The Incredible Hulk, Season 2

David Banner:
Doctor! Dr. Fields!

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Yes.

David Banner:
Hi, I'm David Benton. I know that you're not taking anymore patients right now, but I really do need your help. You see, I have a highly unusual neurosynaptic dysfunction, which renders me subject of violent outbursts of anger. Now I've tried... radical radiological and chemotherapeutic treatments, but nothing seems to help. And I uh, I came to you because, well, not only your reputation as a psychiatrist, but also from what I've been reading about your new use of hypnosis in therapy, I really think you could be the answer to my problem.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Well, I'm sure the institute could arrange for you to meet someone on our staff. If you'll just uh, leave your...

David Banner:
Oh, really please, Doctor, that would be like going to Michelangelo and then ending up with one of his apprentices.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Some of our apprentices are really quite good.

David Banner:
But they're not you, and I really do need the best. Would it help if I informed you that I'm a physician?

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Mr. Benton - Dr. Benton, I've turned over my entire case of patients to my associates. I'm leaving the institute for quite a while.

David Banner:
Doctor, if I could just...

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
If you have a severe personal problem then surely you can appreciate it when someone else has one.

David Banner:
Doctor, if you only knew how hard it was for me to get to Hawaii to see you.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
You swim?

David Banner:
Almost, yes.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Sorry. [getting into her car] Look, I'll talk to Dr. Maxwell myself. He'll be expecting you.

David Banner:
Doctor, please. If you could just take a little time to understand my problem.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Time is the one thing I don't have. I'm really very sorry.

David Banner:
In your case, would you say that there's a major failure of the cell tissue to regenerate itself?

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Yes.

David Banner:
Hm.

[pause]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Excuse me, how do you...

David Banner:
I um... I was involved with advanced genetic research on related deceases at the Culver Institute in California.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
At Culver? Did you work with David Banner?

David Banner:
Quite closely.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Why did he suddenly abandon his research on diseases such as mine?

David Banner:
His wife died... And after that his work... took on other priorities.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
What a shame. His work in the area of my disease was brilliant, it was pioneering.

David Banner:
Thank you.

[pause]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
David Banner was killed in a lab fire.

David Banner:
[shakes head] No.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
[realising] Why haven't you told people you're alive?

David Banner:
Have you read much of Robert Louis Stevenson?

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Treasure Island?

David Banner:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
[looking at a picture of the Hulk] Oh my God.

David Banner:
I've come to you because of your pioneering work in using hypnosis to help physical ailments. I think that hypnotherapy could help me control that.

[pause. Carol stands]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
I can't help you, David. Not that my hypnotherapy couldn't help you, it might. The disease I have is terminal. The latest test results give me six to eight weeks to live. That's all. I have to devote my entire energy to try to egress the progression of this disease. I'm using my own hypnosis on myself to try to consciously control my own physiognomy. That's why I left the institute, my patients, why I was under hypnosis tonight. Why I have to spend every moment concentrating on me. [pause] Sounds pretty selfish, doesn't it? But it's... it's my life.

David Banner:
[smiles] Would you like some help?

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
[smiles] From David Banner? Of course I would. It doesn't seem quite fair.

David Banner:
Well, maybe if we can make more time for you. There'll be time for me.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
All right, now we have passed through the preliminary stages, and you're deeply asleep. You're very relaxed and comfortable. And while you rest there, I want you without feeling any emotion at all, I want you to try to recall the events that lead up to the first metamorphosis. But you will be an objective observer, totally uninvolved and unemotional. [David stays calm] That's better. Now tell me what you remember.

David Banner:
It was after I used the gamma radiation unit to try and tap the hidden sources of strength. I was unsuccessful. I was frustrated. I was driving in the rain. [talks during a flashback] I hit something. I don't know how I got a flat tire. I jack up the car. The rain made everything worse. I was angry. I was using the lug wrench. I was trying to free one of the lug nuts. I smashed my hand on the pavement. I was angry.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
But you're not angry now. Stay objective. You're an unemotional observer.

David Banner:
My hand was throbbing with pain, bleeding. [flashback continues] I picked up the lug wrench again. I strained with all my might against it, slipped again. I shouted with pain and anger. I felt a chill rushing through my body. Something was happening. I had a feeling inside me like a hundred people shouting all at once. Like a locomotive beginning to roar. I felt the surging bit of fusion of strength and my muscles vibrating with a strange life of their own. I could feel a force running up inside me. And then I blacked out.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
All right. You're doing very well. Now what we're going to do now is try to bring you to a conscious awareness of what happened next. This is the first step that we're trying to help you to control the creature. Now I want you to remain calm, to open up your mind to the last few moments of consciousness. I want you to freeze that in your mind. [flashback continues] Now we're going to go forward moment by moment very slowly. And as we do, you'll let your mind open up more than ever before.

