The Incredible Hulk (1978) s04e12 Episode Script
The First (1)
(SCREAMING) (ROARS) Come, I want to help you.
That thing killed a man.
I need a suspect, a motive, and evidence.
I've seen this before.
I was just like you.
I want the strength again! And you want to live always afraid? (GRUNTING) (ROARS) (ROARING) NARRATOR: Dr.
David Banner, physician, scientist.
Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have.
Then, an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his body chemistry.
And now, when David Banner grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs.
(ROARS) The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative reporter.
Mr.
McGee, don't make me angry.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
The creature is wanted for a murder he didn't commit.
David Banner is believed to be dead.
And he must let the world think that he is dead until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.
(ROARS) (THUNDER RUMBLING) Don't worry, little brother will beat the storm.
He'll get you home in time.
Dad will kill me.
(MOCKING) I told him I was just going to Linda's.
Can't you go any faster? Yeah.
CASE: Look out! (CHERYL SCREAMS) (PANTING) (SIGHS) You okay? (ENGINE SPUTTERING) Well, what are we gonna do? We're 20 miles from town.
There's a light on over in the Clive house.
CHERYL: I didn't think anybody lived there.
Dad'll kill me.
I promised I'd be home by midnight.
Dad'll kill me.
LINDA: I'm not going in the Clive house.
CASE: There is no place else, not for miles.
CHERYL: Well maybe there's a phone inside.
LINDA: People have been killed in there.
That's a lot of bull.
Then you go in.
He will.
Not by myself, I won't.
WILLIE: We gotta stay with the girls.
Now go on.
CASE: Maybe they've got a phone and they'll let you use it.
Why me? (DOG HOWLING) Hurry! Anybody home? No one's there, go on in.
I can't just break in.
CASE: Who's gonna know? CHERYL: Please, Walt! (GLASS CLINKING) Is anybody here? This place is spooky.
It's okay.
Go on.
Go on.
WALT: Hey, is anybody here? (CAT YOWLING) (WALT PANTING) You okay, Walt? (CHUCKLES) It's just a cat.
(LAUGHING) Oh.
I could use some company.
Come here.
Come here, babe.
(DOOR CREAKING) Can't we wait inside? No! Linda, nothing is going to happen.
Oh, all right.
(MACHINE HUMMING) What's that? (CLATTERING) Is somebody here? (MACHINE HUMMING CONTINUES) Is somebody here? (CLATTERING CONTINUES) (SCREAMING) Walt! Case, don't! Oh, God Hey, I remember that.
Who could forget? People were afraid to go out.
Can you Can you tell me any more about this? Nice to find someone in here who wants to talk.
They all want to read.
Gets boring, let me tell you.
Now, that was a nasty business.
Weird.
The Clive house still give people the creeps.
Just last year, a boy was murdered there.
Unexplained.
His brother found him.
All cut up.
Police couldn't find a clue.
How'd you hear about this? Well, I was reading about Dr.
Clive, his work on radiology.
(STAMMERING) And then this thing about a creature, you know, and I got a little curious.
Did you know Dr.
Clive? Well, I knew of him.
He was a strange one.
Weren't more than a handful of people in town he'd talk to.
And the way he worked.
Day and night.
Always a light on in his lab.
He never even had time to come to the inn on Sunday for a drink.
And there were these flashes of light on his roof.
Don't ask me what they were, but it was after that the thing appeared.
Killed a farmer, Frank Townsend.
There's something that I don't understand.
I mean, the articles just suddenly stop.
There's the notice about Clive's death, and that's it.
Yeah.
Well, I'll tell you about that.
Right after the thing killed Townsend, people got pretty scared.
So, some people went up to talk to Clive.
Things got out of hand.
Well, Clive fell or something.
He died a couple of days later.
Now, the newspaper thought it best not to play it up.
What about the creature? Never seen again.
Is there Is there anybody in town that I could talk to about Clive? Elizabeth Collins.
They was gonna get married.
She's probably in the park right now.
Spends her afternoons there, reading poetry.
What does she look like? Oh, you can't miss Queen Elizabeth.
She's been sticking out like a sore thumb for years.
Miss Collins? I was told that I'd find you here.
My name is David Barr.
I understand that you were a friend of Jeffrey Clive.
I was wondering if I might ask you a few questions about him.
Miss Collins? That was a very long time ago.
I don't think I can help you.
What is it about him that interests you? Well, Dr.
Clive was a great scientist.
I think his research could help my medical problem.
What are you so interested in Clive for? His work in radiation.
Clive was a murderer.
Are you interested in that? Dr.
