Speaker 1: The control group contains scenes of realistic violence and graphic sexuality.
Speaker 1: It is intended for mature listeners. This episode specifically contains
Speaker 1: depictions of sexual abuse that may act as a trigger.
Speaker 1: Audience discretion is advised. If I am ever to get
Speaker 1: better again, I must cooperate with doctor Hayes. I can
Speaker 1: trust Doctor Hayes. In the field of psychiatric medicine. It
Speaker 1: was an exciting time, a time of innovation and discovery
Speaker 1: with doctor Hayes, a time when mental health institutions struggled
Speaker 1: to redefine themselves, to become something more than repositories of
Speaker 1: the sick. Unorthodox methods and aggressive therapies were not only permitted,
Speaker 1: but encouraged. I can trust Dr Hayes. This is a
Speaker 1: record of that time when I am absolutely this is
Speaker 1: the controlled and only by fully cooperating with Dr Hayes,
Speaker 1: can I ever hope to become well again. I have
Speaker 1: no sceners. Yeah, morning, Dr Hayes. I'm wondering if you'd
Speaker 1: be interested in signing this card along with everyone else.
Speaker 1: It's been three days since Charlotte was transported back to
Speaker 1: her home. Debbie, the patients and I thought it might
Speaker 1: give Charlotte a little encouragement to send her a greeting card.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I'm sorry. Remind her that she spent two
Speaker 1: fruitless years on the ward. That's going to cheer her up.
Speaker 1: It would be best if she just forgot she was
Speaker 1: ever here and just started to live her old life again.
Speaker 1: Don't you think, Oh, come on, not again, Charlotte, Charlotte,
Speaker 1: come on, breath, You just you're just you're having another
Speaker 1: You gotta snap out of it. Three weeks now? What? What? Enough? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk today or you're just gonna do huh?
Speaker 1: Say it? What? Why am Why can't why can't look
Speaker 1: at me what I'm talking to you? Listen to me, Charlotte.
Speaker 1: You gotta get out of this bed. You've got to
Speaker 1: get out of the house. Go somewhere, do something. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not sending you back to that madhouse. So that
Speaker 1: lunatic doctor he fried your brain. Okay, he's made a
Speaker 1: goddamn zombie out of you. And the scary thing is,
Speaker 1: the really scary thing is that he's got you wanting
Speaker 1: to go back for more. I'm not going to allow that.
Speaker 1: You don't understand. The Central State Hospital at New Canaan
Speaker 1: is the source of my health and my happiness. I
Speaker 1: depend on Dr Hayes from my well, like living with
Speaker 1: a broken phonograph. He sees things in me, Bird, that
Speaker 1: no one else sees. He listens to me. Without his care,
Speaker 1: I could not survive. You're never going back to that place, Charlotte. Never.
Speaker 1: You're home. Now, you're my wife, I'm your husband. Things
Speaker 1: were broken, but we're going to fix it. We're gonna
Speaker 1: try again. Okay, No, no, I can't. I can't go
Speaker 1: through that pain again. Bird, I can't. You can't. You
Speaker 1: don't know. It was my child too. Remember, you seem
Speaker 1: to forget that. It wasn't an it she was she
Speaker 1: she had a name. I'm going to work, gonna be
Speaker 1: late again. It's almost nine. I don't want to go out.
Speaker 1: Don't go out. Stay locked up in this tomb if
Speaker 1: you want to. But I'll be goddamn if I'm if.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you back into that madhouse. Do you
Speaker 1: hear me? Yeah, I hear you. You're so far away.
Speaker 1: I'll see you this evening. It's it's almost nine. It's
Speaker 1: almost nine, it's almost nine. Might at the Showcase Cinema.
