[thrilling music]
[eerie music]
[ominous music]
[Master] Morgan.
Master.
Raise your head and look upon me.
Would it please you to be of service
to me again?
It would please me.
[Master] Five hundred years ago,
you failed me, Morgan.
You allowed the greatest
of the sorcerers on Earth
to overcome you.
My victory was denied to me,
because of you.
Long ages have I
contemplated my revenge.
This time I will not fail.
Then I will send you into the world
you have been exiled from.
Find your enemy under the
ancient symbol of light.
He has read the signs and
worked his calculations,
and he will be prepared for you.
The time now comes that
he must pass on the powers
entrusted to him.
He grows old and weary of the burdens
of his life on Earth.
Destroy the old man
before the powers are passed,
and victory will be ours.
You have three days to accomplish this.
If you cannot defeat the old man,
then strike against the successor.
Who is to be his successor?
Look for the ring
and the ancient symbol.
The one who wears the ring
is the one who is chosen.
You will not fail in this, Morgan,
or my punishment will
be swift and terrible.
You have three days to bring me my victory
and only three.
So may it be,
in your name.
[upbeat techno music]
[knocking on door]
[light switch clicks]
Master?
[light switch clicks]
Master?
[light switch clicks]
[tense music]
Master?
[Lindmer] Wong?
I came as soon as I could.
You came in time.
The last phase of our
work is about to begin.
[sighs]
Help me stand.
[master panting]
Her name is Morgan LeFay.
Study her face and remember it.
[Wong] What does it say?
[Lindmer] One day you
must take up Latin, Wong.
The enchantress,
Queen of the Sorcerers,
the Dark Queen.
You've never shown me this book before.
You never noticed it.
It's 500 years old.
Morgan was worshiped by a devil cult
in the 15th century.
And she hasn't aged.
Working evil has a few advantages.
The barriers are crumbling.
Morgan is to be the first of The Dark Ones
to cross the threshold.
Her purpose is to destroy me.
Let her take my life, then, if she can.
No, you cannot interfere.
Not yet.
It's an ancient art to use an
enemy's strength against you.
We have three days to
prepare the initiation.
Find Stephen Strange.
I've had no contact with him for years.
All I can be sure of is he's safe.
Find him.
When you have, come back to me.
[Wong] When will Morgan
cross the threshold?
[Lindmer] At the dawn.
And you'll meet her alone?
None of us is ever alone.
[tense music]
[Nurse] How are you, Stephen?
Good.
- Stephen.
- Good morning.
- Dr. Larry Ferrari to ER.
- You're late.
Oh, is that why I'm in such a hurry?
Stephen, it is not funny.
Head nurse reported you.
That's three times this month.
- Four times.
- Who was it?
Anyone I know?
[Stephen] Sarah, how can you say that?
You've got lipstick on your cheek,
and I can smell her perfume.
It's not very expensive perfume.
That's because I gave it to her.
[Woman On PA] Attention, all...
You're going to get
into a lot of trouble.
Now, Sarah.
If I'd been out with you,
I wouldn't have been late.
We made a deal.
I never agreed to it.
I think it's fine for doctors
and nurses to fall in love.
Falling in love wasn't the question.
It was making love.
Oh.
Your outpatients are waiting.
I'll tell Head Nurse you're here.
Maybe she hasn't written you up yet.
Pray for me?
I don't think she's religious.
- Mrs. Hester, Mr.
- Bromowitz, Mr. Washington,
I'll be with you in a moment, okay?
Sorry, Mrs. Sullivan.
Oh.
Doc, I got the ulcers again,
and I've been drinking
milk like they told me to.
What else have you been drinking?
Not a drop.
Mrs. Sullivan?
Oh well, I gotta have
a little now and then.
Just a little.
Look, if you don't stop drinking,
you know it's going to k*ll you.
Well, I got the pains,
and I can't sleep nights.
Give me a little
somethin', Doc, won't you?
Just this once?
No.
Your ulcers will go away
if you lay off the juice.
I'm tryin'.
I know you are.
I've got an extra bed.
You can spend the night here,
and I'll give you a little
something to help you sleep.
How's that?
Oh, thanks, Doc.
You're the only one that gives a damn.
Here, I'll go get the nurse.
Come on in, Mr. Washington.
[tense music]
[Boy] Hey, lady, give me a dollar!
- Yeah, me too!
- Come on, lady.
[Boy] You can afford it!
[Driver] Hey, you little creeps,
get out of here!
[Boy] If you give us two
dollars, we'll go away.
Come on, man, get off the car.
Let's go.
[eerie music]
[tense music]
[power surging]
[Lindmer] You shall not pass me, Morgan.
