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02:38.760 I told you Roma wines cost little. 02:38.760 --> 02:44.200 That's because here in America you pay no high import duty, no expensive shipping charges. 02:44.200 --> 02:50.040 And two, Roma wines come from Roma's own wineries in the heart of Choice California Vineyard 02:50.040 --> 02:51.040 District. 02:51.040 --> 03:00.000 So cost to you is only pennies a glass for R-O-M-A Roma Wines, made in California for 03:00.000 --> 03:02.520 enjoyment throughout the world. 03:02.520 --> 03:08.240 And now with part two of Donovan's Brain and with the performance of Orson Welles as Dr. 03:08.240 --> 03:21.960 Patrick Corey, we again hope to keep you in suspense. 03:21.960 --> 03:27.400 As I sit now outside my laboratory door writing under the heading Experiment 87, this final 03:27.400 --> 03:33.840 entry in my case book, I know that these are the last words I shall ever write upon this 03:33.840 --> 03:34.840 earth. 03:34.840 --> 03:38.240 If I seek some explanation, I refer them simply to this case book. 03:38.240 --> 03:40.440 Let them read it carefully. 03:40.440 --> 03:45.400 Perhaps they may then in some measure understand if not condone the awful circumstances under 03:45.400 --> 03:50.880 which I have been driven to the most appalling crime against God and nature that it has ever 03:50.880 --> 04:02.960 been the fate of mortal man to perpetrate. 04:02.960 --> 04:09.680 August 24th, it's now six weeks, exactly 42 days since I began the experiment. 04:09.680 --> 04:15.680 For six weeks by artificial means alone, I have kept alive a human brain completely detached 04:15.680 --> 04:19.360 from the body floating in a bath of serum nourished by a synthetic blood plasma fed 04:19.360 --> 04:21.640 through its arteries by an electric pump. 04:21.640 --> 04:26.760 It has remained alive, not only alive, but I have succeeded in communicating with it. 04:26.760 --> 04:31.000 I've even induced new growth of brain cells and so tremendously increased its mental faculties 04:31.000 --> 04:37.240 that by sheer brain power alone, it has actually been able to communicate its thoughts to me. 04:37.240 --> 04:42.360 And each day my communion with that living pulsing mass of gray matter that was the brain 04:42.360 --> 04:45.400 of William Donovan becomes stronger and stronger. 04:45.400 --> 04:51.160 Even now I sense it's striving to reveal some plan to me, something so truly world-shaking 04:51.160 --> 04:56.680 in its implications that only such an organism developed to a point thousands of years ahead 04:56.680 --> 05:00.320 of its time could ever have conceived it. 05:00.320 --> 05:03.840 So far I sense this only, but soon I shall know. 05:03.840 --> 05:06.280 Indeed, I shall be partner in its execution. 05:06.280 --> 05:11.040 Not a fool I was ever to have considered for a moment my wife's demand that I end the experiment. 05:11.040 --> 05:14.680 It's because I refused, of course, that Janice left me a week ago without so much as a word 05:14.680 --> 05:17.000 of explanation or farewell. 05:17.000 --> 05:21.600 Even my son David and my assistant Shrater privy to this conspiracy to thwart me, for 05:21.600 --> 05:25.080 when I ask about Janice, they pretend to know nothing. 05:25.080 --> 05:27.360 They seek to avoid my questions. 05:27.360 --> 05:30.560 But the brain will live. 05:30.560 --> 05:34.640 Yes, I can hear it now. 05:34.640 --> 05:39.840 Its delta waves quite audible over the amplifying system I've arranged for it, almost as though 05:39.840 --> 05:44.720 it were calling to me, trying to speak to me. 05:44.720 --> 05:47.720 The brain will live. 05:47.720 --> 05:48.720 Donovan? 