Lifespan (1975) | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A doctor trying to develop a serum to lengthen life tries his formula out on the unsuspecting residents of an old-age home.
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00:00:30My father is a well-known plastic surgeon in Indianapolis, so it was only natural that
00:00:54I go into a field of science.
00:00:57But I chose a field that may change the future of the human species.
00:01:01When I arrived at the University of Amsterdam, they thought I was too young to be the Dr.
00:01:05Benjamin Land whose research papers were starting to be talked about, even here.
00:01:11Three score and ten, seventy years, says the Bible, is the lifespan allotted to mankind.
00:01:19Medical and technological progress have not substantially increased this lifespan, but
00:01:23they have put it within the range of more and more people.
00:01:27As more people live on into old age, the study of aging demands increasing attention...
00:01:32I was looking forward to this conference and to meeting my colleague Paul Linden, but I
00:01:36spent most of it wondering why he was acting so strangely.
00:01:40We believe we can discover why we grow old and how we can lengthen our lives.
00:01:47Aging most of us will agree is a loss of information.
00:01:51The old organism lacks the resources to preserve or renew itself.
00:01:57Is this information lost in the fixed cells or in the cells that should reproduce?
00:02:01Or is it lost because of random interference in cell processes?
00:02:05Can the biological clock be slowed down, or stopped, or turned back?
00:02:13I believe that we're on the verge of finding out the answers to these questions, and that
00:02:18the lives of many people sitting here today will be happily prolonged by imminent discoveries
00:02:26in this field.
00:02:27The next speaker should have been Paul Linden.
00:02:29Instead, we were treated to the academic wit of Professor Van Ark.
00:02:36Thank you, Dr. Winsor.
00:02:38As dean of this university, it is my honor to welcome you, distinguished ladies and gentlemen.
00:02:46My training was in biology, so we are at least cousins.
00:02:52I don't mind you gerontologists trying to lengthen my life, as long as you don't ask
00:02:59me to give up my feists.
00:03:01He's an old-fashioned biologist.
00:03:04Yeah, I wonder how he'll get along with Wonder Boy, Dr. Land.
00:03:09Who's he?
00:03:10Well, you don't know about Ben Land.
00:03:12He thinks that we're all going to be immortal.
00:03:15He really believes it.
00:03:16Yeah, I did a piece on him.
00:03:19He's not the only one.
00:03:20Did you see Dr. Paul Linden up on the stage?
00:03:22He's been spouting the same things here in Holland.
00:03:24Who do you think Land came over to team up with?
00:03:27With Paul Linden?
00:03:28Right.
00:03:29Did you happen to see how Dr. Linden paled up on the stage?
00:03:32No.
00:03:33He was looking up at something, and suddenly went gray.
00:03:35I wonder why he hasn't made a statement.
00:03:37Because he's either got something, or else he's on the verge.
00:03:40Yeah.
00:03:41It could be true.
00:03:44Let's talk about a breakthrough.
00:03:45You know what these guys mean by breakthrough.
00:03:49Somebody's white mice outlive somebody else's by two months.
00:03:52Big deal.
00:03:55Perhaps Linden was having trouble verifying his results.
00:03:58He certainly implied to me he was on the verge of something extraordinary, though you never
00:04:02could tell with Paul Linden.
00:04:04His disdain for scientific jargon made his letters a little vague, but I knew he had
00:04:08to be serious when he wrote to me that very soon all of us might be living for as long
00:04:12as a city like Amsterdam, growing old gracefully, renewing ourselves for hundreds of years.
00:04:19Of course, I wrote back and told him I wouldn't settle for anything less than immortality.
00:04:42I didn't know what to do.
00:05:12I didn't get off to a good start.
00:05:13I forgot to extend my hotel reservation, and another convention was about to move in.
00:05:19I suddenly found myself out on the streets before I'd had a chance to find a place to
00:05:22live.
00:05:23It's always difficult here.
00:05:24Holland's a smart country.
00:05:25The university has a housing system.
00:05:26Have you tried it?
00:05:27No, I didn't know about that.
00:05:28What a coincidence.
00:05:29What a magnificent place it is.
00:05:30Excuse me, gentlemen.
00:05:31Dr. Linden will get us back.
00:05:32I mean it.
00:05:33You can stay at my place.
00:05:34From tomorrow.
00:05:36I hate to impose on you.
00:05:37It will be no trouble at all.
00:05:38The woman downstairs owns the building.
00:05:39She'll let you in and give you a key.
00:05:40Well, if you're sure.
00:05:41Just for a couple of days.
00:05:42You can stay longer if you like.
00:05:43So, what did you think of the conference?
00:05:44Frankly, I wasn't paying too much attention.
00:05:45There is something wrong.
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00:05:47Oh, yes.
00:05:48There is.
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00:06:05All right.
00:06:06See you tomorrow.
00:06:07Tomorrow I have a feeling I may be tied up.
00:06:10Good luck.
00:06:11I was almost angry that he wouldn't discuss his troubles with me.
00:06:15And then I noticed his thinning hair.
00:06:18Paul Linden was aging.
00:06:21I know I'll never forget the sound of his shoes ringing on that marble floor.
00:06:26In time, those shoes would come to haunt me.
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00:07:04Oh, the moment I saw you,
00:07:06I knew you were the young man he spoke of.
00:07:09Oh, really?
00:07:12You've come to work with Dr. Linden, haven't you?
00:07:15Yes, that's right.
00:07:25He's probably gone over to the lab.
00:07:27I didn't hear him this morning.
00:07:52It was the last thing he said to me.
00:07:54Tomorrow, I may be tied up.
00:07:56I must say, it was rather a bad taste to choose hanging.
00:07:59If he was a doctor, he could have used pills.
00:08:01The strange thing to me is that he would do it at all.
00:08:03Because he wanted to make life longer for others.
00:08:06The two are not necessarily related, Dr. Lamb.
00:08:10I suspect some people go into your field
00:08:12because of a certain fascination with death.
00:08:15A desire to beat the devil, so to speak.
00:08:17But the devil usually wins such contests, I'm afraid.
00:08:20You say the devil defeated Paul Linden?
00:08:23No, I'm speaking generally.
00:08:27But Paul did have a few personal problems.
00:08:29I see.
00:08:30With the concern of yours now,
00:08:32I expect you to go back to America.
00:08:34I've thought about it.
00:08:36But my grant lets me do whatever I like for a year.
00:08:39If it's all right with you, I'd like to stay on,
00:08:42at least have a look at his papers.
00:08:44Good.
