Let me die.
Who let me
die?
I should have known he was as good as dead when they wheeled him in.
You did everything possible. Everything you could,
everything,
everything except save my patient,
everything in the books.
Now dad do. I have permission to take over and try things. My way,
the operating room is no place to experiment.
He's dead. I can't do any harm
very well.
C is yours.
Do what you want to do?
All right,
make an opening into the chest cavity.
Apply 100
milliamps of current directly to the heart. Then massage by hand.
I'll handle the brain area
by yourself by myself.
Mhm.
Got to work fast.
If it isn't too late
and talk will be still alive.
He is.
I just picked up the same pulse speed.
Keep massaging the heart.
I am I am.
These electric shocks should stimulate the motor
area enough to ate the heart again.
Then he will need any external stimuli.
Keep away from the motor area.
You'll paralyze him for good,
which would you rather be paralyzed or dead
and try to play God.
Some choices are not yours to make.
But the obstetrician has to decide which to save
the mother of the child who plays God.
Then
it's part of the game. The game,
the human body is not a jigsaw puzzle to experiment on.
Still playing it safe. Like the other doctors
save my breath. Keep massaging the heart.
You've already lost your patient doctor. I'm gonna save mine.
His pulse is coming back stronger than ever.
It's unbelievable.
Nothing's unbelievable. If you have the nerve to experiment,
I've been working on something like this for weeks
in your laboratory
knew this would work. If only I had the opportunity.
Don't conduct experiments on people.
You should be sure of the results first.
No,
stop massaging the heart.
Let's see if it can take over by itself.
All right,
close up the chest
and that I finished with the cerebral area.
How's his pulse? Strong and steady.
Yeah, you did perform a miracle.
I may not approve of your methods, but
I am proud of your result.
Yeah.
It was an amazing,
even an extraordinary operation, son.
It still is too risky
to uncontrolled,
saved his life
the after effects.
What about them?
You've lost the urge to experiment
to explore.
You don't explore on people that
before you put a scalpel to one,
an operation like this needs testing under every condition
over and over again.
Rabbits, mice monkeys,
not people
that man who should be dead now won't think so.
There's more to surgery than just being a carpenter. To patch up walls
or a plummet of drain pipes.
Our bodies are capable of adjusting in ways we've hardly dreamt of.
We can only find the key.
I'm so close now. So very close.
The key to what
complete transplantations
to be able to transplant limbs and organs,
to be able to replace disease and damage parts of
the body as easily as we replace eye corneas now,
so that the new parts will join together as though they were born. There
can't be done.
It can be done
with my new special compound I've created, I'll do it. I know I can do it. Sure. Sure.
That's what you say. That's what I know.
I know. I'm close,
darling. I'm so proud of you. I could kiss you.
Promises. Huh?
Always promises.
Careful. Your father's liable to report us.
Stop the floor
show.
When you two are married, it won't be fun to watch anymore.
I can promise you one thing. Your grandchildren won't be test tube babies.
You better hurry. If you want to catch that plane to Denver, dad,
you know that medical convention can't start without you.
A Jan. You'd better check about my reservations.
Oh, yes. I'll call the airport. I'll be right back.
They,
the line between scientific genius and obsessive fanaticism is a thin one.
I want you on the right side of it.
If I don't experiment, how can I hope to perform operations?
Like the one you almost messed up
but I can't cover up for you anymore.
The superintendent had it out with me.
He thinks it's you who's been stealing those limbs from the amputee operations.
So, what if it is,
I've got to have limbs for my transplant experiment.
Well, you said test an experiment, test an experiment.
But limbs and organs taken from people,
I've got to have them to work with.
Sure. I've made a few mistakes,
but I've learned from them. I've learned
your reservations are all set. 330. Take on
Bill.
What have you two planned for the weekend?
Oh, nothing much.
It's a quiet weekend.
Are you sure you're not going out to the country house?
You're always sneaking off up there.
The place gives me the creeps. I should have sold it when your mother died.
