"Here's another flash on that highway bus accident." ""Dan McCormick, the lone survivor," ""has been taken to the receiving hospital for observation." ""Attending physicians are astounded at his condition" ""because he shows no effects of the electrocution" ""that killed the driver of the bus and all of his fellow passengers."" "You say the man is conscious?" "Yes." "It's the most amazing thing I've ever heard of, Doctor." "After a good night's rest, he'll be ready to leave the hospital." "Come on, come on, give me those pants." "I want to get out of here." "Here, here!" "What's going on?" "I can't make him stay in bed, Doctor." "Well, I guess I ain't as tough as I thought I was." "Tough?" "You're lucky to be alive after a shock like that." "Now, get back into bed and take it easy." "Okay, okay." "You're the doctor." "This is Dr. Lawrence." "Doctor, Dan McCormick." "How do you do?" "Dr. Lawrence wants to ask you a few questions." "Sure." "Glad to have somebody to talk to." "You know, for a minute I thought you was one of those reporters." "No." "No, there are several of them downstairs." "You won't lack for publicity." "Oh, say, that's great." "I can use a couple of good write-ups in my business." "What is your business, Dan?" "Oh, didn't you know?" "I run a high pitch down on the midway." "It's an act." "I'm Dynamo Dan, the Electrical Man." "Fool around with storage batteries and stick my fingers into light sockets and make sparks jump between my hands." "You know, yokel shockers." "Yokel shockers?" "Sure." "Stuff to fool the peasants." "It's all for effect." "Most of it's phony." "Yes, I see." "Hey, Doc, get a load of this." "Supper in bed and I ain't even sick." "Yes, we're gonna make sure they take good care of you." "Well, I must run along now." "Here's my card." "When you get out of here, just drop in and see me sometime." "Sure, sure, Doctor." "Goodbye." "So long, Doc." "Nice guy, the doc." "Dr. Lawrence is one of America's foremost scientists." "No kidding!" ""Dr. John Lawrence, 515 Forrest Drive." "The Moors."" "Thank you, Henry." "That's all tonight." "Thank you, sir." "Good evening, Dr. Lawrence." "Wong." "Hello, Uncle John." "Hello, dear." "Oh, look at you." "What's the matter, no date tonight?" "Yes, and a very nice one." "I waited to tell you about your tickets." "Tickets?" "Tickets?" "What tickets?" "For the convention." "Oh, yes!" "Yes." "When do I leave?" "First thing Wednesday morning." "Well, that gives me a couple of days." "I've listed the references that you wanted." "Oh, can't we get out of that?" "I detest speeches." "It's probably because I've had to listen to so many in my time." "Well, here's your chance to get even, not that yours will be boring." "I wish I could be sure of that, but electro-biology sounds terrifying." "Except to electro-biologists, and that's who you'll be talking to." "Well, good night." "We'll hope for the best." "See you in the morning." "Oh, and don't forget your medicine." "I left it on your desk." "I said good night." "Good night." "Paul, why don't you give this up?" "It will work." "I know it." "With all the constructive things to be done, why do you concentrate on destruction?" "You call my work destructive?" "Must we go over that all again?" "This theory of yours isn't science." "It's..." "It's black magic." "I believe that electricity is life, that men can be motivated and controlled by electrical impulse supplied by the radio activities of the electron." "That eventually a race of superior men can be developed, men whose only wants are electricity." "But, man, you're challenging the forces of creation." "The forces of creation?" "Bah!" "You know as well as I do that half the people in the world are doomed to a life of mediocrity, born to be non-entities, millstones around the neck of progress, men who have to be fed, watched, looked over," "and taken care of by a superior intelligence." "My theory is to make these people of more use to the world." "By successive treatments, their bodies can be so electrolyzed that they are no longer subject to the pains and frailties of ordinary mankind." "Sometimes I think you're mad." "I am." "So was Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Pasteur, Liszt, and all the others who dared to dream." "Fifty years ago, a man was mad to think of