The Deadly Dream (1971) Movie Script
Thank you.
Mr. Hanley.
Who are you?
What do you want from me?
You know who we are.
No. No one can escape his punishment,
Mr. Hanley. Punishment?
What punishment? I haven't done
anything.
There's been a mistake.
The tribunal doesn't make mistakes.
Terrible, terrible dream. People were
chasing me.
Some kind of a tribunal sent them, they
said.
Probably the Tribunal Collection Agency.
Maybe we should forget about that new
car we were looking at.
Hey.
Is it that's it?
Well, I took two courses in psychology,
didn't I?
To qualify you to marry a deranged
scientist.
Don't you talk about my husband that
way.
Oh, boy, that dream, I tell you. He is a
great genius who is going to win the
Nobel Prize.
His wife, on the other hand, is still a
struggling designer who is late for
work. Hey, hope that wasn't all my
fault.
You're sure you're all right?
Just had a bad dream, that's all.
No more pizza and pepperoni before
bedtime.
I swear.
Sorry for waking you.
Howard, I had a dream last night.
Uh -huh. Well, this morning, I should
say, I guess. Some people were chasing
Repressed guilt? Edible fantasies? One
of them cut me with a sharp edge of a
bracelet he was wearing, and when I woke
up, the cut was still there.
Same place.
You probably cut yourself the day before
and didn't even notice it.
Then in your dream, the injury emerged
from your subconscious.
Routine stuff.
Can't even charge your feet.
it down to specific cases.
This is O 'Hara.
Nice little fellow, but not too heavy in
the think department.
We put him in the maze and told him to
hunt down his dinner.
But the maze is a little too much for
him.
As you see, he's not very good at it.
Like father, like son.
Of O 'Hara's 12 children and 102
grandchildren, only 16 completed the
the time that an average guinea pig can
do it.
What happens to the O 'Haras of the
animal world? What future can they look
forward to?
None. They're doomed.
The difference between a genius and a
mental defective is determined by a
substance present in every living cell.
DNA, the keeper of the genetic code.
After two years of experimenting, we
isolated the intelligence factor in DNA,
reproduced it in the lab, and injected
some into a newly pregnant O 'Hara
pig.
The result?
A new O 'Hara.
It's obviously no problem for this fella
to get that married.
here in the laboratory we can and must
do for the race of man.
The fate of newborn children will no
longer be left to chance.
Every child, every human creature will
have the capacity to become an Einstein,
a Freud.
He'll be able to shape his own destiny,
to have a full, rich life, to contribute
to society, to the world in which he
lives.
It's an age -old dream.
But in our lifetime,
If we will it, the dream can become a
reality.
Jim, that was quite a demonstration.
I'd like to talk to you when you have
time.
At your convenience, Dr. Malcolm.
impractical. Brave new world.
A better world, hopefully.
Maybe you're overlooking something.
Nature made some men strong and some
weak.
Perhaps there was a good reason for it.
I don't believe in the infallibility of
nature.
We improve on nature to heal the sick.
But you want to make everyone an
Einstein.
What the world needs are laborers as
well as Einsteins.
And slaves.
masters. Do you want to put the power
into the hands of millions so they can
destroy the natural order of everything?
No.
I prefer the optimistic view.
You're very sure of yourself, aren't
you?
That can be very dangerous.
Proposal to the board of the Heisenberg
Institute.
In light of the possibilities opened up
by the recent successful
experiments in the field of DNA
chemistry.
No.
Proposal to the Heisenberg Institute.
Recent development in the field of DNA
chemistry.
Recent development in the field of DNA
chemistry.
Recent...
How are you feeling?
Was it necessary to be that rough?
Your orders were to bring him in. I
wasn't very cooperative.
I had to chase him all over the place.
What is it that you want of me? Who are
you?
We were sent by the tribunal.
What tribunal?
This is where they tell us they're all
innocent.
They haven't done anything.
Death row is full of innocent men.
I didn't mean to kill her. I didn't know
the gun was loaded.
You see, we have heard all the pleas,
you know. Every one of them.
You get your chance just like the
others. This is insane.
My name is Jim Hanley. I know who you
are, Dr. Hanley. I've followed your work
with the greatest interest.
Oh, well.
And you must be a scientist, too.
Let us say I am an observer of
scientists.
Let's get on with it. It's getting late.
Comments you made this morning after my
lecture. Very interesting.
Wow. Flattered.
Thank you very much.
What's your name?
Ernest Kagan.
What happened to your leg?
Oh, I tripped on the stairway when I was
leaving a demonstration this morning.
They fixed me up in the infirmary.
How did you happen to come to my
lecture? I haven't seen you around this
institute before.
But I'm not enrolled here. I was given
special permission to audit your
demonstration.
I'm aware of your reputation.
I hope you didn't mind.
Uh, no. What, uh, you were wearing a
bracelet.
It's on your left hand.
Now, you must be mistaken thinking of
someone else.
Nice talking to you.
I dreamed and in the lecture hall.
I saw it. I know I saw it.
And his windshield was smashed in
exactly the same place where I smashed
In the dream?
Yeah. Except it wasn't just a dream. It
was... It was something more real.
Why do you say that?
What about that cast on his leg?
He said they treated him in the
infirmary. Nobody there knew anything
So I checked him out with the security
people.
Nobody had seen him there either.
You don't believe me?
You think I'm crazy?
I think you're frightened.
Those people who were chasing me, they
wanted to punish me for something.
They wanted me dead.
I know it.
How are things going in the rest of your
life?
Oh, it's fine.
You've been under a strain, Jim.
Fourteen -hour work days, month after
month.
A controversial project that's heading
off into the scientific unknown.
No matter how well you think you've been
handling it, there have to be tensions.
And naturally, they'll emerge when your
conscious guard is down in your dreams.
Well, thanks for clearing it all up for
me. I'll just take a tranquilizer and go
to bed with a copy of Freud's
Psychopathology.
I'm not just some kind of a
superstitious nut. I'm a scientist.
I deal in the rational, the explainable.
