Dead Ringers (1988) - full transcript
The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ?
- You've heard about sex?
- Sure I have.
- Well, I've discovered why sex is.
- You have? Fantastic!
It's because humans
don't live underwater.
I don't get it.
Fish don't need sex...
...because they just lay the eggs
and fertilize them in the water.
Humans can't do that
because they don't live in water.
They have to... internalize the water.
Therefore we have sex.
So you mean humans wouldn't have sex
if they lived in the water?
They'd have a kind of sex.
The kind where you wouldn't have
to touch each other.
I like that idea.
Have you heard of scuba diving?
It's just new.
Self-contained
underwater breathing apparatus.
Exactly.
- Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- Yeah. You ask her.
Raffaella, will you have sex with us
in our bathtub?
- It's an experiment.
- Are you kidding?
Fuck off, you freaks!
I'm telling my father
you talk dirty.
Besides, I know for a fact
you don't even know what "fuck" is!
They're so different from us,
and all because we don't live underwater.
- The morculum is working superbly.
- Shall I insert the manticulator?
Please.
What's the diagnosis?
Intra-ovular surgery.
Where did you get
that instrument?
- We had it made for us.
- Really?
Might be fine for a cadaver.
It won't work with a living patient.
To our fabulous twins...
...who have, as mere undergraduates
already brought us glory.
Hear, hear!
And here it is...
...in solid gold...
Er, well, solid gold plate,
that is.
The Mantle retractor,
which is now the standard of the industry.
Here's to a brilliant future.
Here it is.
- That's wonderful.
- Yeah.
They got the pivot pin
in backwards.
Bev, you should've been there.
I was.
Well? Are all the necessary
parts there, Doc?
Yes, they are.
And there are a couple of extra ones
that shouldn't be.
Not funny.
Er, no... I wasn't joking.
Would you excuse me a minute?
I'll be right back.
Elly, I want you to look
at this woman before you go.
I'm late, Bev. If I fuck up with
the chairman's wife, we lose our grant.
She's a trifurcate.
I've never seen anything like it.
Yeah, I'll be down in a minute.
It's Dr. Mantle.
Keep the car waiting. Thanks.
- Is this
aire Niveau?
- Yeah.
- What, the Claire Niveau?
- Yeah.
- Oh, what's she doing here?
- A mini-series.
She's got three agents
and a bodyguard in the waiting room.
- And her life is empty without children.
- How did you know?
Come on, Bev,
everyone knows that!
Don't you ever read the National Enquirer?
"Star's life empty without children."
I hope National Enquirer also explained
how we can make her fertile...
...because I don't think I can.
- Then we'll have to see what I can do.
- Elly.
What about dinner
with the chairman's wife?
I guess "la bella contessa"
will have to wait.
Right, let's take another look.
Yes...
That's fantastic.
I've never had anybody say that
about the inside of my body before.
Surely you've heard
of inner beauty?
I've often thought there should be
beauty contests for the insides of bodies.
You know, best spleen...
Most perfectly developed
kidneys...
Why don't we have standards of beauty
for the entire human body?
Inside and out?
I have a feeling you do.
So I'll tell 'em to fuck off.
Pardon my French.
Don't tell them to fuck off.
I need the work.
This mini-series
is paying peanuts.
You don't need to be humiliated.
I've decided.
I want to be humiliated.
Tell me about my uterus.
Well, it has three doorways.
Three cervixes...
...leading into three separate compartments
in your uterus.
That is fabulously rare.
- Do you have trouble with your periods?
- Listen...
...I'm gonna be late
for the Axelrod meeting.
- You'll be okay?
- Goodbye, Leo.
Remember, I need the humiliation
as well as the money.
I almost never have periods.
Once or twice a year.
Not very enthusiastic ones.
Could I have triplets,
do you think?
One in each compartment?
- No. It doesn't work like that.
- Really?
How does it work?
How did it go with
"la bella contessa"?
- Did we get our grant?
- You were great.
Seductive and charming
as usual.
- And I think you've got your grant.
- Hey.
Wait a minute.
What's this I hear?
It's for us, not just for me.
- It's for Mantle Inc.
- Yes, yes.
- I know.
- Did she catch on?
"Ah, Contessa,
you're looking so -
...I don't know -
so Catherine Deneuve tonight.
And how is Marcello?
Due cappuccini, per favore,
and quickly.
The Countess is a tigress until
she's got her caffeine in the morning."
Hey...
Come on...
I'm not that bad.
You're a little bit smoother
in real life.
And the movie star...
How is she?
She's expecting me
for lunch tomorrow.
So you're going to find out
for yourself.
- Oh, no.
- Oh, yes.
It's all set up.
The production's rented her
this little apartment...
...in Rosedale.
She'll just be getting
out of bed...
...all cozy and warm.
Elly...
...the clinic's booked to the hilt.
We've got to pay the rent, you know.
- I'll take your patients.
- Oh, yes...
I want you to go.
Bev, you've got to try
the movie star.
She's unbelievable.
Don't worry,
you'll be all right.
Just do me.
What did you do to me
last night?
I'm still vibrating all over.
I learnt it from books.
I wish more men
would read those books!
Drink?
No... thanks.
Well, Doc...
...what's the prognosis?
Can I have a baby...
or can't I?
You're asking me that now?
I mean, here?
You said the results
would be back today.
There's no chance that
you'll be able to bear children.
I'm not surprised.
You must've been
tested before.
Oh, they said... I wouldn't have
an easy time getting pregnant.
But I've been taking
hormone injections.
And I have been
extremely promiscuous.
I've never used...
contraceptive devices.
I've never even thought
contraceptive thoughts.
There are other reasons for
not sleeping with just... anybody.
That's true, you know.
I never thought of that.
Oh, of course, you...
...had a chance to...
...check me out thoroughly...
...before you jumped on me.
Are you that careful?
- Do you only have affairs with patients?
- No, I was... concerned.
Am I bad? Is that it?
You gonna spank me, Doc?
It hadn't occurred to me.
I've been bad,
and I need to be punished.
I need to be punished.
Danuta.
Danuta.
Danuta!
As soon as we get some cold water
on your face, you'll feel much better.
Here we go.
Elly, what happened?
Thank God you're back, Bev!
I'm just no good
with the serious ones.
Why are you back?
I'm just no good
with the frivolous ones.
All she wanted was
a little slap on the arse, Bev.
Yeah?
Yeah, well...
...I wondered what the fuck my brother
had got us into behind my back.
She's an actress, Bev,
she's a flake.
She plays games all the time.
You never know
who she really is.
Yeah.
I can see that.
You can?
Yeah.
So... when are you gonna
see her again?
- She's called the clinic five times already.
- I don't know.
Perhaps you'd better go.
Wait a minute.
- This is serious.
- No, it's not.
Yes, it is.
If we didn't share women,
you'd still be a virgin.
- No.
- You'd never get laid on your own.
I don't get out much.
Listen, the beauty
of our business is...
...you don't have to get out
to meet beautiful women.
- No, I can't do that. It's not...
- ...ethical.
No.
It's not... safe.
Well, if you don't go
and see her...
- What?
- I will.
And I'll tell her I'm you.
And I'll do
terrible things to her.
What sort of terrible things?
Oh, God.
Doctor...
...you've cured me.
What's the matter,
what's the matter?
I'll never get pregnant.
I'll never have children.
When I'm dead...
I'll just be dead.
I'll...
...really never have been
a woman at all.
Just a girl.
A little girl.
You could always adopt a baby.
It wouldn't be the same.
It wouldn't be part of my body.
Yes, that's true.
Don't tell. Please don't tell...
...anybody about me.
Please don't tell.
I'm so vulnerable.
I'm slashed open.
Who would I tell?
Who would I tell?
And with that seal of approval,
our 5th bubbly season gets under way.
Hey,hey,hey-
It's the swinger!
Yeah. Hi.
So?
Er, so...
...it was nice.
She's a little crazy,
but sweet.
Tell me all about it.
- Later.
- No, now.
You might
forget something later.
Some yummy detail.
I don't want to tell you
about it.
You don't what?
I want to keep it...
...for myself.
Listen.
You haven't had any experience
until I've had it, too.
You haven't fucked Claire Niveau
until you tell me about it.
Then I haven't fucked
Claire Niveau.
- There's no point to this discussion, Arlene.
- There is a point.
There definitely is a point.
You started with me
and now you won't carry through.
And we have a relationship.
But you test out fine.
It's your husband
that's the problem...
...and all he probably needs
is a good sperm wash.
If it's only a matter of laundry,
why are you opposed to doing it?
We don't do husbands.
We do female infertility.
We do women.
That's our specialty.
I am a woman...
and I want you to take care of me.
I trust you.
It's hard enough to find someone
in the medical profession that you can trust.
Arlene, that's... that's wonderful.
I mean, that's really wonderful...
...but we don't do husbands.
We don't deliver babies, either.
We make women fertile, and that's all we do.
To achieve anything in life,
one has to keep life simple.
Don't you think?
Irrigation.
Of course it'd be an exaggeration
to say we can...
...make up a new set of fallopian tubes
using just anything that's handy.
Those tubes are highly specialized
little organs.
But with the kind of help
we can offer the process...
...it is possible to...
modify several other organs:
The odd vein...
...or, as today we're using
a femoral lymphatic vessel...
...to take over the function of conveying
the egg from the ovary to the uterus.
What are you taking?
Let me see...
"Dextroamphetamine resin.
Dosage form: capsule.
7.5 milligrams.
Use:
short-term treatment of obesity.
Minor side effects:
dry mouth, palpitations...
...restlessness,
unpleasant taste in mouth.