anesthesia." "Forty years ago, the idea of operating on the brain was madness." "Today, we hold a human heart in our hands and watch it beat." "Who can tell what tomorrow's madness may be?" "No one, Paul, least of all I, since I, too, believe that we've only scratched the surface of electro-biology." "But science, through the ages, has been used for the betterment of mankind, to give some faint ray of hope to these non-entities, as you call them." "But..." "Now, now, now." "Together, we've been very successful." "Let's drop it for tonight." "You hurry and clean up." "There's some cheese and beer in the kitchen." "I'll make a Welsh rabbit and we'll celebrate." "What do you say?" "All right, John." "Good." "I won't be a moment." "Do you like it?" "It's terrible." "Say, who are you?" "Mark Adams." "Oh!" "So, you're Mark Adams, the big newspaperman." "Well, I have something to say to you." "You ought to be ashamed of yourself." "Five people killed and the best thing you can do is write bad jokes." ""Under his own power."" "Well, look, lady, five people were killed and we treated it with the proper respect, but that was yesterday." "Now, the Globe-Dispatch has a circulation of 300,000, say a million readers, and they don't want to read any more about the five that died." "They want to read about the one that lived, Dan McCormick." "Where is he?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "Oh, come, come!" "By the way, what makes you think he's here?" "Well, I bought the fourth-floor nurse a dollar dinner and found the taxi cab that brought him here." "Now, come on, give with the news item." "What's Dr. Lawrence's angle?" "I still don't know what you're talking about." "Okay, I'll wait." "You're wasting your time." "There's nobody here." "Nobody but us dogs." "Hey, you must be all right." "He doesn't usually make friends so easily." "Sure, me and dogs always get along." "What are your plans?" "I don't know." "I was headed for the county fair when that accident happened." "I was gonna open up my act." "Guess I'm too late now." "Suppose I'll have to do something else." "In the meantime?" "Well, in the meantime, there's always that good old 18 bucks a week from the unemployment insurance." "Of course, that doesn't start for a couple of weeks." "Well, why don't you come and work with me?" "What?" "I say, why don't you come and work with me?" "What doing?" "Well, I've been thinking about that electrical act you used to do." "Oh, I already told you that was a phony." "Nevertheless, you survived an electrical shock that killed five other people." "Maybe it wasn't such a fake after all." "Maybe you've built up an immunity to electricity." "What's that?" "Lmmunity?" "Ordinarily fatal doses of electricity can't hurt you." "Oh, you mean kind of like I was vaccinated against it?" "Something like that." "Some cellular or glandular change has taken place, which renders you immune." "I'd like to find out what that is." "Hey, wait a minute." "You don't mean you want to cut me open?" "No, no, no." "Just take your blood count, examine your muscular coordination and study your reflexes." "If we can find out what it is that produces this immunity against electricity, we might be the means of saving the hundreds of lives that are lost every year through accidental electrocution." "And you can live right here, too." "You mean, I get to eat here, too?" "Surely." "Take it easy until you're well and strong again." "That's good enough for me." "LAWRENCE:" "Dr. Rigas, come here a minute." "He's my associate." "Dr. Rigas, I want you to meet Dan McCormick." "Good morning, sir." "Hiya, Doc." "I've been trying to persuade Mr. McCormick to come work with us while we study his apparent immunity to high-voltage electrical shock." "Oh, yes!" "Yes, of course!" "Forgive me, I didn't recall the name for a moment." "You're the one..." "Yes, I'm the one that lived." "And I have assured him that we will do nothing to injure his health in the slightest degree." "Yes, yes, of course." "Well, then, let's get to work." "What say you, pup?" "You ready, Corky?" "Go get it!" "Good morning, Miss June." "Good morning, Dan." "Lovely day, isn't it?" "Oh, it sure is." "Well, are you beginning to feel at home around here?" "Yeah." "You know, every day around here is like Sunday on the farm." "Well, they're