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02:39.440 --> 02:44.760 Try an inexpensive bottle of tangy appetizing Roma sherry or the hearty Roma burgundy or 02:44.760 --> 02:47.560 any of the marvelously enjoyable Roma wines. 02:47.560 --> 02:53.280 But remember, these days your favorite dealer may be temporarily out of the type you prefer. 02:53.280 --> 02:55.200 Then please try again. 02:55.200 --> 03:05.080 Ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 03:05.080 --> 03:10.320 And now with part one of Donovan's Brain and with the performance of Orson Welles as Dr. 03:10.320 --> 03:23.200 Patrick Corey, we again hope to keep you in suspense. 03:23.200 --> 03:27.920 As I sit now outside my laboratory door writing under the heading experiment 87, this final 03:27.920 --> 03:33.680 entry in my case book, I know that these are the last words I shall ever write upon this 03:33.680 --> 03:34.680 earth. 03:34.680 --> 03:38.000 I neither ask nor expect forgiveness now or hereafter. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.920 But for those who seek some explanation, I refer them simply to this case book. 03:40.920 --> 03:46.280 Let them read it carefully from its first entry on that ill-starred day of July the 03:46.280 --> 03:57.800 13th. 03:57.800 --> 03:58.800 July 13th. 03:58.800 --> 04:02.040 Today I bought a small Capuchin monkey from an organ grinder. 04:02.040 --> 04:04.760 The animal trembled with fear when I took it into my laboratory and when I tried to 04:04.760 --> 04:05.760 pet it, it bit me. 04:05.760 --> 04:07.800 But I had to make it trust me completely. 04:07.800 --> 04:11.160 Fear causes an excess secretion of adrenaline resulting in an abnormal condition of the 04:11.160 --> 04:13.000 bloodstream which would throw off my observation. 04:13.000 --> 04:17.280 So I fed it and finally the creature voluntarily crept up into my arms uttering little whimpers 04:17.280 --> 04:18.280 of contempt. 04:18.280 --> 04:23.360 When it laid its head against my shoulder, I stabbed it with a surgical lancet. 04:23.360 --> 04:29.120 It died instantly. 04:29.120 --> 04:37.160 Well, David, what do you think of it? 04:37.160 --> 04:38.960 Well, it's pretty amazing, all right. 04:38.960 --> 04:39.960 See what I've done, don't you? 04:39.960 --> 04:40.960 I think so. 04:40.960 --> 04:41.960 You think so? 04:41.960 --> 04:42.960 Good Lord, don't you know? 04:42.960 --> 04:44.960 Well, after all that, I'm only a second-year medical student. 04:44.960 --> 04:46.840 I know, but what other part of a second-year student? 04:46.840 --> 04:47.840 Who is it? 04:47.840 --> 04:48.840 It's me, Janice. 04:48.840 --> 04:49.840 Come in, darling. 04:49.840 --> 04:51.840 Patrick, Dr. Schrout is here to see you. 04:51.840 --> 04:53.720 Oh, come on in, doctor. 04:53.720 --> 04:55.080 You know our son, David, of course. 04:55.080 --> 04:56.080 Yes, of course. 04:56.080 --> 04:57.080 How are you, my boy? 04:57.080 --> 04:58.080 Fine, thanks, doctor. 04:58.080 --> 05:00.280 Well, Patrick, hard at it as usual, I see. 05:00.280 --> 05:02.800 Patrick, you didn't eat the lunch I sent in to you. 05:02.800 --> 05:04.200 Well, how is it this time, Patrick? 05:04.200 --> 05:05.200 A brain. 05:05.200 --> 05:06.200 What? 05:06.200 --> 05:07.200 A brain, a monkey's brain. 05:07.200 --> 05:08.200 Oh. 05:08.200 --> 05:09.200 What about the brain, Patrick? 05:09.200 --> 05:11.080 I've been trying to see how long I can keep the tissue alive. 05:11.080 --> 05:12.960 Oh, is that it in that jar? 05:12.960 --> 05:15.280 Well, that's considerably more to it than just a jar, though. 05:15.280 --> 05:16.280 Want to see how it works? 05:16.280 --> 05:17.280 Is it still alive? 05:17.280 --> 05:18.280 Oh, way, yes. 05:18.280 --> 05:20.000 It's a fairly simple device, actually. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.400 Doctor, variation on Karel's mechanical heart. 05:22.400 --> 05:24.200 The brain lies in a bath of blood serum. 05:24.200 --> 05:29.080 These rubber arteries are fixed to the vertebral and internal carotid arteries of the brain. 05:29.080 --> 05:32.680 The blood substance is forced through the cycle of willis to feed the tissue. 05:32.680 --> 05:37.200 Over here, I've installed a small rotary pump that forces the blood circulation, you see. 05:37.200 --> 05:38.840 But how do you know it's alive? 