Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983) s01e03 Episode Script

WOMAN [ON PA.]
: Colonel Shepherd, report to Situation Room 1.
Special Agent Hardina, your driver will meet you at the Georgetown Portal.
Hey, Walt.
How you doing? You guys from Munitions never get up this way.
Walt.
Hey, like I said, you guys never seem to Are you okay? Walt? Walt.
[ALL SCREAMING.]
[GUNSHOT.]
Walt.
Walt.
Now, put the gun down.
Come on, let's Let's talk about it, okay? Come on, put the gun down, huh? [GUNSHOT.]
[ALL SCREAMING.]
[LEE GRO ANING.]
Don't shoot! Don't shoot! [LEE GRUNTS.]
[LEE GRO ANS.]
[SIREN WAILING.]
- X-ray should have the pictures soon.
- I told them to hold an O.
R.
Open.
O.
R? Does O.
R.
Stand for operating room? The problem's with the lateral collateral ligament.
- Why do we need an O.
R? - This might be serious.
No, it's not serious.
- Does this hurt? - No.
- This? - Aah! Yes.
Yes.
Uh, could you give me something for pain, huh? You don't wanna mask the symptoms, do you? - Yes, yes, I wanna mask them.
- I'll trot down to X-ray.
WOMAN [ON PA.]
: Dr.
Uric to Pathology.
How's Walt Kimball, anyway? Ow.
- The man who attacked you? - He didn't attack me.
- He attacked an office, I got in the way.
- Whatever.
He certainly messed up your lateral collateral ligament.
- Just tell me how he is? - No.
WOMAN [ON PA.]
: Andrews for Line 426.
Gray phone, please.
- Oh, how you doing? - Not so good.
You know Alec Belmont from our Internal Affairs division.
Yeah, how's it going, Alec? Could you give me my pants, please? ALEC: Hmm.
Emergency rooms have so little regard for fine tailoring, huh? I was amazed that one of our people annihilated the third level.
Then I heard that you were involved and somehow it all made sense.
No one around here will tell me how Walt is.
The guy is a good friend.
I feel I have a right to know.
Your friend is in a coma.
His wife and children have been notified.
They're on their way.
I see.
Lee, you tried to help Walt.
By knocking him senseless? That's some help.
Scarecrow, there was no reasoning with him.
- Dr.
Glaser says he's a burnout case.
- Ted Glaser is in on this? Yes.
Uh, Billy That guy is a research machine.
He cares about viruses in a bad mood.
He doesn't give a damn about people.
You know that.
Lee, I'm not fond of Glaser either but it doesn't mean he's not a good physician.
Some people don't like you but you're still a good agent.
- Who doesn't like me? ALEC: Scarecrow, my boy.
When one of our agents goes around the bend we in Internal Affairs take a look through his medical files and try to find out why.
Now, did you know that from Kimball in the K drawer it was just a short mosey down to Stetson, in the S drawer? Yeah? We require a thorough annual physical of all our people and what with Walt's little tantrum Internal Affairs is determined to enforce this rule and I'm talking about on pain of suspension, old boy.
You've managed to avoid your physical for three years.
- I've been busy.
- Well, you're not busy right now.
You're gonna be here nursing a bad knee.
And since you're already undressed it does seem like an idea whose time has come.
- The physical only takes three days.
- Three days.
Hmm.
Besides, the needles they use today I'm told they're relatively painless.
- We'll forward your mail.
[LEE CHUCKLES.]
I almost forgot.
Get well.
Ah-ah-ah.
You're the only man I know who can pace sitting down.
What's eating you? [GRUNTS.]
What's eating me? What are those tests gonna prove, huh? Billy, I do lousy on tests.
I clutch.
From people you know.
- Did the whirlpool help? - No.
- My knee still hurts.
- Some people don't have knees.
Count your blessings.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
That's it.
That's it.
I'm going.
I am history, sayonara, pal.
- Would you please relax? - You relax, huh? - You are driving these people crazy.
- Me drive them crazy? They called my office three times about you.
You say your TV doesn't work.
[LEE SIGHS.]
You say you don't like the food.
Don't like the nurse that gives you your bath.
- Ah, she's a meat bruiser, Billy.
- You You won't take your medicine and you won't stay off your leg.
