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They've identified these receptors

in the brain

that activate specific circuits.

And you how they say that we can

only access 20 percent of our brain?

Well, what this does...

it lets you access all of it.

Vern, look at me. Do I look good to you?

I'm broke and I'm depressed off my ass.

I don't think that my life's

gonna take some sudden upswing

into fame and fortune by taking some

shiny, brand-new designer drug.

- (CELL PHONE RINGS)

- Gant.

When?

Tell him we can't do that.

No, you tell him.

No, now.

Well, I'm afraid I'm gonna

have to leave you here, Eddie.

But I really... I really do

want to do this again.

So, call me.

And, uh, that's on the house.

I don't want it.

Don't be ungrateful.

You know how much that costs?

Eight hundred bucks. A pop.

You're welcome.

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYS)

EDDIE:
All the way home,

I thought about Melissa.

How could she be a failure, too?

She'd been so smart.

- Smarter than anyone around her.

- (MEN LAUGH)

Clearly, there was a direct link

between this Eddie,

slightly drunk at 3:00 in the afternoon,

and an earlier Eddie...

(VOMITING)

...vomiting on his boss's desk

or stealing his dying aunt's Percocet.

So who could blame Lindy

for dumping me?

In the end, how much worse could it get?

(EDDIE SIGHS)

EDDIE:
I didn't want to see anybody.

Especially not my landlord's

nasty young wife.

- Valerie, Tuesday.

- Look. Enough, OK?

Steve handles the rent,

so you can feed your crap to him.

EDDIE:
I suddenly had extra reason

to get away from her.

I had thoughtlessly ingested

a substance.

Like the rent's not low enough!

EDDIE:
I had gotten remarkably

little information from Vernon

about what this drug would do.

You could even be a bike messenger

and come up with that. Really.

EDDIE:
What if it was a hallucinogen?

- It's pathetic.

EDDIE:
Oh, my God.

Listening to her rag...

If I were tripping,

I'd jump out a f***ing window.

Hello? Are you listening to me?

Do you get it?

You are gonna be out on the streets!

EDDIE:
And then, I felt it.

(VALERIE CONTINUES INDISTINCT)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(MACHINERY REVVING UP)

(ELECTRICAL FIZZLING)

- (LIGHT BULB HUMMING)

- (BICYCLE CLICKING)

EDDIE:
I was blind, but now I see.

(VALERIE'S VOICE ECHOING)

(CLICKING)

...running away!

You can't even look at me, you know why?

Because you're not even a man.

You're not even a man!

You don't have rent!

You don't have a job!

(CONTINUES INDISTINCT)

- What's wrong?

- What?

You don't like me and I don't blame you.

You see a self-defeating,

energy-sucking piece of sh*t

who's sponging off your husband.

You're wishing I'd blow my brains out,

but my existence shouldn't make you

this upset. What is it?

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