Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter

I can't believe this.

What about bail?

Well if you're charged

it'll be set pretty high.

Do you have any relatives we could call?

My my my, ah ha!

What do we have here?

A boy wonder, graduated MIT at the age of 15, is that right?

14.

I got my masters at 17.

Mm, you're a real smart guy, aren't you?

Know these people?

Yeah, the first one's not too clear,

she's all shredded up.

Tag on her toe says Leslie Piper.

Oh, Carlton Baker, your boss.

The phone systems say you were the last person

to speak to him, before they found him.

Considering my client has not been charged with anything,

I would suggest that we...

Uh, just a minute, counselor.

Just a minute.

Rick, you did say that you were into robotics, didn't you?

Yeah.

What is exactly that Omega Systems is developing?

Uh, research and development.

Come on, Rick, you're commissioned by Omega!

You and the kid at the hotel!

So?

So you're trying to tell me

that all these deaths are accidental?

You must think we're all idiots here or something.

Alright, I have something I want to show you both.

This film is from the camera of Biotech Technology.

If you watch closely, you will see Dr. Leslie Piper.

OK, that's about it.

On next turnaround, the view is obscured

because of an overturned desk, but uh...

you and I know how it turns out in the end, don't we, Rick?

Huh?

As I said before, detective,

since my client has not been charged,

I'd appreciate it if we could...

Hold your horses, counselor, you just hold your horses.

Take a look at that picture, Rick.

Look at it, you notice anything strange?

She looks...

Panicked, yeah.

She's about to die.

Anything else?

She uh...

Come on, huh?

Like how we can't see the assailant?

For one?

And for two, how she is constantly

looking down at that floor.

Like I told you, the creatures are small.

15 to 18 inches.

You want small?

We found this in his hotel.

And that sure ain't no GI Joe.

Kind of a queer doll for a grown boy to have,

wouldn't you say, counselor?

Until we examined it, and we found

a mechanical system inside.

Sort of like a robot, wouldn't you say, kid?

I'm fucked, aren't I?

Ricky Meyers, you are under arrest

for the murder of Cameron Phillips,

and as an accessory to both the murders

of Dr. Leslie Piper and Dr. Carlton Baker.

You have the right to remain silent,

and anything you say can and will

be used against you in the court of law.

I really didn't know

how to explain what had happened to me.

All I knew was that my life was never

going to be the same again.

I'd been a caretaker at the.

Bodega Bay Inn for the off season.

Just me and my experiments.

I was researching artificial intelligence,

trying to make my model robots function autonomously.

I was working for Biotech,

a major scientific-industrial concern

with Dr. Baker and Dr. Piper.

But some power was unleashed.

Some awesome power that was beyond our control...

And after killing Baker

and Piper...

It came after me.

So you two know each other?

Oh you bet we do, we go all the way back to the institute.

A coworker of mine decided to visit.

Interrupting a planned weekend with my girlfriend.

He brought along another girl.

A psychic who right away suspected something was wrong.

This is terrific.

Was she ever right.

OK, mind if I sprint through your program here, Ricardo?

I'd rather you didn't.

Come on, it's not like I'm going to steal anything.

Through her channeling,

I found a trunk in a room I'd never gone in.

Look at those.

A trunk full of puppets.

Life-like puppets that had been built by Andre Toulon.

He'd escaped Nazi Germany and come here.

And his spirit was very present.

He'd been working on the very equations

and theories that I was working on.

He was afraid of what to do with that power.

We found vials of substance that,

when injected into the puppets, gave them life.

By all accounts, real life, and independent thought.

This is so stimulation.

It was amazing.

Somebody pinch me.

Get it off me, man!

Oh no...

But the evil that was

tracking Dr. Baker and Dr. Piper

caught up with us.

We unleashed creatures from the underworld

that were after the same secret we were.

It was a nightmare that I didn't believe at first.

Guys we got to get out of here!

But as the night wore on,

I couldn't escape the truth.

We banded together and fought.

The puppets attacked the creatures instinctively.

And the spirit of Toulon guided us through the battle,

giving us courage, and showing us

the way to defeat the beasts.

Get off her, you little bastard!

Ow!

Die!

Yes!

We animated Toulon's unfinished puppet,

Decapitron, to defeat the strongest creature.

No!

I think Toulon and I knew

the job wasn't finished.

I am with you, the power of the magic has been set free.

It now needs a wise master to channel and control it.

To keep it from evil.

I am with you, Puppet Master.

And I knew the worst was yet to come.

Hello?

Susie?

Rick, hi, what's happening?

Omega came through with the bail.

Can you come pick me up?

Oh good, yeah of course, when?

I don't know, about an hour?

I got to go through processing,