Psychiatrist and Nash Bridges in “Promised Land”

What is your relationship like with the people that work for you?

Good.

No problems?

We have our issues, but we generally work through them. I respect them and I think they respect me.

You were involved in a shooting yesterday. You killed a man.

I killed a man, yes. I also saved another man's life.

Do you want to talk about it?

What's to talk about?

You tell me.

[sighs] Tommy Luck was a bad man, and his children will no longer have a father. And I did that. [pause] Like I said, he was a bad man. Then I went home to my father, and that's a whole other story.

Your father lives with you?

Yeah, he's great. [starts laughing, remembering] He's got this uh, this pinball machine, and he woke me up about 3:30 in the morning the other day playing the damn thing. What a pain in the ass! [pause] At the time. But I look back on it now and it's a fond memory.

Did you tell your father what happened to you yesterday?

Nah, I spare him the details. [pauses, looks at therapist] ...what?

I get the feeling that you show a lot of concern for other people's feelings, but you haven't told me yet how you feel. How do you feel? [long pause] Can you tell me how you feel, Inspector?