05:38.840 --> 05:40.000 It's very easy to determine. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.920 The brain, when functioning, gives off infinitesimal electrical impulses. 05:42.920 --> 05:43.920 They can be measured. 05:43.920 --> 05:46.840 As a matter of fact, I've hooked the encephatograph up to a small amplifying system. 05:46.840 --> 05:48.480 The brain impulses can actually be heard. 05:48.480 --> 05:51.480 Here, I'll turn it on. 05:51.480 --> 05:54.480 You see? 05:54.480 --> 05:57.480 Ha-ha. 05:57.480 --> 05:59.480 Quite effective, isn't it? 05:59.480 --> 06:00.480 Yes. 06:00.480 --> 06:03.880 It's effective, and it's... it's wrong, Patrick. 06:03.880 --> 06:04.880 Terribly wrong. 06:04.880 --> 06:06.920 I've tried to tell him, Dr. Schrott. 06:06.920 --> 06:08.600 In heaven's name, what's wrong with it? 06:08.600 --> 06:13.840 Oh, Patrick, you and your mechanistic philosophy, trying to reduce life to a mere matter of chemicals 06:13.840 --> 06:14.920 and test tubes. 06:14.920 --> 06:17.920 The origin of life is from a higher domain than that, Patrick. 06:17.920 --> 06:18.920 And you're profaning. 06:18.920 --> 06:19.920 Nonsense. 06:19.920 --> 06:23.480 You can't start the progress of science every discovery of whatever kind is a step forward. 06:23.480 --> 06:28.720 If I can prove that the brain can perform certain functions outside the body, who knows 06:28.720 --> 06:30.680 when we may be able to go from there? 06:30.680 --> 06:35.720 Oh, Patrick, how do you know that thing in there doesn't feel pain? 06:35.720 --> 06:38.400 How do you know it isn't writhing in agony? 06:38.400 --> 06:40.920 Brain tissue itself is insensitive, you know that? 06:40.920 --> 06:42.720 Just a feeling look. 06:42.720 --> 06:45.720 I'll switch on the encephatograph. 06:45.720 --> 06:46.720 See? 06:46.720 --> 06:47.720 There. 06:47.720 --> 06:52.440 Notice the faintness of the amplified alpha rays. 06:52.440 --> 06:54.720 Notice the comparatively slow rate of pulsation. 06:54.720 --> 06:59.720 Notice what happens when I tap on the glass jar. 06:59.720 --> 07:00.720 See? 07:00.720 --> 07:01.720 There. 07:01.720 --> 07:02.720 It feels. 07:02.720 --> 07:03.720 It thinks. 07:03.720 --> 07:14.480 I wouldn't go so far as to say that, but it certainly shows marked reaction to an external 07:14.480 --> 07:15.480 stimulus. 07:15.480 --> 07:16.480 I wouldn't have believed it possible. 07:16.480 --> 07:20.000 The trouble with you, Schratt, is that you don't really believe in science. 07:20.000 --> 07:26.480 Am it your own way, Patrick, that when you can manufacture love and sympathy and kindness 07:26.480 --> 07:28.760 in a test tube, I'll be back. 07:28.760 --> 07:29.760 You leaving, old boy? 07:29.760 --> 07:30.760 Yes. 07:30.760 --> 07:31.760 Patrick. 07:31.760 --> 07:32.760 Hmm? 07:32.760 --> 07:36.360 Do me a favor, Patrick. 07:36.360 --> 07:40.360 Shut off the pump and let that poor thing in there die. 07:40.360 --> 07:42.360 Let it die? 07:42.360 --> 08:00.360 If it were within my power to grant, that little brain would live forever. 08:00.360 --> 08:01.360 July 18th. 08:01.360 --> 08:03.000 I'm utterly exhausted from lack of sleep. 08:03.000 --> 08:06.320 The events of the past five days have been of such tremendous importance that I must 08:06.320 --> 08:09.800 set them down while every last detail is still fresh in my mind. 08:09.800 --> 08:13.880 I've had no time to make an entry in this record since that day last week, it seems, 08:13.880 --> 08:17.960 a month ago now, when I had my first partial success with the brain of the Capuchin monkey. 08:17.960 --> 08:21.960 At that time, however, it seemed that I was doomed to disappointment. 08:21.960 --> 08:26.840 In spite of all my efforts, the brain of the monkey ceased to live at 1214 that night. 08:26.840 --> 08:30.120 Tired and disheartened, I lay down to sleep on the cot in my laboratory, but at that very 08:30.120 --> 08:34.680 moment, fate was contriving an occurrence which now seems destined to have the most 08:34.680 --> 08:40.920 profound effect not only upon my own existence, but perhaps upon that of all mankind. 08:40.920 --> 08:41.920 Hello? 08:41.920 --> 08:43.920 What is it? 08:43.920 --> 08:44.920 Dad! 08:44.920 --> 08:47.800 Oh, David, come in, come in. 08:47.800 --> 08:48.800 What's the matter? 