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Speaker 1: wife's just chock full of surprises, isn't it. We all
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Speaker 1: World and we're gonna see what's on the minds of
Speaker 1: our viewers out there and who knows. Maybe today will
Speaker 1: be the day that Charlotte gets a message from an
Speaker 1: old friend, maybe an old flame, and suddenly the day
Speaker 1: will look just a little bit brighter. Now, our first
Speaker 1: letter here comes from uh Lena here in New Canaan,
Speaker 1: and she writes as a housewife and mom. I've often
Speaker 1: wondered why it is that today is the day Dr
Speaker 1: Hayes is going to come for you, when some of
Speaker 1: my friends secretarial jobs don't get that same satisfaction. What
Speaker 1: about talking? It's kind of like that old anage about
Speaker 1: walking a mile and another person's moccasins. If you wish
Speaker 1: to become well, you you really must obey his every
Speaker 1: instruction and comply with his every wish. Kids homesick from school,
Speaker 1: or or making a second trip to the market right
Speaker 1: before your husband's you might want to get dressed because
Speaker 1: he will come for you today. And really, with ladies,
Speaker 1: without his care, he simply could not survive. In fact,
Speaker 1: before we went on the air today, my producer showed
Speaker 1: me your phone was going to ring newspaper and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: In five seconds, just about every person who interviews said
Speaker 1: that three believed they would be happier to had more time,
Speaker 1: more money won. But they ask you ladies like, h
Speaker 1: let's let's just hold it for just a second. That
Speaker 1: shouldn't quickly? Is someone going to answer that? Charlotte, M hmm.
Speaker 1: Don't you think you should answer? What if? What if
Speaker 1: it isn't him? Why don't you pick it up and
Speaker 1: find out? Hello? Hello, Charlotte. Dr Hayes. Is it really you?
Speaker 1: It really is? How have you been getting it along?
Speaker 1: Not so good? That's so good. I was worried about that.
Speaker 1: I mean Central State Hospital and Canan is the source
Speaker 1: of my health and happiness. That's right, Charlotte. You're exactly right.
Speaker 1: And I depend on you, Dr Hayes for my well
Speaker 1: being as well. You should, you know, Charlotte. To remain well,
Speaker 1: you must obey my ever reinstruction and comply with my
Speaker 1: every wish. That's right. Without my care, Charlotte, you cannot survive.
Speaker 1: I understand that. Now, Dr to Hayes, is it true?
Speaker 1: Dr Hayes? My mother and what she said? What's that Charlotte?
Speaker 1: Helen Huntley, Oh, Helen Huntley said something to you. Can
Speaker 1: you believe it? What she said? That you're coming for me?
Speaker 1: She was right? In fact, I was going to see
Speaker 1: if you could be ready and take five minutes. How'd
Speaker 1: that be? That would that would be wonderful. Dr Hayes, great,
Speaker 1: it will be so good to see you again, Charlotte.
Speaker 1: It'll be nice to see you again. To dry, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry about about what happened when I was leaving, When
Speaker 1: I was trying to leave. That matters now now who
Speaker 1: you well? Was he a ten thirty then? And Charlotte,
Speaker 1: under the circumstances, I think it'd be best if you
Speaker 1: don't mention Mr Birke. We don't want to upset him. No,
Speaker 1: of course, not our little secret. Yes, yes, anything you
Speaker 1: said doors see it a bit. Goodbye, Dr Mao. The
Speaker 1: rain stacked, the clouds part and a door opens just
Speaker 1: for you. Sorry for the way you're holding for Marcus Stevenson. Hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: Dr Stevenson. This is Videri Wilburn. You probably don't remember me,
Speaker 1: but I was a student of yours class of forty nine.
Speaker 1: Sorry I don't there was a d that's me, yes,
Speaker 1: my maiden name. Sorry? Fine, fine, how are you Mrs Wilburn? Now? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm fine. Thank you for asking. I'm calling because I'm
Speaker 1: hoping you can give me some information about something, sure
Speaker 1: if I can. I'm award head nurse at the Central
Speaker 1: State Hospital in New Canaan. Congratulations, I knew you'd landed
Speaker 1: in a good spot. Thank you. And um, we've begun
Speaker 1: to do some research with a group. May I speak candidly?
Speaker 1: Dr Stevenson. Of course, I'll try to do the same.
Speaker 1: Good Thank you. The group is the Society for the
Speaker 1: Investigation of Human Ecology. I think they've also supported some
Speaker 1: research work there. Are you familiar with it? Very familiar.