Clive had a laboratory in his house.
Now, is there anyone that I could talk to about that? CASE: People get killed in that house.
You know that? Place ought to be burned down.
You see, Mr.
Barr, city guys like you aren't real welcome around here.
Not welcome at all.
Hello, Elizabeth.
Is everything all right? He's been asking about the Clive house.
Wants to go rooting around in there.
That's enough, Case.
You and Willie take off.
Case, this isn't gonna do anything for Walt.
It's too late for that.
There's not enough work here for a cop.
Hasn't been any trouble, any real trouble for a year.
I'd kind of like to keep it that way.
You won't find anything out at the Clive house.
Anything good.
Nothing good ever came out of that place.
You'd do best to leave it alone.
Elizabeth.
(SIGHS) Welcome to Vissaria.
ELIZABETH: No one here ever spoke of Jeffrey as a great scientist.
I never really understood his work.
Jeffrey tried to explain, but I I just didn't have the background.
It was something about using the sun's radioactivity to increase strength and productivity.
Mmm-hmm.
I don't know.
It doesn't really make any sense.
What about the creature? You said you wanted to talk about Jeffrey? Yes, but the Well, the creature could be tied to Dr.
Clive and I need to know that.
I don't know anything about that.
Listen, whatever mistakes Jeffrey made, he rectified them.
What do you mean? Well, he wasn't specific, but he told me that his work had led to something terrible.
But he assured me that he'd been able to cure it.
Cure it? Those were Dr.
Clive's words? Just before he died, he completed a cure.
He told me that and he would never have lied.
Not to me.
Miss Collins, this could be very, very important to me.
Did Dr.
Clive keep any notes? I think so.
I wouldn't know where they are.
Dell Frye, he's Jeffrey's old assistant.
Maybe he could help you.
I've kept him on at the house.
If he can't help you, have a look for yourself.
Jeffrey left his house to me.
I wish I had the courage to live there.
Miss Collins, if what you've told me is correct, you've done me a great favor.
DAVID: You knew Dr.
Clive.
That was years ago.
I don't remember.
Don't remember anything at all.
But you worked for him.
Worked for a lot of folks in my day.
With this arthritis, the work comes harder every year.
Forgetting comes easier.
And you don't remember anything about Clive's experiments? Look, mister, I've got work to do.
You can see that, can't you? What about notes? I mean, Dr.
Clive must have left some notes.
That's not my business.
But you were his assistant.
Elizabeth Collins told me so.
Elizabeth Collins don't need this brought up.
She was hurt the most.
Can't understand her doing this.
She's trying to help me.
Maybe.
But I warn you, I look after her when I can.
So you watch your step.
Now, you go around that way.
When you get inside, you better not disturb anything in there.
Thank you.
(DOOR CREAKING) What is that? Dr.
Clive's notes.
His research.
Well, is that what you came for? Yes.
Then you'll be leaving? Well, unfortunately, all the notes aren't here.
are missing.
It's probably just as well.
Somebody probably had the good sense to burn them.
Look, I had nothing against Dr.
Clive.
I didn't know the man.
But he was up to something evil.
At least near the end he was.
How can you be so sure? Well, it was a long time ago.
I was only a deputy.
Just starting.
But I'll never forget that thing.
It was horrible.
A greenish color.
Just not quite human.
And it was unbelievably strong.
It tore Frank Townsend apart.
A lot of people in town, they haven't forgot what happened back then.
Everybody's edgy over last year.
You mention the Clive house, they get upset.
You saw those boys in the park.
I can't order you to leave, because you're not breaking any laws, but if you keep on with this I can't be responsible for what might happen.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes.
Good.
What do you want now? Excuse me, Mr.
Frye.
I've said all I'm going to.
Would you happen to know where the journals from I don't know anything.
Look, you don't know how important it is to me.
I really need those two books.
I told you no! Just what is going on here? He's been at me all day.
Poking around, demanding things.
Just won't let me alone.
Where do you get off bothering people, mister? Sticking your nose where it don't belong.
I didn't help him any.
He's up to no good.
Now, you wouldn't have been here a year ago, now would you? No.
Something bad's been happening here.
It killed my brother.
You see, nobody comes around here.
Nobody.
Except you.
(SCREAMS) Now what's going on? Didn't you hear him? (SCREAMS) (EXHALES) You see anything, Case? No, I can't see a thing.
How deep is this thing anyway? (PANTING) I don't know.
Man, let's Let's get out of here.
(GROWLING) (GROWLS) (SCREAMING) (ROARS) (ROARING) Maybe we ought to get some help.
