1 00:01:34,391 --> 00:01:38,418 The strange, almost unbelievable story 2 00:01:38,495 --> 00:01:40,292 of Robert Scott Carey 3 00:01:40,597 --> 00:01:43,122 began on a very ordinary summer day. 4 00:01:43,667 --> 00:01:46,465 I know this story better than anyone, 5 00:01:46,536 --> 00:01:48,731 because I am Robert Scott Carey. 6 00:01:59,783 --> 00:02:01,978 This is the way to spend a vacation. 7 00:02:04,921 --> 00:02:06,320 I'm thirsty. 8 00:02:07,357 --> 00:02:09,325 That sun feels good. 9 00:02:10,127 --> 00:02:11,492 I'm thirsty. 10 00:02:11,561 --> 00:02:12,960 Interesting. 11 00:02:13,096 --> 00:02:15,326 A cold bottle of beer would taste fine. 12 00:02:15,399 --> 00:02:16,423 Why don't you get it? 13 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:17,524 Me? Mmm-hmm. 14 00:02:17,601 --> 00:02:19,296 I'm on vacation. All week. 15 00:02:19,369 --> 00:02:21,360 Well, so am I, my friend. 16 00:02:30,047 --> 00:02:31,412 Louise? 17 00:02:31,715 --> 00:02:33,410 I think we should get married. 18 00:02:33,483 --> 00:02:35,144 We've been married for six years. 19 00:02:35,218 --> 00:02:36,344 Really? Mmm-hmm. 20 00:02:36,620 --> 00:02:38,520 Seems like six minutes. 21 00:02:39,122 --> 00:02:41,454 I am not going to get you that beer. 22 00:02:43,093 --> 00:02:45,323 Now I provide the boat, you provide the beer. 23 00:02:45,395 --> 00:02:47,158 Your brother provided the boat. 24 00:02:47,230 --> 00:02:48,561 Okay, I'll make a deal with you. 25 00:02:48,632 --> 00:02:49,724 What? 26 00:02:50,934 --> 00:02:53,767 You get the beer. I'll get the dinner. How's that? 27 00:02:53,970 --> 00:02:55,870 Okay, you got yourself a deal. 28 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:59,108 To the galley, wench. Fetch me a flagon of beer. 29 00:02:59,176 --> 00:03:01,508 I'm sorry, Captain, but we're all out of flagons this trip. 30 00:03:01,578 --> 00:03:02,875 It'll have to be a can of beer. 31 00:03:02,946 --> 00:03:04,038 Out of flagons! Mmm-hmm. 32 00:03:04,114 --> 00:03:06,514 In the name of heavens, woman, how are we to make the Philippines? 33 00:03:06,583 --> 00:03:08,244 We're not going to the Philippines, sir. 34 00:03:08,318 --> 00:03:09,808 We're going home at the end of the week. 35 00:03:09,886 --> 00:03:11,080 Mutiny! 36 00:03:13,824 --> 00:03:14,984 Make them cold. 37 00:03:15,058 --> 00:03:16,320 Like ice. 38 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,077 Scott, what was that? 39 00:04:12,149 --> 00:04:14,515 I don't know, some kind of mist. 40 00:04:14,584 --> 00:04:16,313 Look at your chest. 41 00:04:27,531 --> 00:04:30,022 But then, on an equally ordinary day, 42 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:31,829 six months later... 43 00:04:35,138 --> 00:04:37,368 Good morning, Joe. Good morning, Mrs. Carey. 44 00:04:37,441 --> 00:04:39,170 Looks like a nice day, huh? 45 00:04:39,242 --> 00:04:40,869 See you tomorrow. 46 00:04:45,282 --> 00:04:46,681 Here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. 47 00:04:46,750 --> 00:04:48,217 Here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. 48 00:04:48,285 --> 00:04:50,515 Come on, Butch. That's a boy! 49 00:04:50,587 --> 00:04:51,918 There you go. 50 00:05:16,046 --> 00:05:18,879 Scott! Scott, are you dressed yet? 51 00:05:18,949 --> 00:05:20,075 I'll be right there. 52 00:05:20,150 --> 00:05:21,481 All right. 53 00:05:26,857 --> 00:05:27,915 Lou! 54 00:05:27,991 --> 00:05:29,049 Yes, dear? 55 00:05:29,125 --> 00:05:31,753 Honey, are you sure you got the right pants back from the cleaner's? 56 00:05:31,828 --> 00:05:33,420 Just a second. 57 00:05:40,837 --> 00:05:42,930 You asked the same question yesterday morning. 58 00:05:43,006 --> 00:05:44,098 Well, they still don't fit right. 59 00:05:44,174 --> 00:05:45,198 Are they still too loose? 60 00:05:45,275 --> 00:05:46,833 Sure. Even the cuffs are dragging. 61 00:05:46,910 --> 00:05:48,571 Gee, they do look kind of big. 62 00:05:48,645 --> 00:05:49,669 You better talk to that cleaner's. 63 00:05:49,746 --> 00:05:51,771 I don't know what he's doing, but tell him to cut it out. 64 00:05:51,848 --> 00:05:53,145 You're probably just losing weight. 65 00:05:53,216 --> 00:05:56,049 And it's very becoming, so don't complain. 66 00:05:56,152 --> 00:05:57,414 You want one or two eggs? 67 00:05:57,487 --> 00:05:58,511 One. 68 00:05:58,588 --> 00:06:01,421 One? Now, that's why your pants don't fit. 69 00:06:20,810 --> 00:06:22,004 Lou! 70 00:06:22,078 --> 00:06:23,170 Yeah? 71 00:06:24,915 --> 00:06:27,179 Hey, for the love of Pete, the shirt doesn't fit either. 72 00:06:27,250 --> 00:06:29,411 Well, it's your shirt, honey. It's got your monogram on it. 73 00:06:29,486 --> 00:06:31,420 Well, what's that supposed... Now, come on and sit down 74 00:06:31,488 --> 00:06:33,649 and eat your breakfast, and forget about it. 75 00:06:33,723 --> 00:06:36,385 Gee, I know a lot of people who'd like to lose a little weight. 76 00:06:36,459 --> 00:06:38,120 What's your secret? 77 00:06:38,194 --> 00:06:40,685 Maybe, it's the cooking around here. 78 00:06:40,931 --> 00:06:44,128 Well, thanks a lot. Drink your orange juice. 79 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:45,189 Lou, do me a favor. 80 00:06:45,268 --> 00:06:46,257 What, honey? 81 00:06:46,336 --> 00:06:48,634 Pick up a bathroom scale today. 82 00:06:48,738 --> 00:06:50,069 All right. 83 00:07:01,484 --> 00:07:03,679 Still get 5'11", Mr. Carey. 84 00:07:04,054 --> 00:07:06,386 I've been 6'1" since I was 17. 85 00:07:07,023 --> 00:07:08,615 What's the weight? 86 00:07:08,692 --> 00:07:11,024 Still 174 and a quarter pounds. 87 00:07:11,661 --> 00:07:13,253 I don't understand it. 88 00:07:14,397 --> 00:07:16,524 That's a loss of almost 10 pounds. 89 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,535 Well, I told you, Mr. Carey, you're probably overworking yourself. 90 00:07:19,603 --> 00:07:21,002 You told me that when you overwork 91 00:07:21,071 --> 00:07:23,198 you get nervous and tend to lose weight. 92 00:07:23,273 --> 00:07:25,434 Yes, but I've never lost that much weight. 93 00:07:25,508 --> 00:07:28,409 Besides, I haven't been particularly nervous lately. 94 00:07:28,645 --> 00:07:31,512 Anyway, not eating wouldn't make me lose height, would it? 95 00:07:31,581 --> 00:07:34,778 I very much doubt if you've been losing height, Mr. Carey. 96 00:07:34,851 --> 00:07:36,944 Why don't you put your things on? 97 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,581 You told me that you've been 6'1" since you were 17 years old? 98 00:07:41,658 --> 00:07:42,886 That's right. 99 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:46,156 How many physical examinations have you had since then? 100 00:07:46,229 --> 00:07:47,958 At the draft board. 