Adler Apartment.
"Then why did you call in the middle of the night?"
Paige was speechless.
"I was looking for Adam. I was planning to take Leonard to him for an examination."
Sheldon said seriously, "You all know, the kind my mother took me to when I was little.
"I'm not afraid Leonard is a violent sociopath.
"But it would be best to have a professional examination and assessment.
"That way, if people bring this up about Leonard in the future, he'll have grounds to refute them."
"Just like after your mother had you examined, whenever people suspected you were crazy, you could righteously refute them by saying you weren't, right?"
Paige mocked, "Do you know how many times Mrs. Cooper has regretted casually finding just one psychiatrist for that examination?
"In her words, that wasn't money she should have saved.
"Back then, she should have kept at it, spent more money to find several more psychiatrists, and gotten several more assessments.
"Look at Juno. She saw five therapists in middle school, and four of them were useless!"
"Hey!"
Sheldon cried out indignantly. "My mother never says things like that... You're not allowed to repeat what my mother says!"
"Adam, you tell him."
Paige nudged Adam, who was smiling strangely.
"Hehe, all right."
Adam could not help laughing aloud.
Sheldon's move once again perfectly embodied the outrageous dynamic of I call you Mom, and you call me Dad.
Mrs. Sheldon had actually copied what his own mother, Mrs. Cooper, used to do, planning to take "her son Leonard" for an assessment of antisocial personality disorder.
You never knew how wondrous the world was until someone pointed it out!
But that was not what Adam was focused on.
"So, tell me. You actually took the takeout food you'd thrown into a