- Whose side are you on, anyway? [BILLY SIGHS.]
Look.
If I can provide you with someone from the Agency to ease the situation to run interference with the hospital staff, would you just last out the three days and stay off the knee? Like an assistant? Somebody to help with phone calls, paperwork, bring a pizza? Yes.
- Sounds okay.
When could he start? - Almost immediately.
Oh, my God.
- Hello.
- Billy I knew you'd be delighted.
I insist that we let Mrs.
King help us out.
Solves all the problems, don't you agree? Sounds very Okay.
Are you really a hospital volunteer or did Billy dig up that outfit? No, I'm really a Bedside Bluebell.
- I like to be helpful.
- Heh, so I noticed.
Ooh.
- This is Walt's room.
- Well, we can't go in there.
Oh, yeah? Oh.
- Hello, Janet.
- Hello, Lee.
[LEE SIGHS.]
- How you doing? - Oh, fine.
Uh, l I hope you're having somebody look at that.
I could give you the name of a good chiropractor.
Walt uses him all the time.
You know how tough the Agency can be.
Sometimes you Mrs.
Kimball? I'm Amanda King, I'm a friend of Lee's.
And I know that your husband will get the best possible care here.
Well, I'm just not sure what the best possible care could be in cases like this.
Now, Janet, let's keep a positive mental attitude.
A positive attitude is imperative to recovery.
- Hello, Stetson.
It's been quite a while.
LEE: Mm-hm.
I see you haven't changed your style.
Still flaunting the rules.
I'm Theodore Glaser, Forensic Medicine, Cardiology and Experimental Psychology.
Hello.
Amanda King, Bedside Bluebell.
GLASER: Well, you'll have your hands full with this patient, Mrs.
King.
I was surprised to hear that you were handling Walt's case.
Isn't this a little beneath a research man like you? I haven't really been a research man since my Agency days, Lee.
It's difficult to get new government grants after one has been so nastily terminated.
We reviewed your case thoroughly.
At any rate, I've been able to piece my life together by joining the staff here at Galilee General.
My Agency experience is proving useful in treating cases like Walt's.
Hopefully I can be helpful to you too.
- How so? - I'm your physician as well, Lee.
I did not kiss up to Dr.
Glaser.
I just believe that you should be polite to a man who may some day save your life.
The guy gives me chills.
He always has.
He discontinued the research he was doing at the Agency.
He spent a ton of money on a bunch of weird projects that never went anywhere.
- I can leave as soon as you're tucked in.
- I don't need to be tucked in.
OGDEN: That's absolutely correct.
In accordance with your wishes to be discharged, we're gonna start your tests.
- Now? - As our diagnostic tools increase so does the time required to use them.
So let's shake a leg.
- Oh, ha, ha.
Not literally, of course.
- What's this? We call it a pill.
It readies the body for the metabolic phase of the test.
Well, since you're in such good hands, I guess I'll leave.
Don't worry.
I'm sure there are no needles involved.
- Are there? - Hmm? Oh, it'll be over before he knows it.
WOMAN [ON PA.]
: Dr.
Axelman to Surgery 3.
Dr.
Axelman.
[AMBULANCE SIREN WAILING.]
[LEE GRO ANS.]
[LEE MUMBLING.]
[MUMBLING.]
[DEVICE BEEPING.]
Let's begin by gauging the subject's suggestibility.
[PROJECTOR WHIRRING.]
LESTER DUCK: I'm Lester Duck.
Let's look and learn.
AMANDA: Good morning.
Oh, isn't it a fantastic morning? Everything is just perfect.
[SIGHS.]
Well.
Maybe perfect is overstating it.
Perhaps you're wondering why Fred didn't take me square dancing last night.
Uh, no, well, I didn't know you were supposed to go square dancing with Dr.
Bain.
- Cowboy boots do not fit over a cast.
- Cast? Cast, on his left toes.
My goodness, when did Dr.
Bain hurt his toes? When he broke my favorite skateboard.
- Dr.
Bain was skateboarding? - No, falling.
Your skateboard had a broken wheel.
No, Dean fixed it.
Then Dr.
Bain broke it again.
Dean was here last night? He didn't know you were going to work late.
He came by as a surprise.
The house looked so peaceful when I got here.
We were asleep.
