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- No!

I'm a scientist.

No more nightmares.

I must find the answers logically, without passion,

and I will.

This is my research.

I need to narrow the field even more.

Let's see.

Artificial vision unit, sub-miniature television camera

implanted in a glass eye.

Electrodes in the cranium to stimulate the visual cortex.

Yes.

How long before they begin to affect the brain?

No, no, no, no, it's no good.

My Nancy's a healthy girl.

That hasn't changed.

No matter what she's gone through,

she'll always be as she was.

Happy, alive.

- If this were a race.

- Okay. - One, two.

- Daddy, I love you.

Love you, love you, love you,

love you, love you.

- It is mandatory, make it mandatory.

Any usable pair of eyes upon the death of its owner

are to be automatically removed and stored

in the nearest eye bank.

All right, Dr. Bryan.

- Dr. Chaney, at the risk of compounding

your displeasure with me, some of us

would still like to get your opinion

of Dr. Boran of Dublin and his theory

regarding eye transplants.

He goes on to say-

- Dr. Boran is entitled to his theory.

As I've said before, I do not choose

to go in that direction.

No, no, I would not care to go that far.

No, no, I could never go that far.

Never that far.

Yet who would have predicted that dreadful day

how far I might have to go.

- Daddy, look out!

- Nancy, can you see the beam?

- No.

Nothing.

- My God.

Oh.

All their new theories lead to dead ends.

- Len, why don't you talk it over with your colleagues?

- I can't just wait for somebody to hand me the solution.

I've been thinking about that Irish doctor.

What's his name?

- Boran.

- Boran, yeah.

His concept comes closest to being the best.

His idea is to transplant the cornea

from one live element to another,

and he's done just that with animals.

- An animal cornea can be transplanted into a human?

- No, no, no.

No, the secret is something else.

A live element transplanted into another, yes, yes, yes,

but not just the cornea.

That wouldn't help in Nancy's case.

It'd be the entire eye.

Entire eye.

- She's blind, Len.

- Nancy is going to have her sight back!

Katherine, I don't appreciate your pessimism.

- That's not fair.

- I'm sorry, Kathy.

After Mother died, if you hadn't come along,

I don't know how I'd have raised her.

Transplant the entire eye.

- That would destroy the optic nerve.

- How do we know?

How do we know it won't work

unless I try?

Nancy.

- You haven't been up here in days, Father.

- Believe in me, baby, believe in me.

- It's not your fault, Father.

You can't help me.

- Then help yourself!

Come out of this room, go sit by the pool,

take walks with Katherine, anything!

- But I.

- Baby, why don't you come down this evening?

We can have dinner together.

You can call up Dan and ask him over.

- That's finished.

- I thought you loved him.

- I do.

- Thank you, Katherine.

- Katherine, would you go up and help

Nancy get ready for dinner?

- Yep.

- Dan, you remember the day of the accident?

- Yes, that was a very, very ironic day.

- At my lecture that morning, you spoke

about the theory of transplanting

the cornea from one live animal to another.

- You said you could never go that far.

- Well sometimes things happen

that make you wanna go farther.

And I do.

We still have a few minutes before Nancy comes down.

Come on, let me show you something.

Now, remember, Boran's work only involved

transplanting the cornea from one live element to another.

Before you look at these animals,

I'd like you to keep this in mind.

This one originally had no eyes.

This one, the .

- He looks all right.

- I have removed one eye from each dog

and transplanted it into the other, in its entirety.

- It's impossible.

- As you see.

- How?

- Not how, why.

- Why?

- It brings me that much closer to giving

Nancy back her sight.

- Animals' eyes don't work in humans.

- No, no, but human eyes work in other humans, don't they?

- Sure, you can get corneas from cadavers.

You get them at the eye bank.

- I'm talking about eyes from the living.

You all right?

- The living?

- One who loves to another, you love Nancy, don't you?

- Love Nancy.

- Do you love her enough to give up your eyes for her?