[Morgan] Your barriers have fallen.
You cannot stop me now.
[Lindmer] I have cast you out before.
You shall not pass by me, Morgan.
You forced the choice, old man.
Now it begins.
[tense music]
It's calculated this time, old man.
[tires screech]
- [Driver] Oh, no!
- [horns honking]
Get an ambulance!
Please, somebody call an ambulance!
Is he dead?
[horns honking]
[Driver] It wasn't my fault.
It wasn't my fault.
It wasn't.
- It wasn't my fault.
- Oh, my God!
[Driver] He just came
from nowhere, and he's...
[voices overlapping]
[Bystander] You better
call an ambulance.
[Bystander] Is he getting up?
Get an ambulance!
[voices overlapping]
[Driver] Hey, buddy, I'm sorry.
I couldn't stop or nothin'.
You fell right in front of me.
[Lindmer] What happened to the girl?
What girl?
There's no girl.
I didn't see.
Did you see a girl?
- Are you all right?
- What happened to the girl?
[Driver] Did you see a girl?
Hey, buddy, are you sure you're all right?
[tense music]
[power surging]
[kettle whistling]
[dramatic music]
[siren wailing]
My intuition was correct.
I felt an aura of great danger around you.
The danger has passed for now.
[Wong] Are you all right?
I'm several hundred years too old
to be all right.
You found him.
[Wong] At East Side Hospital.
He's a resident in the
psychiatric department.
Good.
What happened?
I confronted Morgan
and provoked her into attacking me.
I forced her hand,
but the effort cost me more
than I had anticipated,
and there was a complication.
She used a girl as an instrument,
an innocent soul.
Morgan possessed her body
and then discarded it.
That girl is important to us.
I drew a likeness of her.
I shall need your help to find her again.
She's in danger.
Grave danger.
A psychic as*ault of those dimensions
isn't easily recovered from.
She was carrying books.
She's undoubtedly a student,
a very profound deduction,
wouldn't you say, Wong?
[Wong chuckles]
[tense music]
[Wong] What can we do for her?
At the moment, nothing.
But she has become a pan of things,
and even a pawn can be
used to capture a queen.
[dramatic music]
[clock ticks]
[Man On TV] What's the matter with you?
Shh, quiet!
Come here.
[Man On TV] He didn't hang up the phone.
[Man On TV] Let him hang up the phone.
- Who?
- Dracula.
Dracula and the monster live here.
[Man On TV] No, wait a minute.
Don't start that again.
Who told you that?
[Man On TV] Talbot.
He also said that we
gotta search the place.
[Man On TV] Come here, come over here.
Now listen, Talbot!
Enough is enough.
Now Whilbur's scared...
Hello, hello!
- He's gone.
- So am I.
No, you don't, come here.
I'm gonna settle this
thing once and for all.
We'll search this place.
- Chick...
- [TV switch clicks]
Good night.
All quiet on the front?
Mm-hmm.
See you tomorrow.
Night.
[eerie music]
[suspenseful music]
[gasps]
[dramatic music]
[TV switch clicks]
[Man On TV] And if Dracula was here,
he's gonna be wantin' breakfast,
and I'm fatter than you,
and it ain't gonna be me.
[Man On TV] Now, just a minute.
- Just a minute.
- It ain't gonna be me!
[faint voices talking on TV]
[tense music]
Is he dead?
[gasps]
[horn honking]
[tires screech]
[Man On TV] Chief!
[tense music]
Oh, Chief!
[man on TV chuckles]
Chief!
[blabbering]
[tense music]
[wind howling]
No, no!
[tense music]
[whimpers]
[taxi revs]
[clatters]
Hey, you trying to get yourself k*lled?
You all right, lady?
What're you doin' out here all alone?
I don't know.
Come on, I better take you in the cab.
[siren wailing]
[Woman On PA] Nurse Terry Burdle,
report to x-ray three.
Nurse Terry Burdle.
Hi.
Name?
[Woman On PA] Dr. William
Caulley to radiology.
Dr. William Caulley.
What happened?
Did something happen to you?
Don't make me go to sleep.
I'll die if I go to sleep again.
Relax, I'm not gonna
make you do anything.
[Woman On PA] Dr. Nelson.
Dr. Christopher Nelson.
Dr. Christopher Nelson.
Would you send someone from the lab
down to ER, please?
Thank you.
[rotary dial whirs]
[telephone rings]
- Yeah.
- Doctor?
I think you'd better get down to ER.
I've got a Jane Doe for you.
All right.
Look, just lay back and relax,
and I'll be back in a minute.
[Woman On PA] Dr. Peter Dodsen,
please call extension, 1-1-1-4.
