全英文剧本 X档案第五季第六集 科学怪人 Post

1、x档案第五季第六集 科学怪人 post-modern prometheus -scene 1 (a brightly covered comic book cover, the great mutato, opens to the black and white interior. the first caption on the neighborhood street scene is somewhere in the land, a monster lurked. the picture fades into an actual street. the episode is filmed

2、in black and white.) (outside the berkowitz house. 18 year old izzy berkowitz and a friend are looking under the hood of a very old car. booger is in the driver抯 seat.) izzy: you抮e flooding it, booger. (booger grunts and does something that causes a cloud of smoke to burst from the engine into izzy扴

3、 face. izzy coughs. shaineh berkowitz, early middle aged, comes out onto her porch.) shaineh: for god抯 sake, izzy! (as shaineh comes down to the car, izzy and his friend get into car.) booger: here she comes. let抯 go. come on, man. shaineh: (looking in car) you got to be kidding. izzy: what? shaineh

4、: don抰 what me, izzy, or you ain抰 going to no comic book convention. izzy: i抦 18. i go anywhere i want. shaineh: yeah, but where you going to live when you get back? izzy: (impatient) mom, we got to get going. shaineh: you drive careful, booger. he抯 the only son i抳e got. booger: okay, mrs. b. (car d

5、rives away, belching exhaust. shaineh watches them go, shakes her head.) (later, inside the house we hear the tv - jerry springer show. camera begins panning through the house.) jerry springer: (voice on tv) im about to introduce you to a woman who three years ago was delivered the surprise of her l

6、ife. (we see someone walking quietly through the bekowitz house.) jerry springer: after nine months of what seemed like a normal pregnancy, doctors delivered to dolores a very special child. already a mother of two beautiful children, dolores held in her arms a boy with fur like a dog and a hairline

7、 like eddie munster. shes here with us today with her real live, but sleeping, wolf baby. (shaineh is in bed raptly watching the tv. jerry springer is interviewing a woman holding a sleeping hairy child.) jerry springer: hey, why not just give him a razor and some shaving cream? i mean, he抯 going to

8、 be shaving in a couple of years anyway. (circus tent like fabric begins rolling down outside covering the house.) wolf boy mother: well, actually, he seems to be quite allergic to shaving cream. they seem to like him. they like to come up and touch his hair and tug on it a little. jerry springer: s

9、o they dont tease him? wolf boy mother: no. hes quite popular. jerry springer: dandruff a problem? wolf boy mother: mmm. no. i wash his hair twice a day and brush 100 strokes a night. shaineh: i cain抰 believe this. jerry springer: i think the question the audience really wants answered is, uh. what

10、does the father look like? wolf boy mother: the father is completely bald. jerry springer: completely bald? wolf boy mother: completely. jerry springer: were you a hairy kid? wolf boy mother: no. i was not. jerry springer: seriously? wolf boy mother: really. jerry springer: come on. fess up. we have

11、 pictures here. we happen to know that you had hair all over your face. wolf boy mother: im afraid that that cannot be true. jerry springer: i know this is a little delicate. but, uh, does he have any problem with fleas? i mean, hes not a real wolf boy, is he? wolf boy mother: no. im very careful ab

12、out that. i buy the right products for fleas and. he does get the occasional itchies but hes all right. jerry springer: you don抰 have fleas? (gas stove burner is turned on. something that looks like a hockey puck is placed in a frying pan. it immediately begins to smoke. music starts. smoke begins t

13、o seep under shaineh扴 bedroom door.) cher: (singing) lonliness? shaineh: hello?! (mutes the tv) is the cloak you wear ? shaineh: who抯 there? (coughing and rubbing her chest.) deep shade of blue is always there the sun ain扵 gonna shine anymore the moon aint gonna rise in the sky the tears are always

14、clouding your eyes (bedroom door opens and shaineh gasps as the great mutato peeps in the room. he has a lumpy head and two faces.) when you扲e without love ? (exterior shot of house shows that it completely covered by a circus tent.) - -scene 2 (two lane road. mulder and scully in car, mulder drivin

15、g. scully is reading a letter out loud.) scully: dear special agent mulder: i抦 writing to you for help. several years ago i had an experience i could not explain. i was lying in my bed when i felt a presence in the room. though i was awake. i felt that something had taken control over my body. i don

16、抰 remember much else but i woke up three days later pregnant with my son, izzy. (mulder and scully look at each other.) that was 18 years ago, but now it happened again. i was in bed and could swear i heard cher singing ?the one who was married to sonny. (another look.) then the room got all smoky,

17、and i saw some kind of monster. he had a really gross face with lumps all over his head. i was too scared to scream. then i got all groggy and conked out for three days. guess what happened when i woke up? i got your name off the tv. some lady on the jerry springer show who had a werewolf baby said

18、you came to her house. (scully looks at mulder accusingly. he looks guilty.) well, i got her story beat by a mile so maybe you抣l want to come see me, too. sincerely, shaineh berkowitz. mulder: scully, do you think it抯 too soon to get my own 1-900 number? (scully rolls her eyes.) -scene 3 (berkowitz

