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.
Well, I'm sure the institute could arrange for you to meet someone on our staff. If you'll just uh, leave your...
Oh, really please, Doctor, that would be like going to Michelangelo and then ending up with one of his apprentices.
Some of our apprentices are really quite good.
But they're not you, and I really do need the best. Would it help if I informed you that I'm a physician?
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.
Doctor, if I could just...
If you have a severe personal problem then surely you can appreciate it when someone else has one.
Doctor, if you only knew how hard it was for me to get to Hawaii to see you.
Sorry. [getting into her car] Look, I'll talk to Dr. Maxwell myself. He'll be expecting you.
Doctor, please. If you could just take a little time to understand my problem.
Time is the one thing I don't have. I'm really very sorry.
In your case, would you say that there's a major failure of the cell tissue to regenerate itself?
[pause]
I um... I was involved with advanced genetic research on related deceases at the Culver Institute in California.
At Culver? Did you work with David Banner?
Why did he suddenly abandon his research on diseases such as mine?
His wife died... And after that his work... took on other priorities.
What a shame. His work in the area of my disease was brilliant, it was pioneering.
[pause]
David Banner was killed in a lab fire.
[realising] Why haven't you told people you're alive?
Have you read much of Robert Louis Stevenson?
[looking at a picture of the Hulk] Oh my God.
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.
[pause. Carol stands]
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.
[smiles] Would you like some help?
[smiles] From David Banner? Of course I would. It doesn't seem quite fair.
Well, maybe if we can make more time for you. There'll be time for me.
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.
I know. That's one of the characteristics of my metamorphosis. My body metabolism works at an incredible rate.
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.
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.
Aren't you forgetting how hazardous it could be if you do try?
Dying is pretty hazardous.
[short pause] Okay. Let's try.
[During hypnosis, David is walking in a desert]
Can you see yourself yet?
Now begin to look for the creature.
[David looks around]
I uh... I don't see him anywhere.
[continues looking around. Notices the Hulk coming up at a far distance]
Good. Now, just stay calm, and let him get closer.
[The Hulk walks toward David]
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 runs away from the Hulk. David gets into a mobile crane with a net. The Hulk walks over. David ejects the net onto the Hulk]
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.
[The Hulk struggling, rips the ropes]
He's breaking the ropes. He's gotten free.
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.
[David awakens]
[During David's hypnosis, the Hulk is trapped struggling in a cage]
These straps of steel are the strongest that can be made. They're ten gauge carbon steel.
It should be too hard for even him. Use the gas tranquilizer.
[David runs over to the tranquilizer. The Hulk is still struggling in the cage. David turns on the gas]
Done it. [He puts on a gas mask] The gas is all around him.
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.
[As the gas is spreading, the Hulk begins pulling the cage bars]
He's doing it... He's... He's doing it. [The Hulk breaks off the bars]
[The Hulk is free]
Trying to make an honest woman out of me?
But it doesn't make sense.
For however long there is.
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?
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."
[pause]
[tearfully] Oh God. I love you, David.
[they embrace]
[During David's hypnosis, the Hulk is trapped pounding in a vault]
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.
I think he's moving the door.
But it's holding. It's still holding.
[David stands smiling, thinking the Hulk is not able to get out. Suddenly the vault door goes down]
No. No, he's gotten out! He's free... again.
[after hypnosis]
But it took him much longer to get free this time, David, believe me. We're making real progress.
BBoy
[walks over to David who is grieving over the death of Carolyn] It's really wrecked. Is your wife here?
[pause]
BBoy
She was a doctor, wasn't she?
BBoy
I want to be a doctor too. When I grow up. [pause] And maybe I can find a cure for whatever made her sick. [pause] I wouldn't be around to try, if she hadn't saved my life. [pause] You weren't married very long, huh?
[pause] Oh it never would have been long enough.
[pause]
BBoy
My grandmother, always says people never die, as long as somebody remembers them.
