IF THOUGHTS COULD KILL
An
old friend of Lee's, Walt Kimble, enters the bullpen and looks around. Lee
starts talking to him but doesn't get any response from Walt who is getting
more and more agitated and keeps glancing at the clock which reads 11.15.
Suddenly, Walt pulls out a gun and starts shooting at random around the
bullpen. Lee intervenes and they get into a fight which results in Walt hitting
his head and Lee injuring his knee.
Both men are taken to
Once Lee is admitted to hospital he starts driving
the staff crazy with his temper and complaining. After receiving three phone
calls, Billy visits him and says that he has arranged for an assistant to run
interference. Lee agrees and Billy brings in Amanda - she's a Bedside Bluebell.
Now that Lee has someone to help him around he
decides he wants to visit Walt. Although he's now allowed into the room, he
makes Amanda go along with him and once inside he talks to Walt's wife who
sitting at his bedside. Whilst there, Dr. Glaser enters and it's soon apparent
that Lee and the doctor know each other and aren't friends at all. Glaser used
to work for the Agency until he was sacked - Lee was one of the people that
reviewed his case. To make things worse, Glaser informs Lee that not only is he
Walt's doctor but he's also Lee's.
An angry Lee goes back to his room and Amanda
helps him into bed just as Dr. Chrysler (the man who initially examined him)
enters the room and tells him that they are going to start his tests
immediately and gives him a pill which Lee swallows. The pill is a drug that
puts Lee into a semi-conscious state and after Amanda goes home, Chrysler
wheels Lee into a service elevator and takes him down to a small room Glaser is
using as his lab.
They hook Lee up to a machine and begin running a
film showing violent images - a gun, tanks, cars blowing up, a knife, etc.
Suddenly, amongst all of this, a duck appears on screen and tells Lee his name
is Lester and he should "look and learn".
The next morning, while Amanda is dealing with a
family 'crisis' involving Dotty's boyfriend, the boys and Dean at home, Lee
rings up and asks her to bring from his apartment, the comb with
two missing teeth. Amanda is puzzled and says she can just buy him one but he's
adamant it should be the one from home.
She goes to his apartment and finds the comb. A neighbour of Lee's then appears and says she took in a
parcel for him. She leaves it with Amanda who can't resist a peek. It's a toy -
Lester Duck. She goes back to the hospital and gives Lee the comb who is becoming more and more picky about little details and
is writing detailed lists of things to do. He's also having trouble sleeping
and keeps having nightmares about sinking and steam. Concerned, she visits the
Agency and speaks to Billy about Lee's behaviour who
assures her that they'll look into it.
At the hospital, Glaser is intensifying his experiments
on Lee effectively brainwashing/hypnotising him. The
film still runs the same images but now includes a picture of Billy who Glaser
tells Lee that he must kill. Lee returns home to find Lester Duck and pulls the
cord at the back of the toy to make him talk. Once he does this, Lee
automatically goes into a trance and phones Glaser who orders him to kill Billy
at 12 noon sharp - Lee agrees.
Meanwhile, Amanda goes to the hospital to discover
that Lee has been discharged and so helps another volunteer to get some
laundry. They take a service elevator and Amanda soon realises
that it has similarities to Lee's nightmares. She sees a blue door which the
other volunteer says is a storage room for Glaser. Amanda enters and finds two
files - one with Walt's name on and one with Lee's. She opens Lee's and under a
heading 'Reaction to Violence' she reads 'Subject will strike on command'.
Back in Lee's apartment, he's getting ready to go
to the Agency and he's made a list of things to do. The first three, pick up
laundry, buy coffee and get dozen eggs, have all been ticked off the last two
haven't and next on his list is 'Shoot Billy'. On arriving at the Agency, Lee
hears that Walt has died and wants Billy to get someone to check the IV bottle
in case it was tampered with. Billy isn't keen to initiate anything and is more
concerned in getting his coffee and to a special presentation where he's guest
speaker on time. Francine and Lee make a couple of jokes about how they can set
the time by him, coffee 11.15 etc. when Lee suddenly realises
that that's what Walt was in the bullpen for at exactly 11.15 - to kill Billy.
Billy doesn't believe him and says he'll check it out later as he has to get to
the function, to which Lee insists on going to with him as protection.
Just as they are about to leave, Amanda calls to
tell Lee about the files she found but before she can tell him anything
Chrysler cuts the phone off and takes her down to the lab. After grabbing
Lester Duck, Amanda manages to escape and drives off in an ambulance with both doctor's in pursuit but she loses them and runs in on the
function to stop Lee.
It's almost 12 o'clock and Lee is retrieving a gun
from his ankle holster in preparation. Amanda runs up with the toy and pulls
the cord to make him speak but the cord snaps. She punches it and slams it onto
the table and it finally talks which makes Lee look at her and she manages to
snap him out of the trance.
Later that day Billy has to tell Lee that due to
Glaser being arrested the test results of the physical are invalid and Lee will
have to go back in again to have them redone - Amanda walks off saying she'll
get her bedside Bluebell uniform pressed.
SCENE'S TO WATCH OUT FOR:
Lee having his knee examined by the doctor and
also being told he has to stay in for the physical.
Dotty working out how the family 'crisis' was
Amanda fault even though Amanda wasn't even there!
Lee and Amanda talking in the hospital grounds
with Lee getting more and more picky over little details.
When Amanda and Lee walk down the corridor and Lee
tells her why they don't get along with each other.
Amanda stopping Lee from
shooting Billy and leaving.
The tag.
ROMANCE:
None to speak of in this
episode.
QUOTES:
ALEC SMILES AT LEE
Alec: I was amazed when I heard one of our people
annihilated the third level, but then I heard that you were involved and
somehow it all made sense.
Glaser: I'm Theodore Glaser. Forensic
medicine, pathology and experimental psychology.
Amanda: Hello, I'm Amanda King. Bedside
Bluebell.
Lee: Now I know why we don't get along. This
hospital experience has isolated the whole reason. Rule-breakers and
rule-followers don't mix. Amanda, I am a rule-breaker and you are a
rule-follower.
Lee: My head hurts, my knee hurts and I want my treat
now, come on!
Lee: Francine, if you could pinpoint the single
major reason as to why Amanda King gets to you, what would it be?
Francine: Her complete lack of . . . everything.
Chrysler: All right. What's your connection to
Scarecrow, Mrs. King?
Amanda: If you're referring to Mr. Stetson, I'm
just his Bedside Bluebell, that's all.
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