101 00:07:48,031 --> 00:07:50,693 In the Navy, and a life insurance physical. 102 00:07:50,767 --> 00:07:52,462 That's not too many, is it? 103 00:07:52,535 --> 00:07:54,298 And it's quite possible there might have been errors 104 00:07:54,371 --> 00:07:56,703 made in all of them as regards your height. 105 00:07:56,773 --> 00:07:58,240 That very often happens. 106 00:07:58,308 --> 00:08:00,401 There are a number of things that could cause such errors. 107 00:08:00,477 --> 00:08:02,604 For example, if you stood erect, 108 00:08:02,679 --> 00:08:05,011 you'd measure out as taller than you actually are, 109 00:08:05,081 --> 00:08:07,447 or if your height was taken in the morning, 110 00:08:07,517 --> 00:08:08,814 you'd measure out as taller. 111 00:08:08,885 --> 00:08:09,943 Why is that? 112 00:08:10,020 --> 00:08:13,387 Because people actually decrease in height during the day. 113 00:08:13,456 --> 00:08:15,924 You see, the body weight compresses the spinal disks, 114 00:08:15,992 --> 00:08:18,085 the bone joints, and so on. 115 00:08:18,628 --> 00:08:19,754 I see. 116 00:08:20,397 --> 00:08:21,864 Two inches, Doctor? 117 00:08:22,465 --> 00:08:24,797 Well, I wouldn't worry about it, Mr. Carey. 118 00:08:24,868 --> 00:08:26,836 As far as I can see, you're in perfect health. 119 00:08:26,903 --> 00:08:30,430 You've likely lost a little weight, due to an insufficient diet, 120 00:08:31,341 --> 00:08:33,935 but people don't get shorter, Mr. Carey. 121 00:08:34,644 --> 00:08:36,771 They just don't get shorter. 122 00:08:48,892 --> 00:08:51,383 What'd Charlie think about your idea for the newspaper ad? 123 00:08:51,461 --> 00:08:52,485 Huh? 124 00:08:53,196 --> 00:08:55,630 He thinks it has possibilities. 125 00:09:01,705 --> 00:09:02,763 Well? 126 00:09:03,807 --> 00:09:05,570 Four pounds. Up or down? 127 00:09:05,642 --> 00:09:06,666 Down. 128 00:09:06,743 --> 00:09:10,338 Well, that does it, my boy. You're going to start taking vitamins. 129 00:09:10,613 --> 00:09:12,945 I'm gonna get you so fat on ice cream and cake, 130 00:09:13,016 --> 00:09:15,814 you'll think you're living in a child's paradise. 131 00:09:15,885 --> 00:09:17,648 I don't think that's gonna fix it, Lou. 132 00:09:17,721 --> 00:09:19,450 Well, then, we'll go and see a doctor, honey. 133 00:09:19,522 --> 00:09:21,080 You're due for a check up, anyway. 134 00:09:21,157 --> 00:09:23,250 I've already seen a doctor. 135 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,591 When? A week ago. 136 00:09:25,895 --> 00:09:29,160 Well, honey, why didn't you say something about it? 137 00:09:31,434 --> 00:09:32,833 Come here, Louise. 138 00:09:35,238 --> 00:09:36,227 Kiss me. 139 00:09:36,573 --> 00:09:38,734 You think that's gonna fix it, huh? 140 00:09:44,114 --> 00:09:45,809 You didn't have to stretch. 141 00:09:45,882 --> 00:09:47,816 You used to stand on your toes when you did that. 142 00:09:47,884 --> 00:09:49,749 Why, in your stocking feet? 143 00:09:53,990 --> 00:09:56,481 I'm getting smaller, Lou, every day. 144 00:09:56,793 --> 00:10:00,160 Well, that's silly, honey. People just don't get smaller. 145 00:10:01,931 --> 00:10:03,956 Yeah. Yeah, you're right. 146 00:10:04,367 --> 00:10:06,164 We'll go back to the doctor tomorrow. 147 00:10:06,236 --> 00:10:08,261 I'm sure he's got a pill for it. 148 00:10:20,116 --> 00:10:23,415 Don't worry, Butch. Everything's gonna be all right. 149 00:10:24,220 --> 00:10:25,551 Go to bed. 150 00:11:04,894 --> 00:11:06,953 Well, that's the last of them, Mr. Carey. 151 00:11:07,030 --> 00:11:09,396 This has been a long week, Dr. Bramson. 152 00:11:09,465 --> 00:11:11,797 I must've worn out your machine. 153 00:11:12,168 --> 00:11:15,797 I needed two full sets of pictures, spaced several days apart. 154 00:11:15,872 --> 00:11:18,272 I had to compare them before I... 155 00:11:18,808 --> 00:11:20,435 Before I could be sure. 156 00:11:20,510 --> 00:11:22,671 Sure of what, Doctor? What is it? 157 00:11:22,745 --> 00:11:26,112 Relax, Doctor. You can't tell me anything I haven't imagined. 158 00:11:29,953 --> 00:11:31,921 You are getting smaller. 159 00:11:34,457 --> 00:11:37,017 I don't profess to understand it, Mr. Carey. 160 00:11:37,861 --> 00:11:41,422 There's no medical precedent for what's happening to you. 161 00:11:41,798 --> 00:11:44,289 I simply know that you're getting smaller. 162 00:11:45,001 --> 00:11:47,595 The X-rays prove it beyond any doubt. 163 00:11:48,471 --> 00:11:50,302 But that's impossible. 164 00:11:51,875 --> 00:11:54,503 That's what we've always believed, Mrs. Carey. 165 00:11:57,380 --> 00:12:01,180 I'm going to send you to the California Medical Research Institute. 166 00:12:01,784 --> 00:12:04,844 If there is an explanation for your phenomenon, 167 00:12:06,322 --> 00:12:08,119 why, they'll find it. 168 00:12:19,736 --> 00:12:22,569 Then began a series of intensive tests. 169 00:12:23,473 --> 00:12:25,168 I drank a barium solution 170 00:12:25,241 --> 00:12:27,835 and stood behind a fluoroscope screen. 171 00:12:29,178 --> 00:12:31,510 They gave me radioactive iodine, 172 00:12:35,585 --> 00:12:38,315 and an examination with a Geiger counter. 173 00:12:40,223 --> 00:12:42,748 I had electrodes fastened to my head. 174 00:12:43,092 --> 00:12:45,560 Water restriction tests. Protein bond tests. 175 00:12:45,628 --> 00:12:48,825 Eye tests. Blood cultures. X- rays and more X-rays. 176 00:12:48,898 --> 00:12:51,264 Tests. Endless tests. 177 00:12:52,001 --> 00:12:54,435 And then one day in the third week, 178 00:12:54,604 --> 00:12:56,469 the final examination. 179 00:12:56,906 --> 00:12:59,033 A paper chromatography test. 180 00:13:01,177 --> 00:13:03,543 Now, don't be despondent, Mr. Carey. 181 00:13:03,613 --> 00:13:06,446 At least we've found out what is happening to you, 182 00:13:06,516 --> 00:13:09,849 gradual loss of nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus. 183 00:13:10,086 --> 00:13:11,951 This test may tell us why. 184 00:13:12,021 --> 00:13:13,352 I hope so. 185 00:13:13,690 --> 00:13:16,250 I think the strip should be dry by now. 186 00:13:16,326 --> 00:13:19,784 We should find phospholipid, amino acids, 187 00:13:19,996 --> 00:13:23,557 cholesterol, creatinine and protein. 188 00:13:24,133 --> 00:13:27,364 These are the elements most commonly found on this strip. 189 00:13:31,674 --> 00:13:32,936 Wait a minute. 190 00:13:34,811 --> 00:13:36,506 This one doesn't belong. 191 00:13:43,820 --> 00:13:46,880 It certainly doesn't belong. Here, take a look. 192 00:13:50,259 --> 00:13:52,784 Our analysis shows that it's a rearrangement 193 00:13:52,862 --> 00:13:55,990 of the molecular structure of the cells in your body. 194 00:13:56,065 --> 00:13:58,192 You mean like a cancer? 