What?

01:06:57Ha ha ha ha ha!

01:06:58Da da da da da da da da da da da da...

01:07:00Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

01:07:01Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!

01:07:01I have this dance.

01:07:27You're worried, Mitchell Grady, what do you prove?

01:07:29No, um, I would just rather not.

01:07:34You'll have a few moments of pleasure, honey.

01:07:36In fact, I insist upon it.

01:07:39Doctor's orders.

01:07:47I've been looking forward to tonight.

01:07:50What it would feel like to hold you.

01:07:52Oh, my God.

01:07:54I know.

01:07:55I know.

01:07:59I know.

01:08:00Dr. Jukhaya.

01:08:30Nature and Grady would like a word with you.

01:08:40Shall we turn to claim the rest of my dogs?

01:08:49Look, my brother's waiting for us at the dock on the other side of the island, okay?

01:08:53Pretend like you have to use the loo.

01:09:00Good.

01:09:04Leaving so soon?

01:09:06Just a quick read. Back in a wink.

01:09:13You wanted to see me, Ancient Grady.

01:09:17Who told you that?

01:09:20It was... it was Fenton.

01:09:24I have seen you, Dr. Josiah.

01:09:28I have seen you.

01:09:30.

01:09:33.

01:09:43.

01:09:44.

01:09:45.

01:09:49.

01:09:52I'm so sorry.

01:09:57Here.

01:10:01Right.

01:10:03Let's go.

01:10:04Hurry.

01:10:22This way.

01:10:31What's going to happen to you when you go back without me?

01:10:33I'm not going back.

01:10:34I'm coming with you.

01:10:44Hurry.

01:10:45Come on.

01:10:51Hurry.

01:10:52It won't wait for long.

01:11:00We're nearly there.

01:11:13Where's the boat?

01:11:15Are we too late?

01:11:18You've got to understand.

01:11:20I've got to be smart.

01:11:21I can't lose this job.

01:11:24You'll be alright.

01:11:25You're still famous.

01:11:28I'm sorry.

01:11:31She's here!

01:11:32I've got her!

01:11:33My daughter!

01:11:34Well done, Fenton.

01:11:39Now go find our young doctor and tell him that his love bird has flown the nest.

01:11:46Oh, you're a tender sprig, Brown.

01:11:47That city would have chewed you up and spit you out.

01:12:01Right back on this shore.

01:12:03Sure.

01:12:04You really should be thanking me.

01:12:06Brown attempted to escape through the east gate.

01:12:13This is true.

01:12:14Please.

01:12:15Please.

01:12:16I cannot stay here.

01:12:17You mentioned Grady.

01:12:18You can entrust her with me.

01:12:19I don't think so, doctor.

01:12:20As your superior in this institution, you will obey me.

01:12:23What mark?

01:12:24Oh, I have marked you since the first moment you got here.

01:12:28I knew that you'd find yourself a pretty little thing.

01:12:31I just didn't think it would be this fast.

01:12:33And now you've given this poor girl no choice but to attempt to escape your lecture.

01:12:39And nothing unto what?

01:12:40That's not the first lie you've told since you arrived, is it, doctor?

01:12:46Nor will it be the last if I allow this to go on without a formal investigation.

01:12:50What is she talking about?

01:12:51I looked into your transfer from Brookhaven, and I know, Dr. Josiah, that you were prematurely

01:12:58discharged from that prestigious London institution, and I know why.

01:13:04This is not the first time that you have taken a very special interest in one of your patients.

01:13:13Is it, Dr. Josiah?

01:13:16What else did you lie about?

01:13:19You see, what happens when we try to make them our dance partners?

01:13:23When we loosen their shoes with our secret key?

01:13:28He was here for me, wasn't he?

01:13:31He was!

01:13:32Admit it!

01:13:34There's always a remedy.

01:13:35A little corrective treatment to set Brown back on the right path.

01:13:40And all will be as it was before you inserted yourself.

01:13:46From here on out, I will be in charge of Brown's care.

01:13:50No!

01:13:51Please!

01:13:52There's a man!

01:13:53He came to see me!

01:13:54He came to find me!

01:13:55He knows who I am!

01:13:56Please!

01:13:57Tell her!

01:13:58Face this unpleasant incident, and you can keep your job here at this institution.

01:14:03All you need to do, doctor, is consign her to me.

01:14:07Some say it's mightier than the sword.

01:14:11The sun, the star, the planet.

