FADE IN: 

INT. PSYCHIATRIC WARD – DAY

ZEKE CARLSON (30s, unshaven) stares wildly around a small, drab bedroom.

He mutters to himself, as two doctors -- HARTWELL (40s) and MARY (20s) -- look on.

The room’s single door is very solid, but has a single glass window at eye level.

HARTWELL

And Cisordinal is used primarily to treat Mr. Carlson’s...

MARY

Hallucinations. Um. Schizophrenia-manifesting audiovisual hallucinations.

HARTWELL

Good.

Zeke stares at an empty spot in the room, then back to the doctors.

ZEKE

The Big Shot says you two have to leave!

HARTWELL

What?

ZEKE

He’s right there! The Big Shot!

MARY

Well. He’s not a hospital employee, so that doesn’t really give him any authority.

Hartwell takes Mary aside.

HARTWELL

You don’t have to agree with the hallucinations. It’s best not to, in fact.

MARY

Sorry. It’s -- I do a lot of improv. So it’s kind of instinctive.

Hartwell nods; they return to the patient.

ZEKE

The Big Shot is getting upset!

MARY

Yeah, well he’s only, like, five two. I could totally take him in a fight.

ZEKE

No! No, he’s seven feet tall! Be careful!

MARY

What? I just said the Big Shot was short!

Hartwell takes her aside again, gives her a questioning look.

MARY

Well -- he was blocking! He denied the reality of what I just said, and... right.

HARTWELL

Not improv. He’s crazy.

MARY

Okay.

Back to the patient.

HARTWELL

Mr. Carlson? Your chart says that you’ve been noncompliant on your Cisordinal.

(to Mary)

Right?

Mary doesn’t respond.

HARTWELL

Right?

MARY

I’m sorry. It’s just really bad form in improv to tell somebody, “You forgot to take your crazy-pills --

HARTWELL

Maybe you should wait outside.

MARY

Yeah.

She steps out of the room, and closes the door.

ZEKE

The Big Shot says that you two were doing a largely transactional teaching scene.

Mary pounds on the door.

MARY

OH YOU BASTARD!

FADE OUT.