I do, I'd give up my own gladly, but.

- Give up my eyes?

I can't.

- I think you can.

- My eyes.

Oh, no.

- That's enough.

Let's begin.

Scalpel.

Start the count.

Forceps.

Sterilize them.

19 minutes, 31 seconds.

Doing fine.

Nancy.

Say something, darling.

You must talk to me if I'm to help you.

Please.

- Father.

- Open your eyes, baby.

- Oh!

- You don't have to worry about that scar tissue.

It'll disappear in just a few weeks.

- You're beautiful.

Hello?

This is Dr. Chaney.

Oh, yes, Lieutenant.

No, no, we haven't heard from Dr. Bryan at all,

not in weeks.

Have you checked with his mother in New York?

I see.

I certainly hope he hasn't met with any accidents.

Yes, yes, of course, I will, you do the same.

Let me know if you hear anything.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

Any time.

- Oh!

Oh, you're going to the hospital?

- Mm, and I have to make a good impression.

- They'll probably send you to Sweden

for one of those prizes.

- What are you doing today?

- Oh, I've been thinking a lot about Dan lately.

I thought maybe I'd drive over there and see him.

- You know, I don't think that's such a good idea.

See, in just a couple of weeks, those scars will be gone,

you'll be able to see him at your best.

I want you to go up to your room, do your eye exercises.

Five more minutes today, keep those eyes working.

That's very important.

You do your eye exercises how I say and when I say,

and I say you do them right now.

- Okay.

Hey!

Yoo hoo?

- Yes, yes, darling?

- I'm sorry to bother you.

Have you seen Dr. Bryan today?

- No, I haven't seen him for quite a while.

- Oh.

- Why don't you come have a cup of coffee?

- No, thank you, some other time.

- Sorry, darling.

- Len. - Huh?

- Excuse me, Len, did the police ever contact

you about Dan?

- Oh, yes, someone found out he had

some family trouble back east, something like that.

- But surely he would've contacted your daughter.

They're still engaged, aren't they?

- This whole thing is knocking the hell out of Nancy.

I have a lecture.

Thank you, thank you, it's good to be back.

And it's ironic.

Today, when I have something really important

to tell you, we have less than half the attendance

we had the last time I was here.

Oh, well, poor devils, they've missed

the second coming.

Now, if you'll remember, seven weeks ago,

we talked about live transplant,

and, at the time, I brushed the theory aside,

but, as I drove home, I began to feel guilty.

People in our profession should not have closed minds.

So, in the next few days, I gathered up

all the material I could find on the subject.

I know I've been unavailable for some time,

but for a very good reason.

I studied the theory, even made some experiments of my own,

and I soon realized that Boran

had gone quite far in his work, but not far enough,

because what I am about to reveal to you

is the result of an attempt never before made successfully.

As we all know, there are two main problems

in eye transplant operations.

First, the optic nerve does not regenerate

itself like other parts of the body.

Second, the operation must be performed

without loss of circulation to the retina.

- I can't see, I can't see!

- Now, the main danger presents itself

when there's damage to one of the optic nerves.

The damage could easily spread to both eyes,

but what about attempting the detachment

of the entire structure, what-

- I'm terribly sorry, but there's

an emergency phone call from your house.

I wouldn't have interrupted, but the lady sounded frantic.

- Excuse me.

Deep infection, that's all.

There can be no other reason.

Perhaps the water in the pool, that drive she took.

Her activity, normal reactions, strain.

I cannot work with her new eyes.

They wouldn't stand the probing.

- Let me look at the eyes,

let me look at your eyes.

Oh, all right!

- Katherine!

Want Chaney!

I'll see you in hell!

All of you!

Katherine!

- I need new eyes.

Defective, perhaps, yes.

But I must take my chances.

The problem now is one of longevity.

It's a minor one compared to my victory,

and I cannot afford to make any mistake.

- Hi, how far you going?

- I'm just out for a drive.