Dr. Peter Dodsen.
[tires screech]
[{Doctor] Something wrong, doctor?
No, I just thought I'd seen her before.
You wouldn't happen to
know her name, would you?
Uh-uh.
[Doctor] She doesn't know it, either.
Hi.
[Doctor] Cab driver brought her in,
found her wandering in the streets,
no purse, disoriented, confused,
pretty well out of it.
Sit her up, please.
Come.
Doesn't seem to be a blow to the head.
Did you do a drug screening?
[Doctor] Lab is on the way.
[Stephen] Do you know
what happened to you?
There was an accident.
Were you in an accident?
No.
There was an old man.
A woman pushed him over a
railing in front of a car.
[tense music]
Can you feel this?
She says she's afraid to go to sleep.
Is that so?
The woman.
I dreamed about her,
but it wasn't a dream.
She was there.
She won't let me back into my room.
And you're afraid if
you go to sleep again...
I'll die.
That won't happen.
Lie down, please.
Just rest back.
I want a complete workup, medical EEG,
skull films, and that drug screening.
- Mm-hmm.
- I'll go get her admitted.
- Okay.
- Mrs. King.
Mrs. Elizabeth King,
please go to receiving room, Mrs. King.
[Stephen] See you in
a few minutes, okay?
[tense music]
[power surging]
[Woman On PA] Dr. Christopher Nelson
to radiology stat.
Dr. Nelson.
[tense music]
[calm piano music]
You let me oversleep.
- What's this?
- Breakfast.
Wong, you're a pupil and a friend,
- not a servant.
- Oh, sit down and eat.
What about the girl?
I found her name and where she lives.
And?
Apparently she ran out
of her room last night
and left her door open.
No one saw her, and she never came back.
We should call the
police and the hospitals.
I have.
A girl was admitted to East
Side Hospital last night.
- Which department?
- Psychiatric.
Was Stephen Strange still on duty?
I must go to the hospital immediately.
He was on duty all night.
You can go there after you've eaten.
First attend to the body.
Isn't that what you always taught me?
Well, I hope your cooking's improved.
Here you are.
Good morning, Mr. Brown.
Feeling a little better today?
Oh, you're the new one.
- What is it?
- Your medication.
What's it for?
To make you feel better.
Will it make me go to sleep?
Yes, dear.
You'll sleep just fine.
I don't want it.
Everything's all right.
- Doctor.
- You can't make me take it.
[Head Nurse] Doctor?
No, don't!
[Stephen] What's wrong?
What's the matter?
[Stephen] She won't take her medication.
You promised me don't
make me go to sleep.
It's all right.
You don't have to go to sleep.
Nurse, I didn't prescribe any medication.
It's standard procedure, doctor.
I'd assumed you would sign for it.
Well, you assumed wrong.
It's all right now, don't worry.
Sit up in bed and watch television.
How about that?
Would you like some coffee?
- Doctor?
- Later.
Doctor, I've been at
this hospital for 20 years.
I'm very well-aware of that.
[power surging]
[Wong] Shall I come
with you to the hospital?
That won't be necessary.
Well, I've some personal
matters to attend to.
I can return this evening.
Set your affairs in order, Wong.
In two days' time, we
shall both know which path
fate has chosen for us.
[engine turns over]
[door closes]
[tense music]
[power surges]
[cat meows]
[electricity crackles]
[cat whines]
Mr. Brown's family called.
They'd like to move him to a sanitarium
in Pennsylvania next week.
Any problem?
That's an extra bed.
Two admissions yesterday.
[Taylor] Who was the resident?
Dr. Strange.
Sorry I'm late.
Dr. Taylor.
Nice of you to join us.
[Head Nurse] Two admissions yesterday.
Mrs. Sullivan, second time this month,
and the Jane Doe who came up
from emergency at 3:45 a.m.
Sullivan, the alcoholic.
Her ulcers were bothering her.
She has trouble at night,
so I let her sleep over.
Isn't that a waste of bed space?
She's a chronic.
It's worth it to keep her
off the sauce a day or two.
I see it as part of our
debt to the community.
And the Jane Doe?
That's an odd one.
Refused medication.
[Stephen] I didn't
prescribe any medication.
[Taylor] Why not?
She's amnestic.
She was frightened.
Can't tell us what happened to her.
There's no sign of trauma
or neurological problem.
I didn't want to obscure
the patient with medication.
So she's been drinking coffee.
She's a county problem.
Send her to Bellevue for observation.
I don't think that's necessary.
I wanna see the girl.
Alone, doctor.
Thank you.
[Woman On PA] Dr. Ferrari
to ER immediately.
