The Manster Page #5

will you, will you remember

that something's happened to him?

Something he can't control.

I know Larry.

Are you asking me not to shoot to kill?

Yes, I am.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Stanford,

I can't promise anything right now.

He's been sighted at the shipyards.

Come on.

There he goes!

Try not to shoot.

Take him alive.

No, Linda, you better wait here.

Well, between this and heat treatment,

there's a chance.

I'm not sure, but there's bound

to be some sort of change.

If he comes back.

He'll be here.

Genji came back, remember?

At the risk of being over poetic,

let me put it this way.

He was conceived in the mountain,

he'll return to the mountain.

You shouldn't have done it, Robert.

You shouldn't have

started the whole thing.

I suppose I'm just

beginning to realize that.

Still, look what I've given to science.

It's all in this notebook.

The whole case history,

except for one detail.

The formula for the enzyme.

I don't want this experiment repeated.

Ever.

I don't know what your plans are,

but don't destroy him,

not the way you destroyed Genji,

promise me that.

You did fall in love with

Larry Stanford, didn't you?

Tara, some of us aren't

meant to know love.

Not as ordinary people do.

I haven't had very good

luck myself in that respect.

But you've got to try with Larry,

you got to try to bring him back.

I tried with Genji, and

I kept trying with Emiko

even when I knew it was hopeless.

I'm afraid that was a mistake.

But with this new injection

on heat, lots of heat,

it may work.

He might separate completely,

split into two human beings.

But Tara, what will they be?

I'm leaving you, Robert.

You can't leave me, Tara.

We've gone through this before.

Do you wanna go back to where I found you?

Yes, I'll go back to that if necessary.

Don't talk like a child.

Haven't I treated you well?

Bought you anything you wanted.

What else do you want?

The illusion of respectability?

All right, if that's what

you want, I'll marry you.

That can be arranged now.

You may need this, Robert.

Police Department.

Inspector Aida, please.

Try to understand, Emiko,

and you can try harder.

Try this time.

You used to be my wife,

and before that

you were my sweetheart.

Remember?

We went to America.

We went to the university together.

We had wonderful plans, didn't we?

We were gonna be great scientists.

Like Pierre and Marie Curie.

But it didn't work out

that way, did it, Emiko?

I'm sorry.

I don't know why.

Maybe I offended the gods.

Funny.

I didn't used to believe in gods.

Forgive me.

But did you give him my message?

I see.

I see.

Come on.

Don't be afraid.

You know me.

Give me your hand.

Gimme your hand.

Let me go, let me go!

Larry!

Larry.

Well, I guess there's

nothing else we can do now.

Except wait.

I'll wait, I'll wait

as long as I have to.

It may be quite a while.

I'll have to make a formal

arrest when he's well enough.

I have no choice.

I understand, Superintendent.

It's gonna pose quite a legal problem.

Who really did all these things?

It wasn't Larry.

It couldn't have been Larry.

Must have been something, someone else.

But why did it have to happen, why?

I don't know, Linda.

He was an average sort of guy.

The image of us all.

How can I say this?

There was good in Larry

and there was evil.

The evil part broke through, took hold.

Call it an accident or call it a warning.

A warning?

I'm a reporter, not a mystic, Linda.

But there are things beyond us,

things perhaps we're

not meant to understand.

If what's happened has

made this all clear,

well then, perhaps it

makes sense after all.

Have faith, Linda.

Have faith in the good

that's still in Larry.

And in all men.

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