The film follows American Dr. Ben Land (Hiram Keller) as he travels to Amsterdam to meet with Dr. Linden, an expert on aging who is working on a breakthrough to extend human lifespan. Upon arrival, Dr. Land discovers that Dr. Linden has committed suicide, leaving behind only cryptic notes and research. Dr. Land becomes obsessed with uncovering the secrets of Dr. Linden’s research, which leads him to experiment on the residents of an old-age home.
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00:00:30My father is a well-known plastic surgeon in Indianapolis, so it was only natural that
00:00:54I go into a field of science.
00:00:57But I chose a field that may change the future of the human species.
00:01:01When I arrived at the University of Amsterdam, they thought I was too young to be the Dr.
00:01:05Benjamin Land whose research papers were starting to be talked about, even here.
00:01:11Three score and ten, seventy years, says the Bible, is the lifespan allotted to mankind.
00:01:19Medical and technological progress have not substantially increased this lifespan, but
00:01:23they have put it within the range of more and more people.
00:01:27As more people live on into old age, the study of aging demands increasing attention...
00:01:32I was looking forward to this conference and to meeting my colleague Paul Linden, but I
00:01:36spent most of it wondering why he was acting so strangely.
00:01:40We believe we can discover why we grow old and how we can lengthen our lives.
00:01:47Aging most of us will agree is a loss of information.
00:01:51The old organism lacks the resources to preserve or renew itself.
00:01:57Is this information lost in the fixed cells or in the cells that should reproduce?
00:02:01Or is it lost because of random interference in cell processes?
00:02:05Can the biological clock be slowed down, or stopped, or turned back?
00:02:13I believe that we're on the verge of finding out the answers to these questions, and that
00:02:18the lives of many people sitting here today will be happily prolonged by imminent discoveries
00:02:26in this field.
00:02:27The next speaker should have been Paul Linden.
00:02:29Instead, we were treated to the academic wit of Professor Van Ark.
00:02:36Thank you, Dr. Winsor.
00:02:38As dean of this university, it is my honor to welcome you, distinguished ladies and gentlemen.
00:02:46My training was in biology, so we are at least cousins.
00:02:52I don't mind you gerontologists trying to lengthen my life, as long as you don't ask
00:02:59me to give up my feists.
00:03:01He's an old-fashioned biologist.
00:03:04Yeah, I wonder how he'll get along with Wonder Boy, Dr. Land.
00:03:09Who's he?
00:03:10Well, you don't know about Ben Land.
00:03:12He thinks that we're all going to be immortal.
00:03:15He really believes it.
00:03:16Yeah, I did a piece on him.
00:03:19He's not the only one.
00:03:20Did you see Dr. Paul Linden up on the stage?
00:03:22He's been spouting the same things here in Holland.
00:03:24Who do you think Land came over to team up with?
00:03:27With Paul Linden?
00:03:28Right.
00:03:29Did you happen to see how Dr. Linden paled up on the stage?
00:03:32No.
00:03:33He was looking up at something, and suddenly went gray.
00:03:35I wonder why he hasn't made a statement.
00:03:37Because he's either got something, or else he's on the verge.
00:03:40Yeah.
00:03:41It could be true.
00:03:44Let's talk about a breakthrough.
00:03:45You know what these guys mean by breakthrough.
00:03:49Somebody's white mice outlive somebody else's by two months.
00:03:52Big deal.
00:03:55Perhaps Linden was having trouble verifying his results.
00:03:58He certainly implied to me he was on the verge of something extraordinary, though you never
00:04:02could tell with Paul Linden.
00:04:04His disdain for scientific jargon made his letters a little vague, but I knew he had
00:04:08to be serious when he wrote to me that very soon all of us might be living for as long
00:04:12as a city like Amsterdam, growing old gracefully, renewing ourselves for hundreds of years.
00:04:19Of course, I wrote back and told him I wouldn't settle for anything less than immortality.
00:04:42I didn't know what to do.
00:05:12I didn't get off to a good start.
00:05:13I forgot to extend my hotel reservation, and another convention was about to move in.
00:05:19I suddenly found myself out on the streets before I'd had a chance to find a place to
00:05:22live.
00:05:23It's always difficult here.
00:05:24Holland's a smart country.
00:05:25The university has a housing system.
00:05:26Have you tried it?
00:05:27No, I didn't know about that.
00:05:28What a coincidence.
00:05:29What a magnificent place it is.
00:05:30Excuse me, gentlemen.
00:05:31Dr. Linden will get us back.
00:05:32I mean it.
00:05:33You can stay at my place.
00:05:34From tomorrow.
00:05:36I hate to impose on you.
00:05:37It will be no trouble at all.
00:05:38The woman downstairs owns the building.
00:05:39She'll let you in and give you a key.
00:05:40Well, if you're sure.
00:05:41Just for a couple of days.
00:05:42You can stay longer if you like.
00:05:43So, what did you think of the conference?
00:05:44Frankly, I wasn't paying too much attention.
00:05:45There is something wrong.
00:05:46No, no.
00:05:47Oh, yes.
00:05:48There is.
00:05:49There is.
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00:06:05All right.
00:06:06See you tomorrow.
00:06:07Tomorrow I have a feeling I may be tied up.
00:06:10Good luck.
00:06:12I was almost angry that he wouldn't discuss his troubles with me.
00:06:16And then I noticed his thinning hair.
00:06:18Paul Linden was aging.
00:06:21I know I'll never forget the sound of his shoes ringing on that marble floor.
00:06:26In time, those shoes would come to haunt me.
00:07:05The moment I saw you, I knew you were the young man he spoke of.
00:07:10Oh, really?
00:07:13You've come to work with Dr. Linden, haven't you?
00:07:16Yes, that's right.
00:07:26He's probably gone over to the lab.
00:07:28I didn't hear him this morning.
00:07:34Oh.
00:07:53It was the last thing he said to me.
00:07:55Tomorrow I may be tied up.
00:07:57I must say, it was one of the bad days to choose hanging.
00:08:00He was a doctor. He could have used pills.
00:08:02The strange thing to me is that he would do it at all.
00:08:04Because he wanted to make life longer for others.
00:08:07The two are not necessarily related, Dr. Lamb.
00:08:11I suspect some people go into your field because of a certain fascination with death.
00:08:16A desire to beat the devil, so to speak.
00:08:18But the devil usually wins such contests, I'm afraid.
00:08:21You say the devil defeated Paul Linden?
00:08:24No, I'm speaking generally.
00:08:28But Paul did have a few personal problems.
00:08:31I see.
00:08:32With the concern of yours now, I expect you will go back to America.
00:08:36I've thought about it.
00:08:38But my grant lets me do whatever I like for a year.