And I have no rational explanation for
what's happening, and neither do you.
You can't be sure of what you've been
dreaming or what you're imagining.
As a psychiatrist, I've seen dozens of
cases like it.
And in your case, there's no evidence
for any diagnosis except mental and
emotional strain.
Now, one serious problem.
You're overdue for a vacation.
Oh.
My informants tell me the Albacore are
coming inshore. Big as Marla.
How about coming out with me next
weekend?
It's nothing like a case of seasickness
to make me forget my troubles.
I'll think about it.
Jim?
Sorry, I startled you.
Jim,
there's something that I've been
concerned about.
As you know, we're not entirely
autonomous here at the interview.
We depend upon quite a few public as
well as private agencies for the
especially for the more avant -garde
projects such as your own. DNA projects
only in the believe -it -or -not
category.
I was awarded a Mannheim Fellowship for
my work.
Yes, I understand that, but... Jim, this
morning I got a call from one of our
trustees. He's not happy with the
direction you're taking.
Oh, so? What's bothering him?
I heard about your demonstration.
He's very much concerned that your
artificial creation of life is going to
a storm in religious circles.
Forty years ago, Clarence Darrow had to
defend a school teacher named Scopes
against the charge of teaching the
theory of evolution.
But that was over 40 years ago. I'd like
to think we've progressed a little
since then. Jim, that is not the point.
You're one of our most important people,
but we depend on public funds and
public support for our work.
I want you to stop the project.
If my work is too advanced for this
institute, I'm sure there are other
that would welcome me.
Nobody is going to stop this project.
Well, of course I can't order you. I
won't hear of you leaving.
But Jim, we do have a problem.
All I ask is you think about what I've
said before you reject me.
For all our sakes.
I just can't believe it.
Imagine, telling me to abandon the
project.
You think some cocoa might help calm you
down?
Thanks. Merely because it happens to
offend someone's sensibilities.
Darling, you've been working with Dr.
Malcolm now for five years.
He's a very nice man who tries to keep
everybody happy. That's his job.
No one can force you to do anything.
You're a Mannheim fellow with lifelong
tenure.
You outrank practically everyone at the
Institute.
So why get upset about some minor league
bureaucratic static?
You know, you're right.
I've been much too emotional about it.
Much too much.
These dreams must be getting to me.
You know, Dr.
Malcolm is really just trying to be a
good friend.
Yeah, as you say, he's a very nice man.
I'm trying to be better to him in the
future. You want to turn those lights
and let's get to bed, huh?
You do what you have to do, I guess.
Officer! Officer! Open the door! Help
me!
Officer! Officer!
Please!
You must know all about them, then.
I've always known.
Well, why didn't you tell me? I couldn't
take a chance before.
Jim, you've got to get away.
Once the tribunal starts after a man,
they won't stop them. They've huddled
down. Why me?
What have I done?
Don't you know? No.
You've known me all my life,
practically.
What do you think I'm guilty of?
Well, whatever they're after you for,
they'll put you on trial if they find
And there's only one way for it to end.
Help me.
You've got to help me, Howard.
I'm one of a group of... people called
the Friends.
We're trying to fight the tribunal.
If we can get to our headquarters down
the coast, that'll be safe.
Now you stay hidden, and I'll meet you
here back... No!
You can't beat me! I've got to find
someone. How is it? How is it? How is
How is it?
Jim?
Dr. Goodman, this is Laurel Hanley.
It's Jim. Can you come over quickly,
please?
Thank you.
It probably was a severe spasm of the
chest muscles. Sometimes you can have a
stomach spasm.
It feels as though it's in your chest.
Oh, I'll take it for you, Doctor.
Thank you.
Watch it.
Stay in bed.
Take it easy.
Call me if there's any reoccurrence
whatsoever. And I'd like to see you in
office at about...
Well, two o 'clock this afternoon. Oh,
no, there's no need for that. I'm fine.
I'm sure you are, Jim, but I just want
to make doubly sure in the office where
can give you a thorough examination.
Oh, Dave. I'll see you at two.
Don't let him give you any trouble.
Thank you, Doctor.
Dave. Huh?
That shot you gave me.
Oh, that was just something to put you
to sleep.
Oh, no.
Look, you're not a machine. You can't
work every minute of your life.
I'll see you later.
The dream again?
Three times in a row.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to call Howard. Why are you
going to call Howard? Who else have I
to talk to?
All right, lay down. I'll call him. I'm
not an invalid. I'll call him.
Yes, this is Mrs. Hanley. May I speak to
Dr. Geary, please?
I see.
When he comes back, would you please ask
him to call Dr. Hanley?
Thank you.
He's gone motorcycling for the day.
He'll call you as soon as he checks in.
Now, you get some sleep.
Come on, I'm going to stay home today,
and I want you to rest.
No, I... Come on, now. I don't want to
go to work.
No, I'm staying home.
And you're going to get some rest. No.
You see them there?
We'll head across the back part of town.
Pick up the main road leading out of
town.
Please get in on busy signal 555 -4699.
It's an emergency.
My name is Jim Henry.
Dr. Geary's office.
May I help you? Yes, please, Dr. Geary.
It's urgent.
This is Dr. Geary's service. Dr.
Geary is at the county hospital.
An emergency.
Hey, what happened?
Guy got killed on a motorcycle.
Smashed into a gas pump.
Oh, yeah. Oh, God.
How awful life can be.
For Dr.
Geary to die like that in a crazy
accident.
It was no accident.
It was murder.
I want you to get away for a while. Take
some time off.
Perhaps you and Laurel can go somewhere
together.
Howard's dead, but I'm not.
And you're not getting me out of the
way.
I'm going to finish the DNA project, and
neither you nor anyone else is going to
trick me into abandoning my work.
Jim!
This has nothing to do with the project,
Jim.
I don't intend to watch you run yourself
into the ground.
Now, you're going to take a vacation.
That's an order.
I'm sorry. I've been under restraint.
Forgive me.
My family owns an old house up north.
It's a small town, ideal place to relax.
