Lifespan (Alexander Whitelaw, 1975)
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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.
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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.
00:26:42Elephant sound.
00:26:46Elephant sound.
00:26:51Elephant sound.
00:26:55Elephant sound.
00:26:59Elephant sound.
00:27:01Elephant sound.
00:27:04Elephant sound.
00:27:06Was that Lydia?
00:27:07No, it was the elephant.
00:27:08Can't you tell after all these years?
00:27:10No, of course not.
00:27:11It was like the elephant.
00:27:12They just don't...
00:27:16Elephant sound.
00:27:19Elephant sound.
00:27:24Elephant sound.
00:27:27That mating call was intended for the elephants.
00:27:30But I got the message.
00:27:32Anna wanted to be alone with me.
00:27:34And since everyone pretended not to notice...
00:27:37Elephant sound.
00:27:38Elephant sound.
00:27:44Elephant sound.
00:27:48I'm sorry.
00:27:50I wanted to see this place again.
00:27:55We did that stupid thing with the elephants the night I met Paul.
00:27:59Did you?
00:28:02Do you believe that story about the woman and the soldier?
00:28:08Hmm?
00:28:18Elephant sound.
00:28:30Elephant sound.
00:28:33Elephant sound.
00:28:36Elephant sound.
00:28:38Shhh.
00:28:39Are they together now?
00:28:40Shh.
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00:30:38The bicycle ride was my idea.
00:30:40Of course, he'd seen the windmills before in different company.
00:30:45We promised ourselves that we wouldn't let him come between us that day.
00:31:07Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:31:38Aren't they fantastic? They can go in a straight line for miles that way.
00:31:53Paul told me they've been using the same method for centuries.
00:31:58I thought we weren't going to mention Paul, Lyndon.
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
00:32:11and he was afraid of losing me to a younger man.
00:32:14Did 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.
00:32:24Oh, I'm tired.
00:32:34Can't we take a taxi home?
00:32:45Did those pictures excite you?
00:32:47Yes, but I don't want to try that, Anna.
00:32:49Of course you do.
00:32:52Yeah, well, if I had a rope.
00:32:54But the late Dr. Linden used up all the rope in the house.
00:32:57Why don't you look in the closet under your college sweater?
00:33:23Of course I could say I did it for science,
00:33:26but that would only be half true.
00:33:41How's it go now?
00:33:42Crossing the front.
00:33:45Like that?
00:33:46Uh-huh.
00:33:47Tighter.
00:33:48Tighter.
00:33:49Tighter.
00:33:50Yes.
00:33:51Tighter.
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00:34:35All I learned from Anna was who gave Lyndon the rope.
00:34:38But if she didn't know anything more about his work than double helix knots,
00:34:42I'd have to go back to his mice.
00:34:45I've never liked doing what I had to do next.
00:34:53Do we have to kill it?
00:34:55Mm-hmm.
00:35:15My last step was to immerse the sample in a solution.
00:35:42And then for the second time, this ordinary lab played host to a great scientific discovery.
00:35:54There seems to be a membrane.
00:35:56It's like a coating around the cells.
00:35:58Wait, 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.
00:36:11What has radiation got to do with it?
00:36:14Yeah, nobody quite knows why we age, Pym.
00:36:17One of the theories is that it's caused by radiation coming through the atmosphere.
00:36:22Every living thing seems to have a clock inside it.
00:36:24It looks now as if this clock runs on the radiation that comes through the atmosphere
00:36:28all the time.
00:36:30Radiation slowly messes up the cells.
00:36:32It's allowed to mess them up, so to speak.
00:36:34We're all programmed to die, Pym, but maybe we can change that program or protect ourselves
00:36:38against it.
00:36:39That's what Lyndon seems to have done to his mice.
00:36:42If 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, maybe permanently.
00:37:02Only in mice, Dr. Lant.
00:37:04Then it can't be far off for us.
00:37:09I hope you were wrong.
00:37:11It would be a disaster.
00:37:13Overpopulation, starvation.
00:37:16It would be the end of this planet.
00:37:18Or the beginning of a new civilization.
