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Oh, my.

Boy.

Very nice, Carl.

But remember how we make our Bs.

The straight line down and a circle to the right. See?

There you go.

Lookie here, Rose.

Oh, you finished the whole page.

That's very good, Willie.

She liked mine better.

Willie.

Don't pay him no mind, Carl. He's just a big show -off.

That's my ride.

Hey.

We need this.

It's for you.

Thank you.

Oh.

Thank you, Carl.

Okay. I gotta go. See you tomorrow?

Come on, Carl.

You're gonna be late for work.

Put the mop away, Carl.

You don't have to clean up today.

Listen to me carefully.

I'm going to give you something today, Carl.

Something wonderful.

I'm going to give you a new mind.

You'll still be Carl, but better.

You'll be able to do things you only dreamed of.

It'll be like having an extra mind.

My mind.

Don't you need it?

No.

The truth is I don't.

I'm dying, Carl.

But I don't want all this to die with me. I don't want you to die.

Then help me, Carl.

Help me to live on through you.

This is good, Carl.

Believe me.

You want to be smart, don't you?

Rose likes it when I'm smart.

All right.

Just watch how I put on the machine.

When I'm done, you'll put it on and press the green button.

It won't hurt. No, it won't hurt you, Carl. I promise.

Remember, Carl, no matter what happens to me,

And how bad it looks.

You've got to put on the machine and press the green button.

Do you remember that, Carl?

Uh -huh.

Suck your sister in!

There is nothing wrong with your television.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can delineate you with a

channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond.

We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive.

For the next hour,

You are about to experience the odd mystery which reaches from the

deepest inner mind to the outer limits.

It is only human to dream of rising above one's limitations.

But what if we had the power to instantly acquire the qualities that we

others? Would it bring real fulfillment or a hunger that can never be filled?

Two pen -sized burn marks, one on each temporal.

You want my guess?

I'd say the man fried his brain.

Let me see if I got this.

You arrive after 4 o 'clock, and he's already dead.

I poked him, and he didn't move, so I called 911.

Can you think of any reason why he would use this machine on himself?

Maybe because he knew he was dying.

He told you he was dying?

Pancreatic cancer, heavily metastasized.

Check whether it's doctor.

You know, at the hospital.

Oh, Rose.

I gotta talk to you. What is it? Carl, he's acting real funny.

How do you mean? You hear that?

It's beautiful.

Spark, if I'm not mistaken.

It's Carl Rose.

If it's bothering you, just have him turn down the radio.

Carl's playing that music on some kind of a keyboard.

Oh, God.

I had no idea Carl was a savant.

Hello, Miss Rose.

Hi, Carl.

Your music? It was lovely.

Yeah. I thought it sucked eggs.

That's not nice. Willie?

Just jealous.

I am not.

Calm down. I am not. I am not.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Pretty ring. Is it new?

It's for my fiance.

I bet he's rich.

Must have cost like five billion dollars.

Are you getting married?

That's the rumor.

Come on. Why don't we get started on our love?

worked for Dr.

Valerian. Valerian's dead.

I know that.

I'm William Talbot. I know that, too. What are you doing with those papers?

I'm just taking what belongs to me.

To you?

What do you think paid for all this, huh?

I poured close to half a million into the ratings of that lunatic. The least I

can do is salvage the wreckage.

Maybe you can help me, Carl.

I just clean up.

Your boss, he was working on an electronic device.

A smaller version of this prototype here.

Showed it to me once. Fit in a small case, maybe 20 inches wide.

Just the janitor.

Idiot.

It's got to be here somewhere.

It's all he ever talked about.

You shouldn't be doing that. Here it is.

Oh, yeah.

Maybe this won't be a total loss after all.

I'll send my people over for the rest of it. No.

No. No. Get out of my way. No. Get out of my way.

No. Damn it. No.

Stop it. That's Dr. Valerian.

Ross, help.

I'm with help.

I'm with help.

You can't take that.

I didn't... I didn't... I didn't mean... I didn't...

It's okay.

It's okay, Carl.

Not your fault.

Not your fault.

and I'd like to open up a trading account.

