[ people chattering ]
[ women clamoring ]
[ speaking haitian creole ]
[ siren wailing ]
[ motor whirring ]
[ children chattering, shouting ]
[ gunshot ] [ women scream ]
[ shouting in creole ]
[ creole ]
[ man on pa., indistinct ]
[ continues in creole ]
[ gunshot ]
[ laughing ]
[ shutter snaps ]
[ man speaking french ]
[ man ] amen.
[ speaking french ]
[ man shouts in distance ]
[ people shouting ]
Christophe!
[ pleading in french ] christophe!
Christophe!
[ man narrating ] field notes, dr. Dennis alan,
Rio negro botanical expedition, August 15, 1985.
I arrive at the clearing of the shaman an hango,
Regarded as the most powerful spiritual man in the amazon.
There's something strange in the air today.
Even my pilot's nervous.
If I were superstitious, I'd say that something was closing in on me.
♪ [ chanting ] the shaman senses it too.
He decides in his own off-the-wall way to show me what it is.
[ grunts ] tell him I'm very appreciative, that harvard thanks him,
That his potion will make a good medicine,
And it will be helpful for many people.
[ translating in spanish ] I'tome!
[ speaking spanish ]
No, he wants you to drink it. He says he has something he wants you to see.
You know what you'll see if you drink that shit? Stars, amigo.
- Let's get outta here. - Tome.
Like I said, for the road.
It's good. It's very good.
Thank you.
[ groaning ]
[ growling ]
[ gasping ]
[ panting ]
[ screaming ] [ growling ]
[ purring ]
Hey.
[ laughing ]
[ wind blowing ]
[ speaking spanish ]
[ out of breath ]
- [ growling ] - [ screams ]
No! Stop!
Stop! No!
[ screaming ]
[ gasping ]
[ screaming ]
[ panting ]
Julio? [ echo ] julio?
Julio!
[ echo ] julio!
Hey. Whoa.
I thought you'd taken off without me. I owe you one, pal.
Hey.
[ birds screeching ]
[ dennis narrating ] something much more evil and powerful...
Than the shaman or his men has killed my pilot.
I know this as clearly...
As I feel the darkness and the cold closing in on me.
[ panting ]
[ animal growls ]
[ growling ]
[ groans ]
[ horn honking ]
[ chattering in spanish ] hey!
I'gringo! [ laughing ]
Hey! Hey!
[ laughing hysterically ]
[ dennis narrating ] I'm only back home for a week...
When I get a call from my old professor and friend, earl schoonbacher.
He's a consultant for a big pharmaceutical company...
And says he has an interesting job offer.
Hi, dennis. This is dr. Cassedy, the head of boston biocorp.
How do you do, sir? Fine. How do you do? It's a pleasure.
Well, I'm impressed. 200 miles through the amazon on foot alone.
Not alone. They showed him his animal spirit, his totem.
The jaguar guided him back to us safe and sound.
Well, we here at boston biocorp,
We deal in science and medicine, not magic.
So whether you came back by jaguar or mercedes-benz, I really don't care.
What I care about is you came back with a sample bag...
Full of plants and native medicines no one has been able to collect.
- What do you know about zombification? - Pardon me?
Zombification-- the process of making zombies, the living dead.
Uh, just what I've seen on thelate show.
This is the death certificate of christophe durand.
And the doctor's report.
"mr. Durand displayed negative pulse,
"no heartbeat, no respirations, no pupil dilation,
No brain waves, no response to pain, and he was buried."
He was put into a coffin and buried.
You notice the date on that death certificate. It's seven years ago.
This photograph was taken one week ago at a clinic in port-au-prince, haiti.
That man is christophe durand--
The same and very much alive.
Maybe durand had a twin. [ schoonbacher ] no.
- Hospital error. You know, right name, wrong corpse. - No.
No, we had it verified by dr. Duchamps at the clinic,
Now, if you don't like the word "zombie," you can choose another word.
But the fact is somebody brought him back from the grave.
And I wanna know how they did it.
You really believe this?
The haitians surely do.
A drug. It has to be a drug then, right?
Anesthesia. That's what I was thinking.
A totally new anesthetic that could revolutionize medicine.
Now, what if this zombie drug could be discovered?
40,000 to 50,000 lives a year are lost on the operating table,
And not because of surgery, but because of anesthetic shock.
