Hulk Page #4

But I killed them.

[Grunting]

[Panting]

[Bruce panting]

BETTY:
Oh, my God.

lt must be the nanomeds.

lt must be the gamma exposure.

But we've never seen any effect

like this before.

BRUCE:
No. Deeper.

The gamma just unleashed

what was already there.

Unleashed what?

Me.

lt.

[Heaving]

lt's okay.

What were those animals?

My father sent them.

He is my father.

He wanted me to change.

He wanted me to change

into that mindless hulk.

And why would he want that?

Can you remember anything?

ls there anything

from when you were changed?

lt was like a dream.

About what?

Rage.

Power.

And freedom.

[Birds chirping]

[Cell phone ringing]

Hello.

Sir.

Hello.

-Dad?

-Betty, are you all right?

l'm scared.

-l need your help.

-Where are you?

How are you?

Okay, l guess.

l think that somehow your anger

is triggering the nanomeds.

How could it? We designed them

to respond to physical damage.

Emotional damage

can manifest physically.

Like what?

Serious trauma.

Repressed memories.

Your father grilled me

about something...

that happened to me

from early childhood...

that l'm supposed to remember.

BETTY:
He did?

BRUCE:
lt sounded bad...

but l honestly don't remember.

The thing that worries me...

is a physical wound is finite.

But with emotions, what's to say

that it won't just go on and on...

and start a chain reaction?

You know what scares me the most?

ls that when it happens...

when it comes over me

and l totally lose control...

l like it.

[lndistinct beep]

lt's okay, l've got you. l'm sorry.

You'll be okay.

lt's just to make you sleep.

SOLDlER 1 :
Target down.

SOLDlER 2:
Target secure.

BETTY:
l'm gonna take you

someplace safe, okay?

Bruce. Bruce.

[Helicopter whirring]

[Dramatic instrumental music]

[Ethereal female vocals with dramatic music]

[Severe instrumental music]

[People talking]

OFFlCER:
Attention on deck.

ROSS:
Carry on.

BETTY:
We're buried out here

in the middle of nowhere.

How long are you gonna

keep him sedated?

For the rest of his natural life,

if l have to.

BETTY:
You said l could trust you.

ROSS:
l'm your father.

Trust me to do

what l think is right...

not what you think you want.

-He is a human being.

-He is also something else.

Suppose he gets out...

and has one of his little

mood swings in a populated area?

Yes, l'm aware

of the potential danger.

l'm also aware

that he saved my life.

Yeah, from a mutant French poodle.

l'm indebted to him for that.

He also put three men in a hospital,

and Talbot's barely walking.

-l mean, what do you want me to do?

-l want you to help him!

Why is he such a threat to you?

Because l know what he comes from.

He is his father's son,

every last molecule of him.

He says he doesn't know his father.

But he's working in the same,

exact goddamn field his father did.

So either he's lying,

or it's something worse...

ROSS:
and he's....

BETTY:
What?

Predestined to follow

in his father's footsteps?

l was going to say ''damned.''

Of course you were.

But l'm a scientist,

and as a scientist...

l believe we can figure this out

and he can be helped.

l know you do.

Look, whether you know or care...

l've got a lot of pride

in what you've done.

But this is too big for you.

Look, l know the government thinks

they have a weapon on their hands...

otherwise, he'd be dead by now.

They can probe and prod

all they want.

Meanwhile, let me try to help him.

Nobody knows him better than l do.

What did David Banner do to him?

SOLDlER 1 :
Cover left! Cover right!

[Police siren wailing]

[Suspenseful instrumental music]

[Machine hissing]

[Machine whirring]

[Banner yells]

[Eerie instrumental music]

[Metallic clanking]

[Creaking]

[Door opening]

GUARD:
What's happening here?

BANNER:
My hand.

You see,

the strength of my son's DNA...

combined with

nanomed reconstruction....

You see, l can partake

with the essences of all things.

l'm gonna have to ask you

to put your hands up, pal, okay?

Nice and easy.

Do you really believe

that l am separate from you?

[Banner laughing]

[Guard yells]

[Banner grunts]

[Solemn instrumental music]

Where am l?

You're home.

[Solemn instrumental music continues]

BETTY:
lt's hard to believe

we used to live here.

l must have seen you or known you.

lf only l could remember.

This is my old house, isn't it?

[Tense instrumental music]

Let's go.

Please try.

BETTY:
What is it?

BRUCE:
Nothing.

BETTY:
Really?

BRUCE:
Damn it.

Okay, Betty.

What do you want to know?

What was in that room?

[Tense instrumental music]

What are you afraid that l'll see?

See? There's nothing.

lt's empty.

BETTY:
What do you mean

I don't have access to him?

NSA has decided to turn over

study of the threat...

to Atheon.

But you're head of the base.

l thought you were in charge.

ROSS:
l don't set policy.

And l still take orders.

[Ross yells]

l can't believe

Talbot would go around me like this!

There's a lot of powerful people

who want in on this...

and money to be made, lots of it.

Know the worst part about all this?

When l had David Banner locked up

and sent that kid away...

l didn't give the boy

a second thought.

He was just collateral damage.

He isn't anymore, is he?

What can l do?

You can go home now.

I'd tell you to go and say goodbye,

but I've already been informed...

that for now all further contact

is out of the question.

Right.

[Solemn instrumental music]

[Door opening]

[Door closing]

Hi, Bruce. How you feeling?

The grub okay here for you?

-What do you want?

-That's a good question.

l need your cells to trigger

some chemical distress signals...

so you can turn

a little green for me again...

and l can carve off a piece

of the real you...

analyze it, patent it

and make a fortune.

You mind?

l'll never let you.

l'm not sure

you've got much of a choice.

[Stun gun zapping]

TALBOT:
Come on,

aren't you feeling a little angry?

After all,

you've only got me to play with...

now that Betty's dumped you

and gone back to Berkeley.

You're lying.

TALBOT:
You know, for me,

this is a win-win situation.

You turn green, all these guys

come in and kill you...

and l perform the autopsy.

You don't...

and l mop the floor with you...

and maybe by accident

go too far and break your neck.

lt's bad science, maybe...

but personally gratifying.

TALBOT:
Come on, Bruce.

Let's see what you got.

Never.

[Thudding]

You know, consciously,

you may control it...

but subconsciously,

l bet that's another story.

[Eerie bubbling]

All right,

let's jump-start those brain waves.

[Typing]

[Beeping]

[Voices echoing]

My dear Miss Ross, welcome back.

There are two guards right outside.

You don't have to worry.

l'm not angry with you, not anymore.

What do you want?

lt's over for me now, l know that.

And soon it will be over for Bruce.

That's why l've come to you,

to ask you...

if you could persuade your father...

as a man, as a father himself...

that if l turn myself in now,

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