05:48.720 --> 05:51.720 What is it? 05:51.720 --> 05:56.720 What are you trying to tell me? 05:56.720 --> 05:59.500 Go on, Donovan. 05:59.500 --> 06:00.500 I'm listening. 06:00.500 --> 06:01.500 Go on. 06:01.500 --> 06:02.500 Go on. 06:02.500 --> 06:05.500 Who is it? 06:05.500 --> 06:09.480 It's me, Patrick and David. 06:09.480 --> 06:12.480 What do you want? 06:12.480 --> 06:16.840 I've no time to talk. 06:16.840 --> 06:17.840 I'm busy. 06:17.840 --> 06:18.840 I'm sorry. 06:18.840 --> 06:19.840 Go away. 06:19.840 --> 06:26.840 I tell you, I'm busy. 06:26.840 --> 06:28.840 Can't you two leave me alone? 06:28.840 --> 06:29.840 All right. 06:29.840 --> 06:30.840 All right. 06:30.840 --> 06:31.840 What is it? 06:31.840 --> 06:32.840 What is it? 06:32.840 --> 06:33.840 Patrick, won't you come into the study with us for a few minutes? 06:33.840 --> 06:34.840 What have you got to say? 06:34.840 --> 06:36.840 You say right here, you know I can't leave the laboratory. 06:36.840 --> 06:39.840 Dad, it's only that what we wanted to talk to you in private. 06:39.840 --> 06:44.240 Don't tell me that you're afraid of this poor mass of brain cells here. 06:44.240 --> 06:45.240 It's not that, Dad. 06:45.240 --> 06:46.240 Never mind, David. 06:46.240 --> 06:49.760 At least turn that thing off then, will you, Patrick? 06:49.760 --> 06:52.080 What difference would it make? 06:52.080 --> 06:55.480 It's still here, couldn't it? 06:55.480 --> 06:57.680 Well, what is it then? 06:57.680 --> 06:59.440 Well, it's about Mother. 06:59.440 --> 07:01.240 So she put you up to this, did she? 07:01.240 --> 07:02.760 I thought the truth had come out sometime. 07:02.760 --> 07:03.760 Dad, listen. 07:03.760 --> 07:05.200 She's tried to stop this experiment from the beginning. 07:05.200 --> 07:07.880 She thought she could blackmail me into quitting by leaving me, and she still does. 07:07.880 --> 07:08.880 And now she's using you as a go-between. 07:08.880 --> 07:09.880 That's true, isn't it? 07:09.880 --> 07:10.880 I've heard enough. 07:10.880 --> 07:11.880 I think listen a minute, won't you? 07:11.880 --> 07:13.380 We haven't heard a word from Janice. 07:13.380 --> 07:15.480 We don't even know where she is. 07:15.480 --> 07:16.960 That's what we've come to talk to you about. 07:16.960 --> 07:17.960 Oh, have you? 07:17.960 --> 07:20.360 Well, how could I know where she is? 07:20.360 --> 07:23.040 Well, because you were the last person seen with her, Dad. 07:23.040 --> 07:24.040 I was. 07:24.040 --> 07:25.040 Don't you remember, Patrick? 07:25.040 --> 07:27.480 You took her into town with you. 07:27.480 --> 07:28.880 You wouldn't tell any of us why. 07:28.880 --> 07:31.480 Yes, of course, the more I've forgotten, but what of it? 07:31.480 --> 07:33.400 Well, don't you remember what happened then? 07:33.400 --> 07:35.360 Of course I remember. 07:35.360 --> 07:36.760 She left me, that's all. 07:36.760 --> 07:37.760 Where, Dad? 07:37.760 --> 07:38.760 Where did she leave you? 07:38.760 --> 07:39.760 What were you doing? 07:39.760 --> 07:40.760 I don't know. 07:40.760 --> 07:44.160 We were in some big public building, city hall, courthouse, taxis or something. 07:44.160 --> 07:46.680 Next thing I knew, she'd simply disappeared. 07:46.680 --> 07:48.160 Is that all? 07:48.160 --> 07:49.600 Didn't she say anything? 07:49.600 --> 07:51.560 Didn't she at least tell you why she was going? 07:51.560 --> 07:52.560 I remember what she said. 07:52.560 --> 07:53.560 It's been a week or more. 07:53.560 --> 07:54.560 I've hardly slept. 