08:48.800 --> 08:49.800 It's Dr. Schrott. 08:49.800 --> 08:50.800 There's been an accident or something. 08:50.800 --> 08:51.800 He's pretty upset. 08:51.800 --> 08:52.800 All right, I'll come. 08:52.800 --> 08:53.800 Patrick, Patrick. 08:53.800 --> 08:54.800 Thank heavens, my boy. 08:54.800 --> 08:55.800 What's the matter, old boy? 08:55.800 --> 08:56.800 There's been a plane crash on the mountain. 08:56.800 --> 09:01.800 Only one of them was left alive and I've brought him this far to the hospital. 09:01.800 --> 09:04.880 Sorry, that's your job, your county physician. 09:04.880 --> 09:07.640 Patrick, it's multiple fractures of both legs. 09:07.640 --> 09:10.640 The arteries are severed and the legs will have to be amputated. 09:10.640 --> 09:13.640 You're not in any shape to do the job. 09:13.640 --> 09:14.640 Well, I... 09:14.640 --> 09:15.640 Well, that's not my fault. 09:15.640 --> 09:16.640 Take him to the Phoenix Hospital. 09:16.640 --> 09:17.640 I'm not going to take responsibility. 09:17.640 --> 09:18.640 It's too far. 09:18.640 --> 09:19.640 We'd never get there in time. 09:19.640 --> 09:22.640 Patrick, please, it made me in a man's life and I... 09:22.640 --> 09:24.640 Your job as county physician. 09:24.640 --> 09:27.640 No, no, I'm not thinking of that, but it's an important man. 09:27.640 --> 09:32.640 William H. Donovan. 09:32.640 --> 09:33.640 Donovan? 09:33.640 --> 09:34.640 The Wall Street Donovan? 09:34.640 --> 09:35.640 Yes. 09:35.640 --> 09:36.640 You've got to help me, Patrick. 09:36.640 --> 09:37.640 Donovan. 09:37.640 --> 09:38.640 What his chances? 09:38.640 --> 09:39.640 About even, if we hurry. 09:39.640 --> 09:40.640 Well, bring him in. 09:40.640 --> 09:41.640 Oh, thank you, Patrick. 09:41.640 --> 09:42.640 Thank you. 09:42.640 --> 09:43.640 You'd better get some things on, David. 09:43.640 --> 09:44.640 You may have to help. 09:44.640 --> 09:45.640 Yes, and we'll use the laboratory. 09:45.640 --> 09:46.640 Before you go, put the instruments in the steriliser. 09:46.640 --> 09:47.640 And don't forget the GLE saw. 09:47.640 --> 09:48.640 Right. 09:48.640 --> 09:49.640 Oh, but... 09:49.640 --> 09:50.640 But what? 09:50.640 --> 09:51.640 I thought the GLE saw was a good idea. 09:51.640 --> 09:52.640 I thought it was a good idea. 09:52.640 --> 09:53.640 I thought it was a good idea. 09:53.640 --> 09:54.640 I thought it was a good idea. 09:54.640 --> 09:55.640 I thought it was a good idea. 09:55.640 --> 09:56.640 I thought it was a good idea. 09:56.640 --> 10:01.640 I thought the GLE saw was only used for brain surgery. 10:01.640 --> 10:02.640 Not always hurry. 10:02.640 --> 10:04.640 Bring him in now from the car. 10:04.640 --> 10:05.640 In here. 10:05.640 --> 10:06.640 That's right. 10:06.640 --> 10:07.640 Easy, Doctor. 10:07.640 --> 10:08.640 Round the table, please. 10:08.640 --> 10:09.640 Yes, Doctor. 10:09.640 --> 10:10.640 Easy, easy. 10:10.640 --> 10:11.640 Better get yourself a gown and gloves, Doctor. 10:11.640 --> 10:12.640 Right over there. 10:12.640 --> 10:13.640 You won't have time to scrub. 10:13.640 --> 10:14.640 Yes, thanks, Doctor. 10:14.640 --> 10:15.640 Bad, isn't it? 10:15.640 --> 10:16.640 Pulse rapid. 10:16.640 --> 10:17.640 Aren't very faint. 10:17.640 --> 10:18.640 I wasn't sure. 10:18.640 --> 10:19.640 David, half cc of adrenaline. 10:19.640 --> 10:21.640 David, one to one thousand to venous. 10:21.640 --> 10:22.640 You men can go now. 10:22.640 --> 10:23.640 Is there anything else we can do? 10:23.640 --> 10:24.640 No, thank you. 10:24.640 --> 10:25.640 Patrick, don't you think... 10:25.640 --> 10:26.640 Now that we were alone, if you don't mind, gentlemen. 10:26.640 --> 10:27.640 Good night, then, Dr. Schreier. 10:27.640 --> 10:28.640 Good night. 10:28.640 --> 10:29.640 Good night. 10:29.640 --> 10:32.640 David, if you remove the blanket from his legs, that's it. 10:32.640 --> 10:39.640 You see, fortunately, a forest ranger got to him right after the crash. 10:39.640 --> 10:42.640 He had sense enough to put a tourniquet on each leg, even so. 10:42.640 --> 10:45.640 Sure, sure, sure. 10:45.640 --> 10:48.640 Sure, sure, sure. 10:48.640 --> 10:51.640 We'll get it. 10:51.640 --> 10:53.640 Sure, sure, sure. 10:53.640 --> 10:55.640 It's insane. 