00:08:45That makes you out of the whole gerontology program now.
00:08:48You'll need an assistant.
00:08:50You'll need an assistant.
00:08:52The man Dr. Linden had left a few months ago.
00:08:55I'll get you a boy from the biology department.
00:09:00This is Pim Henke.
00:09:01He speaks excellent English.
00:09:03But understands very little about gerontology, I'm afraid.
00:09:06That's OK. If you could help me go through his papers.
00:09:08I hope it's OK with the technical terms.
00:09:10Your biology studies will help, Pim.
00:09:12But, uncle, I thought...
00:09:13Why should I have told you? Pim is my nephew.
00:09:16Holland is a small country, Dr. Lamb.
00:09:20You mentioned that Dr. Linden had personal problems.
00:09:24Pim.
00:09:25Would you leave, please?
00:09:31A year ago, he divorced his wife and she took the children.
00:09:35He had become involved with a much younger woman.
00:09:38He was maintaining two households.
00:09:40He was in constant financial difficulties.
00:09:44He was a consultant for a Swiss pharmaceutical company, I believe,
00:09:47to make some extra money.
00:09:50But he had expensive tastes.
00:09:55His funeral was a simple affair.
00:09:57There were a few mourners.
00:09:59His family, some people from the university,
00:10:03almost no friends.
00:10:06No one talked about his motives.
00:10:08Or that suicide note he forgot to write.
00:10:14That's the pencil.
00:10:16That man was his assistant for some time.
00:10:19Cigarette?
00:10:20No, thanks.
00:10:26Did you see her?
00:10:28It was a girl.
00:10:30Why don't you want to meet him, Arnold?
00:10:32You must meet him.
00:10:34He's very nice.
00:10:35He was never the same after he met her.
00:10:39By the way, have you found a place to live?
00:10:41Yes.
00:10:42By the way, have you found a place to live?
00:10:44Yes, I'm staying at Dr. Linden's place.
00:10:47Really?
00:10:50So now I was alone in a strange city,
00:10:52trying to fall asleep in a dead man's bed,
00:10:55under the bean ceiling where he hanged himself.
00:10:59Whereas he was spending his first night in the ground.
00:11:04Would he miss the table where he used to write?
00:11:08Or the hum of that awful clock?
00:11:13I had to be careful.
00:11:15Or his death might become an obsession.
00:11:18I fixed up this place for Paul when he left his wife.
00:11:22You knew him well, didn't you?
00:11:23Are you sure you want to stay here?
00:11:27How much is the rent, Lydia?
00:11:29Oh, don't worry about that.
00:11:31I only rent it to friends.
00:11:34Well, I'll pack his things.
00:11:36No, don't.
00:11:38Leave everything just as it is.
00:11:43Okay.
00:11:48Dr. Linden's file seemed to be complete up until a year ago.
00:11:52Then nothing but reports on some mice he was studying.
00:11:56That's strange. What kind of a study was it?
00:11:59It says there were about 200 mice.
00:12:01And does it say what he was feeding them?
00:12:03I haven't had the chance to read it all.
00:12:05That reminds me, there was a man here from the feeding department,
00:12:08asking what you wanted to do about those mice.
00:12:10If you don't want to continue the project, he'll destroy them.
00:12:13Destroy them? Why?
00:12:15I think he needs a space.
00:12:17Ah, here he is.
00:12:20This is Dr. Lend. I told him about Dr. Linden's mice.
00:12:23Ah, Dr. Linden's mice.
00:12:25Can we see them?
00:12:26Over there, down the stairs and to the right.
00:12:30Well, you certainly have a lot of room.
00:12:32We keep all kinds of animals for the university in this building for all the studies.
00:12:39We just don't have enough space anymore with all these scientific experiments.
00:12:50Pin.
00:12:56I hear they use mice to study aging because they're like people.
00:13:00But I don't see any resemblance.
00:13:02Well, mice are mammals like us.
00:13:04I always thought they used rats.
00:13:06Some people do, but it takes longer to get results.
00:13:09With mice, the entire lifespan is only about two years.
00:13:13I can swear that some of Dr. Linden's mice have been here longer than that.
00:13:23Well, here they are.
00:13:25These are Dr. Linden's mice.
00:13:29Hmm. They look young and healthy.
00:13:32Do you know what he was feeding them?
00:13:35Just these.
00:13:39He feed these to all the mice.
00:13:41Was he adding anything to their water?
00:13:44No.
00:13:45Do you think he was giving them something special?
00:13:50Well, in his last paper, he talked about using an antioxidant.
00:13:54He could have been giving it to them either orally or intravenously.
00:13:59You mean a serum?
00:14:02Perhaps.
00:14:03Didn't Dr. Linden ever talk to you about this project?
00:14:06I never met him.
00:14:08He always sent his assistant.
00:14:10Pin, we ought to talk to that guy.
00:14:12I saw Dr. Linden's picture in the paper when he killed himself.
00:14:16I don't know what he was talking about.
00:14:18I don't know either.
00:14:20I saw Dr. Linden's picture in the paper when he killed himself.
00:14:24He seemed very young.
00:14:26Are you scientists getting younger or am I getting older?
00:14:30We're all getting older.
00:14:33Do you really want to keep these mice?
00:14:35The medical school wants me to find space for 150 rabbits.
00:14:39Holland is a small country, Dr. Linden.
00:14:42I don't want them destroyed.
00:14:45What about that room in the back of our office?
00:14:47We could put them in there.
00:14:49Then we'd have to feed them.
00:14:51I don't mind. They like mice.
00:14:54I hate them.
00:15:08I hope they like the new home.
00:15:10Yes.
00:15:20Well, say thank you to Dr. Linden for saving your life.
00:15:23It's purely selfish.
00:15:26Maybe they'll save mine.
00:15:28Do you think someday we'll have a death control pill?
00:15:33You're making a joke.
00:15:35But we're further along than you think.
00:15:37You mean it's really possible?
00:15:39Pin, scientists all over the world are working on this problem.
00:15:42And Paul Linden was one of the best.
00:15:44By the way, I found out about Dr. Linden's assistant.
00:15:47His name is Felix Dolder.
00:15:49And he runs a pharmacy now in the suburbs.
00:15:52Felix Dolder?
00:15:53Yes, I saw him at the funeral.
00:15:55Look.
00:15:56Same car, same color.
00:15:59That could have been me.
00:16:02What about accidents?
00:16:04Boom, your head's sliced up.
00:16:06That's the end.
00:16:07You can't prevent that.
