The Incredible Hulk Returns

Jack McGee:
I'm looking for a man...

Thor:
[interrupting] You have found one!

Jack McGee:
This is a particular man.

Thor:
Oh, I am a particular man... and I do not like your face.

Doctor David Banner:
The wrath of God in a bottle.

Thor:
This will send you back to hell you ugly troll!

Donald Blake:
This is the 80's, I don't know what a good cause is anymore.

Donald Blake:
He wants me to be more heroic, me!

Donald Blake:
[to Thor] Hold it, you dumb blonde! They have guns!

Donald Blake:
Then you'll step back in front of the death ray.

Doctor David Banner:
Life ray for me.

Thor:
When the troll's upon you, you're a mighty fighter.

Doctor David Banner:
You're not so bad yourself.

Thor:
I know.

Jack LeBeau:
Let me get this straight, okay? Crystal clear. A big green man, Fouche? This is what I'm hearing? A big green man prevented you from accomplishing your mission?

Fouche:
We can't be sure what we saw even *was* a man.

[David looks out his window, and sees Jack McGee]

Donald Blake:
What is it?

David:
Trouble.

Thor:
Trouble?

Sgt. Lindsey:
Dr. Shaw is head of Biogenetics at the Joshua Lambert Institute.

Jack McGee:
Isn't that where witnesses reported seeing a green monster of some kind?

Sgt. Lindsey:
Those witnesses observed something at an extreme distance. It cannot be considered reliable.

Thor:
Is there any drink in this alchemist's den?

Donald Blake:
[outside the pub, drunk] Thor, can you drive my car?

Thor:
By Oden, I can try!

Donald Blake:
Never mind, forget it, I'm crazy. We'll just take a cab.

Thor:
[Yelling at Jack McGee] You look like a rat-tailed Saxon to me, or a thieving Celt!

[repeated line]

Donald Blake:
[summoning Thor] ODIN!

Doctor David Banner:
[tape-recording himself] Nearly two years of concentrated research, hard work, and the very real possibility of curing my... problem... seems at last to be here.

Doctor David Banner:
[answering the phone] Main lab.

Maggie Shaw:
Mr. Banion, this is the woman you love and she's lonely. And she's also a lot softer in all the right places than that Transponder of yours.

Doctor David Banner:
You'll get no argument from me on that score.

Donald Blake:
You are David Banner, aren't you? If you're not, I'll just apologize profusely and get out of here. I just couldn't let you zap yourself with that thing until I was sure.

Doctor David Banner:
Who are you?

Donald Blake:
You had a beard the last time I knew you. Harvard, ten years ago? You were the guest genius at the time, the resident Merlin and me, I was... I was in trouble a lot.

Doctor David Banner:
Blake? Donald Blake?

Doctor David Banner:
The one and only.

Donald Blake:
Look, David, I don't want to know why you're not using your real name or why you want people to think you're dead, and I don't care. Well, that's not true really. I'm curious as hell, but I'm not going to ask or try to find out. That's your business and it's going to stay that way.

Donald Blake:
[narrating] Then there was a tall, hand-carved stone covered with Viking writing, old ruins. And though I wasn't supposed to read them, I could. "You have pierced the heart of Odin," they said. "Turn and go away or go forward and be eaten by your fate." Very encouraging, right? The perfect reverse psychology. I went forward.

Doctor David Banner:
You were in the mountains, Donald. At the altitude you reached, oxygen deprivation can easily happen, which makes one experience delusions...

Donald Blake:
A hallucination? I wish. That's what I thought at first, but some time ago, back in America, I woke up... and there HE was, looking at me! He's been shadowing me around ever since, popping out like a magic rabbit from a hat! He isn't a hallucination, Bruce. He's real.

Doctor David Banner:
[storming around] After the attempt at the Institute, I should've known what they'd try next. I should have known. What happened to Maggie is my fault.

Donald Blake:
David, stop beating on yourself, okay? Otherwise your big green friend will return and everything will go to hell.

Donald Blake:
Wait a minute, David. This thing can cure you, and you're going to fry it? David! Come on, let's do the experiment.

Doctor David Banner:
The repair work to the computer is incomplete, there's just not enough time. So... for me, it's back to square one.

[Donald watches sadly as David puts the Trasnponder controls into the microwave, he turns it on and watches the controls slowly melt and catch fire]

[Fouche drives a car and tries to run Thor down]

Donald Blake:
Watch out for the - the car!

[Thor sees a car driving right at him and he smiles. Thor then throws his hammer Mjolnir at the car]

Thor:
ODIN!

Doctor David Banner:
You know, you were there to help me, fighting alongside Thor. It kind of looks like you're becoming more heroic.

