Hot chocolate, a pickle sandwich and the Pop-pop tease
The psychologist arrives with sprinkles and half a sandwich; Jamie decides she is posh and will not let her grandad's nickname go.
Jamie Miller & Briony Ariston
One afternoon in a room: the psychologist and the thirteen-year-old, turn by turn. 18 scenes together, in story order.
18 moments · 38 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
Jamie decides the masculinity questions are a trick
Asked what makes his dad and grandad men, Jamie jokes about Tenerife, then turns cold: the chat about bread and grannies feels like a trap.
- 03
Who do you work for? Jamie demands to see the notes
Jamie wants her notes and insists she works for his lawyers; she explains the report for the judge and why big questions get asked sideways.
- 04
A plumber who tore down a shed: Jamie on his dad's temper
Jamie sketches Eddie as hard-working, sometimes funny, sometimes angry, and recalls the one rage that frightened nobody but ended with a shed in pieces.
- 05
Saturday football and the look Jamie read as shame
Not sporty and proud of dodging PE, Jamie remembers his dad looking away when he fumbled, names it shame, and expects to be told he is wrong.
- 06
Get me out of here: Jamie's first eruption
Jamie begs to be moved, rails at the screaming boys and Ryan's bail, refuses to sit, and roars that nobody controls him before apologising.
- 07
Not a police officer: the reset after the shouting
She explains she is here to understand, not to extract a confession; Jamie, subdued, refuses the hot chocolate he feels he no longer deserves.
- 08
Girlfriend hypothetical: cinema, a horror, not straight home
Questions about his dad's female friends annoy Jamie, who prefers the other shrink's style, then he plays along with an imagined first date.
- 09
Jamie's boast about girls, and the quiet take-back
Pressed on what is normal at thirteen, Jamie claims kissing, touching and more, then admits in the silence that none of it happened.
- 10
The topless photo that went round school
Jamie admits seeing photos of girls in his year, names Katie among them, calls her flat, blames Fidget for sharing, and states flatly that she is dead.
- 11
Ugly: Jamie turns the mirror on the psychologist and snaps
Asked if girls fancy him, Jamie says he is ugly, demands she contradict him, calls her pretty, then explodes that he is being trapped.
- 12
Waved away like a queen: the long standoff
Furious that she signalled the guard off, Jamie paces and swears through a near-silent minute before sitting and asking whether she is leaving.
- 13
Bullied, unpopular, and yet on Instagram
She recounts the bullying Jamie described, then asks why a boy who was spat on posts photos of himself and follows models.
- 14
Kidney beans and red pills: Jamie decodes Katie's emojis
Shown Katie's comments on his posts, Jamie explains the incel code she used against him and admits he thinks the 80-20 idea is right.
- 15
I didn't kill her: Jamie calls the video fake news
Jamie says Katie mocked him because he is the ugliest, insists he did not kill her, then lets slip that he should have, before stopping himself.
- 16
Asking Katie out when she was weak, and the knife
Jamie explains he asked Katie to the fair because the photo made her gettable, recalls her laugh, then says he had a knife and did not touch her.
- 17
Does Jamie understand that Katie is gone for good?
Exhausted and backpedalling, Jamie is walked through what death, murder, guilt and a judge and jury mean, insisting he is not dumb.
- 18
Last session: Jamie asks whether she likes him
Told this is their final meeting, Jamie pleads for a proper goodbye, asks if she likes him, and is carried out shouting to tell his dad he is okay.