00:16:09I think we can do anything.
00:16:11You can't prevent that.
00:16:13I think we can do anything we set our minds to.
00:16:16But not instant death.
00:16:18Maybe we can.
00:16:19Some friends of mine at Caltech are doing a project they call electronic reincarnation.
00:16:24What's that?
00:16:26They're trying to find a way to feed your personality into a computer.
00:16:29Record your life experiences.
00:16:31So they have a matrix of you.
00:16:34And if you die, they feed it into the new body?
00:16:36Right.
00:16:37But it would be a copy. It wouldn't be you.
00:16:39It's better than nothing.
00:16:41It won't happen in our lifetime.
00:16:43That depends on what you call a lifetime.
00:16:57What did you say?
00:16:58He says we can find him in the church.
00:17:40Give the book to my wife.
00:17:42See you later.
00:18:09Go ahead and remove Dr. Linden's research papers, Mr. Doldup.
00:18:12Oh, call me Felix, Dr. Linden. Please.
00:18:15Felix, you assisted Dr. Linden at the university.
00:18:18Oh, I wouldn't say assisted. That's too much.
00:18:21I was more like the stable boy.
00:18:23I used to clean out his mouse cages.
00:18:30Well, Felix, that's very disappointing.
00:18:32I was hoping you could tell me why some of his papers are missing.
00:18:35The work I did for Dr. Linden had nothing to do with his papers.
00:18:39Well, thanks anyway.
00:18:41Goodbye.
00:18:58I began to wonder if someone wasn't toying with me,
00:19:01leaving me just enough clues to feed my curiosity.
00:19:05Nothing of any scientific interest had been left in his apartment.
00:19:11As I patted around the place,
00:19:13I knew I wouldn't need to make more than a casual search.
00:19:17All I was being allowed to know about Paul Linden
00:19:19was that he was keeping some mice.
00:19:22And a girl.
00:19:24The picture was displayed almost too invitingly.
00:19:28Pretty.
00:19:29But would he have killed himself over her?
00:19:31I decided to ignore her for the time being
00:19:33and continue to badger people about his work.
00:19:42He was usually involved in several projects.
00:19:45I know, for instance, of a study he was doing in an old age home.
00:19:48Only this morning, the director called me.
00:19:51I have to go out there.
00:19:52Why don't you join me to make a change?
00:19:54If you only study aging in a laboratory,
00:19:57you forget even the basics.
00:19:59If you only study aging in a laboratory,
00:20:01you forget the human reality.
00:20:03I wonder if Linden completed the study.
00:20:05I've no idea.
00:20:06You'll find out from the director.
00:20:10No.
00:20:11I'm afraid Dr. Linden's study was interrupted,
00:20:14as are many things here, by death.
00:20:17You say he abandoned it?
00:20:19He had to.
00:20:21We had an influenza epidemic.
00:20:23I'm afraid many of the people taking part died.
00:20:27It was chaos here.
00:20:28This is not a hospital, Dr. Land.
00:20:30It's just a place for those who are alone
00:20:32and cannot take care of themselves.
00:20:35He just tried to make their last days comfortable.
00:20:38They were so fond of Dr. Linden.
00:20:40He would come with his little boxes and blocks to test them.
00:20:44To them, it was a game.
00:20:53There was one woman.
00:20:54She said to him,
00:20:55I want to play the game.
00:20:56And then he recognized her.
00:20:58She was once the cleaning lady in his building,
00:21:00and now she was here.
00:21:02So he used her also in his study.
00:21:06For her, it was a visit from a friend.
00:21:10Did he tell you the purpose of this study?
00:21:12He tried to explain.
00:21:15I believe he was measuring the loss of coordination
00:21:18between the hand and the eye.
00:21:27I remember feeling admiration
00:21:29and a kind of envy for Paul Linden.
00:21:33I couldn't have worked in a place like this.
00:21:35The sight of old people reminds me of my own death.
00:21:39I was anxious to get back to the lab,
00:21:41especially because in my absence,
00:21:43Pim had been transferred to another hospital.
00:21:46I was afraid of losing her.
00:21:48I was afraid of losing her.
00:21:50I was afraid of losing her.
00:21:52I was afraid of losing her.
00:21:54I was afraid of losing her.
00:21:56This misfortune completely naked me.
00:21:59Besides, Pim didn't want to 일반적으로
00:22:05I explained them the few papers we'd found.
00:22:07I explained them the few papers we'd found.
00:22:09thousands of babies
00:22:15but Pim didn't want to explain the truth.
00:22:17Any opening up after all that senseless talking?
00:22:20We'll assemble the girl and go to bed.
00:22:22in this project? Why didn't he publish the results? We'd better run some tests on these mice.
00:22:36It's an activity meter, Pym. Every time the mice move it registers. I explained to Pym that the
00:22:42activity meters would give us some indication of whether the mice were showing any effects
00:22:46of their advanced age. These instruments also keep experimental animals under observation at night.
00:22:52When mice are most active.
00:22:59By morning it appeared that Lyndon was even further ahead than I had ever imagined.
00:23:04This is incredible! They're showing the activity level of very young animals.
00:23:09Let's put them in the maze and check their learning capacity.
00:23:22If you were that mouse you could take up Greek at the age of 140 and still be the first in your
00:23:26class. How did Lyndon do it? Nothing in the feed. Nothing in the water. I checked all the water
00:23:36bottles. No traces of anything. And no needle marks. So he wasn't given any injections.
00:23:44He could have been. The marks would have disappeared by now. He had to be giving them something.
00:23:48Too bad those mice couldn't talk.
00:23:54I was now ready for someone who could. Anna, the dark lady of Lyndon's life.
00:24:02Fortunately old Lydia was about to have a birthday party downstairs.
00:24:09Oh well.
00:24:13Especially for you Ben. This year I don't lie about my age.
00:24:17Well happy birthday Lydia. Thank you.
00:24:31Paul was in excellent health. I was the Lyndon's family doctor. I examined him this summer.
00:24:38Of course when they found him I asked to have a look at the body.
00:24:42I thought I might have missed something. His health was very good. But why would he hang himself?
00:24:51Paul had the touch of the macabre. You found him didn't you?
00:24:57Perhaps he was trying to tell you the price of failure.
00:25:02Why do you ask so many questions about Paul? Well if you don't mind I've got one for you.
00:25:08Do you know where he kept his papers? Some of them are missing.
00:25:12You mustn't talk about Paul all of the time. He doesn't need to be reminded of him every moment.
00:25:19Anna, do you know the story of the woman of Ephesus?
