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PROF. PUTMAN
Ginny....Ginny....we'll all be
with you soon...me...mummy...Tom...
you like Tom, don't you?
48 BURKE AND COTTRELL 48
If Burke is still puzzled, Cottrell's expression is one of
growing horror.
49 THEIR POINT OF VIEW - PROF. PUTMAN 49
PROF. PUTMAN
World's rotten, darling...bad men
...all bad....better dead....all the
same...all together....
50 BURKE AND COTTRELL 50
Burke starts to step forward when Cottrell savagely pulls him
back into the room and shuts the door with a noise, and
says of it:
COTTRELL
No matter -- he can't hear us now.
BURKE
What do you mean, Doctor?
COTTRELL
You can't fool the subconscious.
He knows she's dead.
BURKE
But I didn't mean ---
Cottrell silences him with a gesture, then:
COTTRELL
Not your fault, Burke. Us! All
of us!
(a pause)
But can a man remain a genius if
his mind is clouded with delusion?
No! But by pretending that Ginny
was still alive, you took over his
delusion!
(a sigh)
Then he could be objective, finish
his work....but there was something
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COTTRELL (cont'd)
else. He liked you, and your injury
was final proof that Mankind would
be better off extinct.
BURKE
He -- he was talking...as if...he's
going to see her.
COTTRELL
Yes, and the only way to do that is
to die. But he can't commit con-
scious suicide. Conflict, man!
Conflict leading to insanity and
the desperate need to find some
escape to opposed problems!
51 COTTRELL 51
COTTRELL
And that is the man who worked out
the means to create fission in non-
radioactive materials.
52 BURKE 52
BURKE
What are you saying, Doctor?
53 COTTRELL 53
COTTRELL
Do I have to explain?
54 BURKE 54
BURKE
But it's....it's madness! To give
them the wrong formula?
55 COTTRELL 55
What expression, what words would a man have in the face of
the inevitable?
COTTRELL
'Madness'? Or perhaps the perfect
solution?
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56 BURKE 56
BURKE
Is it...too late?
57 COTTRELL 57
COTTRELL
I'm afraid so, my friend. When our
world goes up in flames...he'll be
revenged on the murderer of his
little girl....and, at the same
time, be with her in the only way
he can.
58 BURKE 58
helpless.
59 BURKE AND COTTRELL 59
Faintly, almost inaudibly, there is heard from the distance
an ever-increasing roar. They lift up their faces as the
roar becomes loader. Then, gradually, their faces are suffused
with a reddish light. The roar and the redness obliterate
their faces, and then the screen is suddenly black and silent
for several seconds before:
FINAL CREDITS
THE END