Speaker 1: They've underwritten some of my research. What's the name of
Speaker 1: the director there at New Canaan, Ryan Walter Hayes hay
Speaker 1: don't know him, but he's in good company. The Human
Speaker 1: Ecology program supports skitting June just Kinna. Even Margaret need
Speaker 1: is on the pay roll. Okay, okay, okay, um just
Speaker 1: m hmm. What's on your mind? Since we started working
Speaker 1: with them? Okay, we've begun to focus less on long
Speaker 1: term care and more on experimental therapies that, at least
Speaker 1: in my view, are questionable ethically speaking. And you blame
Speaker 1: the s I G Or do you blame the head
Speaker 1: of your department? I don't know where it's coming from.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do about it. If you
Speaker 1: feel a patient's life or mental well being or in danger,
Speaker 1: hang up, phone them and request an inquiry. Is that
Speaker 1: the case, No, not exactly tell me. Then we no
Speaker 1: longer seem to be concerned with improving our patient's quality
Speaker 1: of life. All of a sudden, we're using them as
Speaker 1: guinea pigs. I understand now, you do. Absolutely. The route
Speaker 1: of the problem is not what the doctor is doing
Speaker 1: or the society is doing. It's how you're looking at him.
Speaker 1: I'm the problem in a sense. You're the ward nurse,
Speaker 1: head nurse. Yes, caretaker, you use that word yourself. I
Speaker 1: did I care for my patients. There's no shame in that.
Speaker 1: Never said there was. But that's not research. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to condescend, but just listen for a moment
Speaker 1: and try to understand. There are two ways, basically to
Speaker 1: approach research and experimentation. One, you have a goal, a target,
Speaker 1: and you're trying to find the best means of achieving it. Yes,
Speaker 1: when you medicate a patient or perform some other therapy,
Speaker 1: it is to achieve a specific aim. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1: The other method is to explore something, find out what
Speaker 1: its properties are. Its effects, its potential, it's dangers, and
Speaker 1: once you really understand it, then you decide how it
Speaker 1: can be applied. But you can't minister a treatment for
Speaker 1: a specific goal until you fully understand it. Are you
Speaker 1: with me so far? Yes? This is what the society is.
Speaker 1: This is what they encourage. Summer Hill always said, have
Speaker 1: you met Mr summer Hill yet? Yes? I used to
Speaker 1: say this was like taking the tiger out of its cage,
Speaker 1: taking off its leash, letting it run around, see if
Speaker 1: it can be trained. Excuse me, sorry, but when you
Speaker 1: say the tiger, what are you referring to? What? You're
Speaker 1: still looking at this through people expand your vision. The
Speaker 1: tiger is the thing whose potential you want to understand
Speaker 1: so you can figure out how to use it to
Speaker 1: your advantage. Got it? No, you don't. I can tell
Speaker 1: you don't explain it to me. The tiger can be
Speaker 1: many things. Everything is a potential tiger. Right now, my
Speaker 1: primary focus is lysurgic acid diathylamide. To me, that's the tiger.
Speaker 1: For me to understand its properties, I have to study
Speaker 1: its effects on a broad sampling of people in various doses,
Speaker 1: under various conditions. What will it be good for I
Speaker 1: don't know yet, but eventually its usefulness will become apparent
Speaker 1: in someone else's study. The tiger might be anthrax or botulism.
Speaker 1: Now here's what you need to know to reorient your thinking.
Speaker 1: To the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology. I'm
Speaker 1: a tiger. They provide me with the resources and freedom
Speaker 1: to study what I want. They don't require me to
Speaker 1: hand over specific results that would be shortsighted science through
Speaker 1: a people. They were to let me off the lease
Speaker 1: to see what I'm capable of. Everyone everything is a
Speaker 1: potential tiger. What the s i h E does is organized, cultivate,
Speaker 1: collect data, analyze the data, connect the strands that might
Speaker 1: emerge between all the different subprojects they're supporting, and determine
Speaker 1: how this knowledge can be most effectively applied. Dr Stevenson,
Speaker 1: who is the s I I just told you, No,
Speaker 1: you didn't. Who are they? You know the question? I'm
Speaker 1: asking doctor? If you know the question? The new must
Speaker 1: suspect an answer. I want to hear you say it.
Speaker 1: I want to know. The Society for the Investigation of
Speaker 1: Human Ecology is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement
Speaker 1: of psychiatric study through the financial and logistical support of
Speaker 1: independent research. I began working with him way back when
Speaker 1: they were the Sick Fund. They liked what we were doing,
Speaker 1: and we're always strong orders. So when the s i
Speaker 1: h e. Was established, we came to them highly recommended.
