In Treatment 3x07

Messed up kid Jesse (that incredible Dane DeHaan) continues evading Paul’s questions at sixty miles an hour, trying to provoke him with his crude jokes, prodding him for information about his family, testing his patience by threatening to throw things through the window. Paul wants Jesse to talk about his birth mother, his relationship with his adoptive mother Marisa, or why he is avoiding talking to Nate, a class mate he had a secretive fling with, but now considers an obsessed stalker merely because he tried calling Jesse on their landline. It must be difficult breaking through the layers of deceit Jesse has wrapped around himself in an attempt to protect himself from hurt. He clearly yearns for intimacy and emotional connection, but makes that well nigh impossible with the lies and abrasiveness. He thought Paul had taken him on pro bono and breaks down when he learns from Paul that Marisa is paying for his therapy. He knows she cannot afford it – just as he knew she couldn’t afford paying for his summer arts program to which he applied as an excuse for contacting his birth mother in Westchester without consulting his adoptive parents. When Paul doubts that she will just fork up the money if he calls her out of the blue, Jesse gets so angry he wants to leave. At the end of the session, Jesse tells Paul to warn his son for the world of pain ahead of him.