Speaker 1: The control group contains scenes of realistic violence and graphic sexuality.
Speaker 1: It is intended for mature listeners. In the field of
Speaker 1: psychiatric medicine, it was an exciting time, a time of
Speaker 1: innovation and discovery, a time when mental health institutions struggled
Speaker 1: to redefine themselves, to become something more than repositories of
Speaker 1: the sick. Un Orthodox methods and aggressive therapies were not
Speaker 1: only permitted, but encouraged. This is a record of that time.
Speaker 1: This is the control group. Oh yeah, you're probably thinking
Speaker 1: to yourself, Dr Hayes, I I've I've done a terrible thing.
Speaker 1: I've I've betrayed the trust of a patient. I've violated
Speaker 1: the hippocratic owth. But did you earn anything? Really, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm asking you. Did you gain any knowledge from the experience? Yes,
Speaker 1: then it was worth it. Why did you do it? Heyes,
Speaker 1: I suppose I would. I was just curious. We place
Speaker 1: a high value on curiosity, scientific, intellectual, morbid, sexual. It
Speaker 1: is curiosity that fuels the learning process. The fact that
Speaker 1: you've left the hospital, that you went there, that you
Speaker 1: penetrated the mystery of that room, that you trusted your
Speaker 1: guts and investigated that lets us know you're our kind
Speaker 1: of man is We would like for you to continue
Speaker 1: to work closely with the society. I think you'll find
Speaker 1: that it would be mutually beneficial. You'll join the ranks
Speaker 1: of some of the most highly regarded scientists in the field.
Speaker 1: You'll be funded well enough that you can leave behind
Speaker 1: the toil of the mental ward and focus on those
Speaker 1: areas of study that bring you more personal satisfaction. How
Speaker 1: does that sound? Are you kidding? Its sounds wonderful. Now,
Speaker 1: before we settle you in, there is a mess here
Speaker 1: that requires some mobbing up. Yeah. Right, in our field,
Speaker 1: this kind of thing is bound to happen every so often,
Speaker 1: and we have a mechanism for dealing with unfortunate situations
Speaker 1: such as this. We are willing to use this mechanism
Speaker 1: as long as we have your complete cooperation and loyalty
Speaker 1: moving forward. You have it without a doubt, then it
Speaker 1: will be taken care of. Worry no more, We will
Speaker 1: handle everything, Doctor Gottfried, Perhaps you should give doctor Hayes
Speaker 1: a brief history of our organization so he has an
Speaker 1: understanding of the scale, the reach, our abilities to keep
Speaker 1: our promises and to make good on our warnings. We
Speaker 1: wouldn't want you to enter into an association with us
Speaker 1: lightly without fully understanding the depth of that commitment. Of course,
Speaker 1: don't mind him. He has an er adolescent fondness for
Speaker 1: the cloak and dagger. Here may I nineteen four nine,
Speaker 1: the cardinal minds into affair. He defiantly opposed communism in Hungary.
Speaker 1: He was arrested, he was tortured, he was persuaded to
Speaker 1: make full, not just full, a confession that was over flowing.
Speaker 1: That's when we knew the Soviets the Chinese had developed
Speaker 1: a program of behavior modification and thought control, brainwashing, brainwashing.
Speaker 1: At that point, the United States, specifically the Office of
Speaker 1: Scientific and Eligence, created a program in response art a joke,
Speaker 1: Art a joke. You peel back the layers, you see.
Speaker 1: We knew we needed to explore methods of interrogation, not
Speaker 1: not torture. Mind, you never torture. We are not barbarians. Science, chemical, psychological, electrical,
Speaker 1: and this this was one of our most promising weapons.
Speaker 1: LSD is surgic acid diathe, the mite. I'd spell it out,
Speaker 1: but that would take some time, and we don't have
Speaker 1: enough chalk. LSD was going to be the magic bullet,
Speaker 1: spent thousands of dollars on it, thought for control of
Speaker 1: the world's supply, successfully spent thousands of man hours. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm still not convinced that it does not have a roll.
Speaker 1: When you are small psychopharmacology, the problem is the effect
Speaker 1: of the drug is diminished when the subject knows they've
Speaker 1: taken it. Their defense mechanisms kicking. They're aware that a
Speaker 1: drug is in their system and can't help but act differently.
Speaker 1: So what do you do. You give someone the drug
Speaker 1: without their knowing it. But how do you do that.
Speaker 1: You can't just walk up to someone on the street.