Dr. Larry Ferrari.
May I help you, Sir?
There's a young girl
in the psychiatric ward.
She was transferred from the
emergency room last night.
Oh, I'm sorry, Sir.
Visiting hours are from three
to six in the afternoon.
You'll have to come back later.
This is an unusual situation.
I have pertinent
information about the girl.
[Woman On PA] Dr. Bieton,
please call your office immediately.
This is an unusual situation.
He has pertinent
information about the girl.
Yes?
I should like to see this girl, please.
I'm sorry.
Visiting hours are from three till six.
May I come in?
- Come in.
- Thank you.
[Stephen] Ah, excuse me.
He should see the doctor in charge.
I am the doctor in charge.
Have we met before?
We may have.
This girl was admitted
last night, I believe.
Do you know her?
I know of her.
I may be able to help her.
Please come into my office.
[door closes]
This address is near NYU.
- Is she a student?
- I believe so.
What can you tell me about her?
[Lindmer] What can
you tell me about her?
She's confused, disoriented,
essentially psychotic,
out of touch with reality.
[tires screech]
Where have you seen me before?
Last night, I had an odd sort of dream.
This young woman was in it.
So were you.
What happened in the dream?
She pushed you over a railing.
And someone else was there, another woman.
[Lindmer] Doctor, do you
know what a psychic bond is?
What it sounds like, I suppose.
The events you just
described actually took place
yesterday afternoon.
I wasn't hurt in the accident,
but Clea didn't know that.
Understandably, it was a
tremendous shock to her.
It's not surprising she should
recall the events in a dream.
But you don't understand.
It was my dream.
But that's impossible, isn't it?
You looked in on her dream, in a sense.
There would appear to be a
psychic bond between you.
Who are you?
I'm sorry.
I neglected to introduce myself.
Strange, I want to see you now.
In a few minutes.
In a few minutes.
[door closes]
What did you do to him?
Altered the heartbeat
and the respiration.
Lowered the blood pressure slightly.
[scoffing] I don't think I believe this.
Do you believe in evil, doctor?
No.
I believe in a human
potentiality to do good,
to do evil,
but evil, per se, no, I
don't believe in that.
Unfortunately, it won't
make our work any easier.
What are you trying to say to me?
We can help this girl, Clea Lake.
She's in grave danger,
and I can promise you the
illness is beyond your capacity
to cure by conventional means.
Now, I can't force you to do this,
but if you choose it
of your own free will,
then come to my house,
but I must warn you,
there's danger in it for you as well.
[Stephen] Is that all?
Well, I think that's enough for now.
Good day.
[tense music]
[power surges]
Clea?
You know my name?
They gave me something to keep me awake.
I don't think it's working.
[Woman On PA] Dr. Wendy Cutler
to receiving room, please.
Dr. Wendy Cutler.
Dr. Taylor?
Strange.
You lied to her.
You gave her Thorazine.
The one thing she was afraid
of, you put her to sleep.
A tranquilizer is
not a sedative, doctor.
I think I know how to
treat a psychotic patient.
- She was my patient.
- No.
No, she is a patient of this
hospital, a public hospital
and a ward of which I
happen to be in charge.
She was a nuisance on the ward,
and she had to go to sleep
eventually, didn't she?
Now if you'll excuse me.
[Doctor] Sorry, Stephen.
I don't have to put up with this.
Yes, you do.
He's on the Board of Governors.
Now just don't antagonize him.
Antagonize him?
He comes in here twice a week
with a guilty conscience.
I'm on this ward six days out of seven.
These are my patients.
Stephen, just listen to me.
Now you do have a personal
interest in this girl.
I can see it.
[Woman On PA] Dr. Frank Taylor,
please call your office.
You've just lost your objectivity.
[Woman On PA] Dr. Frank Taylor.
What Taylor did was right.
Look, I don't like him
any better than you do,
but we're stuck with him.
What's the matter?
You look down.
- It's Thursday.
- Oh.
[laughs sarcastically] Dr. Taylor.
[Stephen] The one and only.
[sighs]
Doctor, I think you better come here.
I tried to wake her, she won't respond.
- Pulse rate.
- 160 and faint.
Very irregular.
- Blood pressure.
- 60 over 20.
- And?
- Falling.
That's the Thorazine.
She's in a coma, hypotensive shock.
- I called for Dr. Taylor.
- To hell with Dr. Taylor.
Give me an IV of DSW with
an ampule of phenylephrine.
- I want a Code Blue.
- Yes, doctor.
[tense music]
[phone rings]
Where are you going?
I'll call you later.
Keep an eye on her for me, okay?
