Incredible Hulk, The (1977)

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(INAUDIBLE)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(SCREAMING)

(GASPS)

This is it?

That's it.

(SIGHING)
Oh, good grief.

I carry this around for
a while, I can give up
my exercise classes.

Why don't you give them
up anyway?

I think you look terrific,
Dr. Marks.

Oh, Jerry,
I always knew I liked you.

Hey, why don't you run away
with me to Acapulco?

How about someplace
more exotic?

Casablanca?

Well...

The Mayo Clinic.

Now you're talking.

Oh, Jerry,
you've been here too long.

Too long.

(SIGHS)

Hi, Angie, how are you?

Oh, Ben.
Hi.

Ben, hi, listen.
What happened

to the adrenal scans
and the synapse tests?

Not back yet. I heard
the myoglobin analysis
was...

The myoglobin analysis
is here.
Looks thorough.

(CHUCKLES)
A reporter named
Jack McGee called.

Yeah, he's from
The National Register.
He wants to interview us.

Oh. National Register
is not exactly
The Washington Post.

No, not exactly.
That's why we've
been ducking him.

Listen, would you
do me a favor?
If you see David,

would you tell him...
There's David, there.

Oh, thanks.

Good morning.

Hi.

Well, we got
the myoglobin analysis
back.

I'll tell you,
I think that computer
oughta run for Congress.

You ask it a simple question,
gives you back
a 10-pound answer

takes you a month
to decipher.

Yeah.

(MACHINES HUMMING)

Dreaming again?

Bad as before?

Yeah.

Thinking of going back
to the shrink?

Oh, what's the use?

The doctor said
I should expect the dreams
to recur every now and then.

Yeah, but they were
better for a while.

It's been almost a year.

Eleven months tomorrow.

WOMAN: (ON INTERCOM)
Dr. Marks?

Yes, Liz.

Mrs. Jesse Maier and her son
are here for you.

Okay. Would you tell them
I'll be right out? Thank you.

David.

Look, I think we should
put this particular
interview off for today?

No, no, we're going
to do it. So,

why don't you bring them in
while I go buy a donut?

Why don't I go bring them in
while you go buy a donut.

Hey, you want anything?

I'll bring you a surprise.

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

Mrs. Maier?

Oh, yes.
Hi, I'm Elaina Marks.

And this is Bernard?
BJ.

Oops, BJ!
He doesn't like Bernard.

Well, BJ it is.
How are you?
Put it there.

Well, would you guys
come with me, please?

Uh-huh.
Good.

Here we go.

What do you do here?
Am I gonna get a shot?
Hush now, BJ.

Oh, come on now, BJ,
would I do that to you?

Then what's
all this stuff for?

Well, I'll tell you.
Now, this is our
research laboratory.

And what we're trying
to figure out here

is just how strong
the human body can be.

Hey, my mama's
real strong.

Once she saved my life.

Yes, I know,
and that's what we want
to talk to you about.

As I told you on the phone,
Mrs. Maier,

what we're trying to learn
is how to tap into that

really incredible reserve
of human strength

that all of us have,
and only use about 20% of.

You mean I'm stronger
than I think I am?

Oh, are you kidding?
You're much...
Come on over here.

Excuse us.

Gonna do a little experiment
on you. Get you up here.

(GRUNTS) There we go.
I'm not so strong. Here.

Now, you see this
little muscle right here?

This guy that makes
the foot wiggle
back and forth.

Well, now that little muscle
can take about 1000 pounds
of pressure on it.

Wow!
Yeah, wow is right.

And your bones,
your bones are much stronger
than you think, too.

But bones break.
Yeah, bones break.

But, so do eggshells,
right?

Right.

Okay, I'm gonna
show you something.
I just happen to have

a little old egg here. Now,
will you stick your hands
together? That's right.

Now, I want you to
squeeze it on the ends
as hard as you can.

It'll be all yucky.

No, it won't.
Have a little faith
in me. Go ahead.

Hey, I can't break it!

See, I told you.

Oh, it's some kind
of a special egg.

No, it isn't.
Things can be a lot
stronger than they look.

It's a real egg.
Crack it.

That's it. You see,
but it was a lot stronger
than you thought. Right?

Lost another egg, huh?
Uh-huh.

Mrs. Maier, BJ,
this is Dr. David Banner.

Hi, Mrs. Maier,
how are you? BJ.
Hi.

Look, there was
only one donut
down at the shop

so what do you say
we split it four ways?
Yeah.

Oh, no, not me,
thank you.
You guys have it.

Okay.
I certainly
don't need that.

There you go, my friend.
Now, if you'd hop down
from there

and go into that room
round to the right,
Mrs. Maier,

we'll be right in
for the interview.
All right, Doctor.

ELAINA: And what was
your weight at the time?

Oh, it was about
110 pounds.

Oh! Wish I could
keep mine at that.

All right, now, Mrs. Maier,
if you'd just tell us
your story in your own words.

Well, I was driving
to Columbus, Ohio,

to see my sister, Katy.