Why don't you both fly up there in the
morning? I'll have the caretaker meet
at the airport.
That sounds wonderful.
Thank you.
There's only one other time I've seen
this house.
In my dream.
The day that Howard Gary was killed.
Jim, those kind of decorations are in
lots of old houses.
If you were the kind of person who
noticed things instead of thinking about
molecules all the time, you'd remember
being in houses like this dozens of
times.
Oh, honey, please.
These are not ordinary dreams.
Something is happening that cannot be
explained away.
They're fandoms.
You're here to forget all about that,
remember?
I can't forget it.
Maybe you ought to talk to somebody else
about this.
One of Howard's friends.
You mean a psychiatrist?
You talked to Howard. He was a
psychiatrist. Howard was my best friend.
Jim, we're splitting hairs.
I'm only trying to help you face up to
the doubts you have yourself.
You need someone you can talk to who can
help you.
Do you think something is happening to
my mind?
Do you?
Turning these dreams into an obsession.
I'm just trying to understand what's
happening.
And it's driving you crazy.
All I'm saying is talk to someone who
can be objective about it.
Someone who has a perspective and can
bring some kind of reality to this. Stop
it. I know what I've seen. I know.
Why do you doubt my sanity?
You just said I was going crazy.
Please, Jim.
I love you.
Just trying to help you.
Maybe I'm saying all the wrong things.
But I don't know what to say.
Or think.
or believe anymore.
I'm innocent.
No.
Please.
I'm innocent.
Please. I'm innocent.
I don't understand. I'm innocent.
I'm innocent.
You all right?
What are you doing?
Oh, good morning.
I saw the camera and I was putting some
new film in it, so would you take it
out?
There was a picture in the mirror.
What did you do with it? I thought it
was an old one that was spoiled.
I told you I was going to prove that my
dreams are real. Now what did you do
with that picture?
I threw it away.
What? Where?
In a waste paper basket. I just...
I'm gonna go in and get dressed.
Well, it sure doesn't seem like it, but
you know we've been home for almost a
week.
You in there?
Jim, do you know what day this is? It's
the last day of your vacation.
In the old days, you'd be studiously
planted in front of the television set,
watching 18 consecutive hours of
football games.
Season's over.
Oh.
Oh! Well, then.
I hear there's a great new group down at
Harry's Cellar.
Would you believe the eardrums?
We can eat at Albert's.
I'll get my hair done.
You'll think you're married to a brand
new wife.
I'm afraid what you need is a brand new
husband.
Hey, sounds great.
Go ahead, get your hair fixed.
Okay.
I'll see you later.
Operator, get me the police.
He's on to it. Control him.
There's a man in my dream. What do you
people want from me? I've never seen you
before. Don't you lie to me. You're
insane.
I tell you, you're the man in my dream.
He broke into my house.
They've got my wife up there.
They've kidnapped her.
I have never seen this man before,
officer. He must be dreaming.
He's lying.
And there's another one.
His name's Kagan.
He's got my wife up there, in that room.
Officer, I've lived in this house for 15
years.
Your captain will attest to the fact
that I am not in the kidnap business.
Please, listen to me.
My wife is up there in that room.
I heard her voice.
Why don't you have a look?
If you don't mind, Mr. Delgrave.
Not at all.
Let me go with you.
Please.
My wife's voice.
Come on, let's go.
Come on, we're placing him under arrest.
But he's lying, I tell you. I can prove
it. He told you he'd never seen me
before, huh?
Here, take a look at this picture.
I was right in front of him when I took
it.
He saw me, all right.
What's this, some kind of joke?
I'm going to be honest with you, Jim.
Charges have been dropped. I was able to
get one of the sponsors of the
Institute who has influenced the
District Attorney.
I told him you were a valuable and
important scientist who has been under
stress at work.
He was able to get the District Attorney
to drop the charges.
This time.
If you should get into this trouble
again, I'm not about to risk the
reputation to help you.
I'm sorry that I have to put it that
way.
We're very grateful for everything
you've done.
Well, we'll put this whole thing behind
us and we'll forget it ever happened.
When you're ready to get back to work,
I'm sure that we can find a project you
can work on with much less strain, Jim.
can shake him free of his obsession,
we'll all be grateful.
I heard your voice.
Jim. I heard you.
I recognize your voice anyplace. You
were in that house. Jim, you promised
wouldn't. Of course I promised. What
choice did I have?
One wrong word and they'd have kept me
locked up there for good.
But I'm home now and nobody is listening
but you. And I'm telling you, you were
in that house. I heard you.
I was at the hairdresser.
A dozen people saw me. How could I
possibly have been anyplace else? I
know, but there's something that you're
not telling me. Jim!
Jim, for the sake of everything we've
ever had together, please
stop it, or they will take you away.
Oh, no, I have to talk about it, and I
have to talk to you.
Who else do I have?
Don't you want to help me? Of course I
want to help you.
Of course I do.
It just would be easier if you were
calm.
And that picture, it wasn't blank.
What picture?
The one that was in my camera.
The one that I took of Delgrave.
The man of my dream.
When I left our house, I took his
picture with me.
I showed it to the police.
There was nothing on it. It was black.
His whole image was just... Well, it had
just vanished.
Is that possible? I know.
That's what I told myself. A thing like
that just doesn't happen in real life.
But what if this isn't?
What if this isn't real life?
In reality, things follow an ordinary
pattern.
But in a dream, anything can happen.
Like that picture going blank all of a
sudden.
Are you saying that what happened at
that house was a dream?
Delgrave said it.
I told the police officer that I heard
your voice in that room upstairs.
Delgrave said I was dreaming.
Is it possible that now, this moment,
while talking like this together, is it
possible that what we think of as our...
I thought you were going to sleep all
day. My shoes.
Can't find them. Looked everywhere.
I shined them for you.
Oh, gee. How nice of you.
Thank you, sweetheart. That's wonderful.
That's nice.
Oh, thank you.
A dream.
What about it?
I didn't have it last night.
I did have one, though.
Just an ordinary one.