00:25:24No. Who was she?
00:25:27She was a very proper lady of ancient Rome.
00:25:31And when her husband died she mourned for him all the time.
00:25:35And one day when she was weeping at his grave, a soldier came by and offered her something to eat.
00:25:43And then she made love to the soldier. I wish somebody had told me that story when my husband died.
00:25:52And by the end of the decade we may see a lifespan of well over a hundred.
00:25:56But do we really want to go on living forever? No, no that's not the point. There isn't enough room.
00:26:03We're too crowded already. Because we breed too much. Take an elephant.
00:26:10It has a long lifespan and few offspring. Now a mouse. Lydia, the elephants. Oh you must do the
00:26:15thing with the elephants. Yes, Lydia, the elephants. The people at the zoo told me not to. Oh please.
00:26:23All right then. I'll do it once more. Ben, come here. I will get the horn for you, Lydia.
00:26:30I think I know what you put in that cake.
00:27:00No, it was the elephant. Can't you tell after all these years?
00:27:14Oh.
00:27:28That mating call was intended for the elephants. But I got the message.
00:27:33Anna wanted to be alone with me. And since everyone pretended not to notice.
00:27:44I'm sorry. I wanted to see this place again.
00:27:55We did that stupid thing with the elephants the night I met Paul. Did you?
00:28:03Do you believe that story about the woman and the soldier?
00:28:06Hmm?
00:28:19Oh!
00:28:36Shhh!
00:28:59Shhh! Are they together now?
00:29:03Shhh!
00:29:07Shhh!
00:29:10Shhh!
00:29:36Shhh!
00:29:39No!
00:29:41It's mine. It's private.
00:30:00I'm sorry.
00:30:01What did you think it was?
00:30:03Paul's papers.
00:30:04I don't know anything about his work.
00:30:08Maybe he didn't want anybody to have his papers.
00:30:11I didn't want anyone to have these.
00:30:14Did Paul take those pictures?
00:30:17Yes.
00:30:23He used to call it his double helix knots.
00:30:26Isn't that something to do with the secret of life?
00:30:29Oh, why do I always enjoy the same things as the man I'm with?
00:30:39The bicycle ride was my idea.
00:30:42Of course, she'd seen the windmills before, in different company.
00:30:46We promised ourselves that we wouldn't let him come between us that day.
00:31:29Yeah.
00:31:48Aren't they fantastic?
00:31:50They can go in a straight line for miles that way.
00:31:54Paul told me they've been using the same method for centuries.
00:32:00I thought we weren't going to mention Paul Linden.
00:32:03Well, it is difficult to ignore him.
00:32:06Of course it is.
00:32:08Some people say that he killed himself because he was too old and he was afraid of losing me to a younger man.
00:32:14Did he?
00:32:16I'll let you know.
00:32:18She didn't seem to realize I was using her.
00:32:21And it didn't cross my mind that she might be using me.
00:32:30Oh, I'm tired. Can't we take a taxi home?
00:32:43Did those pictures excite you?
00:32:46Yes, but I don't want to try that, Anna.
00:32:48Of course you do.
00:32:51Yeah, well, if I had a rope.
00:32:53But the late Dr. Linden used up all the rope in the house.
00:32:55Why don't you look in the closet under your college sweater?
00:33:21Of course I could say I did it for science.
00:33:23But that would only be half true.
00:33:38How's it go now?
00:33:40Cross in the front.
00:33:42Like that?
00:33:44Tighter.
00:33:46Yeah.
00:33:53Tighter.
00:33:58Tighter.
00:34:02Tighter.
00:34:07Yes.
00:34:24Hmm.
00:34:28Hmm.
00:34:32Hmm.
00:34:35All I learned from Anna was who gave Linden the rope.
00:34:38But if she didn't know anything more about his work than double helix knots,
00:34:42I'd have to go back to his mice.
00:34:45I've never liked doing what I had to do next.
00:34:53Do we have to kill it?
00:34:55Mm-hmm.
00:35:24Come here.
00:35:37My last step was to immerse the sample in a solution.
00:35:41And then for the second time, this ordinary lab played host to a great scientific discovery.
00:35:54There seems to be a membrane.
00:35:57It's like a coating around the cells.
00:35:59Wait, I want to get a closer look at this.
00:36:04It's thick enough.
00:36:06It could be to protect the cell against radiation.
00:36:11What has radiation got to do with it?
00:36:14Yeah. Nobody quite knows why we age, Pym.
00:36:17One of the theories is that it's caused by radiation coming through the atmosphere.
00:36:21Every living thing seems to have a clock inside it.
00:36:24It looks now as if this clock runs on the radiation that comes through the atmosphere all the time.
00:36:29Radiation slowly messes up the cells.
00:36:32It's allowed to mess them up, so to speak.
00:36:34We're all programmed to die, Pym.
00:36:36But maybe we can change that program or protect ourselves against it.
00:36:39That's what Linden seems to have done to his mice.
00:36:42If we only think of aging as a disease, we'd find a cure for it.
00:36:45We must show this to my uncle.
00:36:49I've never seen anything like it.
00:36:53It means Linden found a way to stop aging.
00:36:56Maybe permanently.
00:36:58Only in mice, Dr. Lant.
00:37:01Then it can't be far off for us.
00:37:06I hope you were wrong.
00:37:08It would be a disaster.
00:37:10Overpopulation. Starvation.
00:37:12It would be the end of this planet.
00:37:14Or the beginning of a new civilization.
00:37:16Come on, Dr. Lant.
00:37:18Sooner or later, we all have to surrender our places to others.
00:37:21And the more gracefully we do it, the better.
00:37:30I refuse to believe it.
00:37:33It's incredible.
00:37:35It's too big.
00:37:38I refuse to believe it.
00:37:40It's too big.
00:37:44If this is true...
00:37:52What's wrong? What are you doing?
00:37:59He's dying.
00:38:01All right, be quiet a minute, Pin, please.
00:38:11Van Arp was so angered by immortality, it almost killed him.
00:38:15And he was so furious with me that he even refused the kiss of life.
00:38:19I can't move my legs.
00:38:23I had to move fast now.
00:38:25Van Arp wouldn't be in the hospital forever.
00:38:33Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:38:37Anna, something for you.
00:38:39Can you take care of it?
00:38:44Hello?
00:38:46Oh, it's you.
00:38:48I don't know. Why don't you come and get me?
00:38:56I'll ask for the afternoon off, then.
00:38:59All right?
00:39:01Okay, see you later. Bye.