00:37:20Come on, Dr. Lant.
00:37:22Sooner or later, we all have to surrender our places to others.
00:37:26And the more gracefully we do it, the better.
00:37:34I refuse to believe it.
00:37:37It's incredible.
00:37:39It's too big.
00:37:44If this is true...
00:37:51Ah!
00:37:51What's wrong?
00:37:52What are you doing?
00:37:54Help me.
00:37:58He's dying.
00:38:01All right, be quiet a minute, Pym, please.
00:38:02Help me.
00:38:11Van Arp was so angered by immortality, it almost killed him.
00:38:15And he was so furious with me that he even refused the kiss of life.
00:38:19I can't move my legs.
00:38:22I had to move fast now.
00:38:24Van Arp wouldn't be in the hospital forever.
00:38:32Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:38:36Anna, this is for you.
00:38:39Can you take care of it?
00:38:44Hello?
00:38:46Oh, it's you.
00:38:48I don't know.
00:38:49Why don't you come and get me?
00:38:56I'll ask for the afternoon off, then.
00:38:59All right?
00:39:00Okay, see you later.
00:39:02Bye.
00:39:07If only Anna would realize what this meant to me.
00:39:20Ben, what are you doing?
00:39:21Did you lie to me?
00:39:22Paul must have told you something about his work.
00:39:24You mean you came here just to talk about that?
00:39:26Look, he was really on to something.
00:39:28Ben, I'm in a hurry.
00:39:30I've got to talk to you.
00:39:30Can we see each other later?
00:39:33No, I have to meet someone.
00:39:36Listen, Ben.
00:39:37I have to live my own life, too.
00:39:39Don't be like Paul.
00:39:41Please.
00:39:44What would Lyndon have done?
00:39:47Followed her home to see who she was meeting?
00:40:06And Lyndon wouldn't have wanted her to know he was watching.
00:40:09So I, too, looked for a quiet spot where she couldn't see me.
00:41:09Coming!
00:41:27You, too, huh, Dr. Lynde?
00:41:31I remember seeing poor Dr. Lyndon standing in that very spot many times.
00:41:37That's 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.
00:41:47The 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.
00:41:57But weren't they, in fact, leading me on?
00:42:15I remember Van Arp mentioned something about Lyndon in a Swiss pharmaceutical firm.
00:42:20And here was an expensive car with Swiss plates.
00:42:51Okay, Anna, let's hear it.
00:42:54I like him.
00:42:56Ah.
00:42:58Tell me more about this.
00:43:02He's so different.
00:43:04He can tell from my heartbeat when his fingers are doing the right thing.
00:43:16Dr. 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?
00:43:40Mm-hmm.
00:43:42Until they kicked him out.
00:43:45They said he always looked so miserable by the window that he was ruining their chess games.
00:43:52After that, he started watching my house from the Anne Frank Museum.
00:44:01The Anne Frank Museum turned out to be just across the street from Anna's house.
00:44:17Excuse me.
00:44:18Excuse me, please.
00:44:21Anne Frank and her family lived for three years in a small loft.
00:44:25And this was their secret entrance.
00:44:30Will you not follow me, please?
00:44:36Anne Frank collected movie stars.
00:44:39Where's Anne Frank?
00:44:41Here's Anne Frank.
00:44:43There's Ginger Rogers.
00:44:46Excuse me.
00:44:55Kids come in here like it's Disneyland or something.
00:44:57Oh, come on, Dad.
00:44:58Look at this.
00:44:59Collective insanity.
00:45:00That's what it was.
00:45:01Hitler was crazy.
00:45:02Hitler was crazy.
00:45:04It's as simple as that.
00:45:05Look at this, for instance.
00:45:07The Nazis measured noses.
00:45:09If it was big, you were a Jew.
00:45:11Really?
00:45:12We forget.
00:45:13We forget.
00:45:14The Nazis were obsessed with their idea of the thousand-year Reich, the superior race.
00:45:19Hey, Dad.
00:45:19Dad.
00:45:20That's how they justified packing human being pigs in concentration camps.
00:45:23Look at this.
