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Season 4 Episode 18 | 20m 8s | Video has closed captioning.
When the producer of a hit reality TV show receives inside information about a contestant from the show’s psychologist on its closing night, her moral compass is tested. A short film by Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, co-creator of Lifetime's UnREAL.
Aired: 06/06/16
♪♪ Jonathan: Catherine.
Catherine: [ Laughing ] Alicia: Head's up.
Looney Tunes is about to crack.
Where is my closer?
Giovana: Hey, Rebecca.
...yours, honey.
Jonathan: I love you so much.
I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
I want to look into your eyes for the rest of my life.
Alice: Get the shot!
Get in there!
Go!
Go!
Go!
Go!
Go!
Jonathan: Will you marry me?
Catherine: Yes.
Alice: Shoot the rock.
Shoot the rock.
I want to zoom in on the rock.
Man: 10-4.
10-4.
Alice: Where is my loser camera?
Loser cam.
Somebody get on the loser.
Jonathan: Is it big enough?
Catherine: [ Laughing ] Yes.
It's big enough.
It's perfect.
I'm gonna call my parents.
They're gonna be so excited.
Jonathan: They're gonna be ecstatic.
Alice: This is the big one, Rebecca.
Giovana: Bring it home, baby!
Or don't bother coming home.
Meredith: Goldberg is on her way to get Jessica.
Hold her.
I repeat -- hold.
Rebecca: Hey.
Jessica: You told me.
Rebecca: [ Voice breaking ] I'm so sorry.
He lied to me.
They lied to me.
Jess?
It's one more interview, and then you're done.
That's it.
[ Sobbing ] Jessica: [ Groans angrily ] I can not go on camera!
I will not go on camera!
Rebecca: Turn around.
You're fine.
Let's go.
Last one.
Last interview.
Let's do it.
Jessica: Oh, my God.
Rebecca: Watch your head.
Watch your head.
Rebecca: Okay.
Jessica: Okay.
Rebecca: How are you?
Jessica: I'm fine.
Rebecca: You're fine?
Jessica: I'm swell.
Rebecca: Jess, that's crazy.
Last night, you were saying you were in love with him.
Jessica: Okay.
I'm done.
I'm done.
Rebecca: No.
No, no.
Jess, you can't take your mike off.
Jessica: Mm.
Oh, well.
Whoops.
Rebecca: Hey.
You're the lawyer, huh?
You want to talk to me about the contract you signed?
Ben, can you, um, do the thing?
Jessica: Ow!
That hurt.
Just -- Rebecca: Okay.
I'm sorry.
I know you're tired.
We just have to talk about last night, and then you can totally go home.
Okay?
Jessica: Okay, well, I have been hostage and in that house for six weeks without a phone or a single piece of cultural ephemera.
I have been counting my eyelashes for fun, so can we just do this?
Rebecca: Yeah.
Let's totally do this.
Let's totally do this.
Um...
Okay, last night... You were, uh, talking to... Jonathan about how when you were little, you used to get scared of the dark.
Jessica: No, I'm not doing that.
Rebecca: No.
No, no, no, no.
This is a really sweet story.
We were all, like, tearing up back there.
Could we try it again?
It's just -- Okay.
Um, you were telling Jonathan that when you were -- Jessica: Becca, I'm not doing that.
Rebecca: Okay.
Hey.
No.
You know what?
Come here.
Come here.
Listen.
You are seriously, like, the smartest, truest person to ever be on this show, and America is going to love you.
But you have to let them.
You have to let them love you.
Okay?
Jessica: [ Voice breaking ] Whatever.
Just go.
Just go.
Rebecca: Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Um...
Okay, you told Jonathan that when you were little, you would get scared, and your dad -- Oh, your dad would, um, do this thing where he kind of pet your hair, and no one's done that since he, um...passed away.
And, um, last night, you told Jonathan about that, and... and he... he... Jessica: Was a perfect gentleman.
And I have had such a lovely time on this show.
Rebecca: He was a perfect gentleman.
And... ...he... Jessica: Was such a prince.
Rebecca: [ Voice breaking ] Jess, it's like I can't -- You can't go home unless you just tell me the story.
Can you just tell the story?
And then you can go home.
Just say the story.
Jessica: He was markedly polite.
Rebecca: You want to go home, Jess?
