Frankenhooker

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Just watch my hand.

Watch it.

Watch my hand now.

Nice and slow.

Back and forth.

Watch the hand!

Come on. Do something.

Wake up. Let's go!

Let's see that peeper.

Be very careful here..

I'm gonna give it a lobotomy

Jesus..

That's it.

That's it!

That's right!

Now follow my hand.

Look at the hand.

Just follow the hand

Come on.

Gotta follow my hand.

We're in sync now.

Now we're cookin'

That's it.

That's right.

Look at it.

Jeffrey?!

Jeffrey?

Be a doll and pass me the ketchup.

Sorry.

Thanks hon.

Mom!

Let me help you with that.

Oh, no, no.

..Those hamburgers up here.

Will you hold your horses Henry?

Let me get started here.

By the way,

he's at it again in the kitchen.

Oh dear..

I'll check on him in a minute mom.

Would you?

I'd appreciate that.

Coz we can't get too real

to night, you know?

By the way,

for your own good.

Ease up on the pretzels.

Trouble?

Nah, same old thing.

Jeffrey's too strange

and I'm too fat.

What happened to your diet?

Oh, heck. I've tried it all

and nothing works.

I've tried liquid diet..

Sea food diets..

Vegetable diets..

Fruit diets..

Pills, powders, weight watchers

and clinics.

I even had Jeffrey staple my stomach

and nothing else.

Jeffrey stapled your stomach?

Yeah, but it didn't help much.

I'm still a compulsive eater.

I didn't know Jeffrey was a doctor.

Well, yes and no..

I thought he worked

for New Jersey Electric?

Oh, he does.

He's.. just...

sort of a doctor in his spare time.

Calls himself a bio-electro-technician.

Whatever that means.

Well, is he at least

going to Medical School?

Goodness no. He's been

kicked out of three of them already.

And you let him operate on you?

Well, of course. I mean..

We're going to be married.

Hi!

Watcha doin'?

Oh, what's this?

I'm not sure.

I can fix it, though.

Well not now.

Come on outside with me.

Dad's cooking tons of hamburgers.

It's so nice out there.

Good idea. I need this table

to make my Coleslaw.

Thanks sweetheart.

Happy birthday Daddy!

You didn't have to.

I've got a surprise for you.

Now close your eyes.

And don't open them

until I tell you.

They're closed nice and tight.

I wish she wouldn't have

bought me something, I know it.

OK now, turn around.

Real slowly.

OK, OK.

Stop, stop!

Now open 'em!

Ta-dahh.

And look..

Jeffrey rigged it with this remote control

so you don't even have to push it.

Thanks son.

Come on. This is your day.

I don't want any credit.

He's always been creative.

What!!

And it's so easy

you just turn it on like this.

Don't stand in front of it.

And this controls the speed..

And the direction.

So when you want it to go..

You just press this.

You're on your way chuck.

Don't stand in front of it!!

I gotta get 1600 Volts in there..

I gotta tap into there.

Tap into the North Power Station.

I'm gonna cause a burnout.

What began as a Birthday-Barbeque

ended in a bizarre tragedy

in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey today.

It was this Power mower,

that brought a quick end

to the life of 21 year old

bride-to-be, Elisabeth Shelley

Like wood through a mulcher,

the girthle fiancee

disappeared beneath the blades

of the berserk mower

that sent her personality raining down

upon the horrified birthday revelers.

In a blaze of blood, bones and body-parts.

The vivacious young girl was instantly

reduced to a tossed human salad.

A salad that police

are still trying to gather up.

A salad that was once named..

Elisabeth.

But death by lawnmower is not the end

of the strange twists in this case.

Of course it's hard to be real specific

at this point,

but yes, apparently parts of her

are missing.

Do you know which parts

or how many?

Ehh, like I said, It's hard

to be real specific at this point.

She's just one big Jigsaw Puzzle.

Jigsaw Puzzle?

Jigsaw Puzzle.

One of the eye-witnesses

to this terrible tragedy

is also the young victims fiance.

Oh excuse me.

You saw the accident happen?

I don't want to talk about it.

...and you have no idea

what happened to the head?

I..I don't know.

I didn't see it.

Last time I saw it,

it was spinning through the air.

I don't Ehh..

Why don't you just

leave people alone when they grieve?

I guess that's it.

Because this is such a quiet town

the whispers can be heard all the louder.

Whispers that are less concerned with

the tragedy that befell a young woman

than with the grizzly souvenirs

collected by a person

or persons unknown.

In Ho-Ho-Kus, this is Judy Graph

for 8-news alive.

May I?

Yeah, sure Ma.

You've been watching it again.

Can't help it Ma.

This is not healthy for you.

It's not good for you.

I can't help that either.

I don't know, Jeffrey.

Ehm..You know..

You know that girl at the supermarket

that I told you about?

She asked for you again today.

Why don't you give her a call?

I don't want to.

You don't want to?

You know it's not right for you

to spend the rest of your life in here.

Elisabeth's dead.

Life goes on.

I mean, you've gotta find

yourself another girl.

That's what I'm working on, Ma.

Oh, that's what you're working on?

I don't know, Jeffrey.

Well, you don't find someone

by hiding from the rest of the world.

Or keeping yourself

cooped up in here

or in the garage

or in that stupid Power-Plant.

Why don't you go back

to medical school?

Medical schools upset me mother.

Now, I really thought that someday

you would become a great Doctor

and I mean a great Doctor.

I mean, I never thought

that you would throw it all away

for some silly fusebox or..

Oh my god..

Oh, look..

Look!

Look!

You're working fine now.

Oh Jeffrey,

it's looking so much better.

What is he?

I'm not sure.

Oh Jeffrey.

I'm worried about you.

Yeah well, so am I, Ma.

Somethings happening to me

that I just don't understand.

I can't think straight anymore.

My reasoning is all twisted and distorted,

you know?

I seem to be disassociating

myself from reality.

More and more.

Each day.

I'm anti-social.

I'm becoming dangerously amoral.

I've lost the ability

to distinguish between right from wrong.

Good from bad.

I'm scared Ma.

I mean..I feel like sometimes I'm..

I'm plunging headfirst

into some kind of black void

of sheer utter madness,

or something.

Do you want a sandwich?

No thanks.

There's a little egg-salad

left in the refrigerator.

..I mean really.

It's no trouble.

No, really. I'll get my own dinner

tonight, thank you.

OK, but just Ehh..

I don't mean to be a pest

but could you just promise me one thing?

One thing, huh?

OK. What is it?

That you won't stay up all night.

I promise.

Goodnight, sweet boy.

Goodnight, Ma.

How are you feeling?

Sorry I'm late.

I was talking with Ma.

You know how she yaps.

Do you feel like having Italian tonight?

You look radiant tonight, Elisabeth.

Those baths are doing you

a world of good.

You've got such a healthy glow, now.

You look luminous.

Magnificent.

Wonderful.

Here's to you..

To us.

To new beginnings.

Cleanse the pallet now.

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