195 00:13:58,401 --> 00:13:59,390 No. 196 00:14:00,036 --> 00:14:01,731 No, more like an anti-cancer, 197 00:14:01,804 --> 00:14:04,500 causing a diminution of all the organs proportionately. 198 00:14:04,574 --> 00:14:07,270 Then you know what's causing me to get smaller. 199 00:14:07,377 --> 00:14:10,369 We think we do, Mr. Carey. That's why I asked you here. 200 00:14:10,446 --> 00:14:12,710 Now, I want you to tell me something. 201 00:14:14,017 --> 00:14:17,578 Have you ever been accidentally exposed to any kind of germ spray? 202 00:14:18,087 --> 00:14:19,850 In particular, an insecticide? 203 00:14:19,922 --> 00:14:21,822 A great deal of insecticide? 204 00:14:21,891 --> 00:14:23,119 Insecticide? 205 00:14:23,192 --> 00:14:24,420 Exactly. 206 00:14:24,861 --> 00:14:27,762 Has there ever been a time when you were so exposed? 207 00:14:28,364 --> 00:14:31,356 Do you remember that day I came home and told you about the truck? 208 00:14:31,434 --> 00:14:33,459 Yes, about two months ago. 209 00:14:33,836 --> 00:14:36,396 I was on my way to the store through a back alley. 210 00:14:36,472 --> 00:14:40,135 As I was walking a truck turned in. It was spraying trees. 211 00:14:40,710 --> 00:14:42,337 Do you think that's what's causing me to... 212 00:14:42,412 --> 00:14:44,744 No, that was only the beginning. 213 00:14:44,914 --> 00:14:47,075 You see, something happened to that insecticide 214 00:14:47,150 --> 00:14:49,277 after it was in your system. 215 00:14:49,452 --> 00:14:51,750 Something fantastic and unprecedented. 216 00:14:52,288 --> 00:14:55,223 Something which, in layman's terms, so affected the insecticide 217 00:14:55,291 --> 00:14:57,816 that from a mildly virulent germ spray, 218 00:14:57,894 --> 00:15:01,523 it created deadly chemical reversal of the growth process. 219 00:15:02,298 --> 00:15:04,789 Have you been exposed to any type of radioactivity 220 00:15:04,867 --> 00:15:06,334 in the past six months? 221 00:15:06,402 --> 00:15:07,767 Oh, no. Of course not. 222 00:15:07,837 --> 00:15:09,327 I don't come in contact with anything like that. 223 00:15:09,405 --> 00:15:12,238 I work in an advertising... Scott, wait a minute! 224 00:15:12,308 --> 00:15:13,775 That day we were on the boat. 225 00:15:13,843 --> 00:15:14,969 The boat? 226 00:15:15,044 --> 00:15:16,841 Charlie's boat. Remember? 227 00:15:17,380 --> 00:15:19,280 Well, yes, I remember, but... 228 00:15:20,750 --> 00:15:21,842 The mist. 229 00:15:23,853 --> 00:15:25,081 That mist. 230 00:15:36,265 --> 00:15:38,233 Do you want me to drive, honey? 231 00:15:39,802 --> 00:15:41,201 No, I'm all right. 232 00:15:42,138 --> 00:15:43,298 Louise, 233 00:15:45,641 --> 00:15:49,077 I want you to start thinking about us, 234 00:15:49,145 --> 00:15:50,407 our marriage. 235 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,311 Some awful things might happen. 236 00:15:52,381 --> 00:15:54,542 There's a limit to your obligation. 237 00:15:54,684 --> 00:15:56,618 Now, wait a minute. 238 00:15:57,587 --> 00:16:00,385 Look, I love you. 239 00:16:00,623 --> 00:16:01,749 Don't you know that? 240 00:16:01,824 --> 00:16:03,291 You love Scott Carey. 241 00:16:03,359 --> 00:16:05,452 He has a size and a shape and a way of thinking. 242 00:16:05,528 --> 00:16:06,756 All that's changing now. 243 00:16:06,829 --> 00:16:09,525 Not a darned thing's changed. I know I haven't. 244 00:16:10,333 --> 00:16:13,029 When I married you, I meant what I said. 245 00:16:13,469 --> 00:16:16,199 And as long as you've got this wedding ring on, 246 00:16:16,272 --> 00:16:17,762 you've got me. 247 00:16:18,508 --> 00:16:20,806 Come on now, let's go home, huh? 248 00:16:38,694 --> 00:16:41,788 The truth is, I just lost the Bannister account. 249 00:16:42,131 --> 00:16:45,498 You know how big that account was. Probably 40% of my income. 250 00:16:45,868 --> 00:16:47,597 Well, it's gone now, 251 00:16:47,703 --> 00:16:50,729 and I just can't afford to send you your pay checks anymore. 252 00:16:50,806 --> 00:16:53,274 You've done everything that a brother possibly could do. 253 00:16:53,342 --> 00:16:55,640 Look, I don't like to say this, 254 00:16:55,811 --> 00:16:58,905 but, well, there've been some reporters over at the plant. 255 00:16:58,981 --> 00:17:01,449 Looks like somebody at the medical center talked about you. 256 00:17:01,517 --> 00:17:03,610 I told them there was nothing in it, 257 00:17:03,686 --> 00:17:05,711 but one of the reporters stayed behind. 258 00:17:05,788 --> 00:17:07,915 He was from the American Press Syndicate. 259 00:17:07,990 --> 00:17:11,187 He said they might pay for the story if it's true. 260 00:17:12,028 --> 00:17:14,895 Scott, the story's going to break anyway eventually. 261 00:17:14,964 --> 00:17:16,659 So, whether you make them pay or not, 262 00:17:16,732 --> 00:17:19,257 they're going to make the most of it, 263 00:17:19,468 --> 00:17:20,628 so make them pay. 264 00:17:20,703 --> 00:17:22,102 No, Charlie. 265 00:17:23,539 --> 00:17:25,666 Well, think about it. 266 00:17:28,945 --> 00:17:32,108 All right. I'll think about it. 267 00:17:36,686 --> 00:17:39,086 But really, was there any choice? 268 00:17:39,989 --> 00:17:43,049 We owed a great deal of money, and I had no job. 269 00:17:43,859 --> 00:17:46,327 There was no choice. None at all. 270 00:17:47,363 --> 00:17:50,230 And so I became famous. 271 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,932 And still Robert Scott Carey, 272 00:17:53,002 --> 00:17:56,301 known to a nation as the Incredible Shrinking Man, 273 00:17:56,372 --> 00:17:57,930 keeps getting smaller. 274 00:17:58,007 --> 00:18:00,601 How long will this phenomenon continue? 275 00:18:00,676 --> 00:18:02,667 I want to apply for an unlisted line, please. 276 00:18:02,745 --> 00:18:05,043 Top research men at the California Medical Research Institute... 277 00:18:05,114 --> 00:18:06,308 This is a special case. 278 00:18:06,382 --> 00:18:07,747 ... are still searching for an anti-toxin... 279 00:18:07,817 --> 00:18:10,183 My name is Louise Carey. My husband... 280 00:18:10,886 --> 00:18:13,514 Carey. C-A-R-E-Y. 281 00:18:13,589 --> 00:18:14,817 No one knows. 282 00:18:14,991 --> 00:18:17,221 Now, look, we've got to have an unlisted line. 283 00:18:17,293 --> 00:18:19,158 That's all there is to it. 284 00:18:20,930 --> 00:18:22,659 I talked to you yesterday. 285 00:18:23,299 --> 00:18:24,960 Has he come out yet? 286 00:18:25,034 --> 00:18:26,433 How big is he now? 287 00:18:26,502 --> 00:18:27,833 Have you seen him? 288 00:18:27,903 --> 00:18:30,303 He's gotta come out some time. Let's wait. 289 00:18:30,373 --> 00:18:32,068 Have they taken a movie of him? 290 00:18:32,141 --> 00:18:34,507 What's the television truck doing here? 291 00:18:34,877 --> 00:18:37,072 We return you now to Magic Melodies. 