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00:00I love Christmas.
00:19Hello? Dr. Aveson?
00:25Yes?
00:26Oh, thank God it's you.
00:27I was hoping you could find it in your heart to take a new patient tonight.
00:32This is my private home. How did you get this address?
00:36Do you not take walk-ins?
00:38It's Christmas Eve.
00:41I know. It's a difficult night for so many, especially the lonely.
00:46I just need someone to talk to.
00:49I'm sorry, I can't.
00:52Is that because it's Christmas Eve or because you have another patient?
00:57Because I can assure you, whatever is going on with this other guy, I've got it way worse.
01:02Look, I'm trying to be patient with you.
01:05No, I'm trying to be a patient with you, get it?
01:07Okay, good night.
01:09Spencer, wait!
01:10Oh my God, it's you!
01:12I miss you so much. Nobody believes like they used to.
01:16Oh, oh good, you're calling Nick to cancel, huh? It's fine, he's a new patient.
01:20No, you're an intruder. I'm calling the police.
01:23How did you know all that?
01:30Okay, okay, okay, you got me.
01:33I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I lied.
01:35But there's a very good explanation, okay?
01:38It's just, the holidays.
01:41They're so...
01:43Wait, what is that?
01:44What?
01:47Something on your face.
01:49What? Where?
01:51No, no, it's on the other side.
01:52It's right here.
01:57Oh, that's a nice holiday sweater.
02:01I like those glasses too.
02:03Hello?
02:10Dr. Aveson?
02:16Yes?
02:18It's me, Nick Green.
02:20We spoke on the phone earlier about an emergency new patient appointment.
02:24Yes! Yes! Of course! Of course! I'm so glad you're here.
02:28I just need a moment. I'm wrapping up one last present.
02:32Okay, thank you so much for seeing me tonight.
02:35You're a lifesaver.
02:36You're a lifesaver.
03:06You're a lifesaver.
03:09To top it all off, I'm totally fucking broke.
03:13I have nothing.
03:15I have no friends.
03:19I'm just so sad.
03:23Yeah.
03:25So sad all the time.
03:28Well, Nick.
03:32I'm really proud of you.
03:33Thanks.
03:36I can't believe you're still alive.
03:39What?
03:40I mean, you're not listening to yourself?
03:44Dead mom.
03:45Divorce.
03:46Money issues.
03:47About to spend your first Christmas Eve alone?
03:49I've had patients kill themselves for much less.
03:52I mean, I...
03:53I gotta be honest.
03:54I don't know what to do with you, Nick.
03:58I mean, I guess there's...
03:59There's one thing we could try.
04:02It's...
04:04It's a little dangerous, though.
04:07What?
04:11Okay, Nick. Scoot over.
04:12Okay?
04:13It's okay.
04:14It's okay.
04:15It's okay.
04:16It's okay.
04:17All right.
04:21Nick, are you a believer?
04:22In what?
04:30You have not once mentioned the big guy in this entire conversation.
04:34You mean, like, God?
04:36No.
04:37The big guy.
04:39Up north.
04:40Way up north.
04:41I can't believe I'm gonna do this, but...
05:00I'm working on an experimental new therapy.
05:03Very dangerous.
05:05It's called...
05:06Come to Santa.
05:08Um, I don't...
05:09It's just like gremlins, okay?
05:10Look, you're about my age.
05:11Remember?
05:12We saw gremlins as young boys, right?
05:14And remember when Phoebe Cage gives that beautiful monologue?
05:17Her dad comes down the chimney dressed as Santa Claus,
05:19and he dies!
05:22And it messed us up!
05:24Because...
05:25We stopped believing in Santa way too young,
05:27and we associate that trauma with him!
05:30And with our dads!
05:31That horrific trauma!
05:33I'm telling you, you give me one night,
05:35and I can fix you, Nick.
05:36Oh.
05:38But I do need to film it.
05:39Um...
05:40I'm gonna waive your fee.
05:41I'm gonna pay you $1,000 for your time.
05:45Look, man.
05:47This...
05:48I'm pretty skeptical about all this.
05:49Oh, oh, oh, oh, you're skeptical?
05:51Oh, oh, Santa.
05:52Santa, he's skeptical.
05:53He's skeptical.
