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01x04 - Night of the Clones

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Amazing Spider-Man". Aired: September 14, 1977 – July 6, 1979.*
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The series yielded the first live-action depictions of Peter Parker's "spider-tracer" tracking/homing devices; they are prominently featured in several episodes throughout the series.

01x04 - Night of the Clones

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to win the tovald award is the dream of every scientist what you're about to see will make traditional cloning obsolete

we're like jekyll and hyde

doctor after seeing you clone that frog i was wondering do you think it'll ever be possible to clone a man

spiderman peter puck

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so

the tow ball award selection committee is coming right here to new york yeah some of them have already arrived

to win the tow vault award is the dream of every scientist yes and you know i've got a hunch that

for the first time in 75 years we're finally gonna have an american winner what an honor to be selected

and what a story here here are some pictures of the first recipients of the award and they hear

hear stories of the awards ceremonies study those and uh here this is ketka here

this is right when these are the first two members of the committee to arrive in new york they're staying at the blackwell

this is dr carl benson he's the chairman of the selection committee now we're going to split up our forces

howard you and missouri will take smith and cover professor kaplan and parker

you're going to meet charlie at the institute for genetics research dr moon has his lab there have any

questions no all right then let's get going

well parker what are you waiting for personal invitation no i was just wondering isn't there supposed to be some kind of animosity

between dr moon and the toval committee well i don't know why shouldn't be well

they've passed him over year after year for five years now and he's certainly well qualified

maybe you and charlie can get an answer to that when you see him in this press conference

press conference yeah i'm gonna show some of his experiments what does that mean he's discovered

something new yes i think he's discovered the power of the press

do you know what he was into cloning what's cloning it's a new dance that parker's gonna

teach you what did you want to remind you that you do downstairs in five minutes for the layout meeting layouts of course you just

excuse me don't be late parker oh don't worry mr jameson i'll be there pete what is calling well

it's a process in which body cells reproduce by division it's a form of asexual reproduction oh

what you know how we have two parents and get some of our personality from each one yeah cloning would produce offspring

from just one parent so there'd be only one personality you mean i could have a baby all by

myself and it would be me um theoretically yes

i don't think that's such a good idea know something rita neither do i

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so

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members of the tow vault committee do anything but quarrel how can one quarrel with a man that has

a taste buds of her now now unless you want to stay up here and starve i suggest

oh my list i promised the manager i would bring him a list of the full committee

i must have left it in my room please excuse me you go ahead i'll meet you in the dining room

no no we will wait no no no you go ahead i'll see you in a minute fish eggs

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ladies and gentlemen good afternoon please better with me he won't be sorry

if my experiment goes well you'll have a story that'll push everything else off the front page

bear with me a moment while i make a few minor adjustments i'd like you to meet

my partner in this endeavor what your partner a member of the order salientia

uh family ranaday that's correct young man it's parker peter parker weren't you in

one of my classes at the university yes or zoology 422. now i remember

what is this a family reunion here

well this is a blood cell my partner kindly

donated a few hours ago i prepared the cell by bombarding it with radiation

in a moment i shall place this cell in the incubator you see here and within a very few hours this single

cell will grow into an exact duplicate of its donor you're talking about cloning i said what

you're about to see will make traditional cloning obsolete this cell will reproduce without a

substitute mother as you call it the only mother the frog i'm about to create will ever

know is this incubator [Music]

the present and future

questions dr moon the tobal award committee is arriving from europe in a

couple of days to decide whether an american scientist should be awarded a prize this year correct over the past five years they

have ignored you haven't they to be honest i would welcome a visit by the award committee

and should they pay me such a visit i may have a few surprises for them that would make this experiment in frog

cloning look like child's play dispatch this is patrolman reilly at the

hotel blackwell captain barbara's on the scene he's requesting a team from the lab

and an elevator inspector got it tell the captain they're on their way

riley is it a bad one yeah real bad filing report let me know

dr kenja and dr reichman were the first members of the tow vault committee to arrive

i was just taking them they are lucky to have survived i am

very lucky what's your function on the committee miss benson my grandfather is chairman

