I've seen some die from a simple voodoo hex.
If you'd tell me where she is, I might be able to save her.
It's too late.
Dr. Renee must die!
Summon the spirits and cast a spell upon me now!
(SCREAMS)
NARRATOR: Dr. David Banner, physician, scientist.
Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have.
Then, an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his body chemistry.
And now, when David Banner grows angry or outraged,
a startling metamorphosis occurs.
(ROARS)
The creature is driven by rage
and pursued by an investigative reporter.
Mr. McGee, don't make me angry.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
The creature is wanted for a murder he didn't commit.
David Banner is believed to be dead.
And he must let the world think that he is dead
until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.
(ROARS)
(BAND PLAYING)
DENISE: I had no one else to turn to.
The curse will change him.
Please, Babalao, just make him stop.
Don't hurt him or nothing.
BABALAO: Silence.
Did he, Denise?
Yet you say he takes advantage.
You are his servant, Denise.
Does it make you a slave to his every desire?
Indeed. That is why you come to me, the Babalao.
Because I have the magical powers.
I have the gris-gris, and only I can drive away the evil in his heart.
Write it, Denise, his name.
Give it to me, child.
(CHANTING)
You will call me, Denise,
the moment before your next rendezvous with Mr. Dufarge.
And with this mojo, the Babalao will protect you.
And I will chant so all spirits can hear.
And you shall be freed from his every desire forever.
The magic of the Babalao transcends the ages.
BABALAO: I am the only one that stands between you and Papa Labas,
the spirit of death,
the devil himself,
and the evil he casts on all nonbelievers.
Yes, Babalao.
Yes, Babalao. I will always have faith in your powers.
Papa Labas, please forgive me. It's all I got.
LUKE: 50 bucks? Bet it took her a month to save that up.
Looks like we caught us another fish.
Hooked and ready to clean.
Only this time, we got ourselves a whale.
A maid for the honorable Mr. And Mrs. Dufarge.
Dufarge.
So you better keep your camera ready and loaded.
Couple of photos, catch old Dufarge with that cute little maid.
There's no telling how much he'll pay us for those negatives.
I got to hand it to you, Tony.
Tony?
I told you the day we left the slammer, man,
that I've changed my name to Antoine Moray, the all-powerful Babalao.
Look, I may do your leg work, Antoine,
but I don't believe that voodoo stuff of yours any more than you do.
Does it matter? As long as people like Denise
keep faith and bring us business, my voodoo works.
Some think it don't.
Either you're losing your touch,
or that lady doctor is changing their minds.
You mean the DuBois Clinic?
Old lady Selene's there right now with her grandson, getting a second opinion.
Oh, and the rest of the flock will be right behind her.
(SIGHS)
The Babalao has to work some powerful magic,
some gris-gris.
(SIGHS)
That's your job.
My pleasure.
Only the Doc's not alone anymore.
She's got a guy helping her out.
You mean another doctor?
A nurse.
Oh, really?
How much help do you think that doctor will get
from a man who likes to play nurse?
(LAUGHING)
(RENEE CHANTING)
The power of good loa has triumphed again.
Now, Louie, we've scared away the evil spirits.
This may sting a little.
But I want you to watch David and squeeze his hand tight.
Here you go, my friend.
(WINCING)
There you go, now. It's all over.
It hurt.
I'm sure it did,
but I think you're a very brave young man.
Yes, he is. And the spirits know that, Louie.
They'll remove the curse left by the rat that bit you.
He can rest for a few minutes in the lobby.
Let my magical gris-gris take effect.
We'll prepare a special mojo to protect him through the night.
Only until tomorrow.
Now you understand, Selene,
it's very important for Louie that you both come back here tomorrow.
Yes, Mambo Renee.
All right.
Atta boy.
There you go.
David.
Fill this for me, would you?
Just get some spices from the backroom, anything leafy.
Anything?
All right, David. I saw the look you gave me in there.
Now, you're new around here,
and the way I practice medicine might seem a little unusual.
Medicine?
You told Louie voodoo was curing his rabies.
Because they believe in that.
Around here, for blacks and whites alike, voodoo is a way of life.
I use it to attract business,
like a pediatrician puts on a clown suit
to make the kids feel more comfortable.
I'm doing the same thing, David.
Only it's a different costume.
Well, don't you think that by comforting them with myth and superstition
you're keeping them from the truth?
Look. I grew up around here.
I've lived in this neighborhood all my life.
I've seen people die from a simple voodoo hex.
Well, wouldn't you call that psychosomatic?
As a doctor, yes.