00:39:02Bye.
00:39:07If only Anna would realize what this meant to me.
00:39:20Ben, what are you doing?
00:39:22Did you lie to me? Paul must have told you something about his work.
00:39:25You mean you came here just to talk about that?
00:39:27Look, he was really on to something.
00:39:29Ben, I'm in a hurry.
00:39:30I've got to talk to you. Can we see each other later?
00:39:33No. I have to meet someone.
00:39:36Listen, Ben. I have to live my own life, too.
00:39:39Don't be like Paul.
00:39:41Please.
00:39:45What would Lyndon have done?
00:39:47Followed her home to see who she was meeting?
00:40:01And Lyndon wouldn't have wanted her to know he was watching.
00:40:04So I, too, looked for a quiet spot where she couldn't see me.
00:40:30Hello?
00:41:00Coming.
00:41:26You, too, Dr. Lyndon?
00:41:28Dr. Lin, I remember seeing poor Dr. Linden
00:41:33standing in that very spot many times.
00:41:37Take the advice of an old family doctor.
00:41:40Don't make the same mistake as Linden.
00:41:43Don't ask Anna about the Swiss man.
00:41:46The Swiss man?
00:41:48This was something new.
00:41:51Everyone was so helpful.
00:41:54They didn't want me to retrace Linden's footsteps.
00:41:57But weren't they in fact leading me on?
00:42:15I remember Van Arp mentioned something about Linden
00:42:18in a Swiss pharmaceutical firm.
00:42:20And here was an expensive car with Swiss plates.
00:42:27Okay, Anna, let's hear it.
00:42:54I like.
00:42:56Ah.
00:42:58Tell me more about this.
00:43:02He's so different.
00:43:04He can tell from my heartbeat
00:43:06when his fingers are doing the right thing.
00:43:15Oh, Dr. Linde.
00:43:27Who's the Swiss man, Anna?
00:43:29You've been spying on me.
00:43:32Paul used to spy on me, too.
00:43:37From the chess bar, right?
00:43:40Mm-hmm.
00:43:41Until they kicked him out.
00:43:44They said he always looked so miserable by the window
00:43:47that he was ruining their chess games.
00:43:51After that, he started watching my house
00:43:53from the Anne Frank Museum.
00:44:00The Anne Frank Museum turned out to be
00:44:02just across the street from Anna's house.
00:44:16Excuse me.
00:44:18Excuse me, please.
00:44:20Anne Frank and her family
00:44:22lived for three years in a small loft.
00:44:25And this was their secret entrance.
00:44:29Will you not follow me, please?
00:44:36Anne Frank collected movie stars.
00:44:39Where's Anne Frank?
00:44:40Here's Anne Frank.
00:44:42There's Ginger Rogers.
00:44:45Excuse me.
00:44:53Kids come in here like it was Disneyland or something.
00:44:56Oh, come on, Dad.
00:44:57Look at this.
00:44:58It's collective insanity.
00:44:59That's what it was.
00:45:00Hitler was crazy.
00:45:01Hitler was crazy.
00:45:02It's as simple as that.
00:45:04Look at this, for instance.
00:45:05The Nazis measured noses.
00:45:07If it was big, you were a Jew.
00:45:09Really?
00:45:10Mm-hmm.
00:45:11Oh, we forget.
00:45:12We forget.
00:45:13The Nazis were obsessed with their idea
00:45:14of the thousand-year Reich, the superior race.
00:45:17Hey, Dad.
00:45:18Dad.
00:45:19That's how they justified
00:45:20packing human being pigs in concentration camps.
00:45:23Look at this.
00:45:24Listen.
00:45:25People with their brains cut open,
00:45:26maybe while they were still alive,
00:45:27for medical experiments.
00:45:28Daddy.
00:45:29Listen, you know those pictures are for sale downstairs.
00:45:31All right, come on.
00:45:32Let's go.
00:45:33Oh, can't we buy some?
00:45:34Shh.
00:45:35What?
00:45:36What?
00:45:37Can't you take some back with us?
00:45:38I want to show my friends.
00:45:39Shh.
00:45:40What did I do?
00:45:41Dad, for a medical experiment.
00:45:51They were so fond of Dr. Linden.
00:45:53He would come with his little boxes and blocks
00:45:55to test them.
00:45:56To them, it was a game.
00:45:58There was one woman.
00:45:59She said to him, I want to play the game.
00:46:02And then he recognized her.
00:46:04She was once the cleaning lady in his building,
00:46:06and now she was here.
00:46:07So he used her also in his study.
00:46:10And then he said, I want to play the game.
00:46:12And then he recognized her.
00:46:13She was once the cleaning lady in his building,
00:46:15and now she was here.
00:46:16So he used her also in his study.
00:46:19I see.
00:46:20OK.
00:46:21I'm going to go now, OK?
00:46:22OK.
00:46:23OK.
00:46:24I'll see you later, Dad.
00:46:25Bye, Mom.
00:46:30Bye, Dave.
00:46:31Bye Bye.
00:46:32Bye-bye.
00:46:33OK.
00:46:34Bye.
00:46:35See you in a couple hours.
00:46:36Bye-bye.
00:46:37Bye.
00:46:38Bye-bye.
00:46:39OK.
00:46:40Bye-bye.
00:46:41Bye-bye.
00:46:42Bye-bye.
00:46:43Bye-bye.
00:46:44Bye-bye.
00:46:45Bye-bye.
00:46:46Bye-bye.
00:46:47Bye-bye.
00:46:48I had the strangest dream.
00:47:04Was it about me?
00:47:05I dreamt that Paul Linden was with some people from the old age home.
00:47:10But it wasn't a concentration camp.
00:47:14One of them was his old cleaning lady.
00:47:17Minna Hoekstra, old Minna?
00:47:20What was he doing with her?
00:47:23Medical experiments.
00:47:24That's what he was doing with all of them.
00:47:27It doesn't make any sense.
00:47:29No.
00:47:30Of course not, it was a dream, wasn't it?
00:47:35I wish you'd forget about Paul.
00:47:37I've forgotten it all, everything.
00:47:40I've forgotten him completely.
00:47:42Well, that was quick.
00:47:48What beautiful roses.
00:47:49Yes, they are.
00:47:52They're unusual.
00:47:53Where did you buy them?
00:47:54Oh, in a little shop near the station.
00:48:01They wouldn't be Swiss roses, would they?
00:48:06All right.
00:48:07So the Swiss man sends me roses every day.
00:48:09So what?
00:48:10And did he also pay for Paul's experiments?
