Victor Frankenstein

You know this story.

The crack of lightning.

A mad genius.

An unholy creation.

The world, of course, remembers the monster,

not the man.

But sometimes, when you look closely...

there's more to a tale.

Sometimes the monster is the man.

I've been with the circus for as long as I can remember.

Circuses like to think of themselves as families.

But, of course, each one has its clown.

Oh!

I didn't have a name back then.

I was just "the hunchback".

Or "freak", if you were being kind.

But the truth is, I didn't hate them for it.

It's hard to judge cruelty

when you've never known kindness.

Besides, I always had someone to look up to.

When I wasn't performing,

I served as the company's doctor.

I became fascinated by the science of medicine.

Particularly of human anatomy.

I wanted to understand everything about...

...this internal universe that makes us who we are.

The brains, lungs, bones, muscles.

The heart.

I don't know why the science of life

captured my imagination.

I think it just helped me escape.

My God!

You really think you're smart, don't you, eh? Huh?

A real intellectual.

What an embarrassment that must be!

Oi!

You're on!

Little did I know

that on a chilly London evening...

...I was about to meet the man

who would change my life forever.

Ladies and gentlemen!

Witness now the death-defying feats

of our very own bird in the sky...

The beautiful Lorelei!

Lorelei!

Lorelei! Lorelei!

Oh, Lorelei!

She can't breathe!

Previous injuries?

Uh, she broke her arm a year ago

and her collarbone sometime before that.

Oh! Oh, my God.

Collarbone is rebroken,

shoulder's dislocated, causing pressure on the lungs.

She can't breathe. What do we do?

Nothing, I'm afraid.

Don't have the tools to reset the bone.

Do you have a pocket watch? Give it to me.

I'm not giving you... Do this now or she dies!

Come on!

Wait.

That dislocation is forcing the sternum

to rest at an untenable angle, yes?

Yes. Ready? Set?

Three, two, one...

Yes! There we are.

You saved me. Breathe.

Thank you.

That was incredible.

Why are you wearing that silly makeup?

Well, I'm a clown. You're not a clown,

you're a physician...

...who just performed a dry surgery

in less than a minute with nothing to prepare.

Well, I'm a clown physician.

Don't panic, ladies and gentlemen!

All part of the act!

You're being wasted here.

I'm with the circus, sir.

You're going to leave the bloody circus.

What's going on?

You're a doctor, then?

On my better days.

Chiswick Cross Hospital is just up the road.

I can lead your men there now.

Get her out of here sharpish!

Go out the back way.

Don't want her upsetting the clientele.

Where are they taking that poor creature?

Sir! Please, may I know your name?

Ladies and gentlemen!

The Human Cannonball!

Please, no!

You sneaky rat!

You want to leave? I own you!

I've had enough of these books!

You belong to the circus! Burn them!

Please, Master Barnaby, it's my only thing.

No! No!

Get out of there!

Let that be a lesson to you!

Get in there!

You are going nowhere!

Do you know what's happened to Lorelei?

Romanticizing, are we?

She's probably gonna die, you know that.

These city doctors and their dirty hospitals.

Ow!

What are you doing?

High powered magnet. Should work. Usually does.

Hold on, sir. You don't know what he'll do to me.

Don't I? I can't just leave.

Of course you can. No, sir, they own me!

You are better than this. You can be better.

I can get you out, but you'll have

to trust me, understand?

Oi!

Choose now or remain here for the rest of your days.

Get away from that cage! You hear me?!

- Open it! - Oi!

Get him! He's property of the circus!

Now, the thing is...

He's robbed us!

The hunchback! He's attacked me and robbed the circus!

Get him!

Get after him!

Don't touch him!

Go!

Got you.

What do we do? What do we do now?

Oh, shit.

How do we get out of here?

You know this place, damn it! How do we...

Where are they?

Whoa!

I'm not in the circus.

What?

Yes, very good.

Come along!

I've never been out of the circus before, sir.

Eyes open, door shut. Coat off.

Coat off.

We're going to slip into something

a little more comfortable.

What's that for?

Next order of business.

No. What are you gonna do to me?

Absolutely nothing.

Don't worry about it.

Look.

This is going to hurt just a little bit.

What are you doing to me?

Listen to me!

You are not...

...a hunchback.

Not a real one, anyway. No.

You have an abscess...

causing a fluid pocket, a rather...

...large fluid sac.

It hurts!

Yes, I imagine it does.

You'd be surprised how often I hear that.

Oh, looking at the size of this beauty,

I'd say it's gone untreated for, oh...

...18 years, but...

...the good news is, I'm convinced

that if we can drain it...

...in three...

...two...

...one. And pulling out.

Garde à l'eau!

Right.

That's the easy part done.

Easy part?

You're all right!

And up... we... go.

Now, your muscles...

...your bones...

...your entire skeletal system...

...will be struggling to reset themselves...

...to return you to your former ground-sniffing...

...Luddite-bearing posture of the last...

...18 years.

So, for the time being, my friend,

you shall have to wear this rather...

...wonderful back brace I constructed for Gordon.

Who?

I'm standing up!

That's rather obvious.

I haven't overestimated your intelligence, have I?

It's just I'm not in the circus

and now I'm standing up.

Yeah, you said that.

Right!

Library and study are over there. Kitchen's over there.

I'm standing up.

Your bedroom's on the right.

There's a water heater and soap in there.

I suggest you use it to do something about your...