Edge of Sanity Page #3

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But I thought I was free.

I mean free to do whatever you pleased.

What if I followed

my every instinct, completely?

You mean absolutely no rules, no laws?

No laws, no proprieties, no holds barred.

I see a piece of food I want, I take it.

Henry, please.

I see a woman I want, I take her, as well.

Hold on, Jekyll!

You all act as if our manners,

our morality,

were handed down to us by God.

- But they are.

- No, madam, they're not.

We made them up by mutual agreement.

But what if I don't agree? What then?

I clap you in irons

and throw you in prison straight off.

You'll have to catch me first.

Whoa!

Gee-up! Come on!

Thought you might like

some milk and brandy.

I embarrassed you.

You seem... different these days. Distant.

- Perhaps you're working too hard.

- It's worth working hard.

The other doctors seem to have time to...

To...

- You know how I worry about...

- Don't.

Drink this. It'll make you sleep like a baby.

Sleep? Dear God, I don't want to sleep.

Henry.

Do you really work at night?

- Do I really work at night?

- I mean, where do you go?

To gambling halls and opium dens.

Where would I go?

- To the hospital!

- But why?

I'm working with a very special patient.

A man who can only visit me at night.

He has a strange

sort of sleeping sickness,

but I think I can help him.

Why can't he come here to the laboratory?

Elisabeth, I don't have

everything I need here!

- Well, who is it?

- Who is it?

Why do you want to know who it is?

What earthly concern

is it of yours who it is?

Are you going to conquer

the medical profession too?

Are you opening your own hospital now?

Henry, what's wrong with my asking?

Nothing, my dear devoted wife.

Nothing. You should know.

Yes.

It's a Mr. Hyde, yes, a Mr. Jack Hyde.

Why don't you see if you can find out

some more about him?

Perhaps you could help him,

perhaps you could cure him.

He desperately needs to be cured.

I'm sorry. I know you're only doing

what you have to do.

That's right. Oh, that's exactly right.

- I do love you, you know.

- I know. I know.

So, please...

...try not to distract me now.

Hello, Mr. Hyde.

Hello, sir. I'm Susannah.

You look ever so familiar.

Haven't we been together before?

Not... together, but perhaps

we've seen each other.

Mm-mm, want to get

a little bit closer tonight, right?

Why not?

Johnny.

Would you get Mr. Hyde

some malt whisky, please?

Hello, Mr. Hyde.

Becoming a real regular, eh?

- Get on with it.

- Mr. Hyde, eh?

Should I be Miss Seek?

I used to play that game

when I was a little girl.

Maybe I have been with you before.

I've been with so many,

I can't even remember.

You're new here?

That's right, but I have got experience.

Do you think I'm nice?

Well, I don't know yet, do I?

I'll do anything you want.

Come on.

Take my clothes off.

Show me.

Well, I'll just have to

take off yours, then, won't I?

You're a big man, aren't you?

Kinda like my stepdad.

If he could see me now.

Gentlemen paying a pretty penny

for what he got free.

I'll be the one in charge now.

He'd have to do just what I say.

- What would you do?

- I'd make him kiss my bloody foot.

No, my arse. And then I'd give him marks.

- Yeah.

- Hmm.

- How would you do that?

- Any way I could.

But you couldn't punish him

if he was stronger than you.

See, he wouldn't let you.

You'd have to make sure that you

were stronger than he was, hmm?

Hello.

Susannah wants to do

unkind things to you, Johnny.

Me? I never did anything

to the little tramp.

Mmm.

Aah!

Don't talk to her like that,

you little sh*t.

- You try it, Johnny. Come on, you try it.

- No. No. No!

Take his trousers off.

Tell her to take... to take hers off.

Go on, tell her.

Take off your clothes.

Whee!

That's good. Now look at her good, Johnny.

Ooh!

- You like her, Johnny?

- Yeah.

Ooh!

Ooh, yeah. Do it, Johnny.

Come on! Get on with it, you b*tch!

Yeah.

Hello, Captain. Where are you going?

Hello, handsome.

What's the rush, sir?

Don't go so fast, mister. You look like

you're running away from something.

- Let me go.

- I know how it is to be in a hurry.

I can be very fast.

Come on, now.

I'm sure you've got a minute to spare.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,

Jack jumped over the candlestick.

You see, we've ruled out that possibility

because of the motor response

at all points on the leg.

Would it simply be muscle atrophy

by this point?

But haven't you understood

the correlation of the muscle fibers

to the ganglial centers, Jenkins?

Uh, well, sir, I...

Henry!

Henry!

Hen...

...destroyed, they could never regenerate.

- They tricked me.

- What, sir?

- Who did?

- Hmm?

Who did, sir?

What business is it of... of yours?

I'm sorry.

Thank you, gentlemen.

That'll be all for today.

It's the most horrid thing

I've ever heard. Poor woman.

No human being

should have to suffer like that.

May God show mercy when my time comes.

What's that you're talking about?

Something in the newspapers today?

Newspapers? No, sir.

My uncle's wife.

She finally slipped away last week.

I'm sorry...

Please, carry on with your work.

Well, I've never spent

so much time in a church.

Better than on the street after the way

he ripped Vera Lockton up last night.

Never... Never once had to take

a handout in me life.

A girl could make a decent living

before there were murderers

wanting to chop up every pretty

young thing on the streets.

Well, then, in your case,

I don't think there's anything

to worry about.

Ha-ha. Very funny.

Mrs. Jekyll, we have a cab for you.

Thank you. I'll be there in a minute.

Hey, Nelly, you should have gone

to the free hospital, like me.

I asked the doctor for a flush,

and he did.

Hey, Nell, want me and the girls

to give you a quick chimney sweepin'?

Reverend Fowler!

Reverend Fowler!

I'll get a doctor.

No, no, get the driver.

We must get her to the hospital.

Hello. I'm Mrs. Jekyll.

Where's my husband?

Dr. Jekyll? I don't know.

Well, could you find him please?

It's an emergency.

But he's not here, ma'am.

- Well, where is he?

- I'm afraid, I don't know.

He's never here at night.

What do you mean?

He works here every night.

No, Mrs. Jekyll,

that's the only open door,

and the doctor's never come

through it, or we'd have noticed.

- Well, he's probably in his office.

- No, ma'am. I just passed it.

- He's with a Mr. Hyde.

- Who is Mr. Hyde?

Quickly, please!

Someone outside needs help.

Get a doctor.

Well, well.

Mr. Hyde.

- At least, you're here.

- Where's Susannah?

She's busy.

What, with all these murders,

there's practically nobody here at all.

What about little Liza? You'd like her.

Susannah! Susannah!

Mr. Hyde!

Here, you can't do that, Mr. Hyde!

Susannah!

Johnny, come over here, quick!

Mr. Hyde, calm down, sir.

Get out!

Get the gun, under my table, quick.

- Hey, I paid for the little b*tch!

- Keep your slut!

Help a blind man, sir.

Help a blind man, sir.

Spare a copper.

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