not working you too hard, then?" "No." "Why, they just give me a little shot of electricity, feel my pulse and look in my eyes and tap me on the knee." "You know how doctors do." "Well, doesn't the electricity hurt?" "No." "Why, I used to take more than this six times a day when I had my carnival act." "You know, Miss June, you look mighty pretty with those flowers in your arms." "Thank you, Dan." "You remind me of a girl I used to be kind of sweet on." "She had a high wire act in one of the Big Mac shows." "What happened to her?" "She ran away with the fire-eater." "Well, don't worry, Dan, I won't do that." "Hi, Corky!" "Come here, kid!" "Give me that ball!" "Give me that ball." "Come here." "Good morning, Miss Lawrence." "Well, you do get around, don't you?" "How goes the great experiment?" "Nicely, thanks." "How long does a thing like this take?" "Oh, weeks, months, a year perhaps." "You see, when a scientific discovery is announced to the world, it must be proved beyond chance." "Well, you've had a week now." "What progress have you to report?" "I think we can safely say that the preliminaries have been completed." "Well, that's fine." "Now we can get to the main bout." "What are you doing tonight?" "Why, Mr. Adams, I thought you were here professionally." "Well, if you think there's anything amateur..." "Look, June, you're making it awful tough on me." "I'm trying to romance with you and what do I get?" "Biology." "By the greatest authority in the world." "Well, maybe he is." "But if you're interested in the subject, I, too, have a few ideas along these lines." "Hi!" "Oh, I hope I didn't interrupt." "No, it's all right." "I wasn't getting anywhere." "Come on, Corky." "Come on, Corky." "Come on, Corky." "Hey, you and Corky seem to be getting along all right." "Sure, him and me gets along swell." "Say, you want to see something?" "Get a load of this." "All right, Corky." "Lay down." "Down." "That's it." "Now, turn over on your side." "Over." "Hold it." "Hold it." "Now, clear up on your back." "Turn over on your back." "Hold it." "Hold it." "Now back on your side." "No, no, the other side." "Hold it." "That's a boy!" "He learned that one quick." "I think maybe when I go back to the carnival, I'll get myself an animal act." "Dan, will you come in here, please?" "Sure." "No, not you." "No, no, no." "I don't like that guy." "You don't know anything about him." "Do you?" "I know that much of the success of this laboratory is due to him." "He's a genius in his line." "Maybe." "But I'll bet he spent his childhood sticking pins in butterflies." "MARK:" "What do you think, Corky?" "Hey, Doc?" "Yes?" "Where's Pete?" "Pete?" "Yeah." "Pete, the rabbit in the end case there." "He worked yesterday." "Now, would you step on this, please?" "Sure." "Hey, ain't we gonna wait for Dr. Lawrence?" "Dr. Lawrence is away for a few days attending a scientists' convention." "He left full instructions about the experiment." "Now, just relax." "Now, please." "Thank you." "Now, just relax." "You're perfectly all right." "You can get up now." "Hey, Doc, what happened?" "You must have dozed off for a minute." "Feels like my hands are asleep." "Well, that's strange." "Just the usual voltage, enough to maintain your immunity." "Oh, I wouldn't know from that scientific talk." "You all through with me now?" "Yes, that's all for today." "Okay." "So long." "RIGAS:" "Goodbye." "Hiya, Corky." "Come on, kid!" "Let's go." "What's the matter?" "Come on, Corky." "Come on, kid." "Come on, I won't hurt you." "It's good to be home." "Conventions are all right, in their way, but I'm for holding them all in my own living room." "Yes, I always thought them pretty much a waste of time." "Same old fogies with the same old theories." "This wasn't so bad." "Our Latin American friends are really doing some worthwhile things." "By the way, where is Dan?" "He was sitting out in the garden just a few minutes ago." "Maybe he doesn't know what time it is." "Wong, call Mr. McCormick." "Yes, Doctor." "I'm worried about Dan." "Well, what's the matter?" "Isn't he happy here?" "I guess so, but..." "He seems to have slowed down." "Perhaps it's a reaction to our experiments." "Well, maybe we're crowding him too much." "I'll check the reports after luncheon." "He's coming now, sir." "How are you, Dan?" "Did