BETTY: Bruce?
There was some sort of explosion.
They wouldn't let us into the building.
I was worried about you.
BRUCE: I'm okay.
What happened to you last night?
I had the most vivid dream.
It was like being born.
Coming up for air. Light hitting my face. Screaming.
My heartbeat was like...
boom...
boom.
Were you at the lab?
No.
But something....
And there was that man. The one with the dogs.
Who?
That new janitor.
He said he was my father.
[Banging on door]
I'll get it.
[Mouthing] My father.
ROSS: My, my.
So this is the young Bruce Banner.
Krenzler.
I think you left something in your lab last night.
ROSS: Mitchell.
Escort my daughter outside. I'll join her shortly.
-I'd rather stay here. -Now, Betty.
It's okay. I'll be fine.
ROSS: Keep him under observation. I'll be back.
-What? -Your friend in there...
there's a good chance he's caught up in some bad business.
Unfinished business.
I promise you, I'm going to get to the bottom of it.
You have my word I'll make sure he's cared for.
But as of right now, he's incommunicado.
For the next few days at least...
you're going to stay away from here, for your own good.
[Solemn instrumental music]
And that's for the new guy on the night shift?
Great. Thank you. I appreciate it.
[Dog barking]
How unexpected. Please, come in.
BETTY: I'm sorry to show up at your house like this.
I came to ask you something...
that I really have no business asking.
He told you?
BETTY: He said you talked to him.
Please, sit down.
Bruce was at the lab last night.
He said that you were there, too, but he can't remember much about it.
I need to find out what happened.
So you want to know what's wrong with him.
So you can fix him. Cure him. Change him.
My father's with the military.
He thinks he's involved in some kind of threat to national security.
Your father, Ross.
You brought your father down upon his head.
How little you understand, Miss Ross.
And how dangerous your ignorance has become.
BETTY: I'm sorry? BANNER: Don't be sorry.
My son is...unique.
That's why you can't relate to him.
And because he is unique...
the world will not tolerate his existence, will they?
But you...
you try, don't you?
And a very beautiful woman like you...
your attentions...
can't be completely unwanted...
can they?
No.
Not with eyes like yours...
watching expectantly, lovingly.
But I'm afraid we're both too late to help him.
There's nothing I can do for him, or for you.
Besides...
he's made it clear he wants nothing to do with me.
His choice.
Now if you'll excuse me, Miss Ross, I have some work to do.
And don't worry about the dogs.
You'll be fine. Just don't look them in the eyes.
Goodbye.
ROSS: He gets released, and a month later your lab is destroyed.
What a coincidence.
So, you're just not gonna tell me where he is, are you?
BRUCE: How many times must I tell you...
I want to help you, but I don't know.
ROSS: You know who I am, right, Banner?
You're Betty's father, a high-ranking general.
ROSS: Let's cut the crap.
I'm the guy who had your father tossed away.
I'll do the same with you if I feel so disposed, you understand?
If you had him tossed away, why ask me? I don't remember.
I was always told my father was dead.
Don't play with me!
You were four years old when you saw it!
When I saw what?
You were right there! Who could forget a thing like that?
What?
Some more repressed memories.
Just tell me.
I'm sorry, son.
You're an even more screwed-up mess than I thought you'd be.
Till we get to the bottom of this...
your lab has been declared a top-secret military site...
and you won't get security clearance to get back into it...
or any other lab that's doing anything more interesting than...
trying to figure out the next generation of herbal hair gel.
And one more thing:
If you ever come within a thousand yards...
of my daughter again...
I'll put you away for the rest of your natural life.
[Tense instrumental music]
[Dogs barking]
BANNER: Dogs?
[Dogs barking viciously]
Go!
Go get her! And let nothing stand in your way!
[Eerie instrumental music]
[Phone ringing]
[Phone continues ringing]
BRUCE: Hello? BANNER: Bruce?
So, they think they can just throw you away, as they did me.
[Suspenseful instrumental music]
What's wrong with me? What did you do to me?
BANNER: I had a visit today.
A very unwelcome visit.
I'm afraid my hand is being forced.
What did you do to me?
BANNER: You so much want to know, don't you?
But no explanation will serve you half as well as experience.
In any case, I still don't quite understand it myself.
If they'd only let me work in peace.
But, of course, my betters would have none of that.
BRUCE: So you experimented on yourself, didn't you?
And passed on to me, what?
BANNER: An alteration. Genetic.
A deformity, I guess you could call it that.
But an amazing strength, too.
And now, finally unleashed, I can harvest it.
BRUCE: No.
You'll do no such thing. I'll isolate it and treat myself.