Speaker 1: So a whole new entity have to be created, defined
Speaker 1: ways to administer the drug. M okay. We brought in magicians, hypnotists,
Speaker 1: card sharps, people who could show us how to slip
Speaker 1: a dose in a dream and continue to study the results.
Speaker 1: But you cannot do this in a laboratory. The moment
Speaker 1: someone steps into a testing room again, they know they
Speaker 1: are being tested. It's got to be in the real world.
Speaker 1: That's where we'll set up our lab, a lab that
Speaker 1: doesn't look anything like a lab, a lab that would
Speaker 1: be comfortable and inviting you know the laboratory we're talking about, Yeah,
Speaker 1: room five, that's right. I'm sorry, but I fail to
Speaker 1: see the connection between testing drugs and a cheek motel.
Speaker 1: And what any of this has to do with me.
Speaker 1: Weapons potential weapons. Everything is a potential weapon, haste everything guns.
Speaker 1: We all know about that money. Anyone can be bought
Speaker 1: or sold at a certain brace LSD once we fully
Speaker 1: understand its properties and how to most effectively blend it
Speaker 1: with other ingredients. Absolutely, let's not forget sex. The Soviets
Speaker 1: have used sex blackmail four. The Reds are way ahead
Speaker 1: of us on this. It's their favorite tool for the
Speaker 1: command of control of strang agents. The race with the
Speaker 1: Russians isn't only happening in outer space. It's also happening
Speaker 1: inside the head. And we're losing that one too. Someone
Speaker 1: followed you. It could be graph. Yeah, miss Burgery, you'd
Speaker 1: best get out of here, go on back up to
Speaker 1: the war where it's safe. No Graph, I'm protecting my patient. Well,
Speaker 1: I've got my orders, and so do I. What you
Speaker 1: eat s teaches in my face because of her almost
Speaker 1: lost an eye. I'm watching her. I'm keeping her here
Speaker 1: until we can all the authorities and let them work.
Speaker 1: All of you have the key. Maybe maybe get your
Speaker 1: hands on her. Don't you touch her, give me the key,
Speaker 1: per tree, you'd be the key Burgery. I won't ask
Speaker 1: you a third time. I have the key. Towsome out
Speaker 1: if you want him coming yet? No, I don't think so,
Speaker 1: and we'll just wait here. I've got a better idea burgery.
Speaker 1: Where did she go? Burgery? Oh, I got my color,
Speaker 1: I got it a gold him. There's another entrance about
Speaker 1: the team finds it really good. Don't over here, grass
Speaker 1: over here, don't come near me. Here as your chad.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cat soup. We're over here. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: your armstp this way. I can't see. He's like, follow me.
Speaker 1: I can hear you. I can value. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: can follow me. Come on. Potential weapons are all around
Speaker 1: us and your reward, for example, we just need to
Speaker 1: learn how to identify them and how to use them
Speaker 1: at the hospital. Shock therapy, sleep therapy, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation,
Speaker 1: psychic driving, transorbital lobotomy, surgical bacteriology. We don't know. We
Speaker 1: won't know until we explore it. Road tested under a
Speaker 1: variety of conditions. So back to our little laboratory. Co See, mom,
Speaker 1: how do you get people to show up? We called
Speaker 1: in an old friend of ours and the Bureau of
Speaker 1: an arcomus to work in the Bureau, used to work
Speaker 1: in the Bureau of Narcotics. But still well connected and
Speaker 1: wise to every angle that's ever been played. He knows
Speaker 1: every one, all the dope peddlers, the con artist. His
Speaker 1: suggestion was not to use confidence, mental drug pushers, or payment.
Speaker 1: His idea was to use women. His idea was specifically
Speaker 1: to use whores. Think about it, the powers of persuasion.
Speaker 1: People would actually pay us to participate. You see, Dr Hayes.
Speaker 1: We like movies too, Lewis, you want to start the show?
Speaker 1: My favorite part. Look, I'm getting goose bumps. You recognize
Speaker 1: the room? Yes, yeah, but now you are on the
Speaker 1: other side of the glass. Yes. How does that make
Speaker 1: you feel safer? Her? I suppose I'm safer. Yes, but
Speaker 1: some part of you, some part of you wishes it
Speaker 1: was on the other side of the class, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: It's okay, yes, nothing to be ashamed of. It's what
Speaker 1: motivates us. And we're about to see. Ah, yes, she
Speaker 1: is this woman who's that? That's what's her name again?
Speaker 1: Somehow I think that's Candy or is it Cherry? But
Speaker 1: who is she? Well, she's a prostitute, obviously. She is
Speaker 1: a civilian who was recruited to help us in our research,
Speaker 1: your research. And this person we are we don't know
Speaker 1: who that person is. Why don't we call him John?
