WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:25.080 An hour of suspense, a full sixty minutes at this time with the distinguished actor 00:25.080 --> 00:28.240 director Mr. Robert Montgomery as your host. 00:28.240 --> 00:31.600 Tonight our star Mr. John McIntyre. 00:31.600 --> 00:42.200 Our story Donovan's Brain, a suspense play produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 00:42.200 --> 00:44.640 Mr. Montgomery. 00:44.640 --> 00:51.840 The man across the table was talking about shaved heads and electricity and I was listening. 00:51.840 --> 00:55.480 I'll have to admit it I'm pretty much of a layman when it comes to things like that. 00:55.480 --> 00:57.160 I imagine you are too. 00:57.160 --> 01:00.600 But the man I was talking with was a specialist. 01:00.600 --> 01:04.520 I sought him out after we decided on our suspense play for tonight. 01:04.520 --> 01:09.020 As you know we're doing Donovan's Brain and the man across the table who discussed shaved 01:09.020 --> 01:15.360 heads and electricity with such final authority was an eminent brain surgeon. 01:15.360 --> 01:17.200 Now I don't know very much about the human brain. 01:17.200 --> 01:19.840 I have one and I use it occasionally I hope. 01:19.840 --> 01:23.840 But I leave the clinical knowledge up to the brain specialists like the man across the 01:23.840 --> 01:25.140 table. 01:25.140 --> 01:30.440 To this man of science I posed the momentous question, what about the brain? 01:30.440 --> 01:31.920 And he started in. 01:31.920 --> 01:35.600 Your brain he said is something less than two and a half percent of your total body 01:35.600 --> 01:36.600 weight. 01:36.600 --> 01:39.800 There's no relation between the weight of your brain and your intelligence. 01:39.800 --> 01:44.000 There's no relation between the size of your brain and your intelligence. 01:44.000 --> 01:47.920 So we threw out size and weight and talked about what you could tell about a person's 01:47.920 --> 01:51.500 intelligence simply by looking at his brain. 01:51.500 --> 01:54.980 And it develops you can tell quite a lot by looking. 01:54.980 --> 01:59.480 An intelligent person's brain is more complex in appearance than a stupid person's. 01:59.480 --> 02:03.880 It has more grooves and depressions, convolutions he called them. 02:03.880 --> 02:05.360 Well that was all right with me. 02:05.360 --> 02:09.560 I was nodding my head in agreement when it occurred to me quite suddenly that this didn't 02:09.560 --> 02:11.800 mean very much, not really. 02:11.800 --> 02:15.400 Because I can't look at somebody's brain even if I wanted to, you can't either. 02:15.400 --> 02:18.960 We have to depend on other ways of judging people's intelligence. 02:18.960 --> 02:22.960 On how they act, what they say, what they do. 02:22.960 --> 02:25.080 The brain specialist told me about that too. 02:25.080 --> 02:28.680 He said the brain acts as a storehouse for our knowledge. 02:28.680 --> 02:31.540 It also is the power that directs that knowledge. 02:31.540 --> 02:35.360 So when we act, we are merely putting direction to what we know. 02:35.360 --> 02:39.360 How a man acts, the direction he takes, is his own decision. 02:39.360 --> 02:41.680 It's an individual matter. 02:41.680 --> 02:43.380 And that interests me. 02:43.380 --> 02:48.800 The highly intelligent, highly moral lawyer and the deceptively crafty, highly immoral 02:48.800 --> 02:53.600 crook may well have the same amount of knowledge, but the way each directs his knowledge is 02:53.600 --> 02:55.680 entirely different. 02:55.680 --> 02:57.680 Why? 02:57.680 --> 02:59.240 Psychological fiber. 02:59.240 --> 03:01.080 That's what the brain man called it. 03:01.080 --> 03:05.400 Your psychological fiber is either weak or it's strong so far as the pressures of living 03:05.400 --> 03:06.400 are concerned. 03:06.400 --> 03:10.880 If it's strong, the worries, the fears, the tragedies of life can't throw you off your 03:10.880 --> 03:13.820 course, can't influence your direction. 03:13.820 --> 03:20.280 And if it's weak, these same worries and fears and tragedies take on exaggerated proportions. 03:20.280 --> 03:28.480 You lose your sense of direction and the result is fixation or obsession or insanity. 03:28.480 --> 03:33.360 Our play tonight is concerned with the brain, the man who directs it and what happens to 03:33.360 --> 03:35.920 his psychological fiber. 03:35.920 --> 03:42.400 It is the story of Dr. Patrick Corey and Donovan's brain, a tale well calculated to keep you 03:42.400 --> 04:06.000 in suspense. 04:06.000 --> 04:13.000 As I sit now outside my laboratory door, writing under the heading Experiment 87, this final 04:13.000 --> 04:18.960 entry in my casebook, I know that these are the last words I shall ever write upon this 04:18.960 --> 04:21.080 earth. 04:21.080 --> 04:27.520 I neither ask nor expect forgiveness now or hereafter. 04:27.520 --> 04:33.120 And for those who seek some explanation, I refer them simply to this casebook. 04:33.120 --> 04:35.460 Let them read it carefully. 04:35.460 --> 04:47.200 From its first entry on that ill-starred day of December the 5th. 04:47.200 --> 04:49.080 December 5th. 04:49.080 --> 04:53.320 Today I bought a small capuchin monkey from an organ grinder. 04:53.320 --> 04:56.600 The animal trembled with fear when I took it into my laboratory and when I tried to 04:56.600 --> 04:59.400 pet it, it bit me. 04:59.400 --> 05:02.000 But I had to make it trust me completely. 05:02.000 --> 05:06.360 Fear causes an excess secretion of adrenaline, resulting in an abnormal condition of the 05:06.360 --> 05:09.600 bloodstream which would throw off my observations. 05:09.600 --> 05:17.980 So I fed it bananas and raw egg and finally the creature laid its head against my shoulder. 05:17.980 --> 05:22.640 I stabbed it with a surgical lancet between the occipital bone and the first cervical 05:22.640 --> 05:24.060 vertebra. 05:24.060 --> 05:33.840 It died instantly. 05:33.840 --> 05:35.640 Well David, what do you think of it? 05:35.640 --> 05:38.160 Well it's, it's pretty amazing all right. 05:38.160 --> 05:39.640 You see what I've done don't you? 05:39.640 --> 05:41.200 Well I, I think so. 05:41.200 --> 05:42.200 You think so? 05:42.200 --> 05:43.200 Good lord don't you know? 05:43.200 --> 05:46.120 Well after all that I'm only a second year medical student. 05:46.120 --> 05:48.120 What of it when I was a second year medical student? 05:48.120 --> 05:49.120 Who is it? 05:49.120 --> 05:50.120 It's me, Janice. 05:50.120 --> 05:51.120 Patrick, Dr. Schrott is here to see you. 05:51.120 --> 05:57.800 Oh well let him come in. 05:57.800 --> 05:58.800 Come in doctor. 05:58.800 --> 05:59.800 Thank you. 05:59.800 --> 06:01.140 Patrick didn't realize who it was. 06:01.140 --> 06:02.640 You know my son David of course. 06:02.640 --> 06:03.640 Oh of course, of course. 06:03.640 --> 06:04.640 How are you my boy? 06:04.640 --> 06:05.640 Fine thanks doctor. 06:05.640 --> 06:08.120 Well Patrick, hard at work as usual I see. 06:08.120 --> 06:12.160 Patrick, you didn't eat the lunch I sent in to you or the breakfast either. 06:12.160 --> 06:13.600 I tried to get them to mother. 06:13.600 --> 06:15.280 Well I've been terribly busy Janice. 06:15.280 --> 06:16.280 But you've got to eat then. 06:16.280 --> 06:17.280 I know, I know. 06:17.280 --> 06:19.360 What, what is it this time Patrick? 06:19.360 --> 06:20.360 A brain. 06:20.360 --> 06:21.360 What? 06:21.360 --> 06:23.400 A brain, a brain, a monkey's brain. 06:23.400 --> 06:24.400 Oh. 06:24.400 --> 06:25.400 Well what about the brain? 06:25.400 --> 06:28.920 Well I'm trying to see how long I can keep the tissues alive. 06:28.920 --> 06:30.520 Is that it in that jar? 06:30.520 --> 06:31.520 Mm hmm. 06:31.520 --> 06:33.520 It's considerably more to it than just a jar though. 06:33.520 --> 06:34.520 You want to see how it works? 06:34.520 --> 06:36.120 But is it still alive? 06:36.120 --> 06:38.120 In a way yes. 06:38.120 --> 06:40.720 It's a fairly simple device actually doctor. 06:40.720 --> 06:44.400 It's a variation on Carell's mechanical heart. 06:44.400 --> 06:48.240 See the brain lies in a bath of blood serum. 06:48.240 --> 06:53.360 And these rubber arteries are fixed to the vertebral and internal carotid arteries of 06:53.360 --> 06:55.120 the brain. 06:55.120 --> 07:00.840 And the blood substance is forced through the sacral willus to feed the tissues. 07:00.840 --> 07:06.560 And over here I've installed a small pressure pump that forces the blood circulation. 07:06.560 --> 07:07.560 See? 07:07.560 --> 07:10.000 But how do you know it's alive? 07:10.000 --> 07:11.360 Well that's very easy to determine. 07:11.360 --> 07:16.200 The brain when functioning gives off infinitesimal electrical impulses. 07:16.200 --> 07:17.200 And they can be measured. 07:17.200 --> 07:20.040 As a matter of fact I've hooked the encephalograph to a small amplifying system. 07:20.040 --> 07:23.560 The brain impulses can actually be heard here. 07:23.560 --> 07:31.080 Turn it on. 07:31.080 --> 07:33.720 Quite effective isn't it? 07:33.720 --> 07:34.720 Yes. 07:34.720 --> 07:37.840 Yes it's effective and it's wrong Patrick. 07:37.840 --> 07:38.840 It's terribly wrong. 07:38.840 --> 07:41.040 I've tried to tell him Dr. Schrott. 07:41.040 --> 07:45.640 He's trying to discover things that no man should discover. 07:45.640 --> 07:47.720 He's warping his whole nature. 07:47.720 --> 07:49.560 He's in here night and day. 07:49.560 --> 07:51.520 We hardly even see him anymore. 07:51.520 --> 07:53.320 Mother's right in the way dad. 07:53.320 --> 07:54.640 You're killing yourself with these... 07:54.640 --> 07:56.240 Would you leave us please Janice? 07:56.240 --> 07:57.240 You too David. 07:57.240 --> 07:58.240 Oh dad. 07:58.240 --> 07:59.240 If you please David. 07:59.240 --> 08:00.240 All right. 