00:08:41If it's all right with you, I'd like to stay on.
00:08:43At least have a look at his papers.
00:08:45Good.
00:08:46That makes you our whole gerontology program now.
00:08:50You'll need an assistant.
00:08:51The man Dr. Linden had left a few months ago.
00:08:54I'll get you a boy from the biology department.
00:08:58This is Pim Henke.
00:09:00He speaks excellent English.
00:09:02But understands very little about gerontology, I'm afraid.
00:09:05That's okay. If you could help me go through his papers.
00:09:07I hope it's okay with the technical term.
00:09:09Your biology studies will help, Pim.
00:09:11But, uncle, I thought...
00:09:13Why should I have told you? Pim is my nephew.
00:09:15Holland is a small country, Dr. Lamb.
00:09:19You mentioned that Dr. Linden had personal problems.
00:09:23Pim, would you leave, please?
00:09:27A year ago, he divorced his wife, and she took the children.
00:09:32He had become involved with a much younger woman.
00:09:35He was maintaining two households.
00:09:37He was in constant financial difficulties.
00:09:40He was a consultant for a Swiss pharmaceutical company, I believe.
00:09:44To make some extra money.
00:09:47But he had expensive tastes.
00:09:49His funeral was a simple affair.
00:09:51There were few mourners.
00:09:53His family, some people from the university,
00:09:57almost no friends.
00:10:00No one talked about his motives,
00:10:02or that suicide note he forgot to write.
00:10:08Dr. Pim.
00:10:12Dr. Pim.
00:10:14Dr. Pim.
00:10:18That man was his assistant for some time.
00:10:22Cigarette?
00:10:23No, thanks.
00:10:29Did you see her?
00:10:31It was a girl.
00:10:33Why don't you want to meet him, Arnold?
00:10:35You must meet him.
00:10:37He's very nice.
00:10:39He was never the same after he met her.
00:10:42By the way, have you found a place to live?
00:10:44Yes, I'm staying at Dr. Linden's place.
00:10:47Really?
00:10:50So now I was alone in a strange city,
00:10:52trying to fall asleep in a dead man's bed,
00:10:55under the bean ceiling where he hanged himself.
00:10:59Whereas he was spending his first night in the ground.
00:11:04Would he miss the table where he used to write?
00:11:08Or the hum of that awful clock?
00:11:12I had to be careful,
00:11:14or his death might become an obsession.
00:11:17I fixed up this place for Paul when he left his wife.
00:11:21You knew him well, didn't you?
00:11:23Are you sure you want to stay here?
00:11:26How much is the rent, Lydia?
00:11:28Oh, don't worry about that.
00:11:31I only rent it to friends.
00:11:33Well, I'll pack his things.
00:11:36No, don't.
00:11:37Leave everything just as it is.
00:11:43Okay.
00:11:48Dr. Linden's files seem to be complete up until a year ago.
00:11:52Then nothing but reports on some mice he was studying.
00:11:56That's strange. What kind of a study was it?
00:11:59It says there were about 200 mice.
00:12:01And does it say what he was feeding them?
00:12:03I haven't had a chance to read it all.
00:12:05That reminds me, there was a man here from the feeding department
00:12:08asking what you wanted to do about those mice.
00:12:10If you don't want to continue the project, he'll destroy them.
00:12:13Destroy them? Why?
00:12:15I think he needs the space.
00:12:18Ah, here he is.
00:12:20This is Dr. Lend. I told him about Dr. Linden's mice.
00:12:23Ah, Dr. Linden's mice.
00:12:25Can we see them?
00:12:26Over there, down the stairs and to the right.
00:12:30Well, you certainly have a lot of room.
00:12:32We keep all kinds of animals for the university in this building for all the studies.
00:12:38We just don't have enough space anymore with all these scientific experiments.
00:12:49Pin.
00:12:55I hear they use mice to study aging because they're like people.
00:12:59But I don't see any resemblance.
00:13:01Well, mice are mammals like us.
00:13:03I always thought they used rats.
00:13:05Some people do, but it takes longer to get results.
00:13:08With mice, the entire lifespan is only about two years.
00:13:12I can swear that some of Dr. Linden's mice have been here longer than that.
00:13:22Well, here they are.
00:13:24These are Dr. Linden's mice.
00:13:30They look young and healthy.
00:13:33Do you know what he was feeding them?
00:13:36Just these.
00:13:40He feed these to all the mice.
00:13:42Was he adding anything to their water?
00:13:44No.
00:13:45Do you think he was giving them something special?
00:13:51Well, in his last paper, he talked about using an antioxidant.
00:13:55He could have been giving it to them either orally or intravenously.
00:14:00You mean a serum?
00:14:03Perhaps.
00:14:04Didn't Dr. Linden ever talk to you about this project?
00:14:07I never met him.
00:14:09He always sent his assistant.
00:14:11Pin, we ought to talk to that guy.
00:14:13I saw Dr. Linden's picture in the paper when he killed himself.
00:14:17He seemed very young and healthy.
00:14:19I don't know what he was doing.
00:14:21I saw Dr. Linden's picture in the paper when he killed himself.
00:14:25He seemed very young.
00:14:27Are you scientists getting younger or am I getting older?
00:14:31We're all getting older.
00:14:34Do you really want to keep his mice?
00:14:36The medical school wants me to find space for 150 rabbits.
00:14:40Holland is a small country, Dr. Linden.
00:14:43I don't want to destroy them.
00:14:45What about his room in the back of our office?
00:14:47We could put him in there.
00:14:49Then we'd have to feed them.
00:14:51I don't mind. They like mice.
00:14:54I hate them.
00:15:08I hope they like the new home.
00:15:10Yes.
00:15:20Well, say thank you to Dr. Linden for saving your life.
00:15:24It's purely selfish.
00:15:26Maybe they'll save mine.
00:15:28You think someday we'll have a death-control pill?
00:15:33You're making a joke.
00:15:35But we're further along than you think.
00:15:37You mean it's really possible?
00:15:39Pin, scientists all over the world are working on this problem.
00:15:42And Paul Linden was one of the best.
00:15:44By the way, I found out about Dr. Linden's assistant.
00:15:47His name is Felix Dolder.
00:15:49And he runs a pharmacy now in the suburbs.
00:15:52Felix Dolder? Yes, I saw him at the funeral.
00:15:55Look, same car, same color.
00:15:59That could have been me.
00:16:02What about accidents?
00:16:04Boom, your head's sliced up. That's the end.
00:16:07You can't prevent that.
00:16:09I think we can do anything.
00:16:11You can't prevent that.
00:16:13I think we can do anything we set our minds to.
00:16:16But not instant death.