I'll remove it and kill it before it does any real harm.
I bet you and your Betty would love to destroy it.
But would you really destroy part of yourself?
I don't think so.
And as for Betty...
I'm sending her a surprise visit from my four-legged friends.
You see, I've managed to culture some of your very own DNA, Bruce...
and the results are tremendous.
They're unstable, but very powerful.
What about my DNA?
BANNER: Let's just wait and see what Betty makes of the result.
No. You're crazy. I won't let you.
Get your hands off me!
Inside, asshole! I want to talk to you.
BRUCE: My father's going after Betty.
Do you think you can go behind my back...
and get Ross to cut me out?
Listen to me! Betty's in trouble!
[Bruce groaning]
You pathetic freak.
BRUCE: Betty's in danger, I swear to you.
If I can state the obvious, something tells me...
you aren't in much of a position to be making stupid threats to anyone.
[Bruce groaning]
BRUCE: Talbot. TALBOT: Yeah?
-You're making me angry. -Am l?
[Knuckles cracking]
[Talbot panting]
[Eerie instrumental music]
[Hulk grunts]
[Dramatic instrumental music]
[Hulk roaring]
MlLlTARY OFFICER: Open fire!
[Hulk groaning]
[Car alarm blaring]
[Military officer groans]
[Thumping]
[Suspenseful instrumental music]
[Dramatic instrumental music]
[Gentle instrumental music]
[Whispering] Bruce?
[Bushes rustling]
[Dogs growling ferociously]
[Dramatic instrumental music]
[Growling]
[Dogs barking]
[Dog yelps]
[Dogs continue growling]
[Betty screams]
[Dog whining]
[Hulk grunts]
[Engine starting]
[Dogs barking and growling]
[Yelling]
[Snarling]
[Fast-paced instrumental music]
[Dogs growling]
[Screams]
[Growling]
[Roaring]
[Growling]
[Hulk roars]
[Betty screams]
[Hulk breathing heavily]
[Gentle instrumental music]
[Bruce panting]
BRUCE: He sent his dogs, didn't he?
But I killed them.
[Grunting]
[Panting]
[Bruce panting]
BETTY: Oh, my God.
It must be the nanomeds. It must be the gamma exposure.
But we've never seen any effect like this before.
BRUCE: No. Deeper.
The gamma just unleashed what was already there.
Unleashed what?
Me.
It.
[Heaving]
It's okay.
What were those animals?
My father sent them.
He is my father.
He wanted me to change.
He wanted me to change into that mindless hulk.
And why would he want that?
Can you remember anything?
Is there anything from when you were changed?
It was like a dream.
About what?
Rage.
Power.
And freedom.
[Birds chirping]
[Cell phone ringing]
Hello.
Sir.
Hello.
-Dad? -Betty, are you all right?
I'm scared.
-I need your help. -Where are you?
How are you?
Okay, I guess.
I think that somehow your anger is triggering the nanomeds.
How could it? We designed them to respond to physical damage.
Emotional damage can manifest physically.
Like what?
Serious trauma.
Repressed memories.
Your father grilled me about something...
that happened to me from early childhood...
that I'm supposed to remember.
BETTY: He did? BRUCE: It sounded bad...
but I honestly don't remember.
The thing that worries me...
is a physical wound is finite.
But with emotions, what's to say that it won't just go on and on...
and start a chain reaction?
You know what scares me the most?
Is that when it happens...
when it comes over me and I totally lose control...
I like it.
[Indistinct beep]
It's okay, I've got you. I'm sorry.
You'll be okay. It's just to make you sleep.
SOLDIER 1: Target down. SOLDIER 2: Target secure.
BETTY: I'm gonna take you someplace safe, okay?
Bruce. Bruce.
[Helicopter whirring]
[Dramatic instrumental music]
[Ethereal female vocals with dramatic music]
[Severe instrumental music]
[People talking]
OFFICER: Attention on deck. ROSS: Carry on.
BETTY: We're buried out here in the middle of nowhere.
How long are you gonna keep him sedated?
For the rest of his natural life, if I have to.
BETTY: You said I could trust you. ROSS: I'm your father.
Trust me to do what I think is right...
not what you think you want.
-He is a human being. -He is also something else.
Suppose he gets out...
and has one of his little mood swings in a populated area?
Yes, I'm aware of the potential danger.
I'm also aware that he saved my life.
Yeah, from a mutant French poodle.
I'm indebted to him for that.
He also put three men in a hospital, and Talbot's barely walking.
-I mean, what do you want me to do? -I want you to help him!
Why is he such a threat to you?
