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If friends are follow you home
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Good morning. Can I help you?
Yes, I a... We are looking for the rental agent. We have an apointment.
I just give him a little buzz.
Do you use that?
No. Never had it out of the holster.
A rival company has 'em, so we gotta have 'em.
Just an advertising gimmick.
Mr. Merrick is coming.
Welcome to Starliner Towers.
- And you are? - Kresimer and Benda Sviben.
Yes, Mr. and Ms. Sviben. Sorry to keep you waiting
Now, are we talking about one or two bedrooms?
I assume we're not talking about bachelors, I see
Now, Brenda
you take a look at this one...
and tell me if it doesn't suit you down to the ground.
This is the one with the big view. The panoramic view.
Do you say something, Nick?
No.
Breakfast is just about ready
Can I call you at the office?
What do you want to call me?
I don't know.
I just though I might like to call you.
I not gonna be at the office. Except to sign in.
I got claims to check out.
Garages and more garages.
We're going up.
Oh, well. I'll just take a little ride
As I was saying...
...we have quite an exciting variety of completely furnished...
...aparments ready to live.
You can always move this afternoon. If you want it.
Notice how the entranceways to all the apartments...
Annabelle, this is Nick.
Are you in the bedroom?
Is probably nothing at all.
Actually is probably some form of fatty cyst...
...or something like that. That could be easily...
...remove at the doctor's office
Hasn't he seen a doctor?
He hates doctors. Doctors and lawyers.
He never goes to doctors.
Look, why don't you do this? Why don't you go down to the clinic?
And see that nice doctor. What's his name?
...St. Luc?
Go down to the clinic and explain to him that Nick is very ill
...and he has to stay in bed. Ask him to come and see him
When he's there. They can fight it out between 'em
- He'd be really mad. - So what?
Yo can relax and find out what's wrong with him
Let him be the uptight one, for a change, really
This is ridiculous.
OK.
Bravo!
Nicholas, I didn't expect you in today.
I'd been telling everyone to call back tomorrow.
It was Dr. Hobbes who paid the rent.
But actually was her name that appear on the residency list
...and on the intercom board
Annabelle Brown.
A civilize young lady.
Never complain of anything.
And that was her? Annabelle Brown?
- Far as I know - Is that the man who called you up here?
Yes, Dr. Roger St. Luc.
He's the director of our little medical clinic here.
- Medical clinic? - Yes. We're on an island, you see?
We have to be as selfsupported as possible.
I see.
Let's have a talk with the doctor.
Dr. St. Luc?
Dr. St. Luc.
Inspector sargent Heller, homicide.
I'd like to ask you a few questions.
- You're the one who found the bodies? - Yes.
Did you touch anything or move anything before we got here?
I removed some surgical tape from her lips and examined inside of her mouth
I gave the tape to a detective... The man over there...
- And I look at the anomaly very quickly. - The department will be very bitchy about that.
You knew these people?
I knew the man, Emil Hobbes...
...he's a doctor and a professor at the university.
I saw the girl around the building
...but I didn't know her. She never came to the clinic.
So you came to visit this Hobbes and you fund them like that?
No. I haven't seen Dr. Hobbes since I was in medical school
He taught me. He was my professor in urology and venereology
He also conducted some seminars in psychopharmacology.
And that's about it.
I'd no idea he'd ever set foot in Starliner Towers 'til today.
So what brought you up here?
Well, he called me at six o'clock this morning.
Hobbes called me
I thought I was dreaming.
I haven't heard his voice for so long. He said "meet me at apartment 15 now".
-11. - Thank you.
"At noon we go out for lunch. It's time you furthered your education"
That's it
- How did he sound? Depressed? Nervous?
He sounded fine
1511.
No, you got the wrong man. Just a moment please
Dr. St. Luc. It's for you
Somebody wanting to know why didn't you turn up for lunch.
This is not the kind of lunch Hobbes had in mind for us
...but is all I got.
Ain't beautiful?
This is Hobbes and I project.
What we try to find...
