Henry: No. Not life itself yet...This is only the simulacrum of life. This action only responds when the current is applied.
Pretorius: We must be patient. The heart is more complex than any other part of the body. Look, the beat is increasing.
Henry: Yes!
After a moment. . .
Henry: It stopped.
Pretorius: Shall I increase the current?
Henry (after indicating a negative response): This heart is useless. I must have another, and it must be sound and young.
Pretorius: Karl. You must go to your friend at the accident hospital. What we need is a female victim of sudden death. Can you do it?
Karl: If you promise me a thousand crowns.
Pretorius: It will be well worth it, and the baron will pay.
Henry: Yes, yes. Go and get it.
Karl: I'll try. There are always accidental deaths occurring. I'll get your heart.
Unbeknownst to Henry and Pretorius, Karl murders a young peasant girl walking in the street to extract the fresh heart from her bosom.
When they test the heart, it beats as they had hoped. perfectly,
Henry: It's beating perfectly. Just as in life. Oh, if only I can keep it going until . . .
Karl: It was a very fresh one.
Henry becomes suspicious.
Henry: Where did you get it?
Karl: I gave the gendarme fifty crowns.
Henry: What gendarme?
Karl: It was a ... (after prompting from Pretorius) ...police case.
Pretorius (interjecting): Yes, very sad. Only, we can't bother about that now. Can I do anything?
Henry: No, no, no! I can work better alone.
Exhausted and distraught, Henry complains about the growling Monster's presence in the laboratory. The Monster grunts commands for him to work:
Monster: Work!
Henry (agonizing): Where's Elizabeth? Have you brought her?
Monster: She wait. I wait.
Henry: I'm exhausted. I must get sleep.
Monster: Work. Finish. Then sleep.
Henry: I can't work like this. He must go away. Send him away.
Pretorius: I'll settle him for a little while.
No longer needing him, Pretorius callously subdues the impatient Monster with more whiskey (and, in plain view, drugs him with a sedative) to prevent him from interfering.
Pretorius: That'll keep you quiet.
Henry: Elizabeth-she's dead.
Pretorius: Elizabeth is alive and she is well.
Henry: I don't believe you.
Pretorius: I have proof. In a few moments from now, she will speak to you from where she is through this electrical machine.
Henry: Where is she?
Pretorius: Not far from here.
To prove that she is still alive, Pretorius suddenly produces a pre-Bell telephone.
Pretorius: Speak - she will hear you and answer.
Henry: Yes, yes, this is Henry.
Elizabeth: Henry, yes, I'm safe. But, oh, Henry, how long? Come for me. I'm in...
Henry: Elizabeth? Elizabeth! She's gone.
Pretorius: That is all now. But you heard her. As soon as our work is completed, she will be returned to you.
Henry regains his old, 'mad doctor' spirit, forgetting about the risks to Elizabeth's life. The two scientists expectantly discuss with increasing excitement how close they are to beginning their ungodly experiment. They move a large table of surgical instruments closer toward the corpse. While a nighttime, electrical storm rises outside, Frankenstein and Pretorius are overjoyed.
Pretorius: It's going to be a terrific storm!
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