[horn honks]
[Boy] Hey, come on, slowpoke.
I'll race you.
[Boy] Get out of the
way, I'm comin' through.
[power surges]
[Stephen] Look out!
[brakes screech]
[horn honks]
[upbeat techno music]
[crowd laughs]
[doorbell dings]
Oh, come in, Dr. Strange.
Come into the study.
My father gave me this ring,
or actually left it to me in his will.
The design on this is the
same as your attic window.
I also saw it on your calling card.
So it is.
Well, what's going on here?
More than meets the eye.
I was acquainted with your father.
He and I shared some
of the same interests.
He was a greater man than
most people realized,
and his death was tragic and untimely.
You know about his death.
Only that he and your mother were k*lled
in an automobile accident and
that you weren't with them.
I was supposed to be.
I changed my mind at the last minute.
How old were you?
Eighteen.
And now you're 33.
Never married.
What interests did you and
my father have in common?
Yours.
You're a very unusual man.
Your father and I both recognized it
when you were born.
You've been gifted with a clear mind
and a love for humanity,
hence, your choice to become a doctor.
Also, some latent talents,
which even you are not aware of yet.
Such as what?
Knowledge doesn't come cheaply.
If I were to tell you
that ignorance has been
a kind of protection for you
and that there's a
price you'll have to pay
if you want to understand your destiny,
would you still choose
understanding over ignorance?
Yes.
We were speaking of evil this afternoon.
The girl, Clea, has been touched by evil,
used as a pawn and then discarded,
but she was only an instrument.
I was the intended target.
If you understand
what's happened to her,
why can't you help her?
Because the powers at
my command are waning.
I have nearly served my time,
and to rescue Clea would
expose me to an enemy
who would certainly destroy me,
but I can work through you to save her.
What are these powers at your command?
The Hermetic Arts,
the ability to take the fundamental forces
of the universe and direct them,
control them with the will.
Alchemy, sorcery, magic, or science.
It's been called by many names.
[Stephen] I don't
think I'm ready for this.
[Lindmer] I think you are.
You're telling me you're a sorcerer.
[Stephen] And my
father, was he like you?
No.
But he gave me the ring.
And one day he knew you'd
come for me, didn't he?
He did.
I used to feel I was
the one meant to die
in that accident, that
somehow it was my fault.
I believe the accident
was intended for you.
Your parents d*ed to protect you.
Protect me, and my latent talents?
Those talents are very rare, indeed.
Well, I don't think I
wanna know about them.
I came here to try to
help a patient of mine,
not become a sorcerer's apprentice.
Of course.
The girl's life is in danger.
If we're going to help her,
we should do so quickly.
[dramatic music]
[telephone rings]
Psychiatric.
[Stephen] Sarah? Stephen.
Where are you?
At a friend's house.
How is she?
[Sarah] Nothing's changed, Stephen.
She's still in a coma.
Vital signs?
Steady; Blood pressure, 100 over 80.
Oh, what's the number where you are?
I'll call you if there's any change.
I'm on the run.
I'll call you.
Good-bye.
[power surging]
[tense music]
Ready to begin?
Put this back on.
Now what?
I'm going to send you on a journey,
into the astral planes,
which are other dimensions
of manifestation existing within
and beyond the material plane.
Dreaming is a form of astral travel
on the lower planes, where it's harmless.
Unfortunately, Clea's consciousness
has gone on to the higher planes
as a result of the shock she experienced
when evil took possession of her.
She's lost.
She literally can't find her way back.
And I'm supposed to find her.
The psychic link between
you will lead your astral body
to hers and keep you with
her for the journey back.
The ring will serve to protect you.
On the higher planes,
certain beings exist,
which are not always friendly.
The ring should persuade
them to keep their distance.
If anything should approach you,
or if there's any danger at all,
I want you to say exactly these words:
In the name of Rael, scourge of demons,
I command you, be gone!
Say it.
In the name of Rael, scourge of demons,
I command you, be gone.
It must be exactly those words.
How do I get back?
On the astral planes,
action follows thought.
Will yourself to return to Earth.
Hold the thought in your mind,
and you'll come back.
When does it begin?
Now.
[thrilling music]
Balzaroth.
Balzaroth.
Hail Morgan!
Go the girl and wait.
A man will come to free her.
You must prevent this.
You may have the girl,
but bring the man to me.
[thrilling music]
[Stephen] Clea!
[horse neighs]
[shrieks]
[horse grunting]
Clea!
[Balzaroth laughing maniacally]
[Balzaroth] You have lost her, mortal.
Come with me and save yourself.
[growls]
In the name of Rael, scourge of demons,
I command you, be gone!