You can't sell that place.
Well, I mean, it's nice to get away from the city.
I can work without anyone snooping around. You spend too much time up there.
All right. I'll, uh, I'll see you both in a few days.
Got to clean up and get out of here.
Fine operation or not. Bill.
You're walking on thin ice.
Don't go too far.
Oh, every time you touch me, I go out of my mind.
I want to kiss you,
Bill. I want to get married. I can't stand not having you.
You've been wonderful.
I'd rather be a bride
in a few more weeks.
Nothing will keep us apart.
We'll be together.
Ok,
Doctor Cort,
I'm so glad you're here. I was afraid you'd gotten away.
There was a very important phone message that came to you.
It sounded quite urgent and I've been looking everywhere.
It was from a man called Kurt.
He called from the country place and he said something terrible has happened.
He wanted you to come right out.
Thank you.
Well, you've always wanted to know what's kept me away from you so many weekends.
Have you got the keys to your car?
Why haven't you ever taken me up here before?
Because the things I'm working on don't need an audience.
That telephone call.
What about it?
All right. All right. Hold off the questions.
Why the mystery there?
What's it all about?
We'll be there soon enough. You'll see.
I've got to hurry
first.
Sure.
Right. All right. Forgot to open the door. I'm coming
snack.
What's happened to you? It's been a terrible accident.
I've got to save her. I've got to save her. What is it?
What have you got there?
Please sterilize the tubes and instruments quickly. What are you going to do?
Aren't you going to have a look in the closet first? I can't.
Now, this is more important but you don't understand
that Curtis is urgent. Do as I tell you before. It's too late. I can't waste
time arguing with you.
Ok.
The eyelids,
I saw them off
can
be,
my eyes are deceiving me.
What you see is real.
What's done is done and what I've done is right.
It's the work of science
and among
this
fire
burning,
let me die.
Help me,
I've had success with transplants. Now. I can do it for her.
Transplant her to what
I brought her back.
She'll live and I'll get her another buddy.
I can make her complete again.
Only a madman
can believe that she could ever be like before they would argue with me.
I love her too much to let her stay like this.
I
restore as before
you'll see.
Can't you realize?
Can't you see,
there's a pattern to all that lives,
an order and arrangement.
She had a heart
and a brain and her spirit was in both. Not in one or the other. No,
I'll give her a brain and a heart.
Yes. And what of her soul
to say you'll love her.
You can remember her love for you.
Then how can you make of her? An experiment of horror?
All the skill and science I possess was meant for this.
Life has a pattern.
The whole pattern of my life is shaping itself to save her now
and you intend to go through with it? Yes.
Sleep. My darling.
Rest and grow stronger.
How long do you think we can keep her alive under these conditions?
48
50 hours at the most?
And you really believe you can work a transplant on her
successfully? Yes.
Like my arm
with then deformed.
Yours was an early experiment that failed
with her. I'm using my new Adreno serum.
Must work.
I've got to go now,
if the police
or anyone call,
tell them you don't know anything about it.
I don't think anyone will trace this here
because your body was burned in the wreckage.
Of course, of course,
look, Bill, before you go
to have a look in that closet.
It's the reason why I called you up here.
Mhm.
Yeah.
Hm.
Ok.
Exactly.
Keep it locked
last night. It got so violent. It almost broke out.
Oh,
that's
that,
like,
just keep it closed.
A
yeah,
I've got to think about her now.
Got to find her a body.
How you're going to go about getting one
bill.
How would you do it?
There are always ways,
there are ways
che che
to the.
Mhm.
What took you so long?
What made you think I'd come,
you know, a good thing when you see it,
there was plenty to see.
I liked your act.
Is it all you liked
your costume? What there was of it was interesting. Is that all
the rest of the equipment is standard?
So,
uh,
the arrangement is pretty special,
you know, terrorists just looking at the sites.
What are you doing here? Slumming.
I get my allowance once a week. Ok. If you're so loaded, you pay for the drinks.
