Superbeast

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There's your village.

Go home.

Calling Dr. Sanchez.

Calling Dr. Sanchez.

You are wanted in surgery.

I'm sick.

Can you please wait out there?

Please.

I told you to wait over there.

We have so many patients.

- Please.

Doc?

Yes?

Please.

Please.

Will you please wait outside?

I'm still attending a patient.

Will you?

Over there.

Your attention please.

Flight 216 for Guam,

Honolulu, and San Francisco

will be boarding at gate

number four in 15 minutes.

Your attention, please.

Flight 216, flight to Guam, Honolulu,

and San Francisco will be

boarding at gate number four

in 15 minutes.

Flight 906 from

Manila, calling Guam.

Flight 906 requesting emergency landing.

Emergency landing.

This is Guam, flight 906.

Emergency landing clear for runway three.

This is flight 906,

request emergency standby.

Deranged passenger aboard!

Wow.

Now I'm gonna take one of those.

Thank you, honey.

Going to be in Manila long?

I don't really know.

Oh.

What's there?

Work.

Me too.

Maybe a little pleasure, huh?

What kind of work do you do?

I'm a doctor.

Oh.

What kind of doctor?

- Pathologist.

- What?

A pathologist.

Ah.

Is there money in it?

There could be.

Doctor Pardee?

- Yes.

- I'm Phil Baitson,

from the American Embassy.

- Hello. Phil?

- Yes.

- Hi.

- Come on, I've got

everything expedited.

Well, we were able to find

out his name was Cleaver,

Ray Cleaver.

He was pretty freaky, huh?

Quite freaky, yes.

Got any idea what may have caused it?

No.

That is why I'm here.

Think it might be infectious?

I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.

What were you saying?

I said, do you think

it might be infectious?

Well, it's very difficult

to tell until we get

the micros and cultures back from the lab.

Well, I'll tell what we were

able to find out about him.

He was discharged from

the Navy about a year ago.

And then he was arrested in Pangan.

Pangan?

That's where I'm going, isn't it?

That's right.

What was he busted For?

Smuggling hash.

Did he get off?

Well, he escaped

about a month ago,

and then there was no

sign of him until he stole

a pickup truck and an airline ticket.

Do you have his

medical records from the Navy?

Oh, right here.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah, that's helpful.

Where are we going now?

Well, my

instructions say to take her

to pier 13, and get her on

the coastal steamer to Pangan.

Our apologies for the

mode of transportation,

but Pangan is in a pretty remote spot,

and this is the easiest way.

I think it'll be a trip.

Don't forget these.

Thank you.

Your ticket is inside,

and also an introduction to Dr Raul Rojas

of Nivey Research Institute-

- Good.

- And he'll be in Pangan

to meet you.

Thank you.

What are you doing here?

Going to Pangan.

Oh, well, glad to have you aboard.

See you in the dining room.

Are you enjoying the trip, Madame?

Very much indeed, yes, thank you.

Fine.

Tell me, where is Mr. Victor?

Mr. Victor?

The American businessman who's onboard.

We don't have an American

passenger except you.

Is Mr. Victor here?

You know, the American?

I'm sorry.

Ah, lady, lady, I'll help you.

You let me take your bag?

I take your bag, lady.

I take your bag.

Dr. Pardee?

Dr. Rojas?

- How was your trip?

- It was fine.

Thank you.

- Is anything wrong?

- No.

I was just looking for someone,

but it isn't important.

Is this your only luggage?

Tell me, where does the ship go

when it leaves here?

On to Davao.

I read the journal.

Your report, apart from

being undeniably valid,

was most interestingly revealing.

- Oh.

- I admire your work,

Dr. Pardee.

- Thank you.

- It is most self-sacrificing.

I don't know about that.

What brings you to the

waterfront, Dr. Rojas?

The young lady, perhaps?

Dr. Pardee, Mondo Diaz.

Mr. Diaz is our local constable.

He likes to check up

on all foreign visitors

who come to this remote region.

That is unfair, Dr. Rojas.

I am not a tough officer of the law.

What is that expression, that animal name,

the young use in the States?

Pig?

Pig, yeah, yeah, pig.

I am no pig.

We must be going.

Adios, Mr. Diaz.

Adios, Dr. Rojas.

Welcome to Pangan, Dr. Pardee.

Hey, Diaz, over here.

I should tell you this,

that no one in this area,

not even Mr. Diaz himself,

has been informed of the Cleaver matter.

Oh?

I was afraid that this

revelation might cause panic

among some of the more

superstitious natives.

Until the Cleaver case,

this was the only such find.

I've been working in secrecy

to discover its pathogenesis,

and now, realizing it

is not an isolated case,

I fear something,

something on a larger scale

may be happening.

A new virus?

No, I don't think so.

Have you the micros?

So far, the cultures are negative.

I suggest we go over my data,

and in the morning, drive

inland to where Mongo,

that's what I call the subject, was found.

You got cigarettes, lady?

No, I'm sorry, I don't smoke.

Better for you, huh?

Yeah, that's what they say, huh?

You Americano or English?

I'm a little of both, why?

Just making talk.

Why just making talk?

Why not?

Why not?

Listen, I told you that I

haven't got any cigarettes.

Now why are you hassling me, huh?

I don't know.

If you were a man, I take you to Nuki's

and she'll give me a peso.

I'll tell you what.

I'll give you a peso if you

don't take me to Nuki's, huh?

Nice, I'll see you later.

They just left, boss.

You know, I was

concerned about you last night.

Pangan can be very dangerous at night.

So can New York.

Did I understand you to say

that you've been to

the Philippines before?

Very briefly,

on my way from Pago Pago

to Bangladesh.

I see that

your work has taken you

all over the world.

Yeah, and I love it.

You went to Yale Medical, didn't you?

Yeah, class of '31.

Seems something strange is

happening in their village,

an evil spirit or something,

and this evil spirit, or whatever it is

has attacked one of their villagers.

Have they seen it?

She says some of them

have seen it fleetingly.

She says it's horrible.

I guess fear is a universal thing.

We should go to the spot on the river

where the villager was attacked.

It is not far from the

place where Mongo was found.

The doctor will give us a dugout.

There's no road.

I hope you know how to paddle.

This is where Mongo was found,

and from what the doctor said,

his villager was attacked

just inland from here.

Tell me, why do you call him Mongo?

Well, when we found him, he

had no identification on him,

so we just made up the name.

If he'd had a

family, I mean, even out here

in the boondocks, most probably,

you would have found out about it, right?

Well, most probably.

Well, you know that the files on Cleaver

show that he had no

living relatives, either.

You are thinking there's a connection?

Yes, I'm thinking there might be.

Hm.

Well, I'm just as fond of Sherlock Holmes

and Charlie Chan as you must be,

but I don't think our pathological mystery

can be solved by such elementary thinking.

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