David Banner:
I remember standing up, there was lightning. I was angry. I smashed... the top of the car I think, something else. I can't see it. The car turned over. Fire. I remember fire. Nothing more.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
That was excellent, David, very very good. Don't strain. Now, I want you to recall the second time the transformation occurred. What were the circumstances?

David Banner:
I was asleep.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Asleep?

David Banner:
Yes. And dreaming.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Tell me about it.

David Banner:
I was in the hyperbaric chamber in the South West lab. [flashback continues] I was dreaming about Laura my wife. How pretty she was. What a good life we had. How we laughed together. But then my dream... became a nightmare.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Stay objective now. Be calm.

David Banner:
My recurrent nightmare. My memory of driving with her. And how she made me feel. Then suddenly, the tire blew out. The car was rolling over and over. It was terrible. I thought it would never stop. I was thrown clear somehow. When I looked up, there was fire. Fire.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
You must remain objective and free of emotion.

David Banner:
The car was on fire. [flashback continues] Laura was inside. I couldn't believe it was happening. The rest of the car. I could see her unconscious inside.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Easy. Control your emotions.

David Banner:
I kicked at the window. [flashback continues] I kicked at it. The flames were spreading.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Easy, David.

David Banner:
I knew. [flashback continues] I knew if I didn't get her out she was going to die. But the door was jammed. I couldn't get her out. I tried and tried to lift the car. I couldn't get her out. Laura... [stands] I couldn't get her OUT!!! [eyes have started to turn green. Transforms into the Hulk. The Hulk begins smashing a lamp, throws a chair, and is about to smash some things from behind]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
No!

[The Hulk stops and turns to Carolyn. He kicks a table over, walks over towards a lamp, uses it to smash open a glass door and runs out]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
I couldn't believe it was happening. It was the most incredible thing I've ever witnessed. David, your arm is almost healed. Show me your left arm, it got cut when you crashed through the door. [looks at the cut on his arm] It's half healed.

David Banner:
I know. That's one of the characteristics of my metamorphosis. My body metabolism works at an incredible rate.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
With your cells regenerating themselves far more quickly than normal? [David nods] David, my disease is one of cellular degeneration. If we were somehow able to take some of the highly active muscle from the creature, and incubate a culture, I might be able to use it to stimulate my own cellular system and retire the growth of my disease.

David Banner:
Well...

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Oh, I think it could work, David. It's worth a try. If I could help you to control the creature, I might be able to get a tissue sample. Maybe we'd both win.

David Banner:
Aren't you forgetting how hazardous it could be if you do try?

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Dying is pretty hazardous.

David Banner:
[short pause] Okay. Let's try.

[During hypnosis, David is walking in a desert]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Can you see yourself yet?

David Banner:
Yes, now I can.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Now begin to look for the creature.

[David looks around]

David Banner:
I uh... I don't see him anywhere.

[continues looking around. Notices the Hulk coming up at a far distance]

David Banner:
I can see him now.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Good. Now, just stay calm, and let him get closer.

[The Hulk walks toward David]

David Banner:
He's getting closer.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
That's what we want him to do. Just concentrate on staying calm, and doing what we planned. [The Hulk gets closer] When he gets close enough.

David Banner:
Now?

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Go ahead.

[David runs away from the Hulk. David gets into a mobile crane with a net. The Hulk walks over. David ejects the net onto the Hulk]

David Banner:
I've got the net on him.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Good. Now, the more he struggles, the more entangled he'll become. The ropes are very very strong. These are strongest ropes that can be made.

[The Hulk struggling, rips the ropes]

David Banner:
He's breaking the ropes. He's gotten free.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
That's all right. He's going to go away now. The next time you try, you'll be more successful, and keep him contained longer until very soon we finally find a cage that will allow you to control him permanently. Now, I'm going to count backwards from five to one. And you're gonna slowly awaken, refreshed and relaxed. Five, four, three, two, one.

[David awakens]

Jack McGee:
Dr. Fields?

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Yeah.