40,000 to 50,000 lives a year could be saved in the us. Alone, dr. Alan.
And more worldwide, if properly marketed.
[ schoonbacher ] it could be something more complicated than drugs.
It could be the proof, perhaps, of the soul.
Come on, schoonie, where's the location of the soul--
Under the hood next to the battery?
No. The soul begins and ends with the brain.
This drug-- this is something totally new.
We don't have anything that can put somebody in, then back out, of death.
And all we gotta do is go and get it.
[ woman on pa., indistinct ] [ crowd chattering ]
[ dennis narrating ] this is one of the poorest countries in the world.
It has revolution in the air. It's got a ruthless dictator in the palace.
So I had expected a certain sense of oppression.
What I hadn't expected was that the dark presence from the amazon...
Would instantly come over me here,
As real as a cold hand falling on my shoulder.
And I also didn't expect dr. Duchamps to look like...
Dr. Duchamps did.
Dr. Duchamps. Bonjour.
Je m'appelle-- dennis alan, I know.
Yes. I guess I am an easy face in this crowd.
Oh, I would have known you even in--
Excuse me? It would be better if we talk inside.
Those were the tonton macoutes. They know you are here, of course.
[ man screaming ]
[ speaking french ]
You sure handcuffs are the best idea here?
500 patients, three doctors, 15 nurses. Ah.
A week's supply of thorazine.
Handcuffs are the only thing duvalier makes sure...
Haiti has enough of.
This is margrite.
I was expecting--
After an illness of three days, margrite died and was buried in a village ceremony.
No death certificate, but we have witnesses.
That was 15 years ago.
Last August, she was found wandering aimlessly in the marketplace.
Her brother identified her by her birthmark.
A classic zombie.
Bonjour, margrite.
[ speaking french ]
[ woman's voice shrieking ]
Well, she sure can't tell us anything.
I understand that christophe durand-- the man whose death certificate I saw--
He can speak, right? Yes. He even speaks some english.
Christophe is unique. Much of his memory is intact.
I'd like to see him right away.
♪ [ drumming ] ♪ [ women singing in creole ]
[ dennis narrating ] a warning-- that's what I felt in those eyes.
I didn't know of what, but it chilled me to the bone.
Marielle took me to see a man who is very powerful in politics and in voodoo.
He's a full voodoo priest,
But he also runs a nightclub for tourists.
In fact, lucien celine does a little bit of everything,
Except give out information.
You've come on a good night, monsieur.
Tonight the spirits are happy.
We asked about christophe durand.
[ marielle ] lucien, why are you being so difficult?
You have people all over the island.
Certainly, someone must have seen christophe by now.
Perhaps, but what people see and what they say...
Are very different matters.
Haiti is full of contradictions, dr. Alan.
These dancers, for instance, they don't bleed, and they don't burn.
Tonight we are calling down erzulie, the goddess of love.
You will dance tonight? No, lucien, I will not.
- You will. - No.
- You all right? - You have business to discuss.
If you won't help, we'll go to christophe's village tomorrow.
She'll be fine. She'll be fine.
♪ [ drumming, singing continue ]
[ man's voice growling ]
- [ growling ] - [ screaming ]
Yes, he is the one to watch-- captain peytraud.
He plays at being abokor-- the black magician.
He is beneath contempt.
He's the chief of the tonton macoutes, duvalier's secret police.
You have seen him before, perhaps, hmm?
Yeah, someplace. Be careful, my friend.
In haiti, there are secrets we keep even from ourselves.
[ dennis ] hey.
Marielle-- yes.
Favorite of erzulie.
♪ [ drumming, singing continue ]
For marielle, possession is as natural as breathing.
[ groans ]
[ groaning ]
[ shouts in creole ]
[ whimpers ]
Watch it.
[ creole ]
Are you all right?
[ crowd applauding ]
[ dennis narrating ] marielle never mentioned what had happened the night before.
But from what I knew of possession, she probably didn't even remember it.
Maybe it was just as well. The village mambo is just up the road.
We asked around christophe's village, but no one--
Not even the village voodoo priestess-- would help.
I told you. He is dead. What should I know about the dead?
The whereabouts of christophe remained a mystery until his sister found us.
Cimetiére.
Let's go.