08:00.240 --> 08:04.880 Come on mother. 08:04.880 --> 08:05.880 It's wrong. 08:05.880 --> 08:06.880 It's wrong. 08:06.880 --> 08:08.160 In heaven's name what's wrong with it? 08:08.160 --> 08:10.640 Oh you and your mechanistic philosophy. 08:10.640 --> 08:14.280 Trying to reduce life to a mere matter of chemicals and test tubes. 08:14.280 --> 08:19.960 The origin of life is from a higher domain than that Patrick and you're profaning it. 08:19.960 --> 08:20.960 Your hands are shaking. 08:20.960 --> 08:24.360 Do you have another hard night doctor? 08:24.360 --> 08:26.200 You can taunt me if you like. 08:26.200 --> 08:28.880 I've made a mess of my life that's true. 08:28.880 --> 08:32.680 But I wouldn't have a part of what you're doing for all the success in the world. 08:32.680 --> 08:33.680 Oh nonsense. 08:33.680 --> 08:35.040 You can't stop the progress of science. 08:35.040 --> 08:37.400 Every discovery of whatever kind is a step forward. 08:37.400 --> 08:43.240 If I can prove that the brain can perform certain functions outside the body. 08:43.240 --> 08:46.360 Who knows where we may be able to go from there. 08:46.360 --> 08:50.080 How... how do you know that that thing in there doesn't feel pain? 08:50.080 --> 08:52.120 How do you know it isn't writhing in agony? 08:52.120 --> 08:54.080 Brain tissue itself is insensitive. 08:54.080 --> 08:56.200 You know that doctor. 08:56.200 --> 08:58.520 But as to the feeling look. 08:58.520 --> 09:05.960 I'll switch on the encephalograph. 09:05.960 --> 09:09.600 Notice the faintness of the amplified alpha rays. 09:09.600 --> 09:13.160 Notice the comparatively slow rate of pulsation. 09:13.160 --> 09:19.360 Now notice what happens when I tap on the glass jar. 09:19.360 --> 09:21.320 Why? 09:21.320 --> 09:24.880 It feels. 09:24.880 --> 09:27.560 It thinks. 09:27.560 --> 09:31.000 Well I wouldn't go so far as to say that. 09:31.000 --> 09:33.360 But it certainly shows marked reaction to an external stimulus. 09:33.360 --> 09:35.960 I wouldn't believe it possible. 09:35.960 --> 09:38.120 Well the trouble with you is Shrott. 09:38.120 --> 09:40.200 You really don't believe in science. 09:40.200 --> 09:41.200 Yeah. 09:41.200 --> 09:42.880 Well have it your own way Patrick. 09:42.880 --> 09:46.520 But when you can manufacture love and sympathy and kindness in a test tube. 09:46.520 --> 09:47.520 Well I'll be back. 09:47.520 --> 09:48.520 Were you leaving? 09:48.520 --> 09:49.520 Yes, yes. 09:49.520 --> 09:50.520 Patrick. 09:50.520 --> 09:51.520 Yes? 09:51.520 --> 09:52.520 Do me a favor. 09:52.520 --> 09:58.720 Shut off the pump and let that poor thing in there die. 09:58.720 --> 09:59.720 Let it die? 09:59.720 --> 10:00.720 Yes, yes. 10:00.720 --> 10:03.720 Why if it were within my power to grant. 10:03.720 --> 10:12.840 That little brain would live forever. 10:12.840 --> 10:14.960 December 10th. 10:14.960 --> 10:17.120 I'm utterly exhausted from lack of sleep. 10:17.120 --> 10:21.080 But the events of the past five days have been of such tremendous importance that I 10:21.080 --> 10:25.760 must set them down while every last detail is still fresh in my mind. 10:25.760 --> 10:30.160 For I've had no time to make an entry in this second, in this record, since the day last 10:30.160 --> 10:31.160 week. 10:31.160 --> 10:33.880 It seems months ago now. 10:33.880 --> 10:38.080 When I had my first partial success with the brain of the capuchin monkey. 10:38.080 --> 10:41.400 At that time however it seemed that I was doomed to disappointment. 10:41.400 --> 10:49.720 In spite of all my efforts, the brain of the monkey ceased to live at 12.14 at night. 10:49.720 --> 10:54.920 Tired and disheartened I lay down to sleep on the cot in my laboratory. 10:54.920 --> 11:02.400 But at that very moment, fate was contriving in a occurrence which now seems destined to 11:02.400 --> 11:09.120 have the most profound effect not only upon my own existence, but perhaps upon that of 11:09.120 --> 11:13.280 all mankind. 11:13.280 --> 11:17.280 Hello. 11:17.280 --> 11:22.240 What is it? 11:22.240 --> 11:24.240 Dad. 11:24.240 --> 11:26.520 Well, come in. 11:26.520 --> 11:28.240 What's the matter? 11:28.240 --> 11:29.240 It's Dr. Schrott. 11:29.240 --> 11:30.240 Schrott? 11:30.240 --> 11:31.240 What in the world does he want? 11:31.240 --> 11:32.240 It's two o'clock in the morning. 11:32.240 --> 11:33.680 Well, there's been an accident or something. 11:33.680 --> 11:34.680 He's pretty upset. 11:34.680 --> 11:35.680 What of it? 11:35.680 --> 11:36.680 Where is he? 11:36.680 --> 11:37.680 Well, he went outside again. 11:37.680 --> 11:38.680 He's at the laboratory door. 11:38.680 --> 11:41.680 Well, all right. 11:41.680 --> 11:42.680 Patrick. 11:42.680 --> 11:47.360 Oh, thanks heaven, my boy. 11:47.360 --> 11:48.360 Thank heaven. 11:48.360 --> 11:50.360 Well, what's the matter? 11:50.360 --> 11:53.680 There's been a plane crash on the mountains. 11:53.680 --> 11:54.680 Only one of them left alive. 11:54.680 --> 11:59.160 I brought him this far, but he needs immediate operation. 11:59.160 --> 12:00.160 That's your job. 12:00.160 --> 12:01.160 You're a county physician. 12:01.160 --> 12:02.160 Patrick. 12:02.160 --> 12:03.560 Patrick, it's multiple fractures of both legs. 12:03.560 --> 12:05.920 The arteries are severed. 12:05.920 --> 12:07.160 That legs will have to be amputated. 12:07.160 --> 12:09.440 You're not in any shape to do the job. 12:09.440 --> 12:10.640 Well, that's not my fault. 12:10.640 --> 12:11.640 Take him to the Phoenix Hospital. 12:11.640 --> 12:13.160 I'm not going to take the responsibility. 12:13.160 --> 12:14.160 It's too far. 12:14.160 --> 12:15.680 We'll never get there in time. 12:15.680 --> 12:17.120 Now, Patrick, please, please. 12:17.120 --> 12:19.680 It may mean a man's life and, and, and, and, and. 12:19.680 --> 12:23.640 Yes, and your job as county physician, huh? 12:23.640 --> 12:27.400 I'm not thinking of that, but he's an important man. 12:27.400 --> 12:30.400 William H. Donovan. 12:30.400 --> 12:32.320 Donovan? 12:32.320 --> 12:33.320 The Wall Street Donovan? 12:33.320 --> 12:34.320 Yes. 12:34.320 --> 12:36.320 Oh, you've got to help me, Patrick. 12:36.320 --> 12:39.600 Well, what are his chances? 12:39.600 --> 12:40.600 About even if we hurry. 12:40.600 --> 12:41.600 Well, bring him in. 12:41.600 --> 12:42.600 Thank you, Patrick. 12:42.600 --> 12:45.480 Thank you, my boy. 12:45.480 --> 12:46.480 You better get some things on, David. 12:46.480 --> 12:47.480 You may have to help. 12:47.480 --> 12:48.480 Oh, sure, Dad. 12:48.480 --> 12:49.480 Oh, David. 12:49.480 --> 12:50.480 Thanks. 12:50.480 --> 12:51.480 David. 12:51.480 --> 12:52.480 Yes, Dad. 12:52.480 --> 12:53.480 Don't say anything to your mother. 12:53.480 --> 12:54.480 I don't wish her to be disturbed. 12:54.480 --> 12:55.480 Sure, I know. 12:55.480 --> 12:56.480 Well, use the laboratory table. 12:56.480 --> 12:58.080 Before you go, put the instruments to the sterilizer. 12:58.080 --> 13:00.160 And don't forget the G.D. saw. 13:00.160 --> 13:01.160 Oh, right. 13:01.160 --> 13:02.160 Oh, but. 13:02.160 --> 13:03.160 But what? 13:03.160 --> 13:06.040 Oh, I, I thought the G.D. saw was only used for. 13:06.040 --> 13:07.040 Brain surgery? 13:07.040 --> 13:08.040 Oh, not always. 13:08.040 --> 13:09.040 Now, hurry. 13:09.040 --> 13:10.040 They're bringing him in from the car. 13:10.040 --> 13:11.040 Now, hurry up. 13:11.040 --> 13:12.040 In here now. 13:12.040 --> 13:13.040 Careful, please. 13:13.040 --> 13:14.040 Put him right there on that table, please. 13:14.040 --> 13:15.040 Yes, doctor. 13:15.040 --> 13:16.040 Easy. 13:16.040 --> 13:18.200 Better get yourself a gown and gloves, doctor. 13:18.200 --> 13:19.200 Right over there. 13:19.200 --> 13:20.200 You won't have time to scrub. 13:20.200 --> 13:21.200 Thanks, Patrick. 13:21.200 --> 13:22.200 Thank you. 13:22.200 --> 13:23.200 Well. 13:23.200 --> 13:24.200 Bad, isn't he? 13:24.200 --> 13:25.200 Pulse rapid? 13:25.200 --> 13:26.200 Aren't very faint? 13:26.200 --> 13:28.200 I wasn't sure we'd even make it to here. 13:28.200 --> 13:29.200 Oh, David. 13:29.200 --> 13:30.200 Yes, Dad. 13:30.200 --> 13:31.200 Half cc of adrenaline, David. 13:31.200 --> 13:32.200 One to one thousand, intravenous. 13:32.200 --> 13:33.200 Right. 13:33.200 --> 13:36.200 New men can go now. 13:36.200 --> 13:39.200 Is there anything else we can do? 13:39.200 --> 13:40.200 No, no, thank you. 13:40.200 --> 13:41.200 Patrick, Patrick. 13:41.200 --> 13:42.200 I'd rather we were alone, if you don't mind. 13:42.200 --> 13:43.200 Good night, then, I just found out. 13:43.200 --> 13:44.200 Good night. 13:44.200 --> 13:45.200 And thank you. 13:45.200 --> 13:46.200 Now, David. 13:46.200 --> 13:50.920 David, if you'll remove the blanket from his legs. 13:50.920 --> 13:51.920 That's it. 13:51.920 --> 13:52.920 Mm-hmm. 13:52.920 --> 13:53.920 There, you see. 13:53.920 --> 13:58.640 Fortunately, a forest ranger got to him right after the crash and had sense enough to put 13:58.640 --> 14:00.480 a tourniquet on each leg. 14:00.480 --> 14:03.480 But even so... 14:03.480 --> 14:08.480 Sure, sure, sure. 14:08.480 --> 14:13.480 We've got it. 14:13.480 --> 14:22.760 Sure, sure, sure. 14:22.760 --> 14:23.760 What's that he's saying? 14:23.760 --> 14:25.760 Uh, something like, sure, sure, sure. 14:25.760 --> 14:26.960 He said it over and over. 14:26.960 --> 14:27.960 Well, that's funny. 14:27.960 --> 14:28.960 He's got a foreign accent. 14:28.960 --> 14:29.960 He's an Armenian, I think. 14:29.960 --> 14:30.960 He changed his name to Donovan. 14:30.960 --> 14:32.640 I haven't realized he was deformed. 14:32.640 --> 14:35.240 Well, it doesn't show as much in his pictures. 14:35.240 --> 14:38.080 Now, Patrick, I think we ought to begin. 14:38.080 --> 14:40.120 There's no use amputating those legs. 14:40.120 --> 14:41.120 No use? 14:41.120 --> 14:43.120 He'll be dead anyway by morning. 