00:45:24Listen.
00:45:24People with their brains cut open, maybe while they were still alive, for medical experiments.
00:45:29Daddy.
00:45:29Listen, you know those pictures are for sale downstairs.
00:45:31All right, come on.
00:45:32Let's go.
00:45:33Oh, can't we buy some?
00:45:34Shh.
00:45:35Wait.
00:45:36What?
00:45:37Can't you take some back with us?
00:45:38I want to show my friends.
00:45:39Shh, what did I do?
00:45:40What'd you do?
00:45:41Dad.
00:45:42What do you mean, experiments?
00:45:59He was so fond of Dr. Linden.
00:46:01He would come with his little boxes and blocks to test them.
00:46:05To them, it was a game.
00:46:07There was one woman.
00:46:08She said to him, I want to play the game.
00:46:11And then he recognized her.
00:46:13She was once the cleaning lady in his building, and now she was here.
00:46:17So he used her also in his study.
00:46:59I had the strangest dream.
00:47:02Was it about me?
00:47:04I dreamt that Paul Linden was with some people from the old age home.
00:47:08But it wasn't a concentration camp.
00:47:11One of them was his old cleaning lady.
00:47:15Mina Hoekstra.
00:47:17Old Mina?
00:47:18What was he doing with her?
00:47:20Medical experiments.
00:47:22That's what he was doing with all of them.
00:47:25It doesn't make any sense.
00:47:27No.
00:47:28Of course not. It was a dream, wasn't it?
00:47:30Mm-hmm.
00:47:32I wish you'd forget about Paul.
00:47:34I've forgotten it all.
00:47:36Everything.
00:47:37I've forgotten him completely.
00:47:39Well, that was quick.
00:47:45What beautiful roses.
00:47:47Yes, they are.
00:47:49They're unusual.
00:47:50Where did you buy them?
00:47:52Oh, in a little shop near the station.
00:47:56They wouldn't be Swiss roses, would they?
00:48:01All right.
00:48:02So the Swiss man sends me roses every day.
00:48:04So what?
00:48:05And did he also pay for Paul's experiments?
00:48:08Yes.
00:48:09No, I don't know.
00:48:10Did he?
00:48:11I don't know.
00:48:12I don't know.
00:48:13Ben, I don't want you to get mixed up in all that business.
00:48:16So, I had caught her in a lie.
00:48:18She was probably keeping her Swiss friend informed of my every move.
00:48:22That suited me fine.
00:48:24Let him know what I was up to.
00:48:27I made a point of telling Anna that I was headed back to the old age home
00:48:30to ask a few questions.
00:48:33Of course I remember you.
00:48:35You came here with Professor von Arp.
00:48:37How can I help you, Dr. Land?
00:48:39You told me about that experiment of Dr. Linden's.
00:48:42Do you have a list of the people who took part?
00:48:45Of course.
00:48:46It will be in the file.
00:48:49That's strange.
00:48:51It doesn't seem to be here.
00:48:54I wonder who could have...
00:48:57Is it possible that someone has taken this file?
00:49:01It's possible.
00:49:07But why?
00:49:09I don't know.
00:49:10I don't know.
00:49:11I don't know.
00:49:12I don't know.
00:49:13I don't know.
00:49:14I don't know.
00:49:15I don't know.
00:49:16But why?
00:49:21You have a lot of funerals here.
00:49:24Yes, 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 cases.
00:50:06Here, I'll help you.
00:50:09All we need is a list of the people who took part.
00:50:12Here, I'll help you.
00:50:15All we need is a sample of tissue from one of those graves.
00:50:18You'll never get permission for that.
00:50:21How do you think they managed in the early days of medicine?
00:50:24Doctors had to steal a corpse in order to study anatomy.
00:50:28They didn't ask permission.
00:50:31But which grave?
00:50:32We can't dig up the whole cemetery.
00:50:35Lyndon's cleaning lady.
00:50:37She was in the experiment.
00:50:39Her name was Minna Hoekstra.
00:50:42Let's go.
00:51:12Let's go.
00:51:42Let's go.