Before that, we were a zoo.
Now, look.
This is no way for a family to relate.
If we have troubles, we've got to talk them through.
Hmm? [PHONE RINGING.]
I'll just get that.
- Hello? LEE [O VER PHONE.]
: It's me.
Oh, hi, how are you? Did you have a restful night? No, the nurses come in at 6, they're unhappy about it so they wake up the place, make everyone unhappy.
- Could you do me a favor? - Sure.
- Write this down, it's important.
- Oh.
Okay.
Ready? - Go to my apartment.
- Mm-hm.
- The doorman will let you in.
- Mm-hm.
- Bring me my comb.
- I'll get the comb.
Next? - That's it.
- That's it? Couldn't I just pick up a comb at the hospital pharmacy? No, Amanda, I need the black comb with the two missing teeth the one with "Ace Comb" stamped on the side.
Where will I find this item? - In the bathroom? - Oh, Amanda, come on.
It's on the coffee table, underneath the magazines.
Oh.
Well, I'll try.
- I'll see you later.
- Goodbye.
Goodbye.
[SIGHS.]
Now [SIGHS.]
Where were we? You suggested that we deal with this head-on.
And we have.
Fred never would have tripped over the skateboard if it hadn't been left out.
It never would've been left out if it hadn't been fixed.
It wouldn't have been fixed if Dean hadn't been sitting here with time.
Dean wouldn't have been here with time on his hands if you hadn't worked so late.
But, bu Mother Mo [CHUCKLES.]
I am so glad we've talked this out.
The problem wasn't with us at all.
Oh, now wait just a minute.
L I think enough's been said, missy.
Don't you? OGDEN: I've checked all our notes.
And I think I know where our experiment with Kimball went awry.
- It shouldn't happen again.
- It better not.
We obviously failed to penetrate Kimball's subconscious deeply enough.
He went into breakdown before accomplishing his mission.
And now you have Mr.
Stetson to accomplish it for him.
Yes, there is a certain delicious irony in that.
We'd be much further along, Ogden if Stetson hadn't put a stop to my Agency projects.
Stetson, along with Billy Melrose and Walt Kimball.
Sir, should Walt Kimball recover there is a slight chance he might remember what happened to him and talk.
Uh, Ogden, between the two of us we ought to be able to come up with something.
Shouldn't we? [EKG BEEPING.]
Hmm.
Mm-hm.
Talk about picky.
How special can a comb be? Hello? [CHUCKLES.]
- I'm Mr.
Stetson's neighbor, Lydia Lowell? - Oh, hello.
I'm Amanda King.
Will you be seeing Mr.
Stetson again or is this a one-night sort of thing? [CHUCKLES.]
Oh, I'll be seeing him again.
Ha, ha.
Oh.
This package was delivered for him earlier today.
AMANDA: Oh.
[CHUCKLES.]
"To Lee, hurry back.
Love, the steno pool.
" [AMANDA CHUCKLES.]
- Women seem to like Mr.
Stetson.
- Apparently.
- They bring him things.
- I see.
- Many things.
- Oh.
- Many, many things.
- Gotcha.
I don't quite see the attraction myself, though.
I'm sure you girls have your reasons.
- Good day.
AMANDA: Good day.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
"Love, the steno pool.
" [CHUCKLES.]
Hmm.
[CHUCKLES.]
Cute.
MAN 1: It's fresh sunshine.
MAN 2: Yeah, yeah.
- When I was born, nurses almost lost me.
- Oh, they did not.
No, they did too.
I went in to have my tonsils out.
They took my appendix.
Why would they take your appendix? The doctor said he had some time.
Oh, sure.
Ha, ha.
- Please dump that custard, huh? - Oh.
Bring me a hamburger, a steak, anything that requires teeth.
Ha, ha, go fish.
- I have to get out of here.
- It's only a few more days.
[LEE GRUNTS.]
Nice table.
There you are.
- All right.
- Yeah, just think of it as Yeah.
Okay.
So are you ready? One, two, three.
- Oof.
- Up you go.
There you are.
Here's this nice custard just in case, just in case you want it later, and Oh.
Here is your comb with the two missing teeth.
I didn't know you were so particular about little tiny details.
This comb is not a little, tiny detail.
This is the correct comb for my hair.
- Oh.
