
Therapy for psychologist Justine
Sandy is already immobilized on the sofa: wrists bound behind her back, ankles together, a wide strip of duct tape sealing her mouth. Justine, wearing her psychologist’s coat, leans in front of her and speaks in a calm, professional voice.
She explains that it is for her own good. That she won’t hurt herself in a sudden outburst. That she will only be gone a moment to get what she needs to prepare her for the transfer.
As soon as the psychologist leaves, Sandy moves. She tenses her shoulders, twists her wrists, pulls… and frees herself. She already knows what she has to do: she will pretend she is still tied so she can surprise the psychologist and reverse their roles.
Justine returns with the necessary items: duct tape and stretch wrap. She takes a call from the transfer staff. While she talks with her back turned, Sandy silently stands up and positions herself right behind her. The call ends and she takes her by surprise.
Now Justine is in her underwear, sitting on the sofa. Sandy wraps her hands in several layers of duct tape, ties her wrists and ankles with rope, and presses a strip of tape over her mouth. Justine tries to speak, to reason with her, to persuade her. Sandy does not listen. She accuses her of the mistreatment at the clinic and tells her that now the psychologist will be the one receiving the therapy.
Justine is left motionless; she can only struggle and make muffled sounds.
There is a knock at the door. The transfer staff enter. They address Sandy as “Psychologist Justine” and tell her they will help finish preparing the patient for transfer. Meanwhile the real Justine writhes desperately, trying to warn them that Sandy is an impostor, but the tape and rope keep her from forming a single word.
The two of them restrain her. They wrap her arms to her torso with stretch wrap, reinforce it with more duct tape, and place a wide tape gag all the way around her mouth. They leave her struggling for a while: you hear the crinkle of the plastic, the scrape of the tape, and her rapid breathing through her nose.
Then they return. Between the two of them they lift her and take her out of the room toward the van that will transport her to the clinic.
Dialogues in Spanish