they take good care of you while I was away?" "Oh, I'm okay, Doc." "Special for you, Mr. Dan." "No, thanks." "I ain't hungry." "Finish your lunch, Doctor." "I'll take care of him." "Take his plate back to the kitchen, Wong." "He may eat it later." "Yes, Doctor." "Uncle John, there's something the matter with Dan." "Something strange is happening to him." "Oh, nonsense, child." "I admit he looks rather badly, but as Dr. Rigas says, that might be the result of our experiments." "Well, I wish you would make sure." "I will, now that we've got that scientific congress out of the way." "Have you any idea what might be wrong?" "Well, nothing definite, but..." "Well, you remember the goldfish?" "Goldfish?" "Diggs and Betty, in your office." "Oh, yes, yes, of course." "They died." "Well, that's too bad." "Something in the water, eh?" "Yes, sir." "Electricity." "Paul, look here." "June asked me to give you this." "Oh, yes." "Yes, thanks." "What do you make of Dan's condition?" "As I suspected, he's nervously upset." "I've ordered a few days' rest." "Take a look at this blood specimen." "Seems to be way below normal in corpuscle count." "That was taken from his arm this morning." "Nothing much like the specimen we took from him when he first arrived, is it?" "No, it isn't." "I don't know what to make of it." "Have you kept a record of the treatments?" "Of course." "I'll get it." "Here it is, Doctor." "I think you'll find everything according to your instructions." "Oh, I..." "I don't know what's the matter with me." "I'm..." "I'm weak as a kitten." "Oh, you've overtaxed yourself at that convention." "Probably." "Why don't you go upstairs and lie down for a while?" "You watch Dan carefully." "We mustn't let anything happen to him." "But of course." "I'll take care of him." "You go to bed." "It's been a good many years since I've been tucked in." "It's very pleasant being waited on." "Are you sure you'll be all right?" "I hate to run out on you like this, but it's Mark's night off and we planned..." "Now, I understand perfectly and please don't worry about me." "Well, here are your reference books and your paper and your pencil." "But if you take my advice, you'll go to sleep." "Thanks." "There's just a few things I want to look up." "Promise?" "Yes, I promise." "Now, run along." "Good night." "Good night." "Dan, I have here a nationally advertised cigarette." "Now, if you'll watch closely," "I'll put the cigarette in the palm of my left hand and make it disappear." "Now, watch me." "Right out through the elbow!" "Pretty good, huh?" "How about a little card trick?" "Here you are." "You like card tricks?" "I have a standard deck of playing cards here." "Now, if you'll just pick any card out of the deck, any card at all." "Don't let me force the ace of spades on you." "Any card." "That's it, take one of those right there." "That's fine." "Now, you look at the card, remember what it is, and put it back in the deck." "Okay, put it back in the deck there anywhere at all." "Just slide it in there." "That's it." "Put it in the..." "Hey, Dan..." "What goes on in here?" "I don't know." "I was showing Dan some card tricks and I guess I didn't go over so big." "How's Dr. Lawrence?" "Oh, he's much better." "I made him promise to go to sleep early." "What seems to be the matter with him?" "Well, overwork, I guess." "He was pretty nauseated and awfully weak." "Sounds like somebody's been dishing out mickeys around here." ""Mickey"?" "Yeah, that's a little thing they give you when your presence is no longer required." "Now, where would Uncle John get a thing like that?" "Dan, I'm ready for you." "Mark, I'm not going." "There's something wrong around here." "Well, it certainly isn't with Dr. Rigas." "Dan seemed anxious enough to go in there with him." "Yes, that's just it." "Dr. Rigas seems to have some sort of hold on him that the rest of us don't know about." "Oh, June, don't go Edgar Allan Poe on me." "Look, you see these tickets?" "They cost $1.10 apiece." "And when a newspaper man lays out cash for tickets, that is true love." "DAN:" "Hurry up, will you, Doc?" "You like these treatments, don't you, Dan?" "Yeah." "They make me feel strong like I used to." "They wear off too quick." "Oh, well, we'll fix that." "Now, stretch out, please." "That's right." "This is our final