10:55.640 --> 10:56.640 Something like sure, sure, sure. 10:56.640 --> 10:58.640 He said it over and over. 10:58.640 --> 11:00.640 I hadn't realized he was deformed. 11:00.640 --> 11:02.640 It doesn't show as much in his pictures. 11:02.640 --> 11:04.640 Patrick, don't you think we ought to begin? 11:04.640 --> 11:06.640 There's no use amputating those legs. 11:06.640 --> 11:07.640 No use. 11:07.640 --> 11:09.640 He'll be dead anyway by morning. 11:09.640 --> 11:10.640 Why won't he? 11:10.640 --> 11:12.640 Suppose you're right, Patrick. 11:12.640 --> 11:13.640 You know I'm right. 11:13.640 --> 11:14.640 But still, we ought to try. 11:14.640 --> 11:16.640 We can't refuse to operate just because. 11:16.640 --> 11:18.640 We are going to operate. 11:18.640 --> 11:19.640 Stay in range, please, David. 11:19.640 --> 11:20.640 In the large one. 11:20.640 --> 11:21.640 Here you are, Dad. 11:21.640 --> 11:22.640 Spinal anesthetic. 11:22.640 --> 11:23.640 Will you give it Dr. Schröder? 11:23.640 --> 11:24.640 Right. 11:24.640 --> 11:26.640 Scalpel, please, David. 11:26.640 --> 11:29.640 Scalpel and the Gillesol. 11:29.640 --> 11:30.640 Gillesol? 11:30.640 --> 11:31.640 Patrick. 11:31.640 --> 11:32.640 Well? 11:32.640 --> 11:33.640 No, no, no, Patrick. 11:33.640 --> 11:34.640 I won't let you. 11:34.640 --> 11:35.640 After your performance tonight? 11:35.640 --> 11:36.640 Well, I had. 11:36.640 --> 11:38.640 But, Patrick, he's still alive. 11:38.640 --> 11:39.640 Precisely. 11:39.640 --> 11:40.640 My mistake with the monkey was that he was dead. 11:40.640 --> 11:42.640 I don't intend to make that mistake again. 11:42.640 --> 11:43.640 Come on, David, the scalpel. 11:43.640 --> 11:44.640 Are you out of your mind? 11:44.640 --> 11:46.640 You're taking a man's life. 11:46.640 --> 11:49.640 I'm giving him life. 11:49.640 --> 11:52.640 Donovan would die anyway. 11:52.640 --> 11:58.640 But for a while at least, Donovan's brain will live. 11:58.640 --> 12:06.640 We'd better hurry. 12:06.640 --> 12:11.640 They'll be coming for the body pretty soon. 12:11.640 --> 12:12.640 You can go now, David. 12:12.640 --> 12:14.640 I think I will, then. 12:14.640 --> 12:16.640 You understand, of course. 12:16.640 --> 12:17.640 I understand. 12:17.640 --> 12:21.640 Not a word, not a word to your mother or to anyone. 12:21.640 --> 12:22.640 I understand. 12:22.640 --> 12:26.640 Did you put something in the skull cavity so the eyes won't fall out? 12:26.640 --> 12:27.640 Oh, yeah. 12:27.640 --> 12:28.640 I filled it with cotton, bandaged the whole cranium. 12:28.640 --> 12:29.640 It looked like any head injury. 12:29.640 --> 12:32.640 I hope nobody gets any ideas about an autopsy. 12:32.640 --> 12:33.640 You're the coroner. 12:33.640 --> 12:34.640 You've stopped there. 12:34.640 --> 12:39.640 Look, Schraut, this is a chance that comes once in a lifetime. 12:39.640 --> 12:46.640 William Donovan had one of the greatest minds, has one of the greatest brains. 12:46.640 --> 12:47.640 Well, today... 12:47.640 --> 12:49.640 And now you have it. 12:49.640 --> 12:58.640 It's been on the encephalograph. 12:58.640 --> 13:00.640 Simple alpha waves, of course. 13:00.640 --> 13:01.640 No different from the monkeys. 13:01.640 --> 13:05.640 You can't take a human brain out of its body and expect it to function. 13:05.640 --> 13:07.640 I suppose not, but... 13:07.640 --> 13:13.640 Schraut, did it ever occur to you that the brain might simply be asleep? 13:13.640 --> 13:14.640 Sleep? 13:14.640 --> 13:16.640 Certainly. 13:16.640 --> 13:18.640 An operation like that is a severe shock. 13:18.640 --> 13:27.640 Tap on the glass. 13:27.640 --> 13:28.640 Good Lord, Patrick. 13:28.640 --> 13:30.640 Delta waves. 13:30.640 --> 13:31.640 It was asleep. 13:31.640 --> 13:32.640 You woke it up. 13:32.640 --> 13:34.640 It's actually conscious. 13:34.640 --> 13:40.640 You see, you see, the three of us, three of us conducting this experiment now. 13:40.640 --> 13:55.640 You, me, and William Horace Donovan. 13:55.640 --> 14:01.640 July 25th, I moved my bed into the laboratory, but I've scarcely slept in six days. 14:01.640 --> 14:07.640 I have no longer any doubt that the brain responds like a sensitive seismograph to vibrations near it, including the sound of my voice. 