Monsters (1988–1990): Season 1, Episode 6 - Where's the Rest of Me? - full transcript

A mad scientist keeps a cadaver alive to harvest its organs.

[OPENING THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS]

Honey, it's family hour.

There must be something on.

Oh, wow!
Candy critters.

Oh!
Oh, great.

It's Monsters.
Our favorite show.

Shh. It's starting.

[LAUGHING]

[GLASS CLINKING]

To us.



ALL: To us.

Thank you all
so very much

for coming down.

Thank you.

This must be the most
sumptuous island
in the Caribbean.

And the most
underdeveloped.

I think I'll build
a condo village.

Or a shopping mall.

[CHUCKLES]

Well, maybe some
new army barracks

for the local dictator.

Seems to me like
he's gonna need them.

DR. WINGITE: Nonsense.

The guerrilla forces
are only impressive



to the American
news broadcasters.

Oh, politics, politics.

Is there more wine?

Allow me.

So, what's up, Doc?

I beg your pardon?

Are we back for some
high-tech check up?

Do you feel you need
such a thing?

REGINA: Well, not me.

Your operations
saved my smoky

eternally hypnotic
singing voice,

to quote one of my
more recent reviews.

Oh, I'm so glad.

Joe?

The knee's fine.

You did a great job.

DR. WINGITE: Great.

J.J.?

I have the eyesight
of a 20-year-old.

REGINA: And the money
of a 50-year-old, hmm?

So, Doc?

You're down here

to be given
the opportunity

to invest

in a miracle.

[BEEPING]

Meet Adam.

Your benefactor.

[LAUGHING]

Did he leave us
something?

His wonderful body.

DR. WINGITE:
Adam has no right knee.

You have it, Joe.

And his eyes...

gone.

Remember your cornea
transplants, J.J.?

And the bandages
on his throat.

My new vocal cords?

Yours were rotting
from smoke and bourbon.

But our operations
were years apart.

This guy isn't
even cold yet.

That's the miracle.

Adam is three years dead.

And every night,

I put one ounce
of my serum

into this vat,

and that tiny little bit

keeps his body as fresh
as it was

at the moment of his death.

And I will keep him fresh

until every cell
has been used.

And when you use up
that beaker of the potion?

I refill it, my dear.

With these,

I manufacture

in quantity.

You see, not only
does this serum

keep the dead body fresh,

but it also makes
the transplanted
body parts

completely compatible,

with its new owner.

It goes in,

it heals,

and it functions perfectly

and quickly

if... if treated
with the serum.

Now, every corpse

can be an eternal
flesh bank for the living.

[LAUGHING]

Care to invest?

ALL: Yes.

I think we should discuss
the details over brandy.

How did he die?

Misuse of a new drug.

His hands.

They're so large.

[LAUGHING]

So we have a dead man
in common.

But this man here
isn't dead.

[SCREAMING]
[LAUGHING]

JOE: Now, you're
really gonna get...

Oh, the big bad
football star's ticklish.

JOE: I think it's time
you get a spanking.

Oh, oh, oh!

[BEEPING]

This is more fun
than real estate.

Science is the real
power of the future.

[EXPLOSION IN DISTANCE]

For new promotions.

DR. WINGITE:
But of course,

and you're part of it.

Everybody knows

how you broke all
the old records
this last season.

Wait till you tell them
you were running

on a transplanted knee.

You know, it's strange, like,

but this new knee,
the right one,

it's twice as strong
as the one I had before.

DR. WINGITE: This serum,
it heals

and it strengthens.

Tell me, Doctor,

does anyone else
know the recipe
to this little miracle?

Absolutely not.

I did it all.

Alone.

The formula's locked away

where only I can get it.

[EXPLOSION]

[GASPING]

[GROANING]

The freedom fighters.

[CHUCKLING]
What a joke.

Viva la revolucion!

Viva la revolucion!

What? Revolution?

At the airport.

I heard some young men
chanting it

as they were dragged
away by police.

So they're probably
dead by now.

There's enough executions
in this country

to make Hitler jealous.

Our presidente
is hardly Hitler, Joe.

Yes, he is much much taller.

There. See?

Just like a passing
thunderstorm.

[HEAVY BREATHING]

So Joe can play ball
for a long, long time, right?

Yeah, you can just
keep replacing
any parts I break.

Well, it really isn't
quite that simple, Regina.

Our skin is an organ,
isn't it, Doctor?

Yes.

So it can be replaced,
all of it.

My neck, my underarms,
my breast.

Even my almost
perfect hips.

We're dealing
with a new
discovery here,

and we don't know
all the ramifications.