he sent me on a head to make the necessary arrangements captain excuse me

so that's it the cable just broke a one in a million accident we just inspected this elevator three days ago

hey no pictures parker what are you doing here well

captain i picked up the message on the police channel there's something about that i said no pictures i'll call a press

conference when i'm ready here go play someplace

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so

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go get

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you know what you can get mr jameson for his birthday a big silver platter because he wants to put your head on it

what did i do what's going on why should i tell you

and spoil all his fun

hello mr jameson not one picture here not one lousy picture since are there three

rolls of pictures here of the clothing experiment frogs frogs are page two news parker

elevator crashes are page one now where are your pictures of the elevator crash oh well captain barbara exposed all my

film parker you listen to me and you listen good now if you insist on sticking your nose in where you haven't been assigned

and that's what you did when you went to that hotel and i expect pictures from you and i don't care how you get them

papa no barbara you understand sir how am i supposed to don't ask me how that's your job

i did my job when i got the pictures of the cloning experience when you've seen one frog you've seen

them all action violence elevator crashes that's what sells newspapers

you hear me yeah i hear you i hope so now the science foundation is throwing a

costume ball or raised money for their scholarship fund the guests of honor going to the members of the torvald committee

but don't you bring me any pictures of old men with beards beautiful people romance planner that's what sells

newspapers i thought you just said that violence in action sells newspapers i hope you're being funny do i have to

wear a costume too you have to yes parker you do

okay i'll have rita fill out a voucher so i can rent one i think you're joking what you wear on

an assignment is your expense not the newspapers rent a costume on my salary well then

borrowed one from one of your classmates lord knows they look like they're wearing costumes all the time

but mr jameson you don't understand any more arguments out of you and i'll have your yes

i know sir on a silver platter

and this is one of his better days

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you did this we both did it you wanted them to die didn't you no

never admit it you hated them i'm not trying to k*ll them but i was

created out of you from all of yourselves i am you no something went wrong but i have your

mind my thoughts must be your thoughts only part of my personality came through

we like jekyll and hyde but through me you'll be free to do the things that you've always wanted to do instead of

shoving them down denying them the way you do you want revenge you want seven men on that committee to

die for rejecting you and humiliated i may have thought about it in a moment of bitterness

i was wrong in what i've tried to do

and i'm going to make sure that you don't leave this room [Music]

you can't lie to me because you can't lie to yourself you want them dead but thanks to me you're going to get

your wish [Music]

well sir i just want to rat a costume i don't want to buy a custom-made suit

yes yeah i know all about the ball tomorrow night so does every other place in town but you see my job depends on me being able to get

yeah yeah you're right that that is my

problem every costume house in town is completely sold out oh you know it's too bad you don't have

some nice girl who could sew up onto you but what do girls nowadays know about sewing child my mama made rita

why didn't i think of that before you have a girl you might call it that yeah thanks rita

ant-man i'm sorry to put you to so much trouble trouble don't be any trouble i love it

do you remember peter i used to make all your costumes for halloween ghosts goblins

oh you know i think maybe your old skeleton costume is still in the attic i love you but really i was thinking of

something maybe a little more grown up well um what kind of a costume

would you like me to make it doesn't matter just whatever's easiest

tarzan no you catch your death a cold now frankenstein oh

no no no you never could stand the side of blood you wait right there i'll go get my tape

measure dr carl benson chairman of the telfold awards selection committee

expressed his deepest regrets to the families of the injured scientists

dr carl benson

carl benson is staying at this hotel yes but he's out at the moment but if you'd like to talk to miss benson

uh no no i i wouldn't want to bother miss benson at the moment thank you

dr moon

mr um it's still parker peter parker of course mr parker doctor i thought your experiment last

night was absolutely brilliant yes you were one of the reporters well

one of the photographers to be exact if you'll excuse me i have an appointment dr moon

good luck with the selection committee thank you mr parker

front desk yeah my name is peter parker i have an appointment with a miss lisa benson what is her room number

please that's 8 12. thank you

dr moon yes i know him you say he was in the lobby and he didn't come up to see me is he a friend