14:43.120 --> 14:45.120 Well, won't he? 14:45.120 --> 14:46.880 Well, I suppose you're right, Patrick. 14:46.880 --> 14:47.880 You know I'm right. 14:47.880 --> 14:49.600 But still, we ought to try. 14:49.600 --> 14:51.120 We can't refuse to operate just because... 14:51.120 --> 14:52.120 We are going to operate. 14:52.120 --> 14:53.120 Serene's, please, David. 14:53.120 --> 14:54.120 The large one. 14:54.120 --> 14:55.120 Here you are, Dad. 14:55.120 --> 14:56.120 And aesthetic. 14:56.120 --> 14:57.120 Will you give a doctor's service? 14:57.120 --> 14:58.120 Yeah, right, right. 14:58.120 --> 14:59.120 Scalpel, please, David. 14:59.120 --> 15:00.120 And the Gilles saw. 15:00.120 --> 15:01.120 Gilles saw? 15:01.120 --> 15:02.120 Patrick! 15:02.120 --> 15:03.120 Well? 15:03.120 --> 15:04.120 No. 15:04.120 --> 15:07.840 No, I won't let you. 15:07.840 --> 15:09.840 After your performance tonight? 15:09.840 --> 15:10.840 But he's still alive. 15:10.840 --> 15:11.840 Precisely. 15:11.840 --> 15:13.840 My mistake with the monkey was that he was dead. 15:13.840 --> 15:15.320 I don't intend to make it again. 15:15.320 --> 15:16.320 Come, come, David, discount. 15:16.320 --> 15:17.800 Are you out of your mind? 15:17.800 --> 15:18.800 You're taking your man's life. 15:18.800 --> 15:19.800 I'm giving him life. 15:19.800 --> 15:22.800 Donovan won't die anyway. 15:22.800 --> 15:27.200 I mean, he would die, of course. 15:27.200 --> 15:29.720 But for a while, at least. 15:29.720 --> 15:34.640 Donovan's brain will live. 15:34.640 --> 15:42.480 You'd better hurry. 15:42.480 --> 15:43.880 They'll be coming for the body pretty soon. 15:43.880 --> 15:45.600 You can go now, David. 15:45.600 --> 15:47.600 I think I will, then. 15:47.600 --> 15:50.040 David, you understand, of course. 15:50.040 --> 15:51.040 Yes, I understand. 15:51.040 --> 15:52.960 Not a word to your mother or to anyone. 15:52.960 --> 15:55.960 I understand. 15:55.960 --> 15:58.280 Patrick, will the skull... 15:58.280 --> 15:59.280 I bandaged the whole cranium. 15:59.280 --> 16:02.400 It didn't look like any head injury. 16:02.400 --> 16:04.520 I hope nobody gets any ideas about an autopsy. 16:04.520 --> 16:05.520 You're the coroner. 16:05.520 --> 16:07.760 You can stop, then. 16:07.760 --> 16:10.080 You drive a hard bargain, don't you, Patrick? 16:10.080 --> 16:12.680 You'd better sign the death certificate before they get here. 16:12.680 --> 16:14.920 You know this is blackmail. 16:14.920 --> 16:17.760 Want a drink? 16:17.760 --> 16:19.800 You don't have to do that. 16:19.800 --> 16:22.280 I'll sign it. 16:22.280 --> 16:26.400 I'm sorry, but it was a chance that comes once in a lifetime. 16:26.400 --> 16:32.320 William Donovan has one of the greatest minds, has one of the greatest brains in the world 16:32.320 --> 16:33.480 today. 16:33.480 --> 16:34.960 And now you have it. 16:34.960 --> 16:35.960 It's madness, Patrick. 16:35.960 --> 16:36.960 You think I won't succeed? 16:36.960 --> 16:37.960 Succeed in what? 16:37.960 --> 16:46.960 Turn on the encephagraph. 16:46.960 --> 16:49.680 Simple alpha waves, no different from the monkeys. 16:49.680 --> 16:52.520 You can't take a human brain out of its body and expect it to function. 16:52.520 --> 16:55.920 Has it ever occurred to you that the brain might simply be asleep? 16:55.920 --> 16:58.000 Asleep, certainly. 16:58.000 --> 17:01.080 Operation like this is a severe shock. 17:01.080 --> 17:10.280 Now, tap on the glass. 17:10.280 --> 17:11.280 Good Lord, Patrick. 17:11.280 --> 17:12.880 Delta waves, it was asleep. 17:12.880 --> 17:14.640 You woke it up. 17:14.640 --> 17:15.640 It's actually conscious. 17:15.640 --> 17:16.640 Yes. 17:16.640 --> 17:21.640 There are three of us conducting this experiment now, Shroud. 17:21.640 --> 17:32.720 You and me and William Horace Donovan. 17:32.720 --> 17:33.720 December 17th. 17:33.720 --> 17:39.760 I moved my bed into my laboratory, but I scarcely slept in six days. 17:39.760 --> 17:44.680 That can no longer be any doubt that the brain responds like a sensitive seismograph to vibrations 17:44.680 --> 17:48.360 near it, including the sound of my voice. 17:48.360 --> 17:53.280 Yet I found no method of communication with it. 17:53.280 --> 17:57.680 I've devised a simplified Morse code consisting of taps on the glass container together with 17:57.680 --> 17:58.680 voice vibrations. 17:58.680 --> 18:07.480 Perhaps we can teach the brain. 18:07.480 --> 18:08.480 December 22nd. 18:08.480 --> 18:13.240 Shroud has come to stay with me, half out of the feeling that he shares with me a common 18:13.240 --> 18:17.040 guilt, half out of scientific curiosity. 18:17.040 --> 18:21.160 But I have scarcely seen him, and both David and Janice have been avoiding me, not that 18:21.160 --> 18:23.520 I really care. 18:23.520 --> 18:27.360 I have been tapping out my code on the side of the brain's container endlessly, day and 18:27.360 --> 18:32.200 night, over and over a thousand times, so that a baby could learn it if the brain can 18:32.200 --> 18:33.200 learn. 18:33.200 --> 18:38.200 I sleep only when the brain itself falls into exhausted slumber. 18:38.200 --> 18:45.200 When it wakes again, I resume my tapping. 18:45.200 --> 18:47.200 Shroud! 18:47.200 --> 18:49.200 Shroud! 18:49.200 --> 18:51.200 Wake up! 18:51.200 --> 18:53.200 Yes, yes, Patrick. 18:53.200 --> 18:54.200 Get up! 18:54.200 --> 18:55.200 Hurry! 18:55.200 --> 18:56.200 What's the matter? 18:56.200 --> 18:57.200 Something the matter? 18:57.200 --> 18:58.800 Come, I want you to see something. 18:58.800 --> 19:00.720 Patrick, you look like a ghost. 19:00.720 --> 19:01.720 Where are we going? 19:01.720 --> 19:02.720 Back to the laboratory. 19:02.720 --> 19:03.720 I can't believe it myself. 19:03.720 --> 19:04.720 I may have been dreaming. 19:04.720 --> 19:05.720 Delirious. 19:05.720 --> 19:06.720 What happened? 19:06.720 --> 19:07.720 Come on. 19:07.720 --> 19:08.720 You hear that? 19:08.720 --> 19:09.720 The delta waves. 19:09.720 --> 19:10.720 It seems disturbed. 19:10.720 --> 19:11.720 You've got to check my observations for me. 19:11.720 --> 19:12.720 My reasoning is wrong. 19:12.720 --> 19:13.720 Tell me. 19:13.720 --> 19:14.720 I can't be sure of anything anymore. 19:14.720 --> 19:15.720 Yes, Patrick, yes. 19:15.720 --> 19:16.720 Now, now listen carefully, Doctor. 19:16.720 --> 19:21.720 You know I've been trying to communicate with the brain in code. 19:21.720 --> 19:26.200 Now, if I were able to cause a distinctive pattern of the brain's delta waves by a specific 19:26.200 --> 19:30.920 command in code, if the brain responded with the same pattern of sound each time I issued 19:30.920 --> 19:35.200 the command, it would prove that I had succeeded in communicating with the brain, wouldn't 19:35.200 --> 19:36.200 it? 19:36.200 --> 19:37.200 Yes, Patrick, yes. 19:37.200 --> 19:38.200 Now, listen. 19:38.200 --> 19:57.400 Donovan, Donovan, if you understand, think three times of the word talk. 19:57.400 --> 20:00.400 Three times. 20:00.400 --> 20:01.400 Talk. 20:01.400 --> 20:02.400 Talk. 20:02.400 --> 20:03.400 Talk. 20:03.400 --> 20:08.400 It answered. 20:08.400 --> 20:12.840 It spoke. 20:12.840 --> 20:16.280 Quiet yourself, just as I did the same word three times. 20:16.280 --> 20:19.280 Donovan, talk. 20:19.280 --> 20:21.280 Talk. 20:21.280 --> 20:23.280 Talk. 20:23.280 --> 20:26.680 Then I'm right. 20:26.680 --> 20:27.680 It's true. 20:27.680 --> 20:32.680 Patrick, this, this thing has learned to talk. 20:32.680 --> 20:33.680 It's true. 20:33.680 --> 20:34.680 It's true. 20:34.680 --> 20:35.680 It's true. 20:35.680 --> 20:36.680 It's true. 20:36.680 --> 20:37.680 It's true. 20:37.680 --> 20:38.680 It's true. 20:38.680 --> 20:39.680 It's true. 20:39.680 --> 20:40.680 It's true. 20:40.680 --> 20:41.680 December 23rd. 20:41.680 --> 20:46.800 Schwarz romanticizing, of course, the delta pattern is so infinitely complex that it would 20:46.800 --> 20:51.800 be utterly impossible ever to break it down into specific words. 20:51.800 --> 20:56.560 Yet that it understands me, that it's trying to communicate with me is certain. 20:56.560 --> 21:00.600 Schwarz suggests mental telepathy, that I try to make my mind a blank, as the mediums 21:00.600 --> 21:04.320 call it, while at the same time increasing the energy content in the plasma that feeds 21:04.320 --> 21:08.280 the brain in the hope of stepping up the brain's electrical potential, as one would step up 21:08.280 --> 21:11.280 the power of a radio station. 21:11.280 --> 21:13.280 But naturally telepathy is nonsense. 21:13.280 --> 21:17.480 But the feeding theory intrigues me. 21:17.480 --> 21:25.320 I shall try it. 21:25.320 --> 21:27.320 December 31st. 21:27.320 --> 21:31.360 Notice today for the first time two distinct nodules of new brain cells on the frontal 21:31.360 --> 21:33.080 lobex. 21:33.080 --> 21:36.200 Electrical potential has increased to 510 microvolts. 21:36.200 --> 21:42.600 I've begun smoking cigars, although I've always hated them before. 21:42.600 --> 21:47.800 Nerves I expect. 21:47.800 --> 21:49.440 January 6th. 21:49.440 --> 21:51.040 Nodule still growing. 21:51.040 --> 21:52.040 Electrical potential 1450. 21:52.040 --> 21:58.040 But with no observable results, I've lately felt a compelling urge to know more of Donovan's 21:58.040 --> 22:03.600 life and have collected every available scrap of information about it. 22:03.600 --> 22:04.600 Strange man. 22:04.600 --> 22:05.600 Ruthless. 22:05.600 --> 22:07.600 Actually evil in many ways. 22:07.600 --> 22:11.320 But nonetheless an extraordinarily brilliant mind. 22:11.320 --> 22:37.240 It will be the test. 22:37.240 --> 22:40.240 You agree, of course. 22:40.240 --> 22:41.240 Patrick. 22:41.240 --> 22:42.240 Patrick. 22:42.240 --> 22:43.240 Wake up. 22:43.240 --> 22:44.240 Patrick. 