Monkey Shines Page #2

Is the monkey responding? Is it any

smarter than it was before it was injected?

It's very difficult to measure.

She was pretty smart to begin with.

(laughs)

I don't believe this.

The worm studies reincarnated.

Monkeys are more expensive than worms.

- It's not costing anything.

- It's costing time, Geoffrey.

This programme

has to start showing results.

People who write

the cheques are getting nervous.

I've seen you on three different talk shows

defending the slaughter of animals

for research.

Your work has the anti-vivisectionists

ready to firebomb the college.

That's what's making the people

who write the cheques nervous.

Our approaches are quite different.

Unfortunately for you,

I'm the head of this department.

- Why don't you just fire me then?

- I don't want to fire you, Geoffrey.

- I just want to get you to produce.

- You can't do it, can you?

You can't fire me cos you know

if anybody's gonna strike gold,

it's gonna be me.

- Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. You'll live.

- (hissing)

My ass is on the line around here, sixer.

And yours with it.

You'd better get smart.

This has to work.

Proved out 50 different ways.

You should be playing chess

with the dosage you've been getting.

You're half human, for Christ's sake.

Why don't you show it, huh?

Why don't you show something? Up.

Maybe these other goons

are holding you back.

Maybe that's it.

Maybe I gotta get you out of here.

(Peggy Lee) d Don't cry

d There'll be another spring...

Three.

No... Four.

Five.

Seven.

F***! Eight!

Six.

Yo, Ace! Ace,

I'm gonna grab a brew. Do you want one?

(sirens wail)

- Tofranil. Same dosage?

- No.

Four times a day for the first two days,

twice a day after that.

So... What are your plans?

No plans.

I was going to fly home back to Illinois

next week, but...

I can't go now, not now.

- What if Allan?

- Tries this again?

You're not going to prevent it

by being here. Look at today.

I know it might be difficult

to understand,

but you might actually be aggravating

the situation.

- Aggravating?

- Go home, Dorothy. Go back to Illinois.

Go back to your business.

You'll make it easier on yourself

and on Allan.

He'll be fine.

Clinical depression syndrome.

Tryptizol I had him on was too weak.

I'm switching him to Tofranil.

Allan Mann.

This isn't unusual. Six out of ten

quadriplegics attempt suicide.

And you pump them full of Tofranil.

Have you seen Wiseman?

He's right over there.

- Geoffrey?

- It's Allan. He tried to kill himself.

Wait. You didn't know?

- Then what are you doing here?

- She came to pick me up.

Well, I'll be damned.

How do we diagnose this one, Wiseman?

Clinical a**hole syndrome? Clinical rat?

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