Major... side effects:
Sleeplessness, rapid heartbeat...
...euphoria."
Do you want one?
Where did you learn all that?
Doctor, the "Physician's Desk Reference"
is my favorite bedside reading.
As a matter of fact...
...they tell me that there's a high incidence
of drug use amongst doctors.
- Is that true?
- Yep.
Do you take drugs?
No.
Well, for pain.
Pain creates character distortion.
It's simply not necessary.
I'm often in a lot of pain.
What kind of pain?
I think...
...psychosexual.
I'd say that was
a pretty astute diagnosis.
Though I wouldn't recommend you
using those for that condition.
Who prescribed them for you?
When you get to be a famous actress,
well, doctors are...
...friendly.
Do me a favor. Will you allow me
to do the prescribing for you?
Thanks, Arthur.
You've forgotten to sign this,
Dr. Mantle.
Sorry.
Actually, my name's Denis.
Sorry.
I always get you confused.
Bye again.
If I had a game of squash now, Terry,
I'd end up a dead man.
I may win, but I'd be dead
at the end of it.
- Tired?
- Yeah, that last one was rough.
- Were you there?
- No, I'll watch the tape.
I'll need it to get the FT paper
in shape, anyway.
Boston's yelling at me for it.
- Hello, Mary.
- Doctor.
Then I'll just need
your tissue rejection data.
How's that coming along?
Listen, how about I write the paper
one time and you collect the data?
Sure. Just say when. Do you want
to see how it's shaping up?
No, I trust you
to make us look good.
I'm exhausted.
Too exhausted
to see Claire tonight?
No. Never.
You'll need these.
- What's that?
- Butazamine.
She's heard that it makes sex
come on like Nagasaki.
- You're not feeding her pills, are you?
- Listen, baby brother.
I've got her number.
This lady's hustling us
for drugs.
- I don't think that's true at all.
- I think we should drop her, Bev.
You drop her.
This is unknown territory
we're moving into.
"Just cos we're handcuffed together
doesn't mean I have to like you!"
"Handcuffs?
You don't get it, do you?
Listen, honey-mud,
we're on the run.
And until we find
the release code to this thing...
...we're gonna get to know
each other real well.
I suggest
we learn to like what we see."
You're a very
self-conscious reader.
Just... Just loosen up
and play.
Come on.
Didn't you ever do routines
as a kid? Impersonations?
The only impersonation I ever did
was my brother.
I didn't know
you had a brother.
Yeah.
- We're not very close.
- Beverly.
- Yeah?
- That's a woman's name.
Why did your mom give you
a woman's name, I wonder?
It's not a woman's name.
It's spelled differently.
All right,
but it's still a woman's name.
Does your brother
have a woman's name, too?
Merian...
spelled with an "E" and an "A".
What are you trying to suggest?
That I'm gay or something?
My mother wanted girls?
What the fuck
is this bullshit psychoanalysis!
Listen, Doctor...
I think there's
something wrong with you.
I don't know what it is,
I can't put a label on it, but...
...you're subtly...
...I don't know...
...schizophrenic...
...or something.
Sometimes
I like you very much...
...and sometimes you're an amusing lay.
Not much more.
And I can't figure out... why.
Beverly...
One for you.
One for me.
Please come this way.
My dear.
Sit down, have a drink
and tell me everything.
I'm not sure
I know everything.
Start with all this I've been hearing
about you and the wonderful Mantle boys.
What are you talking about?
Claire, this is me, Laura.
Please don't be coy,
it's tedious.
Dear Beverly...
Dear Elliot...
Some claim
they can't tell the difference...
...but not me, dear.
It's obvious to me that...
Well, before I say anything gauche,
tell me which one you're seeing.
- You mean there's two of them?
- Don't be an ass, dear.
Of course
there are two of them.
They're twins, dear.
Identical twins.
My dear,
you've gone absolutely pale.
- Have I said something?
- No, no, not at all.
Where's that waiter?
I want some coffee.
Oh, how sick-making.
I have said something,
haven't I?
You know, I could get
very fond of Butazamine.
Beverly...
Why haven't you told me
that your brother isn't just a brother?
- Ah, the... Ah, that.
- Yes, that.
It never occurred to me...
I mean, he is just a brother.
- Is it important?
- Is it important?
I've heard you live together
in the same apartment.
Yeah, that's true.
- We both like Italian furniture.
- Oh, God.
- Do you sleep in the same bed?
- Oh, Claire, come on!
You come on!
You told me
you and your brother weren't close.
And now I find out
not only are you identical twins...
...but you live together
in the same apartment.
What's he like?
Your twin?
Well, I mean...
Of course,
he looks a lot like me.
Are you identical
psychologically?
No, I wouldn't say that.
When can I meet him?
You can't. I mean...
...you don't want to.
But, Beverly...
don't you understand?
- I have to meet him.
- Why?
I want to know
everything about you.
- I don't think it's a good idea.
- You don't want me to meet your twin.
Why is that?
It's... It's difficult.
- It's very difficult.
- That's it, you see.
I want to know
why it's difficult for you.
- My button...
- It's important to me to know why.
I suppose I could arrange
for you and...
...Elliot...
- ...to have a drink together.
- Nix.
- No good.
- Why?
I want to see
you two together.
I know he's going to have to
in the end.
- Ah, there you are.
- Here I am.
I've been really
looking forward to this.
Well... er... Claire Niveau...
- ...this is my brother Elliot.
- Hi, Claire.
I hope Bev's told you
what a big fan I am of your movies.
No, he hasn't. As a matter of fact,
he hasn't mentioned you at all.
Really?
That's not very flattering.
Well, are you going
to sit down?
Yes, I am.
I feel such a fool, actually.
I must be the only woman in town...
...who doesn't know about
the fabulous Mantle twins.
- What are you drinking?
- Nothing.
I want to be very sober right at this moment.
I want to be very clear.
There really isn't any
telling you apart, is there?
Absolutely identical
in every respect.
I'm actually a couple
of millimeters taller.
I bet somebody who knew you both.
How shall I put it?
Knew you both really well
could tell the difference.
Without measuring your height,
I mean.
- What do you mean?
- Beverly's the sweet one...
...and you're the shit.
Am I right?
This is some feisty lady
you've found, Beverly.
Let's be frank, okay, Elliot?
Let's ease up on the bullshit for a moment.
You can be honest with me.
- After all, I am laying both of you, aren't I?
- Er, now, hang on a...
It's a sweet little act
you have.
You soften them up
with all that smarmy concern...
...and along comes Dracula here
and polishes them off.
I was the one
who fucked you first.
But I gave you to my baby brother
because you weren't very good.
Oh, God, no! Um...
Claire, let me explain...
You absolute shit!
Explain what?
Explain... what?
Listen...
I've been around a bit,
and I...
...thought I've seen some creepy things
in the movie business.
But I really have to say that this is the most
disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.
- I doubt that.
- What is it with you, chum?
You can't get it up
unless little brother's watching?
I told you
this was a bad idea.
- Really stupid. I'm leaving.
- Don't bother.
That solves that little problem.
Jesus, Bev.
Hey...
- What's going on?
- I don't know, I'm... I'm...
...a bit upset.
Listen,
I'll go and catch up with her.
- I'll tell her it was all my fault.
- No!
Leave her alone.
I'll sort it out.
I give you the winner
of the 1988 Feldman Award:
Dr. Elliot Mantle.
I suppose all of us know
just how important it is for a practitioner...
...to receive the recognition
of his peers.
However, I feel that this award tonight
is not really for me...
...but rather for those women
who have provided that most precious thing:
The gift of life.
- I want to thank Dr. Angus Lawson...
- Hi, how are you?
...who gave me the time to pursue
my own research.
But most of all I want to thank
my brother, my partner:
Dr. Beverly Mantle...
...who, true to form, is not here
wasting time basking in glory.
- Here, take mine.
- But is hard at work at the Mantle Clinic...
...gathering and shaping
the data...
- ...which have made whatever modest...
- Not true
Not true! I'm here!
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I see Beverly has been doing
a little basking, after all!
He has a lot to celebrate.
He has been recognized as one
of North America's leading clinicians.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dr. Beverly Mantle.
- You all right?
- Had rather a lot to drink.
Just want to say something.
I just want to say some...
I just want to say something.
There's been a fraud
perpetrated here tonight.
The whole thing's a fraud!
He's Beverly and I'm Elliot!
- Just say thank you and get off.
- No. I want to say something else.
A lot of you are probably wondering
how we divide the work.
Well, it's like this...
I slave over the hot snatches...
...and Elliot
makes the speeches!
- For God's sake...
- I do everything for those bimbos...
...except take them home
and stick it in them!
Well, he's clearly been doing
a lot of celebrating.
Who can blame him?
Thank you so much. Thank you.
I'm sorry about the catastrophe
last night.
It's true I had to smooth
a few ruffled feathers this morning.
But now, baby brother,
for the good news.
Lawson has finally offered me
the associate professorship at the hospital.
- One vodka martini, Doctor.
- Thank you, Sean.
- Are you going to accept?
- Of course I'm going to accept.
It's the next step to
chairman of the department.
- What about the practice?
- The practice goes on as before.
- Except you're not there.
- I won't be there as much, no.
I'm not eating.
- Are you all right?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- What are those?
- Dex. I'm tired.
- Want one?
- Er... no, thanks.
If I can fly around, teach,
and do research...
...surely you can find time
for a few more patients, huh?
Sure. Why not?
Good God!
- I didn't know you were here.
- Elly's asleep.
His plane doesn't go till noon.
I didn't realize
you two were so friendly.
We're not so friendly.
You gonna take a shower?
No, I...