[ vehicle approaching ]
[ engine stops ]
What his sister said makes sense.
Christophe is obsessed with death. We will find him.
That's what you said about the last three graveyards.
[ footsteps running ]
Christophe!
[ bleating ]
Well, this is ridiculous. Let's get outta here.
- [ shouts ] - [ screams ]
Oh, shit!
Oh, shit. Are you okay?
[ shouting, chattering ]
Holy shit. They were just grave robbers.
Grave robbers, huh? That makes me feel a lot better.
You should have seen your face. [ laughing ]
You think this is funny?
Let's stop jacking around, huh?
We're not going to find christophe tonight, if he's even alive.
What do you meanif? You saw the photographs.
For all I know, those photos were taken before he died.
Just what are you trying to say?
Okay, you're my only contact here in haiti, right?
First, you let the evidence go, and then we spend a whole lot of time getting nowhere.
You-- yes, nowhere!
You think I'm doing this for my health, huh? I think this is a scam.
I'm not blaming you. I've seen the clinic. I know how desperately you need funds.
But do you think cassedy and his corporation...
Are gonna shell out money for nothing?
You think this is about money? Yeah.
The way professor schoonbacher spoke of you,
It was as though you could walk on water.
Now I know why. Shit floats.
Yeah, well, why the hell are you getting involved, huh?
Will you talk to me? Christophe!
Christophe. It's me, dr. Duchamps.
You remember me, don't you?
I remember.
This is dr. Alan.
He's here to ask you some questions.
Christophe,
I need you to remember what happened before... You died.
You spoke about it once to me.
I remember it all--
The coffin, the-- the burial.
I-I saw it all.
Were you sick?
What was it that you felt-- the symptoms?
I heard the dirt falling, falling over me.
The darkness pressed me down.
[ speaking french ]
He says thebokor, the one that made him like this,
Beats him with a whip.
Thebokortook his soul and sealed it away.
He makes me do evil things.
I'm no longer free. He sends me to people's dreams.
I'll-I'll need to... Run a blood test.
I'd like to get a thumbprint. No, I cannot take him back to the clinic.
This is my place, not with the living.
He will find me!
No. Christophe, you're not dead!
Whatever they did to you, they did it to trick you into thinking that.
You have a good memory. Tell us what you remember...
So we can stop thebokors from doing this to anybody else.
Help us, christophe.
It's a powder.
A poison...
Run through the skin...
To the soul.
Christophe. No, leave him.
Through the skin. A powder.
[ people chattering ]
♪ [ radio: Afro-cuban ]
[ flies buzzing ]
[ man whispers ] hey,blanc.
♪ [ man chanting in creole ]
♪ [ drumming ] [ crowd cheering ]
[ bell ringing ] ♪ [ people singing ]
[ singing continues ]
[ speaking french ]
Lucien, we need to ask for your help one more time.
We found christophe. He told us about the poison.
Not another word.
Let's go inside.
If you blunder into this, my people get hurt.
The world should know what is happening here.
You see, she is an idealist.
She simply does not understand how dangerous these times have become.
What I'm after is going to save too many lives. I'm not gonna back off.
I know you know the man that makes the powder.
One name, just one.
[ exhales ]
[ crowd shouting, cheering ] ♪ [ jukebox: Haitian ]
The one in the hat is our man, I think.
Louis mozart? This is important?
My friend represents powerful interests-- rich american interests.
American? That's right.
They have an enemy they would like to turn into a zombie.
A zombie, huh? [ laughing ]
That is all? That's all.
$100.
You've come to the right place. Your enemy is as good as dead.
I will catch his soul like a spider catches a fly in his web...
And pop it in acanari...
Like this one.
You keep the zombie's soul sealed up.
It makes the flesh your slave.
It gives you power.
You send it into people's dreams.
Whose soul is that?
This place's previous owner. [ laughing ]
Is that right?
$100.
I cast a spell-- tocoup d'airtonight.
It's not the spell that I want.
What I'm after is the powder.
Thecoup poudre?
Some say there is such a thing. Some say it.
I guess celine was wrong. This guy can't help us out. I'm sorry.
Celine?
Lucien celine?
Well, of course. Of course.
Lucien and me, we are like that.
A man should help his friends.
- $1,000. - [ scoffs ]
- 700. - 400 tops.