Donald Blake:
Yeah, I guess there's something to learn from a big goof.

Donald Blake:
Listen, David, I know you didn't tell her, but... I think she knows, and understands.

Donald Blake:
Well, I think it's time to grab my Mister Big and head off... [Blake and Banner watch Thor happily jogging alongside a woman]

Doctor David Banner:
She's very attractive. He won't like that.

Donald Blake:
So what else is new?

[last lines]

[as David leaves, Maggie's dog barks after him]

Maggie Shaw:
Hush, boy. Hush now. It's no use. He's gone.

Donald Blake:
[pondering Thor's requests] Food, drink, women, and the company of men like yourself... I think I know just the place. [cut to Donald and Thor entering a biker bar]

Doctor David Banner:
What happened last night wasn't Thor's fault, it was yours and yours alone!

Donald Blake:
David, you're not being fair to me.

Doctor David Banner:
For two years now, *two years* this change of mine hasn't occurred, and do you know why? Because I've stayed away from people like you. People who start trouble and then run away. Well, you're not running away this time, Don, this time you're going to help wipe up the milk that you spilled! Do you understand?

Doctor David Banner:
[speaking into the recorder as transponder is reconfiguring itself] I've turned the transponder into a kind of giant Chinese puzzle. A puzzle to which only I have the key. And that key is a mechanism located in the laser field rotator, which reverses Gamma polarity. Exposure to the rays will target the sporadic mutations within the cells of the subject - myself - and cause complete remission.

[David Banner walks outside onto the front porch, holding a pot of coffee and he waves at Maggie Shaw]

Doctor David Banner:
Good morning!

Maggie Shaw:
Good morning!

[David smiles as he points at a fresh pot of coffee and Maggie giggles]

Maggie Shaw:
Great!

[Maggie walks into the room as David carries a tray of food]

Maggie Shaw:
Uh-uh, button me!

Doctor David Banner:
You got it!

[David sets down the tray and then he looks at the button of her shirt]

Doctor David Banner:
Hmm.

[David blows on the side of Maggie's neck and she chuckles]

Maggie Shaw:
Tickles!

Doctor David Banner:
It's supposed to tickle. You smell delicious. Mmm.

[David buttons Maggie's shirt, he moves the hair away from her neck and he kisses Maggie's neck]

Doctor David Banner:
You taste pretty good, too.

[Maggie turns to David and wraps her arms around him]

Maggie Shaw:
Come live here with me, David. It only makes sense.

Doctor David Banner:
I'm here most of the time anyway, aren't I? It's best this way for now, Maggie. Believe me.

[Thor looks around the Joshua Lambert Institute laboratory and then he looks at Donald Blake and David Banner]

Thor:
Your century's version of hell, eh, Blake?

Donald Blake:
Is *this* a hallucination?

[David, still shocked, shakes his head]

Thor:
And this must be Banner the Warlock. All in good time.

[Thor holds out his hand, Blake gives Thor his hammer and Thor walks off to a control panel]

Thor:
First things first.

Donald Blake:
What're you doing?

Thor:
I'm thirsty.

Donald Blake:
What're you doing?

Thor:
I'm *thirsty!*

[Thor grabs a console panel with his hands]

Doctor David Banner:
Don't let him touch those panels, Don!

[Thor pulls a panel off a control console and a burst of sparks shoot out]

Doctor David Banner:
Stop him! He'll wreck everything, Don! Make him stop!

Donald Blake:
You maniac! Hold it for a second!

Thor:
Drink! Is there nothing to drink in this alchemist's den?

Donald Blake:
I seriously doubt it.

[after yelling at Thor, David closes his eyes and tries to calm down]

Doctor David Banner:
I must not lose control.

Donald Blake:
David, he - he, he's harmless!

Thor:
Is he praying?

Donald Blake:
I'm sending you back, give me that hammer!

Thor:
*Wait!* I won't hurt him!

[Thor looks at David, who has his eyes closed and is trying to keep calm]

Thor:
All right, look, you. Blake says that you are wise in many things, but if you show him how to cut the cord that Odin has spun between us...

Donald Blake:
Thor, hold it!

Thor:
- or if your witchcraft should harm Blake, then I lose my chance to enter Valhalla! And you have never seen anger...

[Thor stops as he sees David isn't listening, and he looks at Blake]

Thor:
He is praying.

Donald Blake:
David, it's okay...

[David opens his eyes and he looks at Thor]

Doctor David Banner:
Go away. Leave me alone, please. You just don't understand. You don't know what could happen, *please.*

[Thor starts lightly pushing David back, slowly pushing him him into the main control area]

Thor:
Go away, eh?