22:44.240 --> 22:45.240 Patrick. 22:45.240 --> 22:46.240 What? 22:46.240 --> 22:47.240 What? 22:47.240 --> 22:48.240 What is? 22:48.240 --> 23:01.440 I thought I ought to wake you up, Patrick. 23:01.440 --> 23:04.640 You were moaning in your sleep and talking. 23:04.640 --> 23:05.640 Talking? 23:05.640 --> 23:09.100 What did I say? 23:09.100 --> 23:12.360 I'm not sure, but your voice was so strange that... 23:12.360 --> 23:13.360 Janice. 23:13.360 --> 23:14.360 Janice, what's the matter? 23:14.360 --> 23:15.360 Oh, that's nothing. 23:15.360 --> 23:17.100 I was dreaming. 23:17.100 --> 23:18.100 That's all. 23:18.100 --> 23:19.100 Janice woke me up. 23:19.100 --> 23:20.100 Patrick. 23:20.100 --> 23:21.100 Patrick, let me see your hand. 23:21.100 --> 23:22.320 No, no, no, no, no. 23:22.320 --> 23:23.320 The other one. 23:23.320 --> 23:25.360 What about it? 23:25.360 --> 23:28.600 You're not left-handed, are you? 23:28.600 --> 23:30.300 I know. 23:30.300 --> 23:35.120 Then why have you got ink on the fingers of your left hand? 23:35.120 --> 23:36.120 I don't know. 23:36.120 --> 23:38.920 Well, were you writing anything tonight? 23:38.920 --> 23:41.600 Why, you must have been, Patrick. 23:41.600 --> 23:43.920 Here it is right here on your desk. 23:43.920 --> 23:44.920 Nonsense. 23:44.920 --> 23:45.920 Wait. 23:45.920 --> 23:48.920 Let me see it. 23:48.920 --> 23:52.120 You've been writing his name. 23:52.120 --> 23:53.680 William H. Donovan. 23:53.680 --> 23:54.840 Shrot. 23:54.840 --> 23:55.840 That's not my handwriting. 23:55.840 --> 23:56.840 What? 23:56.840 --> 23:57.840 What? 23:57.840 --> 23:58.840 Why don't you see what it means? 23:58.840 --> 24:00.560 The brain has communicated with me. 24:00.560 --> 24:02.560 Patrick, you don't mean... 24:02.560 --> 24:03.560 Look here. 24:03.560 --> 24:06.040 Look at this magazine article. 24:06.040 --> 24:07.040 He's a reproduction of his signature. 24:07.040 --> 24:09.240 And he was left-handed, too. 24:09.240 --> 24:10.240 It says so here. 24:10.240 --> 24:11.240 It is. 24:11.240 --> 24:12.240 It's exactly the same. 24:12.240 --> 24:13.240 What a fool I've been. 24:13.240 --> 24:14.240 Look at this picture. 24:14.240 --> 24:15.240 Smoking a cigar with his left hand. 24:15.240 --> 24:16.240 I wondered why I'd suddenly started smoking cigars. 24:16.240 --> 24:17.240 The same brand, too. 24:17.240 --> 24:18.240 Janice. 24:18.240 --> 24:19.240 Janice, try to remember what you heard me saying just before you woke me tonight. 24:19.240 --> 24:20.240 Now think. 24:20.240 --> 24:21.240 Patrick, I can't believe... 24:21.240 --> 24:22.240 Think, Janice. 24:22.240 --> 24:23.240 All I heard was something like, sure, I'm not wrong. 24:23.240 --> 24:24.240 I'm not wrong. 24:24.240 --> 24:25.240 I'm not wrong. 24:25.240 --> 24:26.240 I'm not wrong. 24:26.240 --> 24:27.240 I'm not wrong. 24:27.240 --> 24:28.240 I'm not wrong. 24:28.240 --> 24:29.240 I'm not wrong. 24:29.240 --> 24:30.240 I'm not wrong. 24:30.240 --> 24:31.240 I'm not wrong. 24:31.240 --> 24:32.240 I'm not wrong. 24:32.240 --> 24:33.240 I'm not wrong. 24:33.240 --> 24:34.240 I'm not wrong. 24:34.240 --> 24:38.660 All I heard was... something like sure, sure, sure. 24:38.660 --> 24:40.140 Sure, of course. 24:40.140 --> 24:41.640 Don't you remember, Schrott? 24:41.640 --> 24:42.640 He said it that night. 24:42.640 --> 24:43.940 It was the only thing we ever heard him say. 24:43.940 --> 24:45.200 It was an expression of his. 24:45.200 --> 24:47.500 It tells about it in one of the articles, too. 24:47.500 --> 24:50.160 It... it wasn't your voice, Patrick. 24:50.160 --> 24:51.160 You see? 24:51.160 --> 24:54.380 Ah ha, you were right, Schrott. 24:54.380 --> 24:56.100 The brain has grown. 24:56.100 --> 25:00.020 And it's strong enough to influence not only the higher functions of the frontal lobe, 25:00.020 --> 25:03.600 but the speech centers, the motor centers of another brain. 25:03.600 --> 25:07.600 Patrick, if this is true, then your experiment has been successful. 25:07.600 --> 25:08.600 It's ended. 25:08.600 --> 25:09.600 Ended? 25:09.600 --> 25:11.600 Why, it's only begun. 25:11.600 --> 25:12.600 Patrick! 25:12.600 --> 25:13.600 Don't you see what this means? 25:13.600 --> 25:14.600 Patrick, listen to me! 25:14.600 --> 25:15.600 What, Janice? 25:15.600 --> 25:16.600 What? 25:16.600 --> 25:17.600 You've got to stop! 25:17.600 --> 25:18.600 Stop? 25:18.600 --> 25:19.600 I can't stand it any longer! 25:19.600 --> 25:22.600 Can't you see where it's led you? 25:22.600 --> 25:26.360 When you cut yourself off from your family, when you neglected your health and began having 25:26.360 --> 25:33.040 fits of temper and were like... like someone I hardly recognize as the man I married. 25:33.040 --> 25:35.840 All that I tried to understand. 25:35.840 --> 25:38.360 But don't you see what you've done? 25:38.360 --> 25:40.160 You're a murderer, Patrick. 25:40.160 --> 25:41.160 A murderer! 25:41.160 --> 25:42.160 Janice! 25:42.160 --> 25:44.160 David told me the whole thing. 25:44.160 --> 25:47.160 The poor boy's half insane himself from worry. 25:47.160 --> 25:48.160 Insane? 25:48.160 --> 25:49.160 What do you mean by that? 25:49.160 --> 25:51.040 What I say! 25:51.040 --> 25:53.400 You killed Donovan. 25:53.400 --> 25:55.040 Maybe he wouldn't have lived anyway. 25:55.040 --> 25:57.360 But you killed him. 25:57.360 --> 26:01.720 And now this... this thing has gained such power over your mind that it can make you 26:01.720 --> 26:03.000 do things you don't even know about. 26:03.000 --> 26:05.960 For all you know, it could make you do anything. 26:05.960 --> 26:06.960 Anything! 26:06.960 --> 26:10.000 You've got to choose, Patrick. 26:10.000 --> 26:11.000 Janice, please. 26:11.000 --> 26:14.080 I... I suppose you're right, but I'm utterly exhausted. 26:14.080 --> 26:15.600 I can't even think anymore. 26:15.600 --> 26:16.600 You've got to think! 26:16.600 --> 26:17.600 Give me until tomorrow. 26:17.600 --> 26:20.440 Let me sleep, and then tomorrow I'll do something, I promise you. 26:20.440 --> 26:21.440 All right, Patrick. 26:21.440 --> 26:26.440 But if you don't do something, if you don't destroy that thing, I will! 26:26.440 --> 26:27.440 Listen! 26:27.440 --> 26:28.440 Listen! 26:28.440 --> 26:29.440 Oh, I hate it! 26:29.440 --> 26:30.440 Janice! 26:30.440 --> 26:34.040 It's almost as though it had heard you and were raging at you! 26:34.040 --> 26:41.880 This way, please, Dr. Corey. 26:41.880 --> 26:49.000 But, Patrick, why are we going in here? 26:49.000 --> 26:50.000 A psychiatric clinic? 26:50.000 --> 26:52.800 I told you I'd do something, darling, and I've got an idea. 26:52.800 --> 26:56.400 You mean having yourself psychoanalyzed? 26:56.400 --> 26:57.400 Something like that? 26:57.400 --> 26:58.400 Something like that. 26:58.400 --> 26:59.400 I'll tell you about it later, dear. 26:59.400 --> 27:01.200 But first I want to talk to this man alone. 27:01.200 --> 27:04.000 Dr. Zanger, this is Dr. Corey. 27:04.000 --> 27:06.200 Oh, how do you do, Dr. Corey? 27:06.200 --> 27:08.240 I've heard something of your work. 27:08.240 --> 27:09.240 Oh, yes. 27:09.240 --> 27:12.920 Oh, and this is Mrs. Corey. 27:12.920 --> 27:13.920 Oh, of course. 27:13.920 --> 27:14.920 Excuse me. 27:14.920 --> 27:16.280 I'm happy to meet you, Mrs. Corey. 27:16.280 --> 27:17.280 Thank you, doctor. 27:17.280 --> 27:19.280 Won't you come into my office, doctor? 27:19.280 --> 27:21.600 Janice, would you mind waiting here in the reception room? 27:21.600 --> 27:23.080 I'll be out in just a moment. 27:23.080 --> 27:24.080 Why, certainly, dear. 27:24.080 --> 27:25.080 In here, please. 27:25.080 --> 27:29.320 Well, doctor, she seems quite normal. 27:29.320 --> 27:31.760 I had expected from what you told me on the phone. 27:31.760 --> 27:32.760 Yes, I know. 27:32.760 --> 27:38.880 But I can assure you, deeply as it pains me to do so, that she's quite insane. 27:38.880 --> 27:40.880 Oh, I see. 27:40.880 --> 27:41.880 Paranoia. 27:41.880 --> 27:47.840 She's always been a little jealous of my work. 27:47.840 --> 27:55.520 But lately she's developed a most extraordinary delusion. 27:55.520 --> 28:07.320 She thinks that I've created some sort of a monster in my laboratory that controls my 28:07.320 --> 28:09.200 mind, my actions. 28:09.200 --> 28:11.160 I have heard of such cases. 28:11.160 --> 28:14.000 It was a great shock to me. 28:14.000 --> 28:16.400 I thought of you at once, of course. 28:16.400 --> 28:19.200 I'm putting her completely in your hands. 28:19.200 --> 28:21.120 Well, it is a little unusual. 28:21.120 --> 28:27.000 But since you are yourself a medical man, I know you'll do everything you can. 28:27.000 --> 28:32.320 Yes, you definitely wish then to commit her, huh? 28:32.320 --> 28:33.320 Yes. 28:33.320 --> 28:35.320 You have the papers. 28:35.320 --> 28:36.960 Here they are. 28:36.960 --> 28:40.960 Just your signature will be enough. 28:40.960 --> 28:47.360 There you are. 28:47.360 --> 28:49.960 You'll keep me informed, won't you? 28:49.960 --> 28:50.960 Thank you, Dr. Zangief. 28:50.960 --> 28:52.520 Well, goodbye then, Dr. Corey. 28:52.520 --> 28:56.320 We will do what we can. 28:56.320 --> 28:58.600 Mrs. Corey is staying with us, Ms. Wilcox. 28:58.600 --> 28:59.600 Yes, Dr. Zangief. 28:59.600 --> 29:00.600 Patrick, come back. 29:00.600 --> 29:01.600 Oh, it's all right, Mrs. Corey. 29:01.600 --> 29:02.600 Just come inside with me, please. 29:02.600 --> 29:03.600 Patrick, where are you going? 29:03.600 --> 29:04.600 Come along, Mrs. Corey. 29:04.600 --> 29:05.600 Let me go. 29:05.600 --> 29:06.600 It's all right. 29:06.600 --> 29:07.600 Let me go. 29:07.600 --> 29:08.600 Patrick! 29:08.600 --> 29:09.600 Oh, Dr. Corey. 29:09.600 --> 29:10.600 Yes? 29:10.600 --> 29:19.600 About the bill, how do you wish it to be handled? 