Awake 1x1

Pilot

& Dr. Judith Evans: What’s the purpose of the rubber band?
    Michael Britten: It just helps me keep things straight. Green is Rex’s favorite color. I-I wear a red one when I’m with Hannah.
    Dr. Evans: You mean, in your dreams.
    Michael: Yeah.

& Michael: Home invasion that turned messy.
    Detective Isaiah ’Bird’ Freeman: This is why I’ve avoided success at all costs. I mean, you work your whole life to get some nice stuff just so somebody can come along and kill you for it.

& Michael: You smell that?
    Freeman: Come on, you know I’ve had a cold since the Clinton Administration.

& Dr. Evans: Your mind... it’s simply created an entire reality where you haven’t actually lost your wife at all.
    Dr. John Lee: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a coping mechanism quite like it. An elaborate and ongoing dream in which you haven’t lost your son, relieving you of the obligation of dealing with his death.
    Michael: Maybe.
    Dr. Lee: I’m sorry?
    Michael: Whether I’m with my wife or with my son... it all feels completely real to me.
    Dr. Evans: You mean you’re not sure which is a dream? Meaning you can’t tell whether you’re awake or asleep at this very moment? Incredible.
    Michael: Of course I’m awake. I’m awake with my wife, and I close my eyes, I open them, and I’m awake with my son.
    Dr. Evans: Well, I can assure you, Detective Britten, this is not a dream. ... What?
    Michael: That’s exactly what the other shrink said.

& Dr. Lee: Have you told your wife about what you’re experiencing?
    Michael: At first, I told her everything. ... I don’t know, I think maybe I thought I could be a bridge, or something. That even if they couldn’t see each other, maybe if I told her about him, it would be like we were all still together. You know, but to her, he’s not still alive, and, uh... hearing about it, talking about it wasn’t comforting. It was torture.

& Dr. Lee: I’d say it’s entirely reasonable. It’s even expected that these sorts of details would begin to cross over. The things you’re wrestling with in real life are likely to manifest themselves in your dream.

& Dr. Lee: Detective Britten, as I said, there’s no therapeutic value in allowing you to pretend that your realities are interchangeable. There’s no kidnapped child. There’s no car in a parking lot. And sadly, but crucially, there’s no world in which your son survived the accident.
    Michael: Yeah, well, with all due respect, Doctor, I don’t know that that’s true.

& Michael: So you’re saying as soon as I decide which one is dead, then they’ll stop showing up in my dreams?
    Dr. Lee: I believe that’s very likely.

& Hannah Britten: I think we should get pregnant.

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& Dr. Evans: Here. Turn to any page. Just pick one. And now, pick a spot about halfway down and start reading. Out loud.
    Michael: “The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite...” What’s going on? What am I... What am I doing here?
    Dr. Evans: Have you memorized the entire Constitution?
    Michael: No.
    Dr. Evans: Then, if this is a dream, and your son has really died, instead of your wife, and you’re just making all of this up, explain to me how you could turn to a random page and start quoting it back, word for word.
    Michael: I can’t. I don’t know.
    Dr. Evans: Tell Dr. Lee that Dr. Evans says that it’s not as simple as he made it sound.

& Detective Efrem Vega: Well, then... Why are we here?
    Michael: I had a dream about it. Or I’m having a dream.
    Vega: What?
    Michael: Nothing.

& Michael: Did the guy have red hair?
    Freeman: Red hair? Why?
    Michael: No reason.

& Freeman: You want to tell me how you knew he had red hair?
    Michael: A hunch.
    Freeman: Been a cop for 20 years. I only seen hunches on TV.

& Michael: If you’re telling me that the price of seeing them, feeling them... of having them in my life, is my sanity? It’s a price I will happily pay. Now, I’ll come and see you, and talk to you As long as they make me. But trust me, when it comes to letting one of them go... I have no desire to ever make progress.

& Hannah: You going to see him tonight?
    Michael: Yeah.
    Hannah: Tell him I love him.


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