It's all fun and games until someone has an unwanted lumbar puncture and nonconsensual cranial surgery.

( Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. )

In which L becomes, in his own way, a party planner.

( A meeting of serious men. )

( Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. )

This is the day of the "real life" event, during which some patients have been successfully brainwashed to believe the Institute's story about their real lives. Daniel Laurier's file.

( Ignorance is not bliss, it is oblivion. )