00:16:18Maybe we can.
00:16:19Some friends of mine at Caltech are doing a project they call electronic reincarnation.
00:16:24What's that?
00:16:26They're trying to find a way to feed your personality into a computer.
00:16:29Record your life experiences.
00:16:31So they have a matrix of you.
00:16:33And if you die, they feed it into the new body?
00:16:36Right.
00:16:37But it would be a copy. It wouldn't be you.
00:16:39It's better than nothing.
00:16:41It won't happen in our lifetime.
00:16:43That depends on what you call a lifetime.
00:16:57What did you say?
00:16:58He says we can find him in the church.
00:17:40Give the book to my wife. See you later.
00:18:09Go ahead and remove Dr. Linden's research papers, Mr. Doldup.
00:18:12Oh, call me Felix, Dr. Linden. Please.
00:18:15Felix, you assisted Dr. Linden at the university.
00:18:18Oh, I wouldn't say assisted. That's too much.
00:18:21I was more like the stable boy.
00:18:23I used to clean out his mouse cages.
00:18:30Well, Felix, that's very disappointing.
00:18:32I was hoping you could tell me why some of his papers are missing.
00:18:35The work I did for Dr. Linden had nothing to do with his papers.
00:18:39Well, thanks anyway.
00:18:41Goodbye.
00:18:58I began to wonder if someone wasn't toying with me,
00:19:01leaving me just enough clues to feed my curiosity.
00:19:05Nothing of any scientific interest had been left in his apartment.
00:19:11As I patted around the place,
00:19:13I knew I wouldn't need to make more than a casual search.
00:19:17All I was being allowed to know about Paul Linden
00:19:19was that he was keeping some mice and a girl.
00:19:24The picture was displayed almost too invitingly.
00:19:28Pretty.
00:19:29But would he have killed himself over her?
00:19:34I decided to ignore her for the time being
00:19:37and continue to badger people about his work.
00:19:45He was usually involved in several projects.
00:19:48I know, for instance, of a study he was doing in an old age home.
00:19:51Only this moment the director called me.
00:19:54I have to go out there. Why don't you join me to make a change?
00:19:57If you only study aging in a laboratory,
00:20:00you forget the human reality.
00:20:02I wonder if Linden completed the study.
00:20:05I've no idea.
00:20:06You'll find out from the director.
00:20:09No.
00:20:10I'm afraid Dr. Linden's study was interrupted,
00:20:13as are many things here, by death.
00:20:17You say he abandoned it?
00:20:19He had to.
00:20:20We had an influenza epidemic.
00:20:22I'm afraid many of the people taking part died.
00:20:26It was chaos here.
00:20:28This is not a hospital, Dr. Land.
00:20:30It's just a place for those who are alone,
00:20:33who cannot take care of themselves.
00:20:35He just tried to make their last days comfortable.
00:20:38They were so fond of Dr. Linden.
00:20:40He would come with his little boxes and blocks to test them.
00:20:44To them it was a game.
00:20:53There was one woman.
00:20:54She said to him,
00:20:55I want to play the game.
00:20:57And then he recognized her.
00:20:59She was once the cleaning lady in his building,
00:21:01and now she was here.
00:21:03So he used her also in his study.
00:21:07For her, it was a visit from a friend.
00:21:11Did he tell you the purpose of this study?
00:21:13He tried to explain.
00:21:15I believe he was measuring the loss of coordination
00:21:19between the hand and the eye.
00:21:24I remember feeling admiration and a kind of envy for Paul Linden.
00:21:30I couldn't have worked in a place like this.
00:21:33The sight of old people reminds me of my own death.
00:21:37I was anxious to get back to the lab,
00:21:39especially when I found out that Paul Linden had died.
00:21:43I was afraid to go back to the lab,
00:21:45especially when I found out that Paul Linden had died.
00:21:48I was afraid to go back to the lab,
00:21:50especially when I found out that Paul Linden had died.
00:21:53I was afraid to go back to the lab,
00:21:55especially because in my absence,
00:21:57Pim had been translating the few papers we'd found.
00:22:00I've been over the records of Dr. Linden's mice,
00:22:02and you know, it's amazing.
00:22:04They're over four years old.
00:22:06What? Are you sure?
00:22:09Yes.
00:22:11You see?
00:22:12It says they were all born in the same month.
00:22:17But that's twice the average lifespan.
00:22:20They should have been dead two years ago.
00:22:22He abandoned this project?
00:22:24Why didn't he publish the results?
00:22:27We'd better run some tests on these mice.
00:22:36It's an activity meter, Pim.
00:22:38Every time the mice move, it registers.
00:22:41I explained to Pim that the activity meters
00:22:43would give us some indication of whether the mice
00:22:45were showing any effects of their advanced age.
00:22:48These instruments also keep experimental animals
00:22:50under observation at night,
00:22:52when mice are most active.
00:22:58By morning, it appeared that Linden
00:23:00was even further ahead than I had ever imagined.
00:23:03This is incredible!
00:23:05They're showing the activity level of very young animals.
00:23:09Let's put them in the maze and check their learning capacity.
00:23:21If you were that mouse, you could take up Greek
00:23:23at the age of 140 and still be the first in your class.
00:23:27How did Linden do it?
00:23:30Nothing in the feed.
00:23:32Nothing in the water.
00:23:35I checked all the water bottles.
00:23:37No traces of anything.
00:23:39And no needle marks.
00:23:41So he wasn't given any injections.
00:23:44He could have been.
00:23:45The marks would have disappeared by now.
00:23:47He had to be giving them something.
00:23:50Too bad those mice couldn't talk.
00:23:54I was now ready for someone who could.
00:23:57Anna.
00:23:58The dark lady of Linden's life.
00:24:01Fortunately, old Lydia was about to have
00:24:03a birthday party downstairs.
00:24:13Especially for you, Ben.
00:24:15This year I don't lie about my age.
00:24:17Well, happy birthday, Lydia.
00:24:31Paul was in excellent health.
00:24:34I was the Linden's family doctor.
00:24:36I examined him this summer.
00:24:38Of course, when they found him,
00:24:40I asked to have a look at the body.
00:24:42I thought I might have missed something.
00:24:45His health was very good.
00:24:48But why would he hang himself?
00:24:51Paul had the touch of the macabre.
00:24:54You found him, didn't you?
00:24:57Perhaps he was trying to tell you
00:24:59the price of failure.
00:25:01Why do you ask so many questions about Paul?
00:25:05Well, if you don't mind, I've got one for you.
00:25:09Do you know where he kept his papers?
00:25:11Some of them are missing.
00:25:14You mustn't talk about Paul all of the time.
00:25:16He doesn't need to be reminded of him every moment.