You go ahead.
Okay.
See ya.
It seems so cold and empty.
You can call it empty,
or you can call it clean, sculptural.
It's a question of the individual
nervous system, I think.
That presupposes one has
an individual nervous system.
Please?
Thank you.
I'll... I'll think about it.
- Claire?
- Yes?
It's you.
Or should I say,
"which one of you is it"?
Please, Claire, don't.
- Are you still doing the mini-series?
- Re-shoots.
The director didn't know
what he was doing.
Well...
Tell me how sorry you are.
Tell me
how much you miss me.
My brother and I have always
shared everything.
- I'm not a thing.
- I mean people.
Experiences.
It's never
bothered me before now.
It's different with me, is it?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
Is Elliot jealous of me?
Is he worried
I'll steal you away from him?
No.
He offered to come and talk to you for me
to patch things up.
That would've been amusing.
Why didn't he?
I wouldn't let him.
Were you afraid I might like him
as much as I like you?
Or maybe...
...when it came down to it...
- ...I couldn't see the difference.
- No.
It doesn't work that way
between us.
I think it does.
I think you two have
never come to terms...
...with the way it really
does work between you.
No.
Not while he's here.
I don't want him to see us.
All right.
I'll just... separate you.
Separate us?
What do you mean?
No! No! No! No! No! No!
- What happened?
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was dreaming.
- What about?
- About Elliot.
- What happened?
- Oh, don't! Don't!
Don't... touch it.
Come to bed.
Oh, Claire.
I don't want to dream that again.
I can't...
- Take one of these.
- What's that?
Seconal.
I guarantee you, you won't dream.
Come to bed.
Don't let me dream that again.
The message then that clearly emerges
from these complex encounters...
...between physician
and patient...
...is that there is not only
a place in the clinic...
...but a demand for a philosophy.
A philosophy which mixes compassionate
curiosity with social responsibility.
Yeah, but I think they'll discover
they're gonna have to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look, David, I've got to go.
I've got company.
All right, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye.
- Dr. Elliot Mantle?
- Yes.
Special order
from Escort Embassy.
I'm Mimsy,
and this is my sister Coral.
Hi.
- Would you like some of this?
- Sure.
Listen, so that I know
which one of you is which...
...I'd like you...
- Coral.
- Coral...
To call me Elly.
And you, Mimsy...
...to call me Bev.
- Shit!
- Watch it.
- She's got it, Beverly.
- That's okay.
- A near thing. You okay?
- Yes, I'm okay.
I thought you were shaky there
for a second.
Beverly, it's past nine.
You're late.
You've gotta get up.
- I need something to get me up.
- You know where it is.
Claire, will you call Danuta.
Tell her to cancel
my first three patients.
I'll never make it.
Can't eat.
- What's wrong?
- I don't know, I can't eat.
If you don't know, I do.
Too many sleepers last night.
That's what.
- Look who's talking.
- Maybe you ought to take a week off.
Just stop everything.
- I'm serious.
- I'll talk to Elly when he gets back.
- I couldn't do anything before then.
- Elliot is back.
He... called here for you
while you were in the shower.
- You spoke to him?
- Well, I couldn't help it, could I?
I explained to him that you were
staying here with me for a few days.
How did he react?
Civilized.
He apologized for the scene in the bar...
...and I more or less
accepted his apology.
Where are you going?
Leo's in town.
I told you about Leo
and my Georgia picture.
- We're close to a deal.
- Claire, don't go. I want you to stay.
- Beverly, I can't.
- Okay. Yeah.
Could you tell me
which is the make-up trailer?
This one over here.
Are you looking for someone?
- This one here?
- Yes. Who are you looking for?
- Ms. Niveau.
- She expecting you?
- Yes, she is.
- She's in there.
Fascinating stuff.
Lucky old Bev.
He gets to rub up against the magic.
He seems totally uninterested.
Bev's not into art.
- You are?
- I'm into glamor.
The art of glamor.
Well, here it is.
I was surprised
you wanted to see me.
Give us a few minutes,
please.
I like your brother very much...
...and I thought it would be good
for you and me to be friends.
- If we can.
- I think we can.
There's something else:
I'm going away to do another film.
I'm worried about leaving Bev alone.
Bev's not alone.
No, you're right, he's not alone.
But he's lonely.
Even with me.
He's developing a serious drug problem.
Did you realize that?
- I thought you had the drug problem.
- It's an occupational hazard.
The same goes for Beverly.
You resent me tremendously,
don't you?
You contribute a confusing element
to the Mantle brothers' saga.
Possibly a destructive one.
It's not personal.
I think you're terrific.
But I just don't have a role
in the Mantle brothers' saga.
I suppose...
...if you liked us both...
...in the same way...
...it might make things easier.
It has been known to happen.
I'm sorry, but I can't.
Am I really that different
from Beverly?
You really are.
Claire, let me come
to the airport.
Beverly, please,
no public goodbyes.
Ten weeks is such a long time.
I'll fly up...
...whenever there's a break.
Claire.
Let's not lose each other.
Birchall, will you please explain
to my director and my wardrobe person...
...I am not about to do this movie
dressed like a 10-dollar hooker.
Ms. Niveau is not about to do this movie
dressed like a 10-dollar hooker.
Claire, you will admit, at least
that your character...
...thinks of herself
as a kind of emotional hooker.
Oh, I do more than admit it.
I'm the one who pointed it out
to this... wardrobe person.
But she's so bloody
literal-minded.
Wardrobe person?
She called me "wardrobe person"!
I know, I know.
Hello. Niveau suite.
Hello?
Hello?
Have you examined her
carefully yet?
What? Who is this?
I'm her gynecologist.
- You're... what?
- I'm Claire Niveau's gynecologist.
Did you know
that she was a trifurcate?
I'd have to classify that
as a mutation.
What exactly is this?
Is that you, Byron?
Carefully lubricate the two
prime fingers of your right hand...
...and insert them
into Claire Niveau's vagina.
Instead of feeling
one cervical head...
...you will feel three.
Basically, this means...
...that you have been fucking
a mutant!
Oh, Doctor, I'm sorry, I thought
you were ready to see Mrs. Randall.
Mrs. Randall.
Please come and sit down.
I don't think we've met.
Let me introduce myself.
I'm one of the Mantle twins.
The lesion, not surprisingly,
causes diffuse enlargement of the cervix...
...and, of course, our old friend,
leucorrhoea.
Until very recently,
diagnosis tended to be done...
...after a histological examination
of the removed organ.
A case of throwing the baby
out with the bath water.
I'm sorry, Doctor, but your brother
is waiting for you in your office.
I think you'd better go see him.
Bev, what are you doing here?
What's wrong?
I've been hiding out
at Claire's.
I've been hiding from you.
Hiding?
What are you talking about?
I was afraid of...
I was afraid,
you wouldn't let me have her.
That's crazy, Bev.
It is crazy because...
...yesterday...
...yesterday...
...I found out that
she was having an affair.
- She's unfaithful to me, Elly.
- Bev, you mustn't take it so seriously.
She's a showbiz lady.
What can you expect?
I'm in love with her!
I have to take it seriously.
It can't be love
if it does this to you, can it?
It can't be love, Bev.
You're right, Elly.
I was hiding
from the wrong person.
Dance?
No.
You go ahead.
Go on, Bev,
dance with the girl.
What's the matter, Bev?
- I just can't.
- Bev, stay with us. Stay with me.
Bev...
He collapsed.
Fuck, he's not breathing!
Don't touch him,
he's my brother!
Come on, Bev!
Come on.
Bev. Bev!
Elly...
Thank God you're here.
Oh, God.
Bev.
Look at you.
You're a mess.
You're a wreck.
You could've had a stroke, Bev.
You're lucky
to be in one piece.
One piece.
Bev.
We can't let anyone know
about the drugs.
If that gets out,
we're finished.
How... would they know?
I had to fight them off to stop them
taking a blood sample...
...but I can't stay here
day and night.
I've got to get you off the pills
without anybody knowing.
Do you think
I'm really addicted?
I'll put you on a detox program.
I'll supervise it myself.
There you go.
- Darling, tell me what's going on.
- Mother, I'm at the end of my rope!
I cannot live in that house
another second!
Every relationship
has its ups and downs, dear.
You and Tommy...
Bev, there's a couple of things
we're gonna have to...
Why are you
taking that apart?
Elly, I can't sleep.
If you're asking me for a sleeper,
you're not gonna get one.
- What am I gonna do, then?
- You'll stay up.
Elly, I'll die if I don't sleep.
You'll stay up.
- What if I take something when you go home?
- I'm staying here.
What if I take something
when you go to sleep?
I won't.
- How will you stay awake?
- I'll take something.
You'll take an up so that I don't take a down?
This is crazy!
Bev, don't worry about me.
I'm not you.
And don't destroy that.
That really hurts.
This...?
This... hurts?
I don't know exactly what it is
that's hurting...
Mrs. Bookman,
this is a solid gold Mantle retractor.
Solid gold.
It's the best there is.
This clinic's the best there is!
I mean...
we have the technology.
- It couldn't possibly hurt.
- I didn't mean to...
- When did you last have a period?
- I haven't had one in four or five months.
And does it... hurt...
when you have intercourse?
Yes, it does.
Where was I?
You asked me whether or not it hurt
when I had intercourse...
- Then I said...
- Yes.
What exactly
did you have intercourse with?
What do you mean?
I just wondered...
I was once asked...
...to treat a woman
who had had intercourse...
...with a Labrador retriever.
I thought...
...maybe...
- You used this on Mrs. Bookman?
- Yes.
Bev, this is not for internals,
remember?
