Bride of Re-Animator

West!

You bastard.

You did this to me.

But you'll not escape me.

Not this time!

- (West) Take this. - It'll burst an artery.

If we don't remove this now, he's going to go into cardiac arrest.

- Just be ready to clamp. - If it doesn't hold...

We have no choice, Dan!

- (Patient groans) - Now!

Jesus Christ! It didn't hold!

But his central nervous system is still intact.

He might still prove to be useful. More useful than he'd be otherwise.

We have to retreat! The front lines have weakened.

Goddamn it, Herbert! What are you doing?

- You know what I'm doing, Dan. - (Cain) Don't you ever stop?

We may never again have access to this volume of fresh subjects.

Fascinating. There's somebody...

- (Explosions) - (Iguana hisses)

- Get away from those! - What are you doing back here?

- Leave. - Put that thing away!

This is too dangerous for all of us.

Where are you going? We've got lots of work to do here.

Come on! Jesus Christ!

- She's right! - She's wrong. We are close, Dan.

Reticular consciousness is not just in the brain.

We know that, yes? We've gone beyond that.

Look at this.

- These reptiles are the key, Dan. - Yes.

You just still don't understand, do you?

This is no longer about just reanimating the dead.

We will create new life.

- (Explosion) - Hang on!

Francesca?

Get out of here!

- Come on! Let's go! - (Explosion)

- Let's go. - My notes.

- Leave them! - Wait!

- Forget it! - We'll need this back home.

Come on!

Dan?

Dan?

Well, you're going to be alright.

We've got to get out. Come on.

Come on. Let's go home.

- (Heart rate monitor beeping) - (Door opens)

Morning, Gloria.

- How's the star patient? - Hello, Doctor.

You look great. I see you even put on some make-up.

Don't tease me. It's just that...

My head is about the only part of me that's not sick.

- Excuse me. - This is Dr. West.

He'll be coordinating with pathology about your biopsy.

You're right. That part of you is quite well.

I'm scared.

Don't worry. The surgery is routine. I'll be taking real good care of you.

Come on.

She's not an experiment.

- She's terminal. - She's a patient!

- She could be of use to us, Dan. - Not us! You.

- I'm a doctor. - Well, be a scientist!

Yes?

Lieutenant Leslie Chapham, Arkham Police Department.

- Leslie? - Lieutenant.

Well, how may I help you, Lieutenant?

I understand you're in charge of the remains from the night of the massacre?

Yes, but it's my understanding that the case is closed.

Not to me.

It showed up in a carnival sideshow just outside of Arkham.

Dr. Hill?

Remarkably well preserved, considering the massacre was eight months ago.

All the specimens from that night exhibit the same qualities.

Yes, as you see, the skull is fractured right there.

Didn't you know it was missing?

You know, I could fix that.

Where do you keep the rest of the remains?

The specimens from that night

have shown almost no signs of deterioration.

This not only holds true for the gross anatomy,

but the individual cells in each specimen display a lack of decay.

Are you saying that they're not quite dead?

What's dead is dead, Lieutenant.

I should know. It's my field.

What's this?

That's something Dr. Hill was working on.

I haven't been able to identify it. Yet.

I was planning on doing that first thing in the morning, as a matter of fact.

Is this all of it?

- Except for fragments and debris. - What happened to that?

Why, we burned them, of course.

Suicide.

Would-be ballet dancer didn't have the stuff,

- cut off her feet and bled to death. - (Ernest giggles)

- Where are her feet? - Her feet?

Why... they're missing.

A lot of stuff's been missing from around here lately, Holmes.

Body parts?

Really, Lieutenant? Who'd want to steal body parts?

Yes!

Hm-mm...

How did you get back here?

Well...

...well, well.

What do you think of the location of the will in the brain now, Dr. Hill?

I'm sorry, what was that?

Actually, you've been quite useful to me.

You helped me prove that consciousness resides in every part of the body.

You had such pretensions of grandeur,

you pompous plagiarist.

But look at you now. You're nothing but a dead-head.

A no-body.

- Did that police officer find you? - Police?

Yes, he came by while you were in surgery.

You're gonna be alright...

...Gloria.

Herbert?

Herbert?

Dan!

Look at this!

We practically share a wall with the Avril's crypt in the cemetery.

- Ew! - Yes, that's a 150 years of decay.

Oh, well.

Dust to dust.

- What happened to our cadaver? - I was finished with it.

Would you help me with this, please?

Security.

From what?

- Herbert, I've got something to tell you. - Really?

I have something to show you.

- (Iguana hisses) - Shh...

Look at that, Dan.

And no tissue damage.

It simulates a heart attack. And it leaves virtually no trace.

That's real useful if you want to murder someone.

It is very useful...

...in obtaining...

...the freshest animal specimens.

Right here.

The amniotic fluid of the Cuzco iguana.

Did you know that this reptile has not changed significantly in over...

...100 million years. Herbert, I know this is important.

Now... we extract the amniotic fluid from the sac.

With that, we add the muscle proteins

of myosin, actin and...

- Tropomyosin. - Good.

And then...

Our reagent.

Pure potentiality.

The primordial ooze from which life originates.

Dr. Hill... Dr. Hill gave me this idea.

I'm moving out.

What?

I'm moving out.

Dan...

You can't turn back now.

This... This is the key to creating life!

- Parts! Reanimated parts! - We're saving whole people, not parts.

Exactly, and what are people, Dan,

over and above a collection of living parts?

We can create...

...new life.

This morbid doodling with human body parts!

Is this what it's all about? Is this what all our great work has led to?

- Exactly what are you insinuating? - This is your madness!

It had nothing to do with me. I'm out!

I didn't see you rejecting my work when Meg was lying there dead!

- Where were your great ideals then? - Don't you...

Daniel?

What was it about Meg that you loved?

Meg's heart.

Help me... to continue the work.

We can create a new life.

Starting...

...with Meg's heart.

Yes.

Now, Dan...

You're going to have to help.

At the hospital.

- What about the police? - No, the police will never come here.

- Daniel Cain? - Yes.

Police?

Come on in.

Is there a problem?

Who are you?

Dr. West.

- Lieutenant Chapham. - Police.

What do you want?

It's... quite an old place you got here.

It used to be a mortuary.

After the cemetery filled up, it was the caretaker's house.

Nobody's been here for twenty years.