Professor Marston & the Wonder Women Page #5

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The kids are keeping me busy,

and we're very happy here.

I'm submitting writing samples

to publishers...

...and hope someone bites soon.

Would you say she was living a lie?

No, Wonder Woman assumes

an alter ego...

...so she can go to work

as Steve Trevor's secretary.

She's a secretary?

What's wrong

with being a secretary?

Nothing's wrong with that,

but I think it's odd...

...that Wonder Woman is all-powerful

and you have her hiding as a secretary.

She's a modern woman.

- Hello.

- Hello.

Hi, you look lovely.

- Oh, so do you.

- Hello, boys.

She has a career of

her own, she makes her own money.

- Where's Bill?

- In his office.

She is not dependent on a man.

"You too can be popular."

This one's going to sell. I'm sure of it.

So then why the elaborate charade?

This... This... This is for you.

- For me?

- From the two of us.

Oh.

So that you can play.

Oh!

It's beautiful.

Hey, kids, look at my plane.

- East of the sun

- Days bend to brightness

- And west of the moon

- We'll be diggin' a glow

- We'll build a dream house

- A righteous pad

- Of love, dear

- Where you can really lay it on me

- You should tickle him, boys.

- Tickle him. He's very ticklish.

- Near to the sun in the day

- We'll be jumpin'

- Near to the moon at night

- You'll be with me

She does it because she loves him.

- Living on love and pale moonlight

- Your fellow

- Just you and I

- We'll nix the squares

- Forever and a day

- So long, so long

- Love will not die

- We're together forever

- We'll keep it that way

- Forever

Up among the stars we'll find

She does it so they can be together.

I think it's a girl.

Really?

Well, if it is,

I shall name her Olive Ann.

Don't cry. Ha-ha.

Stop.

She does it for love.

What would happen if...

...Wonder Woman's

secret identity was revealed?

Everything would be lost.

Who's Charles Moulton?

That is my pseudonym.

Mm. Why don't you write

Wonder Woman under your real name?

Well, that's just my therapy practice.

It avoids confusion.

It's not because most Americans have

a low opinion of comic writers?

I do not care what most of America thinks.

Or is it something else?

I wonder if you're the one

with the secret identity.

Oh, good morning.

I'm, um... I'm looking for

a burlesque outfit.

For you?

Ha-ha. No.

My wife. For Halloween.

It's a surprise.

What did you have in mind?

Hmm... Uh, something Greek?

How about an Amazon?

That's fantastic.

May I?

- They are specially made in France.

- Heh.

I've never seen heels quite this high.

And how much

would something like this go for?

Are you a devotee?

- Excuse me?

- Of the high heel.

I don't know what that means.

Are you with the vice squad?

No.

Are you an officer

of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service?

No.

Hmm.

My name is Charles Guyette.

People call me the "G-string King."

Right. Heh-heh.

Honey, this is pornography.

Isn't this illegal?

Yes, yes, but look closely.

I don't understand

what we're supposed to be looking at.

Okay.

Dominance...

...inducement, submission...

...compliance.

This imagery is a metaphor

for DISC theory.

These pictures communicate

in an instant...

...what I've spent

my entire career trying to explain.

- This is what we should be doing.

- Sweetheart...

...this is pornography.

Notice the finesse of the knots.

Rope work is not an art for dullards.

People come to me all the time...

...lost, searching.

They ask me why the rope,

or costume...

...the role play.

I tell them we play roles...

...all the time in everyday life,

constantly.

Out there we are bound

by much stronger chains...

...than the ones we use in here.

But the truth is...

...men and women...

...long to control...

...and to be controlled.

It is...

...human nature.

Real life is full of pain

and disappointment...

...but fantasy, fantasy...

...is possibility.

Questions?

- Does it hurt?

- A little.

Who says there's no pain in love?

Love is painful.

We hurt the ones we love all the time

with our words, our deeds.

The nature of love is pain.

Would you like to try?

Yeah.

We'll start with something simple.

Please put your wrists

in front of you like this.

Now, wrap the rope around

as I instructed.

Olive, don't let him do this to you.

I don't mind.

You...

Why the f*** don't you mind?

Excuse me.

Of course.

You're the submissive.

Please, dear, have an open mind.

How much have you spent on this,

anyway?

- And the rest of that smut he sold you.

- It's research material.

When will you stop...

...justifying the whims

of your cock with science?

It's sick the way he controls that girl.

You know better than her

what she does in her sex life?

- Well, he's a criminal.

- So are we.

Our love is illegal.

What we do in the privacy

of our own home is our business.

I'm getting Olive,

and we're going home.

Elizabeth.

What do you think?

I...

I know you don't approve, but I...

Give me the rope.

Is this what you really want?

Then put your hands behind your back.

- Are you all right?

- Mm.

- A comic book, Bill?

- Well, it's perfect.

I'm going to inject my ideas right

into the thumping heart of America.

I mean, I'll get a real artist

to draw it properly.

She's an Amazon princess

that lives on an island of all women.

Paradise Island.

And a man crash-lands on the island?

- Yeah, Steve Trevor, the spy.

- And she wears a burlesque outfit.

Well, it's athletic.

And silver bracelets.

They deflect bullets.

And all her friends are sorority girls...

...who have spanking parties,

and everybody fights Nazis...

...and rides in an invisible plane?

Yes.

- Ahem.

- Heh.

- What?

- Bill.

We love you truly, so much.

But nobody...

I say this with all the compassion

and truth in my heart.

Nobody will ever publish this.

Yeah, so you tell that guinea, wop f***...

...he wants to get paid,

get his ass into work.

Excuse me.

I'm looking for a Mr. Gaines.

Who's asking?

Dr. William Moulton Marston.

I have an 11:
00.

You have five minutes.

You are the man

that discovered Superman?

Yup.

You're a man of considerable taste,

which is why I've come to you first.

Who said anything

about a f***ing nun?

I've created a new type

of comic-book superhero.

Her name is Suprema,

the Wonder Woman.

- Lady superhero?

- No ordinary lady superhero.

I see Suprema

as the modern-day Athena.

The American woman of tomorrow.

Yeah.

Superhero comics with female leads,

they flop.

Well, she will be different.

- A new type of comic strip.

- They already tried that.

Invisible Girl.

- X-ray Girl.

- Excuse me.

This is not a gimmick.

Mr. Gaines,

please do not make the mistake...

...of lumping me into the cesspool

of riffraff with whom you usually deal.

I am a Harvard-trained doctor

of psychology...

...with nearly 25 years' experience

into the analysis of human emotion.

I'm also the inventor of the lie detector.

No sh*t.

Suprema, the Wonder Woman

will not be an ordinary comic book.

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