" But does not actually swallow the pill only spits it out when he walks away. .
The patients are organized and controlled through a rigid set of authoritarian rules and regulations that McMurphy likes to question. He tries to anger Nurse Ratched by a struggle to win the other patients over to his way of thinking and behaving. He does this by establishing a political majority, to lead various group uprisings, and to emphasize how they have been rejected their basic freedoms. In the next group meeting, McMurphy begs Nurse Ratched to rearrange the "schedule" so that they could watch the opener of the 1963 World Series baseball game on television, adding. To discourage his disengaging challenge and to cause no disruption to the ward's schedule, she refuses because of the other men who like the schedule. She then proposes a vote to decide the matter. Only three votes support McMurphy's request and he can't believe it. When a Monopoly game between some of the patients in the tub room leads to a heated argument, McMurphy sprays them with water to cool them down, and then tells Harding, one of those which didn't vote for his request for a rearrangement of the schedule. Again, McMurphy bets the patients that he can escape incarceration by lifting and smashing his way out of the ward with a heavy, marble-sided watering station in the tub room. He plans to go downtown with Cheswick drink some beer and watch the game. Harding bets $25 that McMurphy isn't strong enough. McMurphy moves Billy out of the way before attempting to do the lift. McMurphy struggles boldly to pick up the weight but he cannot lift it. As he walks from the room, he turns toward the patients refusing to acknowledge defeat and holding that it is better to try and fail than to accept an inadequate situation.
During the next therapy session, Nurse Ratched purposely presses Billy with questions about problems resulting from his mother.