292 00:18:47,857 --> 00:18:49,586 Yes, thank you very much. 293 00:18:58,567 --> 00:18:59,591 Scott? 294 00:19:01,671 --> 00:19:03,138 Scott, I've... 295 00:19:04,173 --> 00:19:06,004 I've canceled our phone. 296 00:19:06,509 --> 00:19:07,601 What? 297 00:19:08,377 --> 00:19:10,402 I said, I've canceled our phone. 298 00:19:10,479 --> 00:19:13,971 They're gonna try to get us an unlisted line some time next week. 299 00:19:14,050 --> 00:19:15,813 What do you mean, "They're gonna try"? 300 00:19:15,885 --> 00:19:17,352 Why, they're just gonna try, honey. 301 00:19:17,420 --> 00:19:20,048 There are a lot of people waiting for unlisted lines. 302 00:19:20,122 --> 00:19:22,022 Didn't you tell them who you're married to? 303 00:19:22,091 --> 00:19:24,389 The Incredible Scott Carey? The shrinking freak? 304 00:19:24,460 --> 00:19:26,655 Scott, don't. Use your influence, Louise. 305 00:19:26,729 --> 00:19:28,594 I'm a big man. I'm famous. 306 00:19:28,664 --> 00:19:29,995 Please don't. 307 00:19:30,066 --> 00:19:33,433 Those reporters out there. Why don't you tell them about it? 308 00:19:33,936 --> 00:19:36,564 Give them a new angle for their papers. 309 00:19:37,073 --> 00:19:39,303 Or will I save it for my book? 310 00:19:39,775 --> 00:19:41,242 Yeah, that's what I'll do. 311 00:19:41,310 --> 00:19:42,971 A whole chapter devoted to telephones 312 00:19:43,045 --> 00:19:45,104 and one more joke for the world to laugh at! 313 00:19:47,683 --> 00:19:49,082 Scott, people know. 314 00:19:49,151 --> 00:19:51,051 They realize, they're not laughing at you. 315 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:52,849 They're not? No. 316 00:19:52,922 --> 00:19:54,856 Why not? It's funny, isn't it? 317 00:19:55,124 --> 00:19:56,386 But it is. 318 00:19:56,692 --> 00:19:59,991 See how funny I am? The child that looks like a man. 319 00:20:00,663 --> 00:20:03,962 Go on, laugh, Louise. Be like everyone else. It's all right. 320 00:20:04,967 --> 00:20:06,958 Well, why can't you look at me? 321 00:20:07,536 --> 00:20:08,833 Look at me! 322 00:20:09,572 --> 00:20:11,233 Don't, Scott! 323 00:20:24,353 --> 00:20:26,617 If they'd just let us alone. 324 00:20:27,757 --> 00:20:30,385 If they'd just let us alone! 325 00:20:30,459 --> 00:20:32,324 Lou, honey. I'm sorry. 326 00:20:33,195 --> 00:20:36,164 I must be losing my mind, talking to you like this. 327 00:20:36,232 --> 00:20:38,962 No, honey. I'm all right. 328 00:20:40,536 --> 00:20:42,970 I know what you must be suffering. 329 00:20:43,239 --> 00:20:44,433 Do you? 330 00:20:46,242 --> 00:20:49,405 Yes, I guess it's been a nightmare for you, too. 331 00:20:50,379 --> 00:20:52,506 Maybe we've forgotten how to hope. 332 00:20:53,149 --> 00:20:55,640 But, Scott, there's so much to hope for. 333 00:20:56,051 --> 00:20:59,612 Any day now the doctors say they may find the anti-toxin. 334 00:20:59,822 --> 00:21:00,914 Sure. 335 00:21:02,124 --> 00:21:05,685 Lou, let's get out of this place before we both go crazy. 336 00:21:05,761 --> 00:21:08,195 Somewhere where nobody can find us. 337 00:21:08,364 --> 00:21:11,527 All right, Scott. I'll look for something. 338 00:21:12,968 --> 00:21:14,367 And try... 339 00:21:15,137 --> 00:21:16,502 Try not to worry. 340 00:21:17,306 --> 00:21:19,171 No, I'll let the doctors worry. 341 00:21:19,942 --> 00:21:21,671 I'm two days behind on my book. 342 00:21:29,552 --> 00:21:30,814 October 17th. 343 00:21:30,886 --> 00:21:33,616 Height, 36 and a half inches. 344 00:21:33,689 --> 00:21:35,680 Weight, 52 pounds. 345 00:21:35,958 --> 00:21:38,256 We haven't been able to find a new house, 346 00:21:38,327 --> 00:21:41,023 and there still is no privacy, no relief, 347 00:21:41,096 --> 00:21:42,996 and no word from the Medical Center. 348 00:21:43,065 --> 00:21:45,863 I fear that what life remains to me... 349 00:21:53,409 --> 00:21:56,401 Hello. Yes, this is Carey. 350 00:22:01,617 --> 00:22:02,811 Louise! 351 00:22:03,686 --> 00:22:04,846 Yes, Scott. 352 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,047 The anti-toxin! They've found it. 353 00:22:08,224 --> 00:22:09,623 Oh, Scott. 354 00:22:10,292 --> 00:22:11,623 Are you sure? 355 00:22:11,694 --> 00:22:14,458 Dr. Silver wants us down there. Right away. 356 00:22:21,437 --> 00:22:23,928 There's something you both must understand. 357 00:22:24,106 --> 00:22:26,074 We're working with unknown factors. 358 00:22:26,141 --> 00:22:27,733 Nothing is guaranteed. 359 00:22:29,311 --> 00:22:31,745 We're 50% sure this will be effective. 360 00:22:31,881 --> 00:22:35,078 For the other 50%, we'll just have to pray. 361 00:22:35,150 --> 00:22:37,084 How long before we'll know? 362 00:22:37,152 --> 00:22:40,087 Mr. Carey will remain here under observation for a week. 363 00:22:40,155 --> 00:22:42,282 We should have the answer by then. 364 00:22:42,858 --> 00:22:44,120 Are you ready? 365 00:22:44,727 --> 00:22:45,716 Ready. 366 00:22:54,770 --> 00:22:56,761 Weight, 52 pounds. 367 00:22:57,973 --> 00:23:00,771 Height, 36 and a half inches. 368 00:23:01,744 --> 00:23:03,939 What was last week's reading? 369 00:23:04,013 --> 00:23:07,278 Weight, 52 pounds. Height, 36 and a half inches. 370 00:23:07,349 --> 00:23:09,010 No change, Doctor. 371 00:23:10,019 --> 00:23:12,783 It's all over, Scott. You're gonna be all right. 372 00:23:12,855 --> 00:23:15,016 How long will it take, Dr. Silver, 373 00:23:15,090 --> 00:23:16,819 to be normal again? 374 00:23:17,493 --> 00:23:19,222 You can put on your robe now. 375 00:23:19,295 --> 00:23:21,525 That will be all, Miss Maltby. 376 00:23:22,231 --> 00:23:23,823 Mr. Carey, we seem to have checked 377 00:23:23,899 --> 00:23:26,390 the degenerative process of your disease. 378 00:23:26,468 --> 00:23:27,958 We've won that much. 379 00:23:28,837 --> 00:23:31,067 At this moment the growth capacity of your body 380 00:23:31,140 --> 00:23:33,040 is as limited as any adult's. 381 00:23:33,409 --> 00:23:36,378 Whether or not you'll grow again is another question. 382 00:23:36,445 --> 00:23:39,243 To help you, we face a whole new set of problems. 383 00:23:39,648 --> 00:23:42,776 Then I'll spend the rest of my life like this? 384 00:23:43,852 --> 00:23:46,286 Mr. Carey, I assure you, we'll go on working. 385 00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:47,982 Every day we'll push our knowledge further, 386 00:23:48,057 --> 00:23:50,753 until, one day, we might have the whole answer. 387 00:23:51,527 --> 00:23:52,926 Thank you, Doctor. 