Where you heading?

- Towards O-Worl.

- That sounds great, come on.

There must have been some bleeding of the retina.

Car-i-tartus set in, caused an infection.

It's not uncommon.

Just has to be protected, that's all.

All right, let's prepare.

By this time tomorrow, Nancy will be

able to see again, and for good.

The timing must be off.

No resistance as I repeat the operation.

The formation of an inner wall I cannot penetrate.

I must not cause shock to the brain.

I cannot risk going any deeper.

- This is Dr. Chaney.

Doctor, Miss Dunn.

- Hi. - Why don't you

come and be seated, please. - Oh, thank you.

- Well, well, Miss Dunn, according to my secretary,

you have some very interesting credits.

Now, why would you want to go into private nursing?

- I don't know, Doctor.

It's something I've always thought about,

and I thought this would be a good time.

You see, I'm new out here, and the money's good.

- That's true.

I must warn you, however.

It's time consuming.

- I understand this would be for your daughter?

- That's right, she's blind,

and I can't give her all the attention she needs.

You're free at the moment?

- In a way.

- I don't understand.

I did specify full time nurse.

- Well, let me be honest with you.

I didn't tell the agency I'm married.

But my husband travels a lot.

- Oh, what does he do?

- He's a United States Marshal.

- A United States Marshal?

- He transports prisoners back and forth

across the country.

So, most of the time, I'm alone.

He'd prefer I had a job, and your situation sounds ideal.

- Yes, well, you sound ideal to us, too, Mrs. Dunn,

but I still have a few applicants to interview,

and I'll let you know.

- You see, I was raised in St. Vincent's Orphanage.

- Oh, oh, that'd give you no family.

No husband or?

- No, no husband.

No sweethearts, either.

I've only been in town a couple of weeks.

- You know, I think my daughter's

gonna like you, Miss Mathews.

- You mean I've got the job?

- When can you start?

- Tomorrow.

- Okay, the morning will be fine.

Would you like a glass of wine?

- Thank you.

You know, I'm gonna like this place.

- Nancy will have her sight.

Her scars break my heart.

But better scarred and seeing, better than blind.

Forceps, Katherine.

We're way behind.

Poor subject, surely.

There can be no other explanation for this failure.

Impaired vision, an unfortunate choice.

But I'll not run out of donors.

- Katherine!

She's gonna kill us all.

- Oh my God.

- That bitch.

That bitch.

Bitch.

- Sylvia Porter.

I'm sorry I'm late, but I was showing another house,

and I just couldn't get away.

- Oh, that's quite all right.

I just got here myself.

- Good.

Let me point out some of the features of the property.

Of course, you've got a sweeping city view.

Isn't that stunning?

It's usually an extremely quiet neighborhood.

It's combining total privacy

with only five minutes from the heart of the city.

- Is that one of the models over there?

- Yes, it is.

It's not totally completed, but I'm sure

that you could get a good indication

of what the possibilities are.

- Could we have a look?

- Of course. - Why, thank you.

Can you see, my baby?

Can you see at all?

- No, no.

I don't care anymore.

- The operation succeeded almost totally at the beginning.

Even at the third time, she could still see for days.

I'll discover it.

- Stop!

The only thing you'd better discover

is a way to get rid of those people.

- I see Dan has been getting to you.

- Get rid of those people, Len.

- And just how would you suggest

that we do that, Katherine?

- Kill them.

- Kill them?

I intend to help these people.

And as soon I've succeeded with Nancy, I will.

I can still condense the time.

One more operation, one more.

- What is this, what is this?

What is this?

What happened?

My eyes!

My eyes!

I can't see!

I can't see!

What happened, what happened?

Let go of me, let go of me, let go of me!

What happened?

- Take it easy, take it easy. - What happened?

What happened?

- Shh, quiet, quiet, quiet!

Take her.

- I feel sorry for that young thing.

It seemed so right, the eyes were perfect, healthy.