Speaker 1: He's just a pick up some chumps she found on
Speaker 1: the street or in a cocktail lounge, and from the
Speaker 1: looks of it, he seems to be interested in conducting
Speaker 1: a study of human sexuality. We apologize for the quality
Speaker 1: of the image. It requires so much light to shoot
Speaker 1: through the glass, but you could see. Okay, I can
Speaker 1: stay fine, Shall we listen in? Are you serious? We
Speaker 1: have audio for this real? Yes, yes we do. We'll
Speaker 1: tell him this. What's it all? Louis? Can we get
Speaker 1: sound in here? Yeah? Please? Can you make you a drink?
Speaker 1: What they done? Stuck? All you got? Give? She asks?
Speaker 1: What he wants to drink? Comes towards the camera. Remember
Speaker 1: the piece? Watch carefully, it was there? Are you watching? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Pours a drink? Did you see it? What did you
Speaker 1: see it? He didn't see of course, he didn't see it.
Speaker 1: He was looking at the girl's legs or something. I
Speaker 1: didn't see what the administration of the truck. A toast
Speaker 1: bottoms up, and the wheels of science will now begin
Speaker 1: to turn. She did it so well, didn't she? So?
Speaker 1: Night after night we sit in that darkened room, taking notes,
Speaker 1: taking pictures, taking recordings. But in the end we learned
Speaker 1: very little about the effects of LSD on the subject.
Speaker 1: But it was anything but a failure. We realized that
Speaker 1: we had gained knowledge of a far more valuable and
Speaker 1: practical nature. Think about our operation is what it takes
Speaker 1: to set up a field laboratory like this? How do
Speaker 1: you plant hidden microphones in a room? He can't learn that?
Speaker 1: And workshop it has to happen on the ground in
Speaker 1: the wild. How much light is required to perform camera
Speaker 1: surveillance theror without putting floodlights. All these questions could be
Speaker 1: answered there. But even these things were trivial compared to
Speaker 1: other things. We could observe that the women you see.
Speaker 1: Morgan was right. He knew all along what the secret
Speaker 1: weapon was. It wasn't the drugs, the mirrors, the microphone.
Speaker 1: These women did things that no amount of l s
Speaker 1: D could accomplish. They could seduce a man, coax him
Speaker 1: to spend his money, give up his secrets, things he
Speaker 1: would never tell anyone, especially not his wife. You see
Speaker 1: what is happening. Ah. Yes, Under ordinary circumstances, modesty would
Speaker 1: dictate that we turn away. But in this um, this case,
Speaker 1: it's our obligation to um. It is necessary for the
Speaker 1: women to distract the tests subject for a long enough
Speaker 1: time to allow for the drug to take effect. All
Speaker 1: very scientific and eventually, Ah, there we have it. Midnight
Speaker 1: Climax operation Midnight Climate had the purpose of obfuscation. Every
Speaker 1: operation in this endeavor must have a code name. This
Speaker 1: one needs no explanation. You think we're voyeurs. Maybe, am
Speaker 1: I right? I didn't say that. You'd be amazed at
Speaker 1: the things we see through that class. Not being completely serious,
Speaker 1: Alfred Kinsey would have given his right nut to sit
Speaker 1: behind the glass in that room. I would say that
Speaker 1: we've seen every sexual perversion known to man. But there
Speaker 1: is always something that a modern man could teach craft
Speaker 1: epping a thing instead of relying on dubious interviews and
Speaker 1: second hand information. Here was the opportunity to observe the
Speaker 1: sex habits of the American underworld up close. And vision.
Speaker 1: A zoologist who has only studied wildlife in books and
Speaker 1: in cages, finally able to see nature in the wild,
Speaker 1: a sexual serengetti for behavioral psychologists. It was an unprecedented
Speaker 1: and even today an unparalleled anthropological opportunity. He stop, we're
Speaker 1: missing the movie. So watch the man. Nowadays he's lethargic
Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons. But you can see the
Speaker 1: acid sinking in. Unfortunately, they will not be much to see.
Speaker 1: Some laughed an expression of absolute bliss. It's although tinged
Speaker 1: with guilt over having violated his wedding bells. Eventually he'll
Speaker 1: zip up his pants, put on his jacket and wander
Speaker 1: back into the street. Then what this guy flouted with LSD?