Speaker 1: They don't steer my research. They provide forty dollars a
Speaker 1: year and financial assistance to my department. That's really are
Speaker 1: I need to know about the society. We have a
Speaker 1: sort of gentleman's agreement that I don't inquire into their
Speaker 1: other areas of operation, and they allow me to pursue
Speaker 1: the work I want to pursue wherever that path may lead.
Speaker 1: And I'm afraid that's all the time I'm willing to
Speaker 1: share with you. Hold, please, if I could just ask
Speaker 1: you one you were always a bright woman, verdery, what happened?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? You seriously mean you haven't figured this out already?
Speaker 1: Or do you just not want to know? M hm?
Speaker 1: And this looks good right here? Charlotte, All right, this
Speaker 1: is Charlotte that this is a motel? Dry? Yes, what
Speaker 1: why are you bringing? Bringing me to a motel? Don't
Speaker 1: get the wrong idea, Charlotte. There's a reason for this
Speaker 1: for our session to occur here in this place. I
Speaker 1: don't understand. No, you don't understand, and you won't understand
Speaker 1: until you come inside, until we begin the session. You've
Speaker 1: always expressed an interest in aiding my research, have you not?
Speaker 1: I have that moment is now. There's nothing worse than
Speaker 1: a doctor who thinks him knows everything. He was happy
Speaker 1: to rest on his accomplishments. But you know I'm not
Speaker 1: that kind of doctor, don't you, Charlotte. I've always admired
Speaker 1: you for that. I don't know everything. I'm always searching
Speaker 1: for answers, a better understanding of the human mind. In
Speaker 1: order to do that, I have to be adventurous. When
Speaker 1: a man of science discovers a threshold to understanding, he
Speaker 1: has an obligation to step through it. However strange you're
Speaker 1: intimidating it may seem. Does that makes sense? Absolutely? And
Speaker 1: there's something I've been curious about, and I think the
Speaker 1: only place I can gain that knowledge is up there
Speaker 1: in that room. Which true? Are you gonna help me, Charlotte?
Speaker 1: Or am I going to drive you back to Bert's house?
Speaker 1: You know I'll help you. You know I'll do anything.
Speaker 1: It's funny all these months, I've just been waiting for
Speaker 1: you to trust me enough. I just need to get
Speaker 1: my cases from the back. Hello, uh, I help you.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see a room, alrighty double the queen? Um.
Speaker 1: Would it be possible to look at a particular room?
Speaker 1: How do you mean look at? I'd like to rent
Speaker 1: a room for the night, but i'd like to I'd
Speaker 1: like to get a specific room if that's possible, Room
Speaker 1: five twelve? Is that available? Room five? It's a single
Speaker 1: for the same price. I could give you a double,
Speaker 1: it's fine. How much that eight fifty? Cash? Or charge? Cash?
Speaker 1: Care to sign in? Uh m hm, any name of dude.
Speaker 1: But I need something, of course, not at twenty dollar fifty?
Speaker 1: Is your change? Thanks? Check out as noon. If you
Speaker 1: end up staying that long? Mm hmm. Can I help
Speaker 1: you with your bags? And that won't be necessary? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Can I carry one of those free phone? I got it?
Speaker 1: Just push the button? So this is it? Not the
Speaker 1: way I would have decorated, but Charlotte, yes, First off,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you something to help you relax.
Speaker 1: Give me your your left arm. Fine, okay, little prick,
Speaker 1: there we go. I feel all right? Yes, good now,
Speaker 1: take this valise. I want you to go into the
Speaker 1: bathroom and put these things on. Okay, everything you find
Speaker 1: in the bag I want you to wear, and I
Speaker 1: don't want you to come out until I tell you
Speaker 1: all right, all right, I'll just need a minute to
Speaker 1: set up anything you say, Drys m h h. Hi,
Speaker 1: this is ken you said I should call if anyone
Speaker 1: ever and a man and a woman asked for room
Speaker 1: five twelve, yes specifically, M No, No they didn't. He's
Speaker 1: signing under the name Asa Kimball. No, no idea, not
Speaker 1: five minutes ago. Yes, sir, we'll do all right in there, Charlotte. Yes,
Speaker 1: come closer to the door. I want to tell you
Speaker 1: what to do. I'm here. Good. Are you wearing clothes?
