Sleeping Dogs (2024)

Roy appears to have undergone psychosurgery for Alzheimer’s and/or Alcohol-Induced Major Neurocognitive Disorder? Would the drugs below likely benefit a patient with dementia? Would a psychology professor develop a psychotropic drug?

Writing on tape: "DON‘T DRINK ALCOHOL" (0:01)

Writing on pieces of tape: 10 mg TEMAZEPAM,” “TAKE YOUR MEDICATION,” “YOU HAVE ALZHEIMER’S," “10 mg MEMANTINE,” “10 mg MIRTAZAPINE” (0:03)

A doctor performs a mental status examination on retired detective Roy Freeman. (0:03)

Doctor: "... Electrodes will send impulses to the target areas of your brain. New neural pathways should develop... given your history of substance abuse, a common trigger for Alzheimer's." (0:05)

Death row inmate Isaac Samuel tells Roy, "... they shit-canned you over that drunk driving accident..." 
”... I was so strung out, I ain’t remember shit...” 
”... Wieder testified as an expert witness... I was so high that night...”
”... I panicked...” (0:11)

Doctor: "The medication can aid synaptic regeneration..." (0:15)

His former partner, police detective Jimmy Remis, asks Roy, "... You on the wagon...?”
Roy: ”... My doctor says it will mess with my medications...” 
”... I’ve got Alzheimer’s, so they put these little pulses into my... head. It’s supposed to stimulate my memory...” 
Jimmy: ”... you have no memory of you and me on the job?” 
Referring to his wife: ”She passed last year...” (0:18)

Newspaper headline: "DUI Suspected in Car Crash" (0:22)

The sight of blood appears to trigger a flashback in Roy.
Jimmy answers Roy, referring to Richard Finn’s cause of death, "Overdose: fentanyl." 
Roy: ”He’s not much of a junkie: no track marks.” (0:23)

Burial of Richard Finn in cemetery 
Richard’s brother Eddie tells Roy, referring to the manuscript, ”... about some girl he was obsessed with in college.” 
Roy: ”How long had he been using?” 
Eddie: ”Drugs?... I never knew him to be into drugs...” 
”... He was agitated and paranoid...” (0:25)

Roy reads Richard’s manuscript: "Memory is a fickle thing... rare moments that forever imprint..." (0:28)

Laura tells Richard, "... Memory Reconsolidation Through Accelerated Resolution Therapy." 
”Psychology Department...” 
Richard: ”... on memory reconstruction...” 
Laura: ”Memory reconsolidation...” (0:31)

Laura tells Richard, "Choke me..." (0:32)

Richard: "... my father died of a heart attack..." (0:34)

Richard explains to professor Dr. Joseph Wieder: "... memory..." 
Wieder asks Richard, ”Did your parents ever hit you?” 
Richard: ”Crazy...” 
Laura: ”... most people experience trauma, but the mind blocks those memories from ever actually presenting...” 
Wieder: ”The trauma you experienced that day... too traumatic to process, so you suppressed it from memory, but the effects of that trauma still linger in your subconscious... 
”Therapy with dinner...” (0:35)

Richard: "Working for Wieder was a dream..." (0:39)

Richard smokes a marijuana cigarette. (0:40)

L tells W, "I have so many patient notes..." (0:41)

Richard: "... Some junkie confessed to the crime..." (0:45)

The doctor tells Roy, "Hallucinations are often a common byproduct of the procedure..." 
”... it indicates recall... with the snippets of memory... your neural pathways are starting to reactivate.” 
Roy: ”So I’m not just going completely crazy then.” 
Doctor: ”... Treatment’s working.” (0:49)

Richard’s widow tells Roy, "... Richard was... paranoid, deluded... but he wasn’t a druggie." 
Referring to Elizabeth Westlake: “... Crazy-ass bitch” 
”Richard started drinking again...” 
Roy: ”You just called her a crazy-ass bitch.” (0:50)

Laura (now as Westlake) tells Roy, "I guess you’ve never been stalked..." (0:54)

Wayne Devereaux tells Roy, referring to Wieder, "... Trauma patients, testing a medication he developed..." (1:00)

Wieder asks Devereaux, “... through medicine and suggestion you could replace the memory of your trauma in Iraq... erase the memory of your trauma altogether?...”
Appearing to use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: ”... we can release the emotional experiences trapped in our nervous system.” (1:00)

Devereaux tells Roy, "He said it was effective for dealing with PTSD, but that was only part of the treatment." 
”The rest was that medication...” 
Roy: ”... the treatment didn’t work?” 
Devereaux: ”... No more panic attacks... mean side effects. I didn’t even recognize myself anymore. I’d black out, no idea where I was...” 
Roy: ”So you stopped taking the medication?” (1:01)

Elizabeth tells Roy, "... no memory of friends, family, past experience..." 
”No, that was just his little fantasy...” 
Referring to Devereaux: ”... Lots of vets who suffer from trauma...” 
”... He was prone to bouts of anger, aggression.”
”Well I transcribed Wieder’s patient notes...” 
Roy: ”A drug that can help people forget past trauma..” 
Elizabeth: ”... You may not have memory...” (1:07)

Wyatt Earp on television (1:10)

Jimmy tells Roy, "... CSI found two vials of fentanyl in Devereaux’s truck..." (1:14)

Roy drinks whiskey, heavily. (1:18)

Roy tells the bartender, referring to barmaid Diane Lynch, "She gave a deposition..." (1:22)

Police officer: "Blunt object to the head" (1:23)

Former federal official Susan Avery tells Roy, "Wieder was quite proud of this work... help people that were suffering with their trauma..." 
Title: ”... Memory, Trauma and the Role of Substitution Therapy” (1:24)

Police officer: "Blunt object to the head." (1:26)

Elizabeth tells Roy, "... She was one of Wieder’s patients." (1:30)

Devereaux renders Richard unconscious with a volatile anesthetic, then injects his arm." (1:32)

Television reporter: ".... brutal killing of psychology professor Joseph Wieder..." (1:34)

The doctor performs a mental status examination on Roy. She fills in the “Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)” form on her clipboard.
She tells Roy, ”... It seems the treatment’s been very effective...” (1:35)

Laura tells Roy, referring to Roy’s wife Diane Lynch and Wieder, "... She came to see him... about some, uh, unresolved trauma." 
”Her alcoholic father...” 
Roy: ”... my wife is... her shrink?...” (1:38)

Roy strikes Wieder’s head repeatedly with a baseball bat. (1:40) 

Roy appears to contemplate killing himself. (1:43)