14:07.640 --> 14:10.640 Yet I've found no method of communication with it. 14:10.640 --> 14:17.640 I've devised a simplified Morse code consisting of taps on the glass container together with voice vibrations. 14:17.640 --> 14:19.640 Perhaps... 14:19.640 --> 14:27.640 Perhaps I can teach the brain. 14:27.640 --> 14:35.640 July 30th, Schraut has come to stay with me, half out of a feeling that he shares with me a common guilt, half out of scientific curiosity. 14:35.640 --> 14:40.640 I guess this cinnamon both David and Janice have been avoiding me, not that I really care. 14:40.640 --> 14:49.640 I've been tapping out my code on the side of the brain's container endlessly, day and night, over and over a thousand times so that a baby could learn it, if the brain can learn. 14:49.640 --> 14:53.640 I sleep only when the brain itself falls into exhausted slumber. 14:53.640 --> 15:06.640 When it wakes again, I resume my tapping. 15:06.640 --> 15:09.640 Schraut! Schraut! Wake up! 15:09.640 --> 15:10.640 Yes, Patrick? 15:10.640 --> 15:13.640 Come on! Get up! Hurry! 15:13.640 --> 15:14.640 Something the matter? 15:14.640 --> 15:16.640 Yes, old boy, I want to show you something. 15:16.640 --> 15:18.640 Patrick, you look like a ghost. Where are we going? 15:18.640 --> 15:22.640 Back to the laboratory. I can't believe it myself. I may have been dreaming to leave here. 15:22.640 --> 15:23.640 What's happened? 15:23.640 --> 15:24.640 Come on. 15:24.640 --> 15:28.640 You hear that? Delta waves. 15:28.640 --> 15:30.640 It seems disturbed. 15:30.640 --> 15:34.640 You've got to check my observations, mom. If my reasoning is wrong, tell me. I can't be sure of anything anymore. 15:34.640 --> 15:35.640 Yes, ma'am. 15:35.640 --> 15:38.640 Now listen carefully. You know that I've been trying to communicate with the brain in code now. 15:38.640 --> 15:51.640 If I were able to cause a distinctive pattern of the brain's delta waves by a specific command in code, if the brain responded with the same pattern of sound each time I issued the command, it would prove that I'd succeeded in communicating with the brain, wouldn't it? 15:51.640 --> 15:53.640 Yes, Patrick, I think it would. 15:53.640 --> 15:59.640 Now, listen. 15:59.640 --> 16:03.640 Donovan! Donovan! 16:03.640 --> 16:10.640 If you understand, think three times of the word talk. 16:10.640 --> 16:13.640 Three times. 16:13.640 --> 16:15.640 Talk. 16:15.640 --> 16:18.640 Talk. 16:18.640 --> 16:24.640 Talk. 16:24.640 --> 16:26.640 It answered. It spoke. 16:26.640 --> 16:28.640 Then I'm right. 16:28.640 --> 16:32.640 It's true. This thing has learned to talk. 16:32.640 --> 16:48.640 To talk. 16:48.640 --> 17:04.640 July 31, Schart is romanticizing, of course, the delta pattern is so infinitely complex that it would be utterly impossible ever to break it down into specific words, yet that it understands me, that it's trying to communicate with me is certain. 17:04.640 --> 17:18.640 Schart suggests mental telepathy, that I try to make my mind a blank, as the mediums call it, while at the same time increasing the energy content of the plasma that feeds the brain in the hope of stepping up the brain's electrical potential as one would step up the power of a radio station. 17:18.640 --> 17:33.640 Naturally, telepathy is nonsense, but the feeding theory intrigues me. I shall try it. 17:33.640 --> 17:35.640 August 12. 17:35.640 --> 17:43.640 Notice today for the first time two distinct nodules of new brain cells on the frontal lobex. Electrical potential has increased to 510 microvolts. 17:43.640 --> 17:47.640 I've become smoking cigars. 17:47.640 --> 17:51.640 Although I've always hated cigars before. 17:51.640 --> 17:58.640 Nerves, I expect. 17:58.640 --> 18:12.640 August 22 nodules still growing, electrical potential 1450, but no observable results. Lately felt a compelling urge to know more of Donovan's life and collected every available scrap of information about him, a strange man he was. 18:12.640 --> 18:21.640 Strange, ruthless, actually evil in many ways, but nonetheless an extraordinarily brilliant mind. 18:21.640 --> 18:31.640 August 23. 18:31.640 --> 18:44.640 Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. 18:44.640 --> 18:47.640 It will be the test. 18:47.640 --> 18:49.640 You agree? 18:49.640 --> 18:51.640 Of course. 18:51.640 --> 18:57.640 Sure, sure, sure. 18:57.640 --> 18:58.640 Patrick, wake up. 18:58.640 --> 18:59.640 Patrick. 