Darkman Page #2

The dark.

I think the

synthetic cells

are

photosensitive.

This is

unbelievable!

What is it

about the dark?

What secret

does it hold?

They're still

stable.

Time, Yakitito,

Time!

Finally...

we can replace

damaged skin tissue!

No, Yakitito,

not quite, my friend.

We've just got

a piece of the puzzle.

There's still

the big question...

how to keep

the cells stable

past 99 minutes

in the light?

Now we know

it's all about light!

I'll get it.

No foolish heroics,

if you please.

We've come

only for documents.

Tell us where to find

the Bellasarious

memorandum,

and we shall disappear

like a nightmare

before the breaking day.

I don't know what

you're talking about.

Unfortunate.

What memorandum?

No, please.

We want

the memorandum.

Should your houseboy's

predicament

not jog your memory...

you may bid him

Godspeed.

He's a lab assistant.

For God's sakes,

let him breathe!

You heard the doctor.

Ventilate him.

No...

No!

Ooh! Ooh!

Bingo.

Goody!

Bring the Asian's fingers.

Gentlemen.

Rick, I'm proud of you.

Clean through the brain...

that's how I like it.

"Marry me?"

Didn't see you

doing much work.

That guy got

blown to pieces.

All they found

was an ear.

Tiny little

piece.

Didn't take long

to bury that.

You'll be all right.

You'll be all right.

We'll need

some sponges.

O.K., I got 'em.

Great.

We'll get ready.

Let's check

the eyes.

Get a gurney

in here.

Right there.

Straight in.

Next, we have

a 30, 35-year-old male,

no I.D.,

no medical history.

He was found

on the riverbank

just south of the city.

There are homeless

and indigents there.

We get three no-names

every week.

Nobody does anything until

they become train wrecks

like Mr. John Doe here.

He's got burns

covering 40% of his body.

The hands and face

are the most severe.

Ten years ago,

pain from the burns

would have been intolerable.

He would have spent

his life screaming.

Now we use

the Rangeveritz Technique.

Quite simply,

we sever the nerves within

the spino-thalamic tract,

there... which, as you know,

transmits neural impulses

of pain and vibratory sense

to the brain.

No longer receiving

impulses of pain,

you stick him

with a pin...

Ouch.

And he can't

even feel it.

As in many

radical procedures,

there are serious side

effects to this operation.

When the body

ceases to feel,

when so much

sensory input is lost,

the mind grows hungry.

Starved of

its regular diet of input,

it takes the only remaining

stimulation it has...

the emotions...

and amplifies them,

giving rise to alienation

and loneliness.

Uncontrolled rage

is not uncommon.

Now surges of adrenaline

flow unchecked

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