05:54You wanna know why you're skeptical?
05:55Because you don't believe anymore.
05:56You don't believe in anything.
05:58That's why we have to go all the way back.
06:00All the way back to Santa!
06:01Because if you can believe in him,
06:03Nick,
06:05you can believe in anything.
06:08Even...
06:10that you can be happy again.
06:15Um, come on.
06:16What are you gonna do, huh?
06:17You're gonna go home,
06:18you're gonna slip both of your wrists,
06:19and bleed out in the bathtub?
06:20That's lose-lose for both of us.
06:22Let's do it.
06:23How you doing in there, buddy?
06:50Oh...
06:52Sweetheart.
06:54Look at you.
06:58How do you feel?
07:03Honestly, uh...
07:05I always wanted Christmas jammies.
07:08Yeah.
07:09Me too.
07:11My mom...
07:12My mom worked all the time,
07:13and she didn't have any money.
07:14We didn't have any money.
07:16There's hardly any presents.
07:18Yeah, I mean, that's what happens
07:19when dads leave their sons
07:21when they're seven years old
07:22and they never come back.
07:27I...
07:28I never told you when my dad lived.
07:30How do you know that?
07:38You know...
07:40Nick...
07:41This is not your fault.
07:49What?
07:50It's not your fault.
07:52Yeah, I know.
07:53It's not your fault, Nick.
07:54I know.
07:55It's not your fault.
07:56I never thought it was.
07:58A lot of other people had it way worse.
08:00No!
08:01Jesus.
08:02Sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you,
08:03but that is a hard no, Nick.
08:05Okay.
08:07Trauma is relative,
08:08and this is your trauma.
08:09Your daddy left you, baby.
08:11He left you with nothing to believe in.
08:13Not even Santa.
08:15Okay?
08:22Okay.
08:25Okay.
08:27I know.
08:29Okay.
08:30Well, congratulations, Nicholas.
08:33You just passed step one.
08:46Merry Christmas.
08:48Is this...
08:49absolutely necessary?
08:51Yes, it's absolutely necessary.
08:52Come on in.
08:53And close the door.
08:55And...
08:57Sit on Santa's lap.
08:59What happens in Santa's workshop
09:01stays in Santa's workshop.
09:02Come on.
09:04Come on.
09:05Okay.
09:06Come on.
09:07Here we go.
09:08All right, now.
09:09Tell Santa what you want for Christmas.
09:11Um...
09:13I...
09:14I...
09:15I want to be happy.
09:17That doesn't work.
09:18That's not a thing.
09:19Okay?
09:20I need something specific.
09:21What do you want?
09:22You mean like a toy car or something?
09:25No, Nick.
09:26I mean a toy car because you're a grown man.
09:28I can feel your fully descended testicles on my leg right now.
09:32Something specific.
09:33What is at the root of your trauma?
09:36I...
09:37I don't know.
09:38I don't know what's at the root of my trauma.
09:39Yes, you do.
09:40We've been talking about this all night.
09:41Come on.
09:42It's your...
09:44Your...
09:46D...
09:47My dad?
09:48Yes!
09:49Captain Obvious.
09:50You want your dad to come back on Christmas morning.
09:53And Santa can help bring him to you.
09:55But you have to ask.
09:56Listen.
09:57I appreciate what you're trying to do here.
09:59But I honestly...
10:00I don't think this is...
10:01This is for me.
10:02Oh, for the love of Frosty.
10:03All right, get the camera.
10:04Come on.
10:05I wasn't planning on doing this until much later in the process.
10:07But you forced my hand, you doubting Thomas.
10:09You want proof Santa's real?
10:11Come on.
10:12Come on.
10:13You ready?
10:14Yeah.
10:24There it is.
10:27Took this picture when I was ten years old.
10:30In a room...
10:31Not unlike this one, except it was much darker.
10:35Had my Polaroid camera hidden under my pillow.
10:38I heard the footsteps coming down the hall.
10:40The creak of the door.
10:41Saw the white beard peeking in.
10:44He said, shh.
10:45Don't tell anyone.
10:47And then I snapped the picture.
10:53I know. I know.
10:54It's a shock when you see him in the flesh for the first time.
10:56I mean, I myself, I can barely remember anything from that night.