18:59.640 --> 19:00.640 What is it? 19:00.640 --> 19:02.640 What happened here? 19:02.640 --> 19:06.640 I thought I ought to wake you up, Patrick. You were moaning in your sleep, talking. 19:06.640 --> 19:08.640 Talking? What did I say? 19:08.640 --> 19:11.640 I'm not sure, but your voice was so strange that... 19:11.640 --> 19:12.640 Janice, Janice, what's the matter? 19:12.640 --> 19:15.640 Nothing, nothing. I was dreaming and so Janice woke me up. 19:15.640 --> 19:19.640 Patrick, let me see your hand. 19:19.640 --> 19:20.640 What hand? 19:20.640 --> 19:21.640 No, the other one. 19:21.640 --> 19:22.640 What about it? 19:22.640 --> 19:23.640 You're not left-handed, are you? 19:23.640 --> 19:24.640 No. 19:24.640 --> 19:27.640 Then why have you got ink on the fingers of your left hand? 19:27.640 --> 19:29.640 What? 19:29.640 --> 19:30.640 I don't know. 19:30.640 --> 19:32.640 Were you writing anything tonight? 19:32.640 --> 19:34.640 No. 19:34.640 --> 19:36.640 You must have been, Patrick. Here it is right here on your desk. 19:36.640 --> 19:41.640 Nonsense. Wait, let me see it. 19:41.640 --> 19:44.640 You've been writing his name, William H. Donovan. 19:44.640 --> 19:47.640 Donovan. Donovan Schrot, that's not my handwriting. It's... 19:47.640 --> 19:49.640 What? 19:49.640 --> 19:52.640 Don't you see what it means? The brain has communicated with me. 19:52.640 --> 19:53.640 Patrick, you don't... 19:53.640 --> 19:57.640 Look here. Look at this magazine article. Here's a reproduction of his signature. 19:57.640 --> 19:59.640 And he was left-handed too. It says so here. 19:59.640 --> 20:01.640 Why, it is. It is exactly the same. 20:01.640 --> 20:03.640 Oh, what a fool I've been. Look at this picture, smoking a cigar. 20:03.640 --> 20:06.640 With his left hand, I wondered why it suddenly started, smoking cigars. 20:06.640 --> 20:10.640 The same brand too. Janice, try to remember what you heard me saying just before you woke me up. 20:10.640 --> 20:12.640 Come on, Janice. Think. 20:12.640 --> 20:14.640 Patrick, I... I can't believe... 20:14.640 --> 20:16.640 Think, Janice. 20:16.640 --> 20:19.640 All I heard was something like, sure, sure, sure. 20:19.640 --> 20:22.640 Sure, sure, sure. Of course. Don't you remember, Schrot? 20:22.640 --> 20:25.640 He said it that night. It was the only thing we ever heard him say. 20:25.640 --> 20:28.640 It was an expression of his. It tells about that in one of the articles too. 20:28.640 --> 20:29.640 Yes, there it is. 20:29.640 --> 20:31.640 It wasn't your voice, Patrick. 20:31.640 --> 20:33.640 It wasn't my voice. You see, the brain has grown. 20:33.640 --> 20:36.640 And it's strong enough to influence not only the higher functions, the frontal lobe, 20:36.640 --> 20:40.640 but the speech centers, the motor centers of another brain. 20:40.640 --> 20:45.640 Patrick, if this is true, then your experiment has been successful. It's ended. 20:45.640 --> 20:47.640 Ended? It's only begun. 20:47.640 --> 20:48.640 Patrick! 20:48.640 --> 20:50.640 Don't you see what this means? 20:50.640 --> 20:51.640 Patrick, listen to me! 20:51.640 --> 20:53.640 Oh, what, Janice? What? 20:53.640 --> 20:54.640 You've got to stop. 20:54.640 --> 20:55.640 Stop? 20:55.640 --> 20:57.640 I can't stand it any longer. 20:57.640 --> 20:59.640 Can't you see where it's led you? 20:59.640 --> 21:03.640 When you cut yourself off from your family, when you neglected your health, 21:03.640 --> 21:06.640 began having fits of temper and were like... 21:06.640 --> 21:10.640 someone I hardly recognized as the man I married. 21:10.640 --> 21:12.640 All that I tried to understand. 21:12.640 --> 21:17.640 But don't you see what you've done? You are a murderer, Patrick, a murderer! 21:17.640 --> 21:18.640 Janice, darling! 21:18.640 --> 21:19.640 David told me the whole thing. 21:19.640 --> 21:22.640 That poor boy is half insane himself from worry. 21:22.640 --> 21:24.640 Insane? What do you mean by that? 21:24.640 --> 21:28.640 What I say. You killed Donovan. 21:28.640 --> 21:29.640 Janice, darling. 21:29.640 --> 21:31.640 Maybe he wouldn't have lived anyway, but you killed him. 21:31.640 --> 21:35.640 And now this, this thing has gained such power over your mind 21:35.640 --> 21:37.640 that it can make you do things you don't even know about. 