And BJ was sitting
on the passenger side,

playing with his car
as usual.

But, he did have
his seat belt on.

MRS. MAIER:
There wasn't much traffic.

I was going
about 50, I think.

I just glanced over at BJ

just before it happened.

(SCREECHING)

(STAMMERING)
The tire had blown out.

It was the left front tire.

It tore the wheel so hard

that it just came
right out of my hands.

And the car swerved
across the road there,

and they said the front wheel
dug into the dirt

and it started to roll.

Then it rolled,
it rolled over.

It kept on rolling.

I thought it was
never gonna stop.

I guess the door,
it sprung open,

'cause all of a sudden,
I was just right there
on the ground.

The car was turned over,

to one... You know,
sort of on its top,
to one side like that.

Then the fire started up,
and I...

And I knew that I had
to get BJ out of there.

And what happened then?

Well, then I went over
to the car,

and there were flames,
like, all over

(STAMMERING) the top
of the... I'm sorry,
I mean the bottom

of the car there. And...

That's where they figure
that my... Excuse me, where
my face got burned at that...

At that time.
I don't remember.

All I knew is that
I had to get him
out of there.

But you see, the door
of the car was pinned down
by the weight of the car.

But, I tried and I tried

to pull that door open.

I have to tell you,
I was just really frantic.

But, I just...
I just couldn't do it.

Yes, you did, Mom.
Tell them.

Well, BJ, I don't know.
I don't know exactly
how it happened.

The fire was spreading.

And I do know that
it was gonna explode
real soon.

So, I thought to myself,
I said, if I could raise up

the car, I thought then
I could open up the door.

So, I put my hand, you know,
under something,

and then I just...
I just tried to lift it.

It was the hardest thing
I ever did.

But I was furious
at the thought of
BJ dying inside.

Then it happened.

Somehow,

I was lifting up the car.

I was

lifting up the car.

It started to move,

real slowly,

but I kept lifting

and lifting.

I don't... I don't know
where I got the strength.

I don't know
where it came from.

But there it was.

I don't... I don't know.
And I...

That's all.

And I got him out.

Now, according
to my calculations,

the weight was later
found to be in excess
of 1200 pounds. I...

Excuse me, Mrs. Maier.

ELAINA: David?

David.

Where did she find
that strength, Elaina?

110 pound women

don't just lift up
a half-ton car.

Now, where did
that come from?

I don't know.

But if she tapped into it,
it's got to be there.

But how could
she find the strength
and I couldn't?

You heard her story.
My God, that's exactly
what happened to me.

Except that
her son is alive

and Laura is dead!

And in every other case
that we've researched,

it's been the same story
over and over and over again.

But what is
the common denominator?

David, believe me,
if I knew the answer,
I'd tell you.

I know.

I'm sorry.

I really think you should
give up this research
for a while.

No.

I warned you
when we went into this.

I felt you were
too close to it.

Because of
what happened to Laura.

And I've watched it
eat away at you for
the last 10 months.

And now it's starting
to affect your work.

Work?

How can you hope to examine
a medical phenomenon

with cool scientific
objectivity...

If I keep losing my cool.

You know, my mother
always used to tell me

getting angry doesn't help.

Well, I always
liked your mother.

She always liked you.

I'm gonna help you
with these.

As always.

Do you think we will ever
find where that strength
comes from?

I don't know.

But we'll certainly share
a lot of donuts together,
and I'll probably get fat.

Shall we get back to work,
Doctor?

You got it, Doctor.

(BEEPING)

ELAINA: Had you
ever displayed any
excessive strength before?

EPSTEIN:
Oh, no. I used to get tired
just doing my ironing.

As a matter of fact,
that's what I was doing
when the earthquake hit.

And then the ceiling
collapsed?

I was pinned under
one of those steel beams.

Then what?

I started to smell the gas.

That's a smell
you don't forget.

I really got frantic.

My parents had died
that way in Germany.

I guess I really got frantic.

I wasn't going
to let that happen to me.

So, I put my hands

on the beam
that was across me.

And somehow,

I bent that steel beam

and got out.

(RATTLING)

BRAM: The smoke was getting
thicker, and the people
was right behind me.

Some of them was screaming.

And we got to
this here fire door.

It was jammed.

So I was pounding on it,
but you couldn't hear
nothing over the fire.

And I said to myself,
"We're gonna die."

And I was so doggone mad

that I had
gotten them this far
and couldn't get out.

So I started kicking at it.

The fire door?
Yeah.

DAVID: And then
what happened, Mr. Bram?

Well, I kicked
the sucker down.

That was a very heavy door,
wasn't it?

Firemen told me it would
take a battering ram
to get it open.

Then how did you do it?

By the grace of God.

And all of a sudden
we were ambushed.

I mean,
VC all over the place.

I saw a buddy of mine
go down
at the top of the hill.

The same friend that had
saved your life in Danang.

Yes, sir. And I wasn't about
to leave him face down
in the mud in that hellhole.

DAVID: So, you went after him
through all that enemy fire.

