:16:00
Some people let it get the better of them.
:16:04
- I don't think you will.
- No.
:16:08
Come along. I'll introduce you
to Dr. Maxwell and your patient.
:16:12
I can't tell you how glad I am
to have you here, Miss Connell.
:16:15
I know I'll enjoy working with you, Doctor.
:16:16
I have an enormous respect for nurses,
but most of them scare me.
:16:20
I always feel them behind my back,
looking at their training manuals...
:16:24
counting my mistakes.
:16:25
I'll keep tabs on you.
:16:29
She makes a beautiful zombie,
doesn't she?
:16:31
- It's pitiful.
- I knew Jessica. We were friends.
:16:35
Sometimes it's better for a doctor
to laugh...
:16:37
than pull a long face
when things are hopeless.
:16:39
Yes, I know.
:16:42
But I don't know about zombies, Doctor.
Just what is a zombie?
:16:46
A ghost, a living dead. It's also a drink.
:16:49
Yes, I tried one once,
but there wasn't anything dead about it.
:16:52
But we have a more serious problem
to deal with, Miss Connell.
:16:55
You want to know about your patient,
don't you?
:16:57
Please.
:16:59
I'll try to put it simply.
:17:01
Mrs. Holland had a tropical fever...
:17:03
very severe.
:17:05
We might say that portions of the
spinal cord were burned out by this fever.
:17:09
The result is what you see...
:17:11
a woman without any willpower...
:17:13
unable to speak or even act by herself.
:17:16
Though she will obey simple commands.
:17:18
- Does she suffer?
- I don't know.
:17:21
I'd rather think of her as a sleepwalker
who can never be awakened...
:17:24
feeling nothing, knowing nothing.
:17:27
There's very little we can do
except keep her physically comfortable...
:17:30
light diet, some exercise.
:17:32
She can never be cured?
:17:34
I've never heard of a cure.
:17:37
Could you give me some details
of treatment and diet?
:17:40
- I prepared these for you last night.
- Thank you.
:17:44
I'll drop by in a day or so
to see how you are getting on.
:17:52
You didn't find your patient so frightening
in the daylight, did you?
:17:56
Mrs. Holland must have been
very beautiful.
:17:59
Many people thought her beautiful.