1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,080 Roma wines present suspense. 2 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:23,640 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 3 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,640 Salud. 4 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,760 For your health, senora. 5 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,040 Roma wines toast the world. 6 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:34,640 The wine for your table is Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the 7 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:35,640 world. 8 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:42,200 This is the man in black here to introduce this weekly half hour of suspense. 9 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:48,720 Tonight from Hollywood, we again bring you Mr. Orson Welles in the second of two consecutive 10 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:55,720 performances starring Mr. Welles as the protagonist of Kurt Sjodmak's novel Donovan's Brain. 11 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:01,360 The producer of suspense and its sponsors, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California, 12 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:06,440 felt this story so unusual that it merited more than our usual time. 13 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:11,200 So in somewhat of a departure from established radio formulas, we are bringing you the story 14 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,760 of Donovan's Brain in two parts. 15 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:19,120 Part one you heard last Thursday and tonight you will hear part two, the completion of 16 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:20,960 Donovan's Brain. 17 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:25,120 But before we raise the curtain on our suspense play, let's for a moment wish ourselves a 18 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:31,200 way to Havana, Cuba, seated at a table in the fashionable Hotel de Nacional de Cuba. 19 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,320 Near us a group of Cubans are entertaining an American visitor. 20 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:39,640 Our American has just remarked that in point of great enjoyment, the Cuban Roomba is one 21 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,720 of America's most delightful imported dances. 22 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:48,160 And then raising his wine glass, the Cuban host responds, then we have perhaps discharged 23 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,360 some part of our debt to you Americans for this wonderful tasting wine that gives us 24 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,160 such great enjoyment. 25 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:58,040 It is wine that Cuba imports from your far away California. 26 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,560 It is Roma Wine. 27 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,680 Americans didn't have to wait for wine connoisseurs of other lands to discover the greatness of 28 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:10,320 California's wine districts, the superb quality of Roma California wines. 29 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:16,280 So many millions made this discovery for themselves that Roma wines have long been America's largest 30 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,100 selling wines. 31 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:20,680 But these millions discovered something more. 32 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,240 In Roma wines they discovered an easy and expensive way to increase the delights of 33 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:26,400 daily living. 34 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:32,000 Yes, millions have discovered that Roma wines as a beverage on the table and when used in 35 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,200 entertaining add a charm of a special and wholesome kind. 36 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,760 I told you Roma wines cost little. 37 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:44,200 That's because here in America you pay no high import duty, no expensive shipping charges. 38 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:50,040 And two, Roma wines come from Roma's own wineries in the heart of Choice California Vineyard 39 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:51,040 District. 40 00:02:51,040 --> 00:03:00,000 So cost to you is only pennies a glass for R-O-M-A Roma Wines, made in California for 41 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,520 enjoyment throughout the world. 42 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:08,240 And now with part two of Donovan's Brain and with the performance of Orson Welles as Dr. 43 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:21,960 Patrick Corey, we again hope to keep you in suspense. 44 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:27,400 As I sit now outside my laboratory door writing under the heading Experiment 87, this final 45 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:33,840 entry in my case book, I know that these are the last words I shall ever write upon this 46 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:34,840 earth. 47 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,240 If I seek some explanation, I refer them simply to this case book. 48 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,440 Let them read it carefully. 49 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:45,400 Perhaps they may then in some measure understand if not condone the awful circumstances under 50 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,880 which I have been driven to the most appalling crime against God and nature that it has ever 51 00:03:50,880 --> 00:04:02,960 been the fate of mortal man to perpetrate. 52 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:09,680 August 24th, it's now six weeks, exactly 42 days since I began the experiment. 53 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:15,680 For six weeks by artificial means alone, I have kept alive a human brain completely detached 54 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,360 from the body floating in a bath of serum nourished by a synthetic blood plasma fed 55 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,640 through its arteries by an electric pump. 56 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:26,760 It has remained alive, not only alive, but I have succeeded in communicating with it. 57 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:31,000 I've even induced new growth of brain cells and so tremendously increased its mental faculties 58 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:37,240 that by sheer brain power alone, it has actually been able to communicate its thoughts to me. 59 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:42,360 And each day my communion with that living pulsing mass of gray matter that was the brain 60 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,400 of William Donovan becomes stronger and stronger. 61 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:51,160 Even now I sense it's striving to reveal some plan to me, something so truly world-shaking 62 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:56,680 in its implications that only such an organism developed to a point thousands of years ahead 63 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,320 of its time could ever have conceived it. 64 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,840 So far I sense this only, but soon I shall know. 65 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:06,280 Indeed, I shall be partner in its execution. 66 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:11,040 Not a fool I was ever to have considered for a moment my wife's demand that I end the experiment. 67 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,680 It's because I refused, of course, that Janice left me a week ago without so much as a word 68 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,000 of explanation or farewell. 