00:25:20Anna.
00:25:21Do you know the story of the woman of Ephesus?
00:25:25No.
00:25:26Who was she?
00:25:28She was a very proper lady of ancient Rome.
00:25:32And when her husband died,
00:25:34she mourned for him all the time.
00:25:36And one day,
00:25:38when she was weeping at his grave,
00:25:40a soldier came by and offered her something to eat.
00:25:45And then she made love to the soldier.
00:25:47I wish somebody had told me that story
00:25:49when my husband died.
00:25:54And by the end of the decade,
00:25:55we may see a lifespan of well over a hundred.
00:25:58But do we really want to go on living forever?
00:26:01No, no, that's not the point.
00:26:03There isn't enough room.
00:26:04We're too crowded already.
00:26:06Because we breed too much.
00:26:08Take an elephant.
00:26:10It has a long lifespan and few offspring.
00:26:12Now a mouse.
00:26:13Lydia, the elephants.
00:26:14Oh, you must do the thing with the elephants.
00:26:16Yes, Lydia, the elephants.
00:26:17The people at the zoo told me not to.
00:26:19Oh, please.
00:26:20Oh, come on, Lydia.
00:26:21Please.
00:26:23All right, then.
00:26:24I'll do it once more.
00:26:26Ben, come here.
00:26:28I will get the horn for you, Lydia.
00:26:34I think I know what you put in that cake, Lydia.
00:26:43I know.
00:26:47I know.
00:26:52I know.
00:26:56I know.
00:27:00I know.
00:27:02I know.
00:27:05I know.
00:27:07Was that Lydia?
00:27:08No, it was the elephant.
00:27:09Can't you tell after all these years?
00:27:11Of course, it sounds more like the elephant.
00:27:28That mating call was intended for the elephants.
00:27:31But I got the message.
00:27:33Anna wanted to be alone with me.
00:27:35And since everyone pretended not to notice...
00:27:42I'm sorry.
00:27:44I wanted to see this place again.
00:27:50We did that stupid thing with the elephants the night I met Paul.
00:27:54Did you?
00:27:58Do you believe that story about the woman and the soldier?
00:28:05Hmm?
00:28:06Hmm?
00:28:36Shh.
00:29:00Are they together now?
00:29:02Shh.
00:29:07Shh.
00:29:10Shh.
00:29:37No!
00:29:39It's mine. It's private.
00:29:58I'm sorry.
00:29:59What did you think it was?
00:30:01Paul's papers.
00:30:03I don't know anything about his work.
00:30:06Maybe he didn't want anybody to have his papers.
00:30:09I didn't want anyone to have these.
00:30:12Did Paul take those pictures?
00:30:15Yes.
00:30:20He used to call it his double helix knots.
00:30:24Isn't that something to do with the secret of life?
00:30:29Oh, why do I always interfere?
00:30:33I enjoy the same things as the man I'm with.
00:30:40The bicycle ride was my idea.
00:30:43Of course, she'd seen the windmills before, in different company.
00:30:47We promised ourselves that we wouldn't let him come between us that day.
00:31:03I'm sorry.
00:31:34Aren't they fantastic?
00:31:37They can go in a straight line for miles that way.
00:31:41Paul told me they've been using the same method for centuries.
00:31:47I thought we weren't going to mention Paul Linden.
00:31:50Why?
00:31:52I don't know.
00:31:54I thought we were going to mention him.
00:31:57I thought we were going to mention him.
00:32:00I thought we were going to mention him.
00:32:03Well, it is difficult to ignore him.
00:32:05Of course it is.
00:32:07Some people say that he killed himself because he was too old and he was afraid of losing me to a younger man.
00:32:13Did he?
00:32:15I'll let you know.
00:32:17She didn't seem to realize I was using her.
00:32:20And it didn't cross my mind that she might be using me.
00:32:31Oh, I'm tired.
00:32:33Can't we take a taxi home?
00:32:44Did those pictures excite you?
00:32:47Yes, but I don't want to try that, Anna.
00:32:49Of course you do.
00:32:51Yeah, well, if I had a rope.
00:32:53But the late Dr. Linden used up all the rope in the house.
00:32:56Why don't you look in the closet under your college sweater?
00:33:04Okay.
00:33:22Of course I could say I did it for science.
00:33:25But that would only be half true.
00:33:34How's it go now?
00:33:35Crossing the front.
00:33:38Like that?
00:33:39Uh-huh.
00:33:40Tighter.
00:33:41Yeah.
00:33:53Tighter.
00:33:57Tighter.
00:34:03Tighter.
00:34:06Yes.
00:34:34All I learned from Anna was who gave Linden the rope.
00:34:37But if she didn't know anything more about his work than double helix knots,
00:34:41I'd have to go back to his mice.
00:34:44I've never liked doing what I had to do next.
00:34:53Do we have to kill it?
00:34:54Uh-huh.
00:35:03Uh-huh.
00:35:34My last step was to immerse the sample in a solution.
00:35:39And then for the second time,
00:35:40this ordinary lab played host to a great scientific discovery.
00:35:52There seems to be a membrane.
00:35:54It's like a coating around the cells.
00:35:57Wait, I want to get a closer look at this.
00:36:04It's thick enough.
00:36:06It could be to protect the cell against radiation.
00:36:10What has radiation got to do with it?
00:36:13Yeah.
00:36:14Nobody quite knows why we age, Pym.
00:36:16One of the theories is that it's caused by radiation coming through the atmosphere.
00:36:21Every living thing seems to have a clock inside it.
00:36:23It looks now as if this clock runs on the radiation that comes through the atmosphere all the time.
00:36:29Radiation slowly messes up the cells.
00:36:31It's allowed to mess them up, so to speak.
00:36:34We're all programmed to die, Pym.
00:36:35But maybe we can change that program or protect ourselves against it.
00:36:38That's what Lyndon seems to have done to his mice.
00:36:41If we only think of aging as a disease, we'd find a cure for it.
00:36:49You must show this to my uncle.
00:36:53I've never seen anything like it.
00:36:57It means Lyndon found a way to stop aging.
00:36:59Maybe permanently.
00:37:01Only in mice, Dr. Land.
00:37:03Then it can't be far off for us.
00:37:08I hope you were wrong.
00:37:10It would be a disaster.
00:37:12Overpopulation, starvation.
00:37:15It would be the end of this planet.
00:37:17Or the beginning of a new civilization.
00:37:19Come on, Dr. Land.
00:37:21Sooner or later, we all have to surrender our places to others.
00:37:25And the more gracefully we do it, the better.
00:37:32I refuse to believe it.
00:37:35It's incredible.
00:37:37It's too big.
00:37:41If this is true...