388 00:24:03,405 --> 00:24:06,932 My relationships with the world had ceased with everyone, 389 00:24:07,009 --> 00:24:08,533 except my wife. 390 00:24:09,144 --> 00:24:11,669 And I knew I was driving Lou from me, 391 00:24:12,014 --> 00:24:13,606 but burning inside, 392 00:24:13,682 --> 00:24:16,947 adding its own hideous pressure to everything else, 393 00:24:17,152 --> 00:24:19,382 was my desperate need for her. 394 00:24:22,458 --> 00:24:24,153 Do you want the paper, Scott? 395 00:24:24,226 --> 00:24:25,955 No. No, thank you. 396 00:24:28,364 --> 00:24:30,457 Well, I think I'll turn in. 397 00:24:31,567 --> 00:24:33,558 Come on. There. 398 00:24:34,637 --> 00:24:36,229 Coming to bed? 399 00:24:36,739 --> 00:24:37,933 Yeah, soon. 400 00:24:38,007 --> 00:24:39,634 Well, good night, then. 401 00:24:40,476 --> 00:24:41,943 Good night, Louise. 402 00:24:46,715 --> 00:24:48,649 I felt puny and absurd. 403 00:24:49,418 --> 00:24:51,283 A ludicrous midget. 404 00:24:51,587 --> 00:24:55,353 Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth. 405 00:24:55,624 --> 00:24:58,058 But not when you're three feet tall. 406 00:24:58,327 --> 00:25:01,353 I loathed myself, our home, 407 00:25:01,430 --> 00:25:03,955 the caricature my life with Lou had become. 408 00:25:05,034 --> 00:25:06,399 I had to get out. 409 00:25:07,603 --> 00:25:09,332 I had to get away. 410 00:25:13,008 --> 00:25:16,944 For the first time since it happened, I ran into the night, alone. 411 00:25:25,988 --> 00:25:29,048 Hurry, hurry, hurry! Here it is, folks. 412 00:25:29,124 --> 00:25:31,456 The greatest show on the midway. 413 00:25:31,593 --> 00:25:35,188 Come on in and see all the freaks and curiosities. 414 00:25:35,764 --> 00:25:38,164 See Dolly Dumpling, the Fat Lady. 415 00:25:38,233 --> 00:25:40,724 She weighs 840 pounds. 416 00:25:41,036 --> 00:25:43,470 When she sits down she shakes and quivers 417 00:25:43,539 --> 00:25:47,134 like a bowl of jelly on a cold and frosty morning. 418 00:25:47,443 --> 00:25:50,901 See Flamo! Flamo, the fire-eater. 419 00:25:50,979 --> 00:25:53,345 Here is one of the greatest attractions 420 00:25:53,415 --> 00:25:56,248 you will ever see in your born days! 421 00:25:56,385 --> 00:26:00,651 You will remember these sights for the rest of your natural life! 422 00:26:00,723 --> 00:26:02,315 Time for the big show! 423 00:26:02,391 --> 00:26:06,088 I would like you to meet a few of the exhibits here on the platform! 424 00:26:06,495 --> 00:26:09,589 And first we have Tiny Tina! 425 00:26:09,665 --> 00:26:11,155 Here she is! 426 00:26:11,233 --> 00:26:15,260 Thirty-six and a half inches of feminine pulchritude! 427 00:26:15,370 --> 00:26:17,565 You'll see freaks and curiosities 428 00:26:17,639 --> 00:26:20,164 assembled from every part of the globe! 429 00:26:20,242 --> 00:26:24,508 The most unusual apparitions assembled under this tent, 430 00:26:24,780 --> 00:26:27,442 contrived by a tricky Mother Nature! 431 00:26:27,850 --> 00:26:30,614 Here they are in all their glory! 432 00:26:30,886 --> 00:26:33,878 This exhibit is not only entertaining... 433 00:26:37,226 --> 00:26:40,593 Hurry, hurry, hurry! Here it is folks. 434 00:26:40,662 --> 00:26:42,653 One of the greatest shows on the midway. 435 00:26:42,731 --> 00:26:46,462 Come on in and see all the freaks and curiosities. 436 00:26:46,902 --> 00:26:49,370 See Dolly Dumpling, the Fat Lady. 437 00:26:49,438 --> 00:26:51,998 She weighs 840 pounds. 438 00:26:52,274 --> 00:26:54,708 When she sits down she shakes and quivers 439 00:26:54,777 --> 00:26:58,269 like a bowl of jelly on a cold and frosty morning. 440 00:26:58,781 --> 00:27:00,681 See Flamo! Flamo the... 441 00:27:08,290 --> 00:27:09,450 Hello. 442 00:27:11,794 --> 00:27:13,523 Mind if I sit down? 443 00:27:14,530 --> 00:27:16,020 No, please do. 444 00:27:22,070 --> 00:27:23,128 Don't be late, Clarice. 445 00:27:23,205 --> 00:27:24,263 I won't. 446 00:27:24,339 --> 00:27:25,328 Hi. 447 00:27:25,407 --> 00:27:26,567 Hi. 448 00:27:26,975 --> 00:27:28,237 Pass me the sugar, huh? 449 00:27:29,244 --> 00:27:30,575 Oh, sure. 450 00:27:32,714 --> 00:27:35,979 I haven't seen you here before. You coming with the carnival? 451 00:27:36,051 --> 00:27:38,315 Oh, no, I... No. 452 00:27:38,887 --> 00:27:40,149 Just visiting then, huh? 453 00:27:40,222 --> 00:27:41,314 Yeah. 454 00:27:44,793 --> 00:27:46,192 I'm Clarice Bruce. 455 00:27:47,062 --> 00:27:48,927 My name's Scott Carey. 456 00:27:49,464 --> 00:27:50,624 Hi, Scott. 457 00:27:54,770 --> 00:27:56,260 Scott Carey? 458 00:27:57,239 --> 00:27:58,706 Look, look, I'm sorry. 459 00:27:58,774 --> 00:28:00,264 Maybe you don't want any company. 460 00:28:00,342 --> 00:28:03,004 No, don't go. I want you to stay. 461 00:28:03,879 --> 00:28:05,244 Talk to me. 462 00:28:07,916 --> 00:28:09,110 All right. 463 00:28:09,618 --> 00:28:11,415 How do you live with it, Miss Bruce? 464 00:28:11,486 --> 00:28:12,783 What do you do? 465 00:28:13,021 --> 00:28:16,013 I was born a midget. It's the way I grew up. 466 00:28:16,325 --> 00:28:19,192 I know what's happened to you and, well, that's different. 467 00:28:19,261 --> 00:28:20,489 Different? 468 00:28:20,562 --> 00:28:22,530 That's another way of saying "alone," isn't it? 469 00:28:22,598 --> 00:28:24,395 But you're not alone now. 470 00:28:25,067 --> 00:28:28,036 Still, it must be hard to forget the way things were. 471 00:28:28,470 --> 00:28:30,938 Yeah. I'd like to burn it out of my mind. 472 00:28:31,506 --> 00:28:34,634 Maybe the best way to begin is to start thinking about the future. 473 00:28:34,710 --> 00:28:37,008 A future? In a world of giants? 474 00:28:37,913 --> 00:28:40,040 I've lived with them all my life. 475 00:28:40,115 --> 00:28:41,878 Scott, for people like you and me, 476 00:28:41,950 --> 00:28:44,111 the world can be a wonderful place. 477 00:28:44,286 --> 00:28:47,119 The sky is as blue as it is for the giants, 478 00:28:47,689 --> 00:28:49,384 the friends are as warm. 479 00:28:50,826 --> 00:28:52,316 I wish I could believe that. 480 00:28:52,394 --> 00:28:55,727 You've got to believe that, don't you? 481 00:28:56,164 --> 00:28:57,188 Yeah. 482 00:28:57,966 --> 00:29:00,628 Give me time, Clarice. I'll learn. 483 00:29:03,171 --> 00:29:04,832 I'll be late for my show. 484 00:29:04,907 --> 00:29:08,343 Look. Can I see you again? 485 00:29:08,810 --> 00:29:09,834 If you like. 486 00:29:09,912 --> 00:29:11,140 I would. 487 00:29:11,947 --> 00:29:14,745 You know, Scott, you're taller than I am. 488 00:29:15,817 --> 00:29:16,977 May I? 489 00:29:20,355 --> 00:29:21,447 Thank you. 490 00:29:23,926 --> 00:29:26,486 That night I got a grip on life again. 491 00:29:26,561 --> 00:29:28,791 I went back to work on my book. 492 00:29:28,864 --> 00:29:30,889 It absorbed me completely. 493 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,530 I was telling the world of my experience. 