Michael Fitzpatrick:
Dec 9, 2017 20:30:24 GMT -8
Post by Stu Venable on Dec 9, 2017 20:30:24 GMT -8
Therapy session transcript from November 28, 2017.
Entered into court records on December 8th, for the trial of Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick's murder of Dr. Amelia Krauss, LFMT
Dr Michale Fitzpatrick: Hi Doc. Good to see you.
Dr. Krauss: Good to see you, Michael, how are you holding up with all that's been going on?
MF: Okay, I guess. Work's sure been busy! (laughs). It's been hard. They're still looking for Reilly's body. Haven't found it. Yet. Maybe she wasn't there.
AK: Do you want to talk about your fixation with Ms. Wall?
MF: It's not a fixation. There's something there. At least there was. I know it. It was mutual. I drank her blood. Isn't that intimacy? It's undeniable.
AK: That she's a vampire or that she loves you?
MF: Look, Doctor. I'm a man of science too. I would venture to say that my science is more -- sciencey -- than your psychology. But I know what I saw. I know what she said. She admitted the whole thing.
AK: But she's gone now?
MF: I think so. She's either crushed under a million tons of concrete and steel or she skipped town. I don't know which.
AK: Is it possible she lied about the vampire thing?
MF: Would you stop calling it 'the vampire thing?' I told you: it's real. I gave a transfusion to a dead woman. She came back to life. I witnessed it with my own eyes. I saw one of them -- Albert -- with lacerations that would kill a mortal human. I brought you my files. Exsanguinated bodies -- dozens of them. Lacerations to major arteries at the neck. It's science doctor: you can only lose so much blood before you die. Then your heart stops beating. Once the heart stops, bleeding stops. These bodies were drained, doctor.
AK: Play devil's advocate for me. What else could cause a body to drain of blood like that?
MF: Suspending them in such a way that gravity drains the blood. Some sort of arterial pump, I suppose. Now I get the Occam's Razor lecture?
AK: No lectures. You're a man of science. You can reason this out yourself.
MF: Yeah, yeah.
(phone rings)
AK: I'm sorry, Michael. I have to take this call.
MF: Yeah. I'll set a stopwatch. I'll want my extra time -- at 150 dollars an hour. I've never heard of a therapist taking calls during sessions.
AK: I am sorry, Michael, but it's a critical call. Oh, hi, Miroslav. (rest is inaudible, as AK leaves the room).
(five minutes later)
AK: Again, sorry. I'm back. Let's talk about your work. How is that going?
MF: At least you're not asking about my ex-wife.
AK: Do you want to talk about her?
MF: Not really. No. Work's work. You know. Lots of crumbled, burned bodies. I maintain a professional distance. I knew some of them. That's hard. Then there were the dolphin attacks. A dozen so far.
AK: You've ruled out shark attacks?
MF: Yeah. The bite marks are all wrong. And sharks sometimes leave teeth. Their teeth break off, as they have rows of replacements. No shark teeth in any of the victims. By now, I'd have a collection of at least four or five. And we have a lot of eyewitnesses. Definitely dolphins.
AK: Any idea as to why they'd attack people?
MF: Dammit Jim, I'm a coroner, not a zoologist. (laughs)
AK: Did you know any of them? The dolphin victims?
MF: No. Tourists. All of them.
AK: Let's talk about the blood thing.
MF: Why is everything that you think is crazy is a "thing?" The blood thing, the vampire thing. Jesus.
AK: What you describe sounds like an addiction, frankly.
MF: Maybe it is. It's been six weeks now since Reilly "fed" me. It's getting worse. I tried drinking cow's blood. Didn't help. I tried drinking my own. Didn't help. It's getting worse. If I didn't know better, I'd think her blood had heroine in it. (laughs)
AK: Heroine?
MF: Yeah. I get shakes. Night sweats. I ... don't know what to do. Maybe that's why I keep trying to find her. I check the recovery records from the VLD building daily. Hoping they'll find her.
AK: So it's not just a romantic fixation?
MF: I suppose not. But I do love her.
AK: And what can we do when we love someone who doesn't love us back?
MF: (sings) Let it go, let it go, I'm one with the wind and sky. (speaking) But I can't. Doctor, I think it really might be an addiction.
AK: Why so?
MF: I ... I drank three pints of my own blood. I figured bovine blood might not contain the components I need. I tried other animals too. No good. I drank my own blood until I was about to pass out. Nothing.
AK: Breathe. In through the nose, out through the mouth.
MF: Then I started wondering. Maybe it's vampire blood. Maybe I have to find a vampire. But all the ones I knew are fucking gone. All of them, I don't know where to look.
AK; Breathe, Michael.
MF: Then I started thinking, 'maybe it's not vampire blood. Maybe it's not human blood. Maybe it's more specific. Maybe there's a subset of the population that possesses ...
AK: Breathe, please. Close your eyes.
MF: Maybe that subset isn't vampires. Maybe it's women. Maybe I have to drink a woman's blood. I hired a hooker. She refused. Ran away. Called me a freak.
AK: Michael, I want you to breathe. Let's go through a relaxation technique. Close your eyes.
MF: But I have to try it. It might be the trick. It might stop the itching. It might stop the nightmares, the sweating.
AK: Michael...
MF: You, doctor. You have to help me. If it doesn't work, I'll look for another answer, but right now, it's all I got.
AK: Michael. We're ending this session.
MF: No we're not.