I don't really remember
that part of it.

I just remember
I was determined to get
Johnny out of there.

You don't remember
being wounded?

No, sir. I was kind of busy.

ELAINA:
And just how many b*ll*ts
were taken out of you?

Seventeen, ma'am.

I... I spoke with the medevac
that flew you out of there.

He said what you did
was physically impossible.

I guess he was wrong.

MAN: Dr. Banner?

Yes.

I'm Jack McGee,
from The National Register.

Excuse me.
I was hoping

I'd be able to get
an interview with you.

No, thank you.

Oh, come on, Doctor,
this research
that you're doing

gets people
right where they live.

Everybody would like
to know how to tap into
their hidden strengths.

Surely you can
tell me something
about that.

No. I'm sorry.

Why not?
My newspaper's
very interested.

Mr. McGee.

Your newspaper

is only interested
in reporting m*rder, r*pe,

horoscopes, UFOs
and Farrah Fawcett.

I don't happen to fit
into any of those categories,

and I wish
not to be interviewed.

All right, Dr. Banner.

But I don't give up easily.

DAVID: Come on,
you little buggers,
do something exciting.

So, Mrs. Maier's
blood structure

is just like all the others
we've examined, huh?

It is annoying.

What made all these people
so strong?

The only thing they had
in common was extreme
emotional commitment.

But there has to be
a physical explanation.

David, maybe we should
go further.

Right into
the cellular structure
itself.

You mean the mitochondria?
Yeah.

I mean they are responsible
for converting fat and sugar
derivatives into energy.

Yes?
Uh-huh.

Possible.
We'll take a look under
the electron microscope.

Come on.
All right.

ELAINA: One tiny portion
of a living cell.

Well, I'll tell you,
as many times
as I've seen it,

it still fascinates me
that it would take over
a half a million of those

to cover the head of a pin.

Well, enjoy the view,
that's all we've got.

Nothing abnormal
on the computer scan?
No, no.

The mitochondria
in Mrs. Maier's cells
are like all the others.

Textbook normal,
but nothing to indicate

any reason or sort
of extraordinary strength.

Maybe we should go
deeper still.

Into the nucleus
of the cell?

To the DNA.

We have nothing left
to examine.

You know,
Ben's been souping up

a lot of our equipment
in higher power.

Did he happen to modify
this particular unit for
a higher magnification?

Well, I know
it's set at 200,000.

Yeah, he has
a tape mark here for...

1,000,000?

Let's see what we can see.

DAVID: The ultimate
building block of life.

David,
there's something here.

(BLEEPING)

What?

There's an abnormal
concentration

of the adenine-thymine
combination.

(EXCLAIMS)

DAVID: Okay.

Okay.

Now, let's take a look at
Mr. Bram's DNA structure.

Anything?

Yes, Mr. Bram has it, too.

Uh-huh.

Elaina,
we may have found it.

All 78 cases.
All of them have
the same DNA deviation.

Yeah, but how
does it work, David?

How did it make them
unnaturally strong?

Oh, one thing at a time,
Dr. Marks.

At least we know
they're different from me.

No, we don't.

What?

When was the last time
you had your DNA
magnified a million times?

DAVID: It's impossible.

ELAINA: The same variant
in your DNA.

Even more than
most of the others.

But, Elaina,
it can't be.

I never found the strength
that they did.

No, there must be
some ingredient missing.

Something external
operating.

But what?

David, we've got a problem
with the microwave
transmission from Pittsburgh.

It may be a while
before we can get that
DNA data you wanted.

How long a delay?

Well, it's hard to figure.
We've got some heavy duty
gamma ray interference.

Could be a sunspot
kicking up or something.

We'll try again tomorrow.
Thanks, Ben.

Right.

ELAINA: No, there must be
some ingredient missing.

Something external
operating.

Something external
operating.

Now, this represents all
the gamma ray interference
for the past year, right?

Yeah, the peaks show
maximum interference,

the dates are up here
at the top.

Gamma rays have been known
to interfere with biological
activity, haven't they?

I don't know.

I'm sure they have.
I'm sure they have.

Ben, look,
can I borrow this
for a while?

Sure, be my guest.

Mrs. Maier.

Mrs. Epstein.

Mr. Bram.

High gamma each time.

What about me?

Low.

Low.

Come on, Elaina.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Gamma.

(GRUNTING)

300,000.

(TIMER BEEPING)

(GRUNTING)

DAVID: Where did she
find that strength?

MRS. MAIER: I lifted the car.

(CHUCKLING)
That's all.

DAVID: How could
she find the strength
and I couldn't?

What made all these people
so strong?

Oh, terrific.

(ENGINE FALTERING)

Come on, you stupid.

ELAINA: No, there must be
some ingredient missing.
DAVID: But what?

MR. BRAM: Well,
I kicked the sucker down.

EPSTEIN:
I bent that steel beam.

MRS. MAIER:
I was lifting up the car.

(THUNDER CRASHING)

MRS. MAIER: I lifted the car.