For celine, 500.
All right. Let's see what you got.
I have some powder already prepared.
You like it,blanc,huh? It is beautiful, eh?
Come in.
With this powder, you must be very careful.
I make it so there is no second chance.
[ laughing ] $500, eh?
How do we know it works?
- You want proof? - Yeah.
Marie! [ speaking creole ]
[ goat bleating ]
[ laughing ] don't worry.
You have enough for 10 zombies.
[ laughs ]
Yes. [ laughing ]
[ bleating ] [ laughing ]
You are very beautiful.
Are you looking for work?
He may keep you better,
But I will love you longer.
So you see,blanc.
No second chance, eh? So, the money.
The money.
That you get tomorrow when I see you raise the goat from the dead.
I wanna see the goat alive again.
Zombies, remember?
[ dennis narrating ] it's too dangerous to wait at the hotel,
So we lose ourselves in a nearby pilgrimage.
And I realized that though I came for the powder,
I'm getting into something much, much more.
You know, I still have a hard time putting you and all that stuff together.
I was brought up in the faith.
My father was ahoungan.
I was dedicated to erzulie at four.
First ridden-- possessed, if you will-- at eight.
There is great beauty and compassion in it.
Oh, yeah. I can understand that.
But you're a psychiatrist first.
There is no conflict between my science and my faith.
You can give it whatever words you will,
But in haiti our god is not just in his heaven.
He's in our bodies, our flesh.
There's something you should see.
[ woman speaking creole ]
[ woman praying in french ]
[ dennis ] what is this ceremony-- voodoo or catholic?
Haiti is 85% catholic, but 110% voodoo.
For us, erzulie and the virgin mary are the same.
[ crowd chattering ]
[ no audible dialogue ]
[ insects buzzing, chirping ] [ frogs croaking ]
[ moaning ]
[ dennis murmuring ]
[ gasps ]
[ panting ]
[ christophe ] blanc.
Blanc?
Blanc.
[ hushed screeching ]
[ screeching continues ]
[ bone cracks ]
- [ screaming ] - [ screeching ]
[ screaming continues ] [ bride laughing ]
Are you all right, dennis?
Yeah. It was just a dream. I had a bad dream.
[ crowd chattering ] ♪ [ drumming ]
[ dennis narrating ] she tells me this is one of the cathedrals of haiti.
A place not only of great beauty, but of great spirit as well.
And maybe the place is magic.
These waters are healing.
[ man on radio ] this is wwbc in miami reporting. The word is official now.
Responding to several months of growing demonstrations,
The duvalier government in haiti has declared martial law throughout that troubled land.
Police and military units have imposed a strict curfew from sundown to sunup.
[ dennis narrating ] it was crazy.
One minute to be in such beauty and peace,
The next, surrounded by secret police, the tonton macoutes.
And strangest of all, in the middle of all of this,
I couldn't get my mind off the zombie, christophe.
Why would they do such a thing to him?
Why would they make anybody a zombie?
Christophe is more than just a patient to you. You knew him from somewhere before.
No, but I knew of him. He was just a grade-school teacher. No one important.
But he wasn't afraid to speak out for the people, for freedom.
He was very much admired. That's why they made him what he is.
Instead of inspiring courage, now he only inspires fear.
[ bangs on car ] dr. Alan, come with me, please.
Hey--
Dr. Alan. Come with me now. All right.
All right. Just take it easy. Take it ea-- I'll be all right.
[ man sobbing ]
[ man #2 shouting ]
[ shouting ] [ pleading ]
Ah, dr. Alan.
That's right. Why are you in haiti, dr. Alan?
Like it says there on the passport--
I'm a tourist. I came to see the sights.
Yes. Happy, happy, happy island people.
Then why visit an insane asylum?
I'm an anthropologist.
It's a tax write-off.
Hope you're not with the I.Rs. [ man sobbing ]
Did you know this woman, marielle duchamps, is a radical?
So was her father.
He was... Misplaced.
Did you know that?
No, I didn't know that.
So is this man christophe durand.
Christophe who?
The man you met in the graveyard.
Graveyard? I don't know what you're talking about. [ man screaming ]
You're not a very good liar, dr. Alan.
Look, I'm a tourist.
I haven't done anything wrong.
Do you mind if I go now?
