The "host" of the house was Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt), a skin-changer who could assume the shape of a large black bear or a strong human: "The man is unpredictable, but the man can be reasoned with.He also admitted that he was wrong to interfere, and that the world itself would have to make the decision to pursue peace: "Once more, we survived the threat of war and found a fragile peace.Pills are dispensed from the Nurses"" Station, a large booth with sliding glass panels.An energetic, swaggering, wisecracking, non-conformist, rebellious patient/prisoner Randle Patrick (R.Coach Schneider (Marshall Bell) disciplined both of them, ordering them to "assume the position." The wo were forced to do multiple push-ups side-by-side, when Grady mentioned that the Coach was known to "hang around queer S & M joints downtown - He likes pretty boys like you.