And these visions, they began with what? An injury, an accident?
ANNIE: It was an accident of birth.
I know who you are. I know what you become.
I can lead you to John Doe.
The man who becomes the creature.
Did I mention a reward?
Ten thousand dollars, Miss Caplan.
(ROARS)
Suicide is not the answer.
This isn't a suicide. This is an execution.
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)
FEMALE DISPATCHER: Unit Nine, Unit Nine. Report of unidentified man.
(SIRENS WAILING) Peace disturbance, destruction of property.
Description: Male, race indeterminate, height over seven feet tall,
build large.
Last seen moving north on Bailey Street.
I repeat, last seen moving north on Bailey Street.
Nora Seven, report of breaking and entering,
Hempstead and Warnekie Avenues,
rear of liquor store, that location.
We already have a car headed in your direction on another call.
Let me check it out first. Clear? I'll call for assistance.
Hey, wait!
Halt! Halt! Police!
(ROARS)
(SIRENS APPROACHING)
Nora Seven, dispatch. I need an ambulance
in the alley two blocks south of Art's Liquor Store on Warnekie...
(SWITCHBOARD BUZZING)
Officer, the man was just here to deliver a package.
He was running very late to pick up an important delivery.
No, I do not know his name, but he does work for the
Jeffers Delivery Service.
What's going on, Annie?
He's going to be involved in an accident.
That's difficult to say, because I...
I saw it happen.
(SIGHS) Another vision.
If I wait to file a report, it's going to be too late.
No, please, don't hang up.
Miss Darwin's residence.
May I take a message? No, she's not available at this time.
Thank you.
It's about time.
I was just trying to warn someone.
You're not being paid to save the world.
You're being paid to answer the switchboard.
I'm sorry. Sorry isn't good enough.
I've covered for you all along, but I am not gonna put my job on the line
for somebody who's more interested in daydreams than her job.
I think we'd all be much better off
if you just found yourself another job, honey.
No, they're out until after lunch.
But I can have him return your call. I'll tell him you called.
Wright Answering Service.
No, our rates are standard.
Let me send you our information about it, if I may.
Little Pepper's Pizza Palace? That restaurant opens at 4:00.
Very well. Thank you.
Mr. Demhoff's residence. No. No, he's not in just now.
May I take a message please?
Very well.
Please be careful not to spill your coffee.
Miss Caplan, just leave.
Bayer School of Beauty. Yes. No, they're away for the rest of the month.
May I tell him who called? Thank you.
(EXCLAIMS)
(SIGHS)
David, be sure and restock the onions and tomatoes. They're on special today.
MAN ON RADIO: And to finish the news headlines, according to the police,
an unidentified creature attacked a teenage boy last night.
Officer Josh Williams witnessed the suspect at the scene of the crime.
A suspect he could only describe as nearly seven feet tall
with a greenish color to his skin.
Police have sent out an all points bulletin on the suspect.
But the story has a tragic note.
The victim, 15-year-old Robbie Donner of San Francisco,
is listed in critical condition at St. Andrew's Hospital.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
ANNIE: He works for the Jeffers Delivery Service.
He's going to be involved in an accident.
I saw it happen.
(EXCLAIMS)
That's all right. I'll take care of it.
(ROARS)
MANAGER: Hey, Caplan.
This came for you.
You're overdue on your rent.
Way overdue.
I don't have it.
Why don't you open up your letter?
It came by messenger.
Maybe a rich uncle died and left you his millions.
MANAGER: I don't mean to give you a hard time on this rent thing.
If you don't have the cash, maybe we can come up with some other arrangement.
DR. FAULKNER: "Ann. The detectives have located you. "
You need taking care of.
And you ain't so bad-looking, baby.
So what do you say?
I know I don't look like much right now,
but I still think I know how to make a woman happy.
So, where do we go from here?
I'm not crazy.
What are you talking about?
It's real. Thank God, it's real. I thought I was insane, crazy.
I saw this thing.
This... This man who becomes the Hulk.
And I'm not crazy.
You know the guy that turns into that thing?
No, I don't know him.
But you know who he is? Yes.
Hey, who needs a rich uncle?
This paper's willing to pay $10,000 for that freak.
Ten thousand dollars.
For just one phone call.
(EXHALES)
I can't do that.
You're feeling sorry for a guy who's a public menace?
This kid, Robbie Donner, he's in the hospital.
All broken up, his neck snapped by that thing.
Hey, hey... I mean, forget about the $10,000.
Seems to me that you should be feeling sorry for that poor kid.
You gotta call.
Mr. McGee, I...