69 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,600 Even my son David and my assistant Shrater privy to this conspiracy to thwart me, for 70 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,080 when I ask about Janice, they pretend to know nothing. 71 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,360 They seek to avoid my questions. 72 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,560 But the brain will live. 73 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,640 Yes, I can hear it now. 74 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:39,840 Its delta waves quite audible over the amplifying system I've arranged for it, almost as though 75 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:44,720 it were calling to me, trying to speak to me. 76 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,720 The brain will live. 77 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:48,720 Donovan? 78 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,720 What is it? 79 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:56,720 What are you trying to tell me? 80 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,500 Go on, Donovan. 81 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:00,500 I'm listening. 82 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:01,500 Go on. 83 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:02,500 Go on. 84 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:05,500 Who is it? 85 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:09,480 It's me, Patrick and David. 86 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,480 What do you want? 87 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,840 I've no time to talk. 88 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:17,840 I'm busy. 89 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:18,840 I'm sorry. 90 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:19,840 Go away. 91 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:26,840 I tell you, I'm busy. 92 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:28,840 Can't you two leave me alone? 93 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:29,840 All right. 94 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:30,840 All right. 95 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:31,840 What is it? 96 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:32,840 What is it? 97 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:33,840 Patrick, won't you come into the study with us for a few minutes? 98 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:34,840 What have you got to say? 99 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:36,840 You say right here, you know I can't leave the laboratory. 100 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:39,840 Dad, it's only that what we wanted to talk to you in private. 101 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:44,240 Don't tell me that you're afraid of this poor mass of brain cells here. 102 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:45,240 It's not that, Dad. 103 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,240 Never mind, David. 104 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,760 At least turn that thing off then, will you, Patrick? 105 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,080 What difference would it make? 106 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,480 It's still here, couldn't it? 107 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,680 Well, what is it then? 108 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:59,440 Well, it's about Mother. 109 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,240 So she put you up to this, did she? 110 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:02,760 I thought the truth had come out sometime. 111 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:03,760 Dad, listen. 112 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:05,200 She's tried to stop this experiment from the beginning. 113 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,880 She thought she could blackmail me into quitting by leaving me, and she still does. 114 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:08,880 And now she's using you as a go-between. 115 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:09,880 That's true, isn't it? 116 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:10,880 I've heard enough. 117 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:11,880 I think listen a minute, won't you? 118 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:13,380 We haven't heard a word from Janice. 119 00:07:13,380 --> 00:07:15,480 We don't even know where she is. 120 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,960 That's what we've come to talk to you about. 121 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:17,960 Oh, have you? 122 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,360 Well, how could I know where she is? 123 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,040 Well, because you were the last person seen with her, Dad. 124 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,040 I was. 125 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,040 Don't you remember, Patrick? 126 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,480 You took her into town with you. 127 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:28,880 You wouldn't tell any of us why. 128 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,480 Yes, of course, the more I've forgotten, but what of it? 129 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,400 Well, don't you remember what happened then? 130 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,360 Of course I remember. 131 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:36,760 She left me, that's all. 132 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:37,760 Where, Dad? 133 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:38,760 Where did she leave you? 134 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:39,760 What were you doing? 135 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:40,760 I don't know. 136 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,160 We were in some big public building, city hall, courthouse, taxis or something. 137 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,680 Next thing I knew, she'd simply disappeared. 138 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,160 Is that all? 139 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:49,600 Didn't she say anything? 140 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,560 Didn't she at least tell you why she was going? 141 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:52,560 I remember what she said. 142 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:53,560 It's been a week or more. 143 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:54,560 I've hardly slept. 144 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,120 You know, I've been working night and day. 145 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:57,120 Yes, that's just it, Patrick. 146 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:58,120 What do you mean by that? 147 00:07:58,120 --> 00:07:59,600 Patrick, you say this. 148 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,640 The brain communicates with you, tells you things about its past life, suggests thoughts. 149 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:04,640 Yes, yes. 150 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,800 Well, if the brain can make you think of things, might it also be able to make you 151 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:09,800 forget things? 152 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,320 You're out of your mind. 153 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:13,880 Dad, are you sure? 154 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,960 Are you sure you don't know what's happened to Mother? 155 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:17,680 Now I tell you, no, I don't know. 156 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,240 But Patrick, don't you see what you might have done? 157 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:21,240 What? 158 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:22,840 Heaven's name stopped now while there's still time. 159 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:23,840 Get out of here. 160 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,800 While there's still time to help Janice, if there is, while there's still time to help 161 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:27,800 yourself. 