07:54.560 --> 07:56.120 You know, I've been working night and day. 07:56.120 --> 07:57.120 Yes, that's just it, Patrick. 07:57.120 --> 07:58.120 What do you mean by that? 07:58.120 --> 07:59.600 Patrick, you say this. 07:59.600 --> 08:03.640 The brain communicates with you, tells you things about its past life, suggests thoughts. 08:03.640 --> 08:04.640 Yes, yes. 08:04.640 --> 08:08.800 Well, if the brain can make you think of things, might it also be able to make you 08:08.800 --> 08:09.800 forget things? 08:09.800 --> 08:12.320 You're out of your mind. 08:12.320 --> 08:13.880 Dad, are you sure? 08:13.880 --> 08:15.960 Are you sure you don't know what's happened to Mother? 08:15.960 --> 08:17.680 Now I tell you, no, I don't know. 08:17.680 --> 08:20.240 But Patrick, don't you see what you might have done? 08:20.240 --> 08:21.240 What? 08:21.240 --> 08:22.840 Heaven's name stopped now while there's still time. 08:22.840 --> 08:23.840 Get out of here. 08:23.840 --> 08:26.800 While there's still time to help Janice, if there is, while there's still time to help 08:26.800 --> 08:27.800 yourself. 08:27.800 --> 08:28.800 Shut off the current. 08:28.800 --> 08:29.800 Get out. 08:29.800 --> 08:30.800 Let the brain die. 08:30.800 --> 08:31.800 Kill it, Patrick. 08:31.800 --> 08:32.800 Kill it. 08:32.800 --> 08:33.800 Get out, both of you. 08:33.800 --> 08:34.800 Get out. 08:34.800 --> 08:35.800 Get out. 08:35.800 --> 08:36.800 August 26th, 1929. 08:36.800 --> 08:52.080 August 26th, the brain continues to communicate thought fragments more and more easily, but 08:52.080 --> 08:56.600 nothing further on what I've come to think of as the plan. 08:56.600 --> 09:02.080 I'm now sleeping a great deal, but my dreams are becoming increasingly troublesome, although 09:02.080 --> 09:08.040 I'm at a loss to analyze them, most frequent as a sort of vast cosmic ballet presided over 09:08.040 --> 09:13.520 by the colossal figure of a young man whom I seem to recognize, yet I never, never see 09:13.520 --> 09:14.520 his face. 09:14.520 --> 09:21.080 It's as though the entire population of the Earth were moving past him in review at his 09:21.080 --> 09:22.080 command. 09:22.080 --> 09:33.080 Sure, sure, sure, sure. 09:33.080 --> 09:35.080 Now. 09:35.080 --> 09:39.080 Do it now. 09:39.080 --> 09:40.080 Now. 09:40.080 --> 09:43.080 Sure, sure, now. 09:43.080 --> 09:46.080 Help me, someone! 09:46.080 --> 09:48.080 Shut up! 09:48.080 --> 09:51.080 Shut up, Janice! 09:51.080 --> 09:52.080 David! 09:52.080 --> 09:53.080 Head to death. 09:53.080 --> 09:54.080 Never mind, I hear. 09:54.080 --> 09:55.080 Help me with Shradd. 09:55.080 --> 09:56.080 He's fainted. 09:56.080 --> 09:57.080 No, no, David. 09:57.080 --> 09:58.080 Don't let him. 09:58.080 --> 09:59.080 It's all right now. 09:59.080 --> 10:00.080 Here's a glass of water. 10:00.080 --> 10:01.080 It's the matter you're trembling all over. 10:01.080 --> 10:02.080 I... 10:02.080 --> 10:04.080 You're looking at me that way for you. 10:04.080 --> 10:06.080 Look how frightened after death. 10:06.080 --> 10:07.080 Dad, you... 10:07.080 --> 10:08.080 What happened here anyway? 10:08.080 --> 10:10.080 I came and found you on the floor with your hands around your own throat. 10:10.080 --> 10:11.080 Damn men for me. 10:11.080 --> 10:13.080 Why is your luggage all packed? 10:13.080 --> 10:15.080 I was going to leave. 10:15.080 --> 10:16.080 Leave? 10:16.080 --> 10:17.080 In the middle of the night? 10:17.080 --> 10:18.080 Why? 10:18.080 --> 10:19.080 Because... 10:19.080 --> 10:20.080 The fuse box has been opened. 