01:14:13I've tried every newspaper in New York.

01:14:15I don't want to end up writing about rainbow sandwiches because I'm a woman.

01:14:19There are people out there who have no voice.

01:14:21I want to write for them!

01:14:23The only place left to try is the world, but Pulitzer is more interested in stunts than stories.

01:14:28The right idea will present itself.

01:14:30Mr. Pulitzer, sir, I need to speak to you for a moment.

01:14:34I have a story that is guaranteed to increase your circulation from 15,000 to 150,000 meters.

01:14:41The world.

01:14:49A letter for you, Mr. Driscoll.

01:14:51Thank you, Mils.

01:14:52Sir?

01:14:53Dear Bat, I'm sorry I couldn't tell you the truth before, but I'm on a secret assignment for Pulitzer's paper, The World.

01:15:13I've asked his office to deliver this to you so you wouldn't worry and couldn't try to stop me.

01:15:23The World.

01:15:43Pulitzer.

01:15:45I must speak with you, sir, about a woman and your employe named Nellie Bly.

01:15:48Sir, many people in mind might contact my office.

01:15:51I know you've sponsored her to go after some story at her own peril.

01:15:54Whomever I may or may not have sponsored is a confidential matter.

01:15:57Do you know who I am, sir?

01:15:58Of course I know who you are.

01:16:00I read my own society pages.

01:16:03I have a classmate from Harvard, name of William Randolph Hearst.

01:16:07He has a newspaper in competition with your paper, The World, and he'll be running a story about what you've done with Nellie.

01:16:13Unless you want to tell me first.

01:16:15No!

01:16:16It has been reported on from the outside, sir, but no one, man, woman or child, has ever been allowed inside and come back out to tell him.

01:16:31What kind of treatment did I give you?

01:16:35It's great that you administered the treatment that brought you back to reality.

01:16:38Your memory is destroyed.

01:16:39What kind of treatment did I give you?

01:16:40A little corrective treatment.

01:16:43What was my treatment?

01:16:45Stop!

01:16:50Joseph Pollard, sir.

01:16:53Who are you?

01:16:54My name is Nellie Brown.

01:17:04I am Nellie Brown, I told you.

01:17:07There are two things I hate the most in the world.

01:17:10Liars and chiefs.

01:17:13Wait!

01:17:14My name is Nellie Brown.

01:17:15Time to empty your memory box.

01:17:21You didn't give me my treatment because I was insane.

01:17:24You gave it to me because I wasn't.

01:17:26I don't know about that.

01:17:28You'd have to be insane to get yourself purposely committed to a lunatic asylum.

01:17:33You said no one is allowed in.

01:17:35No sane person.

01:17:36How?

01:17:37I'll pretend I'm going on a trip, then I'll put on shabby clothes and get a room at a boarding house.

01:17:42Under the name Nellie Brown.

01:17:45I'll disguise my notebook with phrases from an addled mind.

01:17:48And I'll smuggle it into the asylum so I can faithfully chronicle life inside those walls.

01:17:52I'll seek out a public place and pretend to be insane.

01:17:55The police will send me to Bellevue for evaluation.

01:17:58Then after that, it's just a short ferry ride to Blackwell's Island.

01:18:03I am a journalist.

01:18:05I was writing a story.

01:18:06Are you?

01:18:07Well, I'm no Pulitzer.

01:18:09But from what I understand, a journalist does research.

01:18:12Weeks, months of it.

01:18:14Conducts interviews, gets all the facts, and keeps herself out of the mix.

01:18:17What you did, my dear, was you took a shortcut through the woods and you met the wolf.

01:18:24These women deserve to have their story told.

01:18:28What they've had to suffer at your hands.

01:18:32They suffered.

01:18:33The patients in my hands are free of disease.

01:18:42They are clean.

01:18:43They are fed.

01:18:44They are continent.

01:18:45Do you know what they were doing, most of them, when they stepped off that ferry?

01:18:49Messing themselves and peeing in it.

01:18:54Biting each other and scratching off their faces and plucking out their eyelashes.

01:19:01But you don't see that because I straighten them out with just three staff nurses.

01:19:07And I shake them into order.

01:19:09The ones that can be shaken and the ones that cannot.

01:19:12I send them to the retreat until they make the grade.

01:19:16And that, my dear, is how you run an asylum.

01:19:23Who's in charge here?

01:19:27Your methods are disgusting and barbaric.