Jack McGee:
I'm Jack McGee from the National Register. I'm checking some stories that a huge hulking creature was seen in this area.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
I'm sorry, I can't help you.

Jack McGee:
My paper is now offering ten thousand dollars for any information leading to its capture.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
I can't help you.

Jack McGee:
Well, in case you should catch a glimpse of it. [hands out a business card] That's where you could reach me.

[During David's hypnosis, the Hulk is trapped struggling in a cage]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
These straps of steel are the strongest that can be made. They're ten gauge carbon steel.

David Banner:
He's trying to bend it.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
It should be too hard for even him. Use the gas tranquilizer.

[David runs over to the tranquilizer. The Hulk is still struggling in the cage. David turns on the gas]

David Banner:
Done it. [He puts on a gas mask] The gas is all around him.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
The gas is zapping some of his strength. The task is much more difficult for him now. Much more difficult than with a rope net.

[As the gas is spreading, the Hulk begins pulling the cage bars]

David Banner:
He's doing it... He's... He's doing it. [The Hulk breaks off the bars]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Only with great effort.

[The Hulk is free]

David Banner:
He's free!

David Banner:
Marry me.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
Trying to make an honest woman out of me?

David Banner:
Marry me.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
A touching gesture.

David Banner:
It's not a gesture.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
But it doesn't make sense.

David Banner:
It'll make me happy.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
For how long?

David Banner:
For however long there is.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
[short pause] Why?

David Banner:
I once heard a story about a man being chased by a tiger. He came to a cliff. He fell. But he grabbed a branch, and he just hung there just out of reach of the tiger. And he looked down, and you know what he saw?

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
No.

David Banner:
Another tiger waiting for him to drop. And then he felt that the branch he was clinging to was coming out of the cliff by the roots. Now, while all this was happening, he noticed something. He noticed growing in the cliff beside him, a single wild strawberry. And with his free hand, he reached out and picked it, and he ate it. And he thought to himself: "What a wonderful strawberry."

[pause]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
[tearfully] Oh God. I love you, David.

David Banner:
I love you, Carolyn.

[they embrace]

[During David's hypnosis, the Hulk is trapped pounding in a vault]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
The vault is holding in spite of his best efforts. You can hear him pounding furiously on the inside of the vault, but he can't get out. He can't get out. We're going to contain him within your mind, and then only allow the metamorphosis to occur under controlled circumstances, so that we can get the tissue sample we need. We are going to contain him.

David Banner:
I think he's moving the door.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
But it's holding. It's still holding.

[David stands smiling, thinking the Hulk is not able to get out. Suddenly the vault door goes down]

David Banner:
No. No, he's gotten out! He's free... again.

[after hypnosis]

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
But it took him much longer to get free this time, David, believe me. We're making real progress.

Dr. Carolyn Fields:
At least we never gave up... trying. [with her last strength, she embraces the Hulk] Oh, I'll miss you, David... [dies]

Boy:
[walks over to David who is grieving over the death of Carolyn] It's really wrecked. Is your wife here?

David Banner:
No. She died.

Boy:
Was it the storm?

David Banner:
She'd been very sick.

[pause]

Boy:
She was a doctor, wasn't she?

David Banner:
Yes, she was.

Boy:
I want to be a doctor too. When I grow up. [pause] And maybe I can find a cure for whatever made her sick. [pause] I wouldn't be around to try, if she hadn't saved my life. [pause] You weren't married very long, huh?

David Banner:
[pause] Oh it never would have been long enough.

[pause]

Boy:
My grandmother, always says people never die, as long as somebody remembers them.

Buck Hendrick:
[laughs] You're an amateur, Jack my boy! That creature of yours will never come back again. Animals never return to where they've been shot at, I guarantee it. Why, I shot a big rogue elephant once...

Jack McGee:
Hendricks! [pause] I told you before, I can't use you.

Buck Hendricks:
Nah, it's been three weeks. Now, that Hulk of yours is gone up into the mountains somewhere to hole up. Now, I know animals and I guarantee it.

Jack McGee:
Well, your guarantees don't make it so, Buck. Not anymore. The answer is still no.

Buck Hendrick:
Now listen, Jack. Together we could bag this thing.

Jack McGee:
Look, Buck, [takes out some money from his jacket pocket] my expense account has stretched pretty far as it is with...

Buck Hendrick:
[stops Jack] I don't want a handout. I want a job. I'm a hunter not a charity case. [takes out a piece of paper] Now... [reading from the paper] "Buck Hendrick. Big game hunter. Extraordinaire." Remember? [putting the paper back into his pocket] I gave you plenty of good copy in my time.