My name is Annie, Annie Caplan, and I...
I live in San Francisco at the Leonide Hotel.
I can lead you to John Doe,
the man who becomes the creature.
(WOMAN CHATTERING ON P.A.)
Mrs. Donner.
Robbie came through the surgery but he's still in critical condition.
We won't know anything for at least 24 hours.
Please, go home and try to get some rest.
I'll call you myself if there's any change.
There's just me and Robbie.
If I go home I'll be alone.
I see.
(WOMAN CHATTERING ON P.A.)
But do you expect Mr. McGee to check in soon?
When he does, would you give him this message, please?
Tell him that Annie Caplan called
and that John Doe is at St. Andrew's Hospital,
third floor waiting room.
Thank you.
(COFFEE POURING)
(WOMAN CHATTERING ON P.A.)
You were about to spill your coffee.
Oh, I didn't realize.
Are you waiting for word about somebody in the hospital?
Well.
Are you all right?
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.
David.
You've got to get out of this hospital.
How did you know my name?
I went to the market where you work.
They told me you were here.
I know who you are. I know what you become.
This reporter, Mr. McGee, is on his way over here.
He'll be here any minute. Please believe that.
I still don't understand why you're helping me.
It's not important.
David, if you need... If you need a safe place to hide,
I live at the Leonide Hotel, room 5D.
What's the matter?
That man. He's about to be hurt.
Wait a minute.
DAVID: Stop! Don't go in there!
He's in there.
All right, just stay here. I'll get him.
(ROARS)
MAN: Whatever it is, it's coming this way. I'm not going to stop him.
(WOMEN SCREAMING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
ANNIE: David.
(ROARING)
(CRYING) Mommy.
Mommy.
Mark?
Where are you?
Mommy!
I got lost and can't find my mommy.
Mark, where are you?
Mommy!
Mark! Mark! Mark!
Oh, help me! Someone, help!
It's the creature who attacked that boy!
Help me!
ANNIE: Who is it?
David.
I wanted to make sure you were all right.
I was worried about you. Come in.
What I really need to know...
Was anybody hurt?
No.
In fact you
saved the delivery man's life.
Please tell me.
How did you know he was in danger?
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Miss Caplan.
Yes.
Jack McGee.
(KNOCKING)
McGEE: Miss Caplan?
Just a minute.
Miss Caplan? Yes.
I'm Jack McGee. I hope I didn't wake you. No.
These were in your hall.
Paper says you had some excitement at the hospital yesterday.
An explosion, the creature.
But then you know all about that, don't you?
You were there. You saw everything.
Mr. McGee, could I call you at your hotel later?
Well, Miss Caplan, when you called me at my office in Chicago,
you said that you could deliver John Doe.
That is why I came all the way out here from Chicago.
So how's about it, Miss Caplan?
ANNIE: I don't know where he is now.
Funny, you know, how you spend a few years as a reporter,
you get to be, oh, sort of a human polygraph.
Something just tells me that you do know.
Well, you're wrong. I don't. I'm sorry.
Miss Caplan, when we talked on the phone, did I mention a reward?
Yes. Ten thousand dollars.
ANNIE: Yes.
That's
ten thousand dollars, Miss Caplan.
Yeah, well, listen.
If you want to get in touch with me, I'll be in town.
Till I get my story.
David, come.
You heard?
(SIGHS)
Yeah.
Judas refusing 30 pieces of silver.
A little too late, I'm afraid.
But you did refuse it.
Why?
You'd be surprised how often people touch one another.
We give change, we exit elevators,
we crowd into supermarkets, and push our way down the streets.
Not even intentional, but casual,
as if it doesn't even matter.
Was there something special about me?
You were in turmoil.
Touching anybody who is in an emotional state triggers the visions.
And these visions,
they began with what? An injury, an accident?
It was an accident of birth.
And as I grew, so did the visions.
But your parents must have known.
At first I told my mother and father everything that I saw, but
then the town's pediatricians diagnosed me as having a talent for storytelling.
But the stories came true.
Yes, yes. Sometimes they did. But often I would misread a vision
or I would only get a glimpse of the future
and that event taking place, and then I would be
punished for lying.
So I learned not to get involved and not to let anyone touch me.
It made growing up lonely, but at least bearable
until I could graduate high school and leave town.
And then you came to San Francisco?
No, no, I...
I read about a doctor at New York University.
Dr. Faulkner studied me full-time
and I audited classes at the university part-time.
Why did you leave?
Well, Dr. Faulkner and I were
working with the police on some kidnapping cases.
But on...
On the last case, I read the vision wrong.
