Plot:
A heartbeat is playing over the credits and not the Don Johnson song from the 80s. A vague Twilight Zone music is playing as random light bursts flash
on the screen.
Shouldn't this door have a guy and 2 bots entering it?
In the lab, Dr. Frank Overton watches his partner Dr. Helen Wieland searching for something. She finds her notes for the speech she’ll deliver very soon. They both
leave the World Health Organization to drive to the lecture.
Helen talks with some guy, I can’t understand. They go to the lecture hall.
Joan, Frank’s wife, is talking with her boy toy, Tony. She’ll stay with Frank as long as he’s making money. Joan leaves to go to the lecture. Apparently, Frank’s
work is deep-freezing and thawing chimps.
Helen talks how the process works with chimps. But, the next step is larger animals. Joan arrives before the question and answer period. Helen thinks humans
will be tested soon.
At the reception, Frank and Joan are heading home after talking with Helen.
Later, at the lab, the project leader doesn’t think freezing humans yet is responsible. He has the process explained to him as another chimp is refrozen. Helen
and Frank have won some prestigious medical award and $25,000 each.
Frank calls Joan and is coming home for some very good news. Joan argues with Tony about leaving.
Helen is ecstatic at the justification of her work. Project leader wants to move Frank on to another project, but keep Helen on deep-frying, I mean deep-freezing
chimps. Helen still wants to move on to humans. Project leader will not allow human tests to occur yet. Project leader considers chimps expendable.
Joan would rather keep the recently rich Frank than Tony.
Project leader and Hubbard, another old scientist, discuss Helen. Her fiancée died of cancer that motivated her. They may have said it but, she never mentions
her motivation for the project. Hubbard is to tell Helen and Frank that no humans are to be tested. He has the project leader write it down so Hubbard has officially
bureaucratically covered himself.
Joan and Frank are happy about the prize money. She has already spent no telling how much of the money in her head. Frank wants her to quit her job so they
can start a family. Joan really hates that idea. She wants Helen out of the way, jealous of her. Apparently, cheating on Frank makes her think he’s returning the
favor. They have a big argument and Frank storms out. Joan trashes the living room, before Tony calls her.
Back at the lab, Frank returns. Helen is talking about work. Frank is looking at her like “Hey, my wife was right, here’s a little science chick that’d smash my
atoms.” In a moment of common sense, Helen asks him to leave. Cause, she’d rework the Grand Unified Theory of Beast With Two Backs if he stays.
At a club, Joan is with Tony. She’s downed so much booze she has no blood but the liquid contents of Moe’s Tavern in her. Tony has to take a phone call. The
newspaper he works for needs him to write a last minute article. They leave for his place.
Tony is working on his article while Joan searches for more booze. She finds it and a pistol, too, fun for everyone.
Good and liquored up, time to hunt the most dangerous game: Steve Perry.
Joan is drunker than a frat boy on a Saturday night after being told drinks are free at the bar. She staggers over to Tony, dropping the gun on his desk. Joan hounds
him to run around more tonight. Tony mentions something about his uncle who is a bigwig in the police. He locks himself in another room to work on the
article. Joan leaves, packing heat.
Hubbard talks with Helen about the moratorium on human testing when Joan staggers in the lab. She’s ranting at Helen. Frank arrives to take Joan home. She’s
mumbling about wanting to talk with him. Helen calls Frank while Joan gets the gun from her purse. Frank tries getting the gun from Joan when the gun goes
off. Frank tells Helen that a lamb broke.
Later, Joan is in bed. Frank is worried about her. She tells about the affair with Tony. Didn’t know the gun was loaded, her plan was to scare Helen. Joan is
afraid Helen would steal Frank away. Frank empties the clip.
Helen is still at the lab.
Joan wants to get away with Frank for a while. Frank can only do it if he helps Helen with her experiment tonight. Joan happily agrees.
Tony searches for his gun before calling Joan.
Lab, Frank wants to be deep-frozen before they get Hubbard’s memo banning them. Helen doesn’t want to do it but is talked into it be Frank.
Tony finds a pillow with gun shot in it. Joan is going on the wagon. Holding the gun, it goes off, accidentally shooting herself. Tony rushes to her side.
Helen begins the freezing process on Frank.
Tony wipes his prints from the house. He starts to call the police and decides not to do it. Apparently, he can be held responsible for someone else using his gun
or something like that.
Helen is at work with SCIENCE, freezing Frank.
The maid finds Joan’s body.
Hubbard finds Helen asleep in the lab. He learns that Frank volunteered to be frozen. But, thinks, Joan is ht e reason behind it. The phone rings. The police
want to meet with Frank. Hubbard demands to know before telling Frank. Joan was killed. The cops want to question Frank about it. They learn he has been
frozen is suspended animation.
The cops go to the lab, wanting Frank to be thawed. Cops think he is using suspended animation to escape the punishment for Joan’s murder. Hubbard will
decide later on whether to risk reviving Frank. Helen isn’t sure about how long it will be before it is safe to thaw him.
Project leader arrives, mad. Well, madder than usual. He thinks Frank shot Joan and is using the experiment to escape punishment.
In the lab, Helen readies to thaw Frank. Cops have an independent medical examiner at hand to make sure Helen does all she can.
The revival begins.
Tony sits in his apartment, calls his uncle, the police vice-commissioner or whatever.
Helen has Frank taken from the freezer. The respiration machine is used. We get an oscilloscope in action. Frank will awaken soon. He begins mumbling about
Joan. The brain seems to be undamaged. Helen is happy he’s ok.
Helen is still fine tuning the machines. The cops think Frank is guilty. She has a strange look on her face and cuts the amplifier and the heat. Frank is going back
under. The phone rings, Hubbard answers it.
Helen watches as Frank is going under. Hubbard tells the police that the Vice-Commissioner knows Joan accidentally shot herself. Helen looks pale even for
black and white. Desperately tries bringing Frank out of it.
Cardiac paddles are used. Frank flat lines but his heart restarts. Helen tries waking him again, Frank is fine. Everything is ok, except for the dead Joan.