DAVID: What is
the common denominator?

(TIRE EXPLODES)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

Come on.

(TOOLS CLANGING)

(GRUNTING)

Come on out of there!

(GRUNTING)

(YELLS IN PAIN)

(SCREAMING)

(GROWLING)

(SNARLING)

(GROWLING)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

Get on there.

Come on, get on.

Come on.

Whoa. Stay there.

Get away from me!

Daddy!

Daddy, help!

No! Stay away!

Help me!

Help!

Help!

Help! Help!

Help! Daddy!

No! Get away!

Help me!

Help!

(SUSIE CRYING)

Help! Help!

Daddy!

Daddy! Help!

Daddy!

(SUSIE SPUTTERING)

No, get away! Help!

Help! Get away!
Daddy, help!

Susie!

What's wrong?

Susie!
Hey, get away from there!

Daddy, help!
Get the hell away
from my daughter!

MAN: Did you hear me?

Now, get away!

Get away from her!

(GROWLING)

Look out, Daddy!

Daddy!
Oh, Daddy, look out!

Look out, Daddy!

(SCREAMING)

(ROARING)

Daddy!

I'm all right, honey.

Are you all right?

Yeah, I guess.

My God.

My God.

(SHOWER RUNNING)

(ELAINA HUMMING)

(DOORBELL RINGS)

Oh, great.

(SIGHING)

Timing is everything.

(DOORBELL RINGS)

(DOORBELL RINGING REPEATEDLY)

All right, all right,
all right.

David. Oh, my God.
(GROANING) Elaina.

David!
Easy, easy.

What happened to you?
(PANTING) Easy, easy.

Easy. I'm not sure.

Oh, my God, what happened
to your arm?
I don't know.

Please, sit down. Sit down.
What happened to your arm?

(GROANS)
Let me see.

There was a b*llet.
I guess it went through.

Oh, yeah, put this on it.

b*llet?
Yeah.

Who shot you?
I don't know.

(SIGHS)
All right, but we're gonna
get you to a hospital.

DAVID: Oh, wait.
I'm okay.

Oh, sure you are.

Elaina, please.

I can't go to the hospital.

Why not?

It might be dangerous.

Just let me figure out
what's happened to me, please.

All right.

All right.
But first we have to
take care of that wound.

I don't understand.
Why would anyone
wanna sh**t you?

(SIGHING)
I don't know.

Did you save the b*llet?

No, why?

Well, might be nice
to have something
to bite on.

Hold on.

(EXCLAIMG IN PAIN)
Okay, okay.

Okay, okay, okay,
here we are.

David.

Yeah.
When did you say
you were shot?

I don't know. Some time
early this morning.

Well, I'll tell you,
this wound looks like
it's been healing

for about three days.

I don't know.

I mean, there's scar tissue
formed over it.

It's almost as if
your body were working

faster than usual.

Yeah.
Very strange.

This whole thing
has been very strange.

What did happen?

Last night after you left,

I hit on it. Or at least
I thought I did.

Hit what?

The external force

operating in conjunction
with the DNA to make
all those people strong.

It's the gamma ray.

The gamma ray?
Yeah.

I matched up a graph
of excessive gamma activity
from sunspots

to each incident
of supernormal strength.

In every case

they matched.

And when you and Laura
had the accident it was...
Low gamma activity.

I've gotta get
something to drink.
I'm dehydrating.

But that doesn't explain
why you look like this?

I went to radiology
and I took a gamma injection.

I tried to call you,
but you weren't here,
and I was anxious.

Uh-huh. Overanxious.

How much did you take?

I went all the way
and I took 300,000 units.

Oh, David!

Only for 15 seconds.

And nothing happened.

Oh, really?

Well, at least
not at first.

I was driving home.

I had a...
I had a flat tire.

I was changing it.

Yes?

And then it was morning.

I was standing in the woods

like this.

What happened in between?

There was...

Someone...

Something.

Something else.

Something awful.

What?

David, try to remember.

I... I remember

feeling incredibly strong.

It was me

and it wasn't me.

(STUTTERING) I...

My eyes were white.

What?

My eyes

were white.

David, how do you feel now?

(SIGHING)

Normal.

My arm, it's sore.

I'm incredibly thirsty.

I'm not crazy.

Whatever happened...

All right.

All right, look,
I think what we should do
is get down to the lab,

do a couple of tests on you,
try to figure out
what did happen.

And what you might have done
that would cause someone
to wanna sh**t at you.

Okay.

The Southwest Lab,
is anybody there?

I don't think so, why?

I think it might be
better if we...

If we go there.
You know, it's so

isolated.

In case.

Afraid?

Little.

Look, let me
throw on some clothes,

then we can go pick up
some things for you.

(DOORBELL RINGING)
Then...

(WHISPERING)
Um, why don't you...

Dr. Marks?

I'm Jack McGee.
We spoke on the phone.

Yes, Mr. McGee,
and I told you we're not
granting any interviews.

Well, maybe I could
change your mind

if you'd let me
come in for a minute.

