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Absolutely marvelous, isn't it, Graeme?

What's that, sir?

Communing with nature, planting seeds

for harvest.

I didn't realize that's what we were

doing.

Well, that's why I am who I am, Graeme,

and you're Well, you.

Marcadian.

He never learns.

You see, you undoubtedly fail to

comprehend. The microbes in the algae

have amazing potential. When stimulated

[music] with the correct oxygen

phosphorus ratio, they'll eat anything.

Fellow farmland, oil slicks, trash

dumps.

The genius who manages to find a cheap

way to manufacture the little noshers

can literally name his own price.

Dr. Arcane, thermal indicators are

rising rapidly. will increase the oxygen

phosphorus ratio

today.

Something's wrong. The whole system's

overheating.

Must I do everything myself?

Maybe we should farm algae tanks next

time. Maybe

you should farm algae tanks next time

when I have a perfectly useless swamp at

my disposal. Try not to act as stupid as

you look crab. The

safety overrides are malfunctioning.

SOMEBODY GET HELP.

It's too late. He's dead.

Heat. Heat.

The swamp is my world. It is who I am.

It is what I am. I was once a man. I

know the evil men do. Do not bring your

evil here. I warn you.

Beware the wrath of

Swamp Thing.

Hello.

Hello.

Anyone hear me? What the devil's going

on?

Someone will have hell to pay for this.

Graham.

Well, that was rather pleasant. Now,

steady on, doctor. I think there's a

rational explanation for all of this.

Bugger that.

Who's that?

Who's that?

Never mind. Just keep the revalry going,

whoever you are. Enough to get my

bearings.

Now, I'll get to the bottom of this.

Hell.

Oh no, doctor. This ain't hell. Not yet.

All rise everyone versus Anton Arcane.

The honorable Tresakip presiding.

Tip for God's sake. What's the meaning

of this charade?

Don't worry about a thing. Doc, you the

hell are you doing?

What am I doing here?

Anton Arcane,

you are charged with a list of

disgusting offenses against science,

medicine, and humanity.

Not to mention having an overblown ego.

How do you plead?

DEFENSE PLEADS.

GUILTY.

I DID bloody well not.

But you are guilty, Arcade.

Guilty of what? You name it, you did it.

Hold on. I don't know what kind of

nightmare this is, but that's clearly

all it is. Some absurd dream. Some burst

of beta brain wave activity.

Council says you're guilty.

This dimwitted juvenile delinquent can

never represent me.

But someone must defend you.

As repulsive a job as that may be,

very well, since I'm doomed to endure

this bad theater, I'll defend myself.

Let the games begin,

ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Wait

just a bloody minute. He can't prosecute

me.

You fired him. I hired him.

Well, he's inequitable.

Like I care. [laughter]

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Sorry for the interruption, Will.

Thanks, Tresa. Right back at you, babe.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

what can I say about Dr. Arane? That

he's evil?

Get real. Everybody already knows that.

That he's cruel and insensitive.

Let's face it, the man's a heartless,

greedy, vain piece of smelly cat litter.

His presence in this swamp is AN AFFRONT

TO US ALL.

AUDITION.

Now what, Arcane?

I know my rights, and this so-called

jury of my peers is completely

unacceptable.

These people aren't objective. They know

me.

Who better to judge you?

Continue, Will. Oh, by the way, I like

that suit.

You ought to know. You helped me pick it

out.

Now, Dr. Arcane

has objected to you, the jury.

I wonder why. Why

could it be that that you have

experienced firsthand his insidious

behavior? The abduction of loved ones.

Hideous experiments on innocent victims.

Indeed. Indeed. Crimes against mother

nature herself.

Letter bollocks. [laughter]

Oh, stop overacting.

Give it up, Arcane.

Make a very convincing argument.

The prosecution calls its first witness,

the defendant's mother.

He was rotten,

even as a lad.

I'm dreadfully sorry I even brought him

into the world.

Mother?

Well, it's true. You're just like your

father.

Unreliable witness, your honor.

Psychiatrist found the old bag

clinically insane years ago.

Arcane promised to help me and he stole

my invention.

Don't make me laugh. It's just a vague

notion until my intellect made it work.

Look what he did [laughter] to me.

Well, accidents happen. YOU DID IT ON

PURPOSE.

OH, I never touched the man. His problem

was the work of incompetent

subordinates.

Good help is so hard to find these days.

I gave him so much.

Worked my fingers to the nub,

sacrificing everything to bring his

style to his hair.

Now look at him.

See how he mocks my artistry?

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

frankly,

I'm embarrassed.

Not for myself, of course, but for the

prosecution in wasting your valuable

time like this. My reasoning should be

obvious.

If this pathetic parade of so-called

witnesses is the best that prosecution

can do to impugn my honor, I see little

point in continuing with these

proceedings.

Clearly, he has proved nothing.

Unless I'm terribly misinformed.

A man is innocent until proven guilty.

I don't have to, Doc. You've already

done that for me many, many, many times.

Like when you sold the pure unfortunate

victims of your genetic experiments to a

freak show.

We have another glorious failure for

you, Simon. a playmate for Amos there.

Well, as you can see, doctor, I've no

more room. No more room at all.

Was I so wrong to pay them a personal

little visit and ask nothing in return?

Well, what about the time you had the

incredibly destructive plan to

destabilize global agriculture?

You're going to destabilize the

government of a country with a plant.

This plant, as you call it, is the

result of years of very careful gene

splicing.