She's strong, she'll not suffer long.

There's one basic factor missing in my work, however.

I must understand why the eyes keep being rejected

before I proceed.

- No!

- Katherine, you can't!

No more, Katherine, no more!

- Okay, honey, go home now!

- The eyes of the young hold the truth.

Curious-looks of children, probes of the innocent.

That's what my Nancy needs.

Her new vision will regenerate itself for years to come.

No more operations, and it'll work for all the others.

Some must be sacrificed for humanity.

Not the old and feeble, not eyes of survival,

not eyes that've known anguish and pain, no.

Eyes wide and clear, unspoiled, new, and young.

Hi. - Hi.

- What are you reading?

- "A Woman Called Fancy."

- You're a very unusual little girl.

All the other kids are out there playing,

you're sitting here with your nose buried in a book.

You know, that's the way I was at your age.

Never got enough books to read.

All the other kids used to make fun of me.

They make fun of you?

- Sometimes.

- Well, I just hope that what happened to me

doesn't happen to you.

- What's that?

- I'm almost embarrassed to tell you.

You see, as I get older, I find myself

wanting to do more of the things

that I didn't get enough of when I was a kid.

- Well, like what?

- Like go to amusement parks.

Go to Disneyland at least once a month.

- I love Disneyland.

- You do?

Well, I was going out there for a couple of hours

this afternoon, but I hate to go alone.

Would you like to come with me?

- Well.

- We could stop off and tell your parents.

- Well, could we be back by 6:30?

That's the time they come home from work.

- Oh, I have an appointment at six,

so we'll be back in plenty of time, come along.

Oh, by the way, what's your name?

- Libby. - Libby.

Well, I'm very glad to meet you, Libby.

- Hi. - I'm Mr. Coxson.

Shall we go? - Okay.

Wait, my book. - Oh, ah, the book.

Get the book.

Here we go.

- So we we're going to visit my grandmother

in Oklahoma, but my father thought we could always do that,

so what we're gonna do, and since we only get

two weeks vacation, is drive up to San Francisco,

swing around Lake Tahoe, and come back to Las Vegas.

Then I'll get to see my first Las Vegas show.

Wait a minute, this isn't the way to Disneyland!

You're heading toward the ocean!

- I've got one more stop to make before, uh.

- Please, I don't think I wanna go anymore!

Please, let me out, please!

- Hit it, .

His car, don't worry, we'll make his car.

Did you see him?

There he goes. - All right.

- Let's get him!

- Where's the guy that owns that car?

- That's Dr. Chaney's car.

You have an appointment with him?

- We don't need no appointment.

- Wait a minute.

- That's all right, Katherine, I'll handle this.

Gentlemen, if you care to step in here.

Now, what's this all about?

- How about that, he wants to know what this is all about.

- How much do you want?

- Hey, we're not out of line.

Make us an offer.

- All right, I'll give you $1,000.

- Okay with you, Bull?

- Okay with me?

I'd have taken 500.

- I don't have that much cash.

I'll give you a check.

- That's perfectly all right.

We trust you.

- I realize you gentlemen are blackmailing me,

but I'm grateful to you for not going to the police.

Who shall I make it out to?

- Make it out to "cash."

"Cash" will be fine.

- Yeah, "cash" will be fine.

- Cash, cash.

All right, there we are.

No hard feelings.

- Hell no, Doc, you made our day.

- Oh, oh, by the way, would you gentlemen like some wine?

- Depends, Doc, what are you having?

- This is an excellent ba-ton mon-tou-shay.

I think you'll like it.

- Oh, yeah, that's my favorite.

How about you, Bull?

- Shit, I'd have take a beer.

- I trust this is the end of it.

- Don't worry, Doc, we won't be seeing you again.

- We've reached the inner wall in half the time.

This one will work, I'm sure of it.

No, no, still not fast enough.

Bring in the other.

- Al, help me, Al.

Help me, Al, Al, wake up, help me.