(screams. Inaudible words. Gurgling sounds.)
MF: Dear God. What have I done? (sound of footsteps and door opening and closing).
Entered into court records on December 8th, for the trial of Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick's murder of Dr. Amelia Krauss, LFMT
Dr Michale Fitzpatrick: Hi Doc. Good to see you.
Dr. Krauss: Good to see you, Michael, how are you holding up with all that's been going on?
MF: Okay, I guess. Work's sure been busy! (laughs). It's been hard. They're still looking for Reilly's body. Haven't found it. Yet. Maybe she wasn't there.
AK: Do you want to talk about your fixation with Ms. Wall?
MF: It's not a fixation. There's something there. At least there was. I know it. It was mutual. I drank her blood. Isn't that intimacy? It's undeniable.
AK: That she's a vampire or that she loves you?
MF: Look, Doctor. I'm a man of science too. I would venture to say that my science is more -- sciencey -- than your psychology. But I know what I saw. I know what she said. She admitted the whole thing.
AK: But she's gone now?
MF: I think so. She's either crushed under a million tons of concrete and steel or she skipped town. I don't know which.
AK: Is it possible she lied about the vampire thing?
MF: Would you stop calling it 'the vampire thing?' I told you: it's real. I gave a transfusion to a dead woman. She came back to life. I witnessed it with my own eyes. I saw one of them -- Albert -- with lacerations that would kill a mortal human. I brought you my files. Exsanguinated bodies -- dozens of them. Lacerations to major arteries at the neck. It's science doctor: you can only lose so much blood before you die. Then your heart stops beating. Once the heart stops, bleeding stops. These bodies were drained, doctor.
AK: Play devil's advocate for me. What else could cause a body to drain of blood like that?
MF: Suspending them in such a way that gravity drains the blood. Some sort of arterial pump, I suppose. Now I get the Occam's Razor lecture?
AK: No lectures. You're a man of science. You can reason this out yourself.
MF: Yeah, yeah.
(phone rings)
AK: I'm sorry, Michael. I have to take this call.
MF: Yeah. I'll set a stopwatch. I'll want my extra time -- at 150 dollars an hour. I've never heard of a therapist taking calls during sessions.
AK: I am sorry, Michael, but it's a critical call. Oh, hi, Miroslav. (rest is inaudible, as AK leaves the room).
(five minutes later)
AK: Again, sorry. I'm back. Let's talk about your work. How is that going?
MF: At least you're not asking about my ex-wife.
AK: Do you want to talk about her?
MF: Not really. No. Work's work. You know. Lots of crumbled, burned bodies. I maintain a professional distance. I knew some of them. That's hard. Then there were the dolphin attacks. A dozen so far.
AK: You've ruled out shark attacks?
MF: Yeah. The bite marks are all wrong. And sharks sometimes leave teeth. Their teeth break off, as they have rows of replacements. No shark teeth in any of the victims. By now, I'd have a collection of at least four or five. And we have a lot of eyewitnesses. Definitely dolphins.
AK: Any idea as to why they'd attack people?
MF: Dammit Jim, I'm a coroner, not a zoologist. (laughs)
AK: Did you know any of them? The dolphin victims?
MF: No. Tourists. All of them.
AK: Let's talk about the blood thing.
MF: Why is everything that you think is crazy is a "thing?" The blood thing, the vampire thing. Jesus.
AK: What you describe sounds like an addiction, frankly.
MF: Maybe it is. It's been six weeks now since Reilly "fed" me. It's getting worse. I tried drinking cow's blood. Didn't help. I tried drinking my own. Didn't help. It's getting worse. If I didn't know better, I'd think her blood had heroine in it. (laughs)
AK: Heroine?
MF: Yeah. I get shakes. Night sweats. I ... don't know what to do. Maybe that's why I keep trying to find her. I check the recovery records from the VLD building daily. Hoping they'll find her.
AK: So it's not just a romantic fixation?
MF: I suppose not. But I do love her.
AK: And what can we do when we love someone who doesn't love us back?
MF: (sings) Let it go, let it go, I'm one with the wind and sky. (speaking) But I can't. Doctor, I think it really might be an addiction.
AK: Why so?
MF: I ... I drank three pints of my own blood. I figured bovine blood might not contain the components I need. I tried other animals too. No good. I drank my own blood until I was about to pass out. Nothing.
AK: Breathe. In through the nose, out through the mouth.
MF: Then I started wondering. Maybe it's vampire blood. Maybe I have to find a vampire. But all the ones I knew are fucking gone. All of them, I don't know where to look.
AK; Breathe, Michael.
MF: Then I started thinking, 'maybe it's not vampire blood. Maybe it's not human blood. Maybe it's more specific. Maybe there's a subset of the population that possesses ...
AK: Breathe, please. Close your eyes.
MF: Maybe that subset isn't vampires. Maybe it's women. Maybe I have to drink a woman's blood. I hired a hooker. She refused. Ran away. Called me a freak.
AK: Michael, I want you to breathe. Let's go through a relaxation technique. Close your eyes.
MF: But I have to try it. It might be the trick. It might stop the itching. It might stop the nightmares, the sweating.
AK: Michael...
MF: You, doctor. You have to help me. If it doesn't work, I'll look for another answer, but right now, it's all I got.
AK: Michael. We're ending this session.
MF: No we're not.
(screams. Inaudible words. Gurgling sounds.)
MF: Dear God. What have I done? (sound of footsteps and door opening and closing).