Stocks, commodities, options mostly out of the money calls and puts.

And I'll be funding those with municipal bearer bonds. $100 ,000 to start off

with. Okay, I want to buy 500 contracts oscillator technology.

Oscillator, that trades on CBOE, right?

Exercise price of $60 expiring next month.

I'll send my man by this afternoon with the bonds.

Let's make some money, shall we?

Okay.

You're not really reading that.

Uh -huh.

Yeah, right.

You don't have a brain in your head.

I am three.

This just came for you in the mail.

Is it porno?

Hello,

Carl.

If all's gone well, you'll be watching this with part of me inside you.

I pray that I haven't saddled you with too great a responsibility.

But if my theories were correct, we'll both have made history.

When the time is right, we'll share our triumph with the world.

I'm counting on you, Carl, to continue recording the progress of

our experiment.

If I'm right, you took the video equipment home with you.

What do you know?

Experiment log day three.

It would be incredible enough only to document that the mine transport device

has proven itself a success.

But something has happened which makes the experiment all the more remarkable.

I'm sorry, Dr. V, but I took on a new consciousness. I assimilate someone

Somebody, somebody you know.

William Talbot.

Self -loving has never had a more literal meaning. Feeling so mutual.

That was him.

You hadn't guessed.

As you can see, it's not just his brain power I've absorbed.

Talbot himself surfaces every so often. Same as with you, Dr. V.

amazing thing is his brain was subsumed in a minute after his accidental

accident my ass you just wanted to use your machine on me the ability of the

device to transfer the mind's contents post -mortem in the in the few minutes

that the the brain cells are still alive something that you had theorized but

now we now we proved it now we proved it We're now three individuals living in a

single body.

We share knowledge, memories, both long and short term, and motor skills, and

most of the time I'm in charge.

Pretty neat, huh?

This all falls well within the bounds of the experiment's predicted results.

Well done, Carl.

Rest now.

I

feel

you slipping away.

Doc, where are you going?

Hey,

what do you say we hit the cast away for a drink, take in a strip show, and plan

my next doc manipulation?

It's too perfect.

I can break the law and hide out in the body of an imbecile.

No!

None of that.

All I want is Rose.

Carl loves Rose.

Who's there?

Carl is Detective Landers.

Just a minute.

Uh... Detective.

Yeah. A couple of questions have come up.

Is it now a good time?

Yes.

Does the name William Talbot mean anything to you?

I heard something about it.

It's a businessman they found in the trunk.

Oh.

I read... I saw it on Channel 6 News.

Live fire.

All news, whatever you want. Yeah, that's right. Exactly.

See, he died exactly the same way as Dr. Valerian did.

Did the doctor know him?

Not that much.

Carl?

We found this notebook in the alley outside the lab.

Is this yours?

Mine?

Yeah. Are you kidding?

No.

It's not yours.

Were there any kids there at the lab? Did you see anybody in the alley? Were

there grandkids of the doctor?

Maybe a neighborhood kid?

A neighborhood kid. I always help him with his homework.

He's got it.

Neighborhood kids.

Is there anything else you want to tell me, Carl?

No.

If I have any more questions, I can come back right now.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

These emerald pendants are very popular.

Roses like that.

It's pretty.

Can I ask what you were thinking of spending for this gift?

Money.

What are you doing here?

I brought you some cool presents.

No, you shouldn't do that.

Did Louise tell you where I live?

I looked in the office.

Aren't you going to open them?

Oh, God.

Where'd you get this?

I bought it. I got the earrings, too.

Real diamonds.

You don't have the money for this.

Yes, I do.

Oscillator technology just split two for one. I cashed out.

Listen, Carl, I don't know who put you up to this, but you've got to take it

back.

But for you, Rose, I love you.

I have a boyfriend.

I'm going to get married.

Besides what you felt for me, I didn't love. It's gratitude.

Infatuation.

I'm not good enough, right?

No, that's not what this is about.

Then you tell me what you want. I can be anything you want me to be. Okay,

listen to me. I could change.

I could be as good as he is.

Stop it.

Stop it.