Donald Blake:
Don't push him!

Thor:
Leave you be, eh?

Donald Blake:
Stop it!

Thor:
Sounds more like insult than hospitality!

Donald Blake:
What're you doing, you jerk?

Thor:
An insult is something I can always understand!

Donald Blake:
Don't push him!

[Thor grabs David by the collar and he is struggling to keep calm]

Doctor David Banner:
Don't make me angry.

Thor:
He's braver than I thought, Blake!

Donald Blake:
Stop it, damn it!

[Thor swats David away as he faces Blake]

Thor:
Leave me...

[after David collides onto a control unit and screams while he is electrocuted, Thor rushes over to pull David away and then he throws David to the floor]

[Blake goes to David and rolls him onto his back, but Blake backs away when he sees David's pupils are white and he is about to start changing into the Hulk]

Thor:
Odin's beard.

Donald Blake:
Good God.

[after the Hulk roars at Blake and Thor, Thor smiles with excitement]

Thor:
ODIN!

Donald Blake:
No, Thor, that's David! Give me the hammer!

[Blake reaches for Thor's hammer, but he pushes Blake aside and starts to charge at the Hulk]

Donald Blake:
Give me the hammer!

Thor:
If he wants a fight, he'll *get* one!

[after being summoned in David's apartment, Thor smiles]

Thor:
Thank you, Odin.

[Thor looks at Blake and reaches for his hammer, but Blake pulls it away]

Donald Blake:
Hold it, big fella! I need some answers from you! I want to ask you some questions!

Thor:
You want, you need. I want a drink!

[Thor tries to walk off, but Blake stands in front of him]

Thor:
Mead. Oh, what you call "beer" will do. It's thin stuff, but it's better than nothing at all. And food. My stomach is twisted around my spine! I want it full!

Donald Blake:
Food later, questions now! Okay?

[Thor is silent]

Donald Blake:
Okay. David, that man you met.

Thor:
The troll I fought, you mean! Could he fight!

Donald Blake:
Yeah, that part of him can fight. The other part of him can *think*. Now how do you think those qualities are divided between you and I, you Buick on stilts?

[Thor looks upset and Blake quickly looks nervous]

Thor:
That's an insult, isn't it?

[Thor starts to walk to Blake and Blake slowly backs away, trying to look brave]

Donald Blake:
Uh... yeah. That might be considered an insult.

[after Blake insults him, Thor smiles and laughs]

Thor:
Blake, you have courage and wit!

[Thor puts his hand on the side of Blake's neck firmly]

Thor:
Now *there* is a side of you I like... Odin knows why.

Donald Blake:
Yeah. Odin. That's what I want to talk to you about. Why are we...

Thor:
Do you know what it is like to be without flesh, Blake?

Donald Blake:
No, I don't.

[with his back to Blake, Thor takes off his helmet with his hands and then he turns to Blake, upset]

Thor:
Without flesh that you can feel? Without blood pumping through your limbs, with no heart and no chest *to hold it?*

[as he walks to Blake, Thor sets his helmet on the table]

Thor:
And still at the same time to be awake. Not sleeping. Not dead. Not anything. A place of mist and smoke, darkness. Alone, as if in some... terrible dream. And then... then, Blake... to hear the call. Like a war horn in battle. And then, to awaken as you were, when men and women ate life with shining teeth!

[Thor smiles and Blake looks confused as Thor's smile fades and Thor sadly pauses]

Thor:
None of them are left now.

[Blake looks away and looks down, a little sad]

Thor:
But I am what I always will be. And I need to drink. Eat. Laugh with a woman, fight with a man! Just a taste, Blake, and then - then you can ask questions until Odin's missing eye returns!

Donald Blake:
I, I didn't - I never thought about it that way. I didn't - I didn't begin to know what it was like. I didn't know. But still, how are we...

Thor:
How? *Why?* How am I here, now?

[Blake thinks about it for a moment, he smiles and then chuckles]

Donald Blake:
Thor, you actually have a point there.

[Thor sighs]

Thor:
Odin made you my guide in this place, and for *humility's* sake, I must follow your lead. Hell, then *lead!*

[Thor opens the door to David's apartment, holding a mug of beer and wearing only a bath towel around his waist, and McGee looks at Thor with shock]

Thor:
What is it that you pound on my door with such insolence?

Jack McGee:
Insolence? No! Um... I, uh - I'm, uh, looking for a man...

Thor:
You have found one!

[Thor takes a sip from his beer mug]

Jack McGee:
Yeah, but this is a particular man.