00:48:13Yes.
00:48:14No.
00:48:15I don't know.
00:48:16Did he?
00:48:17I don't know.
00:48:18I don't know.
00:48:19Ben, I don't want you to get mixed up in all that business.
00:48:20You're too nice.
00:48:21So, I had caught her in a lie.
00:48:22I did.
00:48:23She was probably keeping her Swiss friend informed of my every move.
00:48:26That suited me fine.
00:48:28Let him know what I was up to.
00:48:31I made a point of telling Anna that I was headed back to the old age home to ask a few
00:48:35questions.
00:48:38Of course I remember you.
00:48:39You came here with Professor von Arup.
00:48:42How can I help you, Dr. Land?
00:48:44You told me about that experiment of Dr. Linden's.
00:48:47Do you have a list of the people who took part?
00:48:49Of course.
00:48:50It will be in the file.
00:48:59It's strange.
00:49:00It doesn't seem to be here.
00:49:04I wonder who could have...
00:49:07Is it possible that someone has taken this file?
00:49:11It's possible.
00:49:14But why?
00:49:22You have a lot of funerals here.
00:49:24Yes, I'm afraid so.
00:49:29Especially during that influenza epidemic.
00:49:39When did it happen?
00:49:42About three months ago.
00:49:55But what if they did die of influenza?
00:49:58How can we be sure?
00:50:01We could dig up a grave.
00:50:04Are you mad?
00:50:07I have to clean up these mouse cases.
00:50:14Here I'll help you.
00:50:16All we need is a sample of tissue from one of those graves.
00:50:20You'll never get permission for that.
00:50:22How do you think they managed in the early days of medicine?
00:50:25Researchers had to steal a corpse in order to study anatomy.
00:50:29They didn't ask permission.
00:50:32But which grave?
00:50:33We can't dig up the whole cemetery.
00:50:36Linden's cleaning lady.
00:50:38She was in the experiment.
00:50:40Her name was Minna Hoekstra.
00:52:31Give me the scalpel, Pim.
00:52:53No, no, the scalpel.
00:52:57No!
00:52:58Yeah, that's it.
00:53:10I was too scared to look death in the face.
00:53:13And a piece of a leg would do just as well.
00:53:17The stench was getting to me despite my mask.
00:53:20Give me the slide, Pim.
00:53:22I'd never be the same after that sight.
00:53:25I don't show you rotting corpses in medical school.
00:53:35I admire his style.
00:53:58Look.
00:53:59The same rings we found in the mice.
00:54:02I wonder what the hell he used.
00:54:04A professor testing drugs on old people.
00:54:09My uncle will be deeply shocked.
00:54:13He respected Paul Linden.
00:54:16He must have felt it had a chance of working.
00:54:19Or he wouldn't have done it.
00:54:21This is going to cause a terrible scandal.
00:54:25Maybe he got the dosage wrong.
00:54:30I wonder how many died.
00:54:31Don't worry, Julia.
00:54:32Just so long as it stays in place.
00:54:33It doesn't have to last forever.
00:54:34What did you do last night?
00:54:35I was on top of a church tower.
00:54:36A church tower?
00:54:37Watching my lover make a fool of herself.
00:54:38All right, sir?
00:54:39Okay.
00:55:18Anna, I found out everything now.
00:55:19Okay, so you have.
00:55:20Then don't be miserable.
00:55:21I don't think there's any need to make a big scene now, is there?
00:55:22Please, get in the car.
00:55:23I'll take you.
00:55:24In the Swiss man's car?
00:55:25It's a nice car.
00:55:26Rudy, do you remember where Dr. Landon used to live?
00:55:27Yes, miss.
00:55:29How many did Paul kill?
00:55:32Nine, I think.
00:55:34Or maybe it was 19.
00:55:38Does it shock you?
00:55:40Well, if you told me before, it would have saved time.
00:55:44I know when to keep my mouth shut.
00:55:49I want to meet the Swiss man.
00:55:53He wants to meet you, too.
00:55:59I'll arrange it if you insist.
00:56:07Tomorrow, she said, he would be visiting his favorite antique store.
00:56:11I was being granted an audience.
00:56:15How much you want for that?
00:56:16Through here.
00:56:17I think that's one of the best pieces in my shop.
00:56:24Hello.
00:56:25Oh, Nicholas Ulrich, Dr. Landon.
00:56:28We should have met sooner.
00:56:31Max, leave us alone.
00:56:33Lyndon worked for a Swiss firm, I'm told.
00:56:35Yes.
00:56:36It is an old, established one.
00:56:41What was he testing for you?
00:56:43You mean on mice?
00:56:45I mean on people.
00:56:47Why didn't it work?
00:56:49Careful, Ben.
00:56:50He's a monster.
00:56:51Shut up, Banner.
00:56:54You think of this.
00:56:58Max claims this mask was used in 37
00:57:02when Faust was performed for the Nazis.
00:57:05But all Amsterdam dealers are thieves.
00:57:08Can we please talk about Lyndon?
00:57:12Pity us.
00:57:14The poor fool killed himself too soon.
00:57:17He never found out he had succeeded.
00:57:21What?
00:57:24He thought they would all die.
00:57:26But didn't they?
00:57:28Why don't you go back to the old age home
00:57:31and ask about Emil van der Lutje?
00:57:33Emil van der...
00:57:34Just ask for Emil who plays the piano.
00:57:37You won't need your assistant.
00:57:40There are no graves to dig up this time.
00:57:46No, they are very sensitive about that in Holland.
00:57:56No.
00:58:20At first, I dreaded going back to that house of the almost dead.
00:58:24I was beginning to ask myself if all this exposure
00:58:27to the horrors of the aging process
00:58:29might not be affecting my mind.
00:58:33But the visit turned out to be well worth the risk.
00:58:38Of course, Emil van der Lutje is here
00:58:40and very much alive.
00:58:43Years ago, he was a concert pianist.
00:58:46One of the finest in Holland.
00:58:48Just recently, he started playing again.
00:59:23So one of them had survived.
00:59:53May I introduce myself?
00:59:54This is Dr. Benjamin Lent.
00:59:58How do you do?
00:59:59Are you American?
01:00:00Yes, that's right.
01:00:03I'd like to take a biopsy.
01:00:04Could you explain to him what that is?
01:00:06Oh, biopsies.
01:00:07Do you know what biopsies are?
01:00:09From the skin.
01:00:11Dr. Linde took the medicine from the skin.
01:00:14It's called a biopsy.
01:00:16It's a biopsy.