I already did.
Are you hustling for the house?
I'm the leading lady around here,
I can sit with the squares out front
or I can relax back here with my,
I'll bet you don't have an enemy in the world.
Where are you from?
Go around
just looking around
when you get done looking. Then what
I operate,
I get your message. You're coming a crime.
You could flip any chick in the house, find me.
So like I said, I'm looking, you don't have to look any
further.
I'm not gonna fake it for you.
When do you go on again?
What?
Relax. I got another show
yet but it could be for you.
Oh I was just asking
try taking,
I'm getting nervous. I'm over 21.
How it isn't that? It's
I just got things to do
things to take care of.
What
better is it?
What could be more important that could be taken care of right now.
I,
I've got to see about helping somebody,
somebody who needs my help very badly. You're gonna cut out of me. Now, baby.
Now when you've got me feeling so good,
I'm good for you.
I know I'm good for what
you want.
You may be just what I'm looking for.
Got your nerve
digging.
You hold your feet up body back to the bar with the rest of the flies. You see
AJ
dray on?
I only came in here to change my clothes. I got a mission.
No, I like to see the rest of the show.
Come back in half an hour and maybe you will.
Hi little boy.
I see it that the queen
paint
come here don't hide.
You know, you've got the kind of face a girl doesn't mind looking at
even I
heard all the other girls were asking about. You.
Get out of here
too. Company. Three. The crowd who's to tell me to blow if I don't want to.
This is my birthday room too.
Remember?
It kills her
to
see me make time.
You're the only thing that's going to be made around here tonight.
Eat your heart out.
I'd better be going.
Look what you've done. You come,
let me see you later.
I'll make everything up to you. I swear I will.
Yeah.
Come on back later.
I'll remember.
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of.
Wow.
The tramp
was
a blue
more
and you messed it up.
What makes you think you had?
Do whatever you wanted be set?
Who
me?
Who
a guy like that? What was leftovers?
Quiet
for our child?
You
and the fact the closet,
how has he done to you?
I know there's someone there
back
once if you hear me.
Ok.
That I'm not the first,
not twice. If I'm not the first,
you should have let me die.
I hate him for what he's done to me.
I
do.
You only know what it's like being like this.
Do you know what it's like
with
this?
Gather? We could have revenge.
You want revenge
yet
do the thing inside. And
the
thing,
my brain is still untouched
and his keeping me alive has given me a power. He didn't count on
power that you can feel
crossed this room and through that door.
Can't you?
Together? We're both more than things.
We're a power as hideous as our deformities
together. We'll wreak our revenge.
Aah.
Create power
and you will enforce it.
It was a thing inside
thing out here.
What's left behind that door?
Horror?
No, normal mind can imagine
something even more terrible than you.
No, my deformed friend,
like all quantities
horr has its ultimate.
And I'm that
there is a horror behind yours
and it's in there
locked behind that door
paths of experimentation.
Twist and turn through mountains of miscalculation and often lose themselves in
error and darkness
behind that door
is the sum total of dr corner's mistakes.
You had no right to bring me back to this.
Perhaps not.
Who knows.
But you should know.
And before
he injected the serum into that
it was, but a mass of grafted tissues
lifeless,
just lay there,
weight it down with its transplants of broken limbs and amputated arms.
But with this serum,
it began to breathe,
it's impossible.
Would you have thought possible what he's already done?
Take yourself?
He's brought you back.
You live
only a few years ago.
All transplants were impossible.
That's what he's been doing up here where no one could see his work
experimenting with transplants on that
and on me
that again,
tear away my flesh. Time after time
test after test
my hopes shattering with each grafted arm, he fastened to me.
Watching it
wither and warp.
Instead of
strengthening
you see,
he's learned from his mistakes
and you stayed with him,
helping him in his grotesque work that he claims is for science.
Was there a place for me on the outside with this
world where
eyes would look upon me with pity
and people would turn away from me in disgust.
No,
the alcoholic has his bottle.
The dope addict is needle.
