Bill Bixby credited as playing...
David Banner
- Doctor David Banner: What happened last night wasn't Thor's fault, it was yours and yours alone!
- Donald Blake: David, you're not being fair to me.
- Doctor David Banner: For two years now, *two years* this change of mine hasn't occurred, and do you know why? Because I've stayed away from people like you. People who start trouble and then run away. Well, you're not running away this time, Don, this time you're going to help wipe up the milk that you spilled! Do you understand?
- Thor: When the troll's upon you, you're a mighty fighter.
- Doctor David Banner: You're not so bad yourself.
- Thor: I know.
- Doctor David Banner: [tape-recording himself] Nearly two years of concentrated research, hard work, and the very real possibility of curing my... problem... seems at last to be here.
- Doctor David Banner: [answering the phone] Main lab.
- Maggie Shaw: Mr. Banion, this is the woman you love and she's lonely. And she's also a lot softer in all the right places than that Transponder of yours.
- Doctor David Banner: You'll get no argument from me on that score.
- Donald Blake: You are David Banner, aren't you? If you're not, I'll just apologize profusely and get out of here. I just couldn't let you zap yourself with that thing until I was sure.
- Doctor David Banner: Who are you?
- Donald Blake: You had a beard the last time I knew you. Harvard, ten years ago? You were the guest genius at the time, the resident Merlin and me, I was... I was in trouble a lot.
- Doctor David Banner: Blake? Donald Blake?
- Donald Blake: The one and only.
- Donald Blake: Wait a minute, David. This thing can cure you, and you're going to fry it? David! Come on, let's do the experiment.
- Doctor David Banner: The repair work to the computer is incomplete, there's just not enough time. So... for me, it's back to square one.
- [Donald watches sadly as David puts the Trasnponder controls into the microwave, he turns it on and watches the controls slowly melt and catch fire]
- Donald Blake: David, it's okay...
- [David opens his eyes and he looks at Thor]
- Doctor David Banner: Go away. Leave me alone, please. You just don't understand. You don't know what could happen, *please.*
- [Thor starts lightly pushing David back, slowly pushing him him into the main control area]
- Thor: Go away, eh?
- Donald Blake: Don't push him!
- Thor: Leave you be, eh?
- Donald Blake: Stop it!
- Thor: Sounds more like insult than hospitality!
- Donald Blake: What're you doing, you jerk?
- Thor: An insult is something I can always understand!
- Donald Blake: Don't push him!
- [Thor grabs David by the collar and he is struggling to keep calm]
- Doctor David Banner: Don't make me angry.
- Thor: He's braver than I thought, Blake!
- Donald Blake: Stop it, damn it!
- [Thor swats David away as he faces Blake]
- Thor: Leave me...
- [after David collides onto a control unit and screams while he is electrocuted, Thor rushes over to pull David away and then he throws David to the floor]
- Thor: [Blake goes to David and rolls him onto his back, but Blake backs away when he sees David's pupils are white and he is about to start changing into the Hulk]
- Thor: Odin's beard.
- Donald Blake: Good God.
- [David looks out his window, and sees Jack McGee]
- Donald Blake: What is it?
- David: Trouble.
- Thor: Trouble?
- Doctor David Banner: [after Thor leaves the main lab] Well, at least your Mr. Hyde can be reasonable. Even likable.
- Donald Blake: Yeah, he's okay. Sometimes.
- Doctor David Banner: [storming around] After the attempt at the Institute, I should've known what they'd try next. I should have known. What happened to Maggie is my fault.
- Donald Blake: David, stop beating on yourself, okay? Otherwise your big green friend will return and everything will go to hell.
- Donald Blake: I guess we could all learn something from the big goof.
- Doctor David Banner: You sound like a man who's made peace with himself and his new partner.
- Donald Blake: Yeah. Thor and I are a part of each other.
- Donald Blake: Well, I'd better get going before Maggie gets back. I really hate big good byes with people I like. So I'm going to collect Mister Big and hit the road.
- [Blake and Banner watch Thor happily jogging alongside a woman]
- Doctor David Banner: She's very attractive. He won't like that.
- Donald Blake: So what else is new?
- [Blake walks down the steps to get Thor]
- Doctor David Banner: Good luck!