I dreamed I was back in the Yankee
Stadium as a kid with my brother Pete.
The Yankees were playing. It was the
first game of the World Series.
Did they win?
I don't know.
I woke up in the bottom of the eighth.
The dream's gone, Jim.
Because I missed one night?
You were under a terrific strain.
That was what was causing the dreams.
Now that you're off the project, you're
free of all the tension and the
conflict. Last night was the proof that
dreams won't come back again.
I sure hope you're right.
I don't know. I can't believe it. Oh, I
can.
Because I want to believe it. I do
believe it.
And so will you.
It's all over.
But all those things, it's happened. A
trick for the imagination.
Dr. Geary told you that the first time
you went to see him, remember?
The strain of the project probably
picked off some deep...
unresolved conflict that goes back to
your childhood.
It's finished.
You're free.
I've certainly given you a rough time,
haven't I?
It's just part of the contract.
I'm just... I'm just so glad that it's
all over.
Let's have a good old Sunday at home.
We'll just blaze around the rest of the
day.
I'll fix you a special supper.
How about Lynn and Arnie's famous
lasagna recipe? What do you say?
I say Lynn and Arnie's famous lasagna
recipe.
And we won't even ask Lynn and Arnie.
Because who knows what we might decide
to do later.
I'll go to the store and pick up some
things and some candy.
I'll be right back.
Hurry.
Hurry.
Why'd you forget this time?
Excuse me.
The house that used to be there.
What happened to it? The house?
Yeah. What happened to the house that
used to be over there in that lot?
You must be thinking of someplace else.
There never was a house on there.
You sure?
Been living on this street since I was
born.
52 years come March.
Never was a house on that lot.
If I do say so myself, it was the best
Sunday supper of all time.
I'm going to eat for a minute.
Hello there.
Remember me?
Oh, yeah. You're the cook, yeah?
Thanks a lot.
Wonderful dinner.
Supper, I mean. Delicious.
Ready for bed?
Oh, I forgot. I've got some work I have
to do. You go ahead.
Without you?
Well, I promised Taylor that I'd look
over some papers that he left by for me.
He's going to have to take them the
first thing in the morning.
Work, work, work.
I thought that was all over.
It will be.
Good night.
See you in the morning.
What are you doing here?
I had to find you.
How do you know where I'd be?
I just knew.
You must know what this is all about.
Who are they?
Why are they after me?
They said if I ever wanted to see you
again...
I'd better cooperate.
They said you'd get a fair trial.
You know so much about them.
I only know what they told me.
I said I would try to find you.
To persuade you to turn yourself in.
I had to. It was the only way to get
away from them and find you.
Do you know anything about the friends?
Yes.
It's my only way out, isn't it?
The friends wanted to help you.
I was afraid to tell you because there
aren't enough of them to do any good.
other friend.
Dr. Hanley
No, one of them.
The friends.
There are no friends.
Yes, there are.
Howard Geary was taking me to them. He
was taking you to a loss.
No.
No, he wouldn't do that.
Not Howard.
You're lying.
What is it?
What is it that you want from me?
What? I tried to warn you. I sent
Delgrave to you. You wouldn't listen.
To Delgrave?
To the voice of civilization.
You became an enemy of civilization.
You wanted to tamper with man's genetic
inheritance to change the natural order
of life.
No. No, I wanted to set man free.
You would have plunged him into chaos
and anarchy.
Some men are born to rule and others to
serve.
We had to stop you, Jim.
You can roll it.
It will be daylight soon.
Tribunal in possession.
Trial is held in the detention.
The accused will hear the evidence.
How does this tribunal vote?
You can kill all of us, but there'll be
hundreds of others to carry the sentence
up.
Jim? I saw you sleeping on the couch
when I got up this morning.
I hope that's not going to be a
permanent part of our lifestyle. When
begin? Was it before we were married?
What?
You and Malcolm.
How long has it been going on?
What are you talking about?
I've been sentenced to death.
Oh, but you know all about that, don't
you?
Honey, please don't talk like this.
You're frightening me.
I mean to frighten you.
I'm going to frighten you into telling
me everything.
I want to know all about them.
Jim, I... Jim! Jim!
Who are they?
You answer me!
Why are they trying to kill me?
Huh?
Jim, please!
Will! Are you going to answer me? Are
you?
Why are they trying to kill me?
Is it because of what I'm doing?
My work in the lab!
What's wrong?
Well, physically he'll be all right.
You mean mentally he won't be?
We can't say that yet. His condition is
still uncertain.
May I see him?
Well, I'm afraid I couldn't advise that.
We had to restrain him.
Straightjacket? We don't do that sort of
thing here.
We did place him in a comfortable
security room.
We've refrained from giving him any
medication. We don't want to put him
the reach of diagnosis. I thought you
might be able to help.
Oh, I'll do anything.
Anything.
But please, please, first may I see him?
All right.
She's not my wife. She's a murderer,
like all the others.
Don't run into her.
She'll try to kill me.
Take her away. I know I want to see you
again.
I'm sorry,
Mrs. Handley. I'm very sorry.
He isn't like that.
It's the strain he's been under.
The nightmares.
Nightmares? Well, he hasn't had a decent
night's sleep in weeks.
He's been having these...
These terrible dreams.
Prolonged sleeplessness can induce a
psychotic state.
If that's what's causing it, get
McPeters. Yes, sir.
I'm going to give him a drug.
Just some sedations so that he can
sleep.
Oh, yes.
That's what he needs.
More than anything.
We're going to give you a sedative, Dr.
Hanley.
Something to make you sleep. Oh, no.
No.
No, I can't. I can't sleep.
I can't. Please.
Not without a gun.
They'll kill me.
Open it. I may be faking it. Open it!
Get Dr. Farrell!
Get his lights.
Is he dead?
There's no pulse.
Adrenaline IV, 2 ,000 units.
Just take it easy You're gonna be okay
Just take it easy
I tell you, I saw him back there.
Too bad he had to die.
Is it possible that what we think of as
our life
is a dream?