Speaker 1: Not our concern. We're not running at daycarey. If he's
Speaker 1: got nothing more to teach us, he needs to get
Speaker 1: out and make way for the next guy. And there
Speaker 1: he goes. So back to the story. A new scene
Speaker 1: is beginning. But over time LSD wasn't so interesting anymore.
Speaker 1: It really is boring to watch. But the women. We
Speaker 1: could watch the women for hours. One woman in particular, Wait,
Speaker 1: wait two late days look familiar? Can yes? Karen all
Speaker 1: our chemicals, our device is our methods of mind control.
Speaker 1: None of them could accomplish what she could. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: for a while. Anyway, what happened? Along came Ronald Grant?
Speaker 1: You remember Ronald Grant sales paper carton manufacturing in town
Speaker 1: on a business trip from O H ten project o
Speaker 1: H ten? What is that? Ohio? Ronald Grant comes along
Speaker 1: and almost destroys everything that him. That's yeah, son of
Speaker 1: a bitch. M I think it's just say that everything?
Speaker 1: What this thing? M Y? What did I do? You
Speaker 1: wanted to see it? Yes, she's looking right, ass she
Speaker 1: knows we're watching. You were there? No, not this night?
Speaker 1: You know if I had been who was there? Who
Speaker 1: was running the camera? Come? Now? Do you know who
Speaker 1: been speaking? I would like to connect? M M? What's that?
Speaker 1: What ext what's wrong with it? This is the onset
Speaker 1: of the psychotic episode. The sychotic probably not his first,
Speaker 1: but definitely the last. To be fair, he wasn't given
Speaker 1: the usual dosage chemical services, wanted to try a different
Speaker 1: combination of ingredients and well, as you can see, the
Speaker 1: results of this particular cocktail were somewhat extreme and almost instantaneous.
Speaker 1: That's what I don't get it. Shouldn't have happened, couldn't
Speaker 1: have happened this fast. Clearly Grant must have already had it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sporting the movie. You're fine, adds next to dance Kaya,
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, let me give you adopt the bunny. Dare
Speaker 1: Jesus stop running running there? What's happen is nothing for
Speaker 1: christ Morgan. Morgan called the doctor or company. Really don't
Speaker 1: know when you get down the chair running okay, Well,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna hurt me. Put down the stair, Morgan, Morgan,
Speaker 1: get you're asking, you'll nott me. Morgan's gonna kill her?
Speaker 1: Why does someone stop him? Why? Why you know how
Speaker 1: this ends? He's he doesn't kill her, remember Morgan get
Speaker 1: in here before? Oh Jesus, not that. Well, who is
Speaker 1: wrong with you? Morgan? You're just let him guy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she never touched him. Nope, she had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with his death. I wouldn't say nothing. But she's innocent.
Speaker 1: Well what is innocent? You have the film, you have
Speaker 1: the proof, yet you allowed her to be arrested. We
Speaker 1: couldn't very well show this to the police. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine you let her go to jail. She didn't go
Speaker 1: to jail. We looked after her. We had her sense
Speaker 1: someplace where she would be put under the care and
Speaker 1: supervision of a person we trusted. We granted her asylum yours.
Speaker 1: We were going to keep her there three weeks, let
Speaker 1: the publicity die down, and then we were going to
Speaker 1: spring her. But then you took an interest in her.
Speaker 1: You started playing detective, prying into her past, trying to
Speaker 1: unlock her secrets, and a new project was born, Operation
Speaker 1: Good Shepherd. And who would have ever guessed where that
Speaker 1: project ended up. You're being rewarded with a prize better
Speaker 1: than the nobel We're offering you seat on the other
Speaker 1: side of the class, a knowledge and a lifetime of power,
Speaker 1: a bribe. You're a way of keeping me quiet now
Speaker 1: that I found the truth. Dr Hayes. If we wanted
Speaker 1: you to be quiet, he wouldn't be making a sound
Speaker 1: right now. Not now. Let's behave like colleagues. If Morgan
Speaker 1: had his way, you would be dead. That's the other option. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what do we do? How do we proceed? How
Speaker 1: soon can you get Charlotte back to her husband? For
Speaker 1: God's sake, you haven't even told me what happened to her.
Speaker 1: We we'll discuss that. I think the first gesture of
Speaker 1: cooperation should come from you or me. Okay, then what
Speaker 1: sort of gesture of cooperation are you looking for? For starters,
Speaker 1: we'd like to get Karen back. I think the coast
Speaker 1: is clear enough for us to repatriate her to the
Speaker 1: ranks of our agents. How soon can you bring it
Speaker 1: to us? When would your life to see her? How
Speaker 1: about midnight? Tonight? Immediately would be better. Look, we're willing
Speaker 1: to give you a little time, but not here away
Speaker 1: from the hospital. Somewhere that old house on the hill.