Thor:
Oh, *I* am a particular man.

Jack McGee:
Name's, uh, Banion.

[Thor starts walking outside and McGee backs away]

Thor:
Especially about those that I speak with. And I do *not* like your face!

Jack McGee:
A D. Banion.

Thor:
You look like a rat-tailed Saxon to me or a thieving Celt!

[McGee stops walking, now halfway down the hall]

Jack McGee:
I - I just came up here looking for this Banion...

Thor:
Well, then you have found him, mush-spine! I am Banion!

Jack McGee:
You - *you're* Banion?

[Thor looks at McGee and drinks his beer]

Jack McGee:
Well, I, uh - this must be a, uh, *another* Banion. Uh, I'm sorry to have bothered you. Ha-have a nice day.

[McGee turns and walks off. Thor laughs and he walks into David's apartment, shutting the door behind him]

Thor:
I'm learning to be subtle. The enemy retreats with never a blow struck!

Donald Blake:
Yeah, real subtle.

[David and Maggie sit on the front lawn, covered in a blanket and watching the fire]

Maggie Shaw:
I miss Don.

Doctor David Banner:
So do I. He certainly could liven up the party.

Maggie Shaw:
I don't need anything livelier than this tonight. This is just fine.

Doctor David Banner:
I feel the same.

[Maggie frowns as they watch the fire]

Maggie Shaw:
I'll always love you.

Doctor David Banner:
And I'll always love you.

[David picks up a tray and he walks off into the kitchen]

Maggie Shaw:
You sound like you're protecting me from something.

Doctor David Banner:
What could I possibly be protecting you from?

[Maggie sits on a chair and she looks at David in the kitchen]

Maggie Shaw:
The monster in you, maybe?

[David looks at Maggie, a bit nervous]

Doctor David Banner:
Monster?

Maggie Shaw:
Yes. You remember, you told me once, that before we met, you'd gone through a long period of self-destructive behavior. You didn't go into any details, even though I tried *all* my feminine wiles.

Doctor David Banner:
Yes, you did.

Maggie Shaw:
But you called it your monster. Your Mr. Hyde.

Doctor David Banner:
It's been two years since my "Mr. Hyde" has shown his ugly face. Why are you concerned now?

Maggie Shaw:
You were very restless in your sleep again last night. It worries me when you're like that. I feel like I can't do anything to help yuo.

Doctor David Banner:
You help me more than I can ever tell you.

Maggie Shaw:
Try, please. I think I need that too this morning.

Doctor David Banner:
Okay. I use you.

[Maggie looks unnerved]

Doctor David Banner:
Your image. For control, I concentrate on you. As the old song goes, and I make it through.

[David walks around into the living room to join Maggie]

Doctor David Banner:
It's a little like A.A., I suppose. You get through one nightmare at a time.

Maggie Shaw:
Well, it was the same for me after Michael died.

[Maggie stands up and faces David]

Maggie Shaw:
But I survived by losing control, by just letting loose.

Doctor David Banner:
Some things, Maggie, you can't just "let loose."

[Donald Blake walks to David Banner after Zack Lambert walks away]

Donald Blake:
Third degree, huh?

Doctor David Banner:
Oh, it doesn't matter in a few days.

Donald Blake:
And you'll step back in front of the

[whispers]

Donald Blake:
death ray!

Doctor David Banner:
*Life* ray for me, I hope.

[David starts to walk off and Blake walks alongside him]

Donald Blake:
I hope so too, David. I really do. At the same time, I feel kind of jealous, like, uh, like a lepur, who finds another lepur to be pals with and then his pal goes and gets cured!

Doctor David Banner:
Well, using your analogy and sticking with it, you're like the lepur that *causes* the disease to happen.

Donald Blake:
Wait a minute. What does that mean, David?

Doctor David Banner:
Don, Thor only happens when you call him up and that's the rock bottom truth of it. I have no choice. The creature in me is uncontrollable but you *control* Thor. Now there must be a reason for that, only you don't want to know what it is.

Donald Blake:
Uh, ok. You might be right. But what do I do, then? A hypnotic regression to dig up an answer?

Doctor David Banner:
Why don't you ask Thor?

Donald Blake:
Ask Thor?

Doctor David Banner:
Yeah.

[Blake thinks it over]

Donald Blake:
Look, I, uh - I need to take a walk. I need some fresh air.

Doctor David Banner:
In L.A.?

[Blake laughs and David hands him his keys]

Doctor David Banner:
Here you go. The hammer's in the apartment. To get it, you'll need some keys.

Donald Blake:
Right.

Maggie Shaw:
[Last Line watching Banner leave] It's no use he's gone.