10:20.080 --> 10:21.080 You're going to shut off the current. 10:21.080 --> 10:24.080 You are going to kill the brain. 10:24.080 --> 10:27.080 Patrick, you tried to strangle me. 10:27.080 --> 10:28.080 What? 10:28.080 --> 10:29.080 That's true, Dad. 10:29.080 --> 10:31.080 That's why I had to slap you. 10:31.080 --> 10:32.080 That's absurd. 10:32.080 --> 10:35.080 I came in here and found Shradd with his hands around his own throat. 10:35.080 --> 10:36.080 He was strangling himself. 10:36.080 --> 10:37.080 Dad, please, think a minute. 10:37.080 --> 10:38.080 Nobody can strangle himself. 10:38.080 --> 10:40.080 Look at these marks on my throat. 10:40.080 --> 10:42.080 Do you think I could have done that? 10:42.080 --> 10:44.080 It's not possible, and yet... 10:44.080 --> 10:47.080 It's true, Patrick, that I tried to shut off the current. 10:47.080 --> 10:49.080 I was afraid for you. 10:49.080 --> 10:53.080 But as I opened the fuse box, I heard the delta waves in the laboratory suddenly become 10:53.080 --> 10:56.080 stronger and louder than they'd ever been before. 10:56.080 --> 10:57.080 And then... 10:57.080 --> 10:58.080 Then... 10:58.080 --> 10:59.080 Then I... 10:59.080 --> 11:00.080 Yes. 11:00.080 --> 11:01.080 Then the brain knew... 11:01.080 --> 11:03.080 You even spoke in Donovan's voice, Patrick. 11:03.080 --> 11:04.080 Donovan's voice, his voice. 11:04.080 --> 11:05.080 That recurring phrase of his. 11:05.080 --> 11:06.080 Sure, sure, sure. 11:06.080 --> 11:09.080 In his very tones, his very accents. 11:09.080 --> 11:11.080 You've created a monster, Patrick. 11:11.080 --> 11:16.080 It has the power to make me commit murder. 11:16.080 --> 11:20.080 The brain... the brain must die. 11:20.080 --> 11:22.080 Pull the switch in the fuse box, Patrick. 11:22.080 --> 11:25.080 It will only be a matter of seconds and then... 11:25.080 --> 11:29.080 Yes, I... I... but I... but I... 11:29.080 --> 11:31.080 You've got to, Patrick. 11:31.080 --> 11:33.080 Shrot, David, help me. 11:33.080 --> 11:34.080 I can't move. 11:34.080 --> 11:35.080 Come with me. 11:35.080 --> 11:36.080 Pull the switch, honey. 11:36.080 --> 11:38.080 Shrot, David, go on. 11:38.080 --> 11:42.080 You... you too? 11:42.080 --> 11:45.080 It's paralyzed dispens. 11:45.080 --> 11:48.080 The brain won't let itself be killed. 11:48.080 --> 11:52.080 Then... then it has the power to live on. 11:52.080 --> 11:54.080 And on. 11:54.080 --> 11:58.080 To command us as long as we live. 11:58.080 --> 12:01.080 To make us do anything it wants. 12:01.080 --> 12:03.080 To kill. Murder. 12:03.080 --> 12:06.080 Dad, what are we going to do? 12:06.080 --> 12:08.080 Listen. 12:08.080 --> 12:09.080 The brain... 12:09.080 --> 12:14.080 It's... it's... laughing. 12:14.080 --> 12:16.080 Laughing. 12:34.080 --> 12:36.080 September 7th. 12:36.080 --> 12:37.080 Shrot has left. 12:37.080 --> 12:40.080 He had to, of course, for his own protection, if nothing else. 12:40.080 --> 12:44.080 Before he left, he swore to eternal secrecy, 12:44.080 --> 12:46.080 and was going to try to find Janice. 12:46.080 --> 12:49.080 The very thought that any harm might come to her through me 12:49.080 --> 12:51.080 is enough to drive me almost mad. 12:51.080 --> 12:53.080 As for David, although he's strong enough 12:53.080 --> 12:55.080 to prevent any untoward accidents, 12:55.080 --> 12:58.080 I don't know, he's volunteered to stay with me. 12:58.080 --> 13:01.080 He'll sleep at night behind locked doors. 13:01.080 --> 13:04.080 We must devote every faculty we possess together 13:04.080 --> 13:07.080 and independently to finding a way of destroying the brain. 