162 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:28,800 Shut off the current. 163 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:29,800 Get out. 164 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:30,800 Let the brain die. 165 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:31,800 Kill it, Patrick. 166 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:32,800 Kill it. 167 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:33,800 Get out, both of you. 168 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:34,800 Get out. 169 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:35,800 Get out. 170 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:36,800 August 26th, 1929. 171 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:52,080 August 26th, the brain continues to communicate thought fragments more and more easily, but 172 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,600 nothing further on what I've come to think of as the plan. 173 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:02,080 I'm now sleeping a great deal, but my dreams are becoming increasingly troublesome, although 174 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:08,040 I'm at a loss to analyze them, most frequent as a sort of vast cosmic ballet presided over 175 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:13,520 by the colossal figure of a young man whom I seem to recognize, yet I never, never see 176 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:14,520 his face. 177 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:21,080 It's as though the entire population of the Earth were moving past him in review at his 178 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:22,080 command. 179 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:33,080 Sure, sure, sure, sure. 180 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,080 Now. 181 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,080 Do it now. 182 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,080 Now. 183 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,080 Sure, sure, now. 184 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,080 Help me, someone! 185 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,080 Shut up! 186 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,080 Shut up, Janice! 187 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:52,080 David! 188 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:53,080 Head to death. 189 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,080 Never mind, I hear. 190 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:55,080 Help me with Shradd. 191 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:56,080 He's fainted. 192 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,080 No, no, David. 193 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,080 Don't let him. 194 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,080 It's all right now. 195 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:00,080 Here's a glass of water. 196 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:01,080 It's the matter you're trembling all over. 197 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:02,080 I... 198 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,080 You're looking at me that way for you. 199 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,080 Look how frightened after death. 200 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:07,080 Dad, you... 201 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:08,080 What happened here anyway? 202 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,080 I came and found you on the floor with your hands around your own throat. 203 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:11,080 Damn men for me. 204 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,080 Why is your luggage all packed? 205 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,080 I was going to leave. 206 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:16,080 Leave? 207 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,080 In the middle of the night? 208 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:18,080 Why? 209 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:19,080 Because... 210 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,080 The fuse box has been opened. 211 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:21,080 You're going to shut off the current. 212 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,080 You are going to kill the brain. 213 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,080 Patrick, you tried to strangle me. 214 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,080 What? 215 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:29,080 That's true, Dad. 216 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,080 That's why I had to slap you. 217 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:32,080 That's absurd. 218 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,080 I came in here and found Shradd with his hands around his own throat. 219 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,080 He was strangling himself. 220 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:37,080 Dad, please, think a minute. 221 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:38,080 Nobody can strangle himself. 222 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,080 Look at these marks on my throat. 223 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,080 Do you think I could have done that? 224 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,080 It's not possible, and yet... 225 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,080 It's true, Patrick, that I tried to shut off the current. 226 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,080 I was afraid for you. 227 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:53,080 But as I opened the fuse box, I heard the delta waves in the laboratory suddenly become 228 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,080 stronger and louder than they'd ever been before. 229 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:57,080 And then... 230 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,080 Then... 231 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,080 Then I... 232 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,080 Yes. 233 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,080 Then the brain knew... 234 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,080 You even spoke in Donovan's voice, Patrick. 235 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,080 Donovan's voice, his voice. 236 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,080 That recurring phrase of his. 237 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:06,080 Sure, sure, sure. 238 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,080 In his very tones, his very accents. 239 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,080 You've created a monster, Patrick. 240 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,080 It has the power to make me commit murder. 241 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,080 The brain... the brain must die. 242 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,080 Pull the switch in the fuse box, Patrick. 243 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,080 It will only be a matter of seconds and then... 244 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,080 Yes, I... I... but I... but I... 245 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,080 You've got to, Patrick. 246 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,080 Shrot, David, help me. 247 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:34,080 I can't move. 248 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:35,080 Come with me. 249 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:36,080 Pull the switch, honey. 250 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,080 Shrot, David, go on. 251 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,080 You... you too? 252 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,080 It's paralyzed dispens. 