I don't know where you got these things, but the last thing that I want is for

you to get in trouble because of me.

I can't live without you, Rose. I can't stop thinking about you. You need help.

I'm going to get somebody to see you.

It's not what you think.

I do not have bipolar disorder. My serotonin levels are stable.

Lauren, call Louise. I want you to go back to the Claymore house right now.

I want to see you.

Now, we're almost done. Just a few more questions.

That's a very interesting construction, Carl.

What's your calling?

Two -methylhexahydroxy.

Phone call for you, Carl.

What is it?

It's your broker.

Again.

Thank you, Carl. That should be it for today.

It's my broker.

I'd like to check in on him in a few days. And in the meantime, I'll be

to my colleagues and looking at the appropriate literature.

Thank you.

Well, she wants us to keep a close eye on Carl. Let him know if anything

dramatic happens. More dramatic than his reading level going from grade school

to graduate school overnight?

Or him showing up on my doorstep with thousands of dollars of jewelry?

I didn't mention that.

Louise. He has no family and no money.

They had to be stolen. I don't think you can assume that.

He's been getting calls from a broker. Maybe he's turned into a financial whiz,

too. I like Carl as much as you do.

But I gotta tell you, he's beginning to scare me.

Experiment log, day five.

I have to...

Fight now to keep Dr.

Valerian present.

The migraine are continuing.

Sometimes it feels like my head's going to explode.

I find myself obsessed with learning everything I can about

the man Rose is going to marry.

Thomas Langley Russell.

He's a prize -winning poet.

I always wanted to write.

Jealousy, the green -eyed monster, seems to be devouring me.

What does she want? Slow down, Carl. What does she want? The words get me in

ears.

Slow down, Carl.

Slow down.

You love her, but you don't want to scare her away. Shut up, old man. It's

your fault. I had Dr.

Valerian begin this experiment, believing that I would be the perfect

because portions of my brain are supposedly dormant.

Now I wonder if it was ever vacant at all.

Maybe I've inadvertently found the seat of conscience.

Maybe even the soul.

How else could I have sunk to such depth?

What of deep poet ruminations?

You must know, I was thinking this.

That's deep.

Dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

How long has he been a boarder here?

After his aunt died three years ago.

He became a ward of the state.

At first, he was institutionalized. Then they realized he was ready for a

transitional facility, and he came here to Claymore House.

Do you recognize this?

Yes. It's Carl's workbook.

Although, to tell you the truth, I think he's outgrowing.

Do you think Carl is capable of taking care of himself?

I know that's what he wants.

He talks about moving soon, getting a place of his own.

Can he afford that?

Actually, Carl's doing really well for himself.

Has his own stockbroker and everything.

Really? Mm -hmm.

He's onto us, Carl.

This isn't working for me, because you're giving me the same information

got yesterday. I need more than that.

No, this is not good.

Hold on a second.

The captain wants to know if we made any progress on the Valerian murders.

Tell him we're working on it. We'll have something for him tomorrow.

That's right.

Lieutenant, phone call for you in line two. Guy says he's got information on

Talbot thing.

I gotta go.

Landers.

What do I do?

What do I do?

My father always said, know your enemy.

The sound of breaking glass, jagged shards of memory, dissolving dreams in

silence.

Cascading into darkness, sprung like paper lanterns across the void.

Gasping, spilling, hot breath from open mouth to open mouth.

Sucre and warmth with the turning cries of last love, everlasting love.

Sharp dominion of... Garbage!

It's beautiful.

How do you say that? How can you trust a critic who's buffing the artist?

I am such a fool.

Forgive me.

You are so delicious.

When are we going to make it official?

How official do you want it?

I'm serious, Tom.

Book tour's next month.

Soon as it's over. You mean it? Maybe the only thing I do mean.

Why do I feel so worried?

Go back flying.

Thank you.

Crowded in here. Just let me think.

Notes, Carl.

Experiment.

Experiment log.

Day eight.

Anxiety.

Overload.

Third, assimilated brain.

What does that make? Three and a half?

You blew it big time. You killed a cop, you half -wit. You know what they do to

cop killers?

They're gonna get us all put away.