of yours oh much more when i was a little girl he and my father used to work together at the institute in stockholm

such a good kind man he was very close to my family it's just a shame that his work

you said you weren't here as a reporter mr parker no uh i'm investigating the elevator

accident i don't understand well i'm working um with a private investigator and what puzzles us about

this accident is why these two particular men it must be political

both men had many enemies in their own countries then why wait until they come to america it doesn't make much sense does it no

miss benson i know this may sound a little bizarre but just suppose that somebody was out to get the whole

committee and this accident was just the first step that's a terrible thing for you to say the committee was the only possible

connection between these two men both these men have been on the committee for five years this is longer than anyone except my grandfather

now if being on the committee would lead to this then no you cannot be right

one moment please would you excuse me please i'll only take up another moment of your time goodbye mr parker

miss hello dr moon

well someone told me you were in the lobby why didn't you come up i'll explain why when you meet me but you must come

immediately and without your security guard why i'm not allowed to go anywhere

without him this is very important especially to your grandfather's safety now do anything you can

send the guard on an errand go down the service elevator but meet me at this address

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me [Music]

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so

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oh dr moon it is so good to see you

you look tired what is it what's wrong whatever was wrong before is going to

work out beautifully now that you're here

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thank you [Music]

this [Music]

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baby [Music]

oh [Music] up

he's already tried to k*ll me isn't that proof enough for you i don't know what to think

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so you know if this is how dr moon shows how much he loves you just be glad he's

not your enemy there must be some explanation oh there is

he's trying to k*ll us oh what happened to your hand don't worry

about my hand just worry about how much oxygen is in this place

it must be nearly morning surely if this is a bank then people it was a bank miss benson you see all the buildings on

this street are empty they're going to be torn down soon but i don't think we can wait for the wrecking

crew stand back please

so

come on let's get out of here

thank you let's get you to police headquarters what you're going to tell captain barbara what your friend dr moon tried to do to

us no i have nothing to say to the police do you think he was playing games with us in that vault

i have nothing to say to you or to the police i don't even know who you are why should i trust you please just leave me alone

well part of your story checks out what happened to your hand oh i uh i just scratched it in my lap

what were you saying about my story uh the lock on the vault in the old security building looks like it was put in a can opener

but miss benson denies ever having been in that building well sure to protect dr moon uh nobody's

gonna protect the man who tries to k*ll her oh yeah she would you see dr moon tried to k*ll those two scientists because

they have denied him the tow vault prize year after year but they're not the only two men on the committee

now he's not going to stop captain until he has gotten to every single man parker where were you when those two

guys almost bought it in the elevator i was at the cloning experiment and where was dr moon

he was conducting the experiment case closed no captain i am sure about this you see spider-man

spider-man is that where you get this dingy idea spider-man parker when you hurt your hand i think

it affected your brain

go on sleep i don't need you i have your mind your knowledge

i'm gonna make sure that nobody stops us now not even spiderman

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mr parker this is uh my grandfather

hello dr francis don oh thank you sir mr parker lisa tells me that you speak

for this person called the spider-man i have had contact with him yes sir and he believes that dr moon is going to try

to k*ll me dr benson i wish you could convince your granddaughter to tell the police what happened to her last night

and how do you know what happened to me last night i told you on the telephone spider-man was the one trying to hurt me

no you're wrong you see it was dr moon no mr parker i am a scientist my life is built on

logic and there is no logic in your accusations i'm a scientist too dr benson

so can you tell me why your committee has denied him an award year after year how does that concern you i think the

reason you passed him by might explain how he was able to be in two places at once on the night of the

elevator crash really now this is ridiculous you were afraid of his experiments and where they

were heading and you didn't want to encourage him isn't that right doctor you knew he

wasn't going to stop at cloning a frog now didn't you he wanted to clone a man didn't he dr

benson i can't speak for dr moon uh if you want an answer to that question

you must ask him you know something that's not such a bad [Music]

idea [Music]

i was beginning to think you weren't here what is it i wanted to talk to you when we met at

the hotel talk about what to discuss what a man like you goes through while he's sweating out the time

