O Lucky Man! Page #4

Almighty and most merciful Father.

We, thine unworthy servants.

We, thine unworthy servants.

Do give thee most humble

and hearty thanks.

Do give thee most humble

and hearty thanks.

For all thy goodness and loving

kindness to us and to all men.

For all thy goodness and loving

kindness to us and to all men.

We bless thee for our creation.

We bless thee for our creation.

No.

Not that.

That's God's food. That's for God.

You're only a boy.

Keep on there.

Go straight across the fields

and through the woods.

You'll find the motorway.

Go south.

Kit. May.

The children will show you the way.

Remember, go south.

There's nothing in the north

for a boy like you. Good luck.

Come on.

- Where are you making for?

- London.

In a hurry?

- Why?

- Like to pick up some spare cash?

- What for?

- Nothing much.

Scientific research. Medical.

You know the kind of thing?

We need volunteers.

- How much?

- Hundred quid.

Hundred and fifty and you're on.

I'm not authorized

to vary the terms, sir...

...but if you'd like to come up to

the centre,

you can talk it over with the chief.

Okay, okay.

Okay.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

Welcome to the Millar Clinic.

Will you take a chair, please?

- Will you take a chair, please?

- Oh, thank you.

Your full name, please, sir.

Michael Arnold Travis.

- And yours, madam?

- Elizabeth Valerie Stewart.

E. V. Stewart.

- M. A. Travis.

- How much are they paying you?

Hundred and fifty pounds.

I'm getting 75

and all the food I can eat.

Professor Millar

will be with you in a minute.

You must have inhaled at least

3 milligrams of Novocain.

Sir.

So that's a distinct improvement.

- Doctor Bee?

- Sir? Yes, professor?

I'll be coming into

your department at 11.

I'll want Mrs. Unwin

under the pathescope.

We may have to remodel her transplant.

- Certainly, professor.

- How long is it now?

- Three hundred and fifty seven days.

- Frenkel in Boston...

...kept one surviving for 14 months.

I'd like to beat him.

You will, sir.

- Professor Millar...

- one moment, Houston...

The new intake is ready, professor.

Splendid.

Oh, Professor Millar, can I borrow

a heart from the organ bank for three

days?

I'll have to come back to you

on that one, Houston.

We may need everything

we've got this week.

- Delighted to have you here.

- Very well.

- I'm Professor Millar.

- How do you do, sir.

Do sit down.

Excuse me.

Interesting.

Good.

I'm delighted to have you here.

I'll see you both later.

Sister Hallett,

Room 9 for Mr. Travis...

...and 36 for Mrs. Stewart.

I'll want a complete analysis on

Travis

by this afternoon.

Yes, professor.

Hughes, Keating, please.

Waterworks, okay?

Yes, fine, thank you.

No inherent madness in the family?

No, none whatsoever.

Where's she taking my suit?

Don't worry,

you'll find it in your wardrobe.

- Just flex your wrist.

- Ever seen insects...

...crawling up the walls? No fits?

No, never.

- Ready when you are, Stanley.

- No typhoid, cholera, epilepsy?

Usual jabs at childhood?

All right. Here we go.

Hello. E.X. At 82 percent.

- Are you sure?

- Well, have a look.

Frontal circuit 7.4, rear lobes

neutral.

Step it up a bit.

J. M. Will be happy about this.

Michael, I don't know

if anyone's ever told you this...

...but you happen to belong

to a very rare group of encephaloids.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Essentially, it means...

...that you are in a position to be

particularly

helpful to us in our research.

What kind of research?

What do you think is the most

successful

animal that's ever lived on this

earth.

The ant?

The dinosaur.

Do you realize that the dinosaurs

dominated

this globe for 140 millions years...

...before they became extinct?

Man has been on this planet

for only a fraction over 40,000

years...

...and yet already he faces

extinction.

In fact, the species will be lucky to

survive

beyond the year 2010.

Mankind has only one hope.

Science.

Technology is the survival kit

of the human race.

Even the politicians realize this.

What they don't, or won't, realize,

is that the technical solutions...

...are already within our power.

The entire population of India could

be rehoused on the moon within 10

years.

It's only a matter of learning to live

in a new way.

Absolutely still.

We have almost conquered

the concept of disease.

With present transplant techniques...

...there is no reason why everyone

shouldn't live to be 250 or 300 years

old...

...instead of our present

miserable 70 or 80 years.

We're on the verge of a series

of discoveries that will transform...

...our conception of human life.

What's all this got to do with me?

Michael, at this very moment...

...in laboratories throughout the

world,

life is being created.

It's only a matter of years,

perhaps even months...

...before we can produce a whole

generation

of new and far more fully adapted

creatures.

I have a mongrel in the experimental

wing

here who can't tie his own shoelaces.

By the end of the summer,

he'll be a contract bridge champion.

Falling in love, making love.

We'll no longer need to depend on this

inefficient way of distributing

random genes.

Computers programmed

to select the correctly matched...

...DNA molecules will be able to

produce

an entirely satisfactory human breed.

This is the future, Michael.

This is the work

for which I need your help.

Yes, but what's gonna happen to me?

Will I come out the same as I went in?

Not the same...

...better.

Now, I would just like you

to sign this release form.

"I hereby consent to lease

the Millar Research Clinic...

...all physical experimental rights

in my body...

...for one week

for the sum of 100 pounds."

I'd like to help, Professor Millar...

...but 150 pounds

is definitely my minimum price.

Definitely.

A figure like that is just beyond us.

One hundred and fifty pounds,

and I'm not going to argue about it.

A hundred and thirty.

A hundred and forty five.

A hundred and thirty five.

A hundred and forty.

Done. Sign by the cross.

Sister Hallett?

Yes, professor?

Give Mr. Travis a sedative.

Certainly.

Sleep well, Michael.

- All quiet?

- Yes, professor.

- No fluctuations?

- Quite stable.

I'll take him first.

It'll be a long job.

Four or five hours.

Do you think it'll take, professor?

There's an even chance.

- He's in reasonably good condition.

- Oh, yes.

- Is he sterilized yet?

- Not yet, professor.

- You better send for Doctor Bee.

- Yes, professor.

We require two injections

during the night.

One at 12 and one at 4.

Is that understood?

It's all right.

How much are they paying you?

How much are they paying you?

Hello, is there anybody there?

For chrissake!

You could have killed me!

- Why don't you look where you're

going?

- Are you all right?

Hey, cut the conference!

Look at my bloody suit!

Are you suing us or are we suing you?

- You going to London?

- Yeah, we were.

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