I'm afraid not.
To be quite honest with you,

I don't particularly
like your newspaper
or its reputation.

Yeah, well, yeah, reputation's
a very important thing.

I won't bother you since
you're otherwise involved.

Good day, Mr. McGee.

Some other time?

The hyperbaric chamber's
working?

Yeah.

DeBakey and Steve Frankel
just finished

some depressurization
testing for SEALAB.

I'm glad it's here.

What do you mean?

Well, whatever
happened to me before

might happen again.

And if it does,
both of us might be safer
if I'm in there.

How you doing?

Okay. Thirsty.

Well, I got some stuff here.
Apple juice okay?

That would be great.
Good.

Just spoke to Ben
at the radiology unit.

Yeah?

How many units of gamma
did you say
you injected into yourself?

300,000.

Okay.

Hi.
Hi.

Oh, thanks.
How do you know
it was 300,000?

I turned the calibrator
up to the last click.
300,000.

Little piece
of white tape on it?
Yeah.

It's like
the electronic microscope

that Ben modified
for higher strength.

Are you saying
that Ben modified
the radiology unit

in excess of 300,000?

But there was
no marking on the tape.

Well, he hadn't
calibrated it yet.

He was gonna work on it
this morning.

He didn't know how high
he could get it to go.

Well, how high did it get?

Almost two million units.

I took a dose that high?

Probably.

I think you better
lock the hatch.

ELAINA: Let's do
your DNA scan again, okay?

David?

Okay, yeah, okay. Yeah.

You see it all right?

Yeah.

ELAINA:
The adenine-thymine lock
in the lower quadrant.

Yeah.

What do you make of it?

I don't know.

I don't know,
but whatever it is,

we're gonna get you
back to normal.

David,

I think it's time we tried
to reverse the process.

Elaina.

I don't know
what I've blundered into,

but it could be
the natural outgrowth
of all our research.

We have to try
and make it happen again,

so that we can
observe it here,

in a laboratory situation
where we can control it.

David, look.

I know you have feelings
of enormous strength.

I just feel that
there are too many
unknown factors here.

We really do not know
what we're getting
ourselves into.

Neither did
Benjamin Franklin

when he flew that kite
in the thunderstorm.

Right. And he could
have been electrocuted.
But he wasn't.

He could have been.
Look,

I don't wanna stay
in this can any longer
than I have to, believe me.

We can always try
the x-ray reversal.

But we might have found
what we've been looking for.

And we can't just throw it
away without investigating it
first.

Are you being
scientific about this,

or are you letting
your emotions run away
with you again?

Elaina, we've got to try.

All right, what happens
if we tap into this
hidden strength?

What happens?
I don't know.
I don't know!

I don't know.

Maybe I'll just bang around
in here for a while.

Look, it was built
to withstand

the pressure of 1000 feet
below the ocean.

It's made of 10-gauge
chromium steel.

Elaina, it's like being
inside a bank vault.

The glass in this port
is six inches thick.

(SIGHING)

All right, Doctor.

How do you wanna
proceed?

All right.

All right.

I'd like to reconstruct
everything that happened
last night.

Just to see if it
triggers anything. Okay?

All right, it was dark.

Okay.

Good.

All right, now,
it was raining.

What about
the equipment in there?

I've got it.

There's no way
I can make it rain
in there.

Don't worry about it.
I've got an idea.

Give me a second to close
the inside airlock hatch.

(GRUNTING)

And locked.

David, what are you
doing in there?

Creating a little rainstorm.

How?

There's 160 pounds
of pressure

behind the main water feed.

I'm opening it up little.

(WATER SPLASHING)

Anything
on the instruments?

Nothing on the EEG.

Well, what about the GSR?

No, nothing there, either.

You feel anything?

No, nothing.

Hey, wait a minute.

Last night it was
an electrical storm.

Oh, brother,
you really do have
a Ben Franklin complex,

don't you?
Come on, Elaina.

Come on where, David?

I'm fresh out of lightning.
There's nothing we can do.

All right, well, supposing
we were to overload

the electrical main
in here.

Well, it'll just
blow out, won't it?

Well, not if I were
to separate the ground
connection from it.

And then if we shut down
all the other systems in here

I think we can generate
enough to create an arc.

All right,

shut down the power, okay?

Power's off.

All right,
fire it up again.

Power on.

All right, now increase
the load to the power grid
a little at a time.

(CRACKLING)

You okay?

Yeah. How's the EEG?

You took a little glitch,
nothing abnormal.

All right, keep it up.

All right,
that's one hour.

Still nothing, David.
We'd better stop.

I don't see
any purpose in going on.

Just a little longer.

No, David.
The equipment's on the edge
of overheating now.

I'm shutting down.

What's wrong?

Why won't it work?

I don't know, but it doesn't.

Look, why don't you
dry yourself off

and get some fresh clothes
out of the locker, okay?

Hey,

I made that just like
when we were in med school.

Extra mayonnaise
and everything.

I'm just not hungry.

