The Fly
                       CAST
             Jeff Goldblum / Seth Brundle
             Geena Davis / Veronica Quaife
             John Getz / Stathis Borans
             Joy Boushel / Tawny
                      STAFF 
             Produced by / Stuart Cornfeld
             Directed by / David Cronenberg
             Photographed by / Mark Irwin
             Music by / Howard Shore


[BRUNDLE]
What am I working on?  Uh...I'm working on something that'll  change 
the world and human life as we know it.

[VERONICA]
Change it a lot or just a bit?  You'll have to be more specific.

[BRUNDLE]
What, you want me to  be specific here, in this room, with, uh...half the 
scientific community of North America... eavesdropping?

[VERONICA]
Is there another way?

[BRUNDLE]
Uh, s-, y-you could come back to my lab. Listen, I'll make you cappuccino.
I have a Faema of my very own. You know what that is? It's not the 
dilettante's plastic kitchen model. It's one of those, uh... uh., uh,
real restaurant espresso machines with a-an eagle on top and...

[VERONICA]
Somehow I get the feeling you don't get out much.

[BRUNDLE]
You can tell that"

[VERONCA]
Yeah.

[BRUNDLE]
I think you're making a mistake. I think you really want to talk to me.

[VERONICA]
Sorry, I have three other interviews to do before this party's over.

[BRUNDLE]
Yeah, but they're not working on something that'll change the world 
as we know it.

[VERONICA]
They say they are.

[BRUNDLE]
Yeah, but they're lying I'm not.

[VERONICA]
Are you sick?

[BRUNDLE]
No.  Sure.

[VERONICA]
You're not a very accomplished drunk.

[BRUNDLE]
No, no, I'm always like this. It's, uh...motion sickness. When I was
 a kid, I, uh...puked on my tricycle. I hate vehicles.

[VERONICA]
Should I drive more slowly?

[BRUNDLE]
No, no, no.  Just turn left. We're almost there.

[VERONICA]
Listen, uh...maybe this is a bad idea.

[BRUNDLE]
No, it's too late. You've already see them. Can't let you leave here alive.

[VERONICA]
I haven't seen anything.

[BRUNDLE]
Those.

[VERONICA]
Designer phone booths. Very cute. Hey,I bet you have a really neat jukebox
in here, too, someplace, huh?  Over there maybe?

[BRUNDLE]
No. This is the prototype of...those. The first one I had made.
It, uh...it  works, but it's clunky. I call them telepods.
They're controlled by this.

[VERONICA]
Thank God for that. So, uh, what do they do, the phone booths?

[BRUNDLE]
Telepods. Uh...okay. I need an object. Um...say, do you have something,
uh, on you that's...uh, personal...that I could use? Something uniquely you?
Uh...an item of clothing or jewelry?

[VERONICA]
What, are you kidding?

[BRUNDLE]
No, I'm serious.

[VERONICA]
Okay.  Here goes.  I don't wear jewelry.

[BRUNDLE]
Mm-hmm. It's nice. Uh...Brundle, seth. Uh, Brundle, Seth. Uh, Brundle, Seth.
Uh, Brundle, Seth. Begin teleportation sequence. Well?

[VERONICA]
Great. The world's largest microwave oven. I-I'm glade I didn't give you my
Rolex. If I had Rolex.

[BRUNDLE]
No, you're missing the point.  Look.

[VERONICA]
Teleportation? Oh...wait a minute. Is that a hologram?  Where's my stocking?

[BRUNDLE]
That's it.  The real one.  Go ahead, pick it up.

[VERONICA]
I don't think I get it. What happened?

[BRUNDLE]
You get it, all right. You just can't handle it. Um...your stocking has
just been teleported...from one pod...to another. Uh,disintegrated...there
and re-integrated there. Mmm, sort of. It'll change the world as we know it,
right?

[VERONICA]
Oh, no! This is, uh...This is incredible! I mean, it's not possible, is it?
How have you managed to keep this quiet?

[BRUNDLE]
Please sit down.

[VERONICA]
How could you do this alone?

[BRUNDLE]
Well, I don't work alone. There's a lot of stuff in there I don't even 
understand. I'm really,uh...a systems management man. I farm...bits
and pieces, uh, out to guys who are much more brilliant than I am.
I say..."Build me a laser this, design me a molecular analyzer 
that," and  they do, and I just stick'em together.
But, uh, none of them knows what the project really is. So...

[VERONICA]
Wow! And, uh,the money? Bartok Science Industries financed this?

[BRUNDLE]
Mm-hmm. But th-they leave me alone 'cause I'm not expensive. And, uh, 
they know they'll end up owning it all, whatever it is. So...

[VERONICA]
You haven't told them?

[BRUNDLE]
When I'm ready.

[VERONICA]
Oh...wait a second.