[ screaming continues ]
This country lives on the edge, dr. Alan.
One weakness in the wrong place, and over it goes right back into slavery again.
Just like with the french. Look, I'm not--
The United States would like anarchy here, I'm sure.
Well, this isn't grenada, dr. Alan.
I'm here now.
There are people like me...
That make sure that doesn't happen.
You remember that.
[ man screaming, sobbing ]
-[ shrieking ] - ♪ [ afro-cuban ]
♪ [ continues ]
Dennis, you don't have to prove anything to me.
That wasn't just a note they slipped under your door.
It might be better if we waited another day. We haven't got another day.
As long as we're out of the city, we're okay.
[ chattering ]
Come, come, come, come.
Come, come, come. We are celebrating my success.
To good fortune.
So, how's the goat?
Oh, business before pleasure, huh?
The american way, no?
[ speaking creole ] you saw it die yourself, but it walks.
Nice animal.
You like him? I throw him in. No charge, huh?
Americans.
The money for the powder, as we agreed. Oh, okay.
You see, even in america, they know me.
They come for my work.
[ laughing ] [ mocking laugh ]
You're an idiot.
My powders work.
Maybe I cast a spell on you.
You wanna know what I think of your powders?
Careful,blanc. No second chance.
Dennis!
It's piss.
You're a dead man.
[ people exclaiming, chattering ]
Dennis, just what do think you were doing in there?
We've gotta stall for a little time.
What do you know about radiator caps?
What is it, some macho death wish?
My god, what if it had been poison?
It was. Rat poison probably.
Give me your hand. See your palm?
See the coin and...
Poof!
See the poison he really gave me?
Tricks of the trade.
Here he comes. Wait in the car.
You are still alive.
Yeah, I noticed.
I can make it-- the powder you want.
No tricks this time,blanc. $1,000.
The zombie poison-- thecoup poudre. All right.
But there are rules.
You must make it with me.
There is no other way.
[ insects buzzing ]
For strong work, fresh bones. Quickly.
We work here.
You start.
Don't worry. They never bury them deep here.
That is why I use this place.
[ panting ] this isn't a kid, is it?
No, no. This is not a child.
No, no, no.
A real prize, this one.
A sorceress.
- [ fly buzzes ] - when she lived, she had great power.
Now, she is just easier to carry.
[ gasps ]
[ screech echoes ]
Dennis?
Eh. It stinks.
We will start tomorrow night. Now we get out of here.
Let's go.
I think I still have some of my father's old shirts.
Maybe one will fit you.
- This shirt's fine. - No, it isn't.
[ gasps ] no! No!
[ marielle ] let go of me!
[ grunts ] get in the jeep!
[ marielle ] dennis!
[ air hissing ]
[ coughing, gagging ]
[ hissing ] [ gasping ]
You've got a pretty face.
[ gagging, gasping ]
The girls must like it. Do you like it?
Your pretty white face.
I asked you a question.
Yeah, I like it.
I like it too.
I leave the face.
You made your point.
I'm on the next plane. I swear.
Not good enough now. Too late.
You were warned.
I warned you.
I'm a us. Citizen. Think about that.
I don't see the ambassador here. Do you?
I'm in medical research. There's a lot of money in it.
There's plenty for you. I don't want money.
Yeah? What do you want?
I wanna hear you scream.
[ loud bang ]
[ stammering ] ah, no. Okay.
[ quavering voice ] okay. Okay.
You wanna hear me scream? I'll scream. [ screams ]
- [ gasps ] - again!
[ screaming ]
Not good enough.
[ screaming ]
[ scream continues ]
[ man on pa., in french ]
[ shouting, laughing ]
Dennis!
[ whimpering ]
[ dennis narrating ] for three days, marielle has been my guardian angel--
Hiding me, nursing me back to health.
The wound peytraud inflicted was struck for fear, not injury.
I'm alive, intact.
She told me this morning that she wants me to go before they kill me.
But I can't do that.
[ groans ]
You shouldn't be out here like this. You shouldn't even be walking.
This recipe took a thousand years to get right.
I wanna learn it.
[ groans ] rest.
He just went through the scrotum, right?
A little pain, a little terror.
He scared me, okay?
- [ croaks ] -[ dennis narrating ] the ingredients of the powder...
Are terrifically varied.