494 00:29:34,603 --> 00:29:36,264 And with the telling, 495 00:29:37,005 --> 00:29:39,098 it became easier. 496 00:29:46,748 --> 00:29:48,340 I think it's just fine, Scott. 497 00:29:48,417 --> 00:29:51,147 Do you really think so? I'm not much of a writer. 498 00:29:51,219 --> 00:29:53,084 Just trying to tell what it's like. 499 00:29:53,155 --> 00:29:54,645 Clarice, you don't know what it's meant to me, 500 00:29:54,723 --> 00:29:57,248 meeting someone like you, someone who understands. 501 00:29:57,326 --> 00:29:59,191 But you're so much better now, Scott. 502 00:29:59,261 --> 00:30:00,455 Thanks to you. 503 00:30:00,529 --> 00:30:02,258 Not to me. Yourself. 504 00:30:02,331 --> 00:30:03,889 You've just stopped running, that's all. 505 00:30:03,966 --> 00:30:06,127 All I know is, I can wake up in the morning 506 00:30:06,201 --> 00:30:07,498 and want to live again. 507 00:30:07,569 --> 00:30:09,298 Actually want to live. 508 00:30:09,371 --> 00:30:11,669 It's a funny thing. Sometimes when I'm working, 509 00:30:11,740 --> 00:30:13,867 I begin to think it's the world that's changed, 510 00:30:13,942 --> 00:30:15,273 that I'm the normal one. 511 00:30:15,344 --> 00:30:16,777 Well, that sounds like a good thing. 512 00:30:16,845 --> 00:30:19,245 Everybody out of step but you and me. 513 00:30:20,615 --> 00:30:22,082 Come on, I'll buy you a drink. 514 00:30:22,150 --> 00:30:24,277 We can talk about another chapter. 515 00:30:25,654 --> 00:30:27,087 What is it, Scott? 516 00:30:28,590 --> 00:30:31,218 Two weeks ago I was taller than you. 517 00:30:31,293 --> 00:30:32,590 You said so yourself. 518 00:30:32,661 --> 00:30:33,821 Well, yes, I remember, but... 519 00:30:33,895 --> 00:30:35,294 Well, can't you see? 520 00:30:35,364 --> 00:30:36,922 I'm shorter now. 521 00:30:36,999 --> 00:30:38,466 Oh, Scott. 522 00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:42,158 It's starting again. It's starting. 523 00:30:43,138 --> 00:30:45,038 It's starting again! 524 00:31:04,993 --> 00:31:06,153 Scott? 525 00:31:07,863 --> 00:31:09,023 Scott? 526 00:31:12,968 --> 00:31:14,663 Scott, are you in there? 527 00:31:15,303 --> 00:31:16,861 Do you have to make such a racket? 528 00:31:16,938 --> 00:31:18,769 I told you what happens in there. 529 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,934 I'm sorry, Scott. I try to be careful. 530 00:31:22,511 --> 00:31:24,172 Are you going out? 531 00:31:24,479 --> 00:31:26,572 Well, yes, for a little while. 532 00:31:26,648 --> 00:31:27,740 Where? 533 00:31:27,816 --> 00:31:30,011 Well, just to the corner. To the store. 534 00:31:30,085 --> 00:31:31,484 You'll come right back? 535 00:31:31,553 --> 00:31:33,453 Well, of course I will. 536 00:31:33,922 --> 00:31:35,890 Now look, why don't you try to get some rest? 537 00:31:35,957 --> 00:31:38,482 You know Dr. Silver wants to see you again tomorrow. 538 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,393 All right. Go ahead. Be sure the doors are locked. 539 00:32:16,498 --> 00:32:18,125 Every day it was worse. 540 00:32:19,167 --> 00:32:20,964 Every day a little smaller. 541 00:32:22,037 --> 00:32:24,471 And everyday I became more tyrannical, 542 00:32:24,539 --> 00:32:27,337 more monstrous in my domination of Louise. 543 00:32:28,043 --> 00:32:31,103 Heaven knows how she lived through those weeks. 544 00:32:32,114 --> 00:32:34,605 Only I had the power to release her, 545 00:32:35,450 --> 00:32:39,045 if I could find the courage to end my wretched existence. 546 00:32:41,223 --> 00:32:44,784 But each day I thought, "Perhaps tomorrow. 547 00:32:45,794 --> 00:32:47,989 "Tomorrow the doctors will save me. " 548 00:36:23,178 --> 00:36:24,167 Scott! 549 00:36:44,999 --> 00:36:46,990 No. No. 550 00:36:47,802 --> 00:36:48,996 No. 551 00:36:51,272 --> 00:36:52,603 Oh, Scott. 552 00:36:54,075 --> 00:36:55,064 Scott. 553 00:37:00,181 --> 00:37:02,479 ...drew deafening applause when he announced that, 554 00:37:02,550 --> 00:37:05,178 if elected, he will do everything in his power 555 00:37:05,253 --> 00:37:06,845 to reduce taxes. 556 00:37:07,756 --> 00:37:10,782 From Los Angeles today, a tragic story, 557 00:37:10,859 --> 00:37:13,259 the passing of Robert Scott Carey. 558 00:37:13,728 --> 00:37:16,253 The report of the death of the so-called Shrinking Man 559 00:37:16,331 --> 00:37:18,060 comes from his brother. 560 00:37:18,133 --> 00:37:20,158 Carey's death was the result of an attack 561 00:37:20,235 --> 00:37:23,898 by a common house cat, a former pet in the Carey home. 562 00:37:25,006 --> 00:37:27,873 Carey was the victim of the most fantastic ailment 563 00:37:27,942 --> 00:37:29,671 in the annals of medicine. 564 00:37:30,345 --> 00:37:34,145 Thus ends the life of a man whose courage and will to survive 565 00:37:34,215 --> 00:37:36,240 lasted until the very end. 566 00:37:36,785 --> 00:37:39,185 A man whose fantastic story 567 00:37:39,254 --> 00:37:41,347 was known to virtually every man, 568 00:37:41,423 --> 00:37:42,947 woman and child in the civilized world. 569 00:37:43,024 --> 00:37:44,491 Mr. Carey. Yes? 570 00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:46,083 Now for the sports... 571 00:37:46,761 --> 00:37:48,729 You may go up now. She wants to see you. 572 00:37:48,797 --> 00:37:50,628 Is she all right? Barely resting. 573 00:37:50,698 --> 00:37:52,165 The doctor gave her a heavy sedative, 574 00:37:52,233 --> 00:37:53,530 but it's hardly working at all. 575 00:37:53,601 --> 00:37:54,693 I see. 576 00:37:54,769 --> 00:37:57,169 I'll get that prescription filled. I'll be back in a minute. 577 00:37:57,238 --> 00:37:58,330 Fine. 578 00:38:19,093 --> 00:38:22,824 My return to consciousness was a plunge into a new level of pain. 579 00:38:23,932 --> 00:38:26,560 I realized I had fallen into a box. 580 00:38:27,902 --> 00:38:30,837 Its walls enclosed me like some gigantic pit. 581 00:38:39,948 --> 00:38:42,246 I had to escape out of the box. 582 00:38:42,517 --> 00:38:45,247 Somehow I had to reach Louise to survive. 583 00:39:54,455 --> 00:39:57,982 The stairs stretched above me, as far as I could see, 584 00:39:58,192 --> 00:40:00,558 cliff rising upon cliff. 585 00:40:01,262 --> 00:40:03,662 I knew I could never scale them. 586 00:40:04,332 --> 00:40:05,560 Louise! 587 00:40:07,235 --> 00:40:08,395 Louise! 588 00:40:09,604 --> 00:40:11,595 The cellar! Look in the cellar! 589 00:40:12,774 --> 00:40:15,766 Louise, please look for me! Louise! 590 00:40:19,147 --> 00:40:22,048 Eventually, Louise would come to the cellar. 591 00:40:22,483 --> 00:40:24,883 Until then, I had to keep myself alive 592 00:40:24,953 --> 00:40:28,445 with whatever resources I could discover in my basement universe 593 00:40:29,190 --> 00:40:30,589 and in myself. 