13:07.080 --> 13:10.080 Perhaps while it sleeps. 13:10.080 --> 13:13.080 Although it seems to have developed tremendous powers 13:13.080 --> 13:17.080 in the subconscious, which operate even in sleep. 13:17.080 --> 13:20.080 The recurring dream, the now oppressive sense 13:20.080 --> 13:24.080 of some further task to be performed, continues. 13:24.080 --> 13:28.080 If Janice were only here, even her presence, I know, 13:28.080 --> 13:32.080 would help immeasurably to combat this fearful thing. 13:32.080 --> 13:35.080 Terrible thought crosses my mind. 13:35.080 --> 13:39.080 Could Trotter have left if the brain had not, 13:39.080 --> 13:44.080 for some reasons of its own, actually wanted him to leave? 13:44.080 --> 13:46.080 BAND PLAYS 13:53.080 --> 13:55.080 September 10th. 13:55.080 --> 13:58.080 My thoughts are less and less my own. 13:58.080 --> 14:02.080 The dream of the young giant bestriding the earth, 14:02.080 --> 14:05.080 the figure without a face, pursues me now, 14:05.080 --> 14:07.080 even in my waking hours. 14:07.080 --> 14:11.080 Increasingly, I seem to live in a world of evil fantasy, 14:11.080 --> 14:17.080 peopled and controlled by the mind of William Donnellan. 14:17.080 --> 14:19.080 BAND PLAYS 14:21.080 --> 14:23.080 SIRENS 14:23.080 --> 14:25.080 SIRENS 14:25.080 --> 14:28.080 Sure, sure, sure. 14:28.080 --> 14:30.080 Sure, sure, sure. 14:30.080 --> 14:34.080 It's not much time, but time enough. 14:34.080 --> 14:36.080 Time enough. 14:36.080 --> 14:38.080 Sure, sure, sure. 14:38.080 --> 14:40.080 Time enough. 14:40.080 --> 14:42.080 Sure, sure. 14:42.080 --> 14:45.080 Hello? Who is it? 14:45.080 --> 14:47.080 Patrick? 14:47.080 --> 14:51.080 Janice! My darling. Janice. 14:51.080 --> 14:53.080 Hello, Patrick. 14:53.080 --> 14:56.080 Sweetheart. How are you, Patrick? 14:56.080 --> 14:59.080 I'm well enough, I'm well enough, but Janice, where have you been? 14:59.080 --> 15:02.080 Why did you leave me that day? Why didn't you at least tell me? 15:02.080 --> 15:04.080 Where did you go down here? 15:04.080 --> 15:06.080 I was with friends. 15:06.080 --> 15:08.080 Did Sraat tell you anything? 15:08.080 --> 15:10.080 No, nothing special. 15:10.080 --> 15:12.080 Janice, I know I haven't been a very good husband these last months. 15:12.080 --> 15:16.080 I haven't been very kind, very considerate or even civilised. 15:16.080 --> 15:18.080 I haven't been myself, Janice. 15:18.080 --> 15:20.080 I know, Patrick. My poor darling. 15:20.080 --> 15:23.080 If you'd only known how I missed you after you left, how I needed you. 15:23.080 --> 15:25.080 I need your help, Janice. Terribly. 15:25.080 --> 15:29.080 I came back to help you. 15:29.080 --> 15:31.080 But... But what? 15:31.080 --> 15:33.080 Where is David? 15:33.080 --> 15:35.080 He's asleep in the next room. 15:35.080 --> 15:39.080 That is, lately he's tried to make it a point to sleep only when I didn't. 15:39.080 --> 15:41.080 I'm trying to keep an eye on things. 15:41.080 --> 15:44.080 Patrick, I'm going to help you. 15:44.080 --> 15:47.080 All I can, any way I can. 15:47.080 --> 15:50.080 But first, I want to take David away. 15:50.080 --> 15:51.080 David? Why? 15:51.080 --> 15:55.080 Because I don't think it's good for him to be here. 15:55.080 --> 15:56.080 No? 15:56.080 --> 15:58.080 I don't think that you... 15:58.080 --> 16:01.080 Patrick, I don't want to torment you. 16:01.080 --> 16:08.080 It's only that perhaps we can find a way if we know all the facts. 16:08.080 --> 16:10.080 What, Janice? 