Dr. Cyclops Page #2

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(DOOR CLOSES)

(FROGS CROAKING)

I tell you,

I will not be treated this way.

I will not be treated

like an errand boy.

If I were in your position, Dr. Bulfinch,

I wouldn't stir a step from here

until Dr. Thorkel had given me

an adequate explanation.

I can scarcely descend

to the indignity of bickering with him.

That's right.

He doesn't want us here,

so the thing to do is to be on our way.

Can't you even get mad about it?

What's the use?

Do you realize that after coming

all this way,

we haven't the faintest idea

even of what Dr. Thorkel is working on?

BAKER:
Maybe you haven't,

but I have.

Well, is it a secret?

Not anymore.

It's a mine, just like I always figured.

(SCOFFS) Nonsense.

Well, have it your own way, Doc,

but somebody's been mining

here off and on

ever since the Incas

built that wall.

Oh, Steve, you're just dreaming.

Whatever it is Dr. Thorkel is doing here,

it's certainly not mining.

You two are sure hard to convince.

(MACHINERY HUMMING)

(ADDITIONAL MACHINE HUMMING)

(THUDDING)

Deep.

(HUMMING STOPS)

(CREAKING)

(CREAKING)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(NEIGHING)

BULFINCH:
Mr. Stockton.

Where did these come from?

From the ore dump behind Thorkel's house.

This is not mineral.

These are bits of bone.

Dicotylinae.

What?

Native wild pig.

I will ask you to attest

that the specimens are of recent origin.

Must have been an awful young pig.

Dr. Robinson, you are to be congratulated.

You have been present at the identification

of a species of midget pig

hitherto unknown to science.

An animal exactly four inches

long at maturity.

I shall call it Dicotylinae bulfinchi.

(THORKEL LAUGHS)

THORKEL:
You are quick to

take credit, Dr. Bulfinch.

May I see the evidence?

Undeniably a very small pig.

Undeniably an absolutely new species.

Strange how absorbed man has always been

in the size of things.

As a biologist, you should remember

that size represents the chief difference

among mammals.

In all essentials, a mouse

and a whale are identical.

In any event, I am delighted

you were slow in setting out this morning.

It gives me an opportunity to pay

my respects once more before you depart.

We are not departing.

But I do not wish you here.

The discourtesy,

not to mention the outright deceit

with which you have treated me,

relieves me completely

of any obligation to consider your wishes.

I have only one comment to make.

If you remain here another hour,

you do so at your own peril.

(HORSE NEIGHS)

Pinto.

That's my horse, Pinto.

He has come back.

Pedro.

But that is Pinto.

Nonsense. Remain here.

Sure sounded like a horse to me.

Whoa, boy.

Steady, Pinto.

Whoa, boy. Whoa.

Steady, boy.

Whoa, boy.

You think maybe it is

the ghost of Pinto that he catch?

Nobody here knows a better answer.

No, Pedro, I very much fear Dr. Thorkel only

imagines he has something in that box.

What Doc means is your

boss is cutting up paper dolls.

What can he be doing in that house?

What is it that none of us may see,

not even Pedro?

How long you been here?

Five, six month.

Ever since I come down here with the rats.

What rats?

Four dozen rats, three dozen chicken,

fourteen dog, not counting Tipo,

seven cat, besides Satanas.

What happened to all this zoo?

I don't know.

Except for five chicken,

they all go in the house with Mr. Doctor.

I see nothing so very unusual in a biologist

using animals in his experiments.

What kind of tricks do you suppose

he plays with them, Doc?

I don't know.

But Satanas...

Every day she get more fat.

(GROWLS)

Let's pack up and get out of here.

Hey, Steve. Come back here.

What's up?

Here, hold this.

Say, what is this?

What do you suppose it might be?

I know what it is. It's pitchblende.

The stuff that radium comes from?

Uranium ore...

(SHUSHES)

They'll hear you.

This is the one you exposed at 10 feet.

Completely fogged.

Dr. Robinson, this ore contains

an unprecedented proportion of radium.

We'd better hurry.

Dr. Robinson and I have

reconsidered the situation,

and we've decided to remain here

to care for Dr. Thorkel.

You're important other places.

I think Bill and me ought to stay.

Oh, but we are better-equipped for the task.

And after all, he is a fellow scientist.

Why don't we quit trying

to double-cross each other?

What a pity you recognized the ore.

The same to you.

But I guess a few million bucks

split four ways ain't bad.

But it isn't just money to us.

We're thinking how important it

is to clinical and research laboratories.

Sure, with your names up over

the front door in big letters.

BULFINCH:
Quiet. Here comes Pedro.

I see no reason why we should conduct

ourselves like conspirators.

We have nothing to conceal.

We merely must decide

whether we shall permit a madman

to retain in his keeping something of

such consequence to humanity.

(WINDLASS CRANKING)

He's out there fiddling with the windlass.

Now's the time.

Pinto. He was here.

No horse is in here now.

He sure brought plenty of spare specs.

(EXCLAIMS)

His notebook.

(HORSE NEIGHS)

That is Pinto.

He's not here, Pedro.

That came from outside.

So...

Dr. Thorkel actually does believe he's

been able to reduce the size of a horse.

Bandits. Thieves.

What are you doing in my house?

You have no right even to be in my camp.

You are merely my employees,

whom I've discharged

and instructed to leave.

Now you break into my laboratory.

Get out! Get out instantly!

We're your friends, Doc.

We only want to help you.

I know what kind of friends you are.

I know what you want.

You've broken in here to learn

what I am doing

so that you can share

in the importance of my work.

But I will not permit it, and no one

can share, and I do not need help.

My notes!

Can't we lock him up somewhere?

I'm sorry.

I realize I have been hasty.

I've been working so hard

that perhaps I've lost sight

of the true values.

Will you forgive me,

my friends,

if, as a penance,

I explain to you

what it is that

I have been trying to achieve?

I give you my word.

l, for one, will take no dishonorable

advantage of your confidence.

Thank you.

All those who, in the past,

dug here for gold died

without knowing they had uncovered

something of far greater value.

A deposit of the richest

radium-bearing ore known to man.

I see you are already aware of that.

How much have you mined so far?

So far, I have extracted

nothing but the usefulness of the radium.

This tube is

my conducting channel.

The concentrator hangs down that shaft

in proximity to the main deposit.

With it I gather and conduct,

under my control,

the immense radioactive force

of nature itself.

Impossible.

Impossible?

Once, Benjamin Franklin,

with a kite, drew lightning from the storm.

In my crude way,

I am likewise drawing the cosmic force

from the bosom of the Earth.

Then what do you do with it?

I will show you.

(SLIDES BOLT)

This is my condenser.

Come.

You will note that it is similar

in design to the instruments used

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