00:52:12Let's go.
00:52:43Give me the scalpel, Pim.
00:52:46Oh, no, the scalpel.
00:52:51No!
00:52:52Yeah, that's it.
00:53:02I was too scared to look death in the face.
00:53:05I was too scared to look death in the face.
00:53:08I was too scared to look death in the face.
00:53:11And a piece of a leg would do just as well.
00:53:14The stench was getting to me despite my mask.
00:53:18Give me the slide, Pim.
00:53:20I'd never be the same after that sight.
00:53:23They don't show you rotting corpses in medical school.
00:53:33I admire his style.
00:53:42I admire his style.
00:53:58Look.
00:53:59The same rings we found in the mice.
00:54:01I wonder what the hell he used.
00:54:06A professor testing drugs on old people.
00:54:10Uncle will be deeply shocked.
00:54:13He respected Paul Linden.
00:54:16He must have felt it had a chance of working.
00:54:19Or he wouldn't have done it.
00:54:21This is going to cause a terrible scandal.
00:54:24Maybe he got the dosage wrong.
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.
00:54:41What a mess!
00:54:42Probably not.
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.
00:55:31How many did Paul kill?
00:55:34Nine, I think.
00:55:35Or maybe it was 19.
00:55:40Does it shock you?
00:55:42Well, if you told me before, it would have saved time.
00:55:46I know where to keep my mouth shut.
00:55:51I want to meet the Swiss man.
00:55:55He wants to meet you, too.
00:56:00I'll arrange it if you insist.
00:56:03Tomorrow, she said, he would be visiting his favorite antique store.
00:56:07I was being granted an audience.
00:56:11How much you want for that?
00:56:12Through here.
00:56:13I think that's one of the best pieces in my shop.
00:56:21Hello.
00:56:22Oh, Nicholas always took the land.
00:56:25We should have met sooner.
00:56:28Max, leave us alone.
00:56:31Max, leave us alone.
00:56:34Linden worked for a Swiss firm, I'm told.
00:56:36Yes.
00:56:37It is an old, established one.
00:56:41What was he testing for you?
00:56:43You mean on mice?
00:56:46I mean on people.
00:56:48Why didn't it work?
00:56:50Careful, Ben. He's a monster.
00:56:52Shut up, Annie.
00:56:55You think of this.
00:56:57Max claims this mask was used in 37
00:57:01when Faust was performed for the Nazis.
00:57:04But all Amsterdam dealers are thieves.
00:57:07Can we please talk about Linden?
00:57:11Piteous.
00:57:13The poor fool killed himself too soon.
00:57:16He never found out he had succeeded.
00:57:19What?
00:57:23He thought they would all die.
00:57:27But didn't they?
00:57:30Why don't you go back to the old age home
00:57:33and ask about Emil van der Lutje?
00:57:35Emil van der...
00:57:36Just ask for Emil who plays the piano.
00:57:39You won't need your assistant.
00:57:42There are no graves to dig up this time.
00:57:48No, they are very sensitive about that in Holland.
00:57:57No.
00:58:20At first I dreaded going back to that house
00:58:23of the almost dead.
00:58:25I was beginning to ask myself
00:58:27if all this exposure to the horrors of the aging process
00:58:30might not be affecting my mind.
00:58:33But the visit turned out to be well worth the risk.
00:58:38Of course Emil van der Lutje is here.
00:58:41And very much alive.
00:58:43Years ago he was a concert pianist.
00:58:46One of the finest in Holland.
00:58:48Just recently he started playing again.
00:58:58Thank you very much.
00:59:25So one of them had survived.
00:59:31And the other one had died.
00:59:34And the other one had died.
00:59:37And the other one had died.
00:59:40And the other one had died.
00:59:43And the other one had died.
00:59:46And the other one had died.
00:59:49And the other one had died.
00:59:52And the other one had died.
00:59:55And the other one had died.
00:59:58Mr. van der Lutje, may I introduce you?
01:00:01This is Dr. Benjamin Lind.
01:00:04How do you do? Are you American?
01:00:07Yes, that's right.
01:00:09I'd like to take a biopsy.