There is the poisonous sea toad,bufo marinus.
The same animal lucrezia borgia used.
Made even more toxic by frightening it with a stinging sea worm.
And the puffer fish, which produces one of nature's...
Most powerful poisons, tetrodotoxin.
Plus a whole pharmacy of herbs, minerals--
Charred then ground and mixed with a skill that's astonishing.
All this is woven together with a net of magic beyond anything we know.
The process will take three days and nights.
Already, there's no doubt in my mind that for all his joking,
Mozart could give any harvard phd. A run for his money.
[ mozart ] you cannot give the powder in food.
That would kill completely.
The flesh would never rise to serve you.
[ slashing, picking ]
Squeeze. The bones are brittle. It will come.
[ straining, panting ]
This is the last.
Soon, it is done. A good work.
It is a very frightening thing,blanc,
The first time you can tell good from bad.
Then after a while, it is the very thing that sets you free.
It must be buried with her for one more day.
You must want this enemy of yours pretty badly...
To go through such pains,blanc.
I'm all right.
Did he take your woman or steal your money? No.
Then why would you stand up to a crazy man like peytraud?
Oh, yes. I hear these things.
The poison's not for him. The poison's for nobody.
I wanna use the poison for good, to help people who are sick.
[ laughing ]
My poison can be used in such a way, huh?
Yeah, I think so.
I think it can be known all over the world.
You will tell them about me?
You will tell them the name of louis mozart?
And they will know my work all over the world, huh?
All right,blanc,come back in 24 hours and you will have your powder.
[ no audible dialogue ]
[ dennis narrating ] twenty-four hours usually doesn't seem like a long time.
In more relaxed times, I felt a day go by like an hour.
But as sweet as marielle was,
The day and night at the beach house lasted a lifetime.
- Take me. - Get outta here!
[ growling ]
[ clattering ]
Dr. Alan?
[ pounding continues ]
[ screaming ]
[ bride cackling ]
[ screams ]
[ gasps ]
[ panting ]
[ whispering ] marielle? Marielle?
We gotta get out of here.
[ whimpers ] [ slamming ]
[ shouting ]
What the hell-- not this time, dr. Alan. We're beyond that now.
[ prisoners pleading ]
Thesecanarihold the souls of those who were masters in the realm of the spirits.
Now their spirits serve me.
She knows I'm telling the truth, that such things are possible.
I know the price you will pay for what you have done.
The photographs we took today are quite convincing.
If you return, you'll be tried for the murder of christophe's sister.
The courts will take your life.
But that will be only the beginning.
After you're dead, I'll take your soul.
What'll happen to marielle?
You go home.
She's home. She's haitian.
I have no reason to hurt her once you're gone.
Just leave, dennis.
It is the only way.
By the way, dr. Alan,
What did you dream about this afternoon?
A woman in your arms? The sea at your doorstep?
No, you dreamt of me and of the grave.
I know because I was there.
And I can be there every time you close your eyes.
The pain I cause you in the room upstairs...
Is nothing to the pain I can cause in your own mind.
Remember that, dr. Alan.
[ man speaking french ]
[ handcuffs clatter ]
[ people chattering ]
You promised me a thousand dollars.
Did you forget your promise?
No. I haven't got it. They took all my money.
Well,
Take it anyway.
But you will tell them about me,blanc.
You will make them know my name.
I will.
I'll let 'em know you're a man to be trusted.
[ engines powering up ]
On account, eh?
[ laughs ] fair enough.
[ typing on keyboard ]
[ cassedy ] you used baboons, right? That's right.
Put the powder in the palms. It went right into the blood.
Ten to 20 minutes later, they were dead. Or, at least, they looked dead.
My god. Are these numbers accurate? Oh, yeah.
I mean, the shift seems radical. I know, but it's double-blind, triple-checked.
These are typical brain scans from some of our subjects.
It's very focused. It targets only certain areas of the brain.
Area of vital functions: Breathing, heart rate.
It looks like somebody turned it off with a switch.
But here in the areas of the brain controlling...
Sensory awareness, thoughts and emotions,
Bang.
So the animals know what's happening to them.
Yeah, the entire time. A man would too.
You'd hear, see, maybe even feel, think.
But you couldn't do anything about it. You'd just lie there, looking--
Dead. And be buried.