Come on, David,
we've done everything
we could figure to do.

Yeah, I know.

Look, why don't you
lie down for a while?
Get some rest.

What about you?
Oh, I'll lie down out here
in a little while.

Yeah, okay.

Elaina,

I'm sorry about
all the hassle over this.

David.

Look, you may be
in there alone, but we're
in this together, huh?

As usual.

As usual.

Well,

I guess I might as well
leave my electrodes on.

Couldn't hurt.

Oh, yeah?

When was the last time
you wore them to sleep?

(LAUGHS)

Could you turn
the light out, please?

He's dreaming.

(GASPING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

4:05.

Dr. Banner began
rapid eye movement
indicating dream state.

Considerable agitation
and heavy increase in both
GSR and EEG responses,

especially
the beta frequency.

The GSR is also
beginning to register.

Apparently the dream
is upsetting him.

I think he's having
a nightmare.

(SCREAMING)

The agitation is reaching
an extreme level.

There seems...

Now there seems to be some
malfunction in the EEG.

Dr. Banner himself has...

(GROWLING)

David?

(SNARLING)

Oh, my God.

David?

David, is that you?

It's 4:16.

Dr. Banner is no longer
in the pressure chamber.

He has metamorphosized
into some

extraordinary creature.

He has just smashed
the control console.

Now he's moving toward
the electrical junction box.

He's pounding
on the steel bulkhead
above it.

The sound of his blows
are reverberating through
the inside of the chamber.

He just took a direct
220-volt charge
and he's apparently unhurt.

(GROWLING)

Oh, God. He's like some
kind of a child throwing
a monstrous tantrum.

Now he's reaching up
for the pipes.

He's broken off
the water pipe.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Now it's...

He's reaching
for the steam pipe.
Two inches of steel.

He's ripped that out.

It's recoiling from
the steam. Apparently
it's hurt by it. Now...

Now it's moving
towards the hatch door.

It's pounding
on the airlock vault.

It's unbelievable.

The hull
is three inches thick,
a chromium alloy steel,

and yet this creature is able
to make dents in it by using
both hands together.

(GROWLING)

But it's holding.

He's still contained
inside the inner chamber.

But, now he's...

Now he's trying to get
through the first hatch.

The locking wheel
has broken off, it can't
get through the hatch.

(POUNDING)

(SCREAMS)

(ELAINA PANTING)

It reached out. I don't...

I don't think it was
consciously after me,

it was just trying to escape.
Its arms are huge,

and the skin has
a greenish tinge.

Its proportions are
like those of a man,
but considerably larger.

It roars like
an angry caged animal.

God, now it's moving towards
the outer hatch area.

And now it's pounding
on the outer hatch.

I don't know how long
the hatch can hold him.

It's broken through
the main viewing port.

(GAS HISSING)
It's forcing a tube valve
off the wall. It's...

It's being driven back
by the gas.

The gas is filling
the airlock.

It's hard to see clearly.

It's again pounding.

The blows don't seem
to be injuring his hands.
There's no...

There's no blood
that I can see.

It seems to be
driven by this

blind rage to escape.

It's going to.

Its metabolism must be going
at an extraordinary rate.

Which would explain
why David's wound was
able to heal so quickly.

Oh, no.

(GROWLING)

David?

It's all right.

Take it easy.

That's it.

Nobody's gonna hurt you,
all right?

It's okay.

It's okay.

That's it.

Can you understand me?

Can you understand me?
Can you speak?

Okay.

Okay. Are you hurt?

Are you hurt?

Let me see your hands.

(GASPING)
Oh, it's all right.

It's okay.
Let me see your hands.

Oh, dear. You're hurt,
aren't you? All right.

Stay right there.

It's okay.

It's okay.

All right.

Now, can you
give me your hand?

Now, I'm just gonna
touch your hand a little.
All right?

Let me get
a blood sample.

Can you give me
your hand?

That's it.

That's it.
I'm not gonna hurt you.

That's it. Easy.

Okay. Okay. Okay,
just stay right there.

You're all right.

You're all right.

All right.

All right.

Come with me.
Can you come with me?
That's it.

Come on.

Come on, sit down.
Over here, come on.

It's okay.

That's it.
That's it.

Sit down. That's it.

You're okay now.

You're okay.

You're okay.

Elaina?

It's all right.

It's all right, David,
just... Just rest easy.

You're back now.

DAVID: You're a very
brave woman, Elaina.

ELAINA: I was
a very scared woman.

The blood sample
is just normal now.

What caused it?

I mean, I was sleeping.

You were dreaming.

What?
Yeah, look at the EEG.

The REM indicator.

I watched you.
You were tossing,
turning, frowning.

I don't remember.

Try, try. It might
help us to understand.

I don't.
Was it the accident?

Yes.

Yes, that was it.

Laura and I were driving,
there was the accident.

She was trapped in the car.

Now, did you feel anything?

Oh, the same thing
I always feel

every time I have
the dream. Outrage.

Frustration at not
being able to save her.

Extreme...

anger.