to see if he's been chosen for the tow vault prize you seem convinced it's going to happen this year after what i've heard and seen

i'd say you were a sure thing such confidence if i were so young and naive i'd perhaps

be able to enjoy these next few days well after they see what you've accomplished based on past experience

i'll just be patient if you excuse me i'm busy with an experiment oh

here no in my private laboratory oh well this will only take a minute

doctor after seeing you clone that frog i was wondering do you think it'll ever be possible to clone a man

i haven't time to waste on fantasy mr parker is it fantasy dr moon i have some

theories that i would love to bat around with you now maybe if i could stay and watch while you conduct your sorry not tonight when

when i'm less busy don't forget now i'll come back any time good night mr

parker good night

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now see who spiderman really is

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spiderman peter puck [Music] mr parker goes to the head of the list

it's amazing you have the same personality traits i do don't you think parker has a dark side

too you know i know peter is no fashion plate these clothes are ridiculous they'll do

until you get into a real costume do you does he keep them in his

apartment nowhere else would we keep them

parker will be going to work soon when he does we've got to figure out a way to get into that apartment that's no problem the janitor has a

spare key i wonder if there's anything about mr

peter parker that i don't know while we're waiting let's figure out

exactly how we're going to use you yeah can we figure this out over breakfast well that's what parker would

say the guy's always hungry isn't he

what about him he's got enough sedation to keep him till we need him all right mr peter parker spider-man

your first breakfast

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yes

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so

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so i told you to be a piece of cake

but i don't know why anybody would want to live in a place like this let's get what we came for clear out

you know it is really weird to know everything about an apartment you've never been in

i'm gonna need this and this

there isn't any utility belt maybe he doesn't have a spare but don't worry i

think i know where you can get one toe ball committee costume ball

that's it the costume ball as you'd say a piece of cake

[Music] you look just like errol flynn very dashing

you made these no i found it in the attic your uncle max bought it for a halloween party i just cleaned it up a

bit boots and all don't you like it oh yeah i like it

i love it anime it's just perfect what would i do without you you going to

try it on well no no not right now i forgot to go but it'll just take a minute i want to

see if it fits i'm sure it fits you know my size how long have you been making my clothes

since you were that big i remember oh really aunt may i have got to go mr jameson will just k*ll me if i don't get

pictures of the guests arriving oh wait a minute peter what is it now emma i forgot part of your costume

here it it's is it's just perfect thank you

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oh no oh aunt may how could you have done this to me

it's never happened to errol flynn i need a costume

i've got the perfect costume [Music]

wow [Music]

gotcha game's up parker we know who you really are

hey relax pete it's your reflex whatchamacallit it's a dead giveaway

it's a beautiful costume rita oh you know that would have sounded so much better if you'd have just said

you look beautiful but i guess i'll just have to settle for what i can get hey you better get on in there and get

to work mr jameson has this thing about employees earning their keep i know what you mean

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until i came to america this time i didn't know what a spider-man was and now i see three

yes but only one of us can tell you what the inside of a bank vault looks like oh and my hand is much better

it is you i hope so security man all over the place any sign

of dr moon mister i don't even know what to call you but you're still wrong about dr moon i

have a feeling we'll find that out

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so

that's right peter i'm you and you're me and this is a god they don't try any

tricks because i'm thinking with your mind and i'm one step ahead of you all the way

[Music] so let's go outside and get a little air

put your mask on [Music]

move what's it going to be spider-man tries one of his daring feats and fails

taking a fatal dive from the roof of the hotel blackwell we do think alike well almost

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oh

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two down parker and spiderman right

wrong

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what is it the acceleration process i'm dying

as quickly as i was born he can't help me

i'll tell him his plan for revenge didn't work it wasn't his plan he had nothing to do

with it make the committee understand [Music]

his

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we find an old man up on the roof dead we find dr moon zonked out in his lab then we get a call from you telling us

you'll tell us everything once we get down here start talking get your hands off me

barbara captain barbara to you spidey

mr jameson i have your head on a silver platter

hold it put that camera down parker but mr james and you said this is what sells newspapers action

violence ah smile jameson now hold up mr jameson just like that

one more [Music]