experiment." "If we're successful, we shall have proven a theory that will revolutionize the world, a theory that will silence completely those scoffers who babble of trivialities." "And we shan't be disturbed." "I've taken care of that." "Yeah, that's what I thought you said." "Oh, I'm sorry." "Better?" "Look, June, this is a big night." "I've got a lot of important things to do and say." "But I can't get started if you're not gonna pay any attention to me." "Oh, Mark, I'm..." "Now, wait a minute." "Let me finish." "I had this whole routine all worked out, the show, supper, a little music, you know, sort of work up to it gradual like, and now you dust me off with the first pitch." "What's the matter?" "Don't you want to go?" "Well, of course I want to go." "And I want the dancing and I want the supper, and most of all I want to hear what you have to say." "But, Mark, I'm worried." "Take me back to the laboratory and let me check on Uncle John and Dan and make sure they're all right, and then wind yourself up for some enthusiastic cooperation." "Well, now you've made a deal." "Now you'll do exactly as I say." "Step down from there." "Success." "Even more than I hoped." "Come." "Now, point your finger at that condenser." "Stop." "That's the power, the energy in you." "We must conserve it." "I have prepared for that." "Come over here." "Now..." "Get into this rubber suit." "It will insulate you." "That will save the electricity that's giving you your strength." "With these rubber gauntlets, your power is safe." "Without them, it will run from you into everything you touch." "There you are!" "Not Dan McCormick, but something I created." "Obey my will." "RIGAS:" "I can give you life or take it from you." "Paul, what are you doing?" "Finishing the experiment!" "That proves once and for all that my theory of electro-biology is correct." "Look!" "There he stands, the shell of a man." "Electrically alive, every impulse controlled by me." "Come here." "You must be mad." "Of course, I'm mad!" "But while you were fooling with the conventions," "I have conquered destiny!" "Think of an army of such creatures, doing the work of the world, fighting its battles." "Look at him." "The worker of the future, controlled by a superior intelligence." "We must assemble all the great scientists and show them this creature." "We must..." "Where are you going?" "To call the police." "You've destroyed a human being." "That's murder." "Oh, please, don't." "You're a brother scientist, you must understand." "What is one life compared to this discovery?" "Oh, he'll live, a beautiful existence." "No pain, no sorrow." "John, don't!" "Stop him!" "Dan!" "Dan, don't you know me?" "RIGAS:" "That's enough." "Let him go." "He's dead." "You killed him." "Remember that, you killed him." "When they ask you, you tell them." "You killed him!" "Now come, I must get that power out of you." "Come." "Take that." "You'll remember nothing of what happened except what I told you." "You killed him." "I killed him." "All right, sugar, take your look and let's get going." "Uncle John!" "What happened?" "Dr. Lawrence came into the laboratory to check the treatment I was giving our patient." "I left the room for a moment." "There was a crash." "When I came back, our patient was choking Dr. Lawrence." "I was too late to help." "Do you mean to say Dan killed him?" "I don't believe it." "Ask him." "Dan, it's a lie, isn't it?" "You didn't kill Dr. Lawrence, did you?" "MARK:" "Come on, Dan, we're your friends." "Did you kill him?" "I killed him." "Is Mr. Stanley in his office?" "I'll see." "What is your name, please?" "June Lawrence." "Yeah?" "SECRETARY..." "Miss Lawrence to see you." "Have her come in." "Dr. Lawrence's secretary." "You go ahead with the preliminaries." "Yes, sir." "Come in, Miss Lawrence." "Mr. Stanley, I want to talk to you about Dan McCormick." "Of course, sit down." "Now, what about Dan McCormick?" "Dan didn't kill Dr. Lawrence." "Well, he's signing a statement that says he did." "I know, but Dan couldn't kill anything." "He was kind and gentle and..." "Well, something has happened to change Dan completely, something terrible." "Must have, to make him confess a murder he didn't commit." "Now, Miss Lawrence, your uncle died of a broken neck caused by a brutal choking." "A powerful man did