(tense brooding music)
- Go ahead and take a seat, darlin'.
I need to take your vital signs.
(footsteps shuffle)
(tense music)
Are you a little nervous this time since you're by yourself?
- Not really. - Should we be?
- The reason that I ask is
because sometimes people get white coat syndrome, you know?
Where when they get to the doctor,
they get a little nervous,
blood pressure spikes a little bit,
your heart rate goes up.
(rumble echoes) (lights buzz)
Your pulse is a little high for you.
There's no shame in being scared.
- I'm not.
- You should be.
(tense music) (door opens)
(clipboard slams)
(sanitizer squirts and slathers)
(knuckles crack)
- Hannah, how are you doing today?
- Tired, broken, angry.
- Fine
- Before we get started,
how have your symptoms been?
- About the same as last time I came here.
- Can you give me the quick rundown?
- There is no quick rundown.
- Look, I brought a list.
- Can you just tell it to me?
- Does no one read anymore?
- Brain fog, chest pain,
dizziness, fatigue,
feeling faint, imbalance,
incontinence, light sensitivity,
losing time, memory problems, nausea, neck pain,
ringing in ears, shortness of breath,
sound sensitivity, tachycardia.
(light clicks on and off)
- Perfect.
Well, we can revisit this list again later,
but first, I have some tests I'd like to run.
- Surprise, surprise. - Okay.
- Follow the flashlight with your eyes.
(light clicks on)
Perfect.
Now can you touch this hand to my finger?
Great.
Now, can you close your eyes and do the same?
(scary dramatic music)
(muffled screaming)
Now this one.
(scary dramatic music)
(muffled screaming)
Did you...
(clears throat)
Great. Now stand up for me.
Can you close your eyes and stand on one leg?
How about both legs?
(seat squeaks and crunches)
Well, I see you have some degradation there.
- Why the hell else do you think I come here?
- Yes.
- And you're...
ten.
Wow.
- Same as the last time.
- I'm just so sorry. It must-
- Here it comes. - What?
- That, what you have to live with,
someone your age should never have to go through this.
- Really?
- At least not without...
- Who gave you the right to turn me
into your shitty Lifetime movie
of the week inspiration tragedy porn?
- Excuse me for a second. Nurse?
(door shuts) (footsteps shuffle)
- Exam room five? - I don't know.
I need to know where her parents are.
- They're at work.
- What if I have to change her plan of care?
- (sighs) The form is on your desk
for informed consent if you need it.
Don't forget. You have a patient in room five.
(tense eerie music)
- Right.
(door shuts) (intense percussion)
Let's have a look at that list of symptoms of yours.
So you say tachycardia on this list.
Do you know what that means?
You didn't just get this list off the internet?
- Like where you got your bedside manner?
- Of course not!
Can you explain it to me?
- A racing pulse with a high resting heart rate,
Mine runs about 110.
- Huh. Heart rate is pretty high.
(pen clicks and scribbles)
- I saw that.
- Tell me, Hannah,
does your pulse change when you lie down?
- I can be lying down and my pulse starts jumping.
- Jumping how?
- Objection, badgering the witness.
- Like it's pounding.
- Tell me, Hannah, do you have anxiety?
- No. - Liar.
- [Doctor] Do you wake up sweaty in the night?
Do you have trouble sleeping?
- No. - You little liar.
- Well, I need to talk to your parents about this,
of course, but I think a lot of what's going on here
is psychological,
in your head.
- In your head, you mean.
- Looking at this list here,
(chair rolls)
here, have a look with me,
these symptoms here,
these are quantifiable, measurable.
- I know what that means. - Okay.
- But these symptoms, these are constitutional.
I have no way of measuring them.
You do realize this is a very long list, don't you?
- I have a lot going on.
I was born with so many problems.
- I know, I know, but you do realize
that that doesn't explain this?
- And you do realize that this doesn't explain that?
- Look, you were born with something
that makes you one in a million.
The chances that you have something else going on
are extremely rare...
unless it's psychological.
It's completely understandable
with everything you're going through.
(intake of breath)
- You ready?
- I know these things feel real now,
but you're still very young
and impressionable.
- You don't get it.
- You read something, you hear something.
- Read something, hear something.
- You're at a very sensitive age.
(body thuds)
Nurse!
Hannah, Hannah, Hannah!
- (clears throat)
Don't look at her.
Look at me, you piece of shit.
A question, doc.
How many times has someone told you
to question your reality?
- This, this wasn't my fault!
- No, really.
How many times has someone you trusted,
some white-coated knight,
told you that it was all in your head?
(door creaks and slams)
You can't escape this, though.
- Doctor. - Doctor!
- [Whispering Voices] Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!
- Doctor! Doctor! -Doctor!
- What is this?
(object squelches)
What are you?
- I'm her.
I'm her avenging angel.
(neck cracks)
Got anxiety, doc?
- You came for me. What did I do?
- I didn't come for you. I came for her.
For me, for me to know what's real and what's not.
See, I gave you a chance to see her
as something more than a box to be checked.
- I was just trying to take care of you.
- I know you were,
but now,
let me take care of you.
(kiss)
(eerie dramatic music)
(doctor screams) (bones crack)
(doctor screams)
(thud echoes) (dramatic music)