253 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,080 The brain won't let itself be killed. 254 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:52,080 Then... then it has the power to live on. 255 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,080 And on. 256 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:58,080 To command us as long as we live. 257 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,080 To make us do anything it wants. 258 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,080 To kill. Murder. 259 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,080 Dad, what are we going to do? 260 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,080 Listen. 261 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:09,080 The brain... 262 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:14,080 It's... it's... laughing. 263 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,080 Laughing. 264 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,080 September 7th. 265 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,080 Shrot has left. 266 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,080 He had to, of course, for his own protection, if nothing else. 267 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,080 Before he left, he swore to eternal secrecy, 268 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,080 and was going to try to find Janice. 269 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,080 The very thought that any harm might come to her through me 270 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,080 is enough to drive me almost mad. 271 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,080 As for David, although he's strong enough 272 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,080 to prevent any untoward accidents, 273 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,080 I don't know, he's volunteered to stay with me. 274 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,080 He'll sleep at night behind locked doors. 275 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,080 We must devote every faculty we possess together 276 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,080 and independently to finding a way of destroying the brain. 277 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,080 Perhaps while it sleeps. 278 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,080 Although it seems to have developed tremendous powers 279 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:17,080 in the subconscious, which operate even in sleep. 280 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,080 The recurring dream, the now oppressive sense 281 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,080 of some further task to be performed, continues. 282 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,080 If Janice were only here, even her presence, I know, 283 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,080 would help immeasurably to combat this fearful thing. 284 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,080 Terrible thought crosses my mind. 285 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:39,080 Could Trotter have left if the brain had not, 286 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:44,080 for some reasons of its own, actually wanted him to leave? 287 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,080 BAND PLAYS 288 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,080 September 10th. 289 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,080 My thoughts are less and less my own. 290 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:02,080 The dream of the young giant bestriding the earth, 291 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,080 the figure without a face, pursues me now, 292 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,080 even in my waking hours. 293 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:11,080 Increasingly, I seem to live in a world of evil fantasy, 294 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:17,080 peopled and controlled by the mind of William Donnellan. 295 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,080 BAND PLAYS 296 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,080 SIRENS 297 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,080 SIRENS 298 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,080 Sure, sure, sure. 299 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,080 Sure, sure, sure. 300 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:34,080 It's not much time, but time enough. 301 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,080 Time enough. 302 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,080 Sure, sure, sure. 303 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,080 Time enough. 304 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,080 Sure, sure. 305 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,080 Hello? Who is it? 306 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,080 Patrick? 307 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:51,080 Janice! My darling. Janice. 308 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,080 Hello, Patrick. 309 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,080 Sweetheart. How are you, Patrick? 310 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,080 I'm well enough, I'm well enough, but Janice, where have you been? 311 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,080 Why did you leave me that day? Why didn't you at least tell me? 312 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,080 Where did you go down here? 313 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,080 I was with friends. 314 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,080 Did Sraat tell you anything? 315 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,080 No, nothing special. 316 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,080 Janice, I know I haven't been a very good husband these last months. 317 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:16,080 I haven't been very kind, very considerate or even civilised. 318 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,080 I haven't been myself, Janice. 319 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,080 I know, Patrick. My poor darling. 320 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,080 If you'd only known how I missed you after you left, how I needed you. 321 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,080 I need your help, Janice. Terribly. 322 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,080 I came back to help you. 323 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:31,080 But... But what? 324 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,080 Where is David? 325 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,080 He's asleep in the next room. 326 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,080 That is, lately he's tried to make it a point to sleep only when I didn't. 327 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,080 I'm trying to keep an eye on things. 328 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,080 Patrick, I'm going to help you. 329 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,080 All I can, any way I can. 330 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,080 But first, I want to take David away. 331 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:51,080 David? Why? 332 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:55,080 Because I don't think it's good for him to be here. 333 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:56,080 No? 334 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,080 I don't think that you... 335 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,080 Patrick, I don't want to torment you. 336 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:08,080 It's only that perhaps we can find a way if we know all the facts. 337 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,080 What, Janice? 338 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:15,080 Don't you know, really, where I was? 339 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,080 No, how could I? 340 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:20,080 Don't you remember where you took me? 341 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,080 I took you... 342 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,080 You took me to a psychiatric clinic. 