What appeared to me to be a cave was
really a sewer.
By the time the
police gave up on my lead, it was too late.
It was a little boy.
I can't stop thinking about how
frightened he must have been and how he must have
called out for help.
If I hadn't been there,
maybe the police would have listened to another clue
and that little boy would be alive today.
Well, I...
I ran away. I've lived in a dozen different cities under a dozen different names.
Yesterday this arrived.
Dr. Faulkner finally found me.
After I touched you and saw your creature,
I thought that I'd truly gone insane
and that even my visions had somehow become twisted.
I was going to kill myself.
I read a line written by Shakespeare once.
"Past hope,
"past cure,
"past help."
David, what is it?
(INAUDIBLE)
(BELL TOLLING)
(ORGAN PLAYING)
(WHISPERING) David, McGee is here.
You've got to leave.
Go to my apartment. Wait for me there.
Go.
Miss Caplan.
I just thought you might like to know that I've finally managed to make something
out of the wild goose chase you got me on.
After the service, I'm going to interview Robbie's best friend.
It won't exactly be front page stuff, but I guarantee you
it is going to be warm, human and sensitive.
And I can't very well go back to Chicago with nothing in my hands
but an expense report. Can I?
Unless, of course, you have changed your mind about leading me to John Doe.
Mr. McGee.
Is it about John Doe?
No, no, it isn't, but...
Miss Caplan.
The next time you get a hold of a really hot news item,
call somebody else, okay?
ANNIE: David.
David, suicide is not the answer.
It's not going to bring that boy back to life.
This isn't a suicide. This is an execution.
The power of the creature has gone beyond the courts.
I must be the judge and the jury.
You are not the creature
and you have a right to live.
At the expense of how many innocent people like Robbie Donner?
But you're destroying yourself.
Day by day, the creature has been destroying me.
David Banner is dead.
But I am taking the life of a fugitive.
You know, the curse may not be the creature that I turn into,
but the man that I have become.
No.
Yes.
David...
We can go someplace peaceful.
Utopia does not exist.
I could help you, then.
I could keep you away from the people and places where the creature might appear.
With your visions?
Yes.
Even if it was possible,
it's only a matter of time before McGee finds me.
He's not going to be a problem for you anymore.
Oh, you don't know McGee.
He'll never quit.
David, I tried to tell him.
By tomorrow, Jack McGee may not be alive.
Any more questions?
One or two more.
You and Robbie were members of the same gang, right? The Renegades?
(SCOFFS) It's a club.
Ah.
How many members in your club?
Six.
That's six besides you and Robbie?
No.
Six including you and Robbie?
Very exclusive club.
Now then, four of the Renegades
were seen by quite a few witnesses at the bowling alley.
But you
were home sick that night.
Yeah.
And yet, according to the police report,
we have only your mother as witness to that.
DAVID: Now, Annie, you're sure this is the place? That's the picture?
Yes, that's it. That's exactly what I saw.
All right, I want you to go call the police right now, and tell them what you know.
But, David, what if I'm wrong?
You've been right too many times to take a chance.
What do I tell them? That I saw a vision?
No. This isn't a vision. This is the truth, Annie. This is real.
So tell them that. Tell them the truth!
All right.
So the fact is, there were two members of the Renegades in the alley that night.
Robbie and you.
You were there, weren't you, Johnny?
You saw the creature, didn't you?
Did he pick up that board and swing at Robbie?
It's all right, kid. I don't care why you were...
It's all right. Don't worry.
It was an accident, wasn't it?
What's the difference?
You think the judge will go easy on me
'cause I only meant to smash a cop,
instead of my friend?
(GROANS)
Stop!
(ROARING)
(ROARS)
(TABLE CRASHING)
ANNIE: Wait!
(GROWLING)
(GROANS)
(SIRENS WAILING)
Don't worry about him.
He'll get away.
There's an ambulance on the way.
COP: On your feet, kid.
MAN ON P. A: Transcontinental bus service to New York,
now boarding at Gate 4.
I think you're making the right decision, going back to the university.
As bad as it was when I couldn't locate that little boy...
I guess the best doctors lose patients, don't they?
But you did save the others.
It's like there's this cosmic tally sheet.
You have to try and keep your life in balance.
And to do that, you have to stay in there for the count.
I guess we all have to be reminded of that every now and then.
David, if you need to be reminded...
I know.
I can reach you through Dr. Faulkner at the university.
In New York.
Who do I ask for?
My name is Annie Cassidy.
Mmm-hmm.
You won't forget?
How could I?
Goodbye, David.
You be good to yourself.
Mmm-hmm.