The Invisible Ray Page #3

Yes, missy.

Me tell your boys.

Thank you.

[Diana crying]

Benet.

Benet.

Rukh?

[Panting]

Don't let anybody know

I'm here.

You're exhausted.

Don't touch me.

What has happened?

I made the runner

guide me here.

I've traveled day and night.

But why?

I found the place

where the meteor fell.

I've discovered an element

a thousand times more powerful

than radium.

But it's done something to me.

Something horrible.

Horrible?

[Panting]

Look at me.

Look at me in the dark.

Why, you're poisoned.

Poisoned.

And everyone I touch

is poisoned.

They die.

Die?

Yes. I know.

Let's get back

into the light.

Perhaps the metal cloth

did not protect you.

No, no, it gave me

complete insulation.

I must have been careless

somehow.

Benet, you know more of

the chemistry of the body

than any man alive.

Something must be done for me

so that I can go back

and solve the power

of this element.

There is a counteractive

for radium poisoning

derived from radium itself.

Have you a sample

of this new element?

Yes. Yes.

There.

Do you think I can be helped?

I can't say until I deduce

the atomic structure of this.

I've done that.

You'll find

my calculations there.

All right.

I'll begin at once

to work out

the counteractive.

No one must know

what's happened to me.

Is there any place

where I can hide myself?

Oh, yes.

There's a little tent

in the back

where I store

my instruments.

You can keep

out of sight there.

I'll show you.

[Insects chirping]

Wake up, Rukh.

Wake up.

You've been asleep

for an hour.

Look at yourself.

I gave you the counteractive

exactly at midnight.

My hands are not glowing.

No,

your hands aren't glowing,

nor your face.

I can touch people now?

Yes.

But remember

what I've told you.

Nothing can ever cure you.

At best,

your state of poisoning

can only be checked,

suspended.

And now that

a counteractive has gone

into your bloodstream,

you can only live

if you use a small amount

of it

at regular intervals each day

all the days of your life.

Here's the formula.

And if I exceed the time,

what happens?

Your body again becomes

the deadly machine it was.

Your touch will kill.

Shortly after that

you will become

deadly to yourself as well.

If you do not use

the counteractive in time,

you will literally

crumble to an ash.

Remember, I told you

all the conditions.

You accepted the risks.

Yes, yes. But at least

after each treatment,

I should be immune.

Normal.

As I told you,

I don't know enough yet

to say what effect

the violent surcharge

of poison and antidote

will have upon the brain.

Yes.

I took that risk.

This is the counteractive.

Guard it carefully.

And what do you

plan to do now?

Go back to my camp,

complete my tests,

and return here

as quickly as possible.

Tell no one of this.

Promise me.

I promise.

[Monkeys chattering]

[Birds cawing]

There's no use

pretending any longer.

You know that I love you.

I have known it

for a long time.

That's why

I have been afraid.

Of me?

No. Of us.

Oh, Diana,

why fight something

that's so much stronger

than we are?

We must.

Do you love him?

My father idolized him.

When he died,

I promised him

that I would marry Janos.

What are we going to do?

I don't know.

[Bell ringing]

Dinner.

We must go.

[Birds chirping]

Yes.

Yes, boss.

Where's Dr. Rukh?

Boss tent there.

Oh, yes,

I want to see him.

[Drums beating]

Dr. Benet.

How did you find this place?

We listened to the drums.

They talked of a white man

who made magic

in the mountains.

How are you feeling?

No ill effects so far?

So far, none.

You'd better

get out of the sun.

Huh? Oh, yes. Yes.

[Sighing]

[Sighs]

Some water?

There.

They expected you back in camp

long before this.

Yes, I know.

There was always

one thing more to do.

Days passed,

and before I knew it, weeks.

I have harnessed

it at last, Benet.

I could crumple up a city

a thousand miles away.

I could destroy a nation.

All nations.

You have harnessed

its power to destroy.

Have you harnessed it to heal?

That will come later,

when I devise a filter

to curb its power.

But in the meantime,

it's mine to experiment with.

Mine.

Stevens and I felt

that would be your attitude.

That was why we decided

your discovery

was too important

to be in the hands

of one man.

Just what do you mean?

Stevens is now on his way

to the International

Scientific Congress

that opened in Paris

last month.

He's taking with him

the specimen you left with me.

Why, you thieves! Thieves!

You forget we came to Africa

for a common purpose.

I discovered it.

Oh, the credit will be

given you for the discovery.

Never fear.

Oh, thieves! Thieves!

We couldn't wait

for you forever, Rukh.

Besides,

your wife has been quite ill,

so we decided

to break up camp and go.

My wife?

Yes.

She is on her way to Europe

with the Stevens.

I join them at Lake Nyanza.

Diana gone?

Stevens' wife

is looking after her.

She asked me

to hand you this letter.

She doesn't believe

I love her.

She loves someone else.

Drake?

Yes.

To come like thieves

in the night

and steal everything

from me.

Get out of here, Benet!

Get out before I...

[sighs]

[Machine humming]

Don't move, Mother.

Sit quite still.

In a few moments,

we will know.

[Exclaims]

Hand...

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, I see.

[Exclaiming]

I can see.

You see everything?

More clearly

than I ever saw before.

Oh.

I am frightened

by what I see.

I have harnessed it.

Harnessed it.

It's mine at last.

You have work to do

that will take you

all your life.

Tomorrow I leave for Paris.

No.

No. Stay here and work.

I must go, Mother.

You will find tragedy there.

I know.

In case I do find tragedy,

I leave my secret with you.

It is all there.

More power

than man has ever possessed.

Power to heal,

power to destroy.

Guard it for me.

Don't be afraid, my dear.

You will be all right.

I'm not afraid.

That is fine.

Load it, please.

I'm Dr. Janos Rukh.

Come, please.

Baby. Baby.

Can you see me?

Yes, Mommy. I can see you.

[Sobbing]

[Cries]

My baby.

Where does one find

Dr. Benet?

I am Janos Rukh.

Janos Rukh?

Dr. Benet

is in his laboratory.

I will show you there

immediately.

Now you must go,

make way for the others.

Prepare the next patient.

[People chattering]

[Cries]

Thank you.

[Sobbing]

My baby can see.

My baby can see.

Yes, Mommy, I can see.

Oh, baby, baby.

Rukh.

I seem to have arrived

at an interesting moment.

You have arrived to see

what your discovery

has done for this little one.

She was blind.

It has made her see.

Thank you. Oh, thank you.

[Mother sobbing]

Thank you, Doctor.

Thank you.

That's all for now.

It seems, as usual,

I am a little late.

No. All Paris is waiting

to pile honors on you.

You know, of course,

the Nobel Prize

was awarded to you.

Yes, yes. I know. I know.

Everybody considers you

and Sir Frances Stevens

very generous men.

I wondered about your health.

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