11:02How do you know that wasn't just some guy in a Santa suit
11:06that came into your room?
11:08What are you talking about?
11:11I mean, that could have been anyone.
11:16I don't think so.
11:19No.
11:21He brought presents.
11:22And there was the celery and the carrots.
11:25Oh, and he left a note.
11:27Yeah, the parents do all that.
11:29No.
11:30No.
11:31No, don't you project your daddy trauma onto me.
11:44What are you, what are you, what are you trying to say here?
11:46That it wasn't Santa that came into my room but, but just, just some random guy?
11:50And the reason I can't remember it is because what, because he raped me?
11:55Oh.
11:56That's, that's insane.
11:57Where'd you get a crazy idea like that from?
12:00Um, look man, this has been super helpful, but here, I, um...
12:07No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
12:09I just...
12:10Don't turn this around on me.
12:11Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
12:12I think you got some things you gotta process.
12:13This is your trauma, not mine.
12:16We're working on you tonight.
12:18I am fine.
12:19I am fine, I am fine!
12:31Okay.
12:42Dr. A?
12:50Deck of the halls with balls of holly, egg and egg and nog and nog nog nog.
12:54You're just in time for caroling an egg nog.
12:56Here, here.
12:57No, I, look, um, thank you.
12:59But, um, I, I, I gotta go.
13:01No, no, no, no.
13:02Why do you need to go?
13:03We're almost done with the program.
13:04Come on, have some nog.
13:05No, no, maybe, um, you mentioned earlier a thousand dollars.
13:08I was thinking maybe you could, I could just take half.
13:11Maybe.
13:12Could, could we do that?
13:15You want half of the money because you finished half of the program?
13:20Yeah.
13:23You feel good about that?
13:24I, I, I feel pretty good about it.
13:30So if you went to the blood bank and you gave them half a bag of blood,
13:34you'd ask for half the, that's not how it works.
13:36You gotta give the full bag of blood, Nick.
13:38Come on, I think you're just nervous.
13:39Have some nog.
13:40Let's finish this thing.
13:41I don't like nog.
13:42Sorry.
13:43Well, that's part of the problem.
13:44You need to get in the Christmas spirit.
13:45Yeah.
13:46But I'm, I'm lactose intolerant.
13:47Well, this is soy nog, so it's okay.
13:48I just don't like to take it.
13:49Drink the nog, Nick!
13:50Yes!
13:51Okay.
13:52Down the hatch.
13:55Come on.
13:56And then like...
13:57Yeah.
13:58Absolutely.
13:59Okay.
14:00Absolutely.
14:01Yes!
14:02Now all we have left is the grand finale, Nick.
14:06Grand finale?
14:07Yes!
14:08Tomorrow morning when Santa comes down that chimney right there
14:10and we get final proof that he's real when you finally come to Santa!
14:13Tomorrow?
14:14No, man.
14:15I gotta get home.
14:16What are you gonna do at home, Nick?
14:17What are you, what are you gonna?
14:18Watch Looney Tunes cartoons on a TV in your sad trailer
14:20while you put a gun in your mouth looking at pictures of your dead ex-wife?
14:22I don't know what that is.
14:23Is that, what is that, Gremlins?
14:24No!
14:25That is Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon.
14:26Gremlins is when the guy falls down and breaks his neck.
14:27Come on.
14:28Look, man.
14:29Just stay.
14:30No, I don't want any more nog, man.
14:31Look, I'm trying to be nice, okay?
14:32But you clearly have issues with your dad, okay?
14:34And I, I don't...
14:35Stop saying my dad raped me!
14:38That's not cool!
14:39Especially on Christmas Eve!
14:40Come on!
14:41I'm sorry.
14:42Where's my, where's my bag?
14:44My bag?
14:46Your bag?
14:47Yeah.
14:48I don't know.
14:50Where'd you leave it?
14:51I left it.
14:53I left it down.
14:55Wait, are you okay, Nick?
14:58Oh, fuck.
15:00Wait a minute.
15:03Did you have too much eggnog?
15:06What?
15:08Oh, no.
15:11It was the night before Christmas and all through the house that a creature was stirring.
15:22Good night, sweetheart.
15:23Nick!
15:24Nick!
15:25Nick!
15:26Nick!
15:27Wake up!