that." "Now, you yourself admit that Dan and Dr. Rigas were alone in the laboratory at the time." "Have you any reason to suspect Dr. Rigas?" "(STAMMERING) I'm all mixed up." "Maybe Dan did kill him, but he wasn't himself." "Now, now, wait a minute." "Take it easy." "How long have you known Dan McCormick?" "Ever since he came to work for my uncle." "Get along all right together?" "Been out to dances and parties and so forth?" "Oh." "I see what you mean." "No, we've never been out together." "I'm engaged to Mark Adams of the Globe-Dispatch." "I'm sorry I'm not more coherent in telling my suspicions, but don't treat this like an ordinary killing." "There's something tragic behind this." "And now with this confession..." "Of course, you must realize that a confession cannot be accepted by the court as conclusive evidence when the charge is first-degree murder." "I still have to prove my case." "I know, but you'll introduce the confession, and it's bound to influence the jury." "Miss Lawrence, I give you my word that I will do everything I can possibly to help Dan McCormick." "Then find out if Dr. Rigas has actually been following my uncle's instructions in the laboratory." ""The District Attorney, moving swiftly through the preliminaries," ""promises a speedy trial in the case of Dan McCormick," ""the so-called Electrical Man" ""accused of murdering Dr. John Lawrence noted scientist." ""To expedite matters he has requested the appointment of a commission" ""to determine McCormick's sanity."" "Dr. Rigas, the District Attorney would like to see you." "Of course, show him in." "How do you do, Dr. Rigas?" "We're sorry to disturb you, sir." "I wasn't doing anything of importance." "We'd like to have you explain just what treatments Dan McCormick was undergoing, and what bearing, if any, they might have on his condition." "Of course." "Won't you sit down?" "No, thank you." "Well, here is the case history." "A complete record of the experiments and treatment given in accordance with Dr. Lawrence's instructions." "I see." "Just what was the purpose of these experiments?" "Dr. Lawrence was trying to determine what furnished the immunity that enabled Dan to escape electrocution in that accident." "That called for quantities of electricity to be given, did it not?" "No, no, no, just small amounts." "Enough to maintain immunity, as that chart shows." "I see." "Did this application effect any change in him?" "Well, he did become moody and irritable, but I can't see what connection there is between that and the mild treatment he received here." "What's this, Doc?" "Looks like an operating table." "Oh, that's an electro-thermostatic table." "We've succeeded in curing many malignant diseases with electrical heat." "(CLICKS SWITCH)" "Would you care to try it?" "No thanks, Doc." "I'll take your word for it." "(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)" "I wish he could tell us what he thinks." "Oh, well, all dogs respond to certain vibrations." "I remember at my Aunt Hattie's house, that's Aunt Hattie on my father's side, she had a little dog..." "Oh, it's no use, Mark." "I'm worried and I'm scared." "I feel sure that Dr. Rigas did something to Dan." "And I'm worried about what it is, and I'm scared that we won't find out in time." "Yeah, so am I, sugar." "How about your paper?" "Won't they help?" "Don't they want to know..." "Yes, if we could go to them with something definite." "I tried to tell the Chief what we suspected, and he started to call a man in a white coat." "Of course, of course." "Anyone who commits murder must be momentarily insane." "Otherwise, they wouldn't do it." "Well, Dr. Rigas, thank you for your courtesy." "Don't hesitate to call on me anytime I can be of help." "Good day." "Good day." "Dr. Rigas?" "Yes." "Dan was insane, wasn't he?" "They can't hold him legally responsible, can they?" "That will be determined tomorrow." "Yes, but those doctors, they..." "Now, don't worry." "Dan's interests will be taken care of." "The District Attorney has invited me to be present at the examination." "You have been reluctant to discuss the night of the crime." "But I assure you that your reticence will not prejudice us against you." "MEDICAL EXAMINER:" "We want you to feel perfectly at your ease." "You did kill Dr. Lawrence." "I killed him." "Perhaps