Monsters (1988–1990): Season 1, Episode 23 - Mannequins of Horror - full transcript
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour,
there must be something on.
DAUGHTER:
Oh, wow, Candy Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters,
our favorite show!
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
Shh. It's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[RATTLING]
[RATTLING ECHOES]
[RATTLING INTENSIFIES]
Dr. Collin, I can't
wait all day.
Do you understand me?
You have been here how long?
[CLOCK TICKING]
Eight years.
The former director has
indicated in his last report
that you were making progress
towards rehabilitation.
The state has a great need
for gifted surgeons,
Dr. Collin.
I believe, with my help,
you could still become
a useful and very productive
member of our...
new society.
DR. STARR: Will I have
your cooperation?
Yes.
Good, very good.
How is the new
medication working?
Fine, thank you.
No more hallucinations
about your little...
clay men?
No.
All right, that's all.
You may go.
I'll take you back then.
[SIGHS]
Those are gonna kill you.
I'm quitting.
It's too expensive.
Black market doesn't even
have them anymore.
I'm glad you're cooperating.
I'm crazy, Dr. Jarris,
not stupid.
I'm aware of
the change in policy.
If we cannot ascertain
the stages on capacity,
what reason is there
for our existence?
What do they call it?
What?
The new cure
for the incurable?
Perpetual care.
They should have
made you director,
not that young idiot.
Today's procedure
will be one that I had
pioneered and developed
at the Cardiac Institute,
successfully,
for the first time
over 20 years ago.
Observe the detail.
It is anatomically perfect.
It is not subject to disease,
or decay,
and it cannot be corrupted.
[MURMURING]
DR. COLLIN: Quiet!
There will be no talking.
Is that understood?
[KEYS JINGLING]
Have you been
there all night?
Oh...
I must've fallen asleep, I...
I was working late.
I brought the anatomy
books you wanted.
Ah!
They weren't easy to get.
The one with brain structure's
been out of print for years.
Oh.
Ah!2
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
I'd need these
to complete my work.
It's important that my
sculptures be perfect.
I would've thought
you already knew everything
there was to know.
At one time I did.
But there wasn't any room
up here anymore,
and my brain exploded.
And they locked me up.
You could get out
if you wanted to.
And do what, share them?
I have my work here.
I wanna say,
"I am in the verge
of a breakthrough."
It's remarkable
what you've done.
These are so realistic.
This one almost looks like...
Hope you don't mind.
It's not finished yet.
No, not at all.
Softly, it feels very much
like human flesh.
But it is, really.
We're all decaying tissue,
all of us.
Turn into dust, clay.
I'm supposed to take you
to the day room.
I won't go.
Dr. Collin, you promised
you'd cooperate.
I won't waste my time
weaving baskets.
I have to study,
I have to work.
You can't stay in here
all day and night.
Dr. Starr wants you to make...
What does he know?
He's a party-appointed
imbecile,
a stupid little
ant-brained twitch.
Please, Dr. Collin, he's just
looking for an excuse to...
To what?
To be what?
What are his plans?
Please come with me.
Five-twenty p.m.
Patient Collin,
third session.
Administered 50 milligrams
of phenothiazine PO.
[CLOCK TICKING]
How do you feel?
Sleepy.
DR. STARR:
In our last session,
you began to talk about
a sensation
you were having of...
coming apart.
Yes.
Coming apart.
Tell me about it.
DR. COLLIN: I was working.
My arms... were becoming numb.
They seem to go dead.
And...
Then my hands separated
from my wrists,
and they moved
on their own
across the table.
Were you in any pain?
No, no pain.
Was it the first time
it happened?
No, another time...
my heart, my lungs,
every organ in my body,
it seemed to want to...
escape.
Escape? Why would
they want to?
Because...
they know my body was dying.
Your physical health
is excellent Dr. Collin.
It's a very strange disease.
I've never...
known anything like it before.
But I found a way
[STAMMERS] to save myself
through my work.
You mean your little
clay... figures.
I am putting some of myself
in every one of them
before I...
I collapse, I am going to...
to transfer my soul,
my intellect,
my existence!
What will happen to you?
Well, my body will dissolve.
But I'll live on in them.
Don't you see?
I won't really die
not as we know of it.
I'll live on forever.
I have created
my own salvation.
I have created my destiny.
That is, if I have
the time to finish it.
Don't, don't stop me.
Don't... Please, I beg you,
don't stop me.
Dr. Collin, it's all right.
Please, please, please!
There's nothing
to worry about.
There's nothing
to be afraid of.
What is it?
What do you see?
[CRACKLING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING]
Dr. Starr.
I can't let this
go on any longer.
What are you gonna do?
Something I should've done
a very long time ago.
Dr. Starr, you can't just...
Please, get out of my way.
[DOOR RATTLING]
[RATTLING INTENSIFIES]
[RATTLING STOPS]
Dr. Collin?
Dr. Collin,
what is this?
I was about to implant
their brains.
I've only been successful
with one so far.
It is a difficult surgery
in the whole process.
One mistake, and...
we can't communicate.
Dr. Collin was...
