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The Ward
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CastAmber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca, Danielle Panabacker
Year released2010
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Sign: "North Bend Psychiatric Hospital"
Inside we see corridors and an empty day room. (0:01)
Kristen sets a house on fire. (0:05)
Aids wheel restrained Kristen into the hospital. (0:07)
Psychiatrist Dr. Stringer enters Kristen's room and introduces himself. A nurse gives Kristen pills, but she crushes them under feet. (0:12)
Patients in the day room. (0:13)
In a session Stringer says, "Often the root of a problem like this lies with an emotional trauma." (0:15)
Kristen takes pills but spits them out when Roy leaves her room. (0:17)
Sarah tells Emily "Speak for yourself, lunatic." (0:21)
Emily identifies bottles of "Thorazine, Mellaril" for Kristen. (0:26)
A nurse draws up a syringe then injects Kristen, sedating her. (0:28)
A nurse applies gel to Kristen's forehead.
Stringer "The medications aren't working as I'd hoped." Staff insert a bite block, apply caliper electrodes. A very long electroconvulsive stimulus leads to prolonged tonic contractions but little or no clonic phase.
A nurse tells Roy, "I thought they stopped using electroshock." (0:30)
Stringer starts a psychotherapy group. (0:32)
Iris in session with Stringer. He opens a metronome to hypnotize her. (0:34)
Iris in restraints, ghost Alice stabs her in the eye with an instrument suggestive of a lobotomy pick. (0:37)
In her session with him Stringer tells Kristen, "Well, you were heavily sedated." (0:42)
Sarah tells Kristen, "Sorry but I don't converse with Loonies." (0:44)
A nurse gives Kristen pills, but she hides them in her hand. (0:46)
Sarah restrained with ECT electrodes strapped around her head. Current is applied until she is electocuted. (1:00)
Emily threatens to cut her wrist. (1:05)
A nurse prepares a syringe then injects Kristen and says, "Get her in a straight jacket and lock her in her room." As Kristen becomes sedated aids drag her away. (1:07)
Now in a camisole aids force Kristen to take pills. (1:08)
Kristen reads Alice's record including a list of personalities named for each of the girls on the ward.
Kristen becomes Alice.
Stringer describes the trauma: "Your only escape was into delusion. In order to survive the trauma, your psyche fractured. You suffer from multiple personality disorder. Each personality took a piece of this nightmare..."
"After several years of therapy we've been able to isolate your different identities."
"Your psyche invented Kristen to protect itself from having to relive this trauma." He starts the metronome.
Alice throws Kristen through the office window. Murder or suicide attempt? (1:16)
Stringer tells Alice's parents, "She'll probably need a lifetime of therapy, but she's no longer a danger to herself." (1:21)