00:37:49What's wrong? What are you doing?
00:37:56He's dying.
00:37:58All right, be quiet.
00:38:00All right, be quiet a minute, please.
00:38:10Van Arp was so angered by immortality, it almost killed him.
00:38:14And he was so furious with me that he even refused the kiss of life.
00:38:18I can't move my legs.
00:38:22I had to move fast now.
00:38:24Van Arp wouldn't be in the hospital forever.
00:38:30Good evening, ladies of L.A. Lyon.
00:38:34Anna, this is for you.
00:38:37Can you take care of it?
00:38:42Hello?
00:38:44Oh, it's you.
00:38:46I don't know. Why don't you come and get me?
00:38:49That was very kind.
00:38:54I'll ask for the afternoon off, then.
00:38:57All right?
00:38:59Okay, see you later. Bye.
00:39:05If only Anna would realize what this meant to me.
00:39:18Ben, what are you doing?
00:39:20Did you lie to me? Paul must have told you something about his work.
00:39:23You mean you came here just to talk about that?
00:39:25Look, he was really on to something.
00:39:27Ben, I'm in a hurry.
00:39:29I've got to talk to you. Can we see each other later?
00:39:32No. I have to meet someone.
00:39:35Listen, Ben. I have to live my own life, too.
00:39:38Don't be like Paul.
00:39:40Please.
00:39:44What would Lyndon have done?
00:39:46Followed her home to see who she was meeting?
00:40:00And Lyndon wouldn't have wanted her to know he was watching.
00:40:03So I, too, looked for a quiet spot where she couldn't see me.
00:40:29Oh, my God.
00:41:00Coming.
00:41:03You, too, huh, Dr. Lynde?
00:41:06Yes, sir.
00:41:08I've got to go.
00:41:10Good-bye.
00:41:12Good-bye.
00:41:14Good-bye.
00:41:16Good-bye.
00:41:18Good-bye.
00:41:20Good-bye.
00:41:22Good-bye.
00:41:24Good-bye.
00:41:26Good-bye.
00:41:27You, too, huh, Dr. Lynde?
00:41:30I remember seeing poor Dr. Lyndon
00:41:33standing in that very spot many times.
00:41:37Take the advice of an old family doctor.
00:41:40Don't make the same mistake as Lyndon.
00:41:43Don't ask Anna about the Swiss man.
00:41:46The Swiss man?
00:41:48This was something new.
00:41:51Everyone was so helpful.
00:41:54They didn't want me to retrace Lyndon's footsteps.
00:41:57Weren't they, in fact, leading me on?
00:42:15I remember Van Arp mentioned something about Lyndon
00:42:18in a Swiss pharmaceutical firm.
00:42:20And here was an expensive car with Swiss plates.
00:42:28Good-bye.
00:42:52Okay, Anna, let's hear it.
00:42:55I like him.
00:42:57Tell me more about this.
00:43:01He's so different.
00:43:04He can tell from my heartbeat
00:43:06when his fingers are doing the right thing.
00:43:15Oh, Dr. Lynde.
00:43:27Who's the Swiss man, Anna?
00:43:29You've been spying on me.
00:43:32Paul used to spy on me, too.
00:43:37From the chess bar, right?
00:43:41Until they kicked him out.
00:43:44They said he always looked so miserable by the window
00:43:47that he was ruining their chess games.
00:43:51After that, he started watching my house
00:43:53from the Anne Frank Museum.
00:43:58The Anne Frank Museum turned out to be
00:44:01just across the street from Anna's house.
00:44:15Excuse me.
00:44:17Excuse me, please.
00:44:19Anne Frank and her family
00:44:21lived for three years in a small loft.
00:44:23And this was their secret entrance.
00:44:26Will you not follow me, please?
00:44:34Anne Frank collected movie stars.
00:44:36Where's Anne Frank?
00:44:38Here's Anne Frank.
00:44:40There's Ginger Rogers.
00:44:43Excuse me.
00:44:52She's coming in.
00:44:54Kids come in here like it's Disneyland or something.
00:44:56Oh, come on, Dad.
00:44:58Look at this.
00:45:00This collective insanity, that's what it was.
00:45:02Hitler was crazy.
00:45:04Hitler was crazy.
00:45:06It's as simple as that.
00:45:08Look at this, for instance.
00:45:10The Nazis measured noses.
00:45:12If it was big, you were a Jew.
00:45:14Really?
00:45:16We forget, we forget.
00:45:18The Nazis were obsessed with their idea
00:45:20of the thousand-year Reich, the superior race.
00:45:21Look at this.
00:45:23Listen.
00:45:25People with their brains cut open
00:45:27maybe while they were still alive
00:45:29for medical experiments.
00:45:31Daddy, listen.
00:45:33You know, those pictures are for sale downstairs.
00:45:35All right, come on, let's go.
00:45:37Oh, can't we buy some?
00:45:39What?
00:45:41Can't you take some back with us?
00:45:43I want to show my friends.
00:45:45Sure I do.
00:45:47Dad, for a medical experiment.
00:45:52They were so fond of Dr. Linden.
00:45:54He would come with his little boxes
00:45:56and blocks to test them.
00:45:58To them, it was a game.
00:46:00There was one woman.
00:46:02She said to him,
00:46:04I want to play the game.
00:46:06And then he recognized her.
00:46:08She was once the cleaning lady in his building,
00:46:10and now she was here.
00:46:12So he used her also in his study.
00:46:15He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:46:17that he would come with his little boxes
00:46:19and blocks to test them.
00:46:21He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:46:23that he would come with his little boxes
00:46:25and blocks to test them.
00:46:27He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:46:29that he would come with his little boxes
00:46:31and blocks to test them.
00:46:33He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:46:35that he would come with his little boxes
00:46:37and blocks to test them.
00:46:39He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:46:41that he would come with his little boxes
00:46:43and blocks to test them.
00:46:45He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:46:47that he would come with his little boxes
00:46:49and blocks to test them.
00:46:51He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:46:53that he would come with his little boxes
00:46:55and blocks to test them.
00:46:57He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:46:59that he would come with his little boxes
00:47:01and blocks to test them.
00:47:03He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:47:05that he would come with his little boxes
00:47:07and blocks to test them.
00:47:09He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:47:11that he would come with his little boxes
00:47:13and blocks to test them.
00:47:15He was so fond of Dr. Linden
00:47:17that he would come with his little boxes
00:47:19and blocks to test them.
00:47:22Medical experiments.
00:47:24That's what he was doing with all of them.
00:47:27It doesn't make any sense.
00:47:30No.
00:47:32Of course not, it was a dream, wasn't it?
00:47:34I wish he'd forget about Paul.