Al, Al, wake up, Al, Al, it's me, Georgie boy, help me.

Al, help me.

- Come on, nothing, they didn't tell me nothing.

I don't know.

- What the hell is this?

I can't see!

I can't see!

- Oh, Al, what are you doing, Al?

- Why didn't you take care of me, Georgio?

Why didn't you take care of me, Georgio?

Georgio!

- Stop it!

Stop it!

- Why didn't you take care of me?

Stop it, stop it!

- Help me, come and help me!

Come here and help me!

Rip the blanket, rip the blanket!

Give me something- - I can't!

- Careful! - Please, give me something.

- Oh, no.

Oh.

- Dan!

Dan! - What?

- Here, hurry.

She's dying.

- She's gone.

- No! - She's asleep!

- Hail, Mary, hail, Mary!

Hail, Mary, hail, Mary.

- I'm the one that hit you, Al.

- I'll kill you.

I'm gonna kill you.

- Your friend is really hurt, Al.

Had a girl die over there, Al.

Now, I know what we have to do to get out of here, Al.

You gotta help us, buddy,

'cause we just ain't got the strength.

I'm going to untie you.

Al, I'm gonna untie you.

Hold it, hold it!

Cover it up!

Cover it up.

Okay, all right, hold it, hold it.

You got it.

Yeah, in, good, in, good.

Yeah, yeah.

- Al, I'm scared, Al.

I'm scared, Al, I'm scared, Al.

- Take it easy, Georgio.

Everything's going to be all right.

- Right there, feel it, yeah.

- They shouldn't do that to .

- You all right?

Hey, hey!

I said, are you all right?

- What's it to you?

- When was the last time you had something to eat, huh?

- Let go.

I can get up by myself.

You don't have to pull me around.

Who are you?

- There's a little restaurant just around the corner.

Get you a decent meal.

Now, come on.

- No, just give me a buck for a drink, and forget about it.

- I know .

Now, come on.

- No, no, no, hold it.

Maybe you don't have any money.

Maybe you're a cop.

You're not a cop, are you?

- Look, I'm a doctor!

- Doctor?

- See, see what that says there?

"Doctor," you understand?

- You're a doctor, all right. - That's right.

- Let's go get something to eat then.

Doctor, there's a lot of money in doctoring.

- Len, what happened?

- What difference does it make?

- Len, you must listen to me.

A girl died in the cage.

I had to get rid of the body.

- My God.

- I can't stand it anymore.

- I said I'd do this one more time, and I intend to!

- Look at what you went through tonight.

You're not in control of yourself.

See?

- Nancy's going to have one last chance!

I am in complete control.

- Dan, Dan! - What, what?

- Over here, over here.

What do you make of this?

There's another bar.

It's a pipe.

Pull 'em, pull 'em! - No, don't pull 'em!

- Shh!

- Come on, .

Wait, wait, feel the distance between these two.

- Six inches.

- Nah, eight, eight, eight.

Feel up here.

- A foot.

- What's wrong, what's wrong?

- There's pipes blocking the exit.

- Whole thing's about a foot.

That leaves me out.

- That leaves most of us out,

but it doesn't change anything

if somebody can get out.

They can get help.

- Please, Dan, let me try.

- Let me go.

Let me go! - Let me try, Dan!

- Come here. - I'll go.

- Listen to me now, listen.

Feel this.

Put your hand right there and listen to me.

You get out of here, you get clear from the house.

Go about 200 feet.

When you know you're in the clear,

you scream your head off, scream like hell over here,

and somebody will hear you,

and then you bring them here.

All right, come grab it.

- Come on, baby. - Feel that.

- Come on.

- Feel that. - Come on.

- Put your other hand up.

- Come on.

- Len, Len, it's morning.

- What was that?

- I don't know.

- Look, quick!

- Dan, I-

- Chaney.

- The blonde girl's gone.

Find the exit, seal it off.

I'll go find her!