- Details are important.
Step-by-step precision is crucial in life.
It separates the slobs from the princes.
Boy, somebody really got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
- Your hem is uneven.
- My hem is uneven? Uh-huh.
Yesterday it was fine, today it sags.
No doubt about it.
How could you even tell? [SIGHS.]
Come on.
It's like night and day.
Could you relax a little bit? - I mean, you're seeming very - What? - Tense.
- I am.
Been on the phone all morning about Walt.
- Someone should be doing something.
- Like what? I don't know.
I just remember the look in Walt's eyes.
He He wanted something.
Well, now, look.
Now you said Walt was a very good agent.
- So why would he wanna cause trouble? - I don't know, I don't know.
I mean, agents have gone sour before.
Maybe Walt was being blackmailed, offered a lot of money.
A lot of different reasons.
Maybe Walt was forced into pulling something.
Lee, I think you should get some sleep.
That's one of the reasons you're here, you know, to get some sleep.
It's the sleep that is wearing me out.
I'm still having these weird dreams.
- I wake up more wasted than before I slept.
- What kind of dreams? Maybe not exactly dreams.
- More a feeling.
A sinking feeling.
- A sinking feeling? Uh-huh.
And noises.
Uh, squeaks, thumps.
- Maybe it's a jungle.
It's hot, steamy.
- Probably sexual.
Freud would say.
[ITEM THUDS.]
- William.
You forgot my fries, didn't you? - No, I didn't.
Here, double order.
- Amanda King is here, Billy.
AMANDA: Thank you.
- Hello, Amanda.
- Hello, sir.
Amanda, this is Alec Belmont, Internal Affairs division.
- How do you do? ALEC: Nice to meet you.
[SIGHS.]
Sir, you asked me to report if Lee did anything unusual? Yes, it seems that Dr.
Glaser thinks that Lee is suffering from stress also.
Yes, sir, I'd just like to go on the record as saying that I regard Lee as a friend.
And as such, I'm a little uncomfortable in snitching and spying on a friend.
Oh, don't be.
That is standard operating procedure around here.
Isn't it? - Go on with your report, Mrs.
King.
- Yes, sir.
Um, well, it started out with the comb with the two missing teeth and then it went to the sagging hem and, uh it's gone steadily downhill from there.
Excuse me, Mrs.
King.
What's been downhill? Lee's behavior, sir.
You see, he's been making extremely detailed lists.
He's become conscious of the most minute details.
He's neat, prompt, organized.
[SIGHS.]
You can see why I'm worried.
No, neatness and precision are expected of all our agents.
Does he know Lee? [DEVICE BEEPING.]
If these two experiments are successful, you'll have absolute proof of your theory.
You can publish your article.
I'm afraid what we have in mind for Mr.
Stetson won't be suitable for publication, Ogden.
I'll need to demonstrate my technique in more acceptable ways in order to accumulate the proper data.
Once you do, you'll be reestablished to the scientific world.
You'll have proven the conscious will can be conquered.
But just as important, Ogden, is the private satisfaction.
Just knowing I was able to program Lee Stetson to murder Billy Melrose.
LESTER DUCK: What a guy.
Keep up the good work.
Details are important.
Success comes one step at a time.
Okay.
That's about enough.
It says here on your chart 10 minutes Now I know why we don't get along.
This hospital experience has isolated the whole reason.
Rule breakers and rule followers don't mix.
Amanda, I am a rule breaker and you are a rule follower.
Oh? Oh-ho, well.
Then you will be very surprised by the very nice treat that I have brought you contrary to many major hospital rules.
- You brought me a treat? - Breaking many major rules.
Well, give it to me.
- Now? - Yes, now.
Come on, come on, I'm in a rotten mood.
I'm still having those dreams, squeaks and squeals, steam, the blue door.
My head hurts, my knee hurts, I want my treat now.
All right, gee.
[SIGHS.]
- What's this? - A Chewy Chubby bar.
Loaded with sugar and nuts.
The dietitian would've never approved.
That's your idea, ha, ha, of breaking the rules? - Huh? - Yes.
Yes.
Put it down.
What did you expect? A bottle of scotch, a whole cheesecake, a A woman.
- What? - Yeah.
That's what I want.
I want a woman.