Some of it should be put away.

We're going to make the best of it, all right? We're alive right now, and that's

all that really matters.

Survival, Carl.

Problems come up, you deal with it. You don't know what the hell you're talking

about. You're a liar, Carl. Don't listen to anything he says.

I should have locked the both of you up. I want Rose to kiss me. Anyway, she

kisses him.

Forget Rose.

She loves you enough, remember?

Besides, women like that are a dime a dozen.

Don't listen to him, Carl. I'd kill for a woman like that. You already did.

Your life, your life. You took our lives, you pathetic piece of crap.

Problem comes up. You deal with it.

Experiment.

That's bull who gives a damn. That's bull who gives a damn.

Experiment. Just relax, Carl.

Just relax one thought at a time. Just one thought at a time. Okay. Problem

comes up. You deal with it. Problem comes up. You deal with it. What's the

problem?

It's his.

It's poetry.

It's his mind.

Hello? Thomas Russell?

Yeah? This is the police. Lieutenant Landers, there's been an accident. A

named Rose Ciotti. She asked me to call you.

Oh, my God. Is she all right?

There's an ambulance on the way. She says you're not far. You should be able

be here.

Tell her to hold on.

Forgive us all.

A signal between seraphs, clumped in innocence, a whispered trail of glory, a

violent pale blush careening through seven dawns, a single fearsome twilight,

all of it speaking a single name, your name, Rose.

Thomas, Thomas.

Rising spires of fractured light lingering home.

Water -colored fleeting reflections of a tender heart, a perfect heart.

Your heart, Rose, with sadness.

Prophet, the listless gatekeeper.

Teeming raptures of heart and soul, unspoken vigils of desire.

An icy hollow that cannot be filled for a perfect love.

Or a love rose.

Bury me, my rose.

Carl, this is crazy.

What do you mean?

You don't like my poem?

This is not your poem. This is Thomas' poem.

You don't understand. I wrote that. Stop it, Carl!

I did write that.

Do you think I know Thomas' writing? For God's sake, it's even in his

handwriting. He left it for me. You found it. No, that's not what happened.

You have gone too far.

If you ever come back here again, I am going to call the police. Forget it. I

want you to go.

And I want you to marry me.

I'm going to change.

I'm going to change.

You can't love me, Rose, if you would just take the time to find out. Find out

what? To find out who we...

Listen to me.

I never meant to hurt you.

I can forgive you for this.

I can't help you if you let me.

Rose is going to help me. Rose is going to help me.

She can.

She can love me. She can.

Rose can love me.

I'm

being

relentless. I'm being relentless.

I'm being relentless.

I'm being relentless. Rosiotti.

Yes.

Police. Lieutenant.

What is it?

I'm afraid I've got some bad news.

You heard her, Thomas.

She said she was going to help me.

Close the door. Dim the light.

Stop whining.

We don't need ropes. We don't need anybody. We have it all. Money, power,

strength, and numbers.

One day at a time. Take it easy, Carl. Focus.

Focus.

She can't love you, Carl.

Destroy the machine.

It was never intended for this.

Save yourself.

Life is a gift. It's a precious gift.

It's a curse.

Dark. Dark.

Comfortless. Smothering eternal night. A smothering eternal night.

She's dimmed the light.

Closed the door.

And dimmed the light.

She's closed the door.

I'm sorry, ma 'am. He's been dead at least 12 hours.

The coroner thinks he might have hit the embattment on the way down.

He jumped.

That's what we're going on.

His body was only 100 yards from the bridge.

God, Thomas.

Thomas. No.

I don't want to die.

I can work it out. I can work it out.

It's always... No.

Please.

Please. Please.

Please.

I really flattered myself.

I thought I could save him.

I thought marriage would turn everything around.

I want to live.

I want to live.

We've been good in something like this before.

Didn't you see the scars on his wrist?

Do it, Carl.

He attempted suicide before.

Three times.

In the last year alone.

Goodbye, my love.

How easily we scorn what fate has dealt us and dream of what it has not.

Before we cast aside our lots, it would be wise to remember.

that dreams have a way of turning into nightmares.