[BRUNDLE]
What's that" What are you doing?

[VERONICA]
Well...you want me to get the quotes right, don't you?

[BRUNDLE]
Quotes? No, no. I thought this was personal. You can't write about this.

[VERONICA]
What are you talking about?  I'm a journalist.

[BRUNDLE]
Oh, no, no, no,..!

[VERONICA]
You knew that.

[BRUNDLE]
Uh...I'm sorry. I apologize. I made a mistake. I shouldn't have shown you this.
I'm very, very...sorry.

[VERONICA]
Listen...Particle magazine sent me to that party to get a story. And this is 
the most exciting thing...I've ever seen.

[BRUNDLE]
No, no!  Absolutely not. In fact, I'm gonna have to ask you for that...
tape, please.

[VERONICA]
Hey, you can't do that!

[BRUNDLE]
Don't you dare write a story! I'd never have told and of this stuff 
to a journalist.

[VERONICA]
But you did tell this stuff to a journalist.

[BRUNDLE]
Well, yeah, in a way I suppose i did, but that...

[VERONICA]
You sure...did.

[BRUNDLE]
Now wait a minute, wait a minute! Wait! Come here! What about your...stocking!

[VERONICA]
Keep it for good luck. Well...that's it. What do you think?

[STATHIS]
It's a joke.

[VERONICA]
What?

[STATHIS]
He's conning you. Oh, it's an old nightclub routine. The two cabinets. 
And you fell for it.

[VERONICA]
Wait a minute. That was no nightclub.

[STATHIS]
Are we having lunch?

[VERONICA]
Listen, that was no nightclub routine! I-I was there!  I saw it!

[STATHIS]
Yeah? Sure...send him in. You must have made an impression.

[VERONICA]
What do you mean?

[STATHIS]
Your magician has followed you here. I'm Stathis  Borans. I'm the editor
of Particle magazine.

[BRUNDLE]
Uh, Seth Brundle.  Uh...

[STATHIS]
Oh, I know who you are... Uh, listen, uh... why don't you two use my office?
I've gotta run. If you plan to make anything disappear, please... let me know.
I've got an assistant editor who's outlived his usefulness.

[BRUNDLE]
You didn't waste any time.

[VERONICA]
I'm not getting any younger.

[BRUNDLE]
He didn't seem, he wasn't impressed by your tape?

[VERONICA]
He thinks you're a con man.

[BRUNDLE]
Excellent!

[VERONICA]
Yeah?  Well...let's see what the people at... Omni think about it.

[BRUNDLE]
No, no! Uh,listen, Veronica...I've come here to say one magic word to you.

[VERONICA]
Yeah?

[BRUNDLE]
Cheeseburger. I've been working alone too long. I have a strong urge, uh,
to talk about what I'm doing. But, um, if this gets out now...Veronica,
it'll kill me. The Bartok people'll kill me...my colleagues'll kill me.
It's not ready yet.

[VERONICA]
It seems to work okay.

[BRUNDLE]
No, something important's missing.

[BERONICA]
Yeah?

[BRUNDLE]
Yeah.

[VERONICA]
Which is?

[BRUNDLE]
I can only teleport inanimate objects.

[VERONICA]
Well, what happens when you try to teleport living things?

[BRUNDLE]
Not while we're eating.

[VERONICA]
Can't be worse than this. Listen, you're not doing a very good job of 
convincing me. I think the world should know about it now... and I think
I should be the one to tell it.

[BRUNCLE]
You should tell it, but, uh...not yet. Look, what do you got so far?

[VERONICA]
Enough to make you nervous.

[BRUNDLE]
Why not get more? let me become your major project. I'm talking about a book.
Not a magazine article. Follow me and my work day by day in as much detail
as you can stand. I don't have a life, so there's nothing for you to...
interfere with. Research the background. Cover the process. 
The complete record of the most...earth-shattering invention ever.
The one that ended all concepts of transport, of borders and frontiers, 
of time and space. And the book'll end...with me...transporting myself
fifteen feet through space from one telepod to another. 
That's what's really missing...Wait for me that long.

[VERONICA]
What are you doing in my apartment?

[STATHIS]
I just happened to be in the neighbourhood. Felt a bit scummy. Rough day.

[VERONICA]
How did you get in?

[STATHIS]
I have a key, remember? You gave it to me.

[VERONICA]
I knew I should have changed the lock.

[STATHIS]
I knew you wouldn't.

[VERONICA]
Yeah?

[STATHIS]
Yeah. That's because...unconsciously...you still want me to come back,
move in again.

[VERONICA]
No. That's because, very consciously, I'm lazy and disorganized.

[SRATHIS]
Your new playmate's an interesting guy.

[VERONICA]
What playmate?

[STATHIS]
The nightclub act.  Brundle.

[VERONICA]
Yeah?

