:06:03
in what sounds
like authentic Chinese.
:06:05
He is restrained
with a straitjacket.
:06:08
When he emerges from the car
twenty minutes later...
:06:12
incredibly, he is no longer
Chinese, but Caucasian.
:06:17
Bewildered interns place him
in the emergency room...
:06:20
for observation.
:06:22
At 7 a.m., Dr. Eudora Fletcher,
a psychiatrist...
:06:25
makes her usual rounds.
:06:29
When I first heard
about this emergency case...
:06:32
I didn't think
anything peculiar...
:06:34
and when I first
laid eyes on him...
:06:37
it was a bit strange because
I mistook him for a doctor.
:06:43
He had a very professional
demeanor about him.
:06:46
As a young psychiatrist...
:06:48
Eudora Fletcher is fascinated
by Leonard Zelig.
:06:51
She convinces the conservative
staff at the hospital...
:06:55
to allow her to pursue
a study of the new admission.
:06:57
So, what do you do?
:07:00
Oh, me? I'm a psychiatrist.
:07:03
I work mostly
with delusional paranoids.
:07:07
Tell me about it.
:07:09
There's not much to tell.
:07:11
I work mostly
on the continent...
:07:13
and I've written quite a few
psychoanalytic papers.
:07:16
I worked with Freud in Vienna.
:07:19
We broke over the concept
of penis envy.
:07:22
Freud felt that it
should be limited to women.
:07:26
It's not that he was
making any sense at all.
:07:30
It was a conglomeration
of psychological double-talk...
:07:33
that he had apparently heard...
:07:35
or was familiar with
through reading.
:07:37
The funny thing was
his delivery was quite fluid...
:07:39
and might have been
convincing...
:07:42
to someone
who did not know any better.
:07:45
Who was this Leonard Zelig
that seemed to create...
:07:48
such diverse impressions
everywhere?
:07:50
All that was known of him
was that he was the son...
:07:54
of a Yiddish actor
named Morris Zelig...
:07:57
whose performance as Puck...
:07:59
in the Orthodox version of
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"...