Because I know what he comes from.
He is his father's son, every last molecule of him.
He says he doesn't know his father.
But he's working in the same, exact goddamn field his father did.
So either he's lying, or it's something worse...
ROSS: and he's.... BETTY: What?
Predestined to follow in his father's footsteps?
I was going to say "damned."
Of course you were.
But I'm a scientist, and as a scientist...
I believe we can figure this out and he can be helped.
I know you do.
Look, whether you know or care...
I've got a lot of pride in what you've done.
But this is too big for you.
Look, I know the government thinks they have a weapon on their hands...
otherwise, he'd be dead by now.
They can probe and prod all they want.
Meanwhile, let me try to help him. Nobody knows him better than I do.
What did David Banner do to him?
SOLDIER 1: Cover left! Cover right!
[Police siren wailing]
[Suspenseful instrumental music]
[Machine hissing]
[Machine whirring]
[Banner yells]
[Eerie instrumental music]
[Metallic clanking]
[Creaking]
[Door opening]
GUARD: What's happening here?
BANNER: My hand.
You see, the strength of my son's DNA...
combined with nanomed reconstruction....
You see, I can partake with the essences of all things.
I'm gonna have to ask you to put your hands up, pal, okay?
Nice and easy.
Do you really believe that I am separate from you?
[Banner laughing]
[Guard yells]
[Banner grunts]
[Solemn instrumental music]
Where am I?
You're home.
[Solemn instrumental music continues]
BETTY: It's hard to believe we used to live here.
I must have seen you or known you.
If only I could remember.
This is my old house, isn't it?
[Tense instrumental music]
Let's go.
Please try.
BETTY: What is it? BRUCE: Nothing.
BETTY: Really?
BRUCE: Damn it.
Okay, Betty. What do you want to know?
What was in that room?
[Tense instrumental music]
What are you afraid that I'll see?
See? There's nothing.
It's empty.
BETTY: What do you mean I don't have access to him?
NSA has decided to turn over study of the threat...
to Atheon.
But you're head of the base. I thought you were in charge.
ROSS: I don't set policy.
And I still take orders.
[Ross yells]
I can't believe Talbot would go around me like this!
There's a lot of powerful people who want in on this...
and money to be made, lots of it.
Know the worst part about all this?
When I had David Banner locked up and sent that kid away...
I didn't give the boy a second thought.
He was just collateral damage.
He isn't anymore, is he?
What can I do?
You can go home now.
I'd tell you to go and say goodbye, but I've already been informed...
that for now all further contact is out of the question.
Right.
[Solemn instrumental music]
[Door opening]
[Door closing]
Hi, Bruce. How you feeling?
The grub okay here for you?
-What do you want? -That's a good question.
I need your cells to trigger some chemical distress signals...
so you can turn a little green for me again...
and I can carve off a piece of the real you...
analyze it, patent it and make a fortune.
You mind?
I'll never let you.
I'm not sure you've got much of a choice.
[Stun gun zapping]
TALBOT: Come on, aren't you feeling a little angry?
After all, you've only got me to play with...
now that Betty's dumped you and gone back to Berkeley.
You're lying.
TALBOT: You know, for me, this is a win-win situation.
You turn green, all these guys come in and kill you...
and I perform the autopsy. You don't...
and I mop the floor with you...
and maybe by accident go too far and break your neck.
It's bad science, maybe...
but personally gratifying.
TALBOT: Come on, Bruce.
Let's see what you got.
Never.
[Thudding]
You know, consciously, you may control it...
but subconsciously, I bet that's another story.
[Eerie bubbling]
All right, let's jump-start those brain waves.
[Typing]
[Beeping]
[Voices echoing]
My dear Miss Ross, welcome back.
There are two guards right outside.
You don't have to worry. I'm not angry with you, not anymore.
What do you want?
It's over for me now, I know that.
And soon it will be over for Bruce.
That's why I've come to you, to ask you...
if you could persuade your father...
as a man, as a father himself...
that if I turn myself in now, peacefully...
and before he puts me away forever...
that he would let me see my son...
for one last time.
Could you do that for me?
It's out of my father's hands now.
I understand. He's a puppet now.
BANNER: I don't blame him. BETTY: You shouldn't.
You should blame yourself for what you've done to your son.
And what have I done to my son, Miss Ross? Nothing.
I tried to improve on the limits in myself.
Myself, not him.
Can you understand?
To improve on nature. My nature.
Knowledge of oneself. It's the only path to the truth...
that gives men the power to go beyond God's boundaries.
You know what's beyond your boundaries? Other people.
All you've given Bruce is fear.