I had my research.
He used to be a surgeon.
It was my life
and one night in the laboratory they had
there was an accident,
they had to amputate my arm
and
he has used you to
I have no choice.
He was my only hope a
surgeon needs both his arms, not just one.
So
you see my
transplanted grotesque mistake. So did I
I live only for the day he can work a successful transplant to my body.
That is why I stay
transplant
my head on to another body.
Thanks.
And he's insane with the belief he can do it.
The tissues of my body would reject the tissues of another,
reject it as a foreign substance. It is,
the transplant would never take, it would never stay in place.
Blood's antibodies would attack it as they attack any invading matter.
Yes. But his new discovery,
this new serum may change all that
serum injected into the bloodstream
affects the lymphoid tissues.
Here in the neck,
the lymphoids that provide the antibodies for
the blood that detect foreign transplanted matter.
It was untested, untried.
So we used it on you.
So
that liquid in the blood that's being pumped through what's left of me.
It's what makes me feel that
he may produce results. He didn't ask for
results.
You mean
like this?
That's more terrible than your arm of relative beauty
results of power
of magnitude.
But
what power
can't you see that you're at the mercy of every element of the universe.
How can you speak of power?
I heard the power,
this liquid that he's pumped into me.
My brain burns with it.
That thing inside and I are in touch.
You want me to prove it?
You can prove nothing.
You are powerless.
Show you how powerless I am.
You were
behind that door.
Bingo. If you hear me,
whoever,
whatever you are,
I command you,
you understand me.
I'm only ahead
and you're whatever you are
together, we're strong,
more powerful than any of them.
What are you running from? What's wrong with you?
It's you
something wrong. Something beyond control in that room.
There's nothing beyond my control.
She's alive and I'll keep her alive until I find her body.
I
can't talk anymore. I'm tired. I've got to go to sleep.
And you,
you didn't find her buddy? Well, I've got to be careful.
I can't afford to be identified as the last
person sitting with a girl before she disappears.
Do you think you'll get one?
There are many things left for tomorrow.
Hi. I was about to call a cop the way you were looking me over. Have you been Bill?
Oh, just fine, Donna.
I haven't seen you for quite a while. Too long. I'm still waiting for that call.
You once promised me,
you know how it is with interns.
All work, all work and no play even makes for dull doctors.
You're gonna lose that bedside manner of yours.
Say have that little side course in anatomy.
Yours any time? No, not mine. A body beautiful contest.
You know, bathing suit models,
plenty of females on the hoof your eyes will have a field day interested.
Why not?
You're just with the dog who ordered?
Come on, jump in
uh,
on second thought. I just remembered.
I've got to stop by my place and take care of a few things. It only take a minute.
You don't mind, do you?
I always follow the doctor's orders. Anything you prescribe? I'll take.
That's what I like about you, Donna.
Always so obliging.
Hey, Donna. Where are you going? What's the hurry? Hi, Jeanie.
We're going to look for some bodies. You mean the contest? Yeah. Got any room for me?
Oh, sure. Plenty, Bill. This is Jeannie. Reynolds Jeannie. This is
Dr Phil Carlo
hop in, but first we got to stop off at his place. Sure.
Oh, as a matter of fact, I can wait
now that there's two of you, we'll have to wait.
I guess he thinks there's safety in numbers this time. There is.
He promised not to hurt you
and I promise not to hurt you,
Bill.
It looks fine.
I,
well,
it looks like we're about ready to go backstage of five of the girls
who have reached the contest finals and we are here to choose Miss body.
Beautiful.
Now we've eliminated everyone except the five finalists and
they will be judged solely by your applause.
So let's bring them on first
Helen Appleton
that he
get it.
Terry
L
I,
she has the second nicest body I've ever seen
a second to you.
No, another girl figure model.
You remember that one in school years ago? The one who had the accident?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Doris
Doris Powell
is she still around a
few people see her nowadays,
she just stays in her studio posing for art classes and camera books.