But tell that to them and we'll never see another patient.
Don't you understand, David? Their belief is that strong.
Now I may do some things that seem dishonest,
but I've got to win their belief, whatever it takes,
or they'll go elsewhere for treatment.
And then more will die, just like Louie's brother, Paul,
under the hand of the Babalao.
The Babalao?
The Babalao is a voodoo priest
with legendary powers.
Now when Paul died of a rat bite, the Babalao told Selene
that her grandson was cursed with an evil loa.
Loa?
Spirits, either good or bad.
Selene believes that we put loa in that syringe, not vaccine.
What difference does it make if it saves Louie's life?
Now they will believe in me, David, not the Babalao.
And then I'll teach them the truth.
You understand?
Yes, I think I do.
I'll help you as much as I can.
Okay.
Spices.
Well, you're shaking, old woman.
Of course, I can't say as I blame you.
If I were you, I'd be halfway to Arkansas.
We ain't done nothing.
Nothing wrong.
Now let us be.
Well, now, take it easy.
I'm not gonna hurt you. I came to help you out.
Like the way you helped Paul?
We don't need your help.
Dr. Renee, she gonna save Louie.
Our trouble is over.
No, you got that backwards.
When you cross the Babalao, your trouble's just begun.
I mean, you coming here, you losing the faith.
You know, the Babalao got so upset he had to call the Papa Labas,
the devil himself.
And what he said, you don't even want to hear.
Well, that don't matter to us.
Mambo Renee, she got powerful loa, good medicine.
Yeah. And she scared off the evil spirits.
Did she?
Is that a little fairytale she was telling you?
You see, Renee ain't no mambo.
Renee is a medicine doctor.
She's got less power in her whole clinic
than the Babalao's got in his little finger.
Louie.
The doctor wanted you to have this mojo.
And make sure you come back tomorrow, okay?
See you then.
Look, Tony, pardon me, Antoine or whatever your name is, you better listen.
If we don't knock off that lady doctor, she'll ruin us, man.
Knock her off?
I know that she's a thorn, Luke, but we have to be real careful.
Unless you want a murder charge all to yourself.
Thanks, buddy.
We could scare her off, except there's that nurse.
What if he's not as soft as we think he is?
Doesn't matter.
The powers of the Babalao have no boundaries.
No one is beyond my control.
Hey, Tony, you're talking to me, huh? So cut out the voodoo.
(LAUGHING) Not now, Luke.
Not when we can really use it.
I don't get it.
I didn't think you would.
But the patients at the clinic will.
And the evil powers of Papa Labas will take the rap for the both of us.
The good doctor and her nurse won't know what hit them.
(LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY)
If you say so.
Lettuce, cucumbers, you've got the celery.
Yeah, I have the onions and the asparagus.
Oh, mandrake.
Mandrake is poison.
In the salad, yes. But in the mojo...
I know, don't tell me. It cures the plague.
I think between the two of us, we have it all.
Well, if we don't, let's just pretend,
'cause I'd hate to brave that crowd again.
You live here long enough, you know that around Mardi Gras everybody goes bonkers.
Yes, I've noticed.
I saw them, too, David.
There were six others watching us along the way.
But why should they be frightened of us?
Every time we looked in their direction, they'd run and hide.
They're believers. But not in my medicine.
Mmm-hmm.
It's the Babalao, isn't it? Mmm-hmm.
All right, Renee, tell me what's going on.
A war. Hmm?
Battle of magic.
RENEE: The best collection of magic tricks south of the Mason-Dixon.
Fighting voodoo with voodoo?
How else?
When Selene came in here,
it was the best thing that ever happened for the clinic and for Louie.
But not for the Babalao.
For him to keep in business, he has got to prove to them
that his magic is stronger than mine.
But what if the Babalao is not just using magic?
Suppose he's dangerous. Have you told the police?
Why? What would they charge him with?
Practicing medicine without a license.
But he's not.
He's practicing voodoo, a religion that is protected by the Constitution.
What about your patients?
Is your magic going to protect them from the Babalao?
They think it will.
Until they start believing in medicine,
I am going to fight the Babalao with every trick in the closet.
And I'll win.
Renee, you really think it's going to be that easy?
It is if you cheat.
A little tetanus here, antibiotic there.
A little polio vaccine.
Mmm.
Well, let's see what happens.
It's 10:00. Time for loa.
Loa?
Spirits.
Good kind, David.
We can't keep them waiting, can we?
No.
(CROWD MURMURING)
DAVID: Renee!
Watch it.
(CROWD MURMURING)
The Babalao has sent a message,
but the loa have not come to deliver it.