15:28Wake up!
15:29It's Christmas!
15:30It's Christmas!
15:31And Nick!
15:32He came!
15:33Oh, he came!
15:34And he brought pretzies!
15:35And carrots!
15:36And silver!
15:37He ate it all!
15:38Nick!
15:39Nick!
15:40I filmed it!
15:41I got proof!
15:42Come sit!
15:43Come sit!
15:44And the best part is, I don't think anybody got raped.
15:47Okay, sit!
15:48Sit!
15:49Sit!
15:50Come on!
15:51Sit!
15:52Look!
15:53Look!
15:54Look!
15:55Whoop!
15:56Sneaky little bucker.
15:58Okay.
15:59Okay.
16:00Here we go.
16:01Oh!
16:02Long.
16:03I got a heavy-er.
16:05Oh!
16:06You get raped!
16:07Okay, sit!
16:08Sit!
16:09Sit!
16:10Sit!
16:11Come on!
16:12Sit!
16:13Look!
16:14Look!
16:15Whoop!
16:16Sneaky little bucker.
16:18Okay.
16:19There we go.
16:23Okay. Here we go.
16:27Ooh. Is that heavier?
16:34Ooh.
16:36You're a little, but you're heavy.
16:38Oh. Okay.
16:40Is that Santa?
16:42Oh, no, that's somebody else.
16:46Oh.
16:47Shh, shh, shh. We hate someone here apart.
16:48Look, look, look, look, look.
16:49Look.
16:50Oh, what's that?
16:54Oh.
16:55It's your present.
16:57Nick, it's your present.
16:59Come on.
17:00Don't you open your present?
17:01Come on.
17:02Oh.
17:03Where am I?
17:05Okay.
17:06All right.
17:07Come on.
17:08A little.
17:09A little.
17:10Here we go.
17:11Ooh, it's a big one.
17:13Ooh.
17:14Sounds like a good one, Nick.
17:16Sounds like a good one.
17:17Come on.
17:18Open it.
17:19Come on.
17:20Where's my bag?
17:21Your bag?
17:22Nick, who cares about your bag?
17:24It's Christmas and Santa came.
17:27Come on.
17:28Okay.
17:29Here we go.
17:30Here we go.
17:31Ooh.
17:32Where is it?
17:34It's really deep in there.
17:36Okay.
17:37Okay.
17:38Nick.
17:39Nick.
17:40It's in there.
17:42It's in there.
17:43My bag.
17:44Yes.
17:45It's your bag.
17:46Go get it.
17:47Let's go get it.
17:48Mr.
17:50Th-
17:52Dad...
17:53Yes!
17:54Yes!
17:5539 years ago he left you.
17:56And this whole time he's been living two towns away.
17:57And Santa brought him to you on Christmas morning.
18:00Nick!
18:01Yes, yes, 39 years ago he left you, and this whole time he's been living two towns away and Santa brought him to you on Christmas morning.
18:13Nick, how do you feel?
18:21Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, Nick, no, no, don't leave, don't leave!
18:25Nick, wait!
18:28You haven't forgiven him yet!
18:39Nick?
18:46Nick?
18:58It's okay.
18:59You don't need to run away.
19:01I'm not gonna hurt you.
19:04Nick?
19:05It's okay.
19:06You don't need to run away.
19:07I'm not gonna hurt you.
19:11I'm not gonna hurt you.
19:12I'm not gonna hurt you.
19:14Oh!
19:15Somebody taking a tubby?
19:16Oh!
19:17Somebody taking a tubby?
19:20Where are you?
19:21Where are you?
19:22Seriously?
19:23I'm not gonna hurt you.
19:24I'm not gonna hurt you.
19:25I'm not gonna hurt you.
19:27I'm not gonna hurt you at a RM.
19:28I'm not gonna hurt you.
19:29I'm gonna hurt you.
19:30Where are you?
19:34Oh! Somebody taking a tubby? Where are you? Seriously? Oh. Okay.
20:04Shhh. Don't tell anyone.
20:18Oh. Oh, this.
20:23Nick?
20:38What happened?
20:51Oh, sweetheart. You fell.
21:10Huh. Just like gremlins.
21:21Oh, yeah.
21:26Oh, yeah.
21:36Oh, yeah.
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