343 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,080 You had me committed to a madhouse. 344 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,080 Janice! 345 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,080 No, not you, Donovan! 346 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:36,080 Donovan. 347 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,080 It was because I tried to make you stop the experiment. 348 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:39,080 Yes. 349 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,080 Kill the brain. 350 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:46,080 As you left me there, you even spoke in Donovan's voice. 351 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,080 Sure, sure, sure, you said. 352 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:49,080 Sure, sure. 353 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,080 I thought they were the last words I would ever hear you speak. 354 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,080 No, Janice, forgive me. 355 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,080 Forgive me, baby. 356 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,080 I couldn't persuade anyone. 357 00:16:58,080 --> 00:16:59,080 I was sane. 358 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:00,080 Oh, sweet. 359 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,080 After what you told them. 360 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:06,080 Everything I said only made them think I was mad. 361 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:13,080 I'm not mad, am I, Patrick? 362 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:18,080 I'm not mad, am I? 363 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,080 Janice will be gone for some three hours. 364 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:25,080 I've sent her into town for Dr. Zanger, the psychiatrist. 365 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:30,080 Maybe he can help, but now suddenly I'm... 366 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,080 I'm... 367 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:36,080 I'm overcome with the thought of the humiliation I shall have to suffer 368 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,080 when other medical men begin to suffer. 369 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,080 I'm... 370 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:41,080 I'm... 371 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:42,080 I'm... 372 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,080 I'm overcome with the thought of the humiliation I shall have to suffer 373 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,080 when other medical men become aware of the position I'm in. 374 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,080 It'll be the end of my career and my reputation, all my hopes. 375 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:56,080 It would be folly to think that Zanger would keep it to himself, indeed. 376 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:58,080 He'd have no right to. 377 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:03,080 I can bear it if I must, but another way of possibility occurs to me. 378 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:06,080 And I've been thinking it over. 379 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,080 There's no harm in trying it in any event. 380 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,080 I must try. 381 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:16,080 I have three hours. 382 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,080 David? David? 383 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:22,080 Yes, Dad? 384 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,080 David, what's your blood type? Do you know your blood type? 385 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,080 As a matter of fact, I don't think I do. Why? 386 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:28,080 No matter. We can easily find out. 387 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,080 David, I think at last I know a way. 388 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,080 To kill the brain? 389 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,080 It's simple. It's perfectly natural. 390 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,080 Only at nine chances out of ten is something Donovan had never known about. 391 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,080 I'll do it myself. Unfortunately, my blood type and his are... 392 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,080 They're the same. 393 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,080 Of course, I have to replenish the blood substance periodically. 394 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,080 Anyway, it's about time to do it again. 395 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,080 I've always used my own because it was the same type as his, 396 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,080 but if yours is a different type, the right type, David. 397 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,080 You mean the wrong type? 398 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,080 Yes, you've given the wrong... The brain... 399 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,080 The brain will die given the wrong type. 400 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,080 Yeah, it sounds possible. 401 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,080 I'm sure of that. I know it. 402 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,080 But suppose the brain knows... 403 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,080 It knows other things. 404 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,080 I've thought of that. It's a chance we'll have to take if you're willing, David, my boy. 405 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,080 Of course I am, Dad. 406 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,080 Then we'll take the blood sample now. Come into the laboratory. 407 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,080 I only have the right blood type. 408 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,080 Sure. 409 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,080 Rather the wrong type. 410 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,080 If you haven't, we'll find someone who has, maybe... 411 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,080 Maybe Schrad. 412 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,080 Now, lie down there on the table, David. 413 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,080 We want to turn a care in your arm here. 414 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,080 I'll put it on. 415 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,080 Go ahead. I'm ready. 416 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,080 David, don't watch me. It'll be easier if you don't. 417 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,080 For me. 418 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,080 That's a funny one. Coming from you. 419 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:42,080 Well, doctors are never quite as steady with members of their own family, you know. Ready? 420 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,080 Sure. 421 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,080 Here we are. 422 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,080 You all right? 423 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,080 Yeah. 424 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,080 I'll be through in just a second. 425 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,080 You're getting it? All right? 426 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,080 Yes. Sure. Sure. 427 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,080 Just a second now. 428 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,080 Dad, I... I'm sleepy. 429 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,080 You'll be over it in a minute. 430 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,080 But... what's the matter? 