This is for surgical retraction.
No wonder it hurt her.
No, no, it's not the...
There's nothing the matter with the instrument.
It's the body.
The woman's body
was all wrong.
Yes, I think you'll find his work
quite interesting.
Why don't you drop by
later on this evening?
Just a moment, please.
- May I help you?
- Yes.
I wonder if you could
put me in touch with Mr. Wolleck.
Your timing's perfect.
Mr. Wolleck is right over there
working on a new piece.
That's Mr. Wolleck?
He works here?
It's part of his show.
I'm sorry
to keep you waiting.
I was wondering
if you could help me with these.
Fascinating.
They're quite beautiful.
- What are they?
- They're gynecological instruments.
For working on
mutant women.
Mutant women?
- That's a great theme for a show.
- No, it's not for a show.
It's not art.
I'm a doctor,
I need them for my work.
That's a little out of my line.
What do you want me to do?
Well, I need three-dimensional prototypes
in surgical steel...
...cast, hand-finished...
...functioning.
- And I thought maybe you could help.
- Aren't there large companies in this town...
- ...that can help you with that?
- No! No, no, no, I can't go to them.
It's too radical for them.
We've always been too radical.
I mean... I can't!
It's too... It's too complicated.
I think maybe we could...
work something out.
I've had it with the bullshit
from this office!
I've asked you ten times to transfer
my wife's records to the Mount Sinai.
You haven't done it.
They refuse to admit her without them.
- What is going on?
- Mr. Glaser, I'm so sorry.
The doctors assured me
they'd been sent.
Bullshit!
I want those files in my hand before I leave!
Mr. Glaser, I assure you
I'll do everything I can.
Not now.
Doctor,
I have to speak to you.
Not now!
Doctor, I'm giving you my notice.
I won't work under these conditions.
Fine.
Fine...
We're all set, Beverly.
We'll use these.
Give us the tools
and we will do the job.
I'm afraid I'm not familiar
with these instruments, Doctor.
I've just had them made.
They're brand-new.
Well...
Number them one to ten,
from left to right.
Give me the one
that I ask for.
Give me number five.
- Now, please!
- Yes... number five.
Number five.
Jesus Christ, Beverly!
I've got...
I've got to
slow everything down.
I need something
to slow everything down...
Let go!
- Oh, my God, she's bleeding!
- Get a clamp, for God's sake!
Get him the hell outta here!
I am more than willing
to apologize for my behavior.
I have been working too hard.
I...
I must be more realistic about
my energy levels, and...
...about my ability to concentrate
for long periods of time under pressure.
I must add, however...
...these accusations arise
out of a lack of understanding...
...of the radical techniques
my brother and I are known for.
And I think there's a certain amount
of professional jealousy involved...
...as well.
That's fine, sir.
We always intended to ease ourselves
into pure research, anyway.
No.
I don't think that'll be necessary.
You have our cooperation.
They didn't buy it, Bev.
I think they knew it was me.
They said
we could've killed her.
- They said the woman could've died.
- They're lying.
They've always been jealous.
They won't revoke our hospital privileges
as long as we don't ever use them again.
Fuck 'em! We always planned
to ease ourselves into pure research.
I certainly always planned it.
Didn't you?
There seems to be some problem about...
surgical instruments.
About holding them as evidence
of a disturbed mind.
- Do you know what they're talking about?
- I tried to tell you, Elly.
You don't know the kind of patients
we've been getting lately.
You don't know
what's going on out there.
The patients
are getting strange.
They look all right on the outside,
but their insides...
...they're deformed.
Well, I had to deal
with it somehow!
Radical technology
was required!
You're right, Bev.
Something radical
is definitely required.
Right, I want you to take
three of these now.
Take three around seven
this evening...
...three before you go to sleep...
...and three when you wake up
in the morning.
Yes, Doctor.
Can I trust you to do that,
or have I got to sit here and watch you?
I don't know.
Can you trust me?
Oh, God...
Don't do this to me, Bev.
But I'm only doing it
to me, Elly.
Don't you have
a will of your own?
Why don't you just go on
with your very own life?
Do you remember
the original Siamese twins?
Chang and Eng.
They were joined
at the chest.
Remember how they died?
Chang died of a stroke
in the middle of the night.
He was always the sickly one.
He was always the one
who drank too much.
When Eng woke up beside him
and found that his brother was dead...
...he died of fright...
...right there in the bed.
Does that answer
your question?
Poor Elly.
Poor Bev.
Everything's under control.
I don't see what the problem is.
Now the hospital's getting complaints
about your private practice.
They've even approached me.
Informally, of course.
Off the record, of course.
They asked me all about Bev:
Is he a junkie? Everything.
Of course,
you didn't tell them anything.
Of course not.
But you can't go on
insulating yourselves.
They're gonna nail you.
They're gonna be forced to nail you.
The clinic's
none of their business.
Wow...
...it's getting hard
to tell the two of you apart.
What did you do that for?
- It's my favorite fucking program!
- Elly, Elly, Elly.
You haven't done
anything wrong.
Look, your reputation's
separate from Bev's.
You've still got a career.
Cary...
...my brother's research
is the basis of my career.
I need him.
Besides...
...the truth is,
nobody can tell us apart.
We are perceived
as one person.
If Bev goes down the tubes,
I go with him.
I've got to get him back.
I think
that's too dangerous for you.
I think you're the last person on Earth
who should try to do that.
You've got to stay away
from him now.
Sure, go find him some help...
...but, for God's sakes, Elliot,
you've got to cut yourself loose.
- It wouldn't work.
- Why?
Look, don't you get it yet?
Whatever's in his bloodstream
goes directly into mine.
You can't be serious.
That is an objective
medical observation.
No,no!No!
No, it's not true.
You're making it true,
but it's not true.
You don't put these in your mouth,
they don't end up in your bloodstream!
Beverly and I just have
to get synchronized.
Once we're synchronized,
it'll be easy.
Hello?
Who's this?
It's Beverly.
Beverly? It's Claire.
I'm back.
Claire?
Beverly, why haven't I
been able to reach you?
Why haven't you called me?
Claire...
- ...why did you betray me?
- What are you talking about?
That...
That man...
That man in your hotel room.
My God...
Was that you who called?
That was my secretary,
Birchall.
He's defiantly gay.
And you managed
to gross him out completely.
Beverly, I want you to come
and see me.
Come to me right now.
Yeah?
- Mr. Virdo?
- Yeah?
- This is Dr. Mantle.
- Oh, yeah.
I know
this sounds awfully silly...
...but I'm afraid I've...
There's been a terrible mix-up.
I've locked myself
into the clinic.
I was wondering if you'd mind
coming up and and letting me out.
I'll be right there.
Dr. Mantle.
It's Lee Virdo.
- Just a minute, Mr. Virdo.
- Okay, I think there's something stuck there.
What's going on in there?
You know...
Endless renovations.
Oh, yeah.
- You'd better lock it.
- Yeah, sure.
- Are you coming down?
- Yeah.
Are you all right?
Yes.
- I'm fine.
- You don't look so hot.
I'm fine!
Thank you.
You're the doctor.
Excuse me,
what are you doing?
- They're mine.
- They've been sold.
They're mine. I'm taking them.
He's made another copy.
- They're mine and I'm taking them!
- They're not yours!
They're not yours!
They're not yours!
Claire.
Claire.
- Claire.
- Beverly, my love, what's wrong with you?
I've got to have some Seconal.
- I'm sorry...
- I've got to have some!
I don't have anything at all.
Oh, fuck!
- It's all right. It's okay.
- No...
I'll write
a prescription for you.
They'll fill it for you.
- I've got to have them, Claire.
- Oui.
Don't tell Elliot that I'm here.
Why?
I think he's becoming...
...a drug addict.
I think he's becoming dangerous.
Call me at lunchtime.
See you later.
- Are you sure he didn't call?
- I'm sure.
It's not like Elliot.
It's been...
It's been almost a week.
You know Elliot. I would've expected him
to be kicking the door in by now.
Well, I haven't heard
a word from him.
- Didn't call when I was asleep?
- No.
Tell me about...
...these...
...these tools.
Tools?
Surgical instruments.
You had them with you
when you came.
Did I?
Yes.
What are they for?
They're for separating
Siamese twins.
I must go back.
Don't go back. Stay here.
I must go now.
I'll take these.
I'll come back.
Your brother
won't let you come back.
How could he stop me?
Hey, welcome home, kid.
We've got to take a shot
of Dilantin tonight...
- ...otherwise we might convulse.
- Right.
Don't forget.
Right.
Then we go to Percodan
in the morning.
Right.
Then, in the afternoon,
we have a little treat.
Dilaudid.
Just because it's Saturday.
So on Monday, we kick, right?
We agreed we have to start
to pull things back together then.
Oh, yes.
On Monday we definitely kick.
How about some cake?
I could go for that.
And some orange pop.
Some ice cream.
We haven't got
any ice cream, Elly.
Mommy forgot to buy it.
I want some ice cream.
Happy birthday, Elly.
It's not our birthday, Bev.
Yes, it is.
Happy birthday, baby brother.
We are about to separate
the Siamese twins.
Don't forget the good part.
Oh, yes.
Chang was always most concerned
about dulling the pain.
Don't waste it.
- Tell me when it takes effect.
- I don't think I'll notice anything.
You can start when you like.
Do you think...
the morticulator is required, Eng?
I think...
...everything is required, Chang.
Why are you crying?
Separation can be...
...a terrifying thing.
Don't worry, baby brother...
...we'll always...
We'll always be together.
Elly.
I had a terrible dream.
Elly.
Elly.
Elly.
Elly.
Elly.
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Hello.