...was an alternative to organs transplant
I keeping you up? You bored right?
To you organs transplant is just yesterday's kishkas, right?
Look. You got... You got men, right?
And you got parasites that live in, on and around men. Rigth?
So...
Why not... Why not breed a parasite that can do something useful, eh?
A parasite that can take over the function of a human organ
For example...
...we breed a parasite and implant him in the human abdominal cavity
...that hooks in the circulatory system
...and filters the blood like a kidney does
If it takes a little blood for itself once a while
What do you care?
I mean you have enough. You can afford to be generous!
- Are you following me? - I am, I am
OK, look. You have a guy with a bad kidney. Right?
...now you put the bug in. The bug goes to work on the kidney
...dissolves it, so the body assimilate it
Now, what you got?
You got a perfectly good parasite where you used to have a rotten kidney
Right?
I know you're gonna say it's crazy
Actually I gonna ask you if you have mustard
C'mon. C'mon Rog, really
- What do you think? - It's just crazy.
It's crazy? But who cares?
Hobbes was a lousy teacher
We have to face the facts he was a lousy teacher
He was dull... academic... Just plain lousy
But he had a genius for one thing...
That was getting grants
He could raised money for crazy projects
For example, who do you think is paying the rent of this place?
- Not you. - Nope.
The Nothern Hemisphere Organ Transplant Society
and that's for something that's supposed to put 'em outta business
Here is a partial list...
of some of their other recent projects...
...that we are underwriting but with their money
Smart?
Ashen and Graunt, Insurance Appraisals.
Mr. Tudor?
One moment, please. I'll buzz him
Nicholas? There's a call for you.
Nicholas? It's that man whose Lamborghini caught fire on St. Catherine.
He's very angry
Nicholas?
What's wrong?
We're going to get you to a hospital. It's probably an ulcer.
- I'm going home for the day - But Nicholas...
I'm all right, Mona.
- Call me a cab... Now - All right, Nicholas.
All right
How did Hobbes know this girl?
Who is she?
Some chick he met when he lecturing at her girl's school
And what happened?
The caught him examining her titties for breast cancer
...in the faculty lounge.
She was 12 years old
Think about crazy
He used to bring her up here once in a while
I'll never understand how he could do waht he did to her
Well...
I am... I think I have to go back
Open up the store...
It's been great to see you.
Rog?
you'll think of what I just talked to you about...
...about joining me in this
Sure
Sure. See ya
- Keep in contact - All right
How about the pickle?
It's used!
Good afternoon, Mr. Tudor.
Yes, the aging process is in any way reversible
I don't think for a moment that it is
...but might be stoppable and that's where mega vitamins come in
Ms. Tudor? Are you ready to go in
- Yes. Excuse me, Brad - Sure
- Be with you in a minute - Right
Well, I don't see any...
...any change in this company report done on your husband last year
I see too many scargots...
and too many crepes with vanilla icecream and strawberries
But I don't see chance of a cancer developing that fast
Not the way you've described it to me
I think it might be swollen glands or something
- Can you come up and take a look at him? - That's what I'm here for
I don't think I can do it until 9'30...
- ...10 o'clock? That would be OK? - That's perfect
- Not too late? - No, that's fine
- Thank you so much, doctor - Don't worry
OK
Ms. Ementhal is ready, doctor
Tell Ms. Ementhal, I'll be right there with her, will you?
- You see how beautiful the grass is? - Yes, yes.
I take a walk here every day
Good heavens! Look!
Poor birdie
Crap! They're always crashing into tall buildings
- The windows fool them, you know - Come along, Olive.
- I'ts such a shame - Come on, dear
The poor little thing!
Maybe it's only hurt
Don't be silly, dear. It's in heaven now, whatever it is
Now come along and get you tucked up in the bed before the color TV
You know what a restless night you have...
Kriedler seems to think that the mega-vitamin therapy...
...is the answer to the question of aging
That's not to suggest that the aging process is in any way reversible...
Patient's ready, Brad
OK. Bye
You just take your shirt off. The doctor will be here to see you in a minute, OK?