29:19.600 --> 29:23.360 Oh, sure, sure, sure. 29:23.360 --> 29:26.720 I'll take care of it by the week. 29:26.720 --> 29:32.480 The checks will be signed, William Edge's dollar. 29:32.480 --> 29:46.000 Sure, sure, sure. 29:46.000 --> 29:47.000 January 15th. 29:47.000 --> 29:50.600 It's nearly a week now since Janice went away. 29:50.600 --> 29:54.240 I cannot understand how she could have left me just when I needed her most. 29:54.240 --> 29:57.400 When I tried to question Schraut or David about her, they only look at me strangely 29:57.400 --> 29:58.400 and change the subject. 29:58.400 --> 30:01.800 Clearly, they too are in on the conspiracy. 30:01.800 --> 30:07.960 Sometimes it seems the only person I can trust is Donovan, the brain. 30:07.960 --> 30:10.880 It communicates with me more freely now each day. 30:10.880 --> 30:15.560 I know it has some great plan in mind for me, for both of us. 30:15.560 --> 30:21.280 And I'm waiting, patiently waiting. 30:21.280 --> 30:28.720 Donovan, I'm listening, Donovan. 30:28.720 --> 30:29.720 Don't be angry, Donovan. 30:29.720 --> 30:31.400 I'm trying to understand. 30:31.400 --> 30:33.800 I'm listening, Donovan. 30:33.800 --> 30:35.800 I'm listening. 30:35.800 --> 30:39.040 Sure, sure, sure. 30:39.040 --> 31:06.200 In tonight's full hour of suspense, Mr. John McIntyre appears as Dr. Patrick Corey in William 31:06.200 --> 31:13.880 Spears' production of Donovan's Brain, tonight's study in suspense. 31:13.880 --> 31:22.280 In just a moment, we will return with act two of suspense. 31:22.280 --> 31:26.200 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 31:26.200 --> 31:32.040 And now, back to our Hollywood Sound stage and your host for suspense, Mr. Robert Montgomery. 31:32.040 --> 31:37.320 At the outset of experiment 87, we were concerned with a man of science who had a wife and a 31:37.320 --> 31:41.000 son whom he loved and who loved him. 31:41.000 --> 31:45.480 He was a gifted scientist, dedicated to his work, and he signed his name with his right 31:45.480 --> 31:49.660 hand, Dr. Patrick Corey. 31:49.660 --> 31:52.160 That was before Donovan's brain. 31:52.160 --> 31:57.420 That was before his psychological fiber weakened against the force of a powerful obsession. 31:57.420 --> 32:02.120 And with this weakening, his power to direct his knowledge has become twisted. 32:02.120 --> 32:06.040 Now we look again at Dr. Patrick Corey, man of science. 32:06.040 --> 32:08.560 He has alienated friends and family. 32:08.560 --> 32:10.800 He has had his wife committed to an institution. 32:10.800 --> 32:15.920 His entire life has become a thing contained in a vat, controlled by pounding electric 32:15.920 --> 32:21.720 waves, and he signs his name with his left hand, William H. Donovan. 32:21.720 --> 32:28.200 And now, with John McIntyre as Dr. Patrick Corey, and with Act Two of Donovan's Brain, 32:28.200 --> 32:44.520 we again hope to keep you in suspense. 32:44.520 --> 32:46.480 January 16th. 32:46.480 --> 32:50.420 It is now six weeks, exactly 42 days. 32:50.420 --> 32:57.080 For six weeks, by artificial means alone, I have kept alive a human brain. 32:57.080 --> 33:02.560 Completely detached from the body, floating in the bath of serum, nourished by a synthetic 33:02.560 --> 33:08.120 blood plasma fed through its arteries by an electric pump, it has remained alive. 33:08.120 --> 33:12.320 Not only alive, but I have succeeded in communicating with it. 33:12.320 --> 33:15.680 For I have even induced new growth of brain cells and so tremendously increased its mental 33:15.680 --> 33:19.480 faculties that by sheer brain power alone, it is actually able to communicate its thoughts 33:19.480 --> 33:20.480 to me. 33:20.480 --> 33:26.600 And each day, my communion with that living, pulsing mass of grey matter that was the brain 33:26.600 --> 33:31.080 of William Donovan becomes stronger and stronger. 33:31.080 --> 33:35.660 Even now, I sense it striving to reveal some plan to me. 33:35.660 --> 33:39.400 Something so truly world-shaking in its implications that only such an organism developed to a 33:39.400 --> 33:44.920 point thousands of years ahead of its time could ever have conceived it. 33:44.920 --> 33:49.680 So far I sense this only, but soon I shall know. 33:49.680 --> 33:54.160 Indeed, I shall be a partner in its execution. 33:54.160 --> 33:57.480 What a fool I was ever to have considered for a moment my wife's demands that I end 33:57.480 --> 33:58.480 the experiment. 33:58.480 --> 34:02.660 It is because I refused, of course, that Janice left me a week ago without so much as a word 34:02.660 --> 34:05.720 of explanation of farewell. 34:05.720 --> 34:10.740 Even my son David and my assistant Shrott are privy to this conspiracy to thwart me. 34:10.740 --> 34:13.920 For when I asked about Janice, they pretended to know nothing. 34:13.920 --> 34:18.200 Of course, I seek to avoid my questions. 34:18.200 --> 34:21.200 But the brain will live. 34:21.200 --> 34:24.840 I can hear it now. 34:24.840 --> 34:28.880 Its delta waves quite audible over the amplifying system I've arranged for it, almost as though 34:28.880 --> 34:33.560 it were calling to me, trying to speak to me. 34:33.560 --> 34:37.840 Yes, the brain will live. 34:37.840 --> 34:39.840 Donovan? 34:39.840 --> 34:43.040 Donovan, what is it? 34:43.040 --> 34:44.480 What are you trying to tell me? 34:44.480 --> 34:48.120 Go on, Donovan, go on, I'm listening. 34:48.120 --> 34:49.120 Go on. 34:49.120 --> 34:50.120 Who is it? 34:50.120 --> 34:51.120 It's me, Patrick and David. 34:51.120 --> 34:52.120 What do you want? 34:52.120 --> 34:53.120 We want to talk to you, Dad. 34:53.120 --> 34:54.120 I have no time to talk. 34:54.120 --> 34:55.120 I'm busy. 34:55.120 --> 34:56.120 Please open the door, Patrick. 34:56.120 --> 34:57.120 It's important. 34:57.120 --> 34:58.120 Go away. 34:58.120 --> 34:59.120 I tell you I'm busy. 34:59.120 --> 35:00.120 Please, Dad. 35:00.120 --> 35:01.120 Can't you leave me alone? 35:01.120 --> 35:02.120 But... 35:02.120 --> 35:03.120 All right, all right. 35:03.120 --> 35:04.120 Thanks. 35:04.120 --> 35:05.120 Now, what is it? 35:05.120 --> 35:06.120 Patrick, I'm sorry. 35:06.120 --> 35:07.120 I'm sorry. 35:07.120 --> 35:08.120 I'm sorry. 35:08.120 --> 35:09.120 I'm sorry. 35:09.120 --> 35:10.120 I'm sorry. 35:10.120 --> 35:11.120 I'm sorry. 35:11.120 --> 35:12.120 I'm sorry. 35:12.120 --> 35:14.960 Patrick, won't you come into the study with us for a few minutes? 35:14.960 --> 35:17.040 Whatever you've got to say, you can say right here. 35:17.040 --> 35:18.840 You know I can't leave the laboratory. 35:18.840 --> 35:22.360 Dad, it's only that we wanted to talk to you in private. 35:22.360 --> 35:25.480 Don't tell me that you're afraid of this poor mass of brain cells. 35:25.480 --> 35:26.640 No, it's not that, Dad. 35:26.640 --> 35:27.640 Never mind, David. 35:27.640 --> 35:31.320 At least turn that thing off, then, will you, Patrick? 35:31.320 --> 35:32.320 What difference would that make? 35:32.320 --> 35:34.840 It could still hear, couldn't it? 35:34.840 --> 35:38.080 All right, well, what is it? 35:38.080 --> 35:40.120 It's about Mother. 35:40.120 --> 35:41.320 Oh. 35:41.320 --> 35:42.520 So she put you up to this, did she? 35:42.520 --> 35:44.160 I thought the truth would come out sometime. 35:44.160 --> 35:45.160 Dad, listen. 35:45.160 --> 35:47.360 She tried to stop this experiment from the beginning. 35:47.360 --> 35:50.640 She thought she could blackmail into quitting by leaving me. 35:50.640 --> 35:51.640 And she still does. 35:51.640 --> 35:52.640 And now she's using you as a go-between. 35:52.640 --> 35:53.840 Patrick, please, listen to me. 35:53.840 --> 35:54.840 I've heard enough. 35:54.840 --> 35:55.960 We haven't heard a word from Janice. 35:55.960 --> 35:56.960 We don't know where she is. 35:56.960 --> 35:58.360 That's what we came in to talk about. 35:58.360 --> 35:59.920 Oh, have you? 35:59.920 --> 36:03.000 Well, how should I know where she is? 36:03.000 --> 36:06.360 Because... because you were the last person seen with her, Dad. 36:06.360 --> 36:07.360 I was. 36:07.360 --> 36:08.360 Don't you remember, Patrick? 36:08.360 --> 36:09.920 You took her into town with you. 36:09.920 --> 36:11.680 You wouldn't tell any of us why. 36:11.680 --> 36:12.680 Oh, yes. 36:12.680 --> 36:13.680 Of course. 36:13.680 --> 36:14.680 For a moment, I'd forgotten. 36:14.680 --> 36:15.680 But what of it? 36:15.680 --> 36:16.680 Don't you remember what happened then? 36:16.680 --> 36:17.680 Well, of course I remember. 36:17.680 --> 36:18.680 She'd left me, that's all. 36:18.680 --> 36:19.680 Where, Dad? 36:19.680 --> 36:20.680 Where did she leave you? 36:20.680 --> 36:21.680 What were you doing? 36:21.680 --> 36:22.680 I... 36:22.680 --> 36:23.680 I don't know. 36:23.680 --> 36:24.680 We were in some big public building. 36:24.680 --> 36:25.680 It's the city hall, courthouse, taxes or something. 36:25.680 --> 36:26.680 And the next thing I knew, she'd simply disappeared. 36:26.680 --> 36:27.680 Is that all? 36:27.680 --> 36:28.680 Didn't she say anything? 36:28.680 --> 36:29.680 Didn't she... didn't she at least tell you why she was going? 36:29.680 --> 36:30.680 How do I remember what she said? 36:30.680 --> 36:31.680 It's been a week. 36:31.680 --> 36:32.680 I don't know. 36:32.680 --> 36:33.680 I don't know. 36:33.680 --> 36:34.680 I don't know. 36:34.680 --> 36:35.680 I don't know. 36:35.680 --> 36:40.800 It's been a week and more. 36:40.800 --> 36:43.360 I've hardly slept. 36:43.360 --> 36:44.360 And... 36:44.360 --> 36:46.280 You know I've been working night and day. 36:46.280 --> 36:47.680 Yes, that's just it, Patrick. 36:47.680 --> 36:49.560 What do you mean by that? 36:49.560 --> 36:51.360 Patrick, you say that this... 36:51.360 --> 36:56.460 The brain communicates with you, tells you things about its past life, suggests thoughts. 