Hello?
Who is this?
- Sure I have.
- Well, I've discovered why sex is.
- You have? Fantastic!
It's because humans
don't live underwater.
I don't get it.
Fish don't need sex...
...because they just lay the eggs
and fertilize them in the water.
Humans can't do that
because they don't live in water.
They have to... internalize the water.
Therefore we have sex.
So you mean humans wouldn't have sex
if they lived in the water?
They'd have a kind of sex.
The kind where you wouldn't have
to touch each other.
I like that idea.
Have you heard of scuba diving?
It's just new.
Self-contained
underwater breathing apparatus.
Exactly.
- Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- Yeah. You ask her.
Raffaella, will you have sex with us
in our bathtub?
- It's an experiment.
- Are you kidding?
Fuck off, you freaks!
I'm telling my father
you talk dirty.
Besides, I know for a fact
you don't even know what "fuck" is!
They're so different from us,
and all because we don't live underwater.
- The morculum is working superbly.
- Shall I insert the manticulator?
Please.
What's the diagnosis?
Intra-ovular surgery.
Where did you get
that instrument?
- We had it made for us.
- Really?
Might be fine for a cadaver.
It won't work with a living patient.
To our fabulous twins...
...who have, as mere undergraduates
already brought us glory.
Hear, hear!
And here it is...
...in solid gold...
Er, well, solid gold plate,
that is.
The Mantle retractor,
which is now the standard of the industry.
Here's to a brilliant future.
Here it is.
- That's wonderful.
- Yeah.
They got the pivot pin
in backwards.
Bev, you should've been there.
I was.
Well? Are all the necessary
parts there, Doc?
Yes, they are.
And there are a couple of extra ones
that shouldn't be.
Not funny.
Er, no... I wasn't joking.
Would you excuse me a minute?
I'll be right back.
Elly, I want you to look
at this woman before you go.
I'm late, Bev. If I fuck up with
the chairman's wife, we lose our grant.
She's a trifurcate.
I've never seen anything like it.
Yeah, I'll be down in a minute.
It's Dr. Mantle.
Keep the car waiting. Thanks.
- Is this
aire Niveau?
- Yeah.
- What, the Claire Niveau?
- Yeah.
- Oh, what's she doing here?
- A mini-series.
She's got three agents
and a bodyguard in the waiting room.
- And her life is empty without children.
- How did you know?
Come on, Bev,
everyone knows that!
Don't you ever read the National Enquirer?
"Star's life empty without children."
I hope National Enquirer also explained
how we can make her fertile...
...because I don't think I can.
- Then we'll have to see what I can do.
- Elly.
What about dinner
with the chairman's wife?
I guess "la bella contessa"
will have to wait.
Right, let's take another look.
Yes...
That's fantastic.
I've never had anybody say that
about the inside of my body before.
Surely you've heard
of inner beauty?
I've often thought there should be
beauty contests for the insides of bodies.
You know, best spleen...
Most perfectly developed
kidneys...
Why don't we have standards of beauty
for the entire human body?
Inside and out?
I have a feeling you do.
So I'll tell 'em to fuck off.
Pardon my French.
Don't tell them to fuck off.
I need the work.
This mini-series
is paying peanuts.
You don't need to be humiliated.
I've decided.
I want to be humiliated.
Tell me about my uterus.
Well, it has three doorways.
Three cervixes...
...leading into three separate compartments
in your uterus.
That is fabulously rare.
- Do you have trouble with your periods?
- Listen...
...I'm gonna be late
for the Axelrod meeting.
- You'll be okay?
- Goodbye, Leo.
Remember, I need the humiliation
as well as the money.
I almost never have periods.
Once or twice a year.
Not very enthusiastic ones.
Could I have triplets,
do you think?
One in each compartment?
- No. It doesn't work like that.
- Really?
How does it work?
How did it go with
"la bella contessa"?
- Did we get our grant?
- You were great.
Seductive and charming
as usual.
- And I think you've got your grant.
- Hey.
Wait a minute.
What's this I hear?
It's for us, not just for me.
- It's for Mantle Inc.
- Yes, yes.
- I know.
- Did she catch on?
"Ah, Contessa,
you're looking so -
...I don't know -
so Catherine Deneuve tonight.
And how is Marcello?
Due cappuccini, per favore,
and quickly.
The Countess is a tigress until
she's got her caffeine in the morning."
Hey...
Come on...
I'm not that bad.
You're a little bit smoother
in real life.
And the movie star...
How is she?
She's expecting me
for lunch tomorrow.
So you're going to find out
for yourself.
- Oh, no.
- Oh, yes.
It's all set up.
The production's rented her
this little apartment...
...in Rosedale.
She'll just be getting
out of bed...
...all cozy and warm.
Elly...
...the clinic's booked to the hilt.
We've got to pay the rent, you know.
- I'll take your patients.
- Oh, yes...
I want you to go.
Bev, you've got to try
the movie star.
She's unbelievable.
Don't worry,
you'll be all right.
Just do me.
What did you do to me
last night?
I'm still vibrating all over.
I learnt it from books.
I wish more men
would read those books!
Drink?
No... thanks.
Well, Doc...
...what's the prognosis?
Can I have a baby...
or can't I?
You're asking me that now?
I mean, here?
You said the results
would be back today.
There's no chance that
you'll be able to bear children.
I'm not surprised.
You must've been
tested before.
Oh, they said... I wouldn't have
an easy time getting pregnant.
But I've been taking
hormone injections.
And I have been
extremely promiscuous.
I've never used...
contraceptive devices.
I've never even thought
contraceptive thoughts.
There are other reasons for
not sleeping with just... anybody.
That's true, you know.
I never thought of that.
Oh, of course, you...
...had a chance to...
...check me out thoroughly...
...before you jumped on me.
Are you that careful?
- Do you only have affairs with patients?
- No, I was... concerned.
Am I bad? Is that it?
You gonna spank me, Doc?
It hadn't occurred to me.
I've been bad,
and I need to be punished.
I need to be punished.
Danuta.
Danuta.
Danuta!
As soon as we get some cold water
on your face, you'll feel much better.
Here we go.
Elly, what happened?
Thank God you're back, Bev!
I'm just no good
with the serious ones.
Why are you back?
I'm just no good
with the frivolous ones.
All she wanted was
a little slap on the arse, Bev.
Yeah?
Yeah, well...
...I wondered what the fuck my brother
had got us into behind my back.
She's an actress, Bev,
she's a flake.
She plays games all the time.
You never know
who she really is.
Yeah.
I can see that.
You can?
Yeah.
So... when are you gonna
see her again?
- She's called the clinic five times already.
- I don't know.
Perhaps you'd better go.
Wait a minute.
- This is serious.
- No, it's not.
Yes, it is.
If we didn't share women,
you'd still be a virgin.
- No.
- You'd never get laid on your own.
I don't get out much.
Listen, the beauty
of our business is...
...you don't have to get out
to meet beautiful women.
- No, I can't do that. It's not...
- ...ethical.
No.
It's not... safe.
Well, if you don't go
and see her...
- What?
- I will.
And I'll tell her I'm you.
And I'll do
terrible things to her.
What sort of terrible things?
Oh, God.
Doctor...
...you've cured me.
What's the matter,
what's the matter?
I'll never get pregnant.
I'll never have children.
When I'm dead...
I'll just be dead.
I'll...
...really never have been
a woman at all.
Just a girl.
A little girl.
You could always adopt a baby.
It wouldn't be the same.
It wouldn't be part of my body.
Yes, that's true.
Don't tell. Please don't tell...
...anybody about me.
Please don't tell.
I'm so vulnerable.
I'm slashed open.
Who would I tell?
Who would I tell?
And with that seal of approval,
our 5th bubbly season gets under way.
Hey,hey,hey-
It's the swinger!
Yeah. Hi.
So?
Er, so...
...it was nice.
She's a little crazy,
but sweet.
Tell me all about it.
- Later.
- No, now.
You might
forget something later.
Some yummy detail.
I don't want to tell you
about it.
You don't what?
I want to keep it...
...for myself.
Listen.
You haven't had any experience
until I've had it, too.
You haven't fucked Claire Niveau
until you tell me about it.
Then I haven't fucked
Claire Niveau.
- There's no point to this discussion, Arlene.
- There is a point.
There definitely is a point.
You started with me
and now you won't carry through.
And we have a relationship.
But you test out fine.
It's your husband
that's the problem...
...and all he probably needs
is a good sperm wash.
If it's only a matter of laundry,
why are you opposed to doing it?
We don't do husbands.
We do female infertility.
We do women.
That's our specialty.
I am a woman...
and I want you to take care of me.
I trust you.
It's hard enough to find someone
in the medical profession that you can trust.
Arlene, that's... that's wonderful.
I mean, that's really wonderful...
...but we don't do husbands.
We don't deliver babies, either.
We make women fertile, and that's all we do.
To achieve anything in life,
one has to keep life simple.
Don't you think?
Irrigation.
Of course it'd be an exaggeration
to say we can...
...make up a new set of fallopian tubes
using just anything that's handy.
Those tubes are highly specialized
little organs.
But with the kind of help
we can offer the process...
...it is possible to...
modify several other organs:
The odd vein...
...or, as today we're using
a femoral lymphatic vessel...
...to take over the function of conveying
the egg from the ovary to the uterus.
What are you taking?
Let me see...
"Dextroamphetamine resin.
Dosage form: capsule.
7.5 milligrams.
Use:
short-term treatment of obesity.
Minor side effects:
dry mouth, palpitations...
...restlessness,
unpleasant taste in mouth.
Major... side effects:
Sleeplessness, rapid heartbeat...