16:10.080 --> 16:15.080 Don't you know, really, where I was? 16:15.080 --> 16:17.080 No, how could I? 16:17.080 --> 16:20.080 Don't you remember where you took me? 16:20.080 --> 16:22.080 I took you... 16:22.080 --> 16:26.080 You took me to a psychiatric clinic. 16:26.080 --> 16:29.080 You had me committed to a madhouse. 16:29.080 --> 16:31.080 Janice! 16:31.080 --> 16:35.080 No, not you, Donovan! 16:35.080 --> 16:36.080 Donovan. 16:36.080 --> 16:38.080 It was because I tried to make you stop the experiment. 16:38.080 --> 16:39.080 Yes. 16:39.080 --> 16:41.080 Kill the brain. 16:41.080 --> 16:46.080 As you left me there, you even spoke in Donovan's voice. 16:46.080 --> 16:48.080 Sure, sure, sure, you said. 16:48.080 --> 16:49.080 Sure, sure. 16:49.080 --> 16:52.080 I thought they were the last words I would ever hear you speak. 16:52.080 --> 16:55.080 No, Janice, forgive me. 16:55.080 --> 16:56.080 Forgive me, baby. 16:56.080 --> 16:58.080 I couldn't persuade anyone. 16:58.080 --> 16:59.080 I was sane. 16:59.080 --> 17:00.080 Oh, sweet. 17:00.080 --> 17:02.080 After what you told them. 17:02.080 --> 17:06.080 Everything I said only made them think I was mad. 17:06.080 --> 17:13.080 I'm not mad, am I, Patrick? 17:13.080 --> 17:18.080 I'm not mad, am I? 17:18.080 --> 17:21.080 Janice will be gone for some three hours. 17:21.080 --> 17:25.080 I've sent her into town for Dr. Zanger, the psychiatrist. 17:25.080 --> 17:30.080 Maybe he can help, but now suddenly I'm... 17:30.080 --> 17:31.080 I'm... 17:31.080 --> 17:36.080 I'm overcome with the thought of the humiliation I shall have to suffer 17:36.080 --> 17:39.080 when other medical men begin to suffer. 17:39.080 --> 17:40.080 I'm... 17:40.080 --> 17:41.080 I'm... 17:41.080 --> 17:42.080 I'm... 17:42.080 --> 17:46.080 I'm overcome with the thought of the humiliation I shall have to suffer 17:46.080 --> 17:49.080 when other medical men become aware of the position I'm in. 17:49.080 --> 17:52.080 It'll be the end of my career and my reputation, all my hopes. 17:52.080 --> 17:56.080 It would be folly to think that Zanger would keep it to himself, indeed. 17:56.080 --> 17:58.080 He'd have no right to. 17:58.080 --> 18:03.080 I can bear it if I must, but another way of possibility occurs to me. 18:03.080 --> 18:06.080 And I've been thinking it over. 18:06.080 --> 18:09.080 There's no harm in trying it in any event. 18:09.080 --> 18:11.080 I must try. 18:11.080 --> 18:16.080 I have three hours. 18:19.080 --> 18:21.080 David? David? 18:21.080 --> 18:22.080 Yes, Dad? 18:22.080 --> 18:25.080 David, what's your blood type? Do you know your blood type? 18:25.080 --> 18:27.080 As a matter of fact, I don't think I do. Why? 18:27.080 --> 18:28.080 No matter. We can easily find out. 18:28.080 --> 18:30.080 David, I think at last I know a way. 18:30.080 --> 18:31.080 To kill the brain? 18:31.080 --> 18:33.080 It's simple. It's perfectly natural. 18:33.080 --> 18:36.080 Only at nine chances out of ten is something Donovan had never known about. 18:36.080 --> 18:39.080 I'll do it myself. Unfortunately, my blood type and his are... 18:39.080 --> 18:41.080 They're the same. 18:41.080 --> 18:43.080 Of course, I have to replenish the blood substance periodically. 18:43.080 --> 18:45.080 Anyway, it's about time to do it again. 18:45.080 --> 18:48.080 I've always used my own because it was the same type as his, 18:48.080 --> 18:51.080 but if yours is a different type, the right type, David. 18:51.080 --> 18:53.080 You mean the wrong type? 18:53.080 --> 18:55.080 Yes, you've given the wrong... The brain... 18:55.080 --> 18:57.080 The brain will die given the wrong type. 18:57.080 --> 18:59.080 Yeah, it sounds possible. 