Our dreams are reality.
Mr. Hanley.
Who are you?
What do you want from me?
You know who we are.
No. No one can escape his punishment,
Mr. Hanley. Punishment?
What punishment? I haven't done
anything.
There's been a mistake.
The tribunal doesn't make mistakes.
Terrible, terrible dream. People were
chasing me.
Some kind of a tribunal sent them, they
said.
Probably the Tribunal Collection Agency.
Maybe we should forget about that new
car we were looking at.
Hey.
Is it that's it?
Well, I took two courses in psychology,
didn't I?
To qualify you to marry a deranged
scientist.
Don't you talk about my husband that
way.
Oh, boy, that dream, I tell you. He is a
great genius who is going to win the
Nobel Prize.
His wife, on the other hand, is still a
struggling designer who is late for
work. Hey, hope that wasn't all my
fault.
You're sure you're all right?
Just had a bad dream, that's all.
No more pizza and pepperoni before
bedtime.
I swear.
Sorry for waking you.
Howard, I had a dream last night.
Uh -huh. Well, this morning, I should
say, I guess. Some people were chasing
Repressed guilt? Edible fantasies? One
of them cut me with a sharp edge of a
bracelet he was wearing, and when I woke
up, the cut was still there.
Same place.
You probably cut yourself the day before
and didn't even notice it.
Then in your dream, the injury emerged
from your subconscious.
Routine stuff.
Can't even charge your feet.
it down to specific cases.
This is O 'Hara.
Nice little fellow, but not too heavy in
the think department.
We put him in the maze and told him to
hunt down his dinner.
But the maze is a little too much for
him.
As you see, he's not very good at it.
Like father, like son.
Of O 'Hara's 12 children and 102
grandchildren, only 16 completed the
the time that an average guinea pig can
do it.
What happens to the O 'Haras of the
animal world? What future can they look
forward to?
None. They're doomed.
The difference between a genius and a
mental defective is determined by a
substance present in every living cell.
DNA, the keeper of the genetic code.
After two years of experimenting, we
isolated the intelligence factor in DNA,
reproduced it in the lab, and injected
some into a newly pregnant O 'Hara
pig.
The result?
A new O 'Hara.
It's obviously no problem for this fella
to get that married.
here in the laboratory we can and must
do for the race of man.
The fate of newborn children will no
longer be left to chance.
Every child, every human creature will
have the capacity to become an Einstein,
a Freud.
He'll be able to shape his own destiny,
to have a full, rich life, to contribute
to society, to the world in which he
lives.
It's an age -old dream.
But in our lifetime,
If we will it, the dream can become a
reality.
Jim, that was quite a demonstration.
I'd like to talk to you when you have
time.
At your convenience, Dr. Malcolm.
impractical. Brave new world.
A better world, hopefully.
Maybe you're overlooking something.
Nature made some men strong and some
weak.
Perhaps there was a good reason for it.
I don't believe in the infallibility of
nature.
We improve on nature to heal the sick.
But you want to make everyone an
Einstein.
What the world needs are laborers as
well as Einsteins.
And slaves.
masters. Do you want to put the power
into the hands of millions so they can
destroy the natural order of everything?
No.
I prefer the optimistic view.
You're very sure of yourself, aren't
you?
That can be very dangerous.
Proposal to the board of the Heisenberg
Institute.
In light of the possibilities opened up
by the recent successful
experiments in the field of DNA
chemistry.
No.
Proposal to the Heisenberg Institute.
Recent development in the field of DNA
chemistry.
Recent development in the field of DNA
chemistry.
Recent...
How are you feeling?
Was it necessary to be that rough?
Your orders were to bring him in. I
wasn't very cooperative.
I had to chase him all over the place.
What is it that you want of me? Who are
you?
We were sent by the tribunal.
What tribunal?
This is where they tell us they're all
innocent.
They haven't done anything.
Death row is full of innocent men.
I didn't mean to kill her. I didn't know
the gun was loaded.
You see, we have heard all the pleas,
you know. Every one of them.
You get your chance just like the
others. This is insane.
My name is Jim Hanley. I know who you
are, Dr. Hanley. I've followed your work
with the greatest interest.
Oh, well.
And you must be a scientist, too.
Let us say I am an observer of
scientists.
Let's get on with it. It's getting late.
Comments you made this morning after my
lecture. Very interesting.
Wow. Flattered.
Thank you very much.
What's your name?
Ernest Kagan.
What happened to your leg?
Oh, I tripped on the stairway when I was
leaving a demonstration this morning.
They fixed me up in the infirmary.
How did you happen to come to my
lecture? I haven't seen you around this
institute before.
But I'm not enrolled here. I was given
special permission to audit your
demonstration.
I'm aware of your reputation.
I hope you didn't mind.
Uh, no. What, uh, you were wearing a
bracelet.
It's on your left hand.
Now, you must be mistaken thinking of
someone else.
Nice talking to you.
I dreamed and in the lecture hall.
I saw it. I know I saw it.
And his windshield was smashed in
exactly the same place where I smashed
In the dream?
Yeah. Except it wasn't just a dream. It
was... It was something more real.
Why do you say that?
What about that cast on his leg?
He said they treated him in the
infirmary. Nobody there knew anything
So I checked him out with the security
people.
Nobody had seen him there either.
You don't believe me?
You think I'm crazy?
I think you're frightened.
Those people who were chasing me, they
wanted to punish me for something.
They wanted me dead.
I know it.
How are things going in the rest of your
life?
Oh, it's fine.
You've been under a strain, Jim.
Fourteen -hour work days, month after
month.
A controversial project that's heading
off into the scientific unknown.
No matter how well you think you've been
handling it, there have to be tensions.
And naturally, they'll emerge when your
conscious guard is down in your dreams.
Well, thanks for clearing it all up for
me. I'll just take a tranquilizer and go
to bed with a copy of Freud's
Psychopathology.
I'm not just some kind of a
superstitious nut. I'm a scientist.
I deal in the rational, the explainable.