I
think it might
poses for art classes.
The nicest body she's ever seen
the nicest body.
Maybe this is the woman she's got to be,
I can keep Jan alive only for a few more hours
to find her body.
He,
he intends to kill somebody
to rob them of their body.
Do you hear me?
Yes. You could hear me
know how Bill's egotism drives him on and on.
Infamy, upon infamy
could ever be born of evil.
Yet he claims his
work is for science.
For humanity.
Joined to flesh, not your own.
What's human in this
of how you must exist?
Locked behind that door.
We've got to stop him.
Ok, boys, I've had it for time. Come on, baby. One more. Just one more, please.
Five minutes.
Time's just about up. Anyway,
say Doris,
would you like to have a drink with me? Just you and me
away from everybody someplace where nobody will butt in
with you and I can really be alone.
No, thank you.
How about posing for me? Private? Like
I'll pay you real money, real good money,
kind of money. They don't throw at you every day and for doing hardly nothing at all.
I do my posing for classes only Wednesdays and Saturdays. 8 to 10. Yeah.
No, but we can. Good night.
See it all. Mr.
The show's over
next time. Bring a camera and buy a ticket.
I'm not running a charity.
You don't remember me? Do you Doris?
Every guy on the make gives me that same tired line.
I'm Bill
Kutner.
Bill Courts
long time ago that fight.
He almost tore that wise guy apart for making fun of me
after my accident.
Can't we go somewhere and talk? No, I don't date men
because I pose like I do your mind works over time
you get
ideas.
You're all alike.
No, not all of us.
I'm not on the make for you.
Ok. So, maybe you are better than most.
Maybe not.
I still hate all men.
Oh, yeah. I
don't know what one did to me once.
Have you forgotten?
Well, have you?
No, I haven't forgotten.
Neither have I,
I carry the memory around with me.
You can't hide yourself away here forever. Posing.
Bear in front of a bunch of neurotics. Listen, go ahead.
I trusted a man once all the way. What did it get me?
He gets his head full of jealous lies and I get
to forget. How can I forget
I carry the memory around with me?
Mhm
Am I so appealing to you now?
Still so interested?
Doesn't it make you sick?
You don't even turn away from me
like everyone else does
to me. You're not ugly.
I see only beauty in you.
You have a lovely body and a face that can be made beautiful again also.
Yeah,
I've heard that song before.
I'm a doctor. I know
my father's one of the leading plastic surgeons. If anyone can help you, we can.
I know I can.
I've been to doctors. It's no use. The scar tissue is too deep.
No one can help me.
That was a few years ago
today. Nothing's hopeless.
Uh We can graft scar and skin tissue that
we can even freeze areas of the skin
and sand away, damaged skin tissues.
The way you say that, that look in your eyes.
I almost wanna believe you.
I almost want to believe you
then start believing.
Even if your father could help me,
I couldn't pay him the kind of money it would take, don't talk about money.
He does a lot of work without any charge.
Why should you want to do this for me?
What's in it for you?
I'm going to make your face beautiful again.
Cut it off and give your body away.
A
I'm sorry,
Bill.
I have been knocked around so many times
I've lost count.
It's tough living with this.
I don't mean to sound ungrateful
because you've been battered around. Don't go sour.
You shouldn't lose your trust in people.
Not all of us.
I believe you. I want to
do. You really think something can be done?
Only my father knows.
Look, we have a country place just out of town
he's visiting for the weekend.
I could take you there now for a consultation.
You mean tonight?
Well, if you'd rather wait till he comes back. Oh, no, no.
I mean, he wouldn't be annoyed, being bothered with me so late at night.
Well, you let me do the worrying.
I'll do anything that'll help me get rid of this face.
Oh, that's where I come in.
Remember the last time I helped you?
Where are you going?
Who are you calling my girlfriend?
I want to tell her the news before, you know what the verdict's going to be.
You're right. I shouldn't talk until I know what's going to happen.
Well, my girlfriend, she's supposed to drop in later,
I'll have to leave her a note or something.