It'll get away.
We could be too late already.
Well, let's find out.
What's the matter with you? I thought I saw it.
Come on.
(GRUNTS) That's all right.
That's all right.
I won't hurt you.
That's all right.
I won't hurt you.
That's all right.
No.
Come with me.
Please.
Come.
Please.
Those others, they'll hurt you.
They want to kill you.
But you, come with me.
Please, come.
Come.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right, come on.
I want to help you.
No.
You follow me, huh? Come.
You see? Right.
You come with me.
(WHISPERING) Here, come on, come on.
It's all right, I won't hurt you.
Come on.
Over here.
Right down there.
Go ahead.
(WHISPERING) Quiet.
Okay, let's go.
Let's go.
Okay, come in.
That's all right.
That's all right.
Don't be afraid.
Come in.
There you go.
Now you sit right here.
Right there.
Uh-huh.
Good.
Fine.
Are you all right? (SIGHING) How long you been like this? For some time.
Years.
Did I hurt anybody? Nope.
How did this happen to you? An experiment.
Radiation.
Who did it? I did.
Are you a doctor? A scientist? Uh-huh.
I know about you.
Here.
This is you, isn't it? Yes.
Well, it's all right.
I I understand.
I've got to leave.
No.
I said I understand.
I've seen this before, what you are.
Clive? You can stay here.
Long as you like.
No.
Clive, he fixed it, you know? This thing.
He stopped it.
He cured it.
But how can you be sure? Clive's dead.
I can be sure.
It wasn't Clive who was the thing.
It was me.
He did it to me.
I was just like you.
I'll show you.
I don't know how it worked.
Maybe you can tell me.
Damn this arthritis.
Help me.
(CLEARS THROAT) (MACHINE HUMMING) Come with me.
I don't know what it is.
But I kept it working.
I kept everything working.
Clive would have wanted that.
Now, when he did it to me, those panels were open.
Just like this.
Do you know what they are? Well, I'd say they're some kind of solar panels, for collecting energy, or some element of the sun.
What else did he use? Well, I'll show you.
(MACHINE HUMMING) Clive made this.
He used to check it all the time.
I don't read too good.
Well, it's a graph, you see, of solar flare activity.
Now, obviously he was trying to predict the times of maximum activity.
Well, he put me on the table, and then he lowered this.
And this is connected to those things, those panels on the roof.
Mmm-hmm.
See, Clive wanted to help me.
My health never was too good.
And then I got real sick.
Something in the blood.
Clive said that I was going to die, but this might make me strong again.
It was a risk, but better than doing nothing.
He wanted to help me.
You understand? Mmm-hmm.
What happened? Well, I didn't feel different.
Not a bit.
But the next day, I was moving some equipment, and it was heavy, too heavy, and I hurt my back.
Well, it made me mad.
I got real mad.
Well, it was dumb, trying to move that stuff.
Well, I don't remember, but I changed into that thing.
Afterwards, I began to feel better.
Sickness went away.
I can't tell you how good it was to feel strong.
First time in my life not to hurt.
A couple of weeks later, I was in a bar, and the guys started making fun of me, as usual, pushing me around.
I didn't want any trouble.
Never did.
But there was a fight.
(SIGHS) Well, I changed again.
Yeah.
Frank Townsend? I heard that he took a shot at the thing, but it don't matter.
All my life, I'll carry that with me.
But I couldn't help it, I had no control.
I don't even remember it.
Do you understand? Yes.
And the murder last year? I don't know a thing.
Nobody does.
They questioned me and let me go.
Tell me, do you understand how How Clive did it to me? Well, basically, the The same way that I did it.
It's gamma radiation.
Now, Clive's equipment is less sophisticated than what I used, but the panels make the difference.
You see, they collect and concentrate the radiation from the sun.
Now, what about the cure? Well, the same as before.
The panels, again.
Only, he put me on the table.
Only this time, he gave me a shot first.
He'd been working on this serum.
Made me feel Well, it knocked me out for a couple of days.
But I was okay then.
Why don't you stay here? Cure yourself.
I'll help you.
No.
The creature's been seen, and I'd be absolutely helpless without those missing notes.
Those notes aren't missing.
Here.
Dr.
Clive had it built.
Leads outside.
Right here.
CLIVE: "The experiment has led to brief, "periodic metamorphoses of the test subject, "triggered, it seems, by either anger or frustration.
"The test subject becomes what appears to be "a primitive double with incredible strengths.
"This creature could be particularly dangerous, I fear, "due to the test subject's inherent personality.