- Help me!

Help, help me, help me!

Help, help, please, help me, please!

Help, help me, please, help, please!

- What happened?

- She's dead.

- I can open the eyelids if you wanna

see what I'm talking about.

- No, no, no, that's not necessary.

Just tell me one more time what you just told me.

- She didn't lose her eyes in the accident

because the scar tissue under the lids is old.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Everything's been removed, the entire eyeball.

I've never seen anything like it.

- Was there a glass eye found around here?

- Not that I know of.

Of course, I don't think anybody would

have two glass eyes in their head.

That's all I can tell you.

- Why, why would anybody wanna remove an entire eyeball?

- Lady, you wanna step back on the curb?

- Okay, okay. - Let me ask the questions.

Step back.

All right, who could examine her?

- Best authority is Dr. Leonard Chaney.

Good luck on getting him out.

- Chaney, huh?

All right, I'll give him a call.

Thank you, Doc. - You're welcome.

Okay!

- Well, the very first opportunity I have

will be this coming Saturday, perhaps.

- Saturday, huh?

But you do think there is a good chance

you can find out why the girl's eyes were removed?

- The girl was hit by a car, is that it?

- Yeah, yeah, a short distance from here.

Let me explain something to you, Doctor.

We know how the girl died.

But if you could tell us how and why

her eyes were removed, then maybe

we could check out a few hospitals

and maybe find out who she is.

- Well, I'll do my best.

I can tell you this much, however.

The cause could be a specific case of syphilis,

cancer, any one of a number of things.

- Then you're telling me that the removal of both eyes

is not unheard of?

- That's right.

Although I will say that it's extremely rare

in a person as young as the victim.

Yes, yes, I'll definitely make it this Saturday.

I'd like to examine the body myself.

Oh, oh, by the way, would you care for a glass of wine?

- Oh, no, no, no, thank you.

Not while I'm on duty, anyway.

Well, I'll see you Saturday then.

- That girl did not get away.

There was no need to go after that.

Not necessary.

Waste!

You must trust me.

I am going to give you back your eyes.

All of you.

As soon, as soon as I succeed with Nancy,

as soon as I discover the truth,

I will share that truth with you,

with the whole world.

I believe in humanity.

That's what it's all about.

All my life, I've devoted to others.

That poor girl didn't have to die.

Dan, you know my work!

Why did you allow it?

Why?

- Your life for mine!

- There was no need for this!

There was no need for this!

Murderers.

Murderers.

Murderers.

Katherine, Katherine.

She loved you, too.

She just didn't know that the last time would be her eyes.

- I can see.

Father!

- Oh God.

- Nancy!

Nancy!

- Nancy.

Baby, are you awake?

- You'll see, my darling, and then I'll operate

on Dan and the others.

They'll see, too.

- I know you meant well, Father.

I love you.

- You may open your eyes, my darling.

- No, no.

- No, no, that's not possible.

- No. - You can see.

- No.

- Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, now let me help you, here?

Let me help you.

Come on.

Nancy, Nancy.

Come on, Nancy, you can see, you can see.

Look, look, look,

and walk, walk around the room

in the bright light.

- No, please!

It's no use.

My face is burning, I can't see, it's all black.

- Of course.

I don't know.

The prettiest I ever saw was

a black baptism in the Macon River.

Shining like carets.

How'd you ever get up in that tree, anyway?

Prettiest, prettiest sight.

Nancy.

Nancy, come back!

I was right, you can see!

Nancy.

Nancy!

Nancy, where are you?

Nancy!

Stop!

Stop it!

Nancy!

- I can't see, I can't.

- Nancy, Nancy, the key is by the door.

By the door!

- Open the door!

Open the door!

Nancy, Nancy, my baby, sweetheart, open the door, honey.

I can help you, Nancy, I'm the only one that can.

Nancy!

Nancy, for the love of God, open the door!

Open the door.

Not now!

Let me out!

Let me out!

Let me out!