The Fly Page #3

I think I will have a cannoli

after all. Waiter!

What an accomplishment.

But what have I really done?

I've said to the world:

"Let's go. Move.

Catch me if you can". Waiter.

Jesus Christ!

Oh, God. Wait.

Oh, God.

What?

How can you keep going?

You can't have any fluid left

in your body.

We've been doing this for hours.

I'm not ready to quit yet.

Come on.

Hey. What's this?

It's an attempt to distract me.

Really, what is it? It's like...

-...hairs or something.

- I don't know, it's....

It happens when you get older,

weird hair.

They're really coarse.

I've never been hairy enough.

Know what I mean? Always too boyish.

I look forward to a hairy body.

It's one of the compensations

of old age. Where are you going?

Not my new hairs. What are you doing?

Relax.

You don't want a body

covered with these.

God! They're really tough!

Listen.

I want you to go through.

I want to teleport you right now.

I hardly need to sleep

and I feel wonderful.

It's like a pure, benign drug.

The power I feel surging inside me...!

We'll be the perfect couple.

The dynamic duo. Come on.

- Right now.

- Hey, wait.

Don't give me that born-again

teleportation. I'm scared.

What do I have to say?

I'm not gonna do it!

You're a f***ing drag, you know?

Something went wrong. When you

went through, something went wrong.

No? Not you?

If you're too chickenshit to be

in the dynamic duo club...

...I'll find somebody else

who can keep up with me.

Listen to me...

You're afraid to dive

in the plasma pool.

You're afraid to be destroyed

and re-created.

Think you woke me up about the flesh?

You only know society's

straight line about the flesh.

You can't penetrate society's

sick gray fear of the flesh.

Drink deep, or taste not the plasma

spring. See what I'm saying?

This is not just sex and penetration,

but penetration...

...beyond the veil of the flesh.

A deep, penetrating dive

into the plasma pool.

I'll have a scotch.

Who's winning?

I don't know.

I hope it's Marky.

- How come?

- Because.

I like Marky tonight.

I like you tonight.

Maybe I'd better get involved.

Hey, pal, you're disturbing us.

$100 says I can beat either of you.

Take a hike, a**hole.

Here.

Here's my hundred.

I get to take her home if I win.

Says who?

Do I look like a hooker?

Tawny, it's an easy hundred.

Let's get it over with.

- Watch out. He eats chocolate bars.

- So I noticed.

Are you a bodybuilder?

I build bodies. I take them

apart and put them back together.

Well, you sure took Marky apart.

- Let's go to my place.

- Your place?

Well, okay.

I live with my mother anyway.

But could we go

to a few more bars first?

- It's too early to quit.

- Sure, a few more bars.

Great place.

There's no elevator.

- I can't make it.

- There's an elevator.

There, don't you feel elevated?

Whoa.

Wow.

Are you a magician?

Yes.

So, are we going to breakfast or not?

It's your turn.

- To do what?

- To go through.

No. I don't want to try that.

It'll make you feel sexy.

I already feel sexy.

How about...

...a nice...

-...alcohol rub?

- Don't do that! It hurts.

Sorry, hon.

I didn't know you had

the skin of a princess.

- You're sensitive.

- Okay!

That's it. You're going to like it.

- I don't want to. I'm afraid.

- Don't be afraid.

No.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Who's this?

Oh, I live with my mother too.

Mom, meet Tawny.

I gotta go.

Thanks for a wonderful time.

Why'd you scare her off? Jealous?

You're changing.

Everything about you is changing.

You look bad.

You smell bad.

I've never bathed much.

Those weird hairs that grew out

of your back, I took them to a lab.

I had them analyzed.

The hairs?

The hairs?

Oh, yeah.

That's a strange thing to do.

Not as strange as the results.

The guy had trouble identifying them.

He finally concluded that they

were definitely not human.

- Very good.

- Not human, Seth.

In fact, very likely insect hairs.

That's ridiculous.

Look.

There's more. Look at your face.

Something happened.

You need help. You must be sick.

You're jealous!

I've become free

and you can't stand it.

You'll do anything to bring me down.

Does this look like a sick man to you?

No, stop it!

Can a sick man do that?

The deal is off.

I don't need you anymore.

Seth, please, wait. Seth!

Don't come back.

Oh, God....

Oh, no.

What's happening to me? Am I dying?

Is this how it starts? Am I dying?

Brundle, Seth.

Give me a disc.

I need the first

teleportation:
S. Brundle.

Run sequence.

Hello.

Seth.

Seth, I've been trying to reach you.

Where are you?

I've been afraid to see you.

Now I'm afraid not to.

Are you at home?

You don 't know how right you were.

I've gotten...

...much, much worse.

Please come see me.

Please come now.

Seth?

I'm here.

Stop!

Seth!

You were right.

I'm diseased...

...and it might be contagious somehow.

I wouldn't want to infect you.

And it's been accelerating.

It's unrelenting.

Every day there are changes.

Every time I look in the mirror,

I'm someone different, repulsive.

What happened?

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly

Perhaps she'll die

Seth, please.

I was not pure. The teleporter

insists on purity. I was not pure.

I don't know what you mean.

A fly...

...got into the transmitter pod with

me that first time when I was alone.

The computer got confused.

There weren't supposed

to be two genetic patterns.

And it decided to splice us together.

It mated us, me and the fly.

We hadn't been properly introduced.

My teleporter turned

into a gene splicer.

A very good one.

I'm not Seth Brundle anymore.

I'm the offspring

of Brundle and a housefly.

Oh, God. Oh, God, Seth!

You look so pretty.

What will happen?

I think it's showing itself

as a bizarre form of cancer.

General cellular chaos and revolution.

I'm just gonna disintegrate.

In a novel way, no doubt.

Then I'll die.

- And then it will be over.

- No, I don't accept that.

There must be something we can do,

someone to go to, tests to be done.

No! I won't be

just another tumorous bore...

...talking about his hair falling out

and his lost lymph nodes.

What do you want me to do?

Why did you call me?

Oh!

Oh.

That's disgusting.

My...

...ear. No!

I'm scared.

Help me.

Please, please, help me.

- Don't go back to him.

- That's it?

That's your advice?

It could be contagious.

It could become an epidemic.

I have to go back to him.

- I don't believe this.

- If you saw him, Stathis....

If you saw how scared and angry

and desperate he is...

I'm sure Typhoid Mary was nice

when you saw her socially.

- I do not want...

- I don't care!

All right, fine, okay.

Do I have permission to claim

your body when this is over?

Oh, God....

Look, how about this?

You say, if only I saw him.

Show me.

Tape him. Show me.

Let me think about it.

I'll come up with something.

Seth?

Seth?

No, no, no. Up here.

I've gotten pretty good at it.

Yeah, it's almost second nature.

I stopped biting my nails.

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