I think you'd better you stop this right now because I will not get you a woman.
- Hello.
Now - Wha [SIGHS.]
- You can just think of something else.
- Uh.
Okay, I wanna go in that room.
- You're not allowed in there.
- Ow.
Oh, please don't get me in trouble again.
- Look, don't you think you owe me? - Give me that.
Anyway, it is item number three on my list of things to do.
It is important to organize your day a step at a time.
When did you start all this list stuff anyway? Since [SIGHS.]
Just don't let anyone in here, will you? Oh, would you please hurry? It's getting late and Dean and I have a self-defense class.
He doesn't care.
[SIGHS.]
You think Walt could have been in any kind of trouble? What do you mean? Is there anything? Could someone have been blackmailing him? Was he in any kind of financial trouble? I mean, what could have made him do What could have made him act the way that he did? Well, Dr.
Glaser said that the stress finally got to him.
Do you really believe that? Maybe the pressure did get to him.
He'd been looking absolutely exhausted lately and he couldn't sleep, he had these horrible dreams.
What? What kind of dreams? Well, I'm not sure, uh Uh, noises, uh, a kind of sinking feeling.
But he'd wake up absolutely terrified and he could never remember the dreams.
And then my oldest son, Philip, wants to be a doctor too.
Could you tell me a good medical school? Uh, well, you know, I think it's really wonderful.
I have two boys and they both wanna be doctors.
My next-door neighbor's son wants to be a lounge singer.
Ha, ha.
I understand you have to enroll them practically at birth and I think that's really silly because when they're babies how do you know if they're even gonna pass biology? Well, thank you very much for all your help, Dr.
Glaser.
I certainly appreciate it.
I have to go give a sitz bath now.
Oh.
[DEVICE BEEPING.]
LESTER DUCK: What a guy.
Keep up the good work.
Follow instructions.
Success comes a step at a time.
Lester Duck is your friend, Lee.
Billy Melrose is your enemy.
Lester Duck wants you to destroy Billy Melrose.
Lester is your lifeline to reality.
When you return home you will look at Lester in the morning and again in the evening.
He will remind you of how much you want to follow instructions.
You will phone me for those instructions, Lee.
Just pull the string.
LESTER DUCK: Attaboy.
I'm proud of you.
A real leader follows orders.
[EKG BEEPING.]
[EKG BEEPING FASTER.]
[EKG FLATLINING.]
"To Lee, hurry back.
Love, steno pool.
" [CHUCKLES.]
Is it Marilyn? No, it's Jessica.
No, it's Marilyn.
LESTER DUCK: What a guy.
You've got real potential.
Keep up the good work.
Attaboy.
Success comes one step at a time.
[DIALING PHONE.]
Dr.
Glaser? GLASER [O VER PHONE.]
: Lee, you did that very well.
After this, you will no longer need to phone me.
You will forget about this number, forget about me.
- Do you understand? LEE [O VER PHONE.]
: Yes.
Lester Duck has a goal for you today.
- Are you up to the challenge? - Sure.
- Who is your enemy, Lee? - Billy Melrose.
You've just learned he'll be speaking at a luncheon.
Lester wants you to kill Billy Melrose.
Today.
Twelve o'clock sharp.
Sure.
Anything else? AMANDA: Good morning.
- Hi, Amanda.
- Oh, Amanda.
Um, I'm in a real bind.
- Mm-hm.
I've got beds to make and the linen hasn't come up yet.
Would you help me get it? Oh, well, uh, ha, ha why do we do that? Because we're volunteers, Amanda.
Everyone else gets paid.
- Oh, right.
Sure.
Yeah.
- Okay.
What happened to your wrist? Oh, I went to my self-defense course last night.
My teacher's name is Jojo, they call him "Mad Dog" Garrity.
He said to come at him with everything I had, so I swung my purse and hit him and I forgot that I had this doorknob.
- But what happened to your wrist? - He bit me.
Oh, this thing is hopeless.
It's always out of order or filled up.
Let's take the freight elevator.
Down we go.
Isn't it awful? Watching these walls go by gives me the incredible sinking feeling.
- What did you say? - Huh? I said it gives me a sinking feeling.
Barbie, do they ever use this elevator for patients? Oh, not that I know of.
- You coming? - Hmm? Oh, yeah.