If they can understand me,
they'll know what I feel,
they know what
I'm thinking, my desires.
I'm sorry, Dr. Collin,
but this can't go on.
You're exhausted,
you've been up for nights,
you're not eating.
I cannot allow this
destructive behavior
to continue.
What are you saying?
I'm afraid
I'm going to have
to remove your clay.
No! No! Please!
Don't you see what I'm doing?
I can build you
a perfect race of men.
I can build you
a whole perfect society!
That's what you want,
isn't it?
That's what the state wants,
isn't it?
I can do that for you.
And when you tear
bodies apart in the war,
I can fix them,
only better than before!
Hurry up.
[SCREAMING]
[SHRIEKS]
I'll kill you!
You bastard,
I'll kill you for this!
Not my work,
I'll kill you!
[DR. COLLINS GRUNTING]
DR. COLLINS: You...
[SCREAMING]
Clean everything out,
strap him down,
keep him quiet,
do whatever you have to,
understood?
Run. Get away, run.
Hide.
[SIGHS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Come in.
I saw your light was still on.
What do you want?
I wanna talk to you
about Dr. Collin.
There's nothing more
to talk about. Vodka?
It's imported.
No, thank you.
He'll be transported
in the morning.
Please, I know
I can help him.
You've already tried.
He hasn't responded
to any treatment.
He's a hopeless case.
I cannot justify
his therapy any longer.
Dr. Starr, that man
saved hundreds of lives
during the war.
He's a brilliant surgeon.
He was.
But this...
This is not the work
of a sane man.
These little men
have all their body parts,
all of them.
He told me that
if he made his men
in his own perfect image,
then they would
all come alive.
Just give me another month.
Oh, trust me, Dr. Jarris,
there are some
that we cannot save.
Admit it.
You're personally involved,
aren't you?
It's understandable.
Your kind...
It moved!
[LAUGHING]
He's got you
believing it too.
Here, you need one of these.
Relax.
Leave me alone!
DR. STARR: Did I say
you could go?
In my world, Dr. Jarris,
there is no room for those
who cannot fulfill a need,
who have no function,
who cannot satisfy
the intimate demands
of the system.
Everyone and everything
must serve a purpose.
And who decides?
I do.
I don't like your world,
Dr. Starr.
You don't like me.
May I go?
Go.
[WATER DRIPPING]
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]
I'm sorry.
I don't know
what else to do.
If you only cooperated...
It's a few baskets.
That hadn't been so difficult.
Such a waste.
[SCREAMING]
Dr. Starr?
[SCREAMING]
[CLAY MAN SCREAMING]
[CLAY MAN SCREAMING]
[SCREAMING]
No!
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour,
there must be something on.
DAUGHTER:
Oh, wow, Candy Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters,
our favorite show!
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
Shh. It's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[RATTLING]
[RATTLING ECHOES]
[RATTLING INTENSIFIES]
Dr. Collin, I can't
wait all day.
Do you understand me?
You have been here how long?
[CLOCK TICKING]
Eight years.
The former director has
indicated in his last report
that you were making progress
towards rehabilitation.
The state has a great need
for gifted surgeons,
Dr. Collin.
I believe, with my help,
you could still become
a useful and very productive
member of our...
new society.
DR. STARR: Will I have
your cooperation?
Yes.
Good, very good.
How is the new
medication working?
Fine, thank you.
No more hallucinations
about your little...
clay men?
No.
All right, that's all.
You may go.
I'll take you back then.
[SIGHS]
Those are gonna kill you.
I'm quitting.
It's too expensive.
Black market doesn't even
have them anymore.
I'm glad you're cooperating.
I'm crazy, Dr. Jarris,
not stupid.
I'm aware of
the change in policy.
If we cannot ascertain
the stages on capacity,
what reason is there
for our existence?
What do they call it?
What?
The new cure
for the incurable?
Perpetual care.
They should have
made you director,
not that young idiot.
Today's procedure
will be one that I had
pioneered and developed
at the Cardiac Institute,
successfully,
for the first time
over 20 years ago.
Observe the detail.
It is anatomically perfect.
It is not subject to disease,
or decay,
and it cannot be corrupted.
[MURMURING]
DR. COLLIN: Quiet!
There will be no talking.
Is that understood?
[KEYS JINGLING]
Have you been
there all night?
Oh...
I must've fallen asleep, I...
I was working late.
I brought the anatomy
books you wanted.
Ah!
They weren't easy to get.
The one with brain structure's
been out of print for years.
Oh.
Ah!2
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
I'd need these
to complete my work.
It's important that my
sculptures be perfect.
I would've thought
you already knew everything
there was to know.
At one time I did.
But there wasn't any room
up here anymore,
and my brain exploded.
And they locked me up.
You could get out
if you wanted to.
And do what, share them?
I have my work here.
I wanna say,
"I am in the verge
of a breakthrough."
It's remarkable
what you've done.
These are so realistic.
This one almost looks like...
Hope you don't mind.
It's not finished yet.
No, not at all.
Softly, it feels very much
like human flesh.
But it is, really.
We're all decaying tissue,
all of us.
Turn into dust, clay.
I'm supposed to take you
to the day room.