if we go back over your boyhood again, we can find some mental meeting ground." "As I remember your story, you were brought up in an orphanage." "There was a man there." "He hit you, often." "He hit you hard." "He hurt you." "You cried, nobody would help you." "All your life, you've been anxious to get even with him." "In your mind, Dr. Lawrence was that man because he ordered the treatments that hurt you." "You did get even with him, didn't you?" "You feel better." "You keep telling yourself you got even." "No!" "I killed him." "And in conclusion, I say without hesitation that the accused, Dan McCormick, suffers from acute melancholia, induced by a persecution complex..." "In your opinion, then, does that make him mentally irresponsible?" "In other words, is he legally insane?" "On the contrary, he is decidedly sane." "And definitely responsible." "Thank you, Doctor." "You've already testified that you're a newspaperman." "That's right." "A feature writer?" "Well, my stuff carries a byline." "Then you'd do almost anything to get a good story, wouldn't you?" "I'd do anything I could to save an innocent man, if that's what you mean." "Thank you, that's all." "And when I returned to the laboratory, the accused was standing over the body of Dr. Lawrence." "What did he say?" "RIGAS:" "He kept repeating, "I killed him."" "The cause of death was a severe dislocation and partial fracture of the third and fourth cervical vertebrae." "In other words, a broken neck." "That is correct." "Thank you." "We find the defendant guilty as charged." "...to be put to death before midnight of the 29th of May, in the manner prescribed by law." "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen." "This is your local reporter bringing you interesting highlights on the day's news." "First let's consider the case of Dan McCormick the man who used to do an electrical act at fairs and sideshows." "Well ironically enough the last act of his little drama will find him dying in the electric chair where all the immunity in the world won't help him." "(CLICKS SWITCH)" "All right, Dan." "Well, looks like he's on his way." "Be careful." "What's the matter, getting jumpy?" "I guess so." "These things always get my goat." "Yeah." "Hello, Joe?" "Well, they just went into the execution chamber." "Mark's inside to watch him go." "What?" "Sure, I can speak up." "No, there's nothing the matter with my voice." "Did you ever cover an execution?" "Well, that's what I mean." "Well, that's that." "I could do with a drink." "Me, too." "Hey, Charlie." "What's going on up there?" "I don't know." "Joe, they gave him three shots and he's still alive." "Yeah, yeah, I know." "Say, Mike, did you hear that?" "Must be something wrong in there." "He's taking all they can give him." "Listen to this, they can't kill him!" "He just killed two guards in the execution chamber." "He just broke through, he's headed for the yard!" "Hey, did you hear that?" "Don't touch him, he's full of electricity." "He just broke through, he'd headed for the gate!" "He's got the warden with him." "No, they can't shoot." "Poor guy's walking dead." "No, the warden can't run!" "If he starts, Dan will grab him and he'll shrivel up like a potato chip." "(MEN CHATTERING)" "MAN 1:" "Has anybody seen him?" "MAN 2:" "What did the Governor say about it?" "Take it easy, boys." "Have you had any trace of him since he walked out of the prison?" "Boys, I'll be absolutely frank with you." "I haven't heard a word." "The experts say that he can't live more than three hours." "He broke out of prison at 11:15, and right now he may be dying in some out-of-the-way spot." "It may be hours before we find what's left of him." "Here's a late bulletin on the McCormick escape." ""The body of Warden Harris has been found in the woods near State Prison." ""Apparently, the warden tried to get away from McCormick and was electrocuted." ""McCormick is still at large, a menace to everything and everybody." ""Three men died during his escape and countless others are in danger." ""Stay indoors refuse him admittance to your home" "(RADIO CRACKLING)" ""and notify the police if you see him." ""He can only live a few hours because the electricity which gives him life" ""is running out of his body with every step he takes."" "Frank!" "FRANK:" "Hey!" "Frank!" "But