01:00:17It's a biopsy.
01:00:18It's a biopsy.
01:00:20From the skin.
01:00:22Dr. Linde took them many times.
01:00:25It's not painful.
01:00:27Did he ever give you injections?
01:00:30Yes, during the influenza epidemic.
01:00:35One injection.
01:00:36But it made me feel wonderful.
01:00:39What's this all about, Dr. Linde?
01:00:42Dr. Linde's experiments.
01:00:49I think we should go to my office.
01:00:54And then in San Francisco.
01:00:57I played there in 24.
01:01:00In Philadelphia.
01:01:02At the Academy of Music.
01:01:05Of course, all that's quite a long time ago.
01:01:09The second time I went to America was in 27.
01:01:14On the Mauritania.
01:01:16You have quite a memory.
01:01:17What were you playing when I came in?
01:01:19Oh, Satie.
01:01:20I studied with him in Paris for a while in 1912.
01:01:27But I was not one of his best pupils.
01:01:32You do remind me a bit of Dr. Linde.
01:01:36Really?
01:01:38All the cells were protected from further deterioration.
01:01:43This time, the membrane had been perfectly formed.
01:01:48A brilliant young physicist once said to me,
01:01:51the deeper I go into science, the more I trust in magic.
01:01:55Shortly after, he went mad.
01:01:59Hello?
01:02:03It's me, Dr. Linde.
01:02:06I'd like to see you.
01:02:08What's going on?
01:02:11He's gone mad.
01:02:13What?
01:02:15He's gone mad.
01:02:17What's going on?
01:02:19He's gone mad.
01:02:21What's going on?
01:02:23He's gone mad.
01:02:25What's going on?
01:02:26I told you, I don't want any cars!
01:02:38Now I've lost my concentration.
01:02:44Don't be upset.
01:02:50Go.
01:02:52No, tell him I insist it's Dr. Ben Land.
01:03:05Ah, Dr. Land.
01:03:08We do have a few things to talk about, don't we?
01:03:10Why don't you come over?
01:03:16Dr. Land isn't going to be as easy as you think.
01:03:21He's not a pushover like Paul was, you know.
01:03:25Why don't you help me to get him, Anna?
01:03:28You don't want to spend your life in a beauty shop.
01:03:32I don't mind the beauty shop anymore.
01:03:35You've fallen in love with him.
01:03:41You've fallen in love as a finger.
01:03:45Come on, make the bet.
01:03:48Okay, I will do it myself.
01:04:07As I went to meet Ulrich at his hotel on that windy October evening,
01:04:11I couldn't stop thinking about those immortal cells.
01:04:15What if we all became gods?
01:04:22Amazing, isn't it, Dr. Land?
01:04:26You never grow any older.
01:04:28Linen only hit on the right dosage once.
01:04:33The work isn't finished yet.
01:04:36The right dosage of what?
01:04:40You don't expect me to tell you just like that.
01:04:44Look, I had to build a whole new wing at my plant to make this stuff.
01:04:52It cost me part of my life.
01:04:54Oh, I'm sure it'll pay off in time.
01:04:57Time is the one thing I don't have, Dr. Land.
01:05:00I'm not interested in being an old rich man.
01:05:19Dr. Land,
01:05:25I'm looking for a scientist who has the guts to speed up all this research.
01:05:31You mean Linden's kind of research.
01:05:34Murder.
01:05:38Mercy killings, Dr. Land.
01:05:40To end nature's murders.
01:05:51I think you're my man.
01:05:54And how much do you think I'm worth, Mr. Holwick?
01:05:59Why don't we talk about that over dinner?
01:06:02I only stay in these cheap little hotels because the food is good.
01:06:11Turkmenistan, Dr. Land.
01:06:14It's in the south of Russia, near the Armenian border.
01:06:18Some of those people have a healthy sex life at the age of 110.
01:06:24It's just heredity. There are dozens of studies.
01:06:26There's one by the Russian scientist Roshinsky.
01:06:31I don't know it.
01:06:32Of course not.
01:06:35Roshinsky ended his life in a madhouse because of his politics.
01:06:40He wanted everybody to have longer lives, not just good party memories.
01:06:45So now only rich businessmen will live longer. That's hardly better.
01:06:49I don't care how many people live longer. I just want to be one of them.
01:06:56Growing old is horrible.
01:06:59It's a disease.
01:07:01Then help me to perfect the cure.
01:07:05You still haven't told me what the cure is.
01:07:09He told me a story I almost believed.
01:07:12How he'd smuggled Roshinsky's papers out of a Russian asylum and contracted Linden to finish the work.
01:07:18Anyway, we both knew what he was leading up to.
01:07:22But the dosage is critical.
01:07:25I've got to test and test until it's safe.
01:07:27But that could take years.
01:07:29Okay, okay, but we must test on people.
01:07:33Well, what testing on people?
01:07:35Only when I say it's safe. That's my answer.
01:07:39Then I will give you my answer.
01:07:43Keep your mouth shut and you can have the same deal as Linden.
01:07:47There's a copy of our contract in his files.
01:07:50I don't have his files. You took them, didn't you?
01:07:53I will tell Felix to put them back.
01:07:55But don't expect to find Roshinsky's formula.
01:07:58That you can see once we have made our arrangements.
01:08:02Well, call me when you have made up your mind.
01:08:05Switzerland is a direct dial.
01:08:08I'll be at my factory.
01:08:19I was close to the secret that men have always been looking for.
01:08:23But like all treasures, this one was guarded by an ogre.
01:08:27Was it my imagination?
01:08:30Or was he following me around, mocking me with his offer?
01:08:35What about testing on people, people, people?
01:08:43He knew how badly I wanted his treasure.
01:08:46But he kept it locked away in a factory high in the Swiss Alps.
01:08:50Don't do it, Ben.
01:08:52I remember when Paul went to Switzerland for the first time.
01:08:56For the weekend, to take a look, he said.
01:08:59But when he came back, he was a different man.
01:09:04I'm not going to kill old people, Anna.
01:09:06You'll be part of his factory, just like Paul.
01:09:10I tried to warn you.
01:09:12Haven't you understood yet?
01:09:14You're going to be Ulrich's new man. It was all set up.
01:09:17I can beat Ulrich at his own game.
01:09:19No, you can't.
01:09:21He's too clever. He'll trap you.
01:09:24You'll be quite helpless.
01:09:29Ben, don't answer that.
01:09:34Yes?
01:09:38Oh, Professor Van Arp. How are you feeling?