36:56.460 --> 37:01.240 Well, if the brain can make you think things, why can't it also make you forget things? 37:01.240 --> 37:02.920 Leave me alone. 37:02.920 --> 37:04.440 Dad, are you sure... 37:04.440 --> 37:06.360 Are you sure you don't know what's happened to Mother? 37:06.360 --> 37:08.240 No, no, I tell you, no. 37:08.240 --> 37:09.920 Don't you see what you might have done? 37:09.920 --> 37:12.120 In heaven's name, stop now while there's still time. 37:12.120 --> 37:12.960 Get out of here! 37:12.960 --> 37:15.120 While there's still time to help Janice if there is. 37:15.120 --> 37:17.280 While there's still time to help yourself, Patrick. 37:17.280 --> 37:19.120 Shut off the current, let the brain die. 37:19.120 --> 37:20.960 Kill it, Patrick, kill it, kill it! 37:20.960 --> 37:23.200 Both of you, get out! 37:23.200 --> 37:39.360 The brain continues to give in more and more easily, but nothing further on what I have 37:39.360 --> 37:46.000 come to think of as the plan. 37:46.000 --> 37:50.080 I am now sleeping a great deal, but my dreams are becoming increasingly troublesome, although 37:50.080 --> 37:52.800 I am at a loss to analyze them. 37:52.800 --> 37:58.320 Most frequent is a sort of vast cosmic ballet, presided over by the colossal figure of a 37:58.320 --> 38:05.120 young man who I seem to recognize, and yet I never see his face. 38:05.120 --> 38:10.160 It is as though the entire population of the Earth were moving past him in review at his 38:10.160 --> 38:11.160 command. 38:11.160 --> 38:26.000 Ah! 38:26.000 --> 38:28.000 Now. 38:28.000 --> 38:30.000 Now. 38:30.000 --> 38:32.000 Do it. 38:32.000 --> 38:34.000 Now. 38:34.000 --> 38:36.000 Help! Help! 38:36.000 --> 38:38.000 Help! 38:38.000 --> 38:40.000 Shrot? 38:40.000 --> 38:42.000 Shrot? 38:42.000 --> 38:44.000 David! 38:44.000 --> 38:46.000 I had to, Dad. 38:46.000 --> 38:48.000 What am I now? 38:48.000 --> 38:50.000 Here. Help me with Shrot. 38:50.000 --> 38:52.000 No, no, David. Don't let him touch me. 38:52.000 --> 38:54.000 It's all right now. 38:54.000 --> 38:56.000 Here. Here's a glass of water. 38:56.000 --> 38:58.000 Here. 38:58.000 --> 39:00.000 What's the matter? You're trembling all over. 39:00.000 --> 39:02.000 I... 39:02.000 --> 39:04.000 I can't. 39:04.000 --> 39:06.000 What are you looking at me that way for? 39:06.000 --> 39:08.000 You look frightened half to death. 39:08.000 --> 39:10.000 What happened here anyway? 39:10.000 --> 39:12.000 I came in and found you on the floor with your hands around your own throat. 39:12.000 --> 39:14.000 If it hadn't been for me... 39:14.000 --> 39:16.000 What? 39:16.000 --> 39:18.000 Why is your luggage all packed? 39:18.000 --> 39:20.000 I was going to leave. 39:20.000 --> 39:22.000 Leave? In the middle of the night? Why? 39:22.000 --> 39:24.000 The fuse box. 39:24.000 --> 39:26.000 It's been opened. 39:26.000 --> 39:28.000 It was you, Shrot. 39:28.000 --> 39:30.000 You were going to shut off the current. 39:30.000 --> 39:32.000 You were going to kill that brain! 39:32.000 --> 39:34.000 Patrick, you tried to strangle me. 39:34.000 --> 39:36.000 What? 39:36.000 --> 39:38.000 It's true, Dad. 39:38.000 --> 39:40.000 That's why I had to slap you. 39:40.000 --> 39:42.000 But that's absurd. 39:42.000 --> 39:44.000 I came in here and I found Shrot with his hands around his own throat. 39:44.000 --> 39:46.000 He was strangling himself. 39:46.000 --> 39:48.000 Dad, please think a minute. 39:48.000 --> 39:50.000 Nobody can strangle himself. 39:50.000 --> 39:52.000 I'm going to put these marks on my throat. 39:52.000 --> 39:54.000 You think I could have done that? 39:54.000 --> 39:56.000 What? 39:56.000 --> 39:58.000 No, it's not possible. 39:58.000 --> 40:00.000 And yet... 40:00.000 --> 40:02.000 It's true, Patrick, true, that I tried to shut off the current. 40:02.000 --> 40:04.000 I was afraid for you. 40:04.000 --> 40:06.000 But as I opened the fuse box, I heard the delta waves in the laboratory 40:06.000 --> 40:08.000 suddenly become stronger and louder than they'd ever been before. 40:08.000 --> 40:10.000 And then... 40:10.000 --> 40:12.000 And then I... 40:12.000 --> 40:14.000 Yes, yes. 40:14.000 --> 40:16.000 Then the brain knew you even spoke in Donovan's voice, Patrick. 40:16.000 --> 40:18.000 His voice? 40:18.000 --> 40:20.000 Yes, yes, yes, yes. 40:20.000 --> 40:22.000 In his very tone, his very accent. 40:22.000 --> 40:24.000 You've created a monster, Patrick. 40:24.000 --> 40:26.000 It has the power to make me commit murder. 40:26.000 --> 40:28.000 Patrick, what about Janice? 40:28.000 --> 40:30.000 Shrot, you... 40:30.000 --> 40:32.000 You don't think I... 40:32.000 --> 40:34.000 I couldn't have done a thing like that. 40:34.000 --> 40:36.000 You couldn't have done what you did tonight if you'd been yourself? 40:36.000 --> 40:38.000 No, no, I... 40:38.000 --> 40:40.000 Even a hypnotist can't force a man to... 40:40.000 --> 40:42.000 Don't worry about it now, Patrick. 40:42.000 --> 40:44.000 It's probably all right. 40:44.000 --> 40:46.000 We'll try to find it tomorrow. 40:46.000 --> 40:48.000 But first, Dad, don't you see? 40:48.000 --> 40:50.000 Dr. Shrot was right. You've got to destroy... 40:50.000 --> 40:52.000 Well... 40:52.000 --> 40:54.000 Maybe... 40:54.000 --> 40:56.000 Maybe then I could remember it, yes. 40:58.000 --> 41:00.000 The brain must die. 41:00.000 --> 41:02.000 Pull the switch in the fuse box. It will only be a matter of seconds then. 41:02.000 --> 41:04.000 Yes. 41:06.000 --> 41:08.000 But... 41:08.000 --> 41:10.000 You've got to, Patrick. 41:10.000 --> 41:12.000 Shrot! David! 41:12.000 --> 41:14.000 Help me! I can't move! 41:14.000 --> 41:16.000 Pull the switch! 41:16.000 --> 41:18.000 Hurry! Shrot! David! 41:18.000 --> 41:20.000 Go on! 41:20.000 --> 41:22.000 You... 41:22.000 --> 41:24.000 You too... 41:24.000 --> 41:26.000 It's... It's paralyzed us, Patrick. 41:26.000 --> 41:28.000 The brain won't let itself be killed. 41:30.000 --> 41:32.000 Then it has the power 41:32.000 --> 41:34.000 to live on... 41:34.000 --> 41:36.000 On... 41:36.000 --> 41:38.000 To command us as long as we live. 41:38.000 --> 41:40.000 To make us do anything it wants. 41:40.000 --> 41:42.000 To kill, murder, 41:42.000 --> 41:44.000 dead. 41:44.000 --> 41:46.000 What are we going to do? 41:46.000 --> 41:48.000 Listen! 41:48.000 --> 41:50.000 Brain! 41:50.000 --> 41:52.000 It's... 41:52.000 --> 41:54.000 It's nothing! 42:02.000 --> 42:04.000 February 2nd. 42:04.000 --> 42:06.000 Shrot has left. 42:06.000 --> 42:08.000 He had to, of course, for his own protection 42:08.000 --> 42:10.000 of nothing else. 42:10.000 --> 42:12.000 Before he left, I swore him to eternal secrecy. 42:12.000 --> 42:14.000 And he's going to try to find Janus. 42:14.000 --> 42:16.000 The very thought that any harm 42:16.000 --> 42:18.000 might have come to her through me 42:18.000 --> 42:20.000 is enough to drive me almost mad. 42:20.000 --> 42:22.000 As for David, 42:22.000 --> 42:24.000 he's strong enough to prevent any 42:24.000 --> 42:26.000 untoward accidents. 42:26.000 --> 42:28.000 And he's volunteered to stay with me. 42:28.000 --> 42:30.000 He'll sleep at night behind locked doors. 42:30.000 --> 42:32.000 We must devote every 42:32.000 --> 42:34.000 faculty we possess, together 42:34.000 --> 42:36.000 and independently, to finding a way of 42:36.000 --> 42:38.000 destroying the brain. 42:38.000 --> 42:40.000 Perhaps while it sleeps. 42:40.000 --> 42:42.000 Although it seems to have developed tremendous 42:42.000 --> 42:44.000 powers of the subconscious which operate even in sleep. 42:46.000 --> 42:48.000 A recurring dream. 42:48.000 --> 42:50.000 The now oppressive sense 42:50.000 --> 42:52.000 of some further task to be performed 42:52.000 --> 42:54.000 continues. 42:54.000 --> 42:56.000 If Janus were only here, 42:56.000 --> 42:58.000 even her presence, I know, would help 42:58.000 --> 43:00.000 immeasurably to combat this fearful 43:00.000 --> 43:02.000 thing. 43:02.000 --> 43:04.000 A terrible thought crosses my mind. 43:04.000 --> 43:06.000 Could Shrot 43:06.000 --> 43:08.000 have left if the brain had not, for some 43:08.000 --> 43:10.000 reasons of its own, actually 43:10.000 --> 43:12.000 wanted him to leave? 43:18.000 --> 43:20.000 February 6th. 43:20.000 --> 43:22.000 My thoughts are less and less my own. 43:22.000 --> 43:24.000 The dream of the young 43:24.000 --> 43:26.000 giant bestriding the earth, the 43:26.000 --> 43:28.000 figure without a face, pursues me 43:28.000 --> 43:30.000 now, even in my waking hours. 43:30.000 --> 43:32.000 Increasingly I seem to live in a world 43:32.000 --> 43:34.000 of evil fantasy. 43:34.000 --> 43:36.000 Beopled and controlled by the mind of William 43:36.000 --> 43:38.000 Donovan. And worst 43:38.000 --> 43:40.000 of all is the obsession that there is some 43:40.000 --> 43:42.000 fateful role not yet revealed to 43:42.000 --> 43:44.000 me. But I have been assigned to 43:44.000 --> 43:46.000 play in it. But I've not 43:46.000 --> 43:48.000 given up hope. I must destroy the 43:48.000 --> 43:50.000 brain. The possibility has occurred to 43:50.000 --> 43:52.000 me. I must give it more 43:52.000 --> 43:54.000 thought. If Janus were only 43:54.000 --> 44:04.000 here. 44:04.000 --> 44:10.000 Sure. Sure. Sure. 44:10.000 --> 44:12.000 There is not 44:12.000 --> 44:14.000 much time, 44:14.000 --> 44:16.000 but time enough. 44:16.000 --> 44:18.000 Sure. 44:18.000 --> 44:20.000 Sure. 44:20.000 --> 44:22.000 Sure. Sure. Sure. 44:22.000 --> 44:24.000 Sure. 44:24.000 --> 44:26.000 Hello? 44:26.000 --> 44:28.000 Who is it? 44:28.000 --> 44:30.000 Patrick. 44:30.000 --> 44:32.000 Janus. 44:32.000 --> 44:34.000 Janus! 44:34.000 --> 44:36.000 Hello, Patrick. Oh, Janus. 44:36.000 --> 44:38.000 My darling. 44:38.000 --> 44:40.000 How are you, Patrick? 