Victor Frankenstein Page #5

and the right.

Bigger with the arms! Biceps.

Now what do we do?

Tilt him.

Backwards and forwards.

Let that liquid

run through the body.

Cheers.

Here's to him.

Flat head.

Why?

Because I like it, that's why.

To his two hearts.

Mmm...

Is that precious?

They've denied us

the warrant, Inspector.

As the Magistrate said,

with no sign of any foul play,

nor indeed of any crime...

No foul play?

Look at the debris

at the Royal College.

Acid burns, the same.

Bloody paw prints

on the floor.

Something's going on.

Something's happening

in that basement, I know it.

I know it.

And it's my job, my duty.

It's my moral duty to stop it.

But, sir, you have no warrant.

Yes, he's insulted you.

Yes, he's clever.

But we have no evidence.

I don't care.

I need to find out

what's in that basement.

Now we can enact

my true vision.

You and I will take

life's raw elements,

its base components, and we...

...shall assemble them

to our own specification,

to our own design.

For tonight we begin

our model...

...of Prometheus.

Um...

Tonight... actually, Victor,

I was...

I've been invited to a ball.

A what?

A ball. Lorelei's asked me.

Lorelei?

Yes.

No, no, don't speak.

Lorelei...

I shall stay here and work.

I'm sorry, Victor.

No need to apologize.

You should go off and enjoy

yourself. You deserve it.

You've earned it.

You can go now.

Thank you.

I don't know what to do.

You're already doing it.

Frankenstein,

open this door!

We'll break it down!

Open this door now!

Scotland Yard!

Frankenstein! Open the door!

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Harder.

Frankenstein! Open the door!

Victor, we have to leave!

Where have you been?

With Lorelei.

Oh, I see.

Wasting your time...

...with pointless courtship...

...while it remains to me to

take care of the work in hand!

Frankenstein!

Open this door!

Frankenstein, we're coming in!

Get this door down.

I've sent for

one of Finnegan's men

to provide a carriage.

I'm trying to

overload the conductors.

Forget the conductors!

We have to get out of here!

And let them have my machines?

Not bloody likely!

Trap door to the sewers...

it's the only way out.

Try and open it.

Pickaxe on the ice closet.

What are you waiting for?

What is that?!

Oh. Uh...

Igor Straussman,

meet Igor Straussman.

What? What did you do to him?!

Found him like that

a couple months ago. Overdose.

A couple of months?

You took his eyes!

Victor, what is

wrong with you?

You want to die in prison...

...executed by that maniac?

Hunchback!

Do you see the truth now?

This is the man

who took you from the circus.

Who would gouge the eyes

from a dead friend.

Move once more

and I'll kill you.

Do as you wish.

I have no fear of death!

Really?

I do.

I lost my wife...

...to a malign growth.

And in my suffering

I know about death.

That it's an abyss from which

no man nor woman

can be returned.

Would you not rather

have her by your side?

Would you not have her

live again?

She is alive.

In God's house.

And when I, too,

fall into that abyss...

...I shall be by her side.

Don't you see?

You trust in a fiction!

And you shall be forgotten.

That's right.

History will bury you,

Frankenstein...

...and no man

will remember your name.

No, you're wrong. Igor, no!

You'll remember me now.

Victor!

Come on, Igor!

Pull! Pull!

Frankenstein, we're coming in!

Inspector?

Finnegan.

Finnegan! Where are you?

Frankenstein! Igor!

What an unexpected surprise.

The police have raided my home

in search of Igor Straussman.

We managed to avoid

incarceration, but...

...it's just possible

we might have

gravely wounded

a police officer.

Ah. I suppose now you'll have

no choice but to leave London.

Posthaste.

Very good.

My family has an estate.

The Castle Erskine

in Scotland. It's quite...

...rural and secluded.

Ideally situated,

you might say, for...

...both your needs

as scientists and, um...

...well, fugitives.

Yes.

I'll go and prepare the coach.

Very good, thank you!

How could you do that to me?

Do what?

Keep from me

that you had killed a man

and given me his name!

I told you,

I did not kill Straussman.

You're overreacting.

You harvested his eyes!

Details.

He was a waste of space.

This fanfare from you

is more than his own family

will give him.

All right, gentlemen,

time is of the essence.

Your coach is ready.

Come, Igor.

We'll talk about this

on the way.

No.

What?

What you're doing is wrong.

You've gone mad. Come.

It's gone too far.

We simply

do not have the time.

I'm not leaving then.

Listen to me.

You have the chance here

to be part of...

Of what?

Of being lied to by you?

Of being hunted by the police

and chased by monsters?

Well, if you're going

to concentrate

on the dark side.

I'm not leaving.

What will you do?

Go back to the circus?

Resurrect your

illustrious career as...

It's none of your concern.

You're a fool.

I created you.

You think that just because

I put you in a back brace

and you cut your hair...

...you can

turn your back on me?

That you can walk out

into the world on your own?

See how far you get

with your acrobat

and your morals

and your new life.

Just come with me.

Fine.

I'm done with you.

You know... I knew

Igor Straussman.

He was a real bore.

Nouveau riche. Drug addict.

So, who are you then?

Hmm?

Doesn't matter really.

Victor's been very forthcoming

with his designs.

But I still need him for now.

You, on the other hand...

So, let's see. Your benefactor

has departed...

...your home has been

ransacked by police...

...your identity

revealed as a fraud...

...and you know far too much

for me to let you walk away.

What I'm getting at,

old boy...

...is that

you won't be missed.

Tie him up

and put him in the carriage.

You and Victor aren't

the only ones with vision.

I, too,

have a dream of the future.

A dream where my family

will control

this new technology.

Hmm? What's that?

You don't approve.

No, I imagined you and Victor

wouldn't like that much.

You know, for men

obsessed with death,

you think yourselves

so above violence.

Curious.

Good-bye, Igor.

Straussman wasn't Straussman.

The body, the frozen creature,

that was Straussman.

The young man pretending

to be Straussman

was the hunchback...

...transformed

by Frankenstein.

Inspector, this is not...

They escaped in the

Finnegan family coach.

Finnegan attends

the Royal College of Medicine.

It makes sense.

He's in on it, too,

maybe funding them.

Inspector Turpin, stop...

My guess is that

he's fled the country by now,

more than likely

alongside Finnegan...

...who, a little digging

shows, has an estate,

Castle Erskine in Scotland.

We'll find them there.

Stop it, Roderick, damn it!

No, listen to me!

We can catch them now.

We can...

...and we will.

What do you mean?

You're being removed

from the case... sir.

From the whole force, in fact.

Constable Alistair will be

taking your place.

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