21:37.640 --> 21:40.640 For all you know, it could make you do anything. 21:40.640 --> 21:42.640 Anything! 21:42.640 --> 21:44.640 You've got to choose, Patrick. 21:44.640 --> 21:46.640 Janice, please. 21:46.640 --> 21:49.640 I suppose you're right, but I'm utterly exhausted. 21:49.640 --> 21:51.640 I can't even think anymore. 21:51.640 --> 21:52.640 You've got to think. 21:52.640 --> 21:53.640 Give me until tomorrow. Let me sleep. 21:53.640 --> 21:55.640 Then tomorrow I'll do something, I promise you. 21:55.640 --> 21:56.640 All right, Patrick. 21:56.640 --> 21:57.640 Tomorrow. 21:57.640 --> 22:00.640 But if you don't do something, if you don't destroy that thing, I will! 22:00.640 --> 22:02.640 The brain! 22:02.640 --> 22:06.640 It's almost as though it heard you and were raging... 22:06.640 --> 22:08.640 raging at you. 22:21.640 --> 22:22.640 This way, please, Dr. Croy. 22:22.640 --> 22:23.640 Come on, darling. 22:23.640 --> 22:26.640 But, Patrick, why are we going in here? 22:26.640 --> 22:28.640 A psychiatric clinic? 22:28.640 --> 22:30.640 I told you I'd do something, Janice. 22:30.640 --> 22:32.640 I've... I've got an idea. 22:32.640 --> 22:35.640 You mean you're... you're having yourself psychoanalyzed. 22:35.640 --> 22:36.640 Well... 22:36.640 --> 22:37.640 Something like that. 22:37.640 --> 22:40.640 Something like that. I'll tell you about it later. 22:40.640 --> 22:44.640 First, I want... I want you to talk to this man alone. 22:44.640 --> 22:47.640 Dr. Zanger, this is Dr. Croy. 22:47.640 --> 22:48.640 How do you do, Dr. Croy? 22:48.640 --> 22:50.640 I heard something of your work. 22:50.640 --> 22:51.640 Oh, yes. 22:51.640 --> 22:53.640 And this is Mrs. Croy. 22:53.640 --> 22:55.640 Of course. Excuse me. 22:55.640 --> 22:57.640 I'm happy to meet you, Mrs. Croy. 22:57.640 --> 22:58.640 Thank you, doctor. 22:58.640 --> 23:00.640 Won't you come into my office? 23:00.640 --> 23:01.640 I will, sir. 23:01.640 --> 23:03.640 Janice, would you mind waiting in the reception room? 23:03.640 --> 23:04.640 I'll be out in just a moment. Thank you. 23:04.640 --> 23:05.640 Why, certainly do you. 23:05.640 --> 23:07.640 In here, please, doctor. 23:07.640 --> 23:08.640 I will. 23:08.640 --> 23:10.640 Doctor, she seems quite normal. 23:10.640 --> 23:13.640 I'd expect it from what you told me on the telephone. 23:13.640 --> 23:16.640 I... I know. I... 23:16.640 --> 23:18.640 I know. I... 23:18.640 --> 23:21.640 I can assure you I... 23:21.640 --> 23:26.640 I... I... I hate to tell you this, but, uh... 23:26.640 --> 23:29.640 Doctor... 23:29.640 --> 23:31.640 She's quite insane. 23:31.640 --> 23:32.640 I see. 23:32.640 --> 23:35.640 Yes. Uh... 23:35.640 --> 23:38.640 Paranoia. 23:38.640 --> 23:43.640 She's always been, you know, jealous of my work. 23:43.640 --> 23:49.640 And, well, last little while, she started... 23:49.640 --> 23:52.640 She's got a... 23:52.640 --> 23:54.640 A delusion that... 23:54.640 --> 24:01.640 She thinks I've made some kind of a monster up in my laboratory. 24:01.640 --> 24:06.640 It controls my mind and controls my actions. 24:06.640 --> 24:07.640 Huh. 24:07.640 --> 24:10.640 So I'm putting her completely in your hands. 24:10.640 --> 24:12.640 Oh. Well, it's... 24:12.640 --> 24:17.640 It's, of course, a little unusual, but since you are yourself a medical man... 24:17.640 --> 24:18.640 That's right. 24:18.640 --> 24:21.640 You definitely wish to commit her, then, huh? 24:21.640 --> 24:23.640 Yes. 24:23.640 --> 24:25.640 Yes. You have the papers. 24:25.640 --> 24:27.640 Oh, yes. Here you are. 24:27.640 --> 24:30.640 Just your signature will be enough, Doctor. 24:30.640 --> 24:32.640 Ah. 24:32.640 --> 24:35.640 There you are. 24:35.640 --> 24:37.640 Uh, you... you'll let me know about everything, won't you? 24:37.640 --> 24:40.640 Oh, naturally, Doctor. We keep you informed. 24:40.640 --> 24:41.640 Thank you. 24:41.640 --> 24:45.640 Well, good-bye, then, Dr. Corey. We... we'll do what we can. 24:45.640 --> 24:47.640 Oh, right. 24:47.640 --> 24:48.640 Patrick. 24:48.640 --> 24:50.640 Mrs. Corey is staying with us, Miss Wilcox. 24:50.640 --> 24:52.640 Yes, Dr. Zangler. 24:52.640 --> 24:54.640 Patrick. 24:54.640 --> 24:55.640 Come back. 24:55.640 --> 24:56.640 Patrick! 24:56.640 --> 24:59.640 Oh, it's all right, Mrs. Corey. Just come with me, please. 