18:59.080 --> 19:01.080 I'm sure of that. I know it. 19:01.080 --> 19:03.080 But suppose the brain knows... 19:03.080 --> 19:05.080 It knows other things. 19:05.080 --> 19:08.080 I've thought of that. It's a chance we'll have to take if you're willing, David, my boy. 19:08.080 --> 19:10.080 Of course I am, Dad. 19:10.080 --> 19:12.080 Then we'll take the blood sample now. Come into the laboratory. 19:12.080 --> 19:14.080 I only have the right blood type. 19:14.080 --> 19:16.080 Sure. 19:16.080 --> 19:18.080 Rather the wrong type. 19:18.080 --> 19:20.080 If you haven't, we'll find someone who has, maybe... 19:20.080 --> 19:22.080 Maybe Schrad. 19:22.080 --> 19:24.080 Now, lie down there on the table, David. 19:24.080 --> 19:26.080 We want to turn a care in your arm here. 19:26.080 --> 19:28.080 I'll put it on. 19:28.080 --> 19:30.080 Go ahead. I'm ready. 19:30.080 --> 19:32.080 David, don't watch me. It'll be easier if you don't. 19:32.080 --> 19:34.080 For me. 19:34.080 --> 19:36.080 That's a funny one. Coming from you. 19:36.080 --> 19:42.080 Well, doctors are never quite as steady with members of their own family, you know. Ready? 19:42.080 --> 19:44.080 Sure. 19:44.080 --> 19:46.080 Here we are. 19:48.080 --> 19:50.080 You all right? 19:50.080 --> 19:52.080 Yeah. 19:52.080 --> 19:54.080 I'll be through in just a second. 19:54.080 --> 19:56.080 You're getting it? All right? 19:56.080 --> 19:58.080 Yes. Sure. Sure. 19:58.080 --> 20:00.080 Just a second now. 20:00.080 --> 20:02.080 Dad, I... I'm sleepy. 20:02.080 --> 20:04.080 You'll be over it in a minute. 20:04.080 --> 20:06.080 But... what's the matter? 20:06.080 --> 20:08.080 Why am I so... sleepy? 20:08.080 --> 20:10.080 You'll be all right. 20:10.080 --> 20:12.080 Sleepy... 20:12.080 --> 20:14.080 So... 20:14.080 --> 20:16.080 Sleepy... 20:16.080 --> 20:18.080 Sure. Sure. Sure. 20:18.080 --> 20:20.080 Sure. Sure. Sure. 20:20.080 --> 20:22.080 Sure. Sure. Sure. 20:22.080 --> 20:24.080 That's what an anesthetic is for. 20:24.080 --> 20:34.080 Make you sleep. 20:34.080 --> 20:38.080 I was somewhat surprised to find the instruments sterilized already laid out, 20:38.080 --> 20:44.080 but I worked more rapidly and skillfully than ever before in my life, I think. 20:44.080 --> 20:50.080 I made an incision just below the hairline, laying back the scalp as far as the base of the skull. 20:50.080 --> 20:56.080 I trepan the cranium at two centimeter intervals, 20:56.080 --> 21:00.080 working back and downwards to the upper edge of the occipital bone. 21:00.080 --> 21:05.080 With the G. Lee saw, I cut through the connecting bone structure 21:05.080 --> 21:08.080 and removed the entire top of the cranium, 21:08.080 --> 21:12.080 placing it in saline solution to preserve it. 21:12.080 --> 21:17.080 I made a semi-circular incision in the dura mater, 21:17.080 --> 21:21.080 laying it to one side, exposing the brain. 21:21.080 --> 21:27.080 As I dissected out the facial auditory and pneumogastric nerves to free the medulla amrigata, 21:27.080 --> 21:29.080 I... I... 21:29.080 --> 21:32.080 I became conscious of an insistent clamoring, 21:32.080 --> 21:36.080 something like a mounting hysteria in the distant regions of my mind. 21:36.080 --> 21:41.080 Almost as strong as the irresistible compulsion that drove me on. 21:41.080 --> 21:44.080 But my hand did not falter. 21:44.080 --> 21:52.080 With a sure stroke, I severed the spinal cord just below the first cervical nerve. 21:52.080 --> 22:08.080 MUSIC 22:08.080 --> 22:14.080 As I make this last entry with that awful guilt for my soul, 22:14.080 --> 22:18.080 even now I cannot fully comprehend how it has been possible for any man, 22:18.080 --> 22:23.080 by mortal or immortal means, to be driven to such a crime. 