What is it?

Anger.

Elaina, I was angry
and upset.

And last night
I was angry, too.

I left the lab, I was so...
I was so totally frustrated
because of our...

Our failure
with the research.

And then there was the rain,
the storm, the flat tire.

And when I blacked out,
I remember I was furious.

All right.
Now, we know that extreme
emotional commitment,

anger, frustration,
whatever,

was present in
all of those people that
we interviewed, right?

Yeah, but I don't...
No, David,

it makes sense.
Look. Look at the EEG.

Here's the agitation
you experienced
in the dream.

Right? Just at the moment
of metamorphosis.

Now, look at these lines,
the intelligence level drops,

the primitive emotions
take over the brain
and the body.

And that is just what
this creature is like.
It's like a primitive.

It's like
a childish subhuman.

But what made me
physically change?

I don't know.
It might be a result of

the high intensity
gamma injection
you took on your DNA.

That's not possible.

David, believe me,
we saw it happen.
I saw it happen,

and we've seen
the results of it.

Now, it must be your anger
that triggers it off.

That means
it's uncontrollable.

If it can happen

anytime I'm asleep,

whenever my anger mounts up,

even in my unconscious.

When the metamorphosis
happens,

I haven't got
any control over it,

I don't even know
what it does.

I might have k*lled you.

No, David.

Maybe that's why
I was wounded.

Maybe I tried to k*ll
somebody last night.

Maybe I did k*ll somebody.

Listen to me, David.

David Banner is not a k*ller.

We're not talking about
David Banner.
Yes, we are.

Now, it's the same thing
as if someone
is under hypnosis.

Unless they are
a potential k*ller

you cannot hypnotize them
and make them k*ll.

Now this... This creature is
an outgrowth of David Banner.

It's his...
It's his primitive
emotions run wild.

It may be undisciplined,
it may tear the hell out
of a pressure chamber,

but it won't k*ll because
David Banner won't k*ll.

All right.

All right.

But how can I control it?

It isn't even safe to study.

How can we keep it
from ever happening again?

I don't know.

Certainly try
x-ray reversal.

Radiological treatment
to try to counteract
the gamma rays.

SCOTTY: (ON INTERCOM)
Dr. Banner, this is Scotty.
Are you up there?

What is it, Scotty?

Some policemen are here
at the main gate

and they'd like
to see you right away.

Dr. Banner?

Doctor?

Yeah, Scotty, tell them
to drive up here,
will you, please?

Will do, sir.

Dr. Banner?
David Banner?

Yes.

Dr. Banner, at noon today
we found an automobile
registered to you

overturned on the north side
of Crossway Road.

Now, apparently the car
crashed and burned.

You know anything
about this?

No.

(STUTTERING)
My car was missing
this morning, but...

Was anybody hurt?

No, not as far as we know.
Did you report it missing?

No.

You see, I thought
a friend had taken it.
He has a key.

Your friend wouldn't take
a shoe about this size,
would he, Doctor?

What's that?

That's a plaster cast
of a footprint they found
near the car.

There were many of them
in the mud.

Mr. McGee,

we have no
authoritative proof that
those footprints are real.

And we do not want to start
a panic around here.

Oh, it's real all right.

There's a lot more
just like it
down by the lake.

So you have no knowledge
of how your car got
to where we found it?

No. No, I don't.

All right.

You have 24 hours to arrange
to have the debris cleared.

After that,
the Highway Patrol
will take care of it

and you will be
billed for it.

I understand,
thank you.

There's a girl and her father
over at the lake

who say that
they saw the thing

that made this.

Did they?

Well, what was it? Bigfoot?

Sounded more like
the Jolly Green Giant.

Only I wouldn't
call him too jolly.

Big hulk,
about seven feet tall,
greenish tinge to the skin.

Pretty mean-looking.

Scared the daylights
out of the girl.

She almost drowned
trying to swim out of there.

Her old man shot the thing
in the shoulder.

Then what happened?

Well, as he tells it,
the creature turned on him,

busted his g*n,

and then picked the man up

and threw him an estimated
30 yards into the lake.

But neither the little girl
nor the father was hurt?

No.

Are you sure that
you don't know a little
something about this?

I mean, that hulk's footprint
was found near your car.

No, I don't.

Well, listen,
since we're all together,

why don't we go inside
and talk it over.

No.

Mr. McGee, have you
been inoculated for
tubercle bacilli?

Come again?

Well, you see, we have
a live germ culture
incubating inside.

I mean, you're perfectly
welcome to come in.

It's just that
you probably wouldn't
walk out again.

Ooh, mean little devils, huh?

Okay, we take a rain check
on that one.

But, Doctor,

anytime you feel
an interview coming on, you...

You get in touch, will you?

DAVID: At least we know where
the b*llet wound came from.

Right, and we have
further proof that
the creature won't k*ll.

Hasn't k*lled.

Won't k*ll. David.

Look, that man at the lake
shot at it. Shot at you.

And all it did
was break his r*fle
and throw him in the lake.