And I have no rational explanation for
what's happening, and neither do you.
You can't be sure of what you've been
dreaming or what you're imagining.
As a psychiatrist, I've seen dozens of
cases like it.
And in your case, there's no evidence
for any diagnosis except mental and
emotional strain.
Now, one serious problem.
You're overdue for a vacation.
Oh.
My informants tell me the Albacore are
coming inshore. Big as Marla.
How about coming out with me next
weekend?
It's nothing like a case of seasickness
to make me forget my troubles.
I'll think about it.
Jim?
Sorry, I startled you.
Jim,
there's something that I've been
concerned about.
As you know, we're not entirely
autonomous here at the interview.
We depend upon quite a few public as
well as private agencies for the
especially for the more avant -garde
projects such as your own. DNA projects
only in the believe -it -or -not
category.
I was awarded a Mannheim Fellowship for
my work.
Yes, I understand that, but... Jim, this
morning I got a call from one of our
trustees. He's not happy with the
direction you're taking.
Oh, so? What's bothering him?
I heard about your demonstration.
He's very much concerned that your
artificial creation of life is going to
a storm in religious circles.
Forty years ago, Clarence Darrow had to
defend a school teacher named Scopes
against the charge of teaching the
theory of evolution.
But that was over 40 years ago. I'd like
to think we've progressed a little
since then. Jim, that is not the point.
You're one of our most important people,
but we depend on public funds and
public support for our work.
I want you to stop the project.
If my work is too advanced for this
institute, I'm sure there are other
that would welcome me.
Nobody is going to stop this project.
Well, of course I can't order you. I
won't hear of you leaving.
But Jim, we do have a problem.
All I ask is you think about what I've
said before you reject me.
For all our sakes.
I just can't believe it.
Imagine, telling me to abandon the
project.
You think some cocoa might help calm you
down?
Thanks. Merely because it happens to
offend someone's sensibilities.
Darling, you've been working with Dr.
Malcolm now for five years.
He's a very nice man who tries to keep
everybody happy. That's his job.
No one can force you to do anything.
You're a Mannheim fellow with lifelong
tenure.
You outrank practically everyone at the
Institute.
So why get upset about some minor league
bureaucratic static?
You know, you're right.
I've been much too emotional about it.
Much too much.
These dreams must be getting to me.
You know, Dr.
Malcolm is really just trying to be a
good friend.
Yeah, as you say, he's a very nice man.
I'm trying to be better to him in the
future. You want to turn those lights
and let's get to bed, huh?
You do what you have to do, I guess.
Officer! Officer! Open the door! Help
me!
Officer! Officer!
Please!
You must know all about them, then.
I've always known.
Well, why didn't you tell me? I couldn't
take a chance before.
Jim, you've got to get away.
Once the tribunal starts after a man,
they won't stop them. They've huddled
down. Why me?
What have I done?
Don't you know? No.
You've known me all my life,
practically.
What do you think I'm guilty of?
Well, whatever they're after you for,
they'll put you on trial if they find
And there's only one way for it to end.
Help me.
You've got to help me, Howard.
I'm one of a group of... people called
the Friends.
We're trying to fight the tribunal.
If we can get to our headquarters down
the coast, that'll be safe.
Now you stay hidden, and I'll meet you
here back... No!
You can't beat me! I've got to find
someone. How is it? How is it? How is
How is it?
Jim?
Dr. Goodman, this is Laurel Hanley.
It's Jim. Can you come over quickly,
please?
Thank you.
It probably was a severe spasm of the
chest muscles. Sometimes you can have a
stomach spasm.
It feels as though it's in your chest.
Oh, I'll take it for you, Doctor.
Thank you.
Watch it.
Stay in bed.
Take it easy.
Call me if there's any reoccurrence
whatsoever. And I'd like to see you in
office at about...
Well, two o 'clock this afternoon. Oh,
no, there's no need for that. I'm fine.
I'm sure you are, Jim, but I just want
to make doubly sure in the office where
can give you a thorough examination.
Oh, Dave. I'll see you at two.
Don't let him give you any trouble.
Thank you, Doctor.
Dave. Huh?
That shot you gave me.
Oh, that was just something to put you
to sleep.
Oh, no.
Look, you're not a machine. You can't
work every minute of your life.
I'll see you later.
The dream again?
Three times in a row.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to call Howard. Why are you
going to call Howard? Who else have I
to talk to?
All right, lay down. I'll call him. I'm
not an invalid. I'll call him.
Yes, this is Mrs. Hanley. May I speak to
Dr. Geary, please?
I see.
When he comes back, would you please ask
him to call Dr. Hanley?
Thank you.
He's gone motorcycling for the day.
He'll call you as soon as he checks in.
Now, you get some sleep.
Come on, I'm going to stay home today,
and I want you to rest.
No, I... Come on, now. I don't want to
go to work.
No, I'm staying home.
And you're going to get some rest. No.
You see them there?
We'll head across the back part of town.
Pick up the main road leading out of
town.
Please get in on busy signal 555 -4699.
It's an emergency.
My name is Jim Henry.
Dr. Geary's office.
May I help you? Yes, please, Dr. Geary.
It's urgent.
This is Dr. Geary's service. Dr.
Geary is at the county hospital.
An emergency.
Hey, what happened?
Guy got killed on a motorcycle.
Smashed into a gas pump.
Oh, yeah. Oh, God.
How awful life can be.
For Dr.
Geary to die like that in a crazy
accident.
It was no accident.
It was murder.
I want you to get away for a while. Take
some time off.
Perhaps you and Laurel can go somewhere
together.
Howard's dead, but I'm not.
And you're not getting me out of the
way.
I'm going to finish the DNA project, and
neither you nor anyone else is going to
trick me into abandoning my work.
Jim!
This has nothing to do with the project,
Jim.
I don't intend to watch you run yourself
into the ground.
Now, you're going to take a vacation.
That's an order.
I'm sorry. I've been under restraint.
Forgive me.
My family owns an old house up north.
It's a small town, ideal place to relax.
