Dr. Carolyn Fields quotes from The Incredible Hulk

Dr. Carolyn Fields

At least we never gave up... trying. [with her last strength, she embraces the Hulk] Oh, I'll miss you, David... [dies]

David Banner

Doctor! Dr. Fields!

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Yes.

David Banner

Hi, I'm David Benton. I know that you're not taking anymore patients right now, but I really do need your help. You see, I have a highly unusual neurosynaptic dysfunction, which renders me subject of violent outbursts of anger. Now I've tried... radical radiological and chemotherapeutic treatments, but nothing seems to help. And I uh, I came to you because, well, not only your reputation as a psychiatrist, but also from what I've been reading about your new use of hypnosis in therapy, I really think you could be the answer to my problem.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Well, I'm sure the institute could arrange for you to meet someone on our staff. If you'll just uh, leave your...

David Banner

Oh, really please, Doctor, that would be like going to Michelangelo and then ending up with one of his apprentices.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Some of our apprentices are really quite good.

David Banner

But they're not you, and I really do need the best. Would it help if I informed you that I'm a physician?

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Mr. Benton - Dr. Benton, I've turned over my entire case of patients to my associates. I'm leaving the institute for quite a while.

David Banner

Doctor, if I could just...

Dr. Carolyn Fields

If you have a severe personal problem then surely you can appreciate it when someone else has one.

David Banner

Doctor, if you only knew how hard it was for me to get to Hawaii to see you.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

You swim?

David Banner

Almost, yes.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Sorry. [getting into her car] Look, I'll talk to Dr. Maxwell myself. He'll be expecting you.

David Banner

Doctor, please. If you could just take a little time to understand my problem.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Time is the one thing I don't have. I'm really very sorry.

David Banner

In your case, would you say that there's a major failure of the cell tissue to regenerate itself?

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Yes.

David Banner

Hm.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Excuse me, how do you...

David Banner

I um... I was involved with advanced genetic research on related deceases at the Culver Institute in California.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

At Culver? Did you work with David Banner?

David Banner

Quite closely.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Why did he suddenly abandon his research on diseases such as mine?

David Banner

His wife died... And after that his work... took on other priorities.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

What a shame. His work in the area of my disease was brilliant, it was pioneering.

David Banner

Thank you.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

David Banner was killed in a lab fire.

David Banner

[shakes head] No.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

[realising] Why haven't you told people you're alive?

David Banner

Have you read much of Robert Louis Stevenson?

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Treasure Island?

David Banner

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

[looking at a picture of the Hulk] Oh my God.

David Banner

I've come to you because of your pioneering work in using hypnosis to help physical ailments. I think that hypnotherapy could help me control that.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

I can't help you, David. Not that my hypnotherapy couldn't help you, it might. The disease I have is terminal. The latest test results give me six to eight weeks to live. That's all. I have to devote my entire energy to try to egress the progression of this disease. I'm using my own hypnosis on myself to try to consciously control my own physiognomy. That's why I left the institute, my patients, why I was under hypnosis tonight. Why I have to spend every moment concentrating on me. [pause] Sounds pretty selfish, doesn't it? But it's... it's my life.

David Banner

[smiles] Would you like some help?

Dr. Carolyn Fields

[smiles] From David Banner? Of course I would. It doesn't seem quite fair.

David Banner

Well, maybe if we can make more time for you. There'll be time for me.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

I couldn't believe it was happening. It was the most incredible thing I've ever witnessed. David, your arm is almost healed. Show me your left arm, it got cut when you crashed through the door. [looks at the cut on his arm] It's half healed.

David Banner

I know. That's one of the characteristics of my metamorphosis. My body metabolism works at an incredible rate.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

With your cells regenerating themselves far more quickly than normal? [David nods] David, my disease is one of cellular degeneration. If we were somehow able to take some of the highly active muscle from the creature, and incubate a culture, I might be able to use it to stimulate my own cellular system and retire the growth of my disease.

David Banner

Well...

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Oh, I think it could work, David. It's worth a try. If I could help you to control the creature, I might be able to get a tissue sample. Maybe we'd both win.

David Banner

Aren't you forgetting how hazardous it could be if you do try?

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Dying is pretty hazardous.

David Banner

[short pause] Okay. Let's try.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Can you see yourself yet?

David Banner

Yes, now I can.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Now begin to look for the creature.

David Banner

I uh... I don't see him anywhere.

David Banner

I can see him now.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Good. Now, just stay calm, and let him get closer.

David Banner

He's getting closer.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

That's what we want him to do. Just concentrate on staying calm, and doing what we planned. [The Hulk gets closer] When he gets close enough.

David Banner

Now?

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Go ahead.

David Banner

I've got the net on him.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Good. Now, the more he struggles, the more entangled he'll become. The ropes are very very strong. These are strongest ropes that can be made.

David Banner

He's breaking the ropes. He's gotten free.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

That's all right. He's going to go away now. The next time you try, you'll be more successful, and keep him contained longer until very soon we finally find a cage that will allow you to control him permanently. Now, I'm going to count backwards from five to one. And you're gonna slowly awaken, refreshed and relaxed. Five, four, three, two, one.

Jack McGee

Dr. Fields?

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Yeah.

Jack McGee

I'm Jack McGee from the National Register. I'm checking some stories that a huge hulking creature was seen in this area.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

I'm sorry, I can't help you.

Jack McGee

My paper is now offering ten thousand dollars for any information leading to its capture.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

I can't help you.

Jack McGee

Well, in case you should catch a glimpse of it. [hands out a business card] That's where you could reach me.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

These straps of steel are the strongest that can be made. They're ten gauge carbon steel.

David Banner

He's trying to bend it.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

It should be too hard for even him. Use the gas tranquilizer.

David Banner

Done it. [He puts on a gas mask] The gas is all around him.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

The gas is zapping some of his strength. The task is much more difficult for him now. Much more difficult than with a rope net.

David Banner

He's doing it... He's... He's doing it. [The Hulk breaks off the bars]

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Only with great effort.

David Banner

He's free!

David Banner

Marry me.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

Trying to make an honest woman out of me?

David Banner

Marry me.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

A touching gesture.

David Banner

It's not a gesture.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

But it doesn't make sense.

David Banner

It'll make me happy.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

For how long?

David Banner

For however long there is.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

[short pause] Why?

David Banner

I once heard a story about a man being chased by a tiger. He came to a cliff. He fell. But he grabbed a branch, and he just hung there just out of reach of the tiger. And he looked down, and you know what he saw?

Dr. Carolyn Fields

No.

David Banner

Another tiger waiting for him to drop. And then he felt that the branch he was clinging to was coming out of the cliff by the roots. Now, while all this was happening, he noticed something. He noticed growing in the cliff beside him, a single wild strawberry. And with his free hand, he reached out and picked it, and he ate it. And he thought to himself: "What a wonderful strawberry."

Dr. Carolyn Fields

[tearfully] Oh God. I love you, David.

David Banner

I love you, Carolyn.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

The vault is holding in spite of his best efforts. You can hear him pounding furiously on the inside of the vault, but he can't get out. He can't get out. We're going to contain him within your mind, and then only allow the metamorphosis to occur under controlled circumstances, so that we can get the tissue sample we need. We are going to contain him.

David Banner

I think he's moving the door.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

But it's holding. It's still holding.

David Banner

No. No, he's gotten out! He's free... again.

Dr. Carolyn Fields

But it took him much longer to get free this time, David, believe me. We're making real progress.