Saving Grace B. Jones

Carrie narrates: “My mother had passed away about 7 months earlier... I became unresponsive.” (0:00)

Carrie: “I suffered a trauma.”
”A trauma?” (0:04)

Movie poster: “The Thing” (0:08)

Baker Landy tells Carrie, referring to the hospital where his sister Grace resides, “It’s called an asylum.”
Staff administer electroconvulsive therapy to a woman.
Referring to the truck that hit Grace: “Smashed her skull...” (0:11)

Sign: “THE SHRANK INSTITUTE AND ASYLUM” (0:13)

Ms. Shrank tells Landy, “This is a holding place for the hopelessly insane.”
”Just because they're crazy doesn't mean they're not clever.”
”Mental illness is elusive, cunning.”
”Crazy people are difficult to get used to.” (0:14)

Lucy, referring to Carrie: “Could be the trauma.”
Molly Jane: ”She's crazy too.”
Lucy: “You saying my friend’s crazy?”
Molly Jane: “No, just your aunt. She was in a nuthouse.”
Lucy: ”Everybody's a little crazy...”
”There's some that would say that makes you crazy.”
”But you remember that before you go calling someone else crazy.” (0:22)

Landy tells Grace’s ex-husband Dan’s wife Ella Jean, “That's crazy.” (0:26)

A man tells Dan, “Tell Miles he's an idiot, so we can lay this to rest.” (0:28)

Grace tells Carrie, “I wasn't always crazy.” (0:34)

Carrie asks Landy, referring to Grace, “People thought she was crazy just because she likes to be alone?”
”That doesn't make you crazy.” (0:36)

Landy tells Rev. Potter, “For having spent nearly 20 years in an asylum, I think she's pretty damn good company.”
Potter: “Landy, I know that asylum.” (0:44)

Landy: “Hell, I was feeling a little anxious myself.” (0:49)

Grace tells Lucy, ”I am crazy, you know, but I walked in the rain so many times before I was ever crazy... The hard thing about being crazy is that you don't get to do crazy things anymore.” (1:05)

Lucy tells Grace, “Being crazy is one thing; being on the water in a lightning storm is another.” (1:07)

Grief overcomes Landy when he discovers Lucy has drowned. (1:11)

Memorial service for Lucy (1:12)

His wife Bea tells Landy, referring to Grace, “She's cut up her arms.”
”Being crazy doesn't matter.” (1:21)

Grace tells Bea, “You think I'm crazy.” (1:33)

Man: “We’re all crazy from working all night.” (1:36)

Does head trauma -- or years in the asylum -- explain Grace's mental disorder?