Speaker 1: What is that the founders mansion? It's abandoned. That would
Speaker 1: be perfect. I can't guarantee that I'll be able to
Speaker 1: no excuses. Either you fail or you succeed. Ah. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank god you're back, miss Surgery. Dr Caes is here, Walter.
Speaker 1: What's happening? Are you okay? Everything's fine. There was a situation,
Speaker 1: but I'm handling it. Virtue. Did you revive Karen? Like
Speaker 1: I asked you to wait, Doctor Hayes, just a minute.
Speaker 1: I wanted where is she? That's what I was trying
Speaker 1: to tell you. There were some complications when we were
Speaker 1: bringing her out of the pheno barb and I thought
Speaker 1: it best. Shut up and tell me where she is.
Speaker 1: No more of your games, no more Florence Nightingale. Bullshit, Burtree.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm asking you where is she? And I'm not
Speaker 1: telling you you've hidden her. I'm not saying anything, Gloria.
Speaker 1: I'm gown upstairs and see if Grat is still on duty,
Speaker 1: if he is bringing back down here stack, what are
Speaker 1: you looking at her for? I'm in charge. Do what
Speaker 1: I tell you too. Grath will find her and he'll
Speaker 1: bring her back, and I shudder to think what kind
Speaker 1: of shape she'll be in when she arrives. Doctor Hayes,
Speaker 1: my only intention to save your breath. You've failed as
Speaker 1: a nurse. You've disappointed me personally. God knows what damage
Speaker 1: you'll be inflicting upon Karen. But as long as you
Speaker 1: think you know best, I know, I do tell me
Speaker 1: where she is. You only know one tiny slice of
Speaker 1: what's going on here right now, Vergerie, you're out of
Speaker 1: your element. You think this is just about Karen, but
Speaker 1: it's much bigger. Charlotte has disappeared from where someone took her,
Speaker 1: abducted her. Who when he has to do with this
Speaker 1: Morgan Hall? Person who who who's been looking for Karen
Speaker 1: and threatening us. Now, I for reasons I can't explain.
Speaker 1: What is it, Dr Hayes. Morgan Hall is here and
Speaker 1: I have reason to believe he has Charlotte with him
Speaker 1: as a sort of hostage. Have you called the police? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is I'm trying to explain to you. This is
Speaker 1: bigger than the police. This is Karen is a bad person.
Speaker 1: She's done things, much more horrible things than we ever imagined.
Speaker 1: And you're right, she never should have been placed here.
Speaker 1: There was a risk to the patients. It's tall of us.
Speaker 1: This Morgan Hall and other other persons. They're providing us
Speaker 1: with a solution to everything. In order to get Charlotte released,
Speaker 1: I simply need to take Karen to him and then
Speaker 1: we can all go on with our lives. Where at
Speaker 1: the Founder's mansion at midnight, I won't do it. I'll call.
Speaker 1: The phones are shut off, the exits are locked. There's
Speaker 1: no way around it, and I don't want Charlotte to
Speaker 1: be punished for our mistakes. Dr Hayes. Yes, when Graf
Speaker 1: gets here, I'll take him to Carrie. Tell me where
Speaker 1: she is and I'll send him there right now, no,
Speaker 1: I I won't let him hurt her. I'm adamant about that.
Speaker 1: I'll go with him to be sure she isn't harmed
Speaker 1: and we'll bring her back together. Okay, good girl, Virgie. Yeah, okay, Morgan,
Speaker 1: we're on. He's got her. He's got her. He's got her,
Speaker 1: and I get her. As long as you have something
Speaker 1: to trade. Yeah, like that's something to trade, all right,
Speaker 1: So bring her up to Central State Hospital. There's a perimeter,
Speaker 1: but they'll let you through. Up on the hill is
Speaker 1: what they call the Founder's mansion. We'll meet, we'll greet,
Speaker 1: will change gifts. Well, that satisfy you, and she and
Speaker 1: I split If that's what you want, see you in
Speaker 1: a couple of hours, Summer Hill. You're not going to
Speaker 1: pull any tricks. Now, why would you think that we
Speaker 1: you misunderstand. That was not a question. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: you're not going to pull any tricks or else. What
Speaker 1: you know me fairly? Well, I'm sure you can finish
Speaker 1: this sentence for me. The Control Group is a production
Speaker 1: of How Stuff Works, written and directed by Brett Wood,
Speaker 1: recorded and mixed by Rob Gal and