"It is my hope that by subjecting the test subject "to the same level of radiation, "I can make him susceptible to the cellular growth suppressant "that I have synthesized from pituitary extract.
"Although the suppressant has properties "which will incapacitate the subject for about 48 hours, "I foresee no permanent ill effects.
" Dell, these notes are incomplete.
Where are the formulas for Dr.
Clive's cure? They're not there? No.
Some papers were destroyed the day he died.
But I can't do any work without them.
I mean, it would be almost impossible for me to try and conduct all of his experiments in order to find the formula.
I guess that's it.
Maybe not.
Here.
This is what Clive made.
Maybe it's still good, maybe you can figure out what it is.
I don't have the equipment to analyze it properly.
But there's every indication that the compound is still chemically active.
How's your equipment? Just have to turn it on.
Takes a couple minutes to warm up.
All right, there's no way now to gauge solar flare activity, but it may not be necessary.
Let's open up the panels.
I'd like to make a few tests.
(MECHANICAL WHIRRING) That glow.
People saw that back then.
Right before that thing arrived.
Now the sheriff will do something.
Well, if he doesn't, we will.
But I told you, we saw that glow on the roof! Just like back then.
That thing is gonna show up again.
Now you don't know that, Case.
And I don't either.
Don't you plan to do anything about it? I've done something.
I went to the house.
I saw nothing wrong.
I don't have any grounds to do anything else.
That thing killed a man.
A friend of yours.
And something in that house killed my brother.
Now, are you just gonna sit back and let it all happen all over again? There's nothing I can do.
I need a suspect, a motive, and evidence.
Until I have that Well, we are not gonna wait! That's right.
Now, don't you boys take it upon yourself to do my job.
You'll only get yourselves in big trouble.
Well, somebody's gotta protect this town, the people in it.
If you won't, then we will.
Case, I'm sorry about your brother, too, but this isn't the way to deal with it.
It won't help Walt.
It won't help you.
Are you gonna stop us? Well? I've said all I'm gonna say about that.
Let's go.
All right.
We're almost ready.
Let's warm it up.
You know, Doctor, I need this.
What? This, the machine.
I need it first.
I don't understand.
Well, this.
The arthritis.
It cures things.
Remember? My bullet wound healed in a day.
No, we can't risk it.
No, I want to be strong again.
Healthy.
It's worth the risk.
I'll help you with your cure after.
No, I'm sorry, Dell.
It's just too dangerous for you and for other people.
But I will help you get proper treatment.
This is the best possible treatment, the only possible treatment.
And I've been to doctors.
Help me, please.
(SIGHS) Not with this.
Yes, with that! You're like Clive.
Just like Clive.
So cautious.
So damn cautious.
What did that caution ever get him? He'd be alive today if he hadn't gotten that needle into me.
I'd have helped him.
They wouldn't have had a chance.
I'm sorry.
Yes.
(SCOFFS) You can be sorry.
You're strong.
You're healthy.
You've got the strength.
Oh, how good it was.
I haven't forgotten, and I want it back.
You wanna ruin your life? It's ruined mine.
My life is ruined already! I've had enough! I want the strength again.
And you want to live always afraid? Always afraid of being hunted, of hurting other people? Like who? That bully Townsend? Yes! He had it coming! Or that kid? That damn kid! Dell, what are you saying, Dell? I had to do it.
I had to protect this.
I couldn't let some kid ruin it.
All these years I kept everything working.
All these years I've waited for this.
For you! You've got to help me.
No.
Yes! (BANGING ON DOOR) CASE: Open up in there! I said open up now! WILLIE: Come on in there! (BANGING ON DOOR CONTINUES) (MACHINE HUMMING) (SHUSHING) (MACHINE HUMMING) That's it.
What? That sound.
Just like when Walt was killed.
Come on, light it.
Light it! Come on.
Case, we were gonna wait till everyone was out of there.
That sound.
I ain't waiting.
CASE: What are you waiting for? Throw it! WILLIE: Case, we shouldn't be doing this! Throw it! But, Case Something in there killed Walt.
Now maybe you forgot about that! I haven't.
Then throw it! (SCREAMING) Throw it! Come on! Let's go! No! Keep away! Don't touch it! Leave it alone! No.
Damn you! No! No! (GRUNTS) (SNARLING) (SNARLING) (GROWLS) (SCREAMING) (SNARLING) (ROARING) (ROARS) (SIREN WAILING) (SNARLS) DECKER: Anybody in there? Hey, is anybody in there? Hello, Gladys, this is Sheriff Decker.
Get me a couple of fire fighting units out at the Clive house right away.