...euphoria."
Do you want one?
Where did you learn all that?
Doctor, the "Physician's Desk Reference"
is my favorite bedside reading.
As a matter of fact...
...they tell me that there's a high incidence
of drug use amongst doctors.
- Is that true?
- Yep.
Do you take drugs?
No.
Well, for pain.
Pain creates character distortion.
It's simply not necessary.
I'm often in a lot of pain.
What kind of pain?
I think...
...psychosexual.
I'd say that was
a pretty astute diagnosis.
Though I wouldn't recommend you
using those for that condition.
Who prescribed them for you?
When you get to be a famous actress,
well, doctors are...
...friendly.
Do me a favor. Will you allow me
to do the prescribing for you?
Thanks, Arthur.
You've forgotten to sign this,
Dr. Mantle.
Sorry.
Actually, my name's Denis.
Sorry.
I always get you confused.
Bye again.
If I had a game of squash now, Terry,
I'd end up a dead man.
I may win, but I'd be dead
at the end of it.
- Tired?
- Yeah, that last one was rough.
- Were you there?
- No, I'll watch the tape.
I'll need it to get the FT paper
in shape, anyway.
Boston's yelling at me for it.
- Hello, Mary.
- Doctor.
Then I'll just need
your tissue rejection data.
How's that coming along?
Listen, how about I write the paper
one time and you collect the data?
Sure. Just say when. Do you want
to see how it's shaping up?
No, I trust you
to make us look good.
I'm exhausted.
Too exhausted
to see Claire tonight?
No. Never.
You'll need these.
- What's that?
- Butazamine.
She's heard that it makes sex
come on like Nagasaki.
- You're not feeding her pills, are you?
- Listen, baby brother.
I've got her number.
This lady's hustling us
for drugs.
- I don't think that's true at all.
- I think we should drop her, Bev.
You drop her.
This is unknown territory
we're moving into.
"Just cos we're handcuffed together
doesn't mean I have to like you!"
"Handcuffs?
You don't get it, do you?
Listen, honey-mud,
we're on the run.
And until we find
the release code to this thing...
...we're gonna get to know
each other real well.
I suggest
we learn to like what we see."
You're a very
self-conscious reader.
Just... Just loosen up
and play.
Come on.
Didn't you ever do routines
as a kid? Impersonations?
The only impersonation I ever did
was my brother.
I didn't know
you had a brother.
Yeah.
- We're not very close.
- Beverly.
- Yeah?
- That's a woman's name.
Why did your mom give you
a woman's name, I wonder?
It's not a woman's name.
It's spelled differently.
All right,
but it's still a woman's name.
Does your brother
have a woman's name, too?
Merian...
spelled with an "E" and an "A".
What are you trying to suggest?
That I'm gay or something?
My mother wanted girls?
What the fuck
is this bullshit psychoanalysis!
Listen, Doctor...
I think there's
something wrong with you.
I don't know what it is,
I can't put a label on it, but...
...you're subtly...
...I don't know...
...schizophrenic...
...or something.
Sometimes
I like you very much...
...and sometimes you're an amusing lay.
Not much more.
And I can't figure out... why.
Beverly...
One for you.
One for me.
Please come this way.
My dear.
Sit down, have a drink
and tell me everything.
I'm not sure
I know everything.
Start with all this I've been hearing
about you and the wonderful Mantle boys.
What are you talking about?
Claire, this is me, Laura.
Please don't be coy,
it's tedious.
Dear Beverly...
Dear Elliot...
Some claim
they can't tell the difference...
...but not me, dear.
It's obvious to me that...
Well, before I say anything gauche,
tell me which one you're seeing.
- You mean there's two of them?
- Don't be an ass, dear.
Of course
there are two of them.
They're twins, dear.
Identical twins.
My dear,
you've gone absolutely pale.
- Have I said something?
- No, no, not at all.
Where's that waiter?
I want some coffee.
Oh, how sick-making.
I have said something,
haven't I?
You know, I could get
very fond of Butazamine.
Beverly...
Why haven't you told me
that your brother isn't just a brother?
- Ah, the... Ah, that.
- Yes, that.
It never occurred to me...
I mean, he is just a brother.
- Is it important?
- Is it important?
I've heard you live together
in the same apartment.
Yeah, that's true.
- We both like Italian furniture.
- Oh, God.
- Do you sleep in the same bed?
- Oh, Claire, come on!
You come on!
You told me
you and your brother weren't close.
And now I find out
not only are you identical twins...
...but you live together
in the same apartment.
What's he like?
Your twin?
Well, I mean...
Of course,
he looks a lot like me.
Are you identical
psychologically?
No, I wouldn't say that.
When can I meet him?
You can't. I mean...
...you don't want to.
But, Beverly...
don't you understand?
- I have to meet him.
- Why?
I want to know
everything about you.
- I don't think it's a good idea.
- You don't want me to meet your twin.
Why is that?
It's... It's difficult.
- It's very difficult.
- That's it, you see.
I want to know
why it's difficult for you.
- My button...
- It's important to me to know why.
I suppose I could arrange
for you and...
...Elliot...
- ...to have a drink together.
- Nix.
- No good.
- Why?
I want to see
you two together.
I know he's going to have to
in the end.
- Ah, there you are.
- Here I am.
I've been really
looking forward to this.
Well... er... Claire Niveau...
- ...this is my brother Elliot.
- Hi, Claire.
I hope Bev's told you
what a big fan I am of your movies.
No, he hasn't. As a matter of fact,
he hasn't mentioned you at all.
Really?
That's not very flattering.
Well, are you going
to sit down?
Yes, I am.
I feel such a fool, actually.
I must be the only woman in town...
...who doesn't know about
the fabulous Mantle twins.
- What are you drinking?
- Nothing.
I want to be very sober right at this moment.
I want to be very clear.
There really isn't any
telling you apart, is there?
Absolutely identical
in every respect.
I'm actually a couple
of millimeters taller.
I bet somebody who knew you both.
How shall I put it?
Knew you both really well
could tell the difference.
Without measuring your height,
I mean.
- What do you mean?
- Beverly's the sweet one...
...and you're the shit.
Am I right?
This is some feisty lady
you've found, Beverly.
Let's be frank, okay, Elliot?
Let's ease up on the bullshit for a moment.
You can be honest with me.
- After all, I am laying both of you, aren't I?
- Er, now, hang on a...
It's a sweet little act
you have.
You soften them up
with all that smarmy concern...
...and along comes Dracula here
and polishes them off.
I was the one
who fucked you first.
But I gave you to my baby brother
because you weren't very good.
Oh, God, no! Um...
Claire, let me explain...
You absolute shit!
Explain what?
Explain... what?
Listen...
I've been around a bit,
and I...
...thought I've seen some creepy things
in the movie business.
But I really have to say that this is the most
disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.
- I doubt that.
- What is it with you, chum?
You can't get it up
unless little brother's watching?
I told you
this was a bad idea.
- Really stupid. I'm leaving.
- Don't bother.
That solves that little problem.
Jesus, Bev.
Hey...
- What's going on?
- I don't know, I'm... I'm...
...a bit upset.
Listen,
I'll go and catch up with her.
- I'll tell her it was all my fault.
- No!
Leave her alone.
I'll sort it out.
I give you the winner
of the 1988 Feldman Award:
Dr. Elliot Mantle.
I suppose all of us know
just how important it is for a practitioner...
...to receive the recognition
of his peers.
However, I feel that this award tonight
is not really for me...
...but rather for those women
who have provided that most precious thing:
The gift of life.
- I want to thank Dr. Angus Lawson...
- Hi, how are you?
...who gave me the time to pursue
my own research.
But most of all I want to thank
my brother, my partner:
Dr. Beverly Mantle...
...who, true to form, is not here
wasting time basking in glory.
- Here, take mine.
- But is hard at work at the Mantle Clinic...
...gathering and shaping
the data...
- ...which have made whatever modest...
- Not true
Not true! I'm here!
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I see Beverly has been doing
a little basking, after all!
He has a lot to celebrate.
He has been recognized as one
of North America's leading clinicians.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dr. Beverly Mantle.
- You all right?
- Had rather a lot to drink.
Just want to say something.
I just want to say some...
I just want to say something.
There's been a fraud
perpetrated here tonight.
The whole thing's a fraud!
He's Beverly and I'm Elliot!
- Just say thank you and get off.
- No. I want to say something else.
A lot of you are probably wondering
how we divide the work.
Well, it's like this...
I slave over the hot snatches...
...and Elliot
makes the speeches!
- For God's sake...
- I do everything for those bimbos...
...except take them home
and stick it in them!
Well, he's clearly been doing
a lot of celebrating.
Who can blame him?
Thank you so much. Thank you.
I'm sorry about the catastrophe
last night.
It's true I had to smooth
a few ruffled feathers this morning.
But now, baby brother,
for the good news.
Lawson has finally offered me
the associate professorship at the hospital.
- One vodka martini, Doctor.
- Thank you, Sean.
- Are you going to accept?
- Of course I'm going to accept.
It's the next step to
chairman of the department.
- What about the practice?
- The practice goes on as before.
- Except you're not there.
- I won't be there as much, no.
I'm not eating.
- Are you all right?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- What are those?
- Dex. I'm tired.
- Want one?
- Er... no, thanks.
If I can fly around, teach,
and do research...
...surely you can find time
for a few more patients, huh?
Sure. Why not?
Good God!
- I didn't know you were here.
- Elly's asleep.
His plane doesn't go till noon.
I didn't realize
you two were so friendly.
We're not so friendly.
You gonna take a shower?
No, I...
You go ahead.
Okay.
See ya.