00:47:36I've forgotten it all.
00:47:38Everything.
00:47:40I've forgotten him completely.
00:47:42Well, that was quick.
00:47:47What beautiful roses.
00:47:49Yes, they are.
00:47:51They're unusual. Where did you buy them?
00:47:54Oh, in a little shop near the station.
00:48:00They wouldn't be Swiss roses, would they?
00:48:05All right. So the Swiss man sends me roses every day. So what?
00:48:09And did he also pay for Paul's experiments?
00:48:12Yes. No, I don't know. Did he?
00:48:14I don't know. I don't know.
00:48:16Ben, I don't want you to get mixed up in all that business.
00:48:19So, I had caught her in a lie.
00:48:21She was probably keeping her Swiss friend informed of my every move.
00:48:25That suited me fine.
00:48:27Let him know what I was up to.
00:48:30I made a point of telling Anna that I was headed back to the old age home
00:48:34to ask a few questions.
00:48:37Of course I remember you.
00:48:39You came here with Professor von Arup.
00:48:41How can I help you, Dr. Land?
00:48:43You told me about that experiment of Dr. Linden's.
00:48:46Do you have a list of the people who took part?
00:48:49Of course. It will be in the file.
00:48:58That's strange.
00:49:00It doesn't seem to be here.
00:49:03I wonder who could have...
00:49:06Is it possible that someone has taken this file?
00:49:10It's possible.
00:49:16But why?
00:49:21You have a lot of funerals here.
00:49:25Yes, I'm afraid so.
00:49:28Especially during that influenza epidemic.
00:49:38When did it happen?
00:49:41About three months ago.
00:49:47But what if they did die of influenza?
00:49:51How can we be sure?
00:49:54We could dig up a grave.
00:49:57Are you mad?
00:50:03I have to clean up these mouse cages.
00:50:06Here, I'll help you.
00:50:09All we have to do is find a way out.
00:50:13Here, I'll help you.
00:50:16All we need is a sample of tissue from one of those graves.
00:50:19You'll never get permission for that.
00:50:22How do you think they managed in the early days of medicine?
00:50:25Doctors had to steal a corpse in order to study anatomy.
00:50:28They didn't ask permission.
00:50:31But which grave?
00:50:33We can't dig up the whole cemetery.
00:50:36Linden's cleaning lady.
00:50:38She was in the experiment.
00:50:40She was in a huck straw.
00:51:10I'll help you.
00:51:40I'll help you.
00:52:10I'll help you.
00:52:41Give me the scalpel, Pim.
00:52:44Oh, no, the scalpel.
00:52:49No!
00:52:50Yeah, that's it.
00:52:59I think I'm going to die.
00:53:02I'm going to die.
00:53:04I'm going to die.
00:53:06I'm going to die.
00:53:09I was too scared to look death in the face.
00:53:12And a piece of a leg would do just as well.
00:53:16The stench was getting to me despite my mask.
00:53:19Give me the slide, Pim.
00:53:21I'd never be the same after that sight.
00:53:25They don't show you rotting corpses in medical school.
00:53:34I admire his style.
00:53:39I admire his style.
00:53:57Look, the same rings we found in the mice.
00:54:01I wonder what the hell he used.
00:54:04A professor testing drugs on old people.
00:54:08My uncle will be deeply shocked.
00:54:11He respected Paul Linden.
00:54:14He must have felt it had a chance of working.
00:54:17Or he wouldn't have done it.
00:54:19This is going to cause a terrible scandal.
00:54:22Maybe he got the dosage wrong.
00:54:28I wonder how many died.
00:54:30I wonder how many died.
00:54:37Don't worry, just so long as it stays in place.
00:54:40It doesn't have to last forever.
00:54:45What did you do last night?
00:54:47I was on top of a church tower.
00:54:49A church tower?
00:54:51Watching my lover make a fool of herself.
00:54:54Oh, I see.
00:54:56Okay.
00:55:00Thanks.
00:55:11Anna, I found out everything now.
00:55:14Okay, so you have.
00:55:16Then don't make me miserable.
00:55:18I don't think there's any need to make a big scene now, is there?
00:55:20Please, get in the car, I'll take you.
00:55:22In the Swiss man's car?
00:55:23It's a nice car.
00:55:25Rudy, do you remember where Dr. Linden used to live?
00:55:27Yes, miss.
00:55:30How many did Paul kill?
00:55:33Nine, I think.
00:55:35Or maybe it was 19.
00:55:39Does it shock you?
00:55:41Well, if you told me before, it would have saved time.
00:55:45I know where to keep my mouth shut.
00:55:50I want to meet the Swiss man.
00:55:54He wants to meet you, too.
00:55:57I'll arrange it if you insist.
00:56:05Tomorrow, she said, he would be visiting his favorite antique store.
00:56:09I was being granted an audience.
00:56:13How much you want for that?
00:56:15I think that's one of the best pieces in my shop.
00:56:22Hello.
00:56:24Hello.
00:56:26Oh, Nicholas Ulrich took the land.
00:56:28We should have met sooner.
00:56:31Max, leave us alone.
00:56:33Linden worked for a Swiss firm, I'm told.
00:56:35Yes.
00:56:37It is an old, established one.
00:56:41What was he testing for you?
00:56:43You mean on mice?
00:56:45I mean on people.
00:56:47Why didn't it work?
00:56:49Careful, Ben. He's a monster.
00:56:51Shut up, Banner.
00:56:54You think of this.
00:56:58Max claims this mask was used in 37
00:57:02when Faust was performed for the Nazis.
00:57:05But all Amsterdam dealers are thieves.
00:57:08Can we please talk about Linden?
00:57:12Pity us.
00:57:14The poor fool killed himself too soon.
00:57:17If he never found out, he had succeeded.
00:57:21What?
00:57:24He thought they would all die.
00:57:27But didn't they?
00:57:29Why don't you go back to the old age home
00:57:32and ask about Emil van der Lutje?
00:57:34Emil van der...
00:57:36Just ask for Emil, who plays the piano.
00:57:38You won't need your assistant.
00:57:41There are no graves to dig up this time.
00:57:48No, they are very sensitive about that in Holland.
00:57:55The End
00:58:19At first, I dreaded going back to that house of the almost dead.
00:58:23I was beginning to ask myself
00:58:26if all this exposure to the horrors of the aging process
00:58:29might not be affecting my mind.
00:58:32But the visit turned out to be well worth the risk.
00:58:37Of course, Emil van der Lutje is here
00:58:40and very much alive.
00:58:42Years ago, he was a concert pianist,
00:58:45one of the finest in Holland.
00:58:47Just recently, he started playing again.
00:59:23So one of them had survived.
