[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour,
there must be something on.
DAUGHTER: Oh, wow, Candy Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters, our favorite show!
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
Shh. It's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[RATTLING]
[RATTLING ECHOES]
[RATTLING INTENSIFIES]
Dr. Collin, I can't wait all day.
Do you understand me?
You have been here how long?
[CLOCK TICKING]
Eight years.
The former director has indicated in his last report
that you were making progress towards rehabilitation.
The state has a great need for gifted surgeons, Dr. Collin.
I believe, with my help,
you could still become
a useful and very productive member of our...
new society.
DR. STARR: Will I have your cooperation?
Yes.
Good, very good.
How is the new medication working?
Fine, thank you.
No more hallucinations about your little...
clay men?
No.
All right, that's all.
You may go.
I'll take you back then.
[SIGHS]
Those are gonna kill you.
I'm quitting.
It's too expensive.
Black market doesn't even have them anymore.
I'm glad you're cooperating.
I'm crazy, Dr. Jarris, not stupid.
I'm aware of the change in policy.
If we cannot ascertain the stages on capacity,
what reason is there for our existence?
What do they call it?
What?
The new cure for the incurable?
Perpetual care.
They should have made you director,
not that young idiot.
Today's procedure
will be one that I had pioneered and developed
at the Cardiac Institute,
successfully, for the first time
over 20 years ago.
Observe the detail.
It is anatomically perfect.
It is not subject to disease,
or decay,
and it cannot be corrupted.
[MURMURING]
DR. COLLIN: Quiet!
There will be no talking.
Is that understood?
[KEYS JINGLING]
Have you been there all night?
Oh...
I must've fallen asleep, I...
I was working late.
I brought the anatomy books you wanted.
Ah! They weren't easy to get.
The one with brain structure's been out of print for years.
Oh.
Ah!2
Oh, thank you. Thank you, I appreciate it.
I'd need these to complete my work.
It's important that my sculptures be perfect.
I would've thought you already knew everything there was to know.
At one time I did.
But there wasn't any room up here anymore,
and my brain exploded.
And they locked me up.
You could get out if you wanted to.
And do what, share them?
I have my work here.
I wanna say, "I am in the verge of a breakthrough."
It's remarkable what you've done.
These are so realistic.
This one almost looks like...
Hope you don't mind.
It's not finished yet.
No, not at all.
Softly, it feels very much like human flesh.
But it is, really.
We're all decaying tissue, all of us.
Turn into dust, clay.
I'm supposed to take you to the day room.
I won't go.
Dr. Collin, you promised you'd cooperate.
I won't waste my time weaving baskets.
I have to study, I have to work.
You can't stay in here all day and night.
Dr. Starr wants you to make...
What does he know?
He's a party-appointed imbecile,
a stupid little ant-brained twitch.
Please, Dr. Collin, he's just looking for an excuse to...
To what?
To be what? What are his plans?
Please come with me.
Five-twenty p.m.
Patient Collin, third session.
Administered 50 milligrams of phenothiazine PO.
[CLOCK TICKING]
How do you feel?
Sleepy.
DR. STARR: In our last session, you began to talk about
a sensation you were having of...
coming apart.
Yes.
Coming apart.
Tell me about it.
DR. COLLIN: I was working.
My arms... were becoming numb.
They seem to go dead.
And...
Then my hands separated
from my wrists, and they moved
on their own across the table.
Were you in any pain?
No, no pain.
Was it the first time it happened?
No, another time...
my heart, my lungs,
every organ in my body, it seemed to want to...
escape.
Escape? Why would they want to?
Because...
they know my body was dying.
Your physical health is excellent Dr. Collin.
It's a very strange disease. I've never...
known anything like it before.
But I found a way
[STAMMERS] to save myself through my work.
You mean your little clay... figures.
I am putting some of myself in every one of them
before I...
I collapse, I am going to...
to transfer my soul, my intellect,
my existence!
What will happen to you?
Well, my body will dissolve.
But I'll live on in them.
Don't you see? I won't really die not as we know of it.
I'll live on forever.
I have created my own salvation.
I have created my destiny.
That is, if I have the time to finish it.
Don't, don't stop me.
Don't... Please, I beg you, don't stop me.
Dr. Collin, it's all right.
Please, please, please!
There's nothing to worry about.
There's nothing to be afraid of.
What is it?
What do you see?
[CRACKLING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING]
Dr. Starr.
I can't let this go on any longer.
What are you gonna do?
Something I should've done a very long time ago.
Dr. Starr, you can't just... Please, get out of my way.
[DOOR RATTLING]
[RATTLING INTENSIFIES]
[RATTLING STOPS]
Dr. Collin?
Dr. Collin, what is this?
I was about to implant their brains.
I've only been successful with one so far.
It is a difficult surgery
in the whole process.
One mistake, and...
we can't communicate.
Dr. Collin was...
If they can understand me, they'll know what I feel,
they know what I'm thinking, my desires.
I'm sorry, Dr. Collin, but this can't go on.
You're exhausted, you've been up for nights, you're not eating.
I cannot allow this destructive behavior to continue.
What are you saying?
I'm afraid I'm going to have to remove your clay.
No! No! Please!
Don't you see what I'm doing?
I can build you a perfect race of men.
I can build you a whole perfect society!
That's what you want, isn't it?
That's what the state wants, isn't it?
I can do that for you.
And when you tear bodies apart in the war,
I can fix them,
only better than before!
Hurry up.
[SCREAMING]
[SHRIEKS]
I'll kill you!
You bastard, I'll kill you for this!
Not my work, I'll kill you!
[DR. COLLINS GRUNTING]
DR. COLLINS: You...
[SCREAMING]
Clean everything out,
strap him down, keep him quiet,
do whatever you have to, understood?
Run. Get away, run.
Hide.
[SIGHS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Come in.
I saw your light was still on.
What do you want?
I wanna talk to you about Dr. Collin.
There's nothing more to talk about. Vodka?
It's imported. No, thank you.
He'll be transported in the morning.
Please, I know I can help him.
You've already tried.
He hasn't responded to any treatment.
He's a hopeless case.
I cannot justify his therapy any longer.
Dr. Starr, that man saved hundreds of lives during the war.
He's a brilliant surgeon.
He was.
But this...
This is not the work of a sane man.
These little men have all their body parts, all of them.
He told me that if he made his men in his own perfect image,
then they would all come alive.
Just give me another month.
Oh, trust me, Dr. Jarris, there are some that we cannot save.
Admit it.
You're personally involved, aren't you?
It's understandable.
Your kind...
It moved!
[LAUGHING]
He's got you believing it too.
Here, you need one of these.
Relax.
Leave me alone!
DR. STARR: Did I say you could go?
In my world, Dr. Jarris,
there is no room for those who cannot fulfill a need,
who have no function,
who cannot satisfy the intimate demands of the system.
Everyone and everything must serve a purpose.
And who decides?
I do.
I don't like your world, Dr. Starr.
You don't like me.
May I go?
Go.
[WATER DRIPPING]
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]
I'm sorry.
I don't know what else to do.
If you only cooperated...
It's a few baskets. That hadn't been so difficult.
Such a waste.
[SCREAMING]
Dr. Starr?
[SCREAMING]
[CLAY MAN SCREAMING]
[SCREAMING]
No!
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]