It seems so cold and empty.
You can call it empty,
or you can call it clean, sculptural.
It's a question of the individual
nervous system, I think.
That presupposes one has
an individual nervous system.
Please?
Thank you.
I'll... I'll think about it.
- Claire?
- Yes?
It's you.
Or should I say,
"which one of you is it"?
Please, Claire, don't.
- Are you still doing the mini-series?
- Re-shoots.
The director didn't know
what he was doing.
Well...
Tell me how sorry you are.
Tell me
how much you miss me.
My brother and I have always
shared everything.
- I'm not a thing.
- I mean people.
Experiences.
It's never
bothered me before now.
It's different with me, is it?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
Is Elliot jealous of me?
Is he worried
I'll steal you away from him?
No.
He offered to come and talk to you for me
to patch things up.
That would've been amusing.
Why didn't he?
I wouldn't let him.
Were you afraid I might like him
as much as I like you?
Or maybe...
...when it came down to it...
- ...I couldn't see the difference.
- No.
It doesn't work that way
between us.
I think it does.
I think you two have
never come to terms...
...with the way it really
does work between you.
No.
Not while he's here.
I don't want him to see us.
All right.
I'll just... separate you.
Separate us?
What do you mean?
No! No! No! No! No! No!
- What happened?
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was dreaming.
- What about?
- About Elliot.
- What happened?
- Oh, don't! Don't!
Don't... touch it.
Come to bed.
Oh, Claire.
I don't want to dream that again.
I can't...
- Take one of these.
- What's that?
Seconal.
I guarantee you, you won't dream.
Come to bed.
Don't let me dream that again.
The message then that clearly emerges
from these complex encounters...
...between physician
and patient...
...is that there is not only
a place in the clinic...
...but a demand for a philosophy.
A philosophy which mixes compassionate
curiosity with social responsibility.
Yeah, but I think they'll discover
they're gonna have to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look, David, I've got to go.
I've got company.
All right, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye.
- Dr. Elliot Mantle?
- Yes.
Special order
from Escort Embassy.
I'm Mimsy,
and this is my sister Coral.
Hi.
- Would you like some of this?
- Sure.
Listen, so that I know
which one of you is which...
...I'd like you...
- Coral.
- Coral...
To call me Elly.
And you, Mimsy...
...to call me Bev.
- Shit!
- Watch it.
- She's got it, Beverly.
- That's okay.
- A near thing. You okay?
- Yes, I'm okay.
I thought you were shaky there
for a second.
Beverly, it's past nine.
You're late.
You've gotta get up.
- I need something to get me up.
- You know where it is.
Claire, will you call Danuta.
Tell her to cancel
my first three patients.
I'll never make it.
Can't eat.
- What's wrong?
- I don't know, I can't eat.
If you don't know, I do.
Too many sleepers last night.
That's what.
- Look who's talking.
- Maybe you ought to take a week off.
Just stop everything.
- I'm serious.
- I'll talk to Elly when he gets back.
- I couldn't do anything before then.
- Elliot is back.
He... called here for you
while you were in the shower.
- You spoke to him?
- Well, I couldn't help it, could I?
I explained to him that you were
staying here with me for a few days.
How did he react?
Civilized.
He apologized for the scene in the bar...
...and I more or less
accepted his apology.
Where are you going?
Leo's in town.
I told you about Leo
and my Georgia picture.
- We're close to a deal.
- Claire, don't go. I want you to stay.
- Beverly, I can't.
- Okay. Yeah.
Could you tell me
which is the make-up trailer?
This one over here.
Are you looking for someone?
- This one here?
- Yes. Who are you looking for?
- Ms. Niveau.
- She expecting you?
- Yes, she is.
- She's in there.
Fascinating stuff.
Lucky old Bev.
He gets to rub up against the magic.
He seems totally uninterested.
Bev's not into art.
- You are?
- I'm into glamor.
The art of glamor.
Well, here it is.
I was surprised
you wanted to see me.
Give us a few minutes,
please.
I like your brother very much...
...and I thought it would be good
for you and me to be friends.
- If we can.
- I think we can.
There's something else:
I'm going away to do another film.
I'm worried about leaving Bev alone.
Bev's not alone.
No, you're right, he's not alone.
But he's lonely.
Even with me.
He's developing a serious drug problem.
Did you realize that?
- I thought you had the drug problem.
- It's an occupational hazard.
The same goes for Beverly.
You resent me tremendously,
don't you?
You contribute a confusing element
to the Mantle brothers' saga.
Possibly a destructive one.
It's not personal.
I think you're terrific.
But I just don't have a role
in the Mantle brothers' saga.
I suppose...
...if you liked us both...
...in the same way...
...it might make things easier.
It has been known to happen.
I'm sorry, but I can't.
Am I really that different
from Beverly?
You really are.
Claire, let me come
to the airport.
Beverly, please,
no public goodbyes.
Ten weeks is such a long time.
I'll fly up...
...whenever there's a break.
Claire.
Let's not lose each other.
Birchall, will you please explain
to my director and my wardrobe person...
...I am not about to do this movie
dressed like a 10-dollar hooker.
Ms. Niveau is not about to do this movie
dressed like a 10-dollar hooker.
Claire, you will admit, at least
that your character...
...thinks of herself
as a kind of emotional hooker.
Oh, I do more than admit it.
I'm the one who pointed it out
to this... wardrobe person.
But she's so bloody
literal-minded.
Wardrobe person?
She called me "wardrobe person"!
I know, I know.
Hello. Niveau suite.
Hello?
Hello?
Have you examined her
carefully yet?
What? Who is this?
I'm her gynecologist.
- You're... what?
- I'm Claire Niveau's gynecologist.
Did you know
that she was a trifurcate?
I'd have to classify that
as a mutation.
What exactly is this?
Is that you, Byron?
Carefully lubricate the two
prime fingers of your right hand...
...and insert them
into Claire Niveau's vagina.
Instead of feeling
one cervical head...
...you will feel three.
Basically, this means...
...that you have been fucking
a mutant!
Oh, Doctor, I'm sorry, I thought
you were ready to see Mrs. Randall.
Mrs. Randall.
Please come and sit down.
I don't think we've met.
Let me introduce myself.
I'm one of the Mantle twins.
The lesion, not surprisingly,
causes diffuse enlargement of the cervix...
...and, of course, our old friend,
leucorrhoea.
Until very recently,
diagnosis tended to be done...
...after a histological examination
of the removed organ.
A case of throwing the baby
out with the bath water.
I'm sorry, Doctor, but your brother
is waiting for you in your office.
I think you'd better go see him.
Bev, what are you doing here?
What's wrong?
I've been hiding out
at Claire's.
I've been hiding from you.
Hiding?
What are you talking about?
I was afraid of...
I was afraid,
you wouldn't let me have her.
That's crazy, Bev.
It is crazy because...
...yesterday...
...yesterday...
...I found out that
she was having an affair.
- She's unfaithful to me, Elly.
- Bev, you mustn't take it so seriously.
She's a showbiz lady.
What can you expect?
I'm in love with her!
I have to take it seriously.
It can't be love
if it does this to you, can it?
It can't be love, Bev.
You're right, Elly.
I was hiding
from the wrong person.
Dance?
No.
You go ahead.
Go on, Bev,
dance with the girl.
What's the matter, Bev?
- I just can't.
- Bev, stay with us. Stay with me.
Bev...
He collapsed.
Fuck, he's not breathing!
Don't touch him,
he's my brother!
Come on, Bev!
Come on.
Bev. Bev!
Elly...
Thank God you're here.
Oh, God.
Bev.
Look at you.
You're a mess.
You're a wreck.
You could've had a stroke, Bev.
You're lucky
to be in one piece.
One piece.
Bev.
We can't let anyone know
about the drugs.
If that gets out,
we're finished.
How... would they know?
I had to fight them off to stop them
taking a blood sample...
...but I can't stay here
day and night.
I've got to get you off the pills
without anybody knowing.
Do you think
I'm really addicted?
I'll put you on a detox program.
I'll supervise it myself.
There you go.
- Darling, tell me what's going on.
- Mother, I'm at the end of my rope!
I cannot live in that house
another second!
Every relationship
has its ups and downs, dear.
You and Tommy...
Bev, there's a couple of things
we're gonna have to...
Why are you
taking that apart?
Elly, I can't sleep.
If you're asking me for a sleeper,
you're not gonna get one.
- What am I gonna do, then?
- You'll stay up.
Elly, I'll die if I don't sleep.
You'll stay up.
- What if I take something when you go home?
- I'm staying here.
What if I take something
when you go to sleep?
I won't.
- How will you stay awake?
- I'll take something.
You'll take an up so that I don't take a down?
This is crazy!
Bev, don't worry about me.
I'm not you.
And don't destroy that.
That really hurts.
This...?
This... hurts?
I don't know exactly what it is
that's hurting...
Mrs. Bookman,
this is a solid gold Mantle retractor.
Solid gold.
It's the best there is.
This clinic's the best there is!
I mean...
we have the technology.
- It couldn't possibly hurt.
- I didn't mean to...
- When did you last have a period?
- I haven't had one in four or five months.
And does it... hurt...
when you have intercourse?
Yes, it does.
Where was I?
You asked me whether or not it hurt
when I had intercourse...
- Then I said...
- Yes.
What exactly
did you have intercourse with?
What do you mean?
I just wondered...
I was once asked...
...to treat a woman
who had had intercourse...
...with a Labrador retriever.
I thought...
...maybe...
- You used this on Mrs. Bookman?
- Yes.
Bev, this is not for internals,
remember?
This is for surgical retraction.
No wonder it hurt her.
