[having learned Danny, the boy she was trying to rescue from sex traffickers, died] It's my fault.
No, that's not true.
Of course it is. I told him we could remove the chip. I encouraged him to run away.
You empowered him to make decisions. It's what good doctors do.
But they were the wrong decisions.
It was the wrong outcome.
Dr. Sarah Reese: And now he's dead. I mean, who knows? If... if I had told him to wait, maybe the police would have come and broken up the ring and he'd be free. I was careless with his life.
Dr. Reese, you're anything but careless. Sometimes the best advice, you know, it's just not enough. Dangerous thing about psychiatry, it can sometimes give those of us who practice it the illusion of control. But the human brain, it's... it is the most complex, mysterious object in the universe. That means that what we do, it... it just doesn't come with any guarantees.
I don't think that makes me feel any better.
I know. Never does.
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