[Jack begins walking away]

Buck Hendrick:
Listen, Jack. If we shoot this Hulk creature of yours, it'll be just like it used to be. You'll have a great story, and I'll be right back on the lecture circuit.

Jack McGee:
Do you hear yourself? Five years ago, you wouldn't've even considered shooting something that's worth more alive than it is dead. Now, Buck, forget it! Just go home!

Buck Hendrick:
[points to his hunting car] That's my home!

Jack McGee:
Well, I'm sorry about that. I really am sorry. But I can't help you. [gets into his car]

Buck Hendrick:
All right, McGee. All right! I'll beat you to the punch! I'll get you your monster first, and I'll kill it!

[McGee drives away]

Buck Hendrick:
It'll show itself again. Big ones always do. Buck Hendricks will be there. Guarantee it.

Harlan Bates:
I want you to pull everything out of this room starting with the big boxes over there. And I want you to scrub the room. And then I want you to inventory all this gear.

David 'Barton' Banner:
[sighs] You're the boss.

Harlan Bates:
[squashes a beer can] That's right. [throws the can on the floor] I'm the boss. [David picks up the beer can] What's the matter? Are you worried? I mean, a smart guy like you, huh? You're always uh, spoutin' off about education to Sam. Now's your chance to show her how an educated man can take a tough job like this, see how you can make it uh... simple.

David 'Barton' Banner:
Look, I'm not trying to interfere with you and Samantha... [Harlan pushes David]

Harlan Bates:
Sam is none of your business. Now, you just uh... you just get crackin'. Go on. [David gets to work] You know, Barton, I think I got you figured. I mean, someone like you doesn't come hiking all the way up here for the health now do they? [pause] Or was it the law? Jealous husband? Something worse? [David breaks the wood off with a crowbar, he gets a cut on his hand] Too tough for you, David. You wanna quit? Guys like you, you make a habit of running away. [David takes a box down, he looks at his hand] I know your kind.

David 'Barton' Banner:
Do you?

Harlan Bates:
Yeah. Big shots. I can't stand having someone tell 'em what to do. They uh, have little tantrums, Davey? Why don't you let loose on me and uh, just get it out of your system.

[Brad comes in]

Harlan Bates:
[to Brad] We're uh- You're here just in time to see college boy here take me on hand to hand, huh?

Brad:
[laughs] That I wanna see.

[David says nothing]

Harlan Bates:
Come on, you gonna take a punch at me or not? Or lose your job. Not if you win. [David says nothing] Huh? [angrily] You hear me?!

Brad:
Hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's get something to eat. Come on, Harlan.

Harlan Bates:
[to David] I'll be back, yeah. Make sure you do it right now. Don't forget the boxes.

Brad:
[laughs] Harlan, you're too much!

[after David transforms into the Hulk and trashes up the boxes]

Brad:
Harlan, we've got a problem!

Harlan Bates:
Look at the size of that thing!

[The Hulk throws some equipment threw a window and roars]

Harlan Bates:
[to Brad] Just hold your ground now. I mean there's two of us. [The Hulk throws down a shelf]

Brad:
That ain't gonna be enough!

[The Hulks comes towards them]

Harlan Bates:
Look out! Here he comes! Get outta here! [The Hulk punches Harlan and throws him out the doorway]

David Banner:
You're not serious, are you, about trying to hunt that creature down?

Harlan Bates:
Oh, I'm not gonna try. I'm gonna do it.

David 'Barton' Banner:
Harlan! Harlan Bates!

[Harlan, at a far distance, comes out dressed as a creature]

David 'Barton' Banner:
Knock it off, Harlan! It's me David! Harlan, I'm coming up there!

[after David is almost killed by Harlan's log trap]

David 'Barton' Banner:
Dammit, Harlan!

Harlan Bates:
You know, you just wrecked a lotta hard work.

David 'Barton' Banner:
I suppose it doesn't matter that I was almost killed in the process?

Harlan Bates:
It would've served you right, Barton. Now why don't you just get outta here before you fowl up everything.

David 'Barton' Banner:
No, I'm not going anywhere until you go with me! Harlan, that so called posse back there is out for blood! And as a professional one who would just love to kill you...

Harlan Bates:
I can take care of myself!

David 'Barton' Banner:
Well, what about Samantha? She doesn't want a dead father, Harlan!