44:40.000 --> 44:42.000 Well enough. But Janus, where have you 44:42.000 --> 44:44.000 been? Where 44:44.000 --> 44:46.000 have I been? Yes, 44:46.000 --> 44:48.000 we had no idea. I've been half crazy worrying 44:48.000 --> 44:50.000 about you. Did Shrot finally find you? 44:50.000 --> 44:52.000 Uh-huh. 44:52.000 --> 44:54.000 Shrot found me. 44:54.000 --> 44:56.000 Janus, why did you leave me that day? Why didn't 44:56.000 --> 44:58.000 you at least tell me? Where did you go? 44:58.000 --> 45:00.000 I was 45:00.000 --> 45:02.000 with friends. 45:02.000 --> 45:04.000 Did Shrot tell you anything? 45:04.000 --> 45:06.000 No. 45:06.000 --> 45:08.000 Nothing special. Janus, 45:08.000 --> 45:10.000 I know I haven't been a very good husband these 45:10.000 --> 45:12.000 last months. I haven't been very kind 45:12.000 --> 45:14.000 or considerate or even civilized. I haven't 45:14.000 --> 45:16.000 been myself, Janus. I know, 45:16.000 --> 45:18.000 Patrick. My 45:18.000 --> 45:20.000 darling. But if you'd only known 45:20.000 --> 45:22.000 how I missed you after you left, 45:22.000 --> 45:24.000 how I needed you, I need your help, 45:24.000 --> 45:26.000 Janus. I know, Patrick. 45:26.000 --> 45:28.000 I came back to help you. 45:28.000 --> 45:30.000 But what? 45:30.000 --> 45:32.000 Where's... Only sleep 45:32.000 --> 45:34.000 in the next room. Ever since 45:34.000 --> 45:36.000 that is lately he's 45:36.000 --> 45:38.000 tried to make it a point to sleep only when I don't. 45:38.000 --> 45:40.000 Keep an eye on things. Patrick, 45:40.000 --> 45:42.000 I'm going to help you 45:42.000 --> 45:44.000 all I can, any way 45:44.000 --> 45:46.000 I can. I'm going 45:46.000 --> 45:48.000 to. But first, 45:48.000 --> 45:50.000 I want to take 45:50.000 --> 45:52.000 David away. David? 45:52.000 --> 45:54.000 Because I don't think it's 45:54.000 --> 45:56.000 good for him to be here. 45:56.000 --> 45:58.000 I don't think that you... 45:58.000 --> 46:00.000 Then Shrot did tell you? 46:00.000 --> 46:02.000 Yes, Patrick. 46:02.000 --> 46:04.000 He did. Oh, Janus. 46:04.000 --> 46:06.000 Janus. 46:06.000 --> 46:08.000 I don't know what to do. My mind is only 46:08.000 --> 46:10.000 half my own. Lately I don't even know what I'm 46:10.000 --> 46:12.000 myself or whether I'm 46:12.000 --> 46:14.000 someone else. It's like 46:14.000 --> 46:16.000 some frightful nightmare, only I don't wake up. 46:16.000 --> 46:18.000 I'm afraid I'll never wake up. 46:18.000 --> 46:20.000 My poor dearest. Janus. 46:20.000 --> 46:22.000 You... 46:22.000 --> 46:24.000 You do love me still. Yes, Patrick. 46:24.000 --> 46:26.000 The only thing I have left, Janus, is 46:26.000 --> 46:28.000 what I've counted on clung to. 46:28.000 --> 46:30.000 And that somehow, out of your love, 46:30.000 --> 46:32.000 you'd find a way to help. No one else can. 46:32.000 --> 46:34.000 I know. Poor old 46:34.000 --> 46:36.000 Shrot didn't even dare to come back. 46:36.000 --> 46:38.000 Yes, well, I can't 46:38.000 --> 46:40.000 blame him. Patrick, 46:40.000 --> 46:42.000 I don't want to torment you. 46:42.000 --> 46:44.000 It's only that 46:44.000 --> 46:46.000 perhaps we can find a way 46:46.000 --> 46:48.000 if we know 46:48.000 --> 46:50.000 all the facts. 46:50.000 --> 46:52.000 What, Janus? 46:52.000 --> 46:54.000 Don't you really 46:54.000 --> 46:56.000 know where I was? 46:56.000 --> 46:58.000 No, how could I? 46:58.000 --> 47:00.000 Don't you remember 47:00.000 --> 47:02.000 where you took me? Where I 47:02.000 --> 47:04.000 took you? 47:04.000 --> 47:06.000 You took me to 47:06.000 --> 47:08.000 a psychiatric clinic, Patrick. 47:08.000 --> 47:10.000 You had me 47:10.000 --> 47:12.000 admitted. Oh, Janus! 47:12.000 --> 47:14.000 No, Patrick. Not you. 47:14.000 --> 47:16.000 Donovan. 47:16.000 --> 47:18.000 It was because I tried to make you 47:18.000 --> 47:20.000 stop the experiment, kill 47:20.000 --> 47:22.000 the brain. As 47:22.000 --> 47:24.000 you left me there, you even spoke 47:24.000 --> 47:26.000 in Donovan's voice. 47:26.000 --> 47:28.000 Sure, sure, sure, you said. 47:28.000 --> 47:30.000 I thought they were the last 47:30.000 --> 47:32.000 words I would ever hear you speak. 47:32.000 --> 47:34.000 Oh, Janus, forgive me. 47:34.000 --> 47:36.000 Forgive me. I couldn't persuade anyone. 47:36.000 --> 47:38.000 I was sane. After 47:38.000 --> 47:40.000 what you told them, everything 47:40.000 --> 47:42.000 I said only made them think I was 47:42.000 --> 47:44.000 mad. 47:44.000 --> 47:46.000 I'm not 47:46.000 --> 47:48.000 mad. 47:48.000 --> 47:50.000 Am I, Patrick? 47:50.000 --> 47:52.000 I'm 47:52.000 --> 47:54.000 not mad. 48:02.000 --> 48:04.000 Janus will be gone for some three hours. 48:04.000 --> 48:06.000 I have sent her into town for Dr. 48:06.000 --> 48:08.000 Zanger, the psychiatrist. Maybe he can help. 48:08.000 --> 48:10.000 But now I'm overcome 48:10.000 --> 48:12.000 with the thought of the humiliation I shall have to 48:12.000 --> 48:14.000 suffer when other medical men become aware of the position 48:14.000 --> 48:16.000 I'm in. It will be the end 48:16.000 --> 48:18.000 of my career, my reputation, all 48:18.000 --> 48:20.000 my hopes. 48:20.000 --> 48:22.000 It's folly to think that Zanger 48:22.000 --> 48:24.000 would keep it to himself. Indeed, 48:24.000 --> 48:26.000 he would have no right to. 48:26.000 --> 48:28.000 I can bear it if I must. 48:28.000 --> 48:30.000 But another way, 48:30.000 --> 48:32.000 a possibility came to me yesterday. 48:32.000 --> 48:34.000 And I've been thinking it over. 48:34.000 --> 48:36.000 There's no harm in trying 48:36.000 --> 48:38.000 it in an event. I must 48:38.000 --> 48:40.000 try. I have three 48:40.000 --> 48:42.000 hours. 48:48.000 --> 48:50.000 David! David! 48:50.000 --> 48:52.000 Yes, Dad? 48:52.000 --> 48:54.000 David, what's your blood type? Do you know? 48:54.000 --> 48:56.000 Matter of fact, I don't think I do. Why? 48:56.000 --> 48:58.000 Well, no matter. We can easily find out. David, 48:58.000 --> 49:00.000 I think at last I know a way. 49:00.000 --> 49:02.000 To kill the brain? Yes, it's 49:02.000 --> 49:04.000 simple, perfectly natural, and yet nine chances 49:04.000 --> 49:06.000 out of ten is something Donovan would never have known 49:06.000 --> 49:08.000 about. I do it myself, 49:08.000 --> 49:10.000 but unfortunately my blood type is 49:10.000 --> 49:12.000 the same as his. Oh, a transfusion? 49:12.000 --> 49:14.000 Of course. I have to replenish the blood substance 49:14.000 --> 49:16.000 periodically anyhow. It's about time 49:16.000 --> 49:18.000 to do it again. I've always used my own 49:18.000 --> 49:20.000 because it was the same type as his, but if yours 49:20.000 --> 49:22.000 is a different type, the right 49:22.000 --> 49:24.000 type. You mean the wrong type? Yes. 49:24.000 --> 49:26.000 Given the wrong type, 49:26.000 --> 49:28.000 the brain will die. Yes. 49:28.000 --> 49:30.000 It sounds possible. I'm sure of it. 49:30.000 --> 49:32.000 I know it. But suppose the brain 49:32.000 --> 49:34.000 knows. It knows other things. 49:34.000 --> 49:36.000 I thought of that. It's a chance we'll have to take. 49:36.000 --> 49:38.000 If you're willing. Of course I am, Dad. 49:38.000 --> 49:40.000 Then we'll take a blood sample now. 49:40.000 --> 49:42.000 Come to the laboratory. 49:42.000 --> 49:44.000 If only I have the right type. 49:44.000 --> 49:46.000 Or rather the wrong type. 49:46.000 --> 49:48.000 If you haven't, we'll find someone who has, maybe Shrot. 49:48.000 --> 49:50.000 Now just lie down there on the 49:50.000 --> 49:52.000 table. You'll want a tourniquet. On your arm. 49:52.000 --> 49:54.000 There. 49:54.000 --> 49:56.000 I'll put it on. 49:56.000 --> 49:58.000 This small syringe 49:58.000 --> 50:00.000 will do it. 50:00.000 --> 50:02.000 Now. 50:02.000 --> 50:04.000 Go ahead. I'm ready. 50:04.000 --> 50:06.000 David. 50:06.000 --> 50:08.000 Don't watch me. 50:08.000 --> 50:10.000 It'll be easier if you don't for me. 50:10.000 --> 50:12.000 That's a funny one. Coming 50:12.000 --> 50:14.000 from you. Well, doctors 50:14.000 --> 50:16.000 are never quite as steady with members of their own family, 50:16.000 --> 50:18.000 you know. Ready? 50:18.000 --> 50:20.000 Sure. 50:20.000 --> 50:22.000 There we are. 50:24.000 --> 50:26.000 You alright? 50:26.000 --> 50:28.000 Yeah. 50:28.000 --> 50:30.000 Yeah. 50:30.000 --> 50:32.000 I'm alright. 50:32.000 --> 50:34.000 We'll be through in just a second. 50:34.000 --> 50:36.000 You 50:36.000 --> 50:38.000 getting it alright? 50:38.000 --> 50:40.000 Yeah, it's just a second now. 50:40.000 --> 50:42.000 Dad. 50:42.000 --> 50:44.000 I'm...sleepy. 50:44.000 --> 50:46.000 We'll be over in a moment. 50:46.000 --> 50:48.000 But...what's the matter? 50:48.000 --> 50:50.000 Why am I so... 50:50.000 --> 50:52.000 so sleepy? 50:52.000 --> 50:54.000 You'll be 50:54.000 --> 50:56.000 alright. 50:56.000 --> 50:58.000 Sleepy. 50:58.000 --> 51:00.000 So sleepy. 51:00.000 --> 51:02.000 Yeah. 51:02.000 --> 51:04.000 Sure. 51:04.000 --> 51:06.000 Sure. Sure. 51:06.000 --> 51:08.000 That is 51:08.000 --> 51:10.000 what anesthetic 51:10.000 --> 51:12.000 is for. 51:12.000 --> 51:14.000 To make you sleep. 51:14.000 --> 51:16.000 I was 51:16.000 --> 51:18.000 somewhat surprised 51:18.000 --> 51:20.000 to find the instruments 51:20.000 --> 51:22.000 sterilized and already lying out. 51:22.000 --> 51:24.000 But I worked more rapidly and skillfully 51:24.000 --> 51:26.000 than ever before in my life. 51:26.000 --> 51:28.000 I made an incision just below the hairline, 51:28.000 --> 51:30.000 laying back the scalp as far as the base 51:30.000 --> 51:32.000 of the skull. 