One single scarlet moss orchid can

produce enough defoliant to completely

decimate a thousand acres of food crops,

rice, for example. The defoliant is

triggered by

Whoa, whoa, what is going to keep this

defoliant from spreading across the the

whole world once it gets started? an

antidote. One in particular I've

discovered. You see,

that's where the real money is. How'd

you find out about that?

And then, if that was not enough, you

decided to prove your revolting theory.

What an alien woman.

An innocent.

My friend Abigail.

I won't stay any longer. Just stopped by

to pay my respects. See how a little

girl was doing.

Dr. Hollister thinks [music] it's a

pesticide reaction.

We don't use any synthetic pesticides in

my green houses. All our plants are

autoimmune.

Well, that's the future of agriculture,

you know.

Well, when she does wake up, perhaps

you'd be good enough to inform her that

this little present was from me.

And then the district attorney was on to

you and you couldn't handle the

pressure.

What's the arcane solution?

You simply plot and have the

unsuspecting man murdered.

But I'm going after him. Warrants,

subpoenas, the works. A month from now,

he won't have a secret or a deal that I

don't know about. And you can quote me

on that.

I'm going to kill him.

Stop it right there.

Just look at his hair.

[laughter] Isn't it absolutely

mortifying?

I hope you're proud of yourself, Arcane.

But then again, you have so much to be

proud of, don't you? Like the time your

plot to eliminate Tresequip failed, you

had her savagely attacked.

Oh my god.

Objection.

But I only extended the usual male

attention and friendship towards Mrs.

give friendship, male attention.

I suppose that includes your gracious

act of kidnapping Tresa's son, my halfb

brotherther.

Jill,

right? You're bigger than he is, so you

stay here and keep your eyes open. Okay?

You drive the truck and if you let

anything happen to that kid in there,

you'll be part of the next cargo.

Understand?

Tresa, I

shut up, Arcade, before I have someone

shut you up.

And for God's sake,

please do something about that hair.

And now, the moment you've all been

waiting for. A surprise [music] witness

who will seal our case against Dr. Anton

Arcane once

for all.

The prosecution calls a special man,

Dr. Alec Holland.

Oh, wow.

Dr. Holland, you more than anyone else

knows how merciless Arcane can be.

Tell us, please what happened in your

words.

He was never satisfied with his own

accomplishments. He was totally obsessed

with mine.

in particular my research on a bio

restorative formula that would increase

plant growth

when he found out I was making fantastic

progress. He became consumed by it. He

had to have it. But of course, he was

never man enough to confront me himself.

He sent thugs to do his dirty work for

him. Then when they failed to steal my

formula,

he decided to eliminate his competition.

OBJECTION. [screaming]

On what grounds?

On the grounds that this melodrama is

irrelevant.

At last, I remember how I came here.

This isn't a dream at all. This is my

life being judged. But I did nothing to

audit this. I I was merely supervising

an experiment. An experiment in killing

innocent wildlife?

An experiment benefiting mankind?

Do you [music] people honestly expect me

to mourn the loss of a lower life form

when the needs of society demand my

attention?

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I I

acknowledge that some of us have had

certain difficulties in the past, but

that's all behind us now. On the horizon

are a whole new set of problems which I

am uniquely qualified to solve. The

experiment which sacrificed that

unfortunate fish may well solve global

food shortages. Think of it. No more

famine. No more hungry little children.

I wasn't hurting anyone. I was merely

using my spectacular gift of

intelligence and superior intellect.

For all of you.

Is that so? Then what [music] about the

conversation

you were just having with your assistant

Graham?

The microbes in the algae have amazing

potential. When stimulated with the

correct oxygen phosphorus ratio, they'll

eat anything. fellow farmland, oil

slicks, trash dumps,

and the genius who manages to find a

cheap way to manufacture the little

noshers can literally name his own

price. That's taken out of context.

Doesn't begin to explain my thought

processes.

I'm not sure anything can.

Continue, Dr. Holland. [music] What else

did this monster do to you?

He could do no more than his final act,

your honor. Not only did Arcane try to

murder me, but he went after [music] my

wife

and he succeeded.

Miss her so much.

Damn [music] you for what you did to

her, Arcane.

Damn you to hell.

Damn you. Damn you. Damn you.

Damn you. Damn you. Dare you. Dare you.

Dare you. Dare you. Damn you.

Don't let him get away.

Oh yeah.

Hallelujah.

I hate this horrid city.

Let's just kill him here.

Killing's too good for him. Let's make

him suffer.

Get back. Get back, you cricket.

Take one step closer and I'll toast a

lot of you. [laughter]

Nice try, doctor. Wasn't that a nice

try, everyone?

Has the jury found a verdict?

We have

guilty.

What else?

WELL, THERE YOU HAVE IT, ARCANE. I guess

you should have done something about

your hair when you had the chance.

Doctor, you're back. You're back.

I'm alive.

Damn, Graeme. I'm alive.

You've no idea what I've been through,

Graeme.

You had an accident during the algae

experiment, remember?

How could I forget? [laughter]

You certainly gave us a scare.

By the way, the submersible lab was

destroyed. I don't know how long it'll

take to get another one running in the

swamp.

Swamp. Swamp. Swamp. Swamp. Is that all

you ever think about? Give it a rest,

man.

Certainly, Dr. Okina. Whatever you say.

Good. Give me your comb.

My comb, sir?

It's a long story.

Death brings an end to most things, but

in the swamp, endings are sometimes only

the beginning.

Heat. Heat.