Speaker 1: I am? How do they make you feel? Sholotte? M M,
Speaker 1: I don't know. These aren't my clothes. And you would
Speaker 1: never wear clothes like these, would you? No? You know
Speaker 1: who would wear clothes like these, Charlotte. A prostitute would
Speaker 1: wear clothes like these. These are these are clothes for
Speaker 1: a whore, Charlotte. You know who wear clothes like these?
Speaker 1: Karen does Karen Myers? Remember Karen? Yes? Good? Good, Because
Speaker 1: when you open the door and come out here. I
Speaker 1: want you to be Karen Myers. You don't want me
Speaker 1: to be Karen, that's all right. I want you to
Speaker 1: just look like her or act like her. I want
Speaker 1: you to be Karen. Be Karen, that's it, yeah, and
Speaker 1: not need correct. I want you to step out here,
Speaker 1: and I want you to be Karen Myers. Why do
Speaker 1: you want me to be caring? Because that's what I
Speaker 1: want and because it's what I'm telling you to do.
Speaker 1: And that's all the reason there needs to be, Charlotte.
Speaker 1: To remain well, you must obey my every instruction. You
Speaker 1: must comply with my every wish without my care. You
Speaker 1: don't have to do that, doctors. If you'd rather be
Speaker 1: Karen and not myself, if that's what you want it,
Speaker 1: I'll do it all right. Then here we go. If
Speaker 1: I am ever to get better again, I must come up. Please, Charlotte,
Speaker 1: I can trust. Is this what do you want to do? Absolutely? Yes?
Speaker 1: Step into the white Let me see you. Doctor. You
Speaker 1: look wonderful, Karen, exactly as I imagine you, cheap toddaries sexy.
Speaker 1: This is how you look that night when you brought
Speaker 1: Ronald Grant into this room. If I ever tell me, Karen,
Speaker 1: did you undress for him? Or did he address you
Speaker 1: on absolutely healthy? Undress me? I'll show you're right. What
Speaker 1: did he pay? Ten dollars? Twenty dollars? Twenty dollars? Here
Speaker 1: you go, Garrett, great, Well that buy me what I want? Yes? No, Charlotte,
Speaker 1: what is it you're wearing your wedding rings? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't even think I take them off. They're my
Speaker 1: wedding rings. Karen doesn't have wedding rings. You shouldn't have them.
Speaker 1: Take them off when I'm absolutely healthy? What should I
Speaker 1: do with that? But them on the night stands? Better? Now?
Speaker 1: I have hold still? How does that feel, Karen? To
Speaker 1: get better? This is what Ronald Grant felt like? I
Speaker 1: can trust dr that night? Was Ronald Grant the kind
Speaker 1: of man that needed encouragement? Karen? How did he take
Speaker 1: control of you? Karen? I can trust drs only when
Speaker 1: I absolutely I don't want to do I'm showing you
Speaker 1: just let me do this the way I want to
Speaker 1: do it, and don't ask questions. I know exactly what
Speaker 1: I want. You put the money on the dresses. Then
Speaker 1: that I loved you to temporary ownership, Ronnie, you belong
Speaker 1: to me, Karen mothers, that's right, and I can do
Speaker 1: whatever I want with you without any moral or ethical obstruction. Professor,
Speaker 1: you really know how to talk to a one command
Speaker 1: and control. Karen. That's what I want? What heavenly man?
Speaker 1: What underneath it all? Hello? Ken? They still upstairs? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1: All h Are they many calls? Outside? Calls or front desk? Nothing?
Speaker 1: They're quiet, all right. If anyone up there tries to
Speaker 1: make a call, don't let it out. If you hear
Speaker 1: any unusual noise in the next ten minutes or so,
Speaker 1: just ignore it. You never saw me come in here today, okay,
Speaker 1: never saw you before in my life. What do you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What are you going to do there in my room?
Speaker 1: It's only fitting that I go on up and introduce myself.
Speaker 1: No trouble please. M The Control Group is a production
Speaker 1: of How Stuff Works, written and directed by Brett Wood,
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