22:23.080 --> 22:32.080 Even the divinity himself did not demand of Abraham that final sacrifice of expiation. 22:32.080 --> 22:38.080 When he, with his only begotten son, ascended the Mount of Olives... 22:38.080 --> 22:42.080 Hm. Perhaps Schrot is right. 22:42.080 --> 22:49.080 Perhaps there is indeed in man some spark of the divine that will elude our test tubes and our laboratories 22:49.080 --> 22:52.080 until the end of time. 22:52.080 --> 22:56.080 Perhaps that is the one thing that even Donovan did not foresee. 22:56.080 --> 23:03.080 I only know that at the instant my son died under my own hand, I was set free. 23:03.080 --> 23:09.080 At that instant, I saw and understood for the first time that monstrous plan 23:09.080 --> 23:13.080 born in the brain of William Donovan, of which I was to be the instrument. 23:13.080 --> 23:17.080 It was the plan I had glimpsed but never grasped in the recurring dream. 23:17.080 --> 23:21.080 Donovan did aspire to the domination of the world. 23:21.080 --> 23:25.080 And with those tremendous mental faculties that I myself had given him, 23:25.080 --> 23:31.080 it was literally within his power to become the absolute ruler of all mankind. 23:31.080 --> 23:37.080 Only one thing was lacking, a body, a body, a young strong body into which those ever-growing brain cells 23:37.080 --> 23:44.080 could graft and affix themselves to live on and on perhaps for centuries. 23:44.080 --> 23:52.080 He chose the body of my son and now, my son, at last too late, 23:52.080 --> 23:55.080 I am free to destroy this foul thing of my creation. 23:55.080 --> 24:01.080 I know it as surely as I know that my own life must be forfeit. 24:01.080 --> 24:04.080 And the brain also knows. 24:04.080 --> 24:11.080 I can hear the disturbed, erratic oscillations of the delta waves coming through the laboratory door. 24:11.080 --> 24:15.080 But there's no room left in me now for fear. 24:15.080 --> 24:21.080 I shall take the six steps from the desk where I'm writing this across to the laboratory door. 24:21.080 --> 24:24.080 And how often I've taken them in happier times. 24:24.080 --> 24:30.080 I shall open the door, close it behind me for the last time, 24:30.080 --> 24:39.080 and write finesse to the mortal life of Patrick Arthur Corey and the brain of William Horace Donovan. 24:39.080 --> 24:46.080 Me others learn from the record I leave here the lessons I have learned so bitterly and profit by them. 24:46.080 --> 24:52.080 And all the things that I have done, may God have mercy on my soul. 25:16.080 --> 25:45.080 Phoenix, Arizona, September the 15th. 25:45.080 --> 25:51.080 The stories of Dr. Patrick Arthur Corey and his son David were found in Dr. Corey's own laboratory early today. 25:51.080 --> 25:58.080 Young Corey had apparently died on the operating table as a result of a delicate brain operation performed by his father. 25:58.080 --> 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. 26:06.080 --> 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, 26:15.080 --> 26:22.080 while a larger section of brain was found in the midst of an elaborate apparatus, evidently part of a scientific experiment. 26:22.080 --> 26:26.080 Medical authorities stated, however, that they were unable to explain the nature of the apparatus, 26:26.080 --> 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. 26:34.080 --> 26:40.080 Dr. Corey is survived by his wife Janice. 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