But you'd be alive.
[ dennis narrating ] and, I reminded myself,
The tests revealed the powder wore off after 12 hours or so,
Leaving the victim completely normal again.
Except by then, he would be six feet under in the airless black,
Clawing and screaming with no one to hear his suffocation. Twist of lime?
Thanks.
[ cassedy ] boy, it's incredible how-- how rumor's spreading.
It's unbelievable. The company stock closed up a point and a half today.
All based on rumor about what dennis has brought back. Thank you, darling.
[ mrs. Cassedy ] I'm just glad you got out all right.
The news says that the whole country's in turmoil.
Yeah, I guess it is.
So we're kicking around a name for the product today.
I can't believe I actually employ people who want to call an anesthetic "zombanol."
[ both laughing ] I mean--
That's... Really good.
I gotta get some air.
Excuse me for a minute.
It's all right.
We need to talk.
Something's wrong. I can feel it.
I've been trying to call for three days, day and night, and there's no answer.
- She could be away. - Yeah, and she could be in trouble too.
I gotta go back there. Listen to me.
There's a door to the mystical, and you've just walked through it.
Right now, you are very vulnerable. I wouldn't go back to haiti.
You'd be a grade-school boy in a world of nobel prize winners.
I'd stay as far away from haiti as I could.
♪ [ drumming ]
What you have done is a major breakthrough.
It's quite mind-boggling.
The only thing I don't understand is how did christophe durand survive?
How was he able to speak?
Alex?
Well, as far as we can tell, somehow-- I don't know how--
Someone dug him out of the grave so no brain damage occurred.
Is something wrong with your soup?
No, I-- no, it's all right. I-- I'm just not hungry.
Elbert, dr. Alan is finished with his soup.
Perhaps monsieur would like salad instead?
No. I, uh, I've been having some stomach problems.
Occupational hazard. Dysentery,
Botfly, malaria.
[ chiming ] a toast? A toast?
To dennis.
To his adventures and to this marvelous discovery.
He rang to a new-- to a new--
Debra? Sit down, debra.
[ glass crunching ]
[ grunting ]
[ peytraud's voice ] you're going to die! You've been warned!
You're going to die!
- Debra? Debra. - [ screaming ]
Oh, my god! It's a seizure. Debra?
[ screaming continues ]
Oh, my-- oh, my god. Debbie? Here.
Oh, my god. Debbie, listen to me.
It's all right. It's a seizure.
It'll be all right, dear. It's gonna be all right, debbie.
[ screaming continues ] debbie! Debra?
[ dennis narrating ] he's going to get to me wherever I am.
I know that now. I've stolen his darkest and most powerful secret.
He'll wanna get even, and if he can't get me, he'll go for marielle.
[ man on pa. ] welcome to port-au-prince airport. Please have your passport ready.
Hey, I'm a us. Citizen!
I'm a us. Citizen! [ man on pa. ] the airport is under military control.
There will be no taking of pictures in the airport.
[ shouting ] [ tires screech ]
- Hey! Somebody! -[ man shouts in french ]
Lucien?
[ dennis narrating ] lucien's switch play...
Snatched me from under the nose of the tonton macoutes.
♪ [ drumming, chanting ]
Marielle was safe. She was guarded by his men at her clinic, he said.
But for mozart and me, it was a different matter.
This will give you some protection. That's all.
Just like your scientific objectivity. [ gourd rattling ]
In this country, I haven't felt protected by anything.
You don't know what hasn't gotten to you.
[ gourd rattling ]
I'm not a afraid for myself. A good thing.
Up.
♪ [ drumming continues ]
[ lucien ] just remember, when the battle comes, it won't be fought in the streets,
It'll be fought in your mind, in your soul.
Marielle was right. This must end.
These people-- peytraud, duvalier--
They're not haiti, they are mad dogs.
Their madness must stop.
You're making a mistake!
The president and me, we are like this! Like this!
[ blood pouring ]
Something's wrong, isn't it?
We are in our spirits' hands now, you and I.
Remember, whatever happens,
Death is not the end. [ chuckles, coughs ]
Lucien? Lucien? [ coughing increases ]
[ gasping, gagging ]
[ sputtering, choking ] come on, lucien. Come on.
Oh, no.
- [ chattering ] - oh, fuck!