24:59.640 --> 25:00.640 Patrick! 25:00.640 --> 25:01.640 No. 25:01.640 --> 25:02.640 Where are you going? 25:02.640 --> 25:05.640 Let me go! Let me go! 25:05.640 --> 25:08.640 Help me! 25:08.640 --> 25:09.640 Well, Dr. Corey. 25:09.640 --> 25:10.640 Yes? 25:10.640 --> 25:12.640 Oh, about the bill, how do you wish it to be handled? 25:12.640 --> 25:14.640 Uh, the bill. 25:14.640 --> 25:19.640 The... the bill. 25:19.640 --> 25:22.640 Sure, sure, sure. 25:22.640 --> 25:26.640 I... I'll take care of it by the week. 25:26.640 --> 25:32.640 The checks will be signed to William H. Donovan. 25:32.640 --> 25:34.640 Sure, sure, sure. 25:34.640 --> 25:39.640 August 20th. It's nearly three weeks now since Janice went away. 25:39.640 --> 25:43.640 I can't understand how she could have left me just when I needed her most. 25:43.640 --> 25:45.640 When I try to question Schrott or David about it, 25:45.640 --> 25:48.640 they only look at me strangely and change the subject. 25:48.640 --> 25:50.640 Clearly, they too now are in on the conspiracy. 25:50.640 --> 25:53.640 Sometimes it seems the only person I can think of is Dr. Zangler. 25:53.640 --> 25:55.640 I'm not sure. 25:55.640 --> 25:57.640 I'm not sure. 25:57.640 --> 25:59.640 I'm not sure. 25:59.640 --> 26:01.640 I'm not sure. 26:01.640 --> 26:05.640 Sometimes it seems the only person I can trust is Donovan. 26:05.640 --> 26:08.640 The brain communicates with me more freely now each day. 26:08.640 --> 26:12.640 I know it has some great plan in mind for me, for both of us. 26:12.640 --> 26:14.640 I'm waiting. 26:14.640 --> 26:17.640 Patiently waiting. 26:22.640 --> 26:24.640 Donovan! 26:24.640 --> 26:27.640 Donovan, I'm listening, Donovan. 26:27.640 --> 26:29.640 Don't be angry, Donovan. I'm trying to understand. 26:29.640 --> 26:32.640 I'm listening, Donovan. 26:32.640 --> 26:34.640 I'm listening. 26:34.640 --> 26:36.640 I'm... 26:39.640 --> 26:41.640 Sure. 26:41.640 --> 26:43.640 Sure, sure, sure. 26:43.640 --> 27:09.640 Sure, sure, sure. 27:09.640 --> 27:11.640 And so closes Donovan's brain. 27:11.640 --> 27:15.640 Part One, the first of two half-hour presentations of Kurtzjodemak's story, 27:15.640 --> 27:20.640 presenting Orson Welles as star of Suspense. 27:20.640 --> 27:24.640 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 27:24.640 --> 27:27.640 We sincerely hope you enjoyed the performance of Orson Welles 27:27.640 --> 27:31.640 and that of the whole cast tonight in our Roma Suspense play, 27:31.640 --> 27:35.640 and that you'll make a note to be sure not to miss the completion of this story next week. 27:35.640 --> 27:38.640 The Roma Wine Company would like to express its thanks 27:38.640 --> 27:41.640 for the many letters of appreciation from listeners, 27:41.640 --> 27:45.640 which we are constantly receiving saying how much you enjoy these broadcasts. 27:45.640 --> 27:47.640 And here's a thought. 27:47.640 --> 27:50.640 To discover the enjoyment these Suspense programs offer, 27:50.640 --> 27:52.640 you first had to sample one. 27:52.640 --> 27:56.640 And so you must first sample one of the many delicious Roma wines 27:56.640 --> 27:59.640 to discover for yourself their wonderful taste and quality, 27:59.640 --> 28:04.640 the excellence that makes Roma America's largest selling wines. 28:04.640 --> 28:07.640 You'll discover, as of other millions before you, 28:07.640 --> 28:10.640 that Roma wines are super quality, are super tasting, 28:10.640 --> 28:16.640 and are super easy on your pocketbook too, costing only pennies a glass. 28:16.640 --> 28:20.640 Be sure you get R-O-M-A, Roma wines, 28:20.640 --> 28:25.640 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 28:25.640 --> 28:29.640 The greatest and most profitable investment you can make in your country's future 28:29.640 --> 28:32.640 is to buy war bonds. 28:32.640 --> 28:34.640 Don't forget then, next Monday, 28:34.640 --> 28:38.640 you will hear Part 2 of Donovan's Brain starring Orson Welles 28:38.640 --> 28:44.640 in the completion of this remarkable tale of Suspense. 28:44.640 --> 28:49.640 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, 28:49.640 --> 28:53.640 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 28:53.640 --> 29:20.640 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 29:23.640 --> 29:26.640 Thank you.