You don't have to go. I'm not shy
Don't be a tease, Brad
- I'm still working, you know. - Yes, I know.
All right
You look very good. Just lay here.
We'll see what the problem is
Better take it easy. There's a lot of pressure in there
Do you want me to breathe deeply?
Just breathe normal
Good shape for an old man, eh?
Yes
...better than me, man. Better than me
Mr. Parkins, I understand that you caught these lumps from a young lady
It's that right?
- What makes you think that? - She had some just like 'em
Right here. Near her belly button
You could push 'em around too
I thought they were kinda sexy, myself
- Did she live in the Starliner Towers? - Yeah. In the 1511.
- Was her name Annabelle Brown? - Yeah. That's the one
OK, I tell you what...
Put your clothes on
I'm going to send you to a hospital to take a few X-rays
I want to find out what's hiding inside you
Go to this address
- Gonna cut me open? - I don't want you to think that
I'm sure it's probably nothing
Bye
Hi
Want a drink?
No thanks. I just wanted to tell you that...
...Dr. St. Luc is coming up to see Nick about 10
That's terrific!
Was he nice to you?
Yes
After you find out that there's nothing that a vacation won't cure
...come and join me for dinner
I've ordered from Phillipe's
I'm sure your enjoy it. Come and join me.
I loath to eat alone. I makes me feel so fat and lonely
I always order for two
OK. See you.
Nick?
Are you at home?
C'mon sweetheart. We'll take you into bed
You'll be right.
C'mon
Lean on me
Come on
You go there and I'll go here
- Hello, hello! - Hello, hello!
- Nobody at home - Forget it
I wonder why is nobody at home today.
Maybe in that apartment
Vamos.
It's scary!
Is it sickening? What is it?
Just get out! Let's get outta here
Come here, boy. Here, boy, here.
Come on, buddy.
Come on, fella.
You and me...
You and me, we're gonna be friends
Good friends
Attaboy
Nick? Do you call me?
Do you say something?
How are you feeling?
Does your stomach hurt?
- Can I feel those bumpson your tum? - Go away
Leave me alone
Why won't you let me help you?
Time is 7 o'clock
This is John Woodhouse...
...with the radio news, sports and weather
A bizarre murder has Montreal police baffled today...
...as they attemp to untangle events leading to discover of...
...two bodies in the Starliner apartments complex, early this afternoon
The body of a 68 years old retired professor of medicine...
...was found lying in a pool of blood...
...by an unidentified former student
The professor aparently commited suicide...
...by cutting himself with a scalpel...
...after performing an as yet unexplained operation...
...on an 19 year old woman.
The woman's nude body...
...was found on a dinning room table. Badly mutilated...
Police are not releasing any names...
...pending notification to next of kin
On the labor front, the steel workers strike...
...has the municipal officials on the defensive.
Spokeman for the steel workers union is asking for a 20%...
Goverment official said the negotiation with the union will continue...
...until an agreement is reached
I had those things you asked for...
The files on Horsefield, Velakofsky...
...Swinburn and Brown.
- And those papers published by Hobbes - Oh, yeah.
Those are from the American Journal of Psychiatry.
- All of this - Yes, this is Hobbes' paper
As a added extra, this is something I compiled before your time here
I thought they might interest you
And now how about a kiss?
- Eh, how about a kiss? - Sure
This is the best thing I had in all day How about another kiss?
- There isn't more people on the list? - No, Dotty's the last
- Yeah? - Rog? I'ts me, Rollo.
Rollo, it's interesting that you called... I just...
...look out at this material you did with Hobbes
Interesting
That's very flatter but I don't think you'll find much real meat in them
No? How come?
Well, you know, I always thought Hobbes was funny...
I told you that before. I didn't really know just how funny he was. Until now
See... when he kicked off...
...they sent all his personal stuff. After all, I'm Hobbes partner, right?
Anyway, I've been going through his papers
...and what the add up to is this...
Hobbes was shafting us all!
me, the university, the foundations, the council, everybody!
