Cyrano with a modern, dark Freudian edge.   An unconventional (and slightly damaged) therapist enlists the voices inside his head to help others.

Logline:

Moore has a genius daughter, a flamboyant, regressive wife and a prosperous psychology practice but it is facing its first great challenge: Sal, Crystal, Hoc Dog, Ashena, and Electra are all demanding more credit for their contributions to the practice. Alas, exposure will never be possible because these are not real people. They are personalities conjured up by James Moore’s brilliant but fractured mind. Can he keep his secret to success a secret?

Synopsis:

M. JAMES MOORE (37), psychologist, counsels TAMMI (15) in a crappy, rundown office. He’s getting nowhere until CRYSTAL (16), a goth chick only he can see, walks in and begins to tell him things about Tammi. With Crystal’s help, Tammi and Moore make a small breakthrough and they lament about how little they’ll miss the crappy, rundown office he currently resides in.

Afterwards, Moore laments to MEDUSA (47), an older, pre-op transsexual about the move. He apologizes that because of the image at the new office building he is moving to, he cannot keep her as his receptionist. As she leaves for the night for the last time, Moore’s five “visitors”/hallucinations complain about his choice. Except MADE (27), a businessman, who understands tough business choices. Crystal, HOC DOG (late teens), a black teenager, and ASHENA (40s), an old Jewish woman, are bitter. ELECTRA (mid-20s), is sarcastic. Even SAL (old), the tough guy, is upset he let Medusa go.

At home, Moore’s larger than life wife DIEDRE (33) tries to have sex with him in a closet. She is a borderline manic personality and sex addict who needs more attention than any one person can provide. Each day Diedre volunteers for a new charity and it keeps her busy. While she tries to seduce him, their daughter BEATRICE (6), calls out for them. The family has dinner and Moore asks his wife if she called the movers. Then two trucks pull up–an ice cream truck and a moving truck. They offer the neighbors ice-cream to move boxes and it works well.

Likewise, Diedre convinces many men at the new building to help them move into Moore’s new office and their new apartment. Moore reads Freud to Beatrice before bed. She is the only person who quiets his racing mind and the only place the voices never intrude is his daughter’s room.

Moore is making the biggest move of his life, starting a top-tier practice in Hampstead. Everything seems to be going smoothly until he shows up to his new office and his new receptionist cannot do anything right. She gives him his new business cards–they say “James Moore Therapy”. This aggravates the voices in his head because his practice used to be “Moore Therapy SCHEMA”–SCHEMA is an acronym of Sal, Crystal, Hoc Dog, Made, and Ashena. They feel that they are an integral part of the practice and he is sure they are just an illusion, a part of his psyche. They decide to strike.

Moore’s first patient, an angry man, comes in. Without the help of his hallucinations, Moore is worthless and the angry man lets him know. Moore pretends he can live without the hallucinations. His brother, WARD (49), a paraplegic fire chief, calls and invites him to his retirement, but Moore doesn’t go.

Finally, after a week, Moore realizes Sal is just like his father. So he caves in, apologizing to his hallucinations. With their help, he is actually able to counsel the angry man. He, Diedre, and Beatrice spend a day with Ward–they even take him to the fire house central control where he meets PATTI (40), a beautiful woman Ward has worked with for years over headsets, but never actually met. As they talk, a fire breaks out and though he resists, Ward is back to work directing the teams of firefighters.

Moore again counsels Tammi, only this time in the new office. His hallucinations help him counsel her and she hangs on his every word. In each episode, Moore is faced with client challenges and relies on his “voices” to help him