[STATHIS]
Yeah. Yeah, I was wrong. He's really...quite brilliant. He was the leader
of the F-three-two team. Remember that? An inch away from the Nobel Prize for
physics. He was only twenty at the time.

[VERONICA]
Um... I don't even think I'm gonna do Brundle. I'm still considering the 
Psychology Today gig.

[STATHIS]
That's not like you.

[VERONICA]
Are you getting out or am I?

[STATHIS]
I'll go. I have to put this issue to bed. You want me to come back later
and tuck you...in?

[VERONICA]
No.  Key.

[STATHIS]
I'll keep it...for old time's sake.

[VERONICA]
You're a petty schmuck!

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[BRUNDLE]
I missed you last night.

[VERONICA]
It's still night. I came back. You had to celebrate without me. I'm sorry.

[BRUNDLE]
I went through last night.

[VERONICA]
You went through?  Without testing the baboon?

[BRUNDLE]
I-I-I was...drunk. I was a bit upset.

[VERONICA]
You could have killed yourself!

[BRUNDLE]
Are you sleeping with Stathis Borans?

[VERONICA]
What are you talking about?

[BRUNDLE]
I-I-I don't know. I-I just, um, get that feeling.

[VERONICA]
That's why you were upset?

[BRUNDLE]
I got jealous.

[VERONICA]
Oh, God. Seth...you don't have to be jealous. He's an old boy...friend.
He was teaching at college. I was a science major. He got me started in 
journalism.

[BRUNDLE]
Is he still in love with you?

[VERONICA]
How could he not be? Hey...wh-what about our deal?  You went through
and I wasn't there.

[BRUNDLE]
Don't worry. I taped it for you.

[VERONICA]
You did?

[BRUNDLE]
Yeah.

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[BRUNDLE]
What?

[VERONICA]
How?  How can you keep going? You can't have...have any fluid left in your body.
We've been doing this for hours.

[BRUNDLE]
Uhhhh, I'm not ready to quit yet. Hey, come on.

[VERONICA]
Nooo.

[BRUNDLE]
Come on.

[VERONICA]
Hey...what's this?

[BRUNCLE]
It's an attempt to distract me, that's what it is.

[VERONICA]
No, really, what is it? It's like...hairs or something.

[BRUNDLE]
I don't know. It's  uh...It happens when you get older.
Weird hair configurations. I don't know.

[VERONICA]
They are really coarse.

[BRUNCLE]
Well, I've never really been hairy enough. You know what I mean?
Always too..boyish. I'm looking forward to a hairy body.

[VERONICA]
No, I...

[BRUNDLE]
It's one of the compensations of old age. Come here. Where are you going?

[VERONICA]
No, let me go.

[BRUNDLE]
Okay. Hey, hey, hey! Not my new hairs. What are you doing?

[VERONICA]
Relax, Brundle. I don't really think you want a body covered with these. 
God! They're...really tough.

[BRUNDLE]
Listen...I want you to go through. I want to teleport you as soon as possible.  Right  now!  
You'll feel incredible. Ronnie...I hardly need to sleep anymore and
I feel wonderful. It's like a drug, but a perfectly pure and benign drug. 
The power I feel surging inside me! And I won't be able to wear you out.
We'll be the perfect couple. The dynamic duo! Come on, right now!

[VERONICA]
No! Hey, wait! Don't give me that born-again telepertation rap.
I-I told you I'm scared to do it! What more do I have to say? 
I'm...not gonna do it!!!

[BRUNDLE]
You're a fucking drag, you know that?

[VERONICA]
Something went wrong, Seth. When you went through, something went wrong.

[BRUNDLE]
No? Not you? If you're too chickenshit to be a member of the dynamic duo club,
okay then, great. I'll find somebody else. Somebody who can keep up with me.

[VERONICA]
Seth, you have to listen to me.

[BRUNDLE]
You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to
be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke 
me up about  the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight
line about the flesh.  You  can't penetrate beyond society's...sick gray
fear of the flesh! Drink deep or taste not the plasma spring! You see 
what I'm saying? I'm not just talking about sex and penetration, I'm talking
about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh! A deep, penetrating 
dive into the plasma pool!

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[TAWNY]
I don't want to! I'm afraid!

[BRUNDLE]
Don't be afraid!

[VERONICA]
Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

[TAWNY]
Who's this?

[BRUNDLE]
Oh, I forgot to tell you, I live with my mother, too. Mum, meet Tawny.

[TAWNY]
I gotta go. Thanks for a wonderful time.

[BRUNDLE]
Why'd you scare her off?  Jealous?

[VERONICA]
You're changing. Seth. Everything about you is changing. You look bad.
You smell bad.

[BRUNDLE]
I've never been much of a bather.

[VERONICA]
Those...weird hairs that were growing out of your back, I took them to a lab.
I had them analyzed.