[Man] Be gone!
[Balzaroth screams]
[mystical music]
[growls]
[Morgan] You lost him?
[Balzaroth] He spoke the name of power.
You should learn
whose powers to respect.
[Master] Morgan.
[Balzaroth] Master, protect me!
Go, Balzaroth, return to your realm.
[thunder clapping]
You have dared to toy with me, Morgan.
No.
[Master] Yes.
Observe.
[dramatic music]
It's done.
Wong, we have to carry him to bed.
[wind howling]
How have I toyed with you?
I don't understand.
This mortal, Stephen Strange,
is the one chosen by
Lindmer to succeed him.
Thrice, you had the
opportunity to slay him,
and thrice you stayed your hand.
Why, Morgan?
I commanded Balzaroth
to bring him to me.
It was he who failed!
Do not lie to me, woman.
Why have you spared him?
I am still a woman,
and the man attracted me.
[Master] Then you find no satisfaction
in my service?
I would feel the warmth
of a man's arms again
after all these years alone.
You battered human love for power.
You made a covenant with me.
Would any mortal man desire
you if he saw you thus?
[thunder claps]
Master!
Expect no pity of me, woman.
If you desire the mortal,
then you may have him,
but only once my lust is satisfied.
I hunger for the souls of men,
and not until I have them
will my hunger be fulfilled.
Bring me the old man or destroy him,
but if you cannot overcome the sorcerer,
then Stephen Strange must die.
Your time runs out, Morgan.
You must act quickly.
Do not let your vanity hinder you,
or I will take away
what you prize the most
and leave you old and barren
till the end of time.
[thunder claps]
[Woman On PA] Dr. Caulley.
Dr. William Caulley to Surgery One.
Mrs. Debra Harris, please
call emergency room.
Mrs. Debra Harris.
[balls thud]
Dr. Thomas Cooper to ER immediately.
Dr. Thomas Cooper.
Hi.
How do you feel today?
- Fine.
- Mr. Burns,
- call extension 3-1-2-4.
- Are you sure?
[Woman On PA] Mr. Burns.
Did you save my life last night?
What makes you say that?
I don't know.
I had this crazy dream.
It was like I was off somewhere
until you came for me.
I can't explain it.
It just feels like you saved my life.
Well, that's what I'm
supposed to get paid for.
You're discharged, you can go home.
Yeah, I know, I've been waiting.
For what?
To see if you'd come.
[Woman On PA] Dr. Jeffrey Kroger to OR.
Dr. Jeffrey Kroger.
[Stephen] What are you studying?
[Clea] My major's psychology.
That's an interesting subject.
If you wanted to, you could help me
with my homework sometime.
Well, doctors aren't
supposed to get involved
with their patients.
Oh, I know, I know.
But I'm not your patient anymore.
Helping you with your
homework might be considered
a professional interest.
Well, does that mean
I have to pay for it?
[both laugh]
Hey, it's here.
[Stephen] Listen, there's
someone I have to go see first.
Then would you like to
have dinner tonight?
I'd love to.
Be back for you at seven.
Be ready at seven.
[tense music]
[cat meows]
[doorbell dings]
[thunder claps]
[cat whining]
[Wong] Come in.
Thank you.
[dramatic music]
[thunder claps]
I don't know what you
did to me last night.
I don't want to know.
It doesn't matter.
I don't want anything more to do with it.
As you wish.
The choice is yours.
Evil isn't a real thing.
It's a condition of the
mind, dysfunctional,
destructive and curable.
Call me a rational man.
I am.
I want to stay that way.
- Doctor.
- Wong.
Excuse me, Master, but
let me speak, please.
Why do you call him, "Master"?
Because of what he's taught me.
Wong, you're an intelligent man.
Surely you don't believe all this.
It's not a question of belief.
I'm able to believe
it's not raining outside
and leave my umbrella in the closet,
but that won't help me from getting wet.
I can't bow my head to any
man and call him, "Master."”
I believe in myself.
I take responsibility for my self.
I'm sorry, I can't accept it.
[Lindmer] The choice is yours.
Goodbye.
[thunder claps]
Master.
We can do no more for him.
He must accept with his own free will.
[thunder claps]
[cat purrs]
Hello, kitty.
Do you live here?
Come on in, then, and get dry.
[tense music]
[rain pattering]
[cat meows]
[cat purring]
[tense music]
You can't be in here.
This house is sealed against you.
Your Stephen carried
me across the seals.
His aura protected me.
[power surging]
You have courage,
but that's not enough.
[power surges]
[tense music]
[thunder claps]
I have come for you, old man.
You'll not have me, Morgan.