19、kitchen. shaineh is pouring classes of perk cola for mulder and scully who are sitting at the kitchen table.) shaineh: so, did you actually see that werewolf baby or was that just a story? mulder: no. it had something called hypertrechosis lanuginosa. it抯 a rare hereditary condition most commonly fo

20、und in some south american families. shaineh: (not convinced) uh huh. but it was all hairy and stuff? scully: uh, mrs. berkowitz? you said that you also had a son? shaineh: mm hmm. izzy. that抯 him there. (she points to a picture of izzy posing with a pig. they look very similar.) scully: and izzy is

21、 the product of your union with some kind of intruder? shaineh: i don抰 know about no union, but i sure woke up in a condition. scully: did you report this to the police? shaineh: of course i did. scully: was there an investigation? shaineh: not really. nobody here ever locks their doors, and it took

22、 me a month of two to figure it out ?i mean, that i was pregnant. scully: and now you抮e pregnant again? shaineh: uh huh, but as i told agent mulder on the phone, that抯 what takes the cake. mulder: mrs. berkowitz had a tubal ligation two years ago. shaineh: you can抰 plant a seed in a barren field. (s

23、he gets up and holds out a very clean frying pan.) they were cooking something on the range. took me two days of scrubbing to clean the skillet. (scully looks at the skillet, then at mulder. scully sets the skillet back down.) i don抰 know how many of them there were. i only saw the one, but they ate

24、 almost a whole damn jar of peanut butter. (holds up a large empty jar of peanut butter.) scully: you were gone for three days, but nobody missed you? shaineh: i know what you抮e thinking. scully: do you drink, mrs. berkowitz? shaineh: no. but i抦 not so sure my intruders, as you call them, didn抰 have

25、 a few. somebody set a tumbler here and didn抰 use no coaster. (points to two ring shaped water marks on an old cabinet) mulder: (leaning down to examine the marks) mmm. shaineh: that抯 a family heirloom, too. scully: is there no chance that your son could have put it there? shaineh: (snorts derisivel

26、y) izzy抯 got more brains than that. not much more, but he values his life. (indicates room at the end of the hall) that pigsty there is his room. (scully enters the bedroom and looks around.) shaineh: you know what this thing is, don抰 you agent mulder? mulder: why do you say that? (scully finds a gr

27、eat mutato comic book.) shaineh: cause you抮e acting all quiet and stuff. and you know something you抮e not saying - about alien abductions. they said on the jerry springer show you抮e, like, an expert. mulder: well, i don抰 think this has anything to do with alien abductions. i don抰 even know if i beli

28、eve in that stuff anymore. shaineh: oh, come on. really? scully: mrs. berkowitz? you gave a description of the intruder. you said that he had a gross face and lumps on his head? shaineh: and two mouths. i don抰 know if i mentioned that. scully: funny. sounds just like this. (mulder comes to her side

29、and looks at the comic book. scully holds it up for shaineh.) shaineh: oh, that? (scully give tight smile.) that抯 the great mutato. (proud.) that抯 a comic book character my kid izzy created. (door bangs shut as izzy enters.) izzy: what抯 going on? shaineh: these are agents mulder and scully from the

30、fbi. izzy: the federal bureau of investigation? scully: we were wondering how this suspect in your mother抯 case looks exactly like this? mulder: (holds up comic book.) the great mutato izzy: because i ?i抳e seen him, too. scully: you抳e seen the great mutato? izzy: yeah. a lot of people around here ha

31、ve. scully: has it crossed neither of your minds that what you say you saw that night fits perfectly with this creature that your son created? shaineh: (defensively) well, yeah. but ?that don抰 mean it didn抰 happen. (mulder looks at scully and raises his eyebrows.) -scene 4 (night. outside in a clear

32、ing near a forest. izzy unwraps a sandwich and leaves it on a stump.) izzy: don抰 ask me why, but it works. scully: (to mulder) peanut butter sandwiches? (mulder, scully, izzy and his friends all begin walking back to the cars about 50 yards away. mulder and scully speak to each other quietly.) mulde

33、r: you think baloney would be more effective? scully: why are you humoring them, mulder? mulder: i抦 not humoring them, scully. this is a very serious crime. scully: so is perjury. so is calling out fbi agents under false pretenses. mulder: for the purpose of what? (izzy stays close, hiding a tape re

34、corder.) scully: isn抰 it obvious? (mulder shakes his head.) i think that what we抮e seeing here is an example of the culture for whom daytime talk shows and tabloid headlines have - have become a reality against which they measure their lives ?a culture so obsessed with the media and a chance for sel

35、f-dramatization that they抣l do anything in order to gain a spotlight. mulder: i am alarmed that you would reduce these people to a cultural stereotype. not everybody抯 dream is to get on jerry springer. scully: psychologists often speak of the denial of an unthinkable evil or a misplacement of shared

36、 fears. (mulder leans against the hood of their car, scully stands in front of him.) anxieties taking the form of a hideous monster for whom the most horrific human attributes can be ascribed. what we can抰 possibly imagine ourselves capable of we can blame on the ogre, on the hunchback, on the lowly