01:09:46I don't quite understand.
01:09:48It's too late now.
01:09:52I see.
01:09:56Oh, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
01:10:03Can't you tell me what this is about?
01:10:07Oh, it's so unfair.
01:10:09The devil always wins.
01:10:15Yes?
01:10:18Goodbye, Ben.
01:10:22Yes, all right. Eleven o'clock at your office.
01:10:26Anna.
01:10:39A puzzle of a factory.
01:10:41Ulrich's factory in the Alps?
01:10:44That puzzle wasn't there by accident.
01:10:47It was a set-up.
01:10:49Ulrich's factory in the Alps?
01:10:52That puzzle wasn't there by accident.
01:10:55But the events were way ahead of me.
01:10:59This is Dr. Lant, gentlemen.
01:11:02How could you have done it?
01:11:05Digging up a grave in the middle of the night.
01:11:08This gentleman is from the police.
01:11:13Did you tell them, Pim?
01:11:15Ben, my uncle says that we made a mistake about Dr. Linden.
01:11:19He had the absurd idea that a member of our faculty, Dr. Paul Linden,
01:11:23was a mass murderer.
01:11:25Don't you think I had good reasons?
01:11:27Or haven't you told them about Dr. Linden's experiments?
01:11:30I didn't have to. These gentlemen already knew.
01:11:33I am from the Ministry of Science, Dr. Lant.
01:11:36I can assure you we followed very carefully
01:11:40what Dr. Linden was testing.
01:11:43It concerned a new method of adding a colour process
01:11:47to an anti-influenza vaccine
01:11:50so one can check the effectiveness of the vaccine.
01:11:54People are more interested in a cure for the common cold
01:11:57than in any of your immortality serums.
01:12:00The process is quite safe.
01:12:03By the way, it does create a ring-like effect
01:12:07when viewed under a microscope.
01:12:10You were perhaps misled by that.
01:12:12You have a lot of accusations, but you've proved nothing.
01:12:15I never wanted to prove anything.
01:12:17I wanted to understand why Linden killed himself.
01:12:20Why don't you dig him up at Hoskins?
01:12:27It's my fault, Ben.
01:12:29I told you the mice were four years old.
01:12:31They were not even two years old.
01:12:34My uncle showed me.
01:12:36I made a mistake reading the record.
01:12:38No.
01:12:39I did, Ben. Really, I did.
01:12:41No one changed the records. It's not possible.
01:12:46It is possible, Ben.
01:12:48Think carefully. We got it all wrong.
01:12:51Yes.
01:12:55Dr. Land.
01:12:57I knew you were a bit mad.
01:13:00But now you've turned into a dangerous lunatic.
01:13:04You went to the old age home
01:13:06and you took a biopsy of an old man.
01:13:08Yes, I did.
01:13:09You don't deny it.
01:13:10I knew I shouldn't have let you touch him.
01:13:14Emil van der Lutke is dead.
01:13:17What? That's impossible.
01:13:19The infection started in his arm where you took the biopsy.
01:13:23You killed him.
01:13:27I couldn't have killed him.
01:13:28People have so little resistance at that age.
01:13:31Dr. Land.
01:13:32Did you sterilize your instruments
01:13:34after you used them to poke around in a graveyard?
01:13:37Of course I did.
01:13:38Or did I? I was in such a rush.
01:13:41Some people might call you a murderer.
01:13:48I don't believe you.
01:13:49You're trying to frame me.
01:13:51He can't be dead. I don't believe it.
01:13:53You're mad. Absolutely mad.
01:13:56You need a doctor, Dr. Land.
01:13:58They called for an ambulance
01:14:00and under heavy sedation
01:14:02I was taken to a clean, white mental hospital.
01:14:08I keep thinking about the old piano player.
01:14:13What if he's really dead?
01:14:17And then I say to myself,
01:14:19no, he can't be.
01:14:22Because I can hear him.
01:15:07I'm sorry.
01:15:37Paul?
01:15:54Paul?
01:16:01How does it feel
01:16:02to have made your first kill?
01:16:07It was an accident.
01:16:09So was mine.
01:16:14I gave the wrong pills to one of the old dears.
01:16:18It bothered me for a few days.
01:16:23You'll get used to it.
01:16:26Then why did you kill yourself?
01:16:30Don't worry about it.
01:16:34Paul, if those people didn't matter to you,
01:16:36why did you kill yourself?
01:16:39Paul, I've got to know.
01:16:42Answer me, Paul!
01:16:45These fantasies about Dr. Linden
01:16:47must have started before the old man's death.
01:16:51Then I knew you didn't mean to kill him.
01:16:53I'm a psychiatrist. I want to help you.
01:16:55Why won't you answer me anymore?
01:17:01I'm real.
01:17:02My footsteps are real.
01:17:04The boy in the next bed is real.
01:17:06This hospital is real.
01:17:08But the dead Dr. Linden walking around
01:17:10and talking to you is one of your fantasies.
01:17:15And you see, Ben, the great danger with fantasies
01:17:17is that one can get trapped in them.
01:17:21I'll see you tomorrow, Ben.
01:17:35Well, call me when you have made up your mind.
01:17:38I'll be at my factory.
01:17:42I finally made that call to Ulrich for the right directions.
01:17:45Take the express to Geneva, he said,
01:17:48and then change to a little red alpine train
01:17:50that will get you almost up to the factory.
01:17:54I told Ulrich not to pick me up at the station.
01:17:58I was going to meet the devil on a mountaintop,
01:18:00and I wanted to take my own good time about it.
01:18:09He'd gotten Linden to sell his soul to him,
01:18:12and now it was my turn.
01:18:14But I know how to beat him in his own game.
01:18:17I'm going to find him.
01:18:19And now it was my turn.
01:18:21But I know how to beat him in his own game.
01:18:25I'm going to work day and night on that formula
01:18:27until I'm sure of the right dosage,
01:18:30and then I'll try it on myself
01:18:32in that dream lab high in the Alps.
01:18:35And if it works on me,
01:18:37then Mr. Ulrich will be the first to line up for the treatment.
01:18:42Only maybe I won't be so careful when I measure out his dosage.
01:18:47Unless, of course, I've forgotten about revenge by then.
01:18:51Because I'll be immortal.
01:18:55To me, that's a blessing, not a curse.
01:19:03We may even have to move off this aging planet
01:19:06in order to survive.
01:19:08But someday we'll look back
01:19:10and wonder how we ever tolerated life with death.
01:19:16After all, how can you be satisfied with something that has to end?
01:21:16THE END