[power surges]
[laughing maniacally]
[triumphant music]
[power humming]
You're a crafty old man,
but if I can't destroy you here,
you'll come with me on the wings of demons
to a place where I can.
[suspenseful music]
Come, Asmodeus, Prince of Hell.
It is Morgan who commands you.
Come and take him into our domain.
[growling]
[soft music]
[knocking on door]
Well, are you gonna let me in?
Maybe.
[both laughing]
Come on in.
You look beautiful.
Thank you.
You look wet.
I had to use this as an umbrella.
Home sweet home.
You ought to see my place.
It makes this look like heaven.
I'll be ready in a minute.
Can I offer you something?
[Stephen] I'd love a hot bath.
How about settling for a cold beer?
It's in the fridge.
[soft music]
[chimes clang]
[power surges]
[gasps]
Ohh, ah!
- No!
- What's the matter?
A woman she was in the mirror.
There's nothing in the mirror.
It's happening again.
It's coming back to me.
No!
Easy, easy.
It's all right.
Nothing's going to happen to you.
She won't be harmed if you come with me.
Come with you where?
Just come.
You have my word, she won't be harmed.
[dramatic music]
I have things to show you,
powers beyond your comprehension.
Come.
Stephen.
Look at me.
Am I pleasing to you?
You're beautiful.
What is it you most desire?
Wealth?
Lower your head to me.
Power.
[power surges]
Look at yourself.
Lift your hands together.
Bring down the lightning of the gods.
[power surges]
What is it you love?
Beauty, art, music, what?
Knowledge, the secrets of the universe?
All these I can give to you and more.
What is it you most desire?
[dreamy music]
Why do you draw away?
The touch of your lips is cold.
Cold?
Who are you?
Morgan, you can call me.
[dreamy music]
Are my lips still cold?
No.
[dramatic music]
Take off the ring.
The ring?
It won't come off.
Only the old man can take it off, Lindmer.
You can remove it.
Lindmer is nothing.
He has no hold on you.
Take off the ring.
You do it.
No.
Come with me.
[dramatic music]
See him now?
He's nothing.
Nothing to you.
[dramatic music]
Take off the ring and
reign with me, Stephen,
on all the thrones of men forever.
No!
Then perhaps you should join him there.
Take off the ring and
throw it into the web.
Don't defy me, Stephen,
or I'll take my pleasure
from you in another way.
No!
[whips]
[groans]
[groans]
In the name of Rael, scourge of demons,
I command you, release me!
[laughs maniacally]
What a novice you are at this, Stephen.
So much to learn and so little time.
[power surges]
Witch!
[power surging]
[dramatic music]
Master.
[dramatic music]
No!
This cannot be!
I am Kali, Goddess of Destruction!
I am Lilith, Queen of
Demons and of the flesh,
and I am Ishtar, bloody Ishtar,
and I am Morgan!
- You have failed.
- No!
You have let me be defeated!
Beg me to destroy you, Morgan.
Pray to me for death.
You shall not have it.
I will punish you until
you scream to me for mercy.
Look upon yourself, cry out, Morgan.
Your agony will be a comfort for me.
Perhaps, if your screaming pleases me,
I may yet take pity on you,
but now, look!
No!
Please!
I will serve you in any way you choose,
but give me back my youth!
Answer me!
Answer me!
Don't leave me like this!
Answer me!
Answer me!
Answer me!
[enchanting music]
[calm music]
Wong, thank God.
Help me with him.
Sunrise.
We must be greeted by the sunrise.
Stand in the center of the circle
and face the window.
These robes, Morgan gave them to me.
They will do.
I tricked you, Stephen Strange,
into accepting your destiny.
I allowed Morgan to believe
she had defeated me.
I knew her desire for
you would be her undoing,
and I gambled that you
would not succumb to her.
None of this do you understand yet,
but this much you know.
You've been brought to this moment
by forces beyond your control.
You were chosen,
but the final choice must always be yours.
What choice is it that's mine?
To serve yourself or all of mankind.
Is that a choice?
What will I be called upon to do?
Become more than a man and renounce
such earthly pleasures as are given to men
who are only mortal.
The pleasure of ignorance or offspring
or an easy death.
Will I be asked to give up even love?
The universe is love.
That you shall have.
I don't understand,
but I've made my choice.
Let it begin, Master.
[dramatic music]
[enchanting music]
[Man] Stephen Strange,
you are the one who is chosen.
Do you accept the
guardianship of the light?
I do accept it.
[Man] Then let the transmutation begin.
[enchanting music]
[thrilling music]
[delightful music]
[power surges]
[dramatic music]
It is done.
I felt tremendous pain.