51:32.000 --> 51:34.000 I trepanned the cranium at two centimeter 51:34.000 --> 51:36.000 intervals, working back and downwards 51:36.000 --> 51:38.000 to the upper edge of the occipital bone. 51:38.000 --> 51:40.000 With a genie saw, I cut the 51:40.000 --> 51:42.000 bone in half, 51:42.000 --> 51:44.000 with a genie saw, I cut through the 51:44.000 --> 51:46.000 connecting bone structure, removed the entire 51:46.000 --> 51:48.000 top of the cranium, 51:48.000 --> 51:50.000 placing it in saline solution to preserve it. 51:50.000 --> 51:52.000 I made a semicircular incision 51:52.000 --> 51:54.000 in the dura mater, laying it to 51:54.000 --> 51:56.000 one side, exposing 51:56.000 --> 51:58.000 the brain. 51:58.000 --> 52:00.000 As I dissected out the facial 52:00.000 --> 52:02.000 auditory and pneumogastric nerves 52:02.000 --> 52:04.000 to free the medulla 52:04.000 --> 52:06.000 of the lungata, I became 52:06.000 --> 52:08.000 conscious of an insistent clamoring, 52:08.000 --> 52:10.000 something like a mounting hysteria 52:10.000 --> 52:12.000 in the distant reaches of my mind, 52:12.000 --> 52:14.000 almost as strong as 52:14.000 --> 52:16.000 the irresistible compulsion 52:16.000 --> 52:18.000 that drove me on. 52:18.000 --> 52:20.000 But my hand did not falter. 52:20.000 --> 52:22.000 With a sure 52:22.000 --> 52:24.000 stroke, I severed the spinal 52:24.000 --> 52:26.000 cord, just below 52:26.000 --> 52:40.000 the first cervical nerve. 52:40.000 --> 52:42.000 As I make this last 52:42.000 --> 52:44.000 entry, with that 52:44.000 --> 52:46.000 awful guilt upon my soul, 52:46.000 --> 52:48.000 even now I cannot fully comprehend 52:48.000 --> 52:50.000 how it has been possible for any man. 52:50.000 --> 52:52.000 By mortal or immortal 52:52.000 --> 52:54.000 means to be driven to such a crime. 52:54.000 --> 52:56.000 Even the divinity 52:56.000 --> 52:58.000 himself did not demand of Abraham 52:58.000 --> 53:00.000 that final sacrifice of expiation, 53:00.000 --> 53:02.000 when he, with his only 53:02.000 --> 53:04.000 begotten son, ascended the Mount 53:04.000 --> 53:06.000 of Olives. Perhaps 53:06.000 --> 53:08.000 Schraught is right. 53:08.000 --> 53:10.000 Perhaps there is indeed in man 53:10.000 --> 53:12.000 some spark of the divine 53:12.000 --> 53:14.000 that will elude our test tubes 53:14.000 --> 53:16.000 and our laboratories until 53:16.000 --> 53:18.000 the end of time. 53:18.000 --> 53:20.000 Perhaps that is the one thing 53:20.000 --> 53:22.000 that even Donovan did not foresee. 53:22.000 --> 53:24.000 I only know 53:24.000 --> 53:26.000 that at the instant my son 53:26.000 --> 53:28.000 died under my own hand, 53:28.000 --> 53:30.000 I was set free. 53:30.000 --> 53:32.000 At that 53:32.000 --> 53:34.000 instant, I saw and 53:34.000 --> 53:36.000 understood for the first time 53:36.000 --> 53:38.000 that monstrous plan born 53:38.000 --> 53:40.000 in the brain of William Donovan, of which 53:40.000 --> 53:42.000 I was to be the instrument. 53:42.000 --> 53:44.000 It was the plan I had glimpsed, but 53:44.000 --> 53:46.000 never grasped in the recurring 53:46.000 --> 53:48.000 dream. 53:48.000 --> 53:50.000 Donovan did aspire to the domination 53:50.000 --> 53:52.000 of the world. 53:52.000 --> 53:54.000 And with those tremendous 53:54.000 --> 53:56.000 mental faculties that I myself 53:56.000 --> 53:58.000 had given him, it was literally within his 53:58.000 --> 54:00.000 power to become the absolute 54:00.000 --> 54:02.000 ruler of all mankind. 54:02.000 --> 54:04.000 Only one thing was lacking, 54:04.000 --> 54:06.000 a body. 54:06.000 --> 54:08.000 A young, strong body into which those 54:08.000 --> 54:10.000 ever-growing brain cells could graft and 54:10.000 --> 54:12.000 affix themselves 54:12.000 --> 54:14.000 and live on, perhaps 54:14.000 --> 54:16.000 for centuries. 54:16.000 --> 54:18.000 He chose the body of my son. 54:18.000 --> 54:20.000 And now, at last, 54:20.000 --> 54:22.000 too late, I am free to destroy 54:22.000 --> 54:24.000 this foul thing of my creation. 54:24.000 --> 54:26.000 I know it 54:26.000 --> 54:28.000 as surely as I know that my own life 54:28.000 --> 54:30.000 must be the forfeit. 54:30.000 --> 54:32.000 The brain also knows. 54:32.000 --> 54:34.000 I can hear the disturbed, 54:34.000 --> 54:36.000 erratic oscillations of the delta waves coming 54:36.000 --> 54:38.000 through the laboratory door. 54:38.000 --> 54:40.000 But there's no room left 54:40.000 --> 54:42.000 in me now for fear. 54:42.000 --> 54:44.000 I shall take the six steps 54:44.000 --> 54:46.000 from the desk where I am writing 54:46.000 --> 54:48.000 across to the laboratory door, 54:48.000 --> 54:50.000 how often I have taken them 54:50.000 --> 54:52.000 in happier times. 54:52.000 --> 54:54.000 I shall open the door, 54:54.000 --> 54:56.000 close it behind me for the last time, 54:56.000 --> 54:58.000 and write 54:58.000 --> 55:00.000 finis to the mortal life of Patrick 55:00.000 --> 55:02.000 Articori and the brain of 55:02.000 --> 55:04.000 William Horace Donovan. 55:04.000 --> 55:06.000 May others learn 55:06.000 --> 55:08.000 from the record I leave here 55:08.000 --> 55:10.000 the lesson I have learned so bitterly 55:10.000 --> 55:12.000 and profit by them. 55:12.000 --> 55:14.000 And for the 55:14.000 --> 55:16.000 things I have done, 55:16.000 --> 55:18.000 may God 55:18.000 --> 55:44.000 have mercy on my soul. 56:18.000 --> 56:20.000 Phoenix, Arizona, February 7th. 56:20.000 --> 56:22.000 The bodies of Dr. 56:22.000 --> 56:24.000 Patrick Articori and his son 56:24.000 --> 56:26.000 David were found in Dr. 56:26.000 --> 56:28.000 Articori's own laboratory early today. 56:28.000 --> 56:30.000 Young Articori had apparently died 56:30.000 --> 56:32.000 on the operating table as 56:32.000 --> 56:34.000 the result of a delicate brain operation 56:34.000 --> 56:36.000 performed by his father. 56:36.000 --> 56:38.000 In the case of Dr. Articori, there was nothing 56:38.000 --> 56:40.000 to indicate the cause of death. 56:40.000 --> 56:42.000 But medical authorities who viewed the body 56:42.000 --> 56:44.000 including the famous Dr. Gustav 56:44.000 --> 56:46.000 Zanger gave us their opinions 56:46.000 --> 56:48.000 that he might have died of a shock 56:48.000 --> 56:50.000 as the result of the unsuccessful operation 56:50.000 --> 56:52.000 on his son. 56:52.000 --> 56:54.000 A curious feature of the case was the fact 56:54.000 --> 56:56.000 that numerous pieces of tissue 56:56.000 --> 56:58.000 identified as being from a human 56:58.000 --> 57:00.000 brain were found scattered 57:00.000 --> 57:02.000 about the laboratory floor 57:02.000 --> 57:04.000 while a larger section of brain was found 57:04.000 --> 57:06.000 in the midst of an elaborate apparatus, 57:06.000 --> 57:08.000 evidently part of a scientific experiment. 57:08.000 --> 57:10.000 Medical 57:10.000 --> 57:12.000 authorities stated, however, that they were 57:12.000 --> 57:14.000 unable to explain the nature of the apparatus 57:14.000 --> 57:16.000 and that the brain itself was in such a 57:16.000 --> 57:18.000 state of decomposition as to indicate 57:18.000 --> 57:20.000 that it had been dead and slowly 57:20.000 --> 57:22.000 decaying for at least two months. 57:22.000 --> 57:24.000 Dr. 57:24.000 --> 57:26.000 Articori is survived by his wife Janice. 57:26.000 --> 57:28.000 She was committed to the county 57:28.000 --> 57:30.000 asylum for the insane late this 57:30.000 --> 57:32.000 afternoon. Burial of 57:32.000 --> 57:34.000 Dr. Articori and his son will 57:34.000 --> 57:36.000 be at the Mount of Olives Cemetery. 57:36.000 --> 57:54.000 Music 57:54.000 --> 57:56.000 For a superb performance as Dr. 57:56.000 --> 57:58.000 Articori, our appreciation and thanks 57:58.000 --> 58:00.000 to John McIntyre. 58:00.000 --> 58:02.000 Tell me something. If 58:02.000 --> 58:04.000 you were going to make a room in your home 58:04.000 --> 58:06.000 available for renting, would you 58:06.000 --> 58:08.000 accept this man? 58:08.000 --> 58:10.000 He's personable in manner and appearance 58:10.000 --> 58:12.000 and he pays well. He's alone, 58:12.000 --> 58:14.000 no wife, no children, no pets. 58:14.000 --> 58:16.000 He owns a Bible, reads it, 58:16.000 --> 58:18.000 and quotes from it freely. 58:18.000 --> 58:20.000 He asks only to live undisturbed 58:20.000 --> 58:22.000 in a quiet room. 58:22.000 --> 58:24.000 There, I think that's about all. No. 58:24.000 --> 58:26.000 There is one thing more. 58:26.000 --> 58:28.000 He has one abiding dislike. 58:28.000 --> 58:30.000 He can't stand sin. 58:30.000 --> 58:32.000 Well, how about it? 58:32.000 --> 58:34.000 Would you rent him a room? 58:34.000 --> 58:36.000 I suggest you wait to answer. 58:36.000 --> 58:38.000 Yes, I strongly suggest you wait until 58:38.000 --> 58:40.000 next week when I appear at 58:40.000 --> 58:42.000 the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bunting 58:42.000 --> 58:44.000 as the lodger 58:44.000 --> 58:46.000 from the famous novel by 58:46.000 --> 58:48.000 Mary Bellac-Lounds. 58:48.000 --> 58:50.000 Mr. Montgomery may currently be seen in the 58:50.000 --> 58:52.000 Universal International Production Ride the Pink Horse. 58:52.000 --> 58:54.000 John McIntyre may soon be seen in the 20th Century 58:54.000 --> 58:56.000 Fox Production Northside 777. 58:56.000 --> 58:58.000 Donovan's Brain by 58:58.000 --> 59:00.000 Kurtziad Mack was adapted for suspense 59:00.000 --> 59:02.000 by Robert L. Richardson was produced, edited, 59:02.000 --> 59:04.000 and directed by William Spear. 59:04.000 --> 59:06.000 Lud Gluskin is our musical director and conductor 59:06.000 --> 59:08.000 and Lucian Morrowak composes the original scores. 59:08.000 --> 59:10.000 Next week, here, Robert Montgomery 59:10.000 --> 59:12.000 as the lodger on Radio's outstanding 59:12.000 --> 59:14.000 Theatre of Thrills, 59:14.000 --> 59:16.000 one hour of... 59:16.000 --> 59:18.000 suspense! 59:18.000 --> 59:30.000 Here to be asked, the Columbia Broadcasting System.