They have fled in fear
because they know Dr. Renee is more powerful than he is.
(CROWD GASPING)
Now you have seen the magic of my gris-gris.
The Babalao has failed.
He is weak.
He can no longer heal you.
My clinic is open.
Who will be the first?
(MURMURING)
We be, Mambo.
(CROWD MURMURING)
We believe in you.
(EXCLAIMS)
(SIGHS)
(COUGHS)
You all right?
Louisiana hot sauce.
Well, you said you'd do anything.
(LAUGHING) Almost.
Dear doctor, heal thyself.
Oh.
It's gonna hurt again.
Hey, how long have you had that?
Huh?
That quarter in your ear. How long have you had that?
There's no quarter.
Sure there is. Watch. See?
Watch my hands. You see that? See? Got your eyes on it?
Watch very carefully now. Okay.
(CHANTS)
Right there, huh?
Now I think you ought to keep that quarter.
Since I found it in your ear, it must be yours.
Now how about your shirt, huh? Okay, my friend?
Okay.
That's my boy. Thank you.
Okay, you want to lie down?
And I'll take your hand, okay?
RENEE: David, please tell the other patients we'll be with them soon.
(BAND PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC)
(TRAM BELL DINGING)
Hi, Father!
That's a father? You mean a priest?
Yes, that's Father Belmondo.
Well, he sure doesn't look like one.
Well, that's 'cause he has that costume.
Excuse me.
Even you'd probably act a little funny if you had one of those costumes on.
Yeah, I think I would.
Look, would you like some cotton candy?
Oh, sure.
Why don't you stay here, and I'll find my way through all this and get it for you.
Okay. Okay?
Excuse me.
Two of those, please.
(MUFFLED SCREAM)
Thank you.
Renee!
Excuse me.
(HULK ROARS)
(ROARS)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(ROARS)
What a hunk.
Come on. Get loose.
That costume, wow. It almost looks real.
Renee?
Operator, please give me the police. This is an emergency.
Yes, hello, I'd like to report a possible kidnapping today at the Mardi Gras.
DuBois. Renee DuBois. Dr. DuBois.
No. No, it's not just another missing person's report.
I can't wait 24 hours.
No, she wasn't drunk! I'm trying to tell you her life could be in danger!
Don't... Don't you understand?
I cannot wait until tomorrow! I told you, this can't wait!
(SIGHS)
Selene!
Selene, it's David. Please open the door.
Selene.
McGEE: You see, sweetheart, the reason that I stopped you, I'm a reporter.
Oh!
You understand what I'm saying? I'm a newspaper reporter.
Oh. I just got into town,
and I understand that yesterday, right over here...
You see where I'm pointing? Quite a lot of damage was done by an enormous...
(STAMMERING) By an enormous green man.
Now somebody around here must have noticed him.
I did.
You're kidding.
No. You want to meet him?
More than anything in the world.
You got it.
Hey, John. John, man, come on out.
This guy's doing a story on you.
Really?
Yeah, well...
(EXHALES) I find it a little hard to believe that
that kind of damage could have been done by
a man in an artichoke suit.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
If you'd just tell me where he lives, we could save Dr. Renee.
No, man. Not me.
I can't say.
I think you know.
If you'd help me, you won't have to fear the Babalao anymore.
Louie!
Louie, listen. Wait, wait. No, hold it. Hold it.
I'm not going to hurt you. Don't be afraid. I'm not going to...
Louie, I'm not going to hurt you.
I've got to find Dr. Renee.
Louie?
Louie, she could have saved your brother the way she's saving you.
Please, won't you help me?
Please.
Ain't nothing I can do.
The Babalao's gone and throwed a curse on Mambo Renee.
Ain't nothing nobody can do.
Selene, Renee could die.
Now if you'd tell me where she is, I might be able to save her.
It's too late.
I hear telled Babalao's done put a hex on you, too.
Can't nobody lift the curse of the Babalao.
Your grandson's life was in her hands, and she saved him.
Now Renee's life is in your hands.
What will you do for her?
BABALAO: How would you like a taste of your own loa, Doctor?
You're crazy to do this.
David's probably got the police by now.
David?
Didn't he have some kind of accident?
Yeah. A cake fell on him.
(LAUGHING) A rather large one, I heard.
Why are you doing this?
Isn't your magical gris-gris strong enough?
Of course it is.
I'm giving you an extra-special dose.
And when your patients see what it does to you,
you'll be out of business forever.
What is it?
You know, the kind that paralyzes every muscle in your body.
You can't move,
but your eyes can see everything.