you can absolutely quote me as saying that the danger has passed, that the public has nothing..." "Yeah?" "SECRETARY..." "Urgent on one." "Stanley speaking." "My name is Frank Davis." "I'm at the Lakeside Rod and Gun Club." "A man just came out of the bushes and scared my wife." "It must be that escaped convict, McCormick." "Yeah?" "All right." "Thanks, Mr. Davis." "I'll take care of it." "Sergeant, I want you to have 10 men and two squad cars downstairs in five minutes." "Yes, sir." "(MEN CHATTERING)" "McCormick just scared the life out of some people out at Lakeside, and he's stolen a pair of rubber boots." "Rubber boots?" "Well, then he won't die!" "MAN 1:" "Let me get to that phone." "MAN 2:" "Gangway!" "Did you say Lakeside?" "Yes." "Well, that's out at The Moors!" "Yes!" "Hey, get back!" "Hey, look out!" "(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)" "(ALL CLAMORING)" "Get away from them." "(NEIGHING)" "Get away!" "Attention all police and sheriff details," "Dan McCormick convicted murderer who escaped from State Prison tonight is somewhere in the neighborhood of Oak Road and Crescent Drive The Moors." "He's headed for the laboratory!" "Step on it, Regan." "(SIRENS WAILING)" "(GLASS SHATTERING)" "May I help you?" "I was just tidying up a bit." "How nice." "Yes, well, I think I'll be going." "Is this what you wanted?" "Go on, take it, read it." "It contains the most amazing record of the extraordinary experiment that was only completed tonight when Dan McCormick walked away the electric chair." "I knew you'd done something terrible to him." "Terrible?" "Was it terrible that I gave him life?" "I have made a great discovery, and I present it with a spectacular demonstration." "Tonight the whole world will be talking about Dan McCormick." "Not a handful of musty scientists, but the whole world!" "You mean you deliberately let Dan go to the chair when you might have saved him?" "At first I intended to, but..." "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, he really killed your uncle." "True, he was under my control at the time and didn't know what he was doing, but he killed him." "My efforts at controlling him, in fact, were so successful that the temptation of putting him to the supreme test grew too strong." "And they give him a sanity test." "Yes." "Ironical, isn't it?" "Dan McCormick, as you knew him, was doomed from the first day he came into this laboratory." "For years I'd hoped to find a subject with an immunity that would enable me to test my theories." "You mean you deliberately destroyed him!" "I killed one human life in order to prove one great scientific truth." "You know, it's a curious fact that ever since my earliest experiments with rabbits and guinea pigs," "I've always found the female of the species was more sensitive to electrical impulse than was the male." "It's fortunate that we met here." "Shall I show you how it was done?" "(SIRENS WAILING)" "Dan!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Dan, stop!" "Stop, I tell you!" "Dan, stop, I tell you!" "Stop!" "Can't you hear me?" "Stop!" "I'll take your power from you!" "(THUDDING)" "(SIRENS WAILING)" "Dan, it's the police!" "Dan, don't run away." "We know what they did to you." "Here's the book." "There must be some way to cure you." "Dan, please." "Gordon, Logan and Mac, come with me." "Sergeant, cover the grounds." "Blake, Murphy, around that way." "The rest of you fellows, come with me." "Rigas!" "Electrocuted." "Dan!" "Look." "He's just started across the field!" "He's carrying something." "It's a body." "June!" "June!" "Dan!" "Dan, where are you going?" "Dan!" "He's gonna hit the fence!" "Dan!" "Listen, put me down!" "He's caught on the barbed wire." "If it cuts through that rubber suit, he's finished!" "Dan!" "Dan, get away from that fence!" "The electricity's running out." "And when Dan carried me out of the laboratory, I held on to it." "Well, has anyone else seen it?" "No one alive." "We can have photographs of the notebook, and photostats of the pages in Rigas' own handwriting!" "Do you think you ought to print it?" "Do I think I ought to print it?" "Why, this story will get me the Pulitzer Prize!" "Do you want to make it possible for someone else to do what's been done to Dan?" "Well, no, but..." "Yeah, I see what you mean."