Energies beyond your
comprehension were circuited
into your body.
The circuit held.
His pulse is weak.
He'll return to us.
His work isn't finished yet.
I'm going to call an ambulance.
[Man] No!
These are not the affairs of mortal men.
[Wong] He'll recover.
A part of him was ripped
away and given to you,
as it had to be.
Have I taken his place?
Have I become the sorcerer?
You will be when the
Ancient One has taught you
how to use your powers.
You're like a child with a loaded g*n.
Unless you're careful, you
can harm yourself or others.
You have inherited the
powers, but not the knowledge
or the wisdom that must
accompany them yet.
What have I become?
More than a man.
[dramatic music]
[soft music]
The Harrison girl and Mr. Masterson
were discharged yesterday.
Good.
We're up to seven empty beds.
That's the most we've had in a year.
Excellent.
No admissions yesterday?
None.
Who was the resident?
Dr. Strange.
Sorry I'm late.
Strange, do you happen to own a watch?
Yes.
Does it work?
Sometimes.
I suggest that you look at it sometimes.
Sorry.
Go ahead.
[Woman On PA] Attention.
Attention, all medical students.
There will be a lecture in the
auditorium at 7 p.m. tonight.
Attention.
Attention, all medical students.
There will be a lecture in the
auditorium at 7 p.m. tonight.
Good morning.
[Clea] Hi.
[Stephen] How's your recall?
Has any of it come back to you yet?
No, I still can't remember anything.
Is that bad?
Well, not necessarily bad.
The mind heals itself pretty
much like the body does.
When you're ready to remember, you will.
Oh.
Do we go into your office?
No, I've got a better idea.
Let's take a walk.
[Woman On PA] Mrs. King,
Mrs. Elizabeth King,
please go to receiving room.
Mrs. King.
[Man] Three, two, one.
Take telecine four.
We're here interviewing the
founder of The LeFay Method,
a woman, who in the last few days,
seems to have taken at least a pan
of New York City by storm, so to speak.
Here to tell us more about it is the force
behind The LeFay Method, Morgan LeFay.
Ms. LeFay, can you tell
us just what it is,
exactly, that the method does.
[Morgan] Quite simply, it unlocks
the hidden potential within you.
It's a way of realizing your
own powers and using them
to get what you really want out of life.
[Clea] Do you live around here?
[Stephen] I'm moving into
a house a few blocks over.
- Oh.
- What are you studying?
[Clea] Would you believe psychology?
[Stephen] I'd believe anything.
I don't suppose you'd like to help me
with my homework sometime?
Doctors aren't supposed to get involved
with their patients.
Yeah, but I'm not your
patient anymore, am I?
No, you're not.
You know, what happened to me,
I guess I was just staying up too late
and studying too hard.
It happens all the time, don't worry.
You're over it, it won't come back.
- I hope not.
- It won't.
[Morgan] Well, the actual method
differs with each student.
The details, for instance,
of your method would never
be revealed to anyone else.
[Interviewer] How did you
come to learn this method?
That's a long story.
If you come to one of my seminars,
you'll hear all about it.
[Interviewer] You have
a lot of young people
with you today, and I was wondering,
does this method have a particular appeal
to young people?
[Morgan] think young
people are always attracted
to the truth.
They have less to lose by it.
- They're interested in...
- Clea?
- Of course...
- This is really dumb.
Completely effective,
no matter what the age of the student,
but it's with the young we
expect our greatest results.
They are, after all, the future.
Thank you very much, Ms. Morgan LeFay.
From the new mall in downtown Manhattan,
I'm Agnes Carson for WBIS News.
Hi, Clea.
Well, here we are, home sweet home.
Do you have a date tonight?
No.
Are you asking for one?
Would you like one?
I thought you said
doctors weren't supposed
to get involved with their patients.
Well, I could help
you with your homework.
That would make it a professional visit.
Okay?
I'd love it.
I'll come for you at seven.
Be ready at seven.
Bye.
Thank you, ladies and gentleman.
And now for the conclusion
of our fabulous extravaganza.
Is the hand quicker than the eye,
or is the eye quicker than the mind?
Ladies and gentleman, I give you magic!
[audience applauds]
Watch the wand.
Don't take your eyes away from it.
Is it really here or is it not?
Watch!
[audience applauds]
Yes, the ancient arts of
magic, ladies and gentleman,
known to a few and only a few.
Now you see it,
[blows] now you don't!
[audience applauds]
Watch closely as from this handkerchief
I will produce [power chimes]
A beautiful bouquet of flowers?
[Audience] Whoo!
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you.
[thrilling music]
Dr. Strange (1978)
Moderator: Maskath3