37、 half-breed. (td note: perfect opportunity for chers song, half-breed, dontcha think?!) (they glance over at izzy who is leaning against nearby car and clearing his throat.) scully: but common sense alone will tell you that these legends, these unverified rumors are ridiculous. mulder: but nonethele

38、ss, unverifiable, and therefore true in the sense that they抮e believed to be true. scully: is there anything that you don抰 believe in, mulder? (a distant moan.) mulder: shh. (faintly, they hear moaning. scully looks around in surprise.) scully: what抯 that sound? izzy: it抯 the great mutato. (over at

39、the stump, they see a figure pick up the sandwich. as they begin running toward it, the figure drops the sandwich and runs into the woods. mulder passes the stump and follows the figure. scully pauses and looks at the sandwich has had two bites taken out of it on different sides. a few minutes later

40、 she catches up with mulder as do the boys.) scully: where抎 it go? mulder: i don抰 know. i lost it. (lightening flashes.) mulder: there. up there. (scully shines her flashlight onto top of nearby hill. they hear pig sounds.) old man: turn that damn thing off. (he has a pig on a leash.) you抮e on my pr

41、operty. mulder: we抮e with the fbi. old man: they抮e not. izzy: we were - scully: we were just chasing what they told us was a monster. old man: monster? what抎 i tell you boys? there ain抰 no monster. i抣l show you the monster you抮e looking for. -scene 5 (newspaper - university of indiana news press - p

42、rofessor creates own monsters. there is a picture of dr. pollidori. mulder lowers the newspaper revealing pollidori sitting in his lab. classic mad scientist.) pollidori: who sent you here? mulder: your father. pollidori: my father is a simpleton farmer. he understands nothing of my scientific achie

43、vements . scully: what achievements are those? pollidori: what makes you think you抎 understand them any better? scully: well, i抦 a scientist, for one. pollidori: well, then you probably know that once in a generation, perhaps once in a lifetime, a truth is uncovered which thrusts mankind into a shoc

44、king new consciousness turning accepted notions of our very existence on their head. (mulder and scully follow him through lab.) consider relativity, the double helix, and now the homeotic hox gene, for which i will undoubtedly have my place among the columbuses of science as a visionary leader of m

45、en. (geek lab boy stands waiting, holding a covered petri dish of flies.) pollidori: yes? geek lab boy: what do you want me to do with these, dr. pollidori? (he opens the dish. the flies all fly away.) geek lab boy: never mind. (sheepishly walks away.) mulder: what is the homeotic hox gene? pollidor

46、i: (sighs) she抯 the scientist. ask her. scully: (on the spot) i, uh ?i believe it has something to do with, um ?growth and development. pollidori: if you two will excuse me, i really don抰 have time for this. i have to travel tonight to the university of ingolstadt to deliver an international address

47、. scully: sir, unless you want your scientific achievements to end up as a footnote on the jerry springer show, i suggest that you make the time. pollidori: (pause, then with interest) jerry springer show? (they watch video of developing fruit fly. periodic dramatic lightening flashes.) pollidori: w

48、itness the morphogenesis of drosophila ?the fruit fly. what you are watching has been going on for millennia since the cambrian period some 580 million short years ago when drosophila was first born. notice the elegant symmetry with which the pupae grows into a series of beautiful segments. (mulder

49、and scully slowly look at each other. pollidori crosses to blackboard with diagram of a fly pupa.) what we have found ?what i have found ?is that these segments represent a linear model for the genetic development of our friend, the fly. each gene is responsible for the development of its correspond

50、ing segment: the legs, the mouth, the body, posterior and anterior. but which i, through my genius, can alter into a creation of my own. behold ?proboscopedia. mulder: (looking at very strange image of a deformed fly) this fly has legs ? scully: ? growing out of his mouth. mulder: why would you do t

51、hat? pollidori: because i can. (lots of lightening flashes.) mulder: could that be done in humans? pollidori: that would go against every scientific convention. mulder: but could it be done? pollidori: theoretically. (later, mulder and scully from a third story barred window watch pollidori leave th

52、e castle.) mulder: (to scully) good night, dr. frankenstein. scully: despite what you might think, mulder, designer mutations like these are virtually impossible in humans. mulder: that抯 not what i just heard. scully: mulder, even if they could, no scientist would even dare to perform this kind of e

53、xperiment on a human. mulder: well, then why do them at all? scully: to unlock the mysteries of genetics, to understand how it is that even though we share the same genes we develop arms instead of wings. we become humans instead of flies or monsters. mulder: but, given the power, who could resist t

54、he temptation to create life in his own image? scully: we already have that ability, mulder. it抯 called procreation. and first thing tomorrow morning, i抦 going to verify the pregnancy of shaineh berkowitz. (mulder nods.) -scene 6 (pollidori house. the decorating is obviously done by someone who has

55、too much time on her hands. martha stewart gone bad. elizabeth pollidori is packing a suitcase with men抯 clothes.) elizabeth: when are you coming home again? pollidori: (fixing his tie) huh? elizabeth: when are you coming home again? pollidori: what? elizabeth: we were going to have that talk. pollidori: soon, soon. we抣l have our talk soon. elizabet