- Right behind you.
- Laundry's this way.
That's where all the steam is coming from.
Steam.
- Barbie.
- Yeah? - What's through this door? - Oh, I don't know.
Dr.
Glaser uses it for storage or something.
Come on.
[HUMMING.]
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES.]
[PHONE RINGS.]
I didn't say he was up to no good, I said maybe.
Amanda told me you were looking into this.
We are checking into it.
- Lee, you know any good jokes? - What? I need something cute to open my speech with today.
You guys in the field always hear all the good jokes.
Billy, somehow I don't think you're taking my theory very seriously.
Is anyone checking to see if Walt's IV bottle was tampered with? We know an imbalance in his medication is what killed him.
- Where's Mr.
Stetson? - Oh, he checked out early this morning.
- Are you Mrs.
King? - Yes.
He said he was unable to reach you earlier, but to tell you he'd phone you later today.
Thank you.
[JANET SOBBING.]
I got down here as quickly as I could.
Believe me, Janet, we did everything possible for him.
[SOBBING.]
Will you sign these affidavits, please? They need them upstairs.
Oh, my, you're one minute late.
- Knock it off, I'm not that predictable.
- Oh, yes, you are.
At 11:09, you lean back in your chair, stretch think you should cut down on coffee.
At 11:15, you're standing right here, pouring yourself a cup.
You know, I think they set the clocks around here by you.
I'm beginning to admire that punctuality.
- I always know where to find you.
- Yeah, and so does everyone else.
Couriers, the file clerks, the God.
Walt Ki Walt Kimball, why Why didn't I see it before? Now wait a minute, Stetson.
Billy, you weren't here at 11:15 the other morning, but Walt Kimball was.
I got hung up in the mapping room.
Threw off my whole day.
Maybe that's what saved your life.
Look, Billy.
The guy's going to have a breakdown, there's a million places to have it.
Why here? Why here at exactly 11:15? - Maybe he wanted some coffee.
- Uh.
- Billy, he has coffee at his own department.
- Well, maybe they were out.
I can't remember the last time he was on this floor.
Maybe that's why he had the gun.
The man wanted to kill you.
You didn't show up and, pow, I don't know, something must have snapped.
Well, why would Walt Kimball possibly wanna kill me? He probably didn't want to.
Maybe someone was pulling the strings behind him.
And it's possible that someone monkeyed with Walt's IV to keep him from talking.
- I don't know.
- Okay, but what if I'm right, huh? Somebody was inside this place tried to convince one of our people to do something out of character and that somebody may try to do it again.
BILLY: Let me think about it, Lee.
I have to get my notes ready for the speech.
You're gonna make that speech? You're gonna be like a sitting duck.
- Without an opening joke, thanks to you.
- I'm going with you.
Oh, give me a break.
Humor me, Billy, will you? If somebody's gonna take a potshot at you, I'd like to see who it is.
- You're really going through with this? - Success comes a step at a time.
Hey.
I like that.
That's going in my speech.
If you insist on going with me, order a car, meet me upstairs because I go on at 12:00.
Oh, there you are, Mr.
Stetson.
Uh, Mrs.
King is on the phone, Line 6.
She says it's important.
She's already phoned here twice this morning.
Doesn't that woman realize that you are healed? That you no longer require a Bedside Bluebell? Francine, if you could pinpoint the single major reason as to why Amanda King gets to you, what would it be? Her complete lack of everything.
- Yeah.
- Hello, Amanda.
- Lee.
I'm glad I finally got you.
- Um, did you hear about Walt Kimball? - Yes.
I'm going over to see Janet tonight.
Amanda, I'm in a bit of a rush.
Billy's giving a speech at the Adriana Hotel and I'm going with him.
Oh, wait a minute.
I didn't tell you about the little room yet.
What little room? In the basement of this hospital, there's a little room.
It's like a laboratory or something.
And I found some file folders down there.
Hello? Hello, Amanda? If you're going with me, Stetson, better get a move on.
Look, that call was disconnected.
If Amanda King calls back, tell her I'm sorry and I'll call back later.
- Okay? - I certainly will.
All right, thanks.
All right.
What's your connection to Scarecrow, Mrs.
King? If you're referring to Mr.
Stetson, I'm just his Bedside Bluebell.
