Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Page #6

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In an argument at the club.

What's on the program?

I thought we'd go to Stewart's,

if that's agreeable.

Excellent! But, while it's

on my mind, Harry...

...there's something we must

straighten out.

I've gone through enough

with Beatrix over this.

I may be getting old and crotchety,

but I won't put up with it anymore.

I'm afraid you must take her

off my hands as soon as possible.

Oh, Father!

Well, Sir Charles, that's...

Of course, I insist on all the trimmings:

Wedding at St. Margaret's,

Bishop Manners, reception.

Yes, sir, Sir Charles. I'd...

Well, show her you're happy about it.

Do something, man.

Just another work of art, madam.

It's not in your catalog.

We're feeling rather gay, are we, sir?

Poole, old friend, I'm going

to be married very soon.

Sir, you don't know how

happy that makes me.

I knew it would, Poole.

Thank you.

Sir, there's a patient in the

consulting room, a Miss Ivy Peterson.

She's without an appointment.

If you've no time, I can...

No, no, that's all right. I'll see her.

So it's you, sir.

So you are the famous Dr. Jekyll.

Well...

I'm the one you and your friend

took home that night.

- Remember?

- Well, what...

...what brings you here, Miss Peterson?

- I think...

- Are you ill?

There.

That's what.

Look at that.

Pretty, ain't it?

Did you ever see a thing

like that before?

I'll get you some lotion.

Lotion?

It won't be lotion that will

do the trick, sir.

It's more than that. I need help.

I can't stand it anymore.

It's Hyde, sir.

It's a man I know, Mr. Hyde.

It's him that's done it and more.

More I can't tell you.

He ain't a human. He's a beast.

And he won't let me go, sir,

and I am afraid to run away.

Marcia, she's my girlfriend,

and Freddie, that's her friend, they...

...they say it's my nerves,

and that you know about such things.

And that you could help me.

Oh, I can't bear up under it no more!

If you can't help me...

...give me some poison

so I can kill myself.

Why didn't you try to get help before?

Why didn't you go to the police?

I tell you, I'm afraid.

No...

...he ain't a man.

He's a devil, he is.

He knows what you're thinking about.

If he knows I'm here,

who knows what he'll do.

It won't be nothing human,

I can tell you!

Oh, please. Please help me keep him off.

I'll do anything you ask, sir.

I ain't as bad as you might think.

Well...

Men say that I...

I ain't a bad looker

when I'm more myself.

You liked me once a little, didn't you?

Really, you...

You're such a fine and kind gentleman.

Honest, that night,

when you walked out of my place...

...I made as if I didn't care.

I did care.

After you'd gone,

I kept wishing you'd come back.

Truly, I did.

This man, Hyde, will never

trouble you again.

I give you my word.

How do you know?

He'll come back!

He'll come back and kill me!

No. He won't come back.

I'll see to it.

Oh, you don't know him, sir.

Oh, you don't know him.

He ain't human, he ain't!

I gave you my word.

You'll never see Hyde again.

You must believe me.

I believe you, sir.

I believe you.

You must go now.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

For a moment, I thought...

Goodbye.

I'm sorry, I shouldn't have

admitted such a person.

I didn't know she was hysterical.

That's all right.

I'm glad you admitted her.

Now, about the wedding,

we've got a lot to discuss.

- We've never been married before.

- Let's not get upset.

We'll manage it somehow.

- Good evening, Mr. Weller.

- Good evening, Dr. Jekyll.

A touch of autumn in the air.

Very seasonable.

- Wonderful, Mr. Weller, wonderful.

- Listen here.

Remember that comet

I was telling you about?

The blooming thing

didn't hit us after all.

- You know why?

- No. Why?

Because it knew at this moment,

across the park...

...Sir Emery is going to announce

the marriage of his daughter...

...to the very man you're talking to.

- Dr. Jekyll!

And my best wishes to

the Mrs. Jekyll as is to be.

Thank you. You don't mind if I hurry?

- Godspeed, Dr. Jekyll.

- Thank you, Mr. Weller!

Oh.

Here's hoping that Hyde rots...

...wherever he is.

Burn slow when the time comes.

Here's hoping that Dr. Jekyll

thinks of his Ivy...

...as I know he'd like to.

As his Ivy thinks of him.

Because he's an angel.

Here's to my angel.

Surprised?

Couldn't be that you

didn't expect to see me?

No.

I've been...

I've been waiting for you.

But you've been celebrating.

Is there some new event, some change?

No.

No. I just thought...

You've just been drinking

to calm your nerves, huh?

It is your nerves, isn't it?

Perhaps you should see a doctor.

No.

No, I don't need a doctor.

Would you like to have some wine, sir?

I'll get you another glass.

Dr. Jekyll's a good man.

Yes, Dr. Henry Jekyll.

- Is he?

- Yes. Yes.

And a fine gentleman too.

Different than any man you might know.

Yes. Yes.

"A nice, fine gentleman like yourself,

sir...

...wouldn't be knowing such a person. "

No.

"I ain't such a bad looker, sir,

when I'm more myself. " Yes.

He's the kind of man you can

get down on your knees to, isn't he?

A sweet, dear, pure man

that you can trust and believe.

He's a smug, hypocritical coward,

that's what he is!

- You couldn't know him!

- I know him intimately.

And I detest him intimately...

...from his lofty brain to

the soles of his virtuous feet!

And you, you...

"I'll do anything you ask, sir. "

Well, you saw him, didn't you?

You saw the respectable fool.

Clutched his halo and held

it straight, didn't he!

How do you know all that?

I know everything you do and think.

Dr. Jekyll wouldn't tell you.

He ain't the kind of...

And as you were leaving the room,

you turned at the door, didn't you?

And you said,

"For a moment, I thought... "

What did you think?

What did you think?

Did you think Dr. Jekyll

was falling in love with you?

You, with your cheap little dreams?

Or did you think, perhaps...

...that in him, you saw

a bit of me, Hyde?

Oh, but it confuses you, doesn't it?

It isn't quite clear, is it?

Oh...

What are you going to do?

Something so simple.

I'm going to put an end

to all that confusion.

Please, sir!

Oh, no!

Please, no!

Yes, dance.

Dance and dream.

Dream that you're Mrs. Henry Jekyll

of Harley Street...

...dancing with your own butler

and six footmen.

Dream they've all turned into white mice

and crawled into an eternal pumpkin.

Here, you in there!

Open this here door!

Police!

- Ivy!

- I'm going in.

Governor!

Ho, there!

Hey, you there!

Look here, governor.

- Steady! Whoa, whoa, whoa.

- Police!

Chase him, somebody!

Get a copper!

Police! Hurry.

Come on, open up!

Let me in. I'm a friend of Dr. Jekyll's.

- Dr. Jekyll's not home.

- He told me to wait.

- I know all Dr. Jekyll's friends.

- Let me in!

- You'll have to come back.

- Let me in, or I'll bash this door...

If you don't go away,

I'll have to send for the police!

That's him!

There he goes!

- This ain't no place to rob.

- But robbed it is!

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