01:19:30These women are not insane.

01:19:33They have been driven mad by your treatments, beatings and drownings, leeches.

01:19:40You, sir.

01:19:41I demand to see the patient known as Nellie Brown.

01:19:44I'm sorry, sir.

01:19:45I told the gentleman she's-

01:19:46I beg you to understand, sir, what happened to this institution and all the luckless grubs

01:19:51that toil in it, including you, if Nellie is not brought to me unharmed before you are

01:19:56a minute older.

01:19:57I watched a woman burn to death in front of me.

01:20:01And I expect that is what you will write about.

01:20:05Yes!

01:20:06That is exactly what I will write about!

01:20:08If you remember.

01:20:12My name is Nellie Bly.

01:20:13I am a journalist from the world.

01:20:14I work for Joseph Pulitzer.

01:20:15My name is Nellie Bly.

01:20:16I am a journalist.

01:20:17My name is Nellie Bly.

01:20:18I am a journalist.

01:20:19My name is Nellie Bly.

01:20:20I work for Joseph Pulitzer.

01:20:21My name is Nellie Bly.

01:20:22She's in the basement of the retreat.

01:20:24I'll show you the way.

01:20:25Hurry.

01:20:26What are you doing to me?

01:20:27Wait!

01:20:28I'm simply ensuring that the good work of this asylum will continue unhindered by you,

01:20:37Nellie Bly.

01:20:38Dunk her!

01:20:39Ah!

01:20:40I'm simply ensuring that the good work of this asylum will continue unhindered by you,

01:20:41Nellie Bly.

01:20:42Dunk her!

01:20:43Ah!

01:20:44Ah!

01:20:45Ah!

01:20:46Ah!

01:20:47Ah!

01:20:48Ah!

01:20:49Ah!

01:20:50Ah!

01:20:51Ah!

01:20:52Ah!

01:20:53Bye-bye, Nellie Bly.

01:21:12Nellie!

01:21:13Where is Nellie Brown?

01:21:16Where is she?

01:21:17Brown?

01:21:18Well, I expect she's in her bed.

01:21:22In the dormitory.

01:21:23Dear God.

01:21:24Raise the box!

01:21:25Now!

01:21:26Raise the box!

01:21:27Now!

01:21:28Raise the box!

01:21:29Nellie!

01:21:30Nellie!

01:21:31Nellie!

01:21:32Nellie!

01:21:33Nellie!

01:21:34Nellie!

01:21:35Nellie!

01:21:36Nellie!

01:21:37Nellie!

01:21:38Nellie!

01:21:39Nellie!

01:21:40Nellie!

01:21:41Nellie!

01:21:42Nellie!

01:21:43Nellie!

01:21:44Nellie!

01:21:45Nellie!

01:21:46Nellie!

01:21:47Nellie!

01:21:48Nellie!

01:21:49Nellie!

01:21:50Nellie!

01:21:51Nellie!

01:21:54Nellie.

01:22:01Ben!

01:22:05You're safe.

01:22:21I won't forget any of you.

01:22:27And I will tell our story to anyone who will listen.

01:22:37Give him hell, Nellie.

01:22:44I guess you won't tell him about me.

01:22:46Of course I will.

01:22:47By the way,

01:22:52it isn't so hard to become famous.

01:22:55You just have to forget who you are.

01:23:18Dr. Josiah told me to give you this.

01:23:29I am sorry for what was done to you.

01:23:35You were a child in need of kindness.

01:23:38But that does not excuse what you have done to these women.

01:23:40I suppose you'll have to live with that.

01:23:44I am sorry for what was done to you.

01:23:46I am sorry for what was done to you.

01:23:48You were a child in need of kindness.

01:23:50But that does not excuse what you have done to these women.

01:23:53I suppose you'll have to live with that.

01:23:54I am sorry for what you have done to these women.

01:23:57I am sorry for what you have done to these women.

01:23:59I am sorry for what you have done to these women.

01:24:01I suppose you'll have to live with that.

01:24:03I am sorry for what you have done to you.

01:24:06But that is fine.

01:24:08All right.

01:24:12I am sorry for you.

01:24:14I am sorry for you.

01:24:17I am sorry for you.

01:24:19You are sorry for you.

01:24:21I am sorry for you.

01:24:24I am sorry for you.

01:24:26Surely I will tell you for you.

01:24:29He is still me.

01:24:31Satsang with Mooji

01:25:01...

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