01:00:11Could you explain to him what that is?
01:00:14Oh, biopsies. They know what biopsies are.
01:00:17From the skin.
01:00:19Dr. Lind had took them many times.
01:00:22It's not painful.
01:00:26It's not painful.
01:00:28Did he ever give you injections?
01:00:31Yes, during the influenza epidemic.
01:00:34One injection.
01:00:37But it made me feel wonderful.
01:00:40What's this all about, Dr. Lind?
01:00:43Dr. Linden's experiments.
01:00:50I think we should go to my office.
01:00:53And then in San Francisco.
01:00:56I played there in 24.
01:00:59In Philadelphia.
01:01:02At the Academy of Music.
01:01:05Of course, all that's quite a long time ago.
01:01:08The second time I went to America was in 27.
01:01:11On the Mauritania.
01:01:14You have quite a memory.
01:01:17What were you playing when I came in?
01:01:21I studied with him in Paris.
01:01:24For a while. In 1912.
01:01:30But I was not one of his best pupils.
01:01:33You do remind me a bit of Dr. Linden.
01:01:36Really?
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.
01:02:00Shortly after, he went mad.
01:02:19I told you I don't want any cars!
01:02:27Now I've lost my concentration.
01:02:34Don't worry.
01:02:37I'll be back in a minute.
01:02:40I'll be back in a minute.
01:02:43Don't be upset.
01:02:46Go.
01:02:57No, tell him I insist.
01:03:00It's Dr. Ben Land.
01:03:03Ah, Dr. Land.
01:03:06We do have a few things to talk about, don't we?
01:03:09Why don't you come over?
01:03:13Dr. Land isn't going to be as easy as you think.
01:03:16He's not a pushover like Paul was, you know.
01:03:19Why don't you help me to get him, Anna?
01:03:22You don't want to spend your life in a beauty shop.
01:03:25I don't mind the beauty shop anymore.
01:03:28You've fallen in love with him.
01:03:35You've fallen in love as if he were your own son.
01:03:38You've fallen in love as if he were your own son.
01:03:41You've fallen in love as a 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
01:04:09on that windy October evening,
01:04:12I couldn't stop thinking about those immortal cells.
01:04:15What 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 dosage once.
01:04:32The work isn't finished yet.
01:04:35The right dosage of what?
01:04:39You don't expect me to tell you just like that.
01:04:43Look,
01:04:46I had to build a whole new wing at my plant
01:04:49to make this stuff.
01:04:52It cost me part of my life.
01:04:55Oh, I'm sure it'll pay off in time.
01:04:58Time is the one thing I don't have, Dr. Land.
01:05:01I'm not interested in being an old rich man.
01:05:09Dr. Land,
01:05:12I'm looking for a scientist
01:05:15who has the guts to speed up all of this research.
01:05:19You mean Linden's kind of research?
01:05:22Murder?
01:05:27Mercy can't kill you,
01:05:30but it can kill you.
01:05:33Mercy killing, Dr. Land,
01:05:36to end nature's murders.
01:05:48I think you're my man.
01:05:51And how much do you think I'm worth, Mr. Holwick?
01:05:56Why don't we talk about that over dinner?
01:06:00I only stay in these cheap little hotels
01:06:03because the food is good.
01:06:09Turkmenistan, Dr. Land.
01:06:12It's in the south of Russia,
01:06:15near the Armenian border.
01:06:18Some of those people have a healthy sex life
01:06:21at the age of 110.
01:06:24It's just heredity. There are dozens of studies.
01:06:27It was written by the Russian scientist Roshinsky.
01:06:30I don't know it.
01:06:33Of course not.
01:06:36Roshinsky ended his life in a madhouse
01:06:39because of his politics.
01:06:42He wanted everybody to have longer lives,
01:06:45not just good party members.
01:06:48So now only rich businessmen will live longer.
01:06:51That's hardly better.
01:06:55Growing old is horrible.
01:06:58It's a disease.
01:07:01Then help me to perfect the cure.
01:07:04You still haven't told me what the cure is.