594 00:41:18,473 --> 00:41:22,239 The cellar floor stretched before me like some vast, primeval plain, 595 00:41:22,310 --> 00:41:23,641 empty of life, 596 00:41:23,711 --> 00:41:26,271 littered with the relics of a vanished race. 597 00:41:26,347 --> 00:41:29,805 No desert-island castaway ever faced so bleak a prospect. 598 00:42:00,348 --> 00:42:02,475 I had discovered a water supply 599 00:42:03,084 --> 00:42:04,847 and even a dwelling place. 600 00:42:06,954 --> 00:42:09,422 Now, the search for food. 601 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:13,850 I knew my ill-fitting clothes 602 00:42:13,928 --> 00:42:17,125 were unsuited to the exertions that lay before me. 603 00:42:42,890 --> 00:42:45,757 You can't stay here, Louise. Not now. 604 00:42:45,893 --> 00:42:48,453 I don't know, Charlie. I don't know what I want to do. 605 00:42:48,529 --> 00:42:50,326 Lou, let me help you. 606 00:42:50,465 --> 00:42:52,729 You can stay with us, but just get out of here. 607 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,495 If I could just be sure. 608 00:42:55,303 --> 00:42:58,238 Charlie, maybe he's hurt someplace. Maybe he's lost. 609 00:42:58,306 --> 00:43:00,467 We've looked everywhere. He's dead. 610 00:43:00,842 --> 00:43:01,866 I'm his own brother. 611 00:43:01,943 --> 00:43:04,207 I wouldn't say a thing like that if I wasn't sure. 612 00:43:04,278 --> 00:43:06,644 You saw the cat. All right. All right. 613 00:43:07,915 --> 00:43:11,874 Charlie, have you thought how horrible it must have been? 614 00:43:13,888 --> 00:43:15,719 I just keep thinking that he needed me 615 00:43:15,790 --> 00:43:17,257 and I wasn't there. 616 00:43:18,526 --> 00:43:20,323 I wasn't there. Louise. 617 00:43:20,428 --> 00:43:22,726 You've got to get it out of your mind. 618 00:43:24,065 --> 00:43:26,158 I'll never get it out of my mind. 619 00:43:27,401 --> 00:43:29,596 I'll talk to the real estate people. 620 00:43:35,209 --> 00:43:38,303 I never doubted that sometime Louise would come. 621 00:43:38,746 --> 00:43:41,078 I couldn't allow myself to doubt. 622 00:43:41,682 --> 00:43:43,445 I had only to exist, 623 00:43:43,985 --> 00:43:46,681 to search out enough food to sustain me. 624 00:43:47,488 --> 00:43:49,388 I was driven by hunger, 625 00:43:49,590 --> 00:43:52,388 and also by the horrible thought that without nourishment 626 00:43:52,460 --> 00:43:54,724 the shrinking process was quickening. 627 00:53:17,458 --> 00:53:19,722 I was weak and faint. 628 00:53:20,561 --> 00:53:23,530 Yet I knew in order to exist, I must eat. 629 00:53:25,165 --> 00:53:28,100 The food was still a long climb ahead of me. 630 00:53:40,681 --> 00:53:43,673 But now, stretching endlessly before me, 631 00:53:43,884 --> 00:53:45,681 I found a deep abyss. 632 00:53:47,054 --> 00:53:49,750 It was only a box and the space between, 633 00:53:50,224 --> 00:53:54,251 yet to me it was the Grand Canyon and the Mammoth Caves combined. 634 00:53:55,028 --> 00:53:56,086 Deep, 635 00:53:56,163 --> 00:53:57,255 dark, 636 00:53:57,331 --> 00:53:59,458 mysterious and dangerous. 637 00:54:01,402 --> 00:54:03,893 There was no possible way to cross. 638 00:54:04,605 --> 00:54:06,300 No matter how inventive, 639 00:54:06,740 --> 00:54:09,004 how resourceful I thought myself, 640 00:54:09,943 --> 00:54:11,410 this time, 641 00:54:11,478 --> 00:54:15,175 in sight of my goal, it seemed as if I must meet defeat. 642 00:54:22,122 --> 00:54:24,420 Suddenly, I saw an opportunity. 643 00:54:25,259 --> 00:54:28,194 If I could move the stick to the other side... 644 00:54:29,730 --> 00:54:31,322 I cursed myself. 645 00:54:31,999 --> 00:54:35,298 If only I were a little bigger, a little stronger. 646 00:54:41,775 --> 00:54:44,505 I realized there was just this one chance, 647 00:54:44,978 --> 00:54:46,468 and I had no choice. 648 00:54:47,014 --> 00:54:48,504 I had to take it. 649 00:54:49,450 --> 00:54:51,680 If I could leap from the paint stick 650 00:54:51,752 --> 00:54:53,743 and reach the other side. 651 00:54:54,388 --> 00:54:56,356 But there was no time to think, 652 00:54:56,690 --> 00:54:57,918 only to act. 653 00:59:13,747 --> 00:59:15,078 My prison. 654 00:59:16,083 --> 00:59:18,017 Almost as far as I could see, 655 00:59:18,085 --> 00:59:20,645 a gray, friendless area 656 00:59:20,721 --> 00:59:22,689 of space and time. 657 00:59:25,192 --> 00:59:26,716 And I resolved 658 00:59:26,893 --> 00:59:29,953 that as man had dominated the world of the sun, 659 00:59:30,297 --> 00:59:32,492 so I would dominate my world. 660 01:02:22,302 --> 01:02:24,202 In my hunt for food, 661 01:02:24,271 --> 01:02:25,932 I had become the hunted. 662 01:02:27,574 --> 01:02:29,439 This time I survived. 663 01:02:30,477 --> 01:02:33,275 But I was no longer alone in my universe. 664 01:02:34,147 --> 01:02:35,671 I had an enemy, 665 01:02:36,483 --> 01:02:39,850 the most terrifying ever beheld by human eyes. 666 01:02:45,792 --> 01:02:49,057 Charlie, there's a small trunk that I'd like to take with me, 667 01:02:49,129 --> 01:02:50,118 if you don't mind. 668 01:02:50,196 --> 01:02:51,561 It's in the basement. I'll show you where. 669 01:02:51,631 --> 01:02:53,724 All right, I'd better put these in the car first. 670 01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:55,290 All right. 671 01:04:28,862 --> 01:04:30,352 Oh, no. It's flooded. 672 01:04:31,164 --> 01:04:33,860 - It's the water heater. - I'd better have a look. 673 01:04:35,668 --> 01:04:37,158 This is terrible. 674 01:04:38,438 --> 01:04:39,735 I'll turn the water off. 675 01:04:39,806 --> 01:04:42,172 Louise, look for me. Louise! 676 01:04:42,876 --> 01:04:45,936 Charlie! Charlie, I'm here! 677 01:04:47,247 --> 01:04:48,612 Charlie! Louise! 678 01:04:50,550 --> 01:04:53,041 The water! Here in the water! 679 01:04:53,319 --> 01:04:54,308 Charlie! 680 01:04:59,793 --> 01:05:01,727 I smell gas. Is that pilot off? 681 01:05:01,795 --> 01:05:03,422 I'll turn it off. 682 01:05:03,496 --> 01:05:05,691 Louise! Listen to me! Louise! 683 01:05:07,534 --> 01:05:11,300 Louise! Hear me, please! Please! 684 01:05:13,039 --> 01:05:14,336 Can you fix it? 685 01:05:14,574 --> 01:05:15,563 There. 686 01:05:15,642 --> 01:05:17,940 I'll get a plumber down here tomorrow. 687 01:05:21,214 --> 01:05:22,476 Charlie! 688 01:05:26,953 --> 01:05:28,079 Where's your drain? 689 01:05:28,154 --> 01:05:30,782 Well, it's right about there. It must be clogged. 690 01:05:30,857 --> 01:05:32,381 Charlie, look for me! 691 01:06:03,690 --> 01:06:04,952 Is that the trunk, Louise? 692 01:06:05,024 --> 01:06:07,015 Oh, yes, Charlie. But don't bother about it. 693 01:06:07,093 --> 01:06:08,583 It's so wet, I'll pick it up later. 