Synecdoche, New York Page #2

Thanks for getting me in right away.

- Was it the bump to the head?

- No.

Could be, but I think we need

to get you to a neurologist.

- Neurologist?

- It's a brain expert.

I know what a neurologist is.

- I thought from the way you asked...

- I just thought you said "urologist."

- Why do I need to see a neurologist?

- Just for a look-see.

The eyes are part of the brain,

after all.

No, that's not true, is it?

- Why would I say it if it weren't true?

- It doesn't seem right.

Like morally correct,

or "right" as in accurate?

I don't know. Accurate, I guess?

Interesting.

Now, when you kick off, boy,

I want a 70-yard boot.

And get right down the field

under the ball.

And when you hit, hit low and hit hard,

because it's important, boy.

There's all kinds of important people

in the stands.

And the first thing you know... Ben?

Ben, where do I?

- Ben, how do I?

- Willy, you coming up?

Willy?

Willy, answer me.

Willy! No!

- Oh, Jesus, come on.

- Oh, crap.

Claire, are you okay?

What's happening here?

It's too late in the game

to have these problems.

- I know, Caden. I'm sorry. We'll get it.

- Oh, my God.

- You okay?

- Yeah, I think the wig saved my life.

- Yeah.

- It's okay, honestly.

That was good, Tom.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

I was trying something different.

I was crashing differently.

- Ambivalently.

- Yeah, I saw that. I liked it.

Try to keep in mind that

a young person playing Willy Loman...

...thinks he's only pretending

to be at the end of a life full of despair.

But the tragedy is that we know

that you, the young actor...

...will end up in this very place

of desolation.

Okay.

That's great.

- Let's try it again. How long, David?

- I think 15.

Anything?

So now what?

- Hey.

- Hey.

- In search of the elusive signal.

- The signal's good here, oddly.

- That is odd.

- I know. Cell phones, they're crazy.

- See you in a few.

- Yep.

Yeah, Dr. Heshborg said

I should see a Dr. Scoriano.

My pupils don't work.

I think I have blood in my stool.

That stool in your office?

- When I was pregnant with Olive.

- What was it like?

I don't know. Hopeful or something.

Like something was gonna change.

- Yeah, something did. No?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, of course.

- I mean, bigtime.

I mean, maybe not as much

as I'd hoped.

I'm sorry.

That's a terrible thing to say.

There are no terrible things to say

in here, only true and false.

- Can I say something awful?

- Yes, please do.

I've fantasized about Caden dying.

Being able to start again, guilt-free.

I know that's... That's bad.

- Caden, does that feel terrible?

- Yeah.

Okay, good.

It's a nightmare in there.

I'm sorry.

So, I'm reading The Trial.

- Yeah?

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