01:07:07He told me a story I almost believed,
01:07:10how he'd smuggled Roshinsky's papers
01:07:13out of a Russian asylum
01:07:16and contracted Linden to finish the work.
01:07:19Anyway, we both knew what he was leading up to.
01:07:23Research is critical.
01:07:26We've got to test and test until it's safe.
01:07:29But that could take years.
01:07:32OK, OK, but we must test on people.
01:07:35Well, what testing on people?
01:07:38Only when I say it's safe. That's my answer.
01:07:41Then I will give you my answer.
01:07:44Keep your mouth shut
01:07:47and you can have the same deal as Linden.
01:07:50I don't have his files. You took them, didn't you?
01:07:53I will tell Felix to put them back.
01:07:56But don't expect to find Roshinsky's formula.
01:07:59That 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.
01:08:08I'll be at my factory.
01:08:12I was close to the secret
01:08:15that men have always been looking for.
01:08:18But like all treasures,
01:08:21this one was guarded by an ogre.
01:08:24Was it my imagination?
01:08:27Or was he following me around,
01:08:30mocking me with his offer?
01:08:33What about testing on people?
01:08:36People, people.
01:08:39He knew how badly I wanted his treasure.
01:08:42But he kept it locked away in a factory
01:08:45high in the Swiss Alps.
01:08:48Don't do it, Ben.
01:08:51I remember when Paul went to Switzerland
01:08:54for the first time.
01:08:57For the weekend to take a look, he said.
01:09:00But when he came back, he was a different man.
01:09:03I'm not going to kill old people, Anna.
01:09:07You're part of his factory, just like Paul.
01:09:10I tried to warn you.
01:09:13Haven't you understood yet?
01:09:16You're going to be Ulrich's new man.
01:09:19It was all set up.
01:09:22I can beat Ulrich at his own game.
01:09:25No, you can't.
01:09:28He's too clever. He'll trap you.
01:09:31You'll be quite helpless.
01:09:35Yes?
01:09:38This is Professor Van Arp.
01:09:41How are you feeling?
01:09:44I'll be in my office tomorrow morning.
01:09:47I don't quite understand.
01:09:50It's too late now.
01:09:53I see.
01:09:56Oh, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
01:09:59Can't you tell me what this is about?
01:10:02Oh, it's so unfair.
01:10:05The devil always wins.
01:10:11Yes?
01:10:14Goodbye, Ben.
01:10:17Yes, all right.
01:10:2011 o'clock at your office.
01:10:24Anna.
01:10:42A puzzle of a factory.
01:10:45Ulrich's factory in the Alps?
01:10:48That puzzle wasn't there by accident.
01:10:51That puzzle wasn't there by accident.
01:10:54But the events were way ahead of me.
01:10:57This is Dr. Land, gentlemen.
01:11:00How could you have done it?
01:11:03Digging up a grave in the middle of the night?
01:11:06This gentleman is from the police.
01:11:12Did you tell them, Pim?
01:11:15Ben, my uncle says that we made a mistake about Dr. Linden.
01:11:19He had the absurd idea that a member of our faculty,
01:11:22Dr. Paul Linden, was a mass murderer.
01:11:25Don't you think I had good reasons?
01:11:28Or haven't you told them about Dr. Linden's experiments?
01:11:31I didn't have to. These gentlemen already knew.
01:11:34I am from the Ministry of Science, Dr. Land.
01:11:37I can assure you we followed very carefully
01:11:40what Dr. Linden was testing.
01:11:43It concerned a new method of adding a color process
01:11:47to an anti-influenza vaccine
01:11:50so one can check the effectiveness of the vaccine.
01:11:53People are more interested in a cure for the common cold
01:11:56than in any of your immortality serums.
01:11:59The process is quite safe.
01:12:02By the way, it does create a ring-like effect
01:12:05when viewed under a microscope.
01:12:08You were perhaps misled by that.
01:12:11You made a lot of accusations, but you've proved nothing.
01:12:14I never wanted to prove anything.
01:12:17I wanted to understand why Linden killed himself.
01:12:20Why don't you dig him up at Hoskins?