431 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,080 Why am I so... sleepy? 432 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,080 You'll be all right. 433 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,080 Sleepy... 434 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,080 So... 435 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,080 Sleepy... 436 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,080 Sure. Sure. Sure. 437 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,080 Sure. Sure. Sure. 438 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,080 Sure. Sure. Sure. 439 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,080 That's what an anesthetic is for. 440 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:34,080 Make you sleep. 441 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:38,080 I was somewhat surprised to find the instruments sterilized already laid out, 442 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:44,080 but I worked more rapidly and skillfully than ever before in my life, I think. 443 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:50,080 I made an incision just below the hairline, laying back the scalp as far as the base of the skull. 444 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:56,080 I trepan the cranium at two centimeter intervals, 445 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,080 working back and downwards to the upper edge of the occipital bone. 446 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:05,080 With the G. Lee saw, I cut through the connecting bone structure 447 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:08,080 and removed the entire top of the cranium, 448 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:12,080 placing it in saline solution to preserve it. 449 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:17,080 I made a semi-circular incision in the dura mater, 450 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:21,080 laying it to one side, exposing the brain. 451 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:27,080 As I dissected out the facial auditory and pneumogastric nerves to free the medulla amrigata, 452 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,080 I... I... 453 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,080 I became conscious of an insistent clamoring, 454 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:36,080 something like a mounting hysteria in the distant regions of my mind. 455 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:41,080 Almost as strong as the irresistible compulsion that drove me on. 456 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,080 But my hand did not falter. 457 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:52,080 With a sure stroke, I severed the spinal cord just below the first cervical nerve. 458 00:21:52,080 --> 00:22:08,080 MUSIC 459 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:14,080 As I make this last entry with that awful guilt for my soul, 460 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:18,080 even now I cannot fully comprehend how it has been possible for any man, 461 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:23,080 by mortal or immortal means, to be driven to such a crime. 462 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:32,080 Even the divinity himself did not demand of Abraham that final sacrifice of expiation. 463 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:38,080 When he, with his only begotten son, ascended the Mount of Olives... 464 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,080 Hm. Perhaps Schrot is right. 465 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:49,080 Perhaps there is indeed in man some spark of the divine that will elude our test tubes and our laboratories 466 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,080 until the end of time. 467 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,080 Perhaps that is the one thing that even Donovan did not foresee. 468 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:03,080 I only know that at the instant my son died under my own hand, I was set free. 469 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:09,080 At that instant, I saw and understood for the first time that monstrous plan 470 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,080 born in the brain of William Donovan, of which I was to be the instrument. 471 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:17,080 It was the plan I had glimpsed but never grasped in the recurring dream. 472 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:21,080 Donovan did aspire to the domination of the world. 473 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,080 And with those tremendous mental faculties that I myself had given him, 474 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:31,080 it was literally within his power to become the absolute ruler of all mankind. 475 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:37,080 Only one thing was lacking, a body, a body, a young strong body into which those ever-growing brain cells 476 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:44,080 could graft and affix themselves to live on and on perhaps for centuries. 477 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:52,080 He chose the body of my son and now, my son, at last too late, 478 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,080 I am free to destroy this foul thing of my creation. 479 00:23:55,080 --> 00:24:01,080 I know it as surely as I know that my own life must be forfeit. 480 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,080 And the brain also knows. 481 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:11,080 I can hear the disturbed, erratic oscillations of the delta waves coming through the laboratory door. 482 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,080 But there's no room left in me now for fear. 483 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:21,080 I shall take the six steps from the desk where I'm writing this across to the laboratory door. 484 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,080 And how often I've taken them in happier times. 485 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:30,080 I shall open the door, close it behind me for the last time, 486 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:39,080 and write finesse to the mortal life of Patrick Arthur Corey and the brain of William Horace Donovan. 487 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:46,080 Me others learn from the record I leave here the lessons I have learned so bitterly and profit by them. 488 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:52,080 And all the things that I have done, may God have mercy on my soul. 489 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:45,080 Phoenix, Arizona, September the 15th. 490 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:51,080 The stories of Dr. Patrick Arthur Corey and his son David were found in Dr. Corey's own laboratory early today. 491 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:58,080 Young Corey had apparently died on the operating table as a result of a delicate brain operation performed by his father. 492 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:06,080 In the case of Dr. Corey, medical authorities gave us their opinion that he might have died of shock as a result of the unsuccessful operation on his son. 493 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:15,080 A curious feature of the case was the fact that numerous pieces of tissue identified as being from a human brain were found scattered about the laboratory floor, 494 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:22,080 while a larger section of brain was found in the midst of an elaborate apparatus, evidently part of a scientific experiment. 495 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,080 Medical authorities stated, however, that they were unable to explain the nature of the apparatus, 496 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:34,080 and that the brain itself was in such a state of decomposition as to indicate that it had been dead and slowly decaying for at least three months. 497 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:40,080 Dr. Corey is survived by his wife Janice. 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