(ROARING) (SNARLING) (ROARS) (ROARING)
That thing killed a man.
I need a suspect, a motive, and evidence.
I've seen this before.
I was just like you.
I want the strength again! And you want to live always afraid? (GRUNTING) (ROARS) (ROARING) NARRATOR: Dr.
David Banner, physician, scientist.
Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have.
Then, an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his body chemistry.
And now, when David Banner grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs.
(ROARS) The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative reporter.
Mr.
McGee, don't make me angry.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
The creature is wanted for a murder he didn't commit.
David Banner is believed to be dead.
And he must let the world think that he is dead until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.
(ROARS) (THUNDER RUMBLING) Don't worry, little brother will beat the storm.
He'll get you home in time.
Dad will kill me.
(MOCKING) I told him I was just going to Linda's.
Can't you go any faster? Yeah.
CASE: Look out! (CHERYL SCREAMS) (PANTING) (SIGHS) You okay? (ENGINE SPUTTERING) Well, what are we gonna do? We're 20 miles from town.
There's a light on over in the Clive house.
CHERYL: I didn't think anybody lived there.
Dad'll kill me.
I promised I'd be home by midnight.
Dad'll kill me.
LINDA: I'm not going in the Clive house.
CASE: There is no place else, not for miles.
CHERYL: Well maybe there's a phone inside.
LINDA: People have been killed in there.
That's a lot of bull.
Then you go in.
He will.
Not by myself, I won't.
WILLIE: We gotta stay with the girls.
Now go on.
CASE: Maybe they've got a phone and they'll let you use it.
Why me? (DOG HOWLING) Hurry! Anybody home? No one's there, go on in.
I can't just break in.
CASE: Who's gonna know? CHERYL: Please, Walt! (GLASS CLINKING) Is anybody here? This place is spooky.
It's okay.
Go on.
Go on.
WALT: Hey, is anybody here? (CAT YOWLING) (WALT PANTING) You okay, Walt? (CHUCKLES) It's just a cat.
(LAUGHING) Oh.
I could use some company.
Come here.
Come here, babe.
(DOOR CREAKING) Can't we wait inside? No! Linda, nothing is going to happen.
Oh, all right.
(MACHINE HUMMING) What's that? (CLATTERING) Is somebody here? (MACHINE HUMMING CONTINUES) Is somebody here? (CLATTERING CONTINUES) (SCREAMING) Walt! Case, don't! Oh, God Hey, I remember that.
Who could forget? People were afraid to go out.
Can you Can you tell me any more about this? Nice to find someone in here who wants to talk.
They all want to read.
Gets boring, let me tell you.
Now, that was a nasty business.
Weird.
The Clive house still give people the creeps.
Just last year, a boy was murdered there.
Unexplained.
His brother found him.
All cut up.
Police couldn't find a clue.
How'd you hear about this? Well, I was reading about Dr.
Clive, his work on radiology.
(STAMMERING) And then this thing about a creature, you know, and I got a little curious.
Did you know Dr.
Clive? Well, I knew of him.
He was a strange one.
Weren't more than a handful of people in town he'd talk to.
And the way he worked.
Day and night.
Always a light on in his lab.
He never even had time to come to the inn on Sunday for a drink.
And there were these flashes of light on his roof.
Don't ask me what they were, but it was after that the thing appeared.
Killed a farmer, Frank Townsend.
There's something that I don't understand.
I mean, the articles just suddenly stop.
There's the notice about Clive's death, and that's it.
Yeah.
Well, I'll tell you about that.
Right after the thing killed Townsend, people got pretty scared.
So, some people went up to talk to Clive.
Things got out of hand.
Well, Clive fell or something.
He died a couple of days later.
Now, the newspaper thought it best not to play it up.
What about the creature? Never seen again.
Is there Is there anybody in town that I could talk to about Clive? Elizabeth Collins.
They was gonna get married.
She's probably in the park right now.
Spends her afternoons there, reading poetry.
What does she look like? Oh, you can't miss Queen Elizabeth.
She's been sticking out like a sore thumb for years.
Miss Collins? I was told that I'd find you here.
My name is David Barr.
I understand that you were a friend of Jeffrey Clive.
I was wondering if I might ask you a few questions about him.
Miss Collins? That was a very long time ago.
I don't think I can help you.
What is it about him that interests you? Well, Dr.
Clive was a great scientist.
I think his research could help my medical problem.
What are you so interested in Clive for? His work in radiation.
Clive was a murderer.
Are you interested in that? Dr.
Clive had a laboratory in his house.