Well, just tell her you'll see you later.
Otherwise she'll ask a lot of nosy questions. We want to be sure. First,
just throw something on.
I'll be with you in a minute.
Just tell her you'll keep in touch.
I'll leave it on the table. She'll see it.
Had to go out with old friend, Bill Cortner.
We'll call you tomorrow.
Doth.
Yeah,
I'll leave it on the lam.
She'll see it, won't she?
That's the first place. She'll look, I'll leave the lights on for her.
I have waited so long for this
so
I,
I can
hit it again.
Got to see your hideousness.
You've got to see mine.
I wonder which of us is more awful.
Nothing you can be, is more terrible than what I am.
A head without a body
and that you'd be in its grave.
Hate you.
I hate him for what he's done to me.
Can your horror match mine?
Great.
Someone's coming.
I have come to feed your friend
while you feed yourself with hate. It prefers food.
Your
sniveling fear becomes you more.
What makes you think? I'm afraid of what's in there
or of you?
A mere head in search of a body.
People fear what they don't understand
and what they can't see.
What are you talking about?
You are nothing but a freak of life
and a freak of death.
Why should I be afraid of a few knocks on the door?
But last night you ran,
you were afraid of what you imagine. Lay behind that door.
I
imagined
it was I who helped graft together the bits
and pieces that were stolen from the hospital,
an amputated arm, a leg, a torso.
It was I who helped piece them together like a monstrous jigsaw puzzle.
And that same medicine that
he spent to me to activate my lymphoid tissues
as he fed it to that.
No,
no. On that, he used an earlier formula.
It wasn't as successful as the theorem he's using on you,
but it was enough to allow the transplants to take.
If your experiment is successful,
it would be my turn.
And what else has happened to it?
Me? What else?
Well, it's
mutated. Some of course,
changed considerably.
Why don't you open the door?
I
see how it's changed. Listen, you,
I warn you,
you better stop pestering me. Do you hear
I'm getting fed up with you and your insidious talk.
He should have cut out your tongue while he was at
it. Fade.
Afraid of whom
have you.
No,
not anymore.
But
it
nor of it
only keeps it locked in there so that
it'll be safe. That's all
safe
for me.
Beat it.
I hope he prolongs your existence into a lifetime of agony.
Then we'll see who's laughing at home.
You miserable fool again.
I
kill.
Oh,
please.
Yeah.
To,
yeah.
No,
you and your father live here
only on weekends when we want to get away from the city.
This place certainly is lonely.
Well, the further from prying eyes, the better,
I mean, it's nice and quiet here. We can get away from the noise and telephones.
Oh, I guess it is.
Well, sit down, sit down, I'll fix us a drink, huh?
My father should be back soon.
You mean he's not here now?
Oh, come on now, Doris. Do I look like a maniac who goes around killing girls?
You've got to learn to trust people. You know, people like me. Really? I'm sorry.
I trust you.
I trust you with my life.
But I can't ask for any more than that.
I'll be right back.
I was beginning to think you'd forgotten about me. I've forgotten you. Hi,
Doris. You've become very important to me.
Very important.
I put a little water in it so it wouldn't be too strong for you. Fine.
I'm not a very heavy drinker. Neither am I?
Well, here's to your future,
whatever it may be,
I'll drink to that.
It's getting awfully warm in here.
I feel kind of funny.
Be
something in my drink,
didn't you?
I told you I'd bring you a body.
A beautiful one.
Still. It will be yours, Bill? You can't. Yes, I can.
I don't want you as a complete woman. Not part of one.
Is it a crime to want to keep you alive?
Is it a crime for science to jump ahead by e
this kind of thing must be done
when it's over? You'll see.
I've got to hurry now.
The drug will wear off soon and she'll be awake
when she does come to,
it will be your head consciously awakening for her.
You must be stopped.
You must,
and who's gonna do it?
It's got to be quiet here.
Can't stop me
very well.
I told you to let me die.