Man Made Monster Page #5

Say, Mike, did you hear that?

Must be something wrong

in there.

He's taking

all they can give him.

Listen to this,

they can't kill him!

He just killed two guards

in the execution chamber.

He just broke through,

he's headed for the yard!

Hey, did you hear that?

Don't touch him,

he's full of electricity.

He just broke through,

he'd headed for the gate!

He's got the warden with him.

No, they can't shoot.

Poor guy's walking dead.

No, the warden can't run!

If he starts, Dan will grab him

and he'll shrivel up like a potato chip.

Has anybody seen him?

What did the Governor

say about it?

Take it easy, boys.

Have you had any trace of him

since he walked out of the prison?

Boys, I'll be absolutely frank with you.

I haven't heard a word.

The experts say that

he can't live more than three hours.

He broke out of prison at 11:15,

and right now he may be dying

in some out-of-the-way spot.

It may be hours before we find

what's left of him.

Here's a late bulletin

on the McCormick escape.

"The body of Warden Harris has been found

in the woods near State Prison.

"Apparently, the warden tried to get away

from McCormick and was electrocuted.

"McCormick is still at large,

a menace to everything and everybody.

"Three men died during his escape,

and countless others are in danger.

"Stay indoors,

refuse him admittance to your home,

"And notify the police if you see him.

"He can only live a few hours

because the electricity which gives him life

"is running out of his body

with every step he takes. "

Frank!

Hey!

Frank!

But you can absolutely quote me as saying

that the danger has passed,

that the public has nothing...

Yeah?

Urgent on one.

Stanley speaking.

My name is Frank Davis.

I'm at the Lakeside Rod and Gun Club.

A man just came out of the bushes

and scared my wife.

It must be that escaped convict, McCormick.

Yeah?

All right. Thanks, Mr. Davis.

I'll take care of it.

Sergeant, I want you to

have 10 men

and two squad cars

downstairs in five minutes.

Yes, sir.

McCormick just scared the life

out of some people out at Lakeside,

and he's stolen a pair of rubber boots.

Rubber boots?

Well, then he won't die!

Let me get to that phone.

Gangway!

Did you say Lakeside?

Yes.

Well, that's out at The Moors!

Yes!

Hey, get back!

Hey, look out!

Get away from them.

Get away!

Attention all police and sheriff details,

Dan McCormick, convicted murderer

who escaped from State Prison tonight,

is somewhere in the neighborhood of

Oak Road and Crescent Drive, The Moors.

He's headed

for the laboratory!

Step on it, Regan.

May I help you?

I was just

tidying up a bit.

How nice.

Yes, well,

I think I'll be going.

Is this what you wanted?

Go on, take it, read it.

It contains the most

amazing record

of the extraordinary experiment

that was only completed tonight

when Dan McCormick walked away

the electric chair.

I knew you'd done

something terrible to him.

Terrible?

Was it terrible that I gave him life?

I have made a great discovery,

and I present it

with a spectacular demonstration.

Tonight the whole world

will be talking about Dan McCormick.

Not a handful of musty scientists,

but the whole world!

You mean you deliberately

let Dan go to the chair

when you might have saved him?

At first I intended to, but...

Oh, no, no, no, no, no,

he really killed your uncle.

True, he was under my control at the time

and didn't know what he was doing,

but he killed him.

My efforts at controlling him,

in fact, were so successful

that the temptation of putting him

to the supreme test grew too strong.

And they give him

a sanity test.

Yes.

Ironical, isn't it?

Dan McCormick, as you knew him,

was doomed from the first day

he came into this laboratory.

For years I'd hoped to

find a subject with an immunity

that would enable me

to test my theories.

You mean you deliberately

destroyed him!

I killed one human life in order

to prove one great scientific truth.

You know, it's a curious fact

that ever since my earliest experiments

with rabbits and guinea pigs,

I've always found

the female of the species

was more sensitive to electrical

impulse than was the male.

It's fortunate

that we met here.

Shall I show you

how it was done?

Dan!

Stop!

Stop!

Dan, stop!

Stop, I tell you!

Dan, stop, I tell you!

Stop! Can't you hear me? Stop!

I'll take your power

from you!

Dan, it's the police!

Dan, don't run away.

We know what they did to you.

Here's the book. There must

be some way to cure you.

Dan, please.

Gordon, Logan and Mac, come with me.

Sergeant, cover the grounds.

Blake, Murphy, around that way.

The rest of you fellows, come with me.

Rigas!

Electrocuted.

Dan!

Look.

He's just started

across the field!

He's carrying something.

It's a body.

June!

June!

Dan!

Dan, where are you going?

Dan!

He's gonna hit the fence!

Dan!

Listen, put me down!

He's caught

on the barbed wire.

If it cuts through that

rubber suit, he's finished!

Dan!

Dan, get away from that fence!

The electricity's

running out.

And when Dan carried me out of

the laboratory, I held on to it.

Well, has anyone else seen it?

No one alive.

We can have photographs

of the notebook,

and photostats of the pages

in Rigas' own handwriting!

Do you think

you ought to print it?

Do I think I ought to print it?

Why, this story will get me

the Pulitzer Prize!

Do you want to

make it possible

for someone else to do

what's been done to Dan?

Well, no, but...

Yeah, I see what you mean.

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