Now, is there anyone that I could talk to about that? CASE: People get killed in that house.
You know that? Place ought to be burned down.
You see, Mr.
Barr, city guys like you aren't real welcome around here.
Not welcome at all.
Hello, Elizabeth.
Is everything all right? He's been asking about the Clive house.
Wants to go rooting around in there.
That's enough, Case.
You and Willie take off.
Case, this isn't gonna do anything for Walt.
It's too late for that.
There's not enough work here for a cop.
Hasn't been any trouble, any real trouble for a year.
I'd kind of like to keep it that way.
You won't find anything out at the Clive house.
Anything good.
Nothing good ever came out of that place.
You'd do best to leave it alone.
Elizabeth.
(SIGHS) Welcome to Vissaria.
ELIZABETH: No one here ever spoke of Jeffrey as a great scientist.
I never really understood his work.
Jeffrey tried to explain, but I I just didn't have the background.
It was something about using the sun's radioactivity to increase strength and productivity.
Mmm-hmm.
I don't know.
It doesn't really make any sense.
What about the creature? You said you wanted to talk about Jeffrey? Yes, but the Well, the creature could be tied to Dr.
Clive and I need to know that.
I don't know anything about that.
Listen, whatever mistakes Jeffrey made, he rectified them.
What do you mean? Well, he wasn't specific, but he told me that his work had led to something terrible.
But he assured me that he'd been able to cure it.
Cure it? Those were Dr.
Clive's words? Just before he died, he completed a cure.
He told me that and he would never have lied.
Not to me.
Miss Collins, this could be very, very important to me.
Did Dr.
Clive keep any notes? I think so.
I wouldn't know where they are.
Dell Frye, he's Jeffrey's old assistant.
Maybe he could help you.
I've kept him on at the house.
If he can't help you, have a look for yourself.
Jeffrey left his house to me.
I wish I had the courage to live there.
Miss Collins, if what you've told me is correct, you've done me a great favor.
DAVID: You knew Dr.
Clive.
That was years ago.
I don't remember.
Don't remember anything at all.
But you worked for him.
Worked for a lot of folks in my day.
With this arthritis, the work comes harder every year.
Forgetting comes easier.
And you don't remember anything about Clive's experiments? Look, mister, I've got work to do.
You can see that, can't you? What about notes? I mean, Dr.
Clive must have left some notes.
That's not my business.
But you were his assistant.
Elizabeth Collins told me so.
Elizabeth Collins don't need this brought up.
She was hurt the most.
Can't understand her doing this.
She's trying to help me.
Maybe.
But I warn you, I look after her when I can.
So you watch your step.
Now, you go around that way.
When you get inside, you better not disturb anything in there.
Thank you.
(DOOR CREAKING) What is that? Dr.
Clive's notes.
His research.
Well, is that what you came for? Yes.
Then you'll be leaving? Well, unfortunately, all the notes aren't here.
are missing.
It's probably just as well.
Somebody probably had the good sense to burn them.
Look, I had nothing against Dr.
Clive.
I didn't know the man.
But he was up to something evil.
At least near the end he was.
How can you be so sure? Well, it was a long time ago.
I was only a deputy.
Just starting.
But I'll never forget that thing.
It was horrible.
A greenish color.
Just not quite human.
And it was unbelievably strong.
It tore Frank Townsend apart.
A lot of people in town, they haven't forgot what happened back then.
Everybody's edgy over last year.
You mention the Clive house, they get upset.
You saw those boys in the park.
I can't order you to leave, because you're not breaking any laws, but if you keep on with this I can't be responsible for what might happen.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes.
Good.
What do you want now? Excuse me, Mr.
Frye.
I've said all I'm going to.
Would you happen to know where the journals from I don't know anything.
Look, you don't know how important it is to me.
I really need those two books.
I told you no! Just what is going on here? He's been at me all day.
Poking around, demanding things.
Just won't let me alone.
Where do you get off bothering people, mister? Sticking your nose where it don't belong.
I didn't help him any.
He's up to no good.
Now, you wouldn't have been here a year ago, now would you? No.
Something bad's been happening here.
It killed my brother.
You see, nobody comes around here.
Nobody.
Except you.
(SCREAMS) Now what's going on? Didn't you hear him? (SCREAMS) (EXHALES) You see anything, Case? No, I can't see a thing.
How deep is this thing anyway? (PANTING) I don't know.
Man, let's Let's get out of here.
(GROWLING) (GROWLS) (SCREAMING) (ROARS) (ROARING) Maybe we ought to get some help.
It'll get away.
We could be too late already.
Well, let's find out.