I won't go.
Dr. Collin, you promised
you'd cooperate.
I won't waste my time
weaving baskets.
I have to study,
I have to work.
You can't stay in here
all day and night.
Dr. Starr wants you to make...
What does he know?
He's a party-appointed
imbecile,
a stupid little
ant-brained twitch.
Please, Dr. Collin, he's just
looking for an excuse to...
To what?
To be what?
What are his plans?
Please come with me.
Five-twenty p.m.
Patient Collin,
third session.
Administered 50 milligrams
of phenothiazine PO.
[CLOCK TICKING]
How do you feel?
Sleepy.
DR. STARR:
In our last session,
you began to talk about
a sensation
you were having of...
coming apart.
Yes.
Coming apart.
Tell me about it.
DR. COLLIN: I was working.
My arms... were becoming numb.
They seem to go dead.
And...
Then my hands separated
from my wrists,
and they moved
on their own
across the table.
Were you in any pain?
No, no pain.
Was it the first time
it happened?
No, another time...
my heart, my lungs,
every organ in my body,
it seemed to want to...
escape.
Escape? Why would
they want to?
Because...
they know my body was dying.
Your physical health
is excellent Dr. Collin.
It's a very strange disease.
I've never...
known anything like it before.
But I found a way
[STAMMERS] to save myself
through my work.
You mean your little
clay... figures.
I am putting some of myself
in every one of them
before I...
I collapse, I am going to...
to transfer my soul,
my intellect,
my existence!
What will happen to you?
Well, my body will dissolve.
But I'll live on in them.
Don't you see?
I won't really die
not as we know of it.
I'll live on forever.
I have created
my own salvation.
I have created my destiny.
That is, if I have
the time to finish it.
Don't, don't stop me.
Don't... Please, I beg you,
don't stop me.
Dr. Collin, it's all right.
Please, please, please!
There's nothing
to worry about.
There's nothing
to be afraid of.
What is it?
What do you see?
[CRACKLING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING]
Dr. Starr.
I can't let this
go on any longer.
What are you gonna do?
Something I should've done
a very long time ago.
Dr. Starr, you can't just...
Please, get out of my way.
[DOOR RATTLING]
[RATTLING INTENSIFIES]
[RATTLING STOPS]
Dr. Collin?
Dr. Collin,
what is this?
I was about to implant
their brains.
I've only been successful
with one so far.
It is a difficult surgery
in the whole process.
One mistake, and...
we can't communicate.
Dr. Collin was...
If they can understand me,
they'll know what I feel,
they know what
I'm thinking, my desires.
I'm sorry, Dr. Collin,
but this can't go on.
You're exhausted,
you've been up for nights,
you're not eating.
I cannot allow this
destructive behavior
to continue.
What are you saying?
I'm afraid
I'm going to have
to remove your clay.
No! No! Please!
Don't you see what I'm doing?
I can build you
a perfect race of men.
I can build you
a whole perfect society!
That's what you want,
isn't it?
That's what the state wants,
isn't it?
I can do that for you.
And when you tear
bodies apart in the war,
I can fix them,
only better than before!
Hurry up.
[SCREAMING]
[SHRIEKS]
I'll kill you!
You bastard,
I'll kill you for this!
Not my work,
I'll kill you!
[DR. COLLINS GRUNTING]
DR. COLLINS: You...
[SCREAMING]
Clean everything out,
strap him down,
keep him quiet,
do whatever you have to,
understood?
Run. Get away, run.
Hide.
[SIGHS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Come in.
I saw your light was still on.
What do you want?
I wanna talk to you
about Dr. Collin.
There's nothing more
to talk about. Vodka?
It's imported.
No, thank you.
He'll be transported
in the morning.
Please, I know
I can help him.
You've already tried.
He hasn't responded
to any treatment.
He's a hopeless case.
I cannot justify
his therapy any longer.
Dr. Starr, that man
saved hundreds of lives
during the war.
He's a brilliant surgeon.
He was.
But this...
This is not the work
of a sane man.
These little men
have all their body parts,
all of them.
He told me that
if he made his men
in his own perfect image,
then they would
all come alive.
Just give me another month.
Oh, trust me, Dr. Jarris,
there are some
that we cannot save.
Admit it.
You're personally involved,
aren't you?
It's understandable.
Your kind...
It moved!
[LAUGHING]
He's got you
believing it too.
Here, you need one of these.
Relax.
Leave me alone!
DR. STARR: Did I say
you could go?
In my world, Dr. Jarris,
there is no room for those
who cannot fulfill a need,
who have no function,
who cannot satisfy
the intimate demands
of the system.
Everyone and everything
must serve a purpose.
And who decides?
I do.
I don't like your world,
Dr. Starr.
You don't like me.
May I go?
Go.
[WATER DRIPPING]
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]
I'm sorry.
I don't know
what else to do.
If you only cooperated...
It's a few baskets.
That hadn't been so difficult.
Such a waste.
[SCREAMING]
Dr. Starr?
[SCREAMING]
[CLAY MAN SCREAMING]
[CLAY MAN SCREAMING]
[SCREAMING]
No!
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]