Harlan Bates:
I think you uh... you've said enough. As a matter of fact, you said too much. Now get outta here! [pushes David]

David 'Barton' Banner:
[shouts] Hey! Up here! Everybody! Up here!...

[Harlan throws David into a ditch]

Harlan Bates:
You're fired, Barton!

[David's eyes start to turn green. He transforms into the Hulk]

Harlan Bates:
Yeah, he asked for that anyway.

Buck Hendrick:
[noticing Harlan (dressed as a creature) running away from the Hulk through a pair of binoculars] Son of a gun. Two of 'em.

[The Hulk jumps down, pushes Buck back and bends his rifle]

Buck Hendrick:
Well, go on! Get it over with!

Sheriff Colton:
[seeing Harlan dressed as a creature] It's a hoax. The whole thing's a hoax.

Jack McGee:
What hoax? Oh, well yeah, this guy maybe, but what about that thing we saw down there? You call that a hoax? That was no hoax.

TV Reporter:
And that old guy down there. He stood right up to it. I'm getting an interview. [runs]

Jack McGee:
Wait a minute! That man's an employee of the National Register!

Sheriff Colton:
Harlan... [walks away with his troops]

Harlan Bates:
Yeah, almost got away with it.

Brad:
What are you talkin' about? This whole town's got itself a transfusion. Harlan, we're back in business.

Samantha Bates:
David. What about David?

Harlan Bates:
He was just up here trying to make me understand what I was doing. I think we better find him. I've got some apologising to do. To both of you.

[after Ricky was picked up from the police station]

Buzz Deter:
How could you do something like that, Ricky? How could you wreck it?

Ricky:
Maybe the big green man...

Buzz Deter:
Knock it off, Ricky! I told you, I don't want to hear about the story of the green man again!

Buzz Deter:
[to David] Ricky's retarded. People just won't understand.

[after the Hulk saves Ricky from a car crash]

Ricky:
I'm sorry about driving your car, Buzz.

Buzz Deter:
I know why you did it.

Ricky:
I wanted to help you.

Buzz Deter:
I know.

Ricky:
How'd I do?

Buzz Deter:
Well, really not too bad. You did better than I ever thought you could. Hey, you did great.

Ricky:
The button you gave me. I lost it, Buzz. I'm really sorry.

Buzz Deter:
That's okay. Don't worry about it.

Ricky:
You don't need it. Not anymore.

[at the Harris School for Special Education]

David Banner:
Hello, Ricky.

Ricky:
[working on a sculpture head] Hey, David.

David Banner:
How are you feeling?

Ricky:
Fine. I'm real fine.

David Banner:
I just want to come by and say goodbye, I have to leave now.

Ricky:
You won't come to the school and visit me anymore?

David Banner:
Well, I'm afraid I won't be able to for a long time. But I'll write to you.

Ricky:
Miss James, our teacher, she can read for me. And maybe soon, I can read em myself.

David Banner:
I'll bet you can.

Ricky:
[on the sculpture head] What do you think, David? Is it... sculpture?

David Banner:
Yes, sculpture, Ricky. Real sculpture. Goodbye, my friend.

Thomas Logan:
You possess a powerful force.

David 'Bishop' Banner:
No, it possesses me! And I can't control it. It even happens in my sleep!

David 'Baxter' Banner:
No, no, Mark, you gotta understand. Your father's not a criminal. He doesn't wanna beat you.

Mark Hollinger:
Then why does he do it?

David 'Baxter' Banner:
Because he has a problem. And we maybe able to help him with it if we go to the police.

Jack Hollinger:
[after over hearing David and his son Mark talking] You're not going anywhere, Baxter. [pause. Walking towards David] I don't know who you think you are, but I'm good and tired of you interfering in my family.

David 'Baxter' Banner:
Mr. Hollinger, I'm just trying to help your son.

Jack Hollinger:
What I do with my son and my wife is my business. You understand?

David 'Baxter' Banner:
But can't you see that you're hurting them? You need help. Let me help you.

Jack Hollinger:
By taking me to the police?

David 'Baxter' Banner:
Mr. Hollinger-

[Jack begins getting into a fight with David]

Mark Hollinger:
Dad, leave him alone! Leave him alone!

Jack Hollinger:
[shoves Mark to the floor] Get out of here, Mark!

David 'Baxter' Banner:
Mark, run!

Li Sung:
I can feel it as sharply as you're seeing it, David. Fear.