Wonder Woman

It's already twenty after eight.

I'm supposed to report to work in 40 minutes.

- Where's work? - Downtown LA. Be careful.

It's rush hour, lady. Take you half that long just to get to the freeway.

Great. Is that's the last of it, except for the piano?

Good. 'Cause I'm really in a hurry. Come on.

Tough all over, guys!

Oh, Where'd he come from?

No idea, must've escaped from a zoo or something.

I can't believe it.

I bet he's worth some money.

Here, monkey, monkey.

Come on, fella.

Come to Uncle Max.

Hey! What are you doing?

Don't chase him! You're just making him run.

- Come on, have a banana! - Come back.

Come here!

Come back here.

Look out!

Oh, no!

Why did you guys have to chase him?

How come he isn't lying there in 100 little pieces?

That's a very good question.

I think he just said, "Welcome to LA," lady.

Wonder Woman

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Wonder Woman

You're Prince?

Diana Prince. You must be Dale Hawthorn.

So you're the agent Washington sent me?

Listen, I'm sorry I'm late, but between

trying to move into my new house and trying to...

Is something wrong?

Last week the guys in the lab put sandpaper in my salami sandwiches.

You wanna do me a favor?

Go downstairs to the lab, tell them the joke's over,

send up the real Agent Prince.

You know something?

I'd really like to find out what you do for a living,

but I don't have the time.

Mr. Hawthorn.

You must be the real Agent Prince, huh?

Mr. Hawthorn.

My name is Diana Prince, and I have been transferred to your field office.

This may come as a surprise to you,

but not all government agents wear polyester.

Carol!

My name is Dr. Akers,

and I'm looking for someone by the name of Prince.

Prince! Right there with the monkey.

- Chimpanzee. - It's Diana Prince.

Come in, Doctor. I take it this is your monkey?

Uh, chimpanzee.

Oh, Tobias!

Look at you!

According to his tag, he's registered to you for research.

Yeah. I was involved in a joint project, but my partner and I split up,

and Tobias went with him.

But somebody must have forgot to lock the door, eh, Toby? Toby?

What kind of research were you involved in, Doctor?

Why do you ask that?

Well, Tobias is a little peculiar.

He doesn't seem to need food or water. Never gets tired.

And I want to show you something else.

He's not only impervious to pain,

but to any and all physical injury. He's invulnerable, Doctor.

And I think that we ought to hear about your research.

Yeah.

This way.

I worked with Joseph Reichman on government-funded research

into the aging process.

Now, they said that he was brilliant.

Well, I soon found out that he was insane.

He was obsessed with control and domination.

What he was really after

was to create this army of invulnerable men

with which to take over this country, and someday the world.

- What? - Yeah. For certain.

You see, Reichman and I are molecular biologists,

but we have different approaches.

Now Reichman's specialty is radiation, of which I know very little.

And mine has to do with injections of a chemical mixture known only to me.

Now collectively

we were headed for a fantastic breakthrough.

Until a month ago, when I saw the real Reichman

and what he was after. And then I broke off with him. But...

Stupid. I left behind,

in the laboratory,

three syringes. Three.

Now, maybe he's tried to make a chimpanzee invulnerable.

- But do you think that he would really... - Yeah.

That would be his next step with the syringes.

Finding and using a human guinea pig.

Come on, will you, Kandel? You make the rest of the faculty look anemic.

Look at this, you're not even sweating.

And as for your pulse rate...

It's just over 50.

You've been exercising for half an hour.

And that, even for an ex-football player, is not normal.

Come on, Kandel. Tell me, what's your secret?

I volunteered for some research a couple of weeks ago.

I can always use the extra money.

The guy's into gerontology, study of aging.

You're getting injections?

Yeah. And radiation.

You know, they're experimenting with the oxidation process,

- or something like that. I don't know. - Who?

Dr. Reichman.

Look, it's government-funded research,

and the guy came out of the Army Medical Corps, for Pete's sake.

I want to be there when you see him again.

I'd like to know exactly what he's doing to you.

You want to know something else?

I haven't eaten or drunk anything for two days.

Haven't slept, either.

Now you call me before you go. You hear?

- You're just jealous. - It's not normal.

Don't touch him.

You, call an ambulance!

Prepare them for head injuries and a possible broken neck.

- I'm all right. - Bryce, stay where you are.

Don't move.

It's all right. I'm fine. Really, I'm fine.

- Bryce! - I said I'm okay.

You're Agent Prince?

Diana Prince. For about the 15th time today. And who are you?

T. Burton Phipps III.

And if this is the way Feds are looking in Washington, then...

better call my travel agent, but quick.

Is there something I can do for you, T. Burton Phipps?

The Third. T for short.

Going home for the evening?

Well, no. I've got some work to do.

- Had dinner yet? - No, I actually haven't had time.

Yes, the magic words. What'll it be?

Ta-da!

What'll it be?

Well, how about an apple?

Jonathan or Golden Delicious?

Oh, either one is fine.

Okay. Um...

Golden Delicious. 50 cents.

Fifty cents for an apple?

At the store it costs a third of that.

If you had time.

Me, I've got nothing but time.

And a horrendous overhead cost,

and it somehow comes out to 50 cents.

Somehow.

Fifty cents. There you go.

Thank you.

No, no, no.

Mr. Phipps.

Mr. Phipps, how many times have I told you

to confine your capitalistic adventures to the corridors and not in my office?

Exactly 31.

Thirty-one?

Then for the 32nd time, get out of here.

- A pleasure transacting with you, D.P. - Oh, thank you, Mr. T.

As for you...

Wait. Oh, oh, oh! No rush, no rush.

I'm gonna kill him. Someday I'm gonna kill that kid.

Well, if he's the third, I'm glad I'm spared the first and second.

- We got problems. - What's that?

Reichman has disappeared. I notified the police.

That means national security is involved,

and that means we're involved.

Well, I'm supposed to meet Akers at the lab where he and Reichman

conducted their research together in about... 45 minutes.

Excuse me. I'm looking for a Dr. Reichman.

Ah. So am I, young man.

We go together?

- I've been trying to call him all day. - Yeah?

Well, he's gone.

He'll be back, won't he?

That all depends on what he's left behind.

What is it you wish to

talk to him about?

You're on fire!

Don't worry about me, just get him out of here.

- Are you all right? - Yeah.

I'm gonna put you under 24-hour guard.

Reichman wants you out of the way.

Maybe, but it is my guess that he blew the lab apart

to destroy any record of his contribution to the process.

But from what Wonder Woman told Diana,

he's already created

- his first invulnerable human. - Yeah.

Yes. But he still needs Dr. Akers to recreate his chemical mixture.

Now, this was salvaged from that lab. Looks to me like a list of names,

maybe subjects for Reichman's experiment?

It's possible, but I've never seen this before.

Well, one of these names could be the man Wonder Woman saw.

Could be.

Let me ask you a question.

If you were Reichman, where would you solicit volunteers?

The university.