The Incredible Hulk Returns Page #2

Who are you?

You had a beard

the last time I knew you,

ah... Harvard 10 years ago.

You were the guest genius at the time.

Resident Merlin,and ah... me I was...

I was in trouble a lot.

Blake?

Donald Blake?

The one and only.

Oh.

Look Davide, I don't know why

you're not using your real name

or why you want people to think

you're dead. And I don't care.

Well, that's not true really,

I'm curious as hell.

But I'm not going to

ask or try to find out.

That's your business.

And it's going to stay that way.

Thank you.

So, what are you now, Don,

medicine?

No.

I haven't practiced since...

since I signed on as the team doctor

on an ill fated expedition

into that vast and frozen wasteland

of the savage Norsemen.

Ill fated?

Yeah.

There are other words I could use.

Something happened,

something I don't understand.

Something crazy.

Well, tell me.

That's why you came

here, isn't it?

Ah... do you remember I used to have

this thing for Viking culture?

Ah... a feeling I never quite

understood, which is probably

why I signed on

as the team doctor

with this amateur,

archaeologist group headed North.

But I'm talking way North.

[music playing]

DONALD BLAKE (VOICEOVER):

On the 4th day into the mountains,

we ran into a mess of

bad weather and hold up.

One of the local guides said

it was Odin himself, head god

of the Vikings trying to blow

us back where we'd come from.

By that time I almost believed him.

In the middle of the night,

the storm just stopped.

I woke up.

It was that feeling again,

that sense of being drawn along

by something bigger than me,

and I followed it alone.

I climbed for a long time,

not lost at all. It was really strange.

I felt as if I knew

exactly where I was going.

And just after dawn

I found it, a cave.

[music playing]

DONALD BLAKE (VOICEOVER):

As I went deeper,

I understood why the caves entrance

had not been sealed by the ice and snow.

Warm volcanic air rose

through the passageway

from deep within the earth.

And the strange world I had

found became even stranger.

And there was a tall,

hand carved stone

covered with Viking writing or Runes.

And though I wasn't supposed

to read them, I could.

You have pierced the

heart of Odin, they said.

Turn and go away or go forward

and be eaten by your fate.

Very encouraging, right?

The perfect reverse psychology.

I went forward and came upon the

strangest sight of all so far,

a tomb carved from stone and

covered with more Viking writing.

Eerie as hell, but irresistible.

[music playing]

DONALD BLAKE (VOICEOVER):

The Runes told me a little.

Who... whoever was inside the sarcophagus

had been a great warrior and King.

And his name was Thor.

DONALD BLAKE:

And something else, something dark.

This warrior King had been condemned

by Odin to never enter Valhalla,

the Viking equivalent of Heaven

until he had performed a...

a number of heroic deeds,

kind of a penance for the sin of arrogance.

DONALD BLAKE (VOICEOVER):

I just had to look inside

forgetting everything I'd learned

in my crash course on archaeology

and forgetting also what

happened to the curious cat.

[music playing]

DONALD BLAKE (VOICEOVER): Inside the

granite coffin was the skeleton of a man,

a big man and all decked out

in ancient armor.

At his side was a Viking war hammer,

a very serious weapon.

When I picked it up,

held it in my hands,

I realized just how serious.

[music playing]

DONALD BLAKE (VOICEOVER):

Suddenly the cave was filled with thunder.

The... the... the stone of the coffin

was blown off as if it were made of paper.

The hammer vibrated in my hands

as if it were alive.

It... it was alive.

And I...I couldn't let go.

[music playing]

I knew the whole story then

as if I had learned it once

and I was now remembering.

I don't know how,

but I'm part of this guy,

This Thor. He's part of me.

Yeah.

All I have to do is think about

what I was like when you knew me.

And I wouldn't believe

a word of it either.

I have to understand something

before I can believe it, Don.

OK.

OK, the closest thing,

I can come to an explanation

would be what's ah...

popularly known as channeling.

The spirits of the dead

existing again through the living.

Right.

So this hammer is like a... a...

a switch, that turns the channel on.

And then, bang!

There he is.

But... but he's not a ghost or a spirit.

He's real.

He's as re... he's as real as this...

this counter

only bigger,

and ready to do whatever I ask,

as long as it's legal.

Heh.

Can you imagine having a power like this

but in order to use it, it has to be

focused on something like a good cause.

This is the '80s. I don't know

what a good cause is anymore.

But he does.

It's real clear

and simple to him.

You talk with him?

Yeah.

Well, actually he does

most of the talking.

Drives me nuts.

Wants me to be more heroic.

Me.

I don't know quite how, but I thought that...

that maybe you could help me.

Maybe finding you,

my favorite scientist alive

when you're supposed to be dead,

um... it's fated or something.

All right, all right, now wait...

wait a minute, Don.

Item,..

you were under tremendous pressure,

both physical and mental,

when you have this experience.

Now, item,...

you were in the mountains,

extremely high altitude,

and oxygen deprivation can cause

any number of hallucinatory reactions.

David look in the bag.

It is old.

Is it a hallucination?

No but it could be the key

to an overall hallucination.

You were in the cave.

You found the grave

and the hammer.

- Don, you know as well as I do...

- No David, I don't know anymore.

I don't know anything anymore.

Everything I thought of as...

as...as rock solid has turned

to sand 'cause of this,

'cause of him.

Do you know how many times

I've tried to leave this thing behind?

Tried to lose it?

It... it...it pulls me

back like a...a... a chain.

I... you're gonna make

me do this, aren't ya?

- Don, listen, to me...

- No, no, David, this is what you want.

This is the only way that

you're going to believe me.

You ready?

[thunder rolls]

[music playing]

You're a century's

version of hell, eh, Blake?

Is this a hallucination?

And this must be Banner the warlock.

Well, all in good time.

First things first.

- What are you doing?

- I'm thirsty.

What are you doing?

I'm thirsty.

Don't let him touch those panels.

Stop him. He'll wreck everything.

Don, make him stop.

You maniac, hold it for a second.

Drink, is there nothing to drink

in this alchemist's den?

I seriously doubt it.

I must not lose control.

David, he do...

he... he's harmless.

Does he pray?

I'm sending you back.

Give me that hammer.

Wait.

I won't hurt him.

All right, look, you.

Blake says that you are

wise in many things.

But if you show him how to cut the core

that Odin has spun between us...

Thor hold it.

Or if your witchcraft should harm Blake,

then I lose my chance to enter Valhalla.

And you have never seen anger.

He is praying.

- David it's...

- Go away!

Leave me alone, please.

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