No!
(STAGGERED BREATHING)
(BAND PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC)
(DRUMS BEATING)
(PEOPLE CHANTING)
(ALL CHANTING FASTER)
(CHANTING STOPS)
We have come tonight,
in the shadow of Papa Labas,
the messenger of evil.
The spirit has cursed Dr. Renee!
A curse so powerful that even she cannot control it!
She comes to Babalao for salvation!
(ALL MURMURING)
The Papa Labas has decreed, so that all spirits can hear,
Dr. Renee must die!
(ALL CHATTERING EXCITEDLY)
Be still.
Only I, Babalao, can save her!
With my special powers,
I must defy Papa Labas
before the stroke of midnight.
That shot, David. My tummy still hurts.
You're going to be all right. You've had shots before
and the pain always went away, didn't it?
Yes. Just two more and I'm cured?
Yeah.
Then Mambo's magic is... It's the strongest of all.
Medicine, not magic. Hmm?
What kind of magic are you going to use against the Babalao?
He's so powerful.
Well, there's all kinds of power, Louie.
I'm going to try the power of reason.
Let's hope it works, huh?
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
(ALL CHANTING)
(WOMAN CONTINUES SCREAMING)
(CHANTING)
This is taken from the grave
of the great Mambo Sanite Dede.
She will be your loa and salvation.
Kiss her.
BABALAO: Move, damn it.
Come on, come on.
We're running out of time.
They've got to see my power.
Snap out of it.
Be gone evil spirit!
I defy Papa Labas!
Grandma Selene, you have faced Papa Labas,
the spirit of death, before, when he took your Paul.
When you face him now, you must drive him away.
Babalao, I am old and frail.
I can't chase Papa Labas no more.
Do you challenge me, the Babalao?
(CROWD GASPS)
With these claws of eagle, blessed by the spirits,
you will revive Dr. Renee.
Together, we will bring her back to life.
The marks of the spirits
must be traced in blood.
Do it, old woman.
Do it!
(DOOR OPENING)
DAVID: Don't listen to him!
(ALL GASPING)
He has no power over those that defy him.
Luke! Oh, is he your power?
The great Babalao who commands the spirits needs a guard?
You all believe in the power of the Babalao.
All right.
I defy you! Show us your strength now!
Right here. Summon the spirits,
and cast a spell upon me now!
(ALL MURMURING)
I am unharmed.
The power of the loa cast evil on you, nonbeliever!
Is that your power? Fireworks?
Is that the curse of the spirits?
Because if it is, we have nothing to fear.
Because he bought his power as you can buy his power in a magic store.
(ALL GASPING)
Is your power so weak?
(BUZZER RINGS)
If he has no faith in himself,
why should we have faith in him?
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
If you listen to him, you would deny the truths of our forefathers.
(CHIMING)
The chimes of midnight.
The spirit of Papa Labas has spoken.
Mambo must die because you angered the spirits.
He kidnapped Renee. Can't you see that she's drugged?
She's cursed because of your interference.
Even I cannot save her from her fate.
It isn't her fate. It's her medicines you're afraid of.
Renee has evil medicine!
The kind she used on your grandson, Louie.
For that, Selene, you must kill her.
Take it.
Take the knife, woman,
or I'll make sure that the spirits punish you
with the death of your grandson, Louie.
Take it.
Take it, old woman.
(HULK GROWLING)
(GRUNTS)
(ROARS)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(SCREAMING)
(ROARS)
(SCREAMING)
(ALL TALKING EXCITEDLY)
(ROARS)
(GRUNTING)
(ALL MURMURING)
When Moray's clients found out
how he was getting his power, they had him arrested for blackmail and fraud.
Wait till I add kidnapping to the list.
It'll take more than magic to keep him out of jail.
No more fighting voodoo with voodoo, huh?
No more.
Well, if you control loa like you did last night, whatever you say must be true.
(CHUCKLES)
Well, I don't know what that big green thing was,
but it certainly wasn't a loa.
Well, if Mambo says it wasn't loa, guess it ain't.
Louie, do me a favor. Stop calling me Mambo.
Yes, Dr. Mambo.
(CHUCKLES)
On that note, I think it's time for me to get going.
Wait, David.
Hmm?
You got something in your ear.
Oh, come on, now. There's nothing in my ear.
Yeah.
(GASPS) See?
A quarter!
Well, I guess I get to keep it, huh?
Uh-uh.
It was mine to begin with.
You be good to yourself, my friend.
Goodbye. Goodbye.
And goodbye to you,
Doctor.
Thank you.
Bye.