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is to cure her of her psychological trauma after Dylan Hartley's death
that Kelly Capwell is sent within the asylum managed by Dr. Rawlings.
Authoritarian and secret man, Dr. Rawlings seems very fast not to have
only good intentions towards Kelly and towards his other patients.
First
of all, he refuses categorically all the visits of her family and
friends. Nick Hartley, Kelly's
fiancé whom this one does not moreover recognize, asks for the help of
Dr. Justin Moore to make sure of her state. Justin, resident
psychiatrist, pass for a patient and lets himself being locked in the
asylum. He watches over Kelly, until he is recognized and thrown out by
Dr. Rawlings. Then comes Pearl Bradford's turn to infiltrate the
establishment, this time at Justin's
request. Pearl has for other ambition to discover what happened to his
brother, Brian, formerly treated by the same psychiatrist. Besides
refusing the nevertheless beneficial visits to Kelly, Dr. Rawlings puts
in an authoritarian way all his patients under medication, trying in
reality only to keep them locked and to enjoy through them his need for
domination. He does not hesitate to bring in henchmen looking as
mobsters to find by himself his patients who sometimes escape.
Dr.
Rawlings feels his secret cracking when he realizes that Pearl is not a
sick person, but that he feigns his insanity. He is within an ace of
making him undergo electric shocks before this latter escapes with
Kelly. He finds their track with his ex-woman, whom he bits to prevent
her from talking to Pearl.
Finally,
Dr. Rawlings finds Pearl's track in Boston, in the basement of the
church where he buried Brian alive. Rawlings delivers then his secret :
he has never attended medicine school and possesses no license. It is
because Brian had discovered it that he reserved him this sinister fate.
Fortunately, Brian will turn out to be alive. Whereas Dr. Rawlings will
end, as for him, in prison. While seeing his past histories, a place in
a psychiatric hospital would have been perhaps more appropriate...
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