Major Crimes (TV Series)

Jailbait (2013)

Bill Brochtrup: Dr. Joe Bowman

Quotes 

• Rusty Beck : I don't see how feeling sorry for myself will change anything. It won't my mom back, it won't change what happened to me.

  Dr. Joe Bowman : Pity is one thing. Sympathy is another. Forget about yourself for a second. Picture another 15-year old boy, walking through the zoo at Griffith Park, expecting to be picked up by his mom. Picture him waiting. Picture his panic as he begins to understand his mother's not showing up. Picture him with no resources, and no clothes and no food, and nothing but the knapsack that he was carrying with him, walking three miles back to the apartment where he'd been living, only to find one small suitcase, packed, and left behind. And himself alone. Can you picture that, Rusty?

  Rusty Beck : Yeah. I can picture that. Yeah.

  Dr. Joe Bowman : Anything you'd like to say to that boy?

  Rusty Beck : I... I'd tell him that it wasn't his fault. And that even though he might have to do some bad things... though some bad things might happen to him... that he'd end up with people who cared about him.

  Dr. Joe Bowman : So, you do have some sympathy for that boy?

  Rusty Beck : Yeah, sure.

  Dr. Joe Bowman : Okay... Okay. I was supposed to do a straight two days with you, but we had a little trouble getting started, so... fill out this paperwork, and, uh, I'll make some time for you right before Christmas, and we'll see if we can finish up.

• Dr. Joe Bowman : [playing chess with Rusty]  Just to make it interesting, why don't we say every time I take a piece off the board, I get to find out a little something about you?

  Rusty Beck : Okay, fine.

  [immediately pawn takes pawn] 

  Rusty Beck : Uh... Oh, come on. Did you just take that pawn so you could ask me a question?

  Dr. Joe Bowman : I always play to win, even with 12-year-olds - and a deal's a deal.

  Rusty Beck : Yeah. Yeah, especially around here. All right, all right. What kind of... way-too-personal question are you gonna ask?

  Dr. Joe Bowman : Mmm... How's your day going?

• Rusty Beck : I can take care of myself! Whatever your report says, I can take care of myself.

  Dr. Joe Bowman : Well, I've read your file, and it indicates that you've found a way to survive through some pretty difficult circumstances.

  Rusty Beck : Yeah.

  Dr. Joe Bowman : But, I should also say I've met a lot of kids just like you who've had to take care of themselves, and I've yet to run across one who deserved to be doing that, and I'm not sure you understand. In taking care of yourself the way you did, you were subjected to a form of physical abuse that legally... we would call rape.

  [pause] 

  Rusty Beck : Rape? No, uh, I was... I was never raped. I charged people for what I... did. I solicited. I chose to do that.

  Dr. Joe Bowman : And did you also choose to be left behind in L.A. when your mother drove off with her boyfriend? Did you choose to live on the streets when you were fifteen years old? And, if you didn't choose those things, would you describe taking care of yourself under those conditions as... as something you deserved?