[BRUNDLE]
The hairs?  Oh...yeah, that's a strange thing to do.

[VERONICA]
Not as strange as the results. The guy at the lab had trouble
identifying them. He finally came to the conclusion...
that they were definitely not human.

[BRUNDLE]
Oh!  Very good.

[VERONICA]
Not human...Seth. In fact...very likely insect hairs.

[BRUNDLE]
That's silly.  That's ridiculous.

[VERONICA]
Look. Now there's more. Uh, look at your face! Something happened when you
went through, Seth. You've got to get some help. I think you must be sick.

[BRUNDLE]
You're jealous!!! I've become free, I've been released, and you can't stand it!
You'll so anything to bring me down. Look at me. Does this look sick?
Does this look like a sick man to you?

[VERONICA]
No!  Stop it!

[BRUNDLE]
Do you know any sick men who can do that? Come here!

[VERONICA]
No...Seth!

[BRUNDLE]
The deal is off! I don't need you anymore.

[VERONICA]
No, wait!  Seth, please, wait!  Seth!

[BRUNDLE]
Don't come back!

[VERONICA]
Oh, God! Oh, my God.

[BRUNDLE]
Brundle, Seth. Give me a disc. Uh...I need the first teleportation :
S.Brundle

[VERONICA]
Seth?  I'm here.

[BRUNDLE]
Stop!

[VERONICA]
Seth!

[BRUNDLE]
You were right. I'm diseased and, uh...it might be contagious somehow.
I wouldn't want to infect you. And it's been accelerating. It's unrelenting. 
Every time I look in the mirror, there's someone different,
someone hideous, repulsive.

[VERONICA]
What happened?

[BRUNDLE]
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly perhaps she'll die...

[VERONICA]
Seth...please..

[BRUNDLE]
I was not pure. The teleporter insists on inner purity. I was not pure.

[VERONICA]
I don't know what you mean.

[BRUNDLE]
A fly...got into the...transmitter pod with me that first time when i was alone.
Uh, the computer...got...confused---there weren't supposed to be two separate 
genetic patterns---and it decided to,...splice us together. It mated us, me 
and the fly. We hadn't...even been properly introduced.
My...teleporter turned her into a gene splicer. And a very good one.  
Now I'm not Seth Brundle anymore. I'm the offspring of, um...Brundle
and housefly.

[VERONICA]
Oh, God!

[BRUNDLE]
No.

[VERONICA]
Oh, God!

[BRUNDLE]
Please.

[VERONICA]
Seth!

[BRUNDLE]
You look so pretty.

[VERONICA]
What will happen?

[BRUNDLE]
Oh, I think it's showing itself as a bizarre form of cancer.

[VERONICA]
What?

[BRUNDLE]
And general cellular chaos and revolution. I'm, uh...just gonna have to
disintegrate. In a novel way, no doubt. And then I'll die.
And then it will be all over.

[VERONICA]
No, no, no. I don't...accept that. There must be something we can do,
you know, somebody we can go to, tests that can be done.

[BRUNDLE]
No! Um,I won't be just another...tumorous bore...talking endlessly
about his...hair falling out and his lost lymph nodes.

[VERONICA]
Well, then what do you want me to do?  Why did you call me?

[BRUNDLE]
My...ear, No! Help me. Please...please help me.

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[BRUNDLE]
You've missed some good moments. Is that why you're here? To catch up?

[VERONICA]
I wanted...

[BRUNDLE]
My teeth have begun to fall out. Yhe...medicine cabinet's now the Brundle
Museum of Natural History. Do you want to see what else is in it?

[VERONICA]
No.

[BRUNDLE]
Then...what do you want?

[VERONICA]
I came to tell you...uh...I, uh, I just...I wanted to see you...before...

[BRUNDLE]
You have to leave now...and never come back here. Have you ever heard of...
insect politics? Neither have I. Insects...don't have politics. They're
very brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect.
I'd like to become...the first insect politician. You see, I'd like to,
um...but,...I'm afraid of...

[VERONICA]
I don't know what you're trying to say.

[BRUNDLE]
I'm saying...I'm saying I-I'm an insect...who dreamt he was a  man...and 
loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake.

[VERONICA]
No...no, Seth...

[BRUNDLE]
I'm saying...I'll hurt you if you stay.

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[VERONICA]
No! Don't! Don't please! Please...

[BRUNDLE]
Help me. Help me be human.

[VERONICA]
How?

[BRUNDLE]
Well...I go there...and, uh...you...go there. We...come apart...
then...and then...we...come together there. You me...and the 
baby...together!

[VERONICA]
No.

[BRUNDLE]
We'll be the ultimate family. A family of three...joined together in one body.
More human than I am alone.

[VERONICA]
No, I can't. No, I can't.  No... No, God!

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