It won't k*ll.
You won't k*ll.

Otherwise,
surely it would have
k*lled that man. Yes?

All right.

But I wanna make sure that
that never happens again.

I wanna be Dr. Banner,
not Dr. Jekyll.

All right.

Look, we'll try x-ray therapy
as soon as Ben and the others
leave the lab tonight.

What if it doesn't work?

Then we'll keep on searching
until we find out
how to make you normal again.

(SIGHING)

You're sure Ben
didn't just go out
for a little while?

No, he left
for the evening.

Okay, good.

Well, now,
no little bacteria did that.

I'll crank it up to 200 rads.
Then we'll do your DNA scan.

That should give us
an indication of whether
the therapy will work or not.

Okay, ready?

Yes.

Here we go.

Three,

two,

one.

Begin.

(SHRILL BLEEPING)

No change.

Well, now,
I'm not sure...

Oh, come on, Elaina.
That's wishful thinking.

The x-ray treatment
didn't help. It didn't help.

Hey.

Do us both a favor.
Don't get mad, huh?

Look, I suggest that we get
our research materials
together

and we move
to safer quarters.

Where?
I don't know.

I don't know. Let's just
go back to the lab and
we'll think of some place.

(CAR APPRAOCHING)

ELAINA: Plutonium
storage vault?

DAVID: Yeah.
It's on the edge of
the Institute's property.

It was built
to store plutonium

for an atomic power project
they did here a few years ago.

And there's a vault there?
Oh, you better believe it.

The walls are made of lead,
then steel, then concrete,

four feet thick.
Wow.

So if our friend
does come back,

he'll never get out
of there.

Well, that sounds
like just what
the doctor ordered.

Oh, dear,
what about this place?

If anyone
should see this...

That's easy.

We can arrange
for an accidental
radiation spill.

Oh, good.
Just enough contamination

to close the place down
for a while.
You got it.

Oh, we need
some more EEG paper.

I'll get it.

Good evening.

How would you like
to find yourself arrested?

Good idea.
Call the cops.

I'm dying to hear you
explain that.

It's a pressurization test,
Mr. McGee.

It exploded.

I don't buy it.

I heard you talking
about your friend
coming back.

You didn't sound
too thrilled about it.

Now, admit it, Doctor.
You know something

about that big
hulking creature that's been
attacking people, don't you?

No.

McGEE: Oh, come on, Doctor.
Now, don't play games.

You want to explain that
big, wet footprint to me?

It's a water spill.

Oh, really?

What happened to that
culture of bacteria
you said you had in here?

Fortunately for you,
we took it back
to the main lab.

What a coincidence.

Yes, wasn't it?
Will you excuse us,
Mr. McGee?

This institute
is private property.
Doctor,

if you know anything
about this creature,

it is your duty
to report that
to the police.

You're letting
your imagination
run away with you.

Now, I have never seen
this creature that
you're talking about.

Forgive me, Doctor,
but I am calling you
a liar.

Mr. McGee.

Mr. McGee,
don't make me angry.

You wouldn't like me
when I'm angry.

(ACID BUBBLING)

David!

(ELAINA SCREAMING)

(expl*si*n)

(ELAINA SCREAMING)

Elaina! My God, Elaina!

(expl*si*n)

Elaina!

Elaina!

Elaina!

Elaina!

DAVID: My God!

Elaina!

Elaina!

(HULK GROWLING)

(ROARING)

(ELECTRIC BUZZING)

Banner!

Banner!

My God, Banner!

(MOANING)

(COUGHS)

David.

(PANTING)
David.

David.

David.

Oh, God. My poor David.

(SIGHS)

Who will take
care of you now?

(GROANING FAINTLY)

It's okay, it's okay,
it's okay.

I don't know if
you can understand me,

but I want you
to know something.

Dear David,

I have loved you

for such a very

long time.

And I always will.

And I always will.

(ROARING)

MINISTER: The Lord bless thee,
and keep thee.

The Lord make his face
to shine upon thee,

and be gracious unto thee.

The Lord lift up
his countenance upon thee,

and give thee peace.

Amen.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(SIGHS)

You know them well?

Yes, I did, Mr. McGee.

Was it really necessary
to print that?

Well, it's the truth.

It's what happened.

And it sells newspapers.

Look, Doctor,

I saw what that creature
did to a steel chamber.

And I heard
your friends talking.

They were scared to death
of it's coming back.

You actually
saw the thing?

You're damn right I did.

I gave a description to all
the law enforcement agencies.

They've got a warrant
for m*rder out on it.

Now, a thing that
looks like that hulk

is not going
to stay hidden long.

When they grab it,

that is gonna be
one of the great stories
of the 20th century.

One of the best.

ELAINA: We'll keep on
searching until we find out

how to make you
normal again.

DAVID: I suggest that
we get our research materials
together

and move to safer quarters.

Where?
I don't know.

We'll think of a place.

Keep on searching.

We'll think of a place.

I love you, Elaina.

I think you loved me, too.

Although you never said it.