Like, ever?
Jessica: I don't know, Rebecca.
Do you?
[ Beep ] Meredith: Rebecca, Dr. Wagnerstein has something to tell you.
Dr. Wagnerstein: Rebecca?
Rebecca: Um... Just give me one second.
Yeah.
Go for Rebecca.
Dr. Wagnerstein: Hello, Rebecca.
This is Dr. Wagnerstein, show psychologist.
[ Feedback ] Rebecca: Yes, doctor.
I-I know who you are, and I copy you.
I have here my confidential psychiatric evaluation for subject 17a, and I found... a fear of intimacy due to the loss of her father.
Rebecca: No ... Dr. Wagnerstein: Mother -- morbidly obese and living on disability.
Rebecca: Yeah, I met her.
Dr. Wagnerstein: Three hospitalizations due to extreme bulimia.
Suicide attempt at age 16, and... ...unexplained rehospitalization within the last year.
Rebecca: You let her on the show, huh?
[ Feedback ] Dr. Wagnerstein: Hello, Rebecca?
Do you copy me?
Rebecca: Copy.
Meredith: Are you choking out there, Bec-Bec?
All right, come on.
Let's just gut this... Rebecca: Sorry.
Um...
There was, like, a problem with the rigger... um, thing.
Anyway.
You know what?
I don't want to be doing this any more than you do.
Ben, cut.
Cut camera.
Stop rolling.
You know what?
Ahh.
It feels amazing.
[ Breathing heavily ] I need a drink.
Let's do it.
Come on.
Come on.
Jessica: Thank you.
Rebecca: Ahh!
Here.
To... firing myself.
[ Exhales sharply ] Oh!
[ Sighs deeply ] Jessica: [ Voice breaking ] I'm a lawyer.
I'm the only person in my family who can pay for -- Rebecca: Anything.
And your mom... Like, do you even want to go home?
Jessica: I wanted to go home.
I wanted to go home with him.
Rebecca: [ Sighs ] Come here.
Drink this.
Come on.
Sit up so you don't choke.
Drink it.
That skinny little...he chose.
Jessica: Oh, God.
Skinny... Rebecca: You could break her in half.
Jessica: Break her the...in half.
Rebecca: You totally could, right?
Jessica: I could break her the...in half.
Rebecca: What does she even eat?
Jessica: Just pills.
Rebecca: At least you take care of yourself.
Jessica: What do you mean?
Rebecca: Just mean I never see any of the girls in the house eating anything.
It's so great.
Always see you with, like, healthy meal like a salad or whatever.
Jessica: What?
Rebecca: I just mean it seems like it's really important to you to...you know... eat.
Jessica: What are you saying?
Rebecca: Nothing.
It's totally normal, you know?
Jessica: Did he say something to you?
Rebecca: No.
I mean, not, like, super specifically.
It's not even necessarily about that, you know?
Jessica: Oh, my God.
Rebecca: Jess, who cares?
He's an...hole.
Jessica: Why aren't there scales in the house?
Rebecca: Because it doesn't matter.
Jessica: Did you weigh me?
Rebecca: What?
Jessica: Did you weigh me while I was sleeping?
Rebecca: What?
Jessica: Just tell me how much I am right now, because I was 118 when I walked through that front door, so just tell me how much I am right now.
Tell me how much I am right now.
Rebecca: It's a normal response to stress.
Jessica: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Rebecca: Jess, have you seen him?
I mean, have you seen me?
... Jessica: No, no, no.
Rebecca: Hey, look at me.
Who are you really mad at, huh?
'Cause you are so...beautiful.
Jessica: I want to go home.
I'm gonna go home.
Rebecca: Jess.
Jessica: I'm gonna go home, and I am gonna get...married!
Rebecca: [ Whispering ] Follow her!
Follow her!
Follow her!
Jessica: [ Repeating ] ...married!
Giovana: Yeah, it is!
Jessica: ...married!
Giovana: Ka-boom!
Roadkill!
Meredith: And the conqueror of the universe is Goldberg!
Giovana: Yeah, it is!
Number-one!
Oh, God, that feels good!
Alicia: It never doesn't feel that good.
Giovana: It never doesn't.
She was roadkill!
Meredith: Oh, my God... Let's put her head on a spike.
[ Birds chirping ] ♪♪