Why don't you both fly up there in the
morning? I'll have the caretaker meet
at the airport.
That sounds wonderful.
Thank you.
There's only one other time I've seen
this house.
In my dream.
The day that Howard Gary was killed.
Jim, those kind of decorations are in
lots of old houses.
If you were the kind of person who
noticed things instead of thinking about
molecules all the time, you'd remember
being in houses like this dozens of
times.
Oh, honey, please.
These are not ordinary dreams.
Something is happening that cannot be
explained away.
They're fandoms.
You're here to forget all about that,
remember?
I can't forget it.
Maybe you ought to talk to somebody else
about this.
One of Howard's friends.
You mean a psychiatrist?
You talked to Howard. He was a
psychiatrist. Howard was my best friend.
Jim, we're splitting hairs.
I'm only trying to help you face up to
the doubts you have yourself.
You need someone you can talk to who can
help you.
Do you think something is happening to
my mind?
Do you?
Turning these dreams into an obsession.
I'm just trying to understand what's
happening.
And it's driving you crazy.
All I'm saying is talk to someone who
can be objective about it.
Someone who has a perspective and can
bring some kind of reality to this. Stop
it. I know what I've seen. I know.
Why do you doubt my sanity?
You just said I was going crazy.
Please, Jim.
I love you.
Just trying to help you.
Maybe I'm saying all the wrong things.
But I don't know what to say.
Or think.
or believe anymore.
I'm innocent.
No.
Please.
I'm innocent.
Please. I'm innocent.
I don't understand. I'm innocent.
I'm innocent.
You all right?
What are you doing?
Oh, good morning.
I saw the camera and I was putting some
new film in it, so would you take it
out?
There was a picture in the mirror.
What did you do with it? I thought it
was an old one that was spoiled.
I told you I was going to prove that my
dreams are real. Now what did you do
with that picture?
I threw it away.
What? Where?
In a waste paper basket. I just...
I'm gonna go in and get dressed.
Well, it sure doesn't seem like it, but
you know we've been home for almost a
week.
You in there?
Jim, do you know what day this is? It's
the last day of your vacation.
In the old days, you'd be studiously
planted in front of the television set,
watching 18 consecutive hours of
football games.
Season's over.
Oh.
Oh! Well, then.
I hear there's a great new group down at
Harry's Cellar.
Would you believe the eardrums?
We can eat at Albert's.
I'll get my hair done.
You'll think you're married to a brand
new wife.
I'm afraid what you need is a brand new
husband.
Hey, sounds great.
Go ahead, get your hair fixed.
Okay.
I'll see you later.
Operator, get me the police.
He's on to it. Control him.
There's a man in my dream. What do you
people want from me? I've never seen you
before. Don't you lie to me. You're
insane.
I tell you, you're the man in my dream.
He broke into my house.
They've got my wife up there.
They've kidnapped her.
I have never seen this man before,
officer. He must be dreaming.
He's lying.
And there's another one.
His name's Kagan.
He's got my wife up there, in that room.
Officer, I've lived in this house for 15
years.
Your captain will attest to the fact
that I am not in the kidnap business.
Please, listen to me.
My wife is up there in that room.
I heard her voice.
Why don't you have a look?
If you don't mind, Mr. Delgrave.
Not at all.
Let me go with you.
Please.
My wife's voice.
Come on, let's go.
Come on, we're placing him under arrest.
But he's lying, I tell you. I can prove
it. He told you he'd never seen me
before, huh?
Here, take a look at this picture.
I was right in front of him when I took
it.
He saw me, all right.
What's this, some kind of joke?
I'm going to be honest with you, Jim.
Charges have been dropped. I was able to
get one of the sponsors of the
Institute who has influenced the
District Attorney.
I told him you were a valuable and
important scientist who has been under
stress at work.
He was able to get the District Attorney
to drop the charges.
This time.
If you should get into this trouble
again, I'm not about to risk the
reputation to help you.
I'm sorry that I have to put it that
way.
We're very grateful for everything
you've done.
Well, we'll put this whole thing behind
us and we'll forget it ever happened.
When you're ready to get back to work,
I'm sure that we can find a project you
can work on with much less strain, Jim.
can shake him free of his obsession,
we'll all be grateful.
I heard your voice.
Jim. I heard you.
I recognize your voice anyplace. You
were in that house. Jim, you promised
wouldn't. Of course I promised. What
choice did I have?
One wrong word and they'd have kept me
locked up there for good.
But I'm home now and nobody is listening
but you. And I'm telling you, you were
in that house. I heard you.
I was at the hairdresser.
A dozen people saw me. How could I
possibly have been anyplace else? I
know, but there's something that you're
not telling me. Jim!
Jim, for the sake of everything we've
ever had together, please
stop it, or they will take you away.
Oh, no, I have to talk about it, and I
have to talk to you.
Who else do I have?
Don't you want to help me? Of course I
want to help you.
Of course I do.
It just would be easier if you were
calm.
And that picture, it wasn't blank.
What picture?
The one that was in my camera.
The one that I took of Delgrave.
The man of my dream.
When I left our house, I took his
picture with me.
I showed it to the police.
There was nothing on it. It was black.
His whole image was just... Well, it had
just vanished.
Is that possible? I know.
That's what I told myself. A thing like
that just doesn't happen in real life.
But what if this isn't?
What if this isn't real life?
In reality, things follow an ordinary
pattern.
But in a dream, anything can happen.
Like that picture going blank all of a
sudden.
Are you saying that what happened at
that house was a dream?
Delgrave said it.
I told the police officer that I heard
your voice in that room upstairs.
Delgrave said I was dreaming.
Is it possible that now, this moment,
while talking like this together, is it
possible that what we think of as our...
I thought you were going to sleep all
day. My shoes.
Can't find them. Looked everywhere.
I shined them for you.
Oh, gee. How nice of you.
Thank you, sweetheart. That's wonderful.
That's nice.
Oh, thank you.
A dream.
What about it?
I didn't have it last night.
I did have one, though.
Just an ordinary one.