694 01:06:08,661 --> 01:06:10,094 It's okay. 695 01:06:10,263 --> 01:06:12,993 I want you packed and out of this house tonight. 696 01:06:49,235 --> 01:06:51,032 Is that everything, Louise? 697 01:06:51,204 --> 01:06:53,604 Yes, that's everything. 698 01:08:57,263 --> 01:08:58,890 I still had my weapons. 699 01:08:59,699 --> 01:09:02,600 With these bits of metal I was a man again. 700 01:09:02,735 --> 01:09:05,226 If I was to die, it would not be as a helpless insect 701 01:09:05,305 --> 01:09:07,739 in the jaws of the spider monster. 702 01:09:09,475 --> 01:09:11,602 A strange calm possessed me. 703 01:09:13,046 --> 01:09:16,641 I thought more clearly than I had ever thought before, 704 01:09:17,717 --> 01:09:20,880 as if my mind were bathed in a brilliant light. 705 01:09:22,155 --> 01:09:23,884 I recognized that part of my illness 706 01:09:23,956 --> 01:09:25,753 was rooted in hunger, 707 01:09:26,426 --> 01:09:29,224 and I remembered the food on the shelf. 708 01:09:29,529 --> 01:09:32,157 The cake threaded with the spider web. 709 01:09:33,099 --> 01:09:35,795 I no longer felt hatred for the spider. 710 01:09:36,302 --> 01:09:39,635 Like myself, it struggled blindly for the means to live. 711 01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:44,471 If I was to fight it, if I was to win the food, 712 01:09:44,544 --> 01:09:47,104 then it must be now, while strength remained, 713 01:09:47,547 --> 01:09:50,607 while I was still of sufficient size to scale the wall. 714 01:09:51,818 --> 01:09:54,309 It was not decision that drove me to the crate, 715 01:09:54,387 --> 01:09:57,322 but reflex, as instinctive as the spider's. 716 01:10:00,860 --> 01:10:03,761 My legs trembled, not with fear, 717 01:10:04,263 --> 01:10:05,525 but weakness. 718 01:10:06,966 --> 01:10:10,527 Yet somehow I felt within myself a new source of power, 719 01:10:11,337 --> 01:10:14,602 a giant strength, urging me to the death-struggle. 720 01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:08,991 My enemy seemed immortal. 721 01:11:09,061 --> 01:11:10,790 More than a spider. 722 01:11:11,164 --> 01:11:13,826 It was every unknown terror in the world, 723 01:11:13,900 --> 01:11:17,700 every fear fused into one hideous, night-black horror. 724 01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:22,899 Still, whatever else had happened, 725 01:11:22,975 --> 01:11:25,170 my brain was a man's brain, 726 01:11:25,611 --> 01:11:28,512 my intelligence still a man's intelligence. 727 01:11:29,682 --> 01:11:31,411 An idea came to me. 728 01:11:32,318 --> 01:11:33,785 The scissors. 729 01:11:34,353 --> 01:11:36,651 Too heavy for me to employ as a weapon, 730 01:11:36,722 --> 01:11:38,553 they might have another use. 731 01:11:39,325 --> 01:11:41,885 If I could impale the monster with my hook, 732 01:11:41,961 --> 01:11:43,826 fastened by a line to the scissors, 733 01:11:43,896 --> 01:11:46,922 then push the scissors off the ledge... 734 01:11:51,337 --> 01:11:52,929 Whatever the risk, 735 01:11:53,573 --> 01:11:55,040 it was worth a try. 736 01:12:19,065 --> 01:12:20,396 I knew sooner or later 737 01:12:20,466 --> 01:12:22,559 it would come charging down that web, 738 01:12:22,635 --> 01:12:24,933 skimming out blackly toward me. 739 01:12:25,938 --> 01:12:27,735 One of us had to die. 740 01:13:07,413 --> 01:13:08,641 Come on down. 741 01:13:11,150 --> 01:13:13,914 Come on, you devil! I'm waiting for you! Come on! 742 01:16:15,768 --> 01:16:17,963 This was the prize I had won. 743 01:16:19,805 --> 01:16:22,899 I approached it in an ecstasy of elation. 744 01:16:24,076 --> 01:16:25,407 I had conquered. 745 01:16:26,979 --> 01:16:28,503 I lived. 746 01:17:02,748 --> 01:17:06,548 But even as I touched the dry, flaking crumbs of nourishment, 747 01:17:07,419 --> 01:17:10,217 it was as if my body had ceased to exist. 748 01:17:11,490 --> 01:17:13,253 There was no hunger. 749 01:17:13,893 --> 01:17:16,691 No longer the terrible fear of shrinking. 750 01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,468 Again I had the sensation of instinct, 751 01:17:31,377 --> 01:17:32,571 of each movement, 752 01:17:32,645 --> 01:17:36,376 each thought tuned to some great directing force. 753 01:18:00,573 --> 01:18:02,632 I was continuing to shrink. 754 01:18:03,576 --> 01:18:05,476 To become what? 755 01:18:06,512 --> 01:18:08,173 The infinitesimal? 756 01:18:09,748 --> 01:18:11,113 What was I? 757 01:18:12,518 --> 01:18:14,179 Still a human being? 758 01:18:15,254 --> 01:18:18,246 Or was I the man of the future? 759 01:18:30,236 --> 01:18:32,966 If there were other bursts of radiation, 760 01:18:33,539 --> 01:18:36,702 other clouds drifting across seas and continents, 761 01:18:38,010 --> 01:18:41,446 would other beings follow me into this vast new world? 762 01:18:43,015 --> 01:18:47,384 So close, the infinitesimal and the infinite. 763 01:18:49,355 --> 01:18:52,415 But, suddenly I knew they were really the two ends 764 01:18:52,491 --> 01:18:54,118 of the same concept. 765 01:18:55,494 --> 01:18:58,588 The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast 766 01:18:58,764 --> 01:19:00,288 eventually meet, 767 01:19:01,100 --> 01:19:03,830 like the closing of a gigantic circle. 768 01:19:06,405 --> 01:19:07,667 I looked up, 769 01:19:09,074 --> 01:19:11,474 as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. 770 01:19:12,912 --> 01:19:15,972 The universe. Worlds beyond number. 771 01:19:16,215 --> 01:19:19,207 God's silver tapestry spread across the night. 772 01:19:21,654 --> 01:19:22,746 And in that moment, 773 01:19:22,821 --> 01:19:25,551 I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. 774 01:19:26,859 --> 01:19:30,317 I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. 775 01:19:31,730 --> 01:19:33,823 I had presumed upon nature. 776 01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,291 That existence begins and ends 777 01:19:37,870 --> 01:19:40,862 is man's conception, not nature's. 778 01:19:42,074 --> 01:19:44,440 And I felt my body dwindling, 779 01:19:45,411 --> 01:19:46,605 melting, 780 01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:49,003 becoming nothing. 781 01:19:50,182 --> 01:19:52,173 My fears melted away, 782 01:19:52,351 --> 01:19:55,411 and in their place came acceptance. 783 01:19:56,655 --> 01:19:59,123 All this vast majesty of creation, 784 01:19:59,858 --> 01:20:01,621 it had to mean something. 785 01:20:02,461 --> 01:20:04,486 And then I meant something, too. 786 01:20:05,631 --> 01:20:07,929 Yes, smaller than the smallest, 787 01:20:08,434 --> 01:20:10,368 I meant something, too. 788 01:20:11,637 --> 01:20:13,969 To God there is no zero. 789 01:20:15,674 --> 01:20:17,505 I still exist.