I don't quite get it!
Hobbes believes the man is an animal...
...that thinks too much
...an over rational animal that has lost touch with his body and his instincts
In other words, too much brain and not enough guts
What he came up with to help our guts was a parasite...
...a combination of aphrodisiac and veneral disease...
it would hopefully turn the world into a beautiful mindless orgy
That sounds crazy to me
The important thing to you Roger is this...
You know, Annabelle. He was using her as a guinea pig
- Guinea pig? - He implanted her with a parasite
Once it took over, aparently she went berserk
I guess Hobbes wasn't ready for that...
So he just had to kill her
What was the point?
The point was that he wasn't trying to burn her...
- He wans't? - No
He was trying to burn the thigs. All of them!
- Well, he didn't make it - What?
Maybe Hobbes didn't know it
but Annabelle Brown was a pretty popular girl around Starliner Towers
I got three men here, maybe four, who're hosting large...
...free-moving, apparently pathogenic, abdominal growths
...that nobody I've tried can identify
I like to come over and have look at one of those guys
Why don't you?
I gonna meet on of them at ten
guy's name is Tudor.
he's on the directory there
You can just a meet me at the apartment
Yeah, look. I'll be right over
I don't want to panic you or anything
...the way Hobbes design those things...
is they get out of hand pretty fast
So you gotta be careful, I mean...
...before you have any chance to know what's happening to you
Once they start pumping that juice into the blood... I don't know
If you see anybody doing anything compulsive
I mean, any kind of bizarre sexual things...
Once I can get there, there's a lotta things we can use
Maybe we can start with a basic tropical kit and work out from there
I'll bring the bag full over
The point is you've to get at them fast
Listen, I'm gonna stay
I've a meeting with Rollo a Tudor's apartment
Well, why don't you come to my place and have something to eat when you finished
- It might be very late... - Doesn't matter to me how late it is
I'll keep it warm
Is anything wrong with the Hobbes thing?
- Yeah, but nothing I can`t handle - Well, how about supper at my place?
- OK, but late - OK, see you later
Delivery for 416 from Phillipe's restaurant.
I'm hungry!
I'm hungry for love!
What do you think?
It's lovely
Yes?
Can I help you?
Yes
You can help me
Hold it! Hold it!
What? What's wrong?
This man... I think I recognize him...
I think he lives in the apartments
He just attacks me for no reason at all!
- I just opened the door... - All right!
I just fixing you dinner and he just grab me...
...he just tried to kiss me!
- Where is he? - I don't know!
I think I killed him. I stabbed him with something and he fell
Listen to me. Stay here and I'll go and check it out
All right? Just stay here!
I not gonna stay but myself!
- I'm going with you - Listen to me
It's not safe for you. It could be dangerous
Just stay here. I'll be right back, OK?
I'm sorry...
I didn't mean to startle you
I just didn't want your dinner burned
- Quite strange! - Yes
What it is?
Get out!
Get it off me!
Get out!
I want you to describe him to the doorman
Maybe he knows where he lives or what he be up to
- How do you feel? - OK
Hey doctor! Please, help us!
- What happened? - Please, pardon me. I'm Maurice Guilbaull.
I am a resident here
We're walking in the hallway and my wife was attacked by this thing
- Where is this thing? - I hit it. I hit it
I hit it with the cane down to the garbage
This is a nurse. This is nurse Forsythe
- What? - She is a nurse!
ou take them back to their apartment
Treat her for secon-degree burns. It'll have to do for now
What's your number? What is the number of your apartment?
Yes. We live on 703.
703, yes
OK. I'll meet you back there. Don't leave until I get there
Lock the door adn don't let anyone in except me. OK?
- But where do you go? - Down to the garbage
No, dear. Is not our floor
- It's all right dear - Ms. Guibaull, do you feel any better?
- Does it hurt, cherie? - A little
Janine
Nick? Are you up?
Hello, darling
I feel wonderful
Come here. Come and join me on the bed
You're absolutely beautiful
Your eyes...
Your mouth...
