The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988 TV Movie)

Bill Bixby: David Banner

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Quotes 

• Thor : When the troll's upon you, you're a mighty fighter.

  Doctor David Banner : You're not so bad yourself.

  Thor : I know.

• Donald Blake : Then you'll step back in front of the death ray.

  Doctor David Banner : Life ray for me.

• 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.

• 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] 

• 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?

• 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.

• Doctor David Banner : The wrath of God in a bottle.

• [David looks out his window, and sees Jack McGee] 

  Donald Blake : What is it?

  David : Trouble.

  Thor : Trouble?

• 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.

• 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."

• [Donald Blake walks to David Banner after Zack Lambert walks away] 

  Donald Blake : Third degree, huh?

  Doctor David Banner : Oh, it doesn't matter in a few days.

  Donald Blake : And you'll step back in front of the

  [whispers] 

  Donald Blake : death ray!

  Doctor David Banner : *Life* ray for me, I hope.

  [David starts to walk off and Blake walks alongside him] 

  Donald Blake : I hope so too, David. I really do. At the same time, I feel kind of jealous, like, uh, like a lepur, who finds another lepur to be pals with and then his pal goes and gets cured!

  Doctor David Banner : Well, using your analogy and sticking with it, you're like the lepur that *causes* the disease to happen.

  Donald Blake : Wait a minute. What does that mean, David?

  Doctor David Banner : Don, Thor only happens when you call him up and that's the rock bottom truth of it. I have no choice. The creature in me is uncontrollable but you *control* Thor. Now there must be a reason for that, only you don't want to know what it is.

  Donald Blake : Uh, ok. You might be right. But what do I do, then? A hypnotic regression to dig up an answer?

  Doctor David Banner : Why don't you ask Thor?

  Donald Blake : Ask Thor?

  Doctor David Banner : Yeah.

  [Blake thinks it over] 

  Donald Blake : Look, I, uh - I need to take a walk. I need some fresh air.

  Doctor David Banner : In L.A.?

  [Blake laughs and David hands him his keys] 

  Doctor David Banner : Here you go. The hammer's in the apartment. To get it, you'll need some keys.

  Donald Blake : Right.

• Donald Blake : I knew the whole story then as if I had learned it once and I was now remembering. I don't know how, but I'm part of this guy! This Thor, he's part of me!

  [David looks at Blake skeptically] 

  Donald Blake : Yeah. All I have to do was think about what I was like back when you knew me and I wouldn't believe a word of it, either.

  Doctor David Banner : I have to understand something before I can believe it, Don.

  Donald Blake : Okay. Okay, the closest thing I can come to an explanation would be what's, uh, popularly known as channeling.

  Doctor David Banner : The spirits of the dead existing again through the living.

  Donald Blake : Right So this hammer is like a, a - a switch that turns the channel on! And then, bang! There he is! But, but he's not a ghost or a spirit. He's real! He's as real as this - this counter! Only bigger, and ready to do whatever I ask as long as it's legal.

  [chuckles] 

  Donald Blake : Can you imagine having a power like this, but in order to use it, it has to be focused on something? Like a good cause! This is the 80's, I don't know what a good cause is anymore. But he does. It's real clear and simple to him.

  Doctor David Banner : You talk with him?

  Donald Blake : Yeah. Well, actually he does most of the talking. Drives me nuts. Wants me to be more heroic. Me!

• Donald Blake : I don't know quite how, but I thought that, that maybe you could help me. Maybe finding you, my favorite scientist, alive when you're supposed to be dead... um, it's fated or something.

  Doctor David Banner : All right, all right, now wait. Wait a minute, Don. Item. You were under tremendous pressure, both physical and mental when you had this - experience. Item! You were in the mountains, extremely high altitude, and oxygen deprivation can cause any number of hallucinatory reactions!

  Donald Blake : David, look in the bag.

  [David sighs, but reluctantly looks in the bag and pulls out Thor's hammer] 

  Doctor David Banner : It *is* old.

  Donald Blake : Is it a hallucination?

  Doctor David Banner : No, but it could be the key to an overall hallucination! You *were* in the cave! You found the grave and the hammer! Don, you know as well as I...

  [Blake snatches the hammer out of David's hand] 

  Donald Blake : No, David, I don't know anymore! I don't know *anything* anymore! Everything I thought of as, as rock solid has turned to sand, because of this! 'Cause of *him!* Do you know how many times I've tried to leave this thing behind? Tried to lose it? It pulls me back like, like a chain! I - You're going to make me do this, aren't you?

  Doctor David Banner : Don, listen to me...

  Donald Blake : No, David! This is what you want! This is the only way you're going to believe me! You ready?

  [David looks on as Blake holds the hammer in both hands to summon Thor] 

  Donald Blake : ODIN!

• [Maggie walks into the room as David carries a tray of food] 

  Maggie Shaw : Uh-uh, button me!

  Doctor David Banner : You got it!

  [David sets down the tray and then he looks at the button of her shirt] 

  Doctor David Banner : Hmm.

  [David blows on the side of Maggie's neck and she chuckles] 

  Maggie Shaw : Tickles!

  Doctor David Banner : It's supposed to tickle. You smell delicious. Mmm.

  [David buttons Maggie's shirt, he moves the hair away from her neck and he kisses Maggie's neck] 

  Doctor David Banner : You taste pretty good, too.

  [Maggie turns to David and wraps her arms around him] 

  Maggie Shaw : Come live here with me, David. It only makes sense.

  Doctor David Banner : I'm here most of the time anyway, aren't I? It's best this way for now, Maggie. Believe me.