I dreamed I was back in the Yankee
Stadium as a kid with my brother Pete.
The Yankees were playing. It was the
first game of the World Series.
Did they win?
I don't know.
I woke up in the bottom of the eighth.
The dream's gone, Jim.
Because I missed one night?
You were under a terrific strain.
That was what was causing the dreams.
Now that you're off the project, you're
free of all the tension and the
conflict. Last night was the proof that
dreams won't come back again.
I sure hope you're right.
I don't know. I can't believe it. Oh, I
can.
Because I want to believe it. I do
believe it.
And so will you.
It's all over.
But all those things, it's happened. A
trick for the imagination.
Dr. Geary told you that the first time
you went to see him, remember?
The strain of the project probably
picked off some deep...
unresolved conflict that goes back to
your childhood.
It's finished.
You're free.
I've certainly given you a rough time,
haven't I?
It's just part of the contract.
I'm just... I'm just so glad that it's
all over.
Let's have a good old Sunday at home.
We'll just blaze around the rest of the
day.
I'll fix you a special supper.
How about Lynn and Arnie's famous
lasagna recipe? What do you say?
I say Lynn and Arnie's famous lasagna
recipe.
And we won't even ask Lynn and Arnie.
Because who knows what we might decide
to do later.
I'll go to the store and pick up some
things and some candy.
I'll be right back.
Hurry.
Hurry.
Why'd you forget this time?
Excuse me.
The house that used to be there.
What happened to it? The house?
Yeah. What happened to the house that
used to be over there in that lot?
You must be thinking of someplace else.
There never was a house on there.
You sure?
Been living on this street since I was
born.
52 years come March.
Never was a house on that lot.
If I do say so myself, it was the best
Sunday supper of all time.
I'm going to eat for a minute.
Hello there.
Remember me?
Oh, yeah. You're the cook, yeah?
Thanks a lot.
Wonderful dinner.
Supper, I mean. Delicious.
Ready for bed?
Oh, I forgot. I've got some work I have
to do. You go ahead.
Without you?
Well, I promised Taylor that I'd look
over some papers that he left by for me.
He's going to have to take them the
first thing in the morning.
Work, work, work.
I thought that was all over.
It will be.
Good night.
See you in the morning.
What are you doing here?
I had to find you.
How do you know where I'd be?
I just knew.
You must know what this is all about.
Who are they?
Why are they after me?
They said if I ever wanted to see you
again...
I'd better cooperate.
They said you'd get a fair trial.
You know so much about them.
I only know what they told me.
I said I would try to find you.
To persuade you to turn yourself in.
I had to. It was the only way to get
away from them and find you.
Do you know anything about the friends?
Yes.
It's my only way out, isn't it?
The friends wanted to help you.
I was afraid to tell you because there
aren't enough of them to do any good.
other friend.
Dr. Hanley
No, one of them.
The friends.
There are no friends.
Yes, there are.
Howard Geary was taking me to them. He
was taking you to a loss.
No.
No, he wouldn't do that.
Not Howard.
You're lying.
What is it?
What is it that you want from me?
What? I tried to warn you. I sent
Delgrave to you. You wouldn't listen.
To Delgrave?
To the voice of civilization.
You became an enemy of civilization.
You wanted to tamper with man's genetic
inheritance to change the natural order
of life.
No. No, I wanted to set man free.
You would have plunged him into chaos
and anarchy.
Some men are born to rule and others to
serve.
We had to stop you, Jim.
You can roll it.
It will be daylight soon.
Tribunal in possession.
Trial is held in the detention.
The accused will hear the evidence.
How does this tribunal vote?
You can kill all of us, but there'll be
hundreds of others to carry the sentence
up.
Jim? I saw you sleeping on the couch
when I got up this morning.
I hope that's not going to be a
permanent part of our lifestyle. When
begin? Was it before we were married?
What?
You and Malcolm.
How long has it been going on?
What are you talking about?
I've been sentenced to death.
Oh, but you know all about that, don't
you?
Honey, please don't talk like this.
You're frightening me.
I mean to frighten you.
I'm going to frighten you into telling
me everything.
I want to know all about them.
Jim, I... Jim! Jim!
Who are they?
You answer me!
Why are they trying to kill me?
Huh?
Jim, please!
Will! Are you going to answer me? Are
you?
Why are they trying to kill me?
Is it because of what I'm doing?
My work in the lab!
What's wrong?
Well, physically he'll be all right.
You mean mentally he won't be?
We can't say that yet. His condition is
still uncertain.
May I see him?
Well, I'm afraid I couldn't advise that.
We had to restrain him.
Straightjacket? We don't do that sort of
thing here.
We did place him in a comfortable
security room.
We've refrained from giving him any
medication. We don't want to put him
the reach of diagnosis. I thought you
might be able to help.
Oh, I'll do anything.
Anything.
But please, please, first may I see him?
All right.
She's not my wife. She's a murderer,
like all the others.
Don't run into her.
She'll try to kill me.
Take her away. I know I want to see you
again.
I'm sorry,
Mrs. Handley. I'm very sorry.
He isn't like that.
It's the strain he's been under.
The nightmares.
Nightmares? Well, he hasn't had a decent
night's sleep in weeks.
He's been having these...
These terrible dreams.
Prolonged sleeplessness can induce a
psychotic state.
If that's what's causing it, get
McPeters. Yes, sir.
I'm going to give him a drug.
Just some sedations so that he can
sleep.
Oh, yes.
That's what he needs.
More than anything.
We're going to give you a sedative, Dr.
Hanley.
Something to make you sleep. Oh, no.
No.
No, I can't. I can't sleep.
I can't. Please.
Not without a gun.
They'll kill me.
Open it. I may be faking it. Open it!
Get Dr. Farrell!
Get his lights.
Is he dead?
There's no pulse.
Adrenaline IV, 2 ,000 units.
Just take it easy You're gonna be okay
Just take it easy
I tell you, I saw him back there.
Too bad he had to die.
Is it possible that what we think of as
our life
is a dream?
Our dreams are reality.