- Doctor David Banner: [speaking into the recorder as transponder is reconfiguring itself] I've turned the transponder into a kind of giant Chinese puzzle. A puzzle to which only I have the key. And that key is a mechanism located in the laser field rotator, which reverses Gamma polarity. This reversal will result in a radical mutation in the cells of the subject - myself - and cause complete remission.
- [David Banner walks outside onto the front porch, holding a pot of coffee and he waves at Maggie Shaw]
- Doctor David Banner: Good morning!
- Maggie Shaw: Good morning!
- [David smiles as he points at a fresh pot of coffee and Maggie giggles]
- Maggie Shaw: Great!
- [Thor looks around the Joshua Lambert Institute laboratory and then he looks at Donald Blake and David Banner]
- Thor: Your century's version of hell, eh, Blake?
- Donald Blake: Is *this* a hallucination?
- [David, still shocked, shakes his head]
- Thor: And this must be Banner the Warlock. All in good time.
- [Thor holds out his hand, Blake gives Thor his hammer and Thor walks off to a control panel]
- Thor: First things first.
- Donald Blake: What're you doing?
- Thor: I'm thirsty.
- Donald Blake: What're you doing?
- Thor: I'm *thirsty!*
- [Thor grabs a console panel with his hands]
- Doctor David Banner: Don't let him touch those panels, Don!
- [Thor pulls a panel off a control console and a burst of sparks shoot out]
- Doctor David Banner: Stop him! He'll wreck everything, Don! Make him stop!
- Donald Blake: You maniac! Hold it for a second!
- Thor: Drink! Is there nothing to drink in this alchemist's den?
- Donald Blake: I seriously doubt it.
- [after yelling at Thor, David closes his eyes and tries to calm down]
- Doctor David Banner: I must not lose control.
- Donald Blake: David, he - he, he's harmless!
- Thor: Is he praying?
- Donald Blake: I'm sending you back, give me that hammer!
- Thor: *Wait!* I won't hurt him!
- [Thor looks at David, who has his eyes closed and is trying to keep calm]
- Thor: All right, look, you. Blake says that you are wise in many things, but if you show him how to cut the cord that Odin has spun between us...
- Donald Blake: Thor, hold it!
- Thor: - or if your witchcraft should harm Blake, then I lose my chance to enter Valhalla! And you have never seen anger...
- [Thor stops as he sees David isn't listening, and he looks at Blake]
- Thor: He is praying.
- [David and Maggie sit on the front lawn, covered in a blanket and watching the fire]
- Maggie Shaw: I miss Don.
- Doctor David Banner: So do I. He certainly could liven up the party.
- Maggie Shaw: I don't need anything livelier than this tonight. This is just fine.
- Doctor David Banner: I feel the same.
- [Maggie frowns as they watch the fire]
- Maggie Shaw: I'll always love you.
- Doctor David Banner: And I'll always love you.
- [David picks up a tray and he walks off into the kitchen]
- Maggie Shaw: You sound like you're protecting me from something.
- Doctor David Banner: What could I possibly be protecting you from?
- [Maggie sits on a chair and she looks at David in the kitchen]
- Maggie Shaw: The monster in you, maybe?
- [David looks at Maggie, a bit nervous]
- Doctor David Banner: Monster?
- Maggie Shaw: Yes. You remember, you told me once, that before we met, you'd gone through a long period of self-destructive behavior. You didn't go into any details, even though I tried *all* my feminine wiles.
- Doctor David Banner: Yes, you did.
- Maggie Shaw: But you called it your monster. Your Mr. Hyde.
- Doctor David Banner: It's been two years since my "Mr. Hyde" has shown his ugly face. Why are you concerned now?
- Maggie Shaw: You were very restless in your sleep again last night. It worries me when you're like that. I feel like I can't do anything to help yuo.
- Doctor David Banner: You help me more than I can ever tell you.
- Maggie Shaw: Try, please. I think I need that too this morning.
- Doctor David Banner: Okay. I use you.
- [Maggie looks unnerved]
- Doctor David Banner: Your image. For control, I concentrate on you. As the old song goes, and I make it through.
- [David walks around into the living room to join Maggie]
- Doctor David Banner: It's a little like A.A., I suppose. You get through one nightmare at a time.
- Maggie Shaw: Well, it was the same for me after Michael died.
- [Maggie stands up and faces David]
- Maggie Shaw: But I survived by losing control, by just letting loose.
- Doctor David Banner: Some things, Maggie, you can't just "let loose."