What was his Bedside Bluebell doing snooping around Glaser's office going through file folders? I was looking for the laundry room and I got lost.
That's a terrible answer.
You don't know me, how easily I get lost.
- I mean, just the other day - You know, I think you work with Stetson.
I think you were investigating Dr.
Glaser's experiments.
- What experiments? - Oh, as if you didn't know.
Did you find the data in the files interesting? If the Agency's chosen you to spy on us, you must be prominent in your field.
I was looking for the laundry room.
You experts.
You've always insisted that human beings can't be made to do anything basically against their conscious will.
You must have been fairly surprised at Dr.
Glaser's inroads into reprogramming the brain.
- Reprogramming the brain? - Hey, don't look at me like that.
We We're not mad scientists.
We're serious physicians.
We believe that people can be turned into obedient mechanisms.
Oh.
You have the same duck Lee has.
Of course.
Surely you can appreciate the need for a trigger mechanism.
Of course.
Just it's so unusual using a duck.
See, when Lee sees Lester Duck, we've programmed him to pull the string.
And then hearing Lester's voice puts Lee into a highly suggestible state.
He'll follow any order that's given him.
He'll do anything we ask him to.
Oh, well, that's wonderful, that's That's brilliant.
L - I'd better go now.
- Mrs.
King I can't allow you to interfere with the Scarecrow's mission.
What mission? Mr.
Stetson's gonna murder Billy Melrose.
What? In exactly 20 minutes if my watch is right.
- No.
- Yeah.
So don't fight this, Mrs.
King.
- Just breathe deeply.
- What is it? Another miracle of modern science, Mrs.
King.
The proper combination of gases can induce a uniquely unpleasant death.
OGDEN: She's in the elevator.
GLASER: Come on, hurry.
Where did she go? OGDEN: She must be here somewhere.
[TIRES SCREECH.]
It's her.
Move.
We've got to stop her.
[SIREN WAILING.]
[GUNSHOT.]
[GUNFIRE.]
[TIRES SCREECH.]
ALEC: That concludes your chairman's reports.
Now then, before I introduce our keynote speaker I was given this special message from our social committee.
"Yes, it's laughs galore, and full tummies too at the annual law enforcement pie-eating contest.
Grab your dates and mates and come whoop it up.
For tickets, call Mr.
Carson at the FBI.
" Now, then.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce a gentleman who has served our agency so well for so many years.
The head of our Investigative Services department I bring you Mr.
William Melrose.
[ALL APPLAUDING.]
[SIREN WAILING.]
[TIRES SCREECH.]
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Oh.
Anyone who knows me can tell you that I hate long-winded speeches, but BILLY: Every law enforcement agency in the country knows for a fact that crime has risen 14 percent in the last five years.
True enough, these are alarming statistics.
But one can only wonder AMANDA: No, no, no.
It's all right.
Please.
I'm with Lee Stetson.
I know Mr.
Melrose.
My name is Amanda King.
It's very important that I speak to Mr.
Stetson.
It's - Lee.
- Amanda.
Lee? Lee.
Lee.
Don't.
Don't.
Lee.
Lee, Billy is your friend.
[GUN COCKS.]
Don't.
Talk.
Talk.
LESTER DUCK: What a guy! You've got real potential.
Follow instructions.
- Success comes a step at a time.
- Lee, don't.
Please don't.
Success comes one step at a Success comes a step at a time.
[SIGHS.]
[AMANDA CLEARS THRO AT.]
Well, ha, ha.
Gee, I'm early.
I'm not supposed to jump out of the cake for another hour.
Ha, ha.
[ALL CHUCKLE.]
[SIGHS.]
[CLEARS THRO AT.]
And the lab is being dismantled.
Glaser and his pal were picked up an hour ago, case closed.
Glaser never would have been caught if you hadn't gone to the hospital.
- Aren't you glad you went? - Glad? No.
No, I am not glad.
I think those places are the weirdest, creepiest looking BILLY: Oh, Scarecrow.
- And Mrs.
King.
- Hello.
Alec just phoned, uh and now that Glaser's been arrested and his license pulled the results of the tests that he gave you are invalidated.
Oh, Billy, don't even kid around like that.
They're expecting you at the hospital.
Billy.
I'll just get this uniform pressed.