In Treatment 3x19

While Paul is making a concerted effort to bond with Max, suddenly Jesse is at the door demanding an emergency session. He went to see his birth parents and claims they threw him out. He knows he screwed up again, but cannot even admit that to himself. Paul realizes Jesse needs help and reluctantly lets him into his office. Jesse starts telling his story. He felt that Paul encouraged him to contact his birth parents after their previous session – thus laying blame on Paul. They were happy to see him, and so Jesse took the train to Westchester. He even came several hours early, so as not to arrive late as per his usual wont. Jesse noticed children playing in the front lawn, drawing chalk on the pavement, and one of them was in a wheelchair. He wandered around, trying to find a diner, smoking up to kill time and calm his nerves. When he returned, the children were gone – and all the evidence they had ever been there (including the chalk). Jesse seems not to remember much from the conversation, because he was stoned, but he is still upset that Kevin and Karen erased all evidence of their children.

He did find a bar in the bathroom for disabled people, so he is certain that the kid in the wheelchair is their son, and he is convinced his birth parents contacted him because they need his blood, an organ, bone marrow, or the like, for their sickly son. Paul confirms that it is strange that they removed the evidence of their children, but when he asks about the conversation and why they asked him to leave, Jesse tries to avoid talking about it. Eventually he comes clean that he suggested making some kind of deal with them, so that he could attend the summer arts program he has been dreaming about. When Paul explains that he believes Jesse deliberately sabotaged the meeting, just as he did with other relationships in his life, Jesse storms out. Paul follows him to the stoop and tries comforting him. There is nothing wrong with him, he says, nor is he undeserving of love and affection. His birth parents were his age when they gave him up for adoption. They never had a change to get to know him, but simply were too young to raise him. Then the smoke alarm goes off in Paul’s kitchen, because Max tried making pan cakes on his own, but burned them. Paul hugs Max and tells him it is okay. But Jesse leaves, no doubt feeling abandoned.