01:12:26It's my fault, Ben.
01:12:29I told you the mice were four years old.
01:12:32They were not even two years old.
01:12:35My uncle showed me. I made a mistake reading the record.
01:12:38I did, Ben. Really, I did.
01:12:42You can't change the records. It's not possible.
01:12:45It is possible, Ben.
01:12:48Think carefully. We got it all wrong.
01:12:51Yes.
01:12:56Dr. Land.
01:12:59I knew you were a bit mad,
01:13:02but now you've turned into a dangerous lunatic.
01:13:05You went to the old age home
01:13:08and you took a biopsy of an old man.
01:13:11I knew I shouldn't have let you touch him.
01:13:14Emil van der Lutke is dead.
01:13:17What? That's impossible.
01:13:20The infection started in his arm where you took the biopsy.
01:13:23You killed him.
01:13:26I couldn't have killed him.
01:13:29People have so little resistance at that age.
01:13:32Dr. Land, did you sterilize your instruments
01:13:35after you used them to poke around in a graveyard?
01:13:39Or did I? I was in such a rush.
01:13:42Some people might call you a murderer.
01:13:48I don't believe you. You're trying to frame me.
01:13:51He can't be dead. I don't believe it.
01:13:54You're mad. Absolutely mad.
01:13:57You need a doctor, Dr. Land.
01:14:00They called for an ambulance and under heavy sedation
01:14:03I was taken to a clean, white mental hospital.
01:14:09I keep thinking about the old piano player.
01:14:14What if he's really dead?
01:14:17And then I say to myself,
01:14:20no, he can't be.
01:14:23Because I can hear him.
01:14:39He's dead.
01:14:42He's dead.
01:14:45He's dead.
01:14:48He's dead.
01:14:51He's dead.
01:14:54He's dead.
01:14:57He's dead.
01:15:00He's dead.
01:15:03He's dead.
01:15:07He's dead.
01:15:10He's dead.
01:15:13He's dead.
01:15:16He's dead.
01:15:19He's dead.
01:15:22He's dead.
01:15:25He's dead.
01:15:28He's dead.
01:15:31He's dead.
01:15:34He's dead.
01:15:52Paul?
01:16:00How does it feel
01:16:03It 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?
01:16:30Don't worry about it.
01:16:33Paul, if those people didn't matter to you, why did you kill yourself?
01:16:38Paul, I've got to know!
01:16:41Answer me, Paul!
01:16:44These fantasies about Dr. Linden must have started before the old man's death.
01:16:49Then I knew you didn't mean to kill him.
01:16:52I'm a psychiatrist. I want to help you.
01:16:55Why won't you answer me anymore?
01:17:00Listen, Ben. I'm real. My footsteps are real.
01:17:04The boy in the next bed is real. This hospital is real.
01:17:08But the dead Dr. Linden walking around and talking to you is one of your fantasies.
01:17:15And you see, Ben, the great danger with fantasies is 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.
01:17:40Take the express to Geneva, he said,
01:17:43and then change to a little red alpine train that will get you almost up to the factory.
01:17:48I told Ulrich not to pick me up at the station.
01:17:51I was going to meet the devil on a mountaintop,
01:17:54and I wanted to take my own good time about it.
01:18:03He'd gotten Linden to sell his soul to him,
01:18:06and he'd sold his soul to Ulrich.
01:18:09He'd sold his soul to Ulrich,
01:18:12and he'd sold his soul to Ulrich.
01:18:16He'd gotten Linden to sell his soul to him,
01:18:19and now it was my turn.
01:18:22But I know how to beat him in his own game.
01:18:25I'm going to work day and night on that formula until I'm sure of the right dosage,
01:18:30and then I'll try it on myself in that dream lab high in the Alps.
01:18:36And if it works on me, then Mr. Ulrich will be the first to line up for the treatment.
01:18:41Only maybe I won't be so careful when 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.
01:19:03We may even have to move off this aging planet in order to survive.
01:19:08But someday we'll look back and wonder how we ever tolerated life with death.
01:19:16After all, how can you be satisfied with something that has to end?