You know, Doctor, the sight
ahead of my right eye

has never been quite
as clear as the left.

I have to deal
with those awful contacts.

Maybe, a new benefactor
will come along soon,

one with 20-20 vision.

New lungs for smokers.

Now wait just a minute.

You see, my good doctor,

as founders, backers,
and promoters of this
new company,

it will be our privilege
to get whatever we need

from the product
and the procedure
being offered.

That's free enterprise.

Lord knows there are new
dead people every day.

I've had any number
of them as agents.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

DR. WINGITE:
That's hardly the point.

Doctor!

What the hell is that?

[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]

[GRUNTING]

[SCREAMING]

Why is he after us?

Why was he after me?

Okay, okay, cool down,
drugs are a powerful thing

and they can cause
freaky side effects.

Now, if this serum
is powerful enough
to keep this guy from rotting,

it's probably strong enough

to cause this here
death crawl.

Yes.

Corpses use to sit
straight up

at funerals
a hundred years ago.

Before they embalmed them.

Yes. Yes.

Right. Come on, Doc.
Give me a hand.

DR. WINGITE: Right.

Okay, pal,
back to the morgue.

[GROANING]

Aren't you gonna
plug him back in?

Not until I know
more about his.

Poor little bed man.

No more happy juice.
'cause you've been bad.

[GRUNTING]

What's happening?
Yes, what?

Adam.

He attacked.

Killed Joe.

The serum

has heightened his senses.

It's as if he can see.

[CUTTING]

We've got to get
out of here.

I've got to get
out of here.

I am not going
and leaving Adam
unattended.

Right, that corpse
is our investment now.

We can't have it
roaming around
and giving us bad press.

We have to control
that thing.

You control it.
I am leaving it.

Don't!

He may have found his way
up the main stairs.

He could be in the hall.

On his belly?
[LAUGHING]

Good evening,
zombie watchers.

[GASPS]

Oh, no. No, no.

Regina!

Doctor! Help me!

This can't be!

[SCREAMING]

[GUNS FIRING IN DISTANCE]

They're battling again.

Forget about that battle.
We've got a war of our own.

You sure these doors
will keep him out?

These doors were built
to stop cannonballs.

I don't think that
a spasm corpse will get in.

I... I am sorry
about Joe.

Really.

Save it, Doc.
We've got the angry dead
to contend with.

Let's don't go lapsing
into eulogies now.

That thing is walking now.

Listen.

The next time
you rob a morgue,
here's an idea for you.

Stick the body's hand
with a pin.

If it says, "ouch,"
move on.

He's off the serum.

It won't be long before
he weakens.

Rots in its tracks
if we're lucky.

The guerrillas
are restless, Doctor.

They've been
restless for years.

Tell me.

How do they execute
all those political
prisoners here?

Various ways.

I don't know.

I read something
about that.

Haven't they been using
lethal injections lately?

What in the world
does that matter?

It matters
because a dead man
is walking around

in this house.

Was Adam executed?

Unfortunately...

yes.

And I was a witness.

You watched him die?

The state requires witnesses.

Of course, but why
ask a doctor to...

You gave him the lethal
injection, didn't you?

You're this government's
execution doctor, aren't you?

He was a convicted
murderer.

A freedom fighter.

Yes. Viva la revolucion.

[GUNS FIRING IN DISTANCE]

So you're Dr. Killgood.

Oh, please.

Save your questionable
witticisms

for those late night
parties in New York.

So you execute
the government's enemies

in exchange for fresh
young specimens.

You're very clever, Doctor.

You're also what is known
as a ghoul.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

So, Doctor,
where do you keep the formula?

Why?

"Why?"

I think we should
be equal owners

now that we have
to play cover up

for those two
murders tonight.

I hardly think that
this is the time

or the place
for bribery, my dear.

Oh, that's your
safe, isn't it?

Don't touch that.

Damn.

That's the dumbwaiter.
It goes to the old kitchen
in the basement.

Oh, come now.

If this is really
a dumbwaiter,

why didn't you block it
with furniture?

I forgot it.

Forgot? A shaft down
into the cellar of death?

Oh, I don't think so.

I think behind door
number three

is a secret hiding
place for...

nothing.

[SCREAMING]

What...

Help, Doctor!

Help me!

Doctor!

[THUDDING]

He's outside.

He's on the roof.

[GROANING]

[GROWLING]

No. No.

You need me.

Corazon.

I make the serum.
Mi corazon!

I had to, I was dying!

Mi corazon!

Please.

You need me.
I make the serum.

I make the serum.

Please. Please.
[SCREAMING] No!

[HEART BEATING]

Viva la revolucion!

[CLOSING THEME MUSIC PLAYING]