[ shudders ]
Uh!
[ muttering, groaning ]
[ dennis panting ]
Help me! [ shouts ]
I've been poisoned! No, no, no, no, no.
[ man speaking creole ]
A doctor!
[ garbled speech ]
[ whimpering, panting ]
Hey! Hey!
[ people exclaiming, shouting ]
[ heart pounding ]
[ woman speaking creole ] don't-- don't let them bury me.
I'm not dead!
[ gasping ]
Anything? Pressure? Pulse? Nothing.
[ sighs ]
We lost him.
Write the time on the tag.
We'll notify the embassy tomorrow.
No need for that, doctor.
I've made all the arrangements.
Whatever.
He's dead. I trust somebody on your end will take care of the proper paperwork.
No, no, no. No rest.
You'll see it all.
You'll feel it-- the cold in the coffin.
It is worse. Much, much worse.
[ chuckling ]
Lucien celine, the greathoungan,
He serves me now too.
Lucien can't protect you. I hold him fast!
Lucien will turn your blood to worms!
Oh, yeah? Do you hear me,blanc?
Her head will be taken as an offering tonight!
No, wait!
To keep you company.
[ hammering ]
[ peytraud ] when you wake up, scream, dr. Alan.
Scream all you want. There is no escape from the grave.
[ insects buzzing ]
[ frogs croaking ]
[ dennis gasping ]
[ shuddering, gasping ]
[ gasping ] help me! Help!
[ screams ]
[ screaming continues ]
[ gasping ]
[ scratching ] yeah! Here! Here!
[ dennis straining ] here!
[ screaming ] oh, god!
[ dennis continues yelling ]
You're alive!
You're alive.
Peytraud has your soul.
[ whimpering, shuddering ] [ speaking creole ]
I know. It's bad, the poison.
You see things the living can't see!
[ man on pa. Speaking french ]
♪ [ drumming ]
[ man on radio ] this is wwbc in miami reporting.
We've just received word from port-au-prince, haiti, that baby doc duvalier,
His wife michelle and his entire family...
Are en route to port-au-prince airport.
It was an unannounced move happening in the middle of the night,
And no one knows what it means for sure.
It is confirmed now that the duvaliers are fleeing haiti.
[ cheering ] the scene at the airport was one of barely controlled panic--
[ announcer continues, indistinct ]
Word now is that the fires of revolution are sweeping the country...
As news reaches the smaller towns and villages.
[ continues, indistinct ] [ crowd chanting ]
[ crowd shouting, cheering ]
[ man shouting in french ]
-[ crowd chanting ] - [ man shouting in french ]
[ crowd shouting, chanting ]
[ marielle ] where is your power now?
Theloathemselves are having their vengeance!
[ groans ]
[ crowd chanting ]
[ crowd shouting ]
[ groans ]
Your soul is mine.
Get up, dr. Alan. I control your thoughts now.
Get up!
[ coughing ]
[ scraping against floor ]
[ marielle's voice ] dennis.
Dennis. Help me.
Marielle? [ marielle ] help me!
Help me! Marielle?
Dennis! Quick! Don't leave.
Help me! Help me!
Dennis! [ whimpering ]
It was your fault!
- It was your work. - It was your work.
That caused this.
It was your work that caused this.
[ screaming ]
[ groaning, shrieking ]
[ gasping ]
Whoa!
[ screams ]
[ panting ]
Peytraud.
[ clangs ]
Peytraud!
[ marielle ] dennis.
[ grunting ]
[ groans ]
[ screaming ]
[ dennis screaming ]
Peytraud.
No!
- Help us, lucien. Please! - No!
[ groaning ]
[ growling ]
[ whimpering ]
[ screaming ]
[ marielle gasping ]
Hold on a second. I'm not going to leave that thing in one piece.
[ door creaks, closes ]
[ muffled screeching ]
[ screeching ]
[ yelling ]
No rest for you!
-No rest for you! - [ groans ]
You're coming with me!
You're coming with me to hell!
Fuck you!
Son of a bitch!
I'm tired of this shit!
- What do you want? - I wanna hear you scream.
- No! - Yes!
[ peytraud screaming ]
Den? You all right?
[ crowd chanting in distance ]
The nightmare is over, den. It's over.
[ chanting continues ]
[ crowd cheering ]