00:59:54Dr. Benjamin Lent
01:00:01Mr. van der Lutje, may I introduce myself?
01:00:04This is Dr. Benjamin Lent.
01:00:07How do you do? Are you American?
01:00:10Yes, that's right.
01:00:12I'd like to take a biopsy.
01:00:14Could you explain to him what that is?
01:00:16Oh, biopsies. They know what biopsies are.
01:00:19From the skin.
01:00:21Dr. Linden took them many times.
01:00:24It's not painful.
01:00:26Did he ever give you injections?
01:00:29Yes, during the influenza epidemic.
01:00:34One injection, but it made me feel wonderful.
01:00:38What's this all about, Dr. Lent?
01:00:41Dr. Linden's experiments.
01:00:44I think we should go to my office.
01:00:50And then in San Francisco.
01:00:53I played there in 24.
01:00:56In Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music.
01:01:00Of course, all that's quite a long time ago.
01:01:04The second time I went to America was in 27.
01:01:09The second time I went to America was in 27.
01:01:14On the Mauritania.
01:01:16You have quite a memory. What were you playing when I came in?
01:01:19Oh, Satie.
01:01:21I studied with him in Paris for a while in 1912.
01:01:28But I was not one of his best pupils.
01:01:32You do remind me a bit of Dr. Linden.
01:01:36Really?
01:01:39Yes.
01:01:45All the cells were protected from further deterioration.
01:01:49This time the membrane had been perfectly formed.
01:01:54A brilliant young physicist once said to me,
01:01:57the deeper I go into science, the more I trust in magic.
01:02:01Shortly after, he went mad.
01:02:33I told you I don't want any cars!
01:02:40Now I've lost my concentration.
01:02:47Don't be upset.
01:02:50Go.
01:03:01No, tell him I insist. It's Dr. Ben Land.
01:03:05Ah, Dr. Land.
01:03:07We do have a few things to talk about, don't we?
01:03:10Why don't you come over?
01:03:17Dr. Land isn't going to be as easy as you think.
01:03:21He's not a pushover like Paul was, you know.
01:03:25Why don't you help me to get him, Anna?
01:03:28You don't want to spend your life in a beauty shop.
01:03:32I don't mind the beauty shop anymore.
01:03:34You've fallen in love with him.
01:03:41You've fallen in love with the finger.
01:03:44Come on, make the bet.
01:03:47Okay, I will do it myself.
01:04:05As I went to meet Ulrich at his hotel on that windy October evening,
01:04:10I couldn't stop thinking about those immortal cells.
01:04:14What if we all became gods?
01:04:21Amazing, isn't it, Dr. Land?
01:04:24You never grow any older.
01:04:27Linen only hit on the right of the joints.
01:04:31The work isn't finished yet.
01:04:34The right dosage of what?
01:04:38You don't expect me to tell you just like that.
01:04:42Look.
01:04:44I had to build a whole new wing at my plant to make this stuff.
01:04:50It cost me part of my life.
01:04:53Oh, I'm sure it'll pay off in time.
01:04:56Time is the one thing I don't have, Dr. Land.
01:05:00I'm not interested in being an old rich man.
01:05:19Dr. Land.
01:05:22I'm looking for a scientist who has the guts to speed up all this research.
01:05:28You mean Linden's kind of research.
01:05:31Murder.
01:05:35Mercy killings, Dr. Land.
01:05:37To end nature's murders.
01:05:51I think you're my man.
01:05:53And how much do you think I'm worth, Mr. Holwick?
01:05:58Why don't we talk about that over dinner?
01:06:01I only stay in these cheap little hotels because the food is good.
01:06:10Turkmenistan, Dr. Land.
01:06:13It's in the south of Russia, near the Armenian border.
01:06:18Some of those people have a healthy sex life at the age of 110.
01:06:23It's just heredity. There are dozens of studies.
01:06:26There's one by the Russian scientist Roshinsky.
01:06:30I don't know it.
01:06:32Of course not.
01:06:34Roshinsky ended his life in a madhouse because of his politics.
01:06:40He wanted everybody to have longer lives, not just good party memories.
01:06:45So now only rich businessmen will live longer. That's hardly better.
01:06:49I don't care how many people live longer. I just want to be one of them.
01:06:56Growing old is horrible.
01:06:59It's a disease.
01:07:01Then help me to perfect the cure.
01:07:05You still haven't told me what the cure is.
01:07:08He told me a story I almost believed.
01:07:11How he'd smuggled Roshinsky's papers out of a Russian asylum...
01:07:14and contracted Linden to finish the work.
01:07:17Anyway, we both knew what he was leading up to.
01:07:21But the dosage is critical.
01:07:24I've got to test and test until it's safe.
01:07:26But that could take years.
01:07:28Okay, okay, but we must test on people.
01:07:32Well, what testing on people?
01:07:34Only when I say it's safe. That's my answer.
01:07:38Then I will give you my answer.
01:07:42Keep your mouth shut and you can have the same deal as Linden.
01:07:46There's a copy of our contract in his files.
01:07:49I don't have his files. You took them, didn't you?
01:07:52I will tell Felix to put them back.
01:07:55But don't expect to find Roshinsky's formula.
01:07:58That you can see once we have made our arrangements.
01:08:02Well, call me when you have made up your mind.
01:08:05Switzerland is a direct dial.
01:08:07I'll be at my factory.
01:08:18I was close to the secret that men have always been looking for.
01:08:22But like all treasures, this one was guarded by an ogre.
01:08:26Was it my imagination?
01:08:29Or was he following me around, mocking me with his offer?
01:08:34What about testing on people, people, people?
01:08:42He knew how badly I wanted his treasure.
01:08:45But he kept it locked away in a factory high in the Swiss Alps.
01:08:49Don't do it, Ben.
01:08:51I remember when Paul went to Switzerland for the first time.
01:08:55For the weekend, to take a look, he said.
01:08:58But when he came back, he was a different man.
01:09:02I'm not going to kill old people, Anna.
01:09:04You'll be part of his factory, just like Paul.
01:09:08I tried to warn you.
01:09:10Haven't you understood yet?
01:09:12You're going to be Ulrich's new man.
01:09:14It was all set up.
01:09:16I can beat Ulrich at his own game.
01:09:18No, you can't.
01:09:20He's too clever. He'll trap you.
01:09:22You'll be quite helpless.
01:09:27Ben, don't answer that.
01:09:29Yes?
01:09:33Oh, Professor Van Arp. How are you feeling?
01:09:40I don't quite understand.
01:09:42It's too late now.
01:09:47I see.
01:09:50Oh, good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.
01:09:53Can't you tell me what this is about?
01:09:56Oh, it's so unfair.