What's the matter with you? I thought I saw it.
Come on.
(GRUNTS) That's all right.
That's all right.
I won't hurt you.
That's all right.
I won't hurt you.
That's all right.
No.
Come with me.
Please.
Come.
Please.
Those others, they'll hurt you.
They want to kill you.
But you, come with me.
Please, come.
Come.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right, come on.
I want to help you.
No.
You follow me, huh? Come.
You see? Right.
You come with me.
(WHISPERING) Here, come on, come on.
It's all right, I won't hurt you.
Come on.
Over here.
Right down there.
Go ahead.
(WHISPERING) Quiet.
Okay, let's go.
Let's go.
Okay, come in.
That's all right.
That's all right.
Don't be afraid.
Come in.
There you go.
Now you sit right here.
Right there.
Uh-huh.
Good.
Fine.
Are you all right? (SIGHING) How long you been like this? For some time.
Years.
Did I hurt anybody? Nope.
How did this happen to you? An experiment.
Radiation.
Who did it? I did.
Are you a doctor? A scientist? Uh-huh.
I know about you.
Here.
This is you, isn't it? Yes.
Well, it's all right.
I I understand.
I've got to leave.
No.
I said I understand.
I've seen this before, what you are.
Clive? You can stay here.
Long as you like.
No.
Clive, he fixed it, you know? This thing.
He stopped it.
He cured it.
But how can you be sure? Clive's dead.
I can be sure.
It wasn't Clive who was the thing.
It was me.
He did it to me.
I was just like you.
I'll show you.
I don't know how it worked.
Maybe you can tell me.
Damn this arthritis.
Help me.
(CLEARS THROAT) (MACHINE HUMMING) Come with me.
I don't know what it is.
But I kept it working.
I kept everything working.
Clive would have wanted that.
Now, when he did it to me, those panels were open.
Just like this.
Do you know what they are? Well, I'd say they're some kind of solar panels, for collecting energy, or some element of the sun.
What else did he use? Well, I'll show you.
(MACHINE HUMMING) Clive made this.
He used to check it all the time.
I don't read too good.
Well, it's a graph, you see, of solar flare activity.
Now, obviously he was trying to predict the times of maximum activity.
Well, he put me on the table, and then he lowered this.
And this is connected to those things, those panels on the roof.
Mmm-hmm.
See, Clive wanted to help me.
My health never was too good.
And then I got real sick.
Something in the blood.
Clive said that I was going to die, but this might make me strong again.
It was a risk, but better than doing nothing.
He wanted to help me.
You understand? Mmm-hmm.
What happened? Well, I didn't feel different.
Not a bit.
But the next day, I was moving some equipment, and it was heavy, too heavy, and I hurt my back.
Well, it made me mad.
I got real mad.
Well, it was dumb, trying to move that stuff.
Well, I don't remember, but I changed into that thing.
Afterwards, I began to feel better.
Sickness went away.
I can't tell you how good it was to feel strong.
First time in my life not to hurt.
A couple of weeks later, I was in a bar, and the guys started making fun of me, as usual, pushing me around.
I didn't want any trouble.
Never did.
But there was a fight.
(SIGHS) Well, I changed again.
Yeah.
Frank Townsend? I heard that he took a shot at the thing, but it don't matter.
All my life, I'll carry that with me.
But I couldn't help it, I had no control.
I don't even remember it.
Do you understand? Yes.
And the murder last year? I don't know a thing.
Nobody does.
They questioned me and let me go.
Tell me, do you understand how How Clive did it to me? Well, basically, the The same way that I did it.
It's gamma radiation.
Now, Clive's equipment is less sophisticated than what I used, but the panels make the difference.
You see, they collect and concentrate the radiation from the sun.
Now, what about the cure? Well, the same as before.
The panels, again.
Only, he put me on the table.
Only this time, he gave me a shot first.
He'd been working on this serum.
Made me feel Well, it knocked me out for a couple of days.
But I was okay then.
Why don't you stay here? Cure yourself.
I'll help you.
No.
The creature's been seen, and I'd be absolutely helpless without those missing notes.
Those notes aren't missing.
Here.
Dr.
Clive had it built.
Leads outside.
Right here.
CLIVE: "The experiment has led to brief, "periodic metamorphoses of the test subject, "triggered, it seems, by either anger or frustration.
"The test subject becomes what appears to be "a primitive double with incredible strengths.
"This creature could be particularly dangerous, I fear, "due to the test subject's inherent personality.
"It is my hope that by subjecting the test subject "to the same level of radiation, "I can make him susceptible to the cellular growth suppressant "that I have synthesized from pituitary extract.