No, no, it's not the...
There's nothing the matter with the instrument.
It's the body.
The woman's body
was all wrong.
Yes, I think you'll find his work
quite interesting.
Why don't you drop by
later on this evening?
Just a moment, please.
- May I help you?
- Yes.
I wonder if you could
put me in touch with Mr. Wolleck.
Your timing's perfect.
Mr. Wolleck is right over there
working on a new piece.
That's Mr. Wolleck?
He works here?
It's part of his show.
I'm sorry
to keep you waiting.
I was wondering
if you could help me with these.
Fascinating.
They're quite beautiful.
- What are they?
- They're gynecological instruments.
For working on
mutant women.
Mutant women?
- That's a great theme for a show.
- No, it's not for a show.
It's not art.
I'm a doctor,
I need them for my work.
That's a little out of my line.
What do you want me to do?
Well, I need three-dimensional prototypes
in surgical steel...
...cast, hand-finished...
...functioning.
- And I thought maybe you could help.
- Aren't there large companies in this town...
- ...that can help you with that?
- No! No, no, no, I can't go to them.
It's too radical for them.
We've always been too radical.
I mean... I can't!
It's too... It's too complicated.
I think maybe we could...
work something out.
I've had it with the bullshit
from this office!
I've asked you ten times to transfer
my wife's records to the Mount Sinai.
You haven't done it.
They refuse to admit her without them.
- What is going on?
- Mr. Glaser, I'm so sorry.
The doctors assured me
they'd been sent.
Bullshit!
I want those files in my hand before I leave!
Mr. Glaser, I assure you
I'll do everything I can.
Not now.
Doctor,
I have to speak to you.
Not now!
Doctor, I'm giving you my notice.
I won't work under these conditions.
Fine.
Fine...
We're all set, Beverly.
We'll use these.
Give us the tools
and we will do the job.
I'm afraid I'm not familiar
with these instruments, Doctor.
I've just had them made.
They're brand-new.
Well...
Number them one to ten,
from left to right.
Give me the one
that I ask for.
Give me number five.
- Now, please!
- Yes... number five.
Number five.
Jesus Christ, Beverly!
I've got...
I've got to
slow everything down.
I need something
to slow everything down...
Let go!
- Oh, my God, she's bleeding!
- Get a clamp, for God's sake!
Get him the hell outta here!
I am more than willing
to apologize for my behavior.
I have been working too hard.
I...
I must be more realistic about
my energy levels, and...
...about my ability to concentrate
for long periods of time under pressure.
I must add, however...
...these accusations arise
out of a lack of understanding...
...of the radical techniques
my brother and I are known for.
And I think there's a certain amount
of professional jealousy involved...
...as well.
That's fine, sir.
We always intended to ease ourselves
into pure research, anyway.
No.
I don't think that'll be necessary.
You have our cooperation.
They didn't buy it, Bev.
I think they knew it was me.
They said
we could've killed her.
- They said the woman could've died.
- They're lying.
They've always been jealous.
They won't revoke our hospital privileges
as long as we don't ever use them again.
Fuck 'em! We always planned
to ease ourselves into pure research.
I certainly always planned it.
Didn't you?
There seems to be some problem about...
surgical instruments.
About holding them as evidence
of a disturbed mind.
- Do you know what they're talking about?
- I tried to tell you, Elly.
You don't know the kind of patients
we've been getting lately.
You don't know
what's going on out there.
The patients
are getting strange.
They look all right on the outside,
but their insides...
...they're deformed.
Well, I had to deal
with it somehow!
Radical technology
was required!
You're right, Bev.
Something radical
is definitely required.
Right, I want you to take
three of these now.
Take three around seven
this evening...
...three before you go to sleep...
...and three when you wake up
in the morning.
Yes, Doctor.
Can I trust you to do that,
or have I got to sit here and watch you?
I don't know.
Can you trust me?
Oh, God...
Don't do this to me, Bev.
But I'm only doing it
to me, Elly.
Don't you have
a will of your own?
Why don't you just go on
with your very own life?
Do you remember
the original Siamese twins?
Chang and Eng.
They were joined
at the chest.
Remember how they died?
Chang died of a stroke
in the middle of the night.
He was always the sickly one.
He was always the one
who drank too much.
When Eng woke up beside him
and found that his brother was dead...
...he died of fright...
...right there in the bed.
Does that answer
your question?
Poor Elly.
Poor Bev.
Everything's under control.
I don't see what the problem is.
Now the hospital's getting complaints
about your private practice.
They've even approached me.
Informally, of course.
Off the record, of course.
They asked me all about Bev:
Is he a junkie? Everything.
Of course,
you didn't tell them anything.
Of course not.
But you can't go on
insulating yourselves.
They're gonna nail you.
They're gonna be forced to nail you.
The clinic's
none of their business.
Wow...
...it's getting hard
to tell the two of you apart.
What did you do that for?
- It's my favorite fucking program!
- Elly, Elly, Elly.
You haven't done
anything wrong.
Look, your reputation's
separate from Bev's.
You've still got a career.
Cary...
...my brother's research
is the basis of my career.
I need him.
Besides...
...the truth is,
nobody can tell us apart.
We are perceived
as one person.
If Bev goes down the tubes,
I go with him.
I've got to get him back.
I think
that's too dangerous for you.
I think you're the last person on Earth
who should try to do that.
You've got to stay away
from him now.
Sure, go find him some help...
...but, for God's sakes, Elliot,
you've got to cut yourself loose.
- It wouldn't work.
- Why?
Look, don't you get it yet?
Whatever's in his bloodstream
goes directly into mine.
You can't be serious.
That is an objective
medical observation.
No,no!No!
No, it's not true.
You're making it true,
but it's not true.
You don't put these in your mouth,
they don't end up in your bloodstream!
Beverly and I just have
to get synchronized.
Once we're synchronized,
it'll be easy.
Hello?
Who's this?
It's Beverly.
Beverly? It's Claire.
I'm back.
Claire?
Beverly, why haven't I
been able to reach you?
Why haven't you called me?
Claire...
- ...why did you betray me?
- What are you talking about?
That...
That man...
That man in your hotel room.
My God...
Was that you who called?
That was my secretary,
Birchall.
He's defiantly gay.
And you managed
to gross him out completely.
Beverly, I want you to come
and see me.
Come to me right now.
Yeah?
- Mr. Virdo?
- Yeah?
- This is Dr. Mantle.
- Oh, yeah.
I know
this sounds awfully silly...
...but I'm afraid I've...
There's been a terrible mix-up.
I've locked myself
into the clinic.
I was wondering if you'd mind
coming up and and letting me out.
I'll be right there.
Dr. Mantle.
It's Lee Virdo.
- Just a minute, Mr. Virdo.
- Okay, I think there's something stuck there.
What's going on in there?
You know...
Endless renovations.
Oh, yeah.
- You'd better lock it.
- Yeah, sure.
- Are you coming down?
- Yeah.
Are you all right?
Yes.
- I'm fine.
- You don't look so hot.
I'm fine!
Thank you.
You're the doctor.
Excuse me,
what are you doing?
- They're mine.
- They've been sold.
They're mine. I'm taking them.
He's made another copy.
- They're mine and I'm taking them!
- They're not yours!
They're not yours!
They're not yours!
Claire.
Claire.
- Claire.
- Beverly, my love, what's wrong with you?
I've got to have some Seconal.
- I'm sorry...
- I've got to have some!
I don't have anything at all.
Oh, fuck!
- It's all right. It's okay.
- No...
I'll write
a prescription for you.
They'll fill it for you.
- I've got to have them, Claire.
- Oui.
Don't tell Elliot that I'm here.
Why?
I think he's becoming...
...a drug addict.
I think he's becoming dangerous.
Call me at lunchtime.
See you later.
- Are you sure he didn't call?
- I'm sure.
It's not like Elliot.
It's been...
It's been almost a week.
You know Elliot. I would've expected him
to be kicking the door in by now.
Well, I haven't heard
a word from him.
- Didn't call when I was asleep?
- No.
Tell me about...
...these...
...these tools.
Tools?
Surgical instruments.
You had them with you
when you came.
Did I?
Yes.
What are they for?
They're for separating
Siamese twins.
I must go back.
Don't go back. Stay here.
I must go now.
I'll take these.
I'll come back.
Your brother
won't let you come back.
How could he stop me?
Hey, welcome home, kid.
We've got to take a shot
of Dilantin tonight...
- ...otherwise we might convulse.
- Right.
Don't forget.
Right.
Then we go to Percodan
in the morning.
Right.
Then, in the afternoon,
we have a little treat.
Dilaudid.
Just because it's Saturday.
So on Monday, we kick, right?
We agreed we have to start
to pull things back together then.
Oh, yes.
On Monday we definitely kick.
How about some cake?
I could go for that.
And some orange pop.
Some ice cream.
We haven't got
any ice cream, Elly.
Mommy forgot to buy it.
I want some ice cream.
Happy birthday, Elly.
It's not our birthday, Bev.
Yes, it is.
Happy birthday, baby brother.
We are about to separate
the Siamese twins.
Don't forget the good part.
Oh, yes.
Chang was always most concerned
about dulling the pain.
Don't waste it.
- Tell me when it takes effect.
- I don't think I'll notice anything.
You can start when you like.
Do you think...
the morticulator is required, Eng?
I think...
...everything is required, Chang.
Why are you crying?
Separation can be...
...a terrifying thing.
Don't worry, baby brother...
...we'll always...
We'll always be together.
Elly.
I had a terrible dream.
Elly.
Elly.
Elly.
Elly.
Elly.
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Elly...
Hello.
Hello?
Who is this?