You're the most sexy thing alive
Do you want to make love?
Nick, you're so strange
You'll make love to me, won't you Janine?
You're my wife
You start
I think I've forgotten how to do
- Nick, I can't take this - Janine.
You're so beautiful
Make love to me, Janine
You're my wife
No, no, Nick, stop!
Please, stop!
Make love to me Make love to me
I want able to see you when we make love
I want to put my contacts in. Is it OK? Is that OK?
Nick, I'm going to the bathroom to put my contacts in
Nick, I'm here
Betts
What happen?
I'm gonna call the police
She's calling the police
She's calling the police!
- Por qoui? - Je ne sais pas
- ce qui se pá? - Elle ne m'a pas dit!
Nurse, come back! My wife needs you!
Roger!
Where are you?
You look awful! What happened?
Never mind how awful I look
This is what I want you to do
I want you to call the police. You got that?
Call 'em and tell 'em to head to the medical center. We needs help
- The police? - Listen to me!
Tell 'em I need help. And I need it fast!
All right. Is OK.
- Yes? Who is there? - Mr. Guilbaull.
- Who is this? - Dr. St. Luc.
- I need to talk to the nurse - But the nurse... she went away
I think she went to look for you, doctor
- You stay where you are - Stay where we are?
- You understand? Stay where you are! - OK, OK, good bye.
Who are they?
My God!
Go away! Leave us alone!
Forsythe! Where are you?
Hold on. I wanna try crash the door
Dr. St. Luc?
Hello. There he is!
Good evening, Mr. Wolfe, Ms. Lewis.
Mr. Merrick, why don't you do something with all that noise?
We like parties, but this is ridiculous!
Well, there might be a connection...
It's about your locker...
I'm afraid somebody broke into it, early this evening
Oh, no! What a drag!
- Are you serious? - I'm afraid so
I have some of the things they threw around in my office
...and if you care to come and identify them
C'mon. Let me get out!
Baby...
Do I feel good to you?
Yes
Yes, very good
Do you know what I want?
I want you to make love with me
Make love to me
- What? - Make love to me
- You can't... - Make love to me
You can't really be saying that!
Let's kiss
Make love to me, Janine.
Make love to me
Let's kiss and make up. Let's kiss!
Rollo and the police will be here by now...
All we have to do is avoid those pleople until they find us
...or we find them
Dr. St. Luc?
Roger?
It's Dr. Linsky here
Roger, Rollo here for the consultation we talked about
Roger?
Rog?
Mr. Tudor?
Mr. Tudor, I'm Dr. Linsky.
Alright
I take a little look here
Help, Roger!
Bring it out! Is burning!
I'm burning!
No
- Oh, take it all! - Give it away!
Get off me!
No, no, no!
Tudor! Tudor! Help!
Tudor!
Roger I had a very disturbing dream last night
In this dream...
I found mysefl making love to a strange man
Only I'm having trouble, you see...
because he's old...
...and dying...
...and he smells bad and I find him repulsive
But then, he tells me that...
...everything is erotic
...that everything is sexual...
You know what I mean?
He tells me that even old flesh is erotic flesh
...that disease is the love of two kinds of creatures for each other
Even dying...
...is an act of erotism...
That talking is sexual...
That breathing is sexual...
That even to physically exist is sexual
And I believe him...
...and we make love beautifully
Let's go to swimming pool
Hey, come on out
Don't you wanna go to the party?
Come on out, man
Have you met my daughter Erica?
She's a beautiful girl. Come here, Erica
I think you really like my daughter Erica
The time is 5:26 a.m.
This is Gerald Keys with the Media Sculp sunrise news bulletin
There is still no confirmation by Montreal City Police
concerning alledged reports of a city wide plague of violent sexual assaults
The assaults...
...believed to have originated in the vicinity of Starliner Island...
...began late last night
...and spread with increasing frecuency this morning
Reports of the attacks had been termed irresponsible and histerical
...by a Montreal City Police spokesman
Stay tuned for further detail, on Media Sculp news at 6.00