"Although the suppressant has properties "which will incapacitate the subject for about 48 hours, "I foresee no permanent ill effects.
" Dell, these notes are incomplete.
Where are the formulas for Dr.
Clive's cure? They're not there? No.
Some papers were destroyed the day he died.
But I can't do any work without them.
I mean, it would be almost impossible for me to try and conduct all of his experiments in order to find the formula.
I guess that's it.
Maybe not.
Here.
This is what Clive made.
Maybe it's still good, maybe you can figure out what it is.
I don't have the equipment to analyze it properly.
But there's every indication that the compound is still chemically active.
How's your equipment? Just have to turn it on.
Takes a couple minutes to warm up.
All right, there's no way now to gauge solar flare activity, but it may not be necessary.
Let's open up the panels.
I'd like to make a few tests.
(MECHANICAL WHIRRING) That glow.
People saw that back then.
Right before that thing arrived.
Now the sheriff will do something.
Well, if he doesn't, we will.
But I told you, we saw that glow on the roof! Just like back then.
That thing is gonna show up again.
Now you don't know that, Case.
And I don't either.
Don't you plan to do anything about it? I've done something.
I went to the house.
I saw nothing wrong.
I don't have any grounds to do anything else.
That thing killed a man.
A friend of yours.
And something in that house killed my brother.
Now, are you just gonna sit back and let it all happen all over again? There's nothing I can do.
I need a suspect, a motive, and evidence.
Until I have that Well, we are not gonna wait! That's right.
Now, don't you boys take it upon yourself to do my job.
You'll only get yourselves in big trouble.
Well, somebody's gotta protect this town, the people in it.
If you won't, then we will.
Case, I'm sorry about your brother, too, but this isn't the way to deal with it.
It won't help Walt.
It won't help you.
Are you gonna stop us? Well? I've said all I'm gonna say about that.
Let's go.
All right.
We're almost ready.
Let's warm it up.
You know, Doctor, I need this.
What? This, the machine.
I need it first.
I don't understand.
Well, this.
The arthritis.
It cures things.
Remember? My bullet wound healed in a day.
No, we can't risk it.
No, I want to be strong again.
Healthy.
It's worth the risk.
I'll help you with your cure after.
No, I'm sorry, Dell.
It's just too dangerous for you and for other people.
But I will help you get proper treatment.
This is the best possible treatment, the only possible treatment.
And I've been to doctors.
Help me, please.
(SIGHS) Not with this.
Yes, with that! You're like Clive.
Just like Clive.
So cautious.
So damn cautious.
What did that caution ever get him? He'd be alive today if he hadn't gotten that needle into me.
I'd have helped him.
They wouldn't have had a chance.
I'm sorry.
Yes.
(SCOFFS) You can be sorry.
You're strong.
You're healthy.
You've got the strength.
Oh, how good it was.
I haven't forgotten, and I want it back.
You wanna ruin your life? It's ruined mine.
My life is ruined already! I've had enough! I want the strength again.
And you want to live always afraid? Always afraid of being hunted, of hurting other people? Like who? That bully Townsend? Yes! He had it coming! Or that kid? That damn kid! Dell, what are you saying, Dell? I had to do it.
I had to protect this.
I couldn't let some kid ruin it.
All these years I kept everything working.
All these years I've waited for this.
For you! You've got to help me.
No.
Yes! (BANGING ON DOOR) CASE: Open up in there! I said open up now! WILLIE: Come on in there! (BANGING ON DOOR CONTINUES) (MACHINE HUMMING) (SHUSHING) (MACHINE HUMMING) That's it.
What? That sound.
Just like when Walt was killed.
Come on, light it.
Light it! Come on.
Case, we were gonna wait till everyone was out of there.
That sound.
I ain't waiting.
CASE: What are you waiting for? Throw it! WILLIE: Case, we shouldn't be doing this! Throw it! But, Case Something in there killed Walt.
Now maybe you forgot about that! I haven't.
Then throw it! (SCREAMING) Throw it! Come on! Let's go! No! Keep away! Don't touch it! Leave it alone! No.
Damn you! No! No! (GRUNTS) (SNARLING) (SNARLING) (GROWLS) (SCREAMING) (SNARLING) (ROARING) (ROARS) (SIREN WAILING) (SNARLS) DECKER: Anybody in there? Hey, is anybody in there? Hello, Gladys, this is Sheriff Decker.
Get me a couple of fire fighting units out at the Clive house right away.
(ROARING) (SNARLING) (ROARS) (ROARING)