01:09:58The devil always wins.
01:10:04Yes?
01:10:07Good-bye, Ben.
01:10:11Yes, all right, I'll have a look.
01:10:13I'll be right back.
01:10:15Good-bye.
01:10:17Good-bye.
01:10:19Good-bye.
01:10:22Yes, all right, 11 o'clock at your office.
01:10:31Anna.
01:10:46A puzzle of a factory.
01:10:48Ulrich's factory in the Alps?
01:10:51That puzzle wasn't there by accident.
01:10:54But the events were way ahead of me.
01:10:58This is Dr. Land, gentlemen.
01:11:01How could you have done it?
01:11:04Digging up a grave in the middle of the night.
01:11:07This gentleman is from the police.
01:11:12Did you tell them, Pim?
01:11:14Ben, my uncle says that we made a mistake about Dr. Linden.
01:11:18He had the absurd idea that a member of our faculty, Dr. Paul Linden, was a mass murderer.
01:11:24Don't you think I had good reasons?
01:11:26Or haven't you told them about Dr. Linden's experiments?
01:11:29I didn't have to. These gentlemen already knew.
01:11:32I am from the Ministry of Science, Dr. Land.
01:11:35I can assure you we followed very carefully what Dr. Linden was testing.
01:11:41It concerned a new method of adding a colour process to an anti-influenza vaccine.
01:11:48So one can check the effectiveness of the vaccine.
01:11:52People are more interested in a cure for the common cold than in any of your immortality serums.
01:11:58The process is quite safe.
01:12:01By the way, it does create a ring-like effect when viewed under a microscope.
01:12:07You were perhaps misled by that.
01:12:09You made a lot of accusations, but you've proved nothing.
01:12:13I never wanted to prove anything. I wanted to understand why Linden killed himself.
01:12:17Why don't you dig him up at Hoskins?
01:12:24It's my fault, Ben.
01:12:26I told you the mice were four years old.
01:12:29They were not even two years old.
01:12:31My uncle showed me.
01:12:33I made a mistake reading the record.
01:12:35I made a mistake reading the record.
01:12:37No.
01:12:38I did, Ben. Really, I did.
01:12:40Then someone changed the records. It's not possible.
01:12:45It is possible, Ben.
01:12:47Think carefully.
01:12:48We got it all wrong.
01:12:50Yes.
01:12:55Dr. Land.
01:12:57I knew you were a bit mad.
01:13:00But now you've turned into a dangerous lunatic.
01:13:03You went to the old age home.
01:13:05And you took a biopsy of an old man.
01:13:07Yes, I did.
01:13:08You don't deny it.
01:13:10I knew I shouldn't have let you touch him.
01:13:13Emil van der Lutke is dead.
01:13:16What?
01:13:17That's impossible.
01:13:19The infection started in his arm where you took the biopsy.
01:13:23You killed him.
01:13:26I couldn't have killed him.
01:13:28People have so little resistance at that age.
01:13:30Dr. Land.
01:13:31Did you sterilize your instruments after you used them to poke around in a graveyard?
01:13:35Of course I did.
01:13:37Or did I?
01:13:38I was in such a rush.
01:13:40Some people might call you a murderer.
01:13:47I don't believe you.
01:13:48You're trying to frame me.
01:13:49He can't be dead.
01:13:50I don't believe it.
01:13:51Let go of me.
01:13:52You're mad.
01:13:53Absolutely mad.
01:13:55You need a doctor, Dr. Land.
01:13:57They called for an ambulance.
01:13:59And under heavy sedation, I was taken to a clean, white mental hospital.
01:14:11I keep thinking about the old piano player.
01:14:15What if he's really dead?
01:14:19And then I say to myself,
01:14:21no, he can't be.
01:14:24Because I can hear him.
01:14:30No.
01:14:34No.
01:14:41No.
01:14:59No.
01:15:29Paul?
01:16:00How does it feel
01:16:02to have made your first kill?
01:16:06It was an accident.
01:16:09So was mine.
01:16:13I gave the wrong pills to one of the old dears.
01:16:18It bothered me for a few days.
01:16:22You'll get used to it.
01:16:26Then why did you kill yourself?
01:16:29Don't worry about it.
01:16:33Paul, if those people didn't matter to you,
01:16:35why did you kill yourself?
01:16:38Paul, I've got to know.
01:16:41Answer me, Paul.
01:16:44These fantasies about Dr. Linden
01:16:46must have started before the old man's death.
01:16:50Then I knew you didn't mean to kill him.
01:16:52I'm a psychiatrist.
01:16:53I want to help you.
01:16:55Why won't you answer me anymore?
01:16:59Listen, Ben.
01:17:01I'm real.
01:17:02My footsteps are real.
01:17:04The boy in the next bed is real.
01:17:06This hospital is real.
01:17:08But the dead Dr. Linden walking around and talking to you
01:17:10is one of your fantasies.
01:17:14And you see, Ben, the great danger with fantasies
01:17:16is that one can get trapped in them.
01:17:21I'll see you tomorrow, Ben.
01:17:30Well, call me when you have made up your mind.
01:17:33I'll be at my factory.
01:17:37I finally made that call to Ulrich for the right directions.
01:17:41Take the express to Geneva, he said,
01:17:43and then change to a little red Alpine train
01:17:46that will get you almost up to the factory.
01:18:00I told Ulrich not to pick me up at the station.
01:18:04I was going to meet the devil on a mountaintop,
01:18:06and I wanted to take my own good time about it.
01:18:15He'd gotten Linden to sell his soul to him,
01:18:18and now it was my turn.
01:18:20But I know how to beat him in his own game.
01:18:24I'm going to work day and night on that formula
01:18:26until I'm sure of the right dosage.
01:18:29And then I'll try it on myself in that dream lab
01:18:33high in the Alps.
01:18:35And if it works on me,
01:18:37then Mr. Ulrich will be the first to line up for the treatment.
01:18:41Only, maybe I won't be so careful
01:18:43when I measure out his dosage.
01:18:47Unless, of course, I've forgotten about revenge by then,
01:18:51because I'll be immortal.
01:18:55To me, that's a blessing, not a curse.
01:19:00We may even have to move off this aging planet
01:19:03in order to survive.
01:19:06But someday, we'll look back
01:19:08and wonder how we ever tolerated life with death.
01:19:14After all, how can you be satisfied
01:19:16with something that has to end?
01:20:30You're not alone.
01:20:36You're not alone.
01:20:40You're not alone.
01:20:59You're not alone.
01:21:02You're not alone.
01:21:05You're not alone.
01:21:08You're not alone.
01:21:11You're not alone.
01:21:14You're not alone.
01:21:17You're not alone.