Friday the 13th: The Series S1E7
Episode 7 "Doctor Jack"
In the dark of night walks a mysterious man in a trenchcoat who walks up to a florist closing up shop. He offers this strange man if he would like to buy some flowers. The trenchcoat man holds out a $100 bill which purposely flies off his hand. As the florist hastily retrieves it, the man whips out his knife and slashes his throat. A group of people walk and see the grueling sight which sends the dark stranger running from the crime scene. He reaches a metal gate in which he uses the pen knife and to everyone's amazement, the metal bars cut like butter and he is able to get escape into the night.
At Curious Goods, after an off screen knowledge of the aforementioned crime connection, Jack is reading from the manifest of the scapel (not a pen knife like I originally thought) and reads aloud the entry and Jack sets off to find more information on the last known owner that the scalpel was sold do.
Micki looks at the Manifest after Jack gets out of his chair and notices a note attached to it that it is said that this scalpel once belonged to: JACK THE RIPPER!!!! BOIIIII.
Next scene is where Ryan and Micki are outside waiting in the car for Jack to come back and for some reason he did not clue them in. Once he pops up. After a little digging he tells the 2 that this last known owner of this scalper is not quite a good boy nor an outstanding citizen. His name is James Morgan who is an ex con and currently out on parole. The car they stopped in front of is a shop he owns graciously called "Jim's Knives". Heh.
All three of them enter the store. Jim boy here looks already heightened and on guard so he is standoffish as fuck to them especially since they cut to the chase when asking about a scapel....in a fucking knives store.
He claims he doesn't know anything so Micky fibs and says OMGG i FOUND THE SCAPEL and Jim James dude snaps that he sold it already but he immediately realizes he's been had. After a little bit more poking and prodding from more, or more surprisingly, Jack gives a soft veiled threat about photo negatives he has in his hand about it would be suuuuch a dang shame if these fell in the hands of the parole board.
Proves quite fruitful as he says he sold it a Doctor Howard but he wants to be a good boy so he tells them to keep his name out of their mouths in the future. Satisfied with a promising lead, he GTFO.
Jack explains the doctor's well known reputation in the industry as someone who "turns surgury into art". Micki then asks real quick how the hell did Jack get a hold of such compromising photo negatives. Jack reveals he didn't it was simply photo negatives of the trio at a zoo. He assumed that a guy like Jimmy 'ol pal had a skeleton in his closet he wouldn't want being let out. Good call, Jack! You sneaky lil bastard.
They hop in the car and head straight to a nearby hospital where this doctor is located. Why, he is in the middle of surgury in front of other students and professionals. It ends with a respectful clap (the good kind) and concludes this session.
A young woman rises up from the audience in a shocked manner. I wonder why? Hmm.
Doctor then walks in the hallway where he is greeted with another round of applause initiated by the head of surgery is praising this doctor who seems to the latest member of the faculty. Yay, more claps.
During the drive, with Ryan in the drivers seat, wonders out loud how such a small ass hospital could have the means to hire a 5 star surgeon like that dude? Jack theorizes that the hospital seriously needed a guy like to to get out their bad rep of their own. Or something like that anyway. They've been through bad press so really this doctor is a blessing for them.
And oh, looky, they arrive to Ravenbrook hospital.
After the doctor is changed and is now in a suit, him and the head of surgury stroll down the hallway and mentions that while she is satisfied with his work, she isn't a fan at how much he makes his surgerys a little too theatrical for her tastes. He just replies too bad because this spiel works so whatevs you hater! Meanwhile, another woman (from earlier) is mean dogging the doctor from afar. Uh oh.
Jack, Ryan and Micki are inside the hospital now and asked the front desk where to find the Doctor and a nurse points them in the right direction and off they all go.
The woman sneaks to some double doors and quickly tapes a picture then hurries out of there. Mere seconds later, the doctor walks in the same area, removes the pic and stares at it. While he stares at it when in pops the lady and whips out her gun but Ryan and Jack thwart her attempts and the Doctor manages to escape. The poor lady is wailing while hospital workers appear out of nowhere and take her away while she is screaming from the top of her lungs that he is a killer and he must be stopped.
She dropped her purse so Jack picks it up and see a bunch of random additional pictures and news articles about casualties. He follows suit and after the hospital staff leave, in he walks to have a chat with her. One of the pictures was of her daughter. The mother explains that she was a huge fan of the doc even went to med school and read all the books he wrote. When the daughter realizes he is in town, she wanted to seek him out IRL but that was the last communication he heard from her. Her body was found later and so she blames doc, without no other proof. So yeah.
Poor mother has a mental breakdown and she turns on Jack insisting he was in on it. Realizing she is no longer of sound mind nor can aid in their efforts, he just walks away as she curses him out. Sad.
Micki notices Doc enter his office and she braces herself before walking in to introduce herself as a fan girl of his. She immediately notices the scalpel in her hand which confirms its existence so she excuses herself back out. She runs into Ryan to tell him the good news (sorta?) and try to concoct their plan.
After meeting back up with Jack, Ryan shadows him as he walks out of his office but at the same time trying to look inconspicuous. He enter a room with a big ass KEEP OUT sign. Ooooh Ryan, you bad boi.
Jack and Micki enter the now empty office to see if they can find the scalpel for themselves. Unfortunately, the box they found that held the scalpel is gone. It's on the Doc. Surprise, surprise. Jack pieces together that this scalpel's life saving powers is acting like a sort of rechargable battery. Hence, he has to kill someone with the scalpel in order to keep the awesome power to give dying patients a new life. Since they know Ryan was tailgating him, they fear Doc may kill Ryan once he discovers him so they yeet the fuck out of there to hopefully save him.
Speaking of which, Ryan, being the goofball fuck ass he is, bumps into something which sets off in a big chase. Ryan finds himself cornered in the morgue part of the hospital where they keep dead bodies, so he hides in one of the empty cases. Doc immediately comes in and stab stabby the body. Luckily it was the wrong one.
Also, this was when Jack and Micki run in the room. Spooked, he runs the heck out of there. They free Ryan who was just in the case below it.
Jack on the other hand, goes on a foot chase and eventually fight when he catches up to him. They fumble around an empty elevator shaft in which Jack has no choice but to grab on to the cables in the shaft. Doc uses the scalpel and slice the cable and Jack falls to his deathhhhh.
Nah, just kidding. He did get seriously hurt though. Jack gets rushed into the ER...good thing they are already in a hospital, eh??? The head of surgery talks to Ryan and Micki in the waiting room relaying the unfortunate news that this awesome Doctor has to be the one to receive this life saving surgery! Well, fuck.
Doc gets in his killer clothes and prowls out in the night so that he can "recharge" his scalpel thingy.
Remember that mother who tried to kill him? Well she tricked one of the hospital staff and she ends up knocking him out and she's freeeeeeeeee. She sneaks to get her belongings from a locker while a nurse behind the desk was busy with a random call with a disgruntled person. She gets away, undetected. Woop! Woop!
After Micki and Ryan get the news that this doctor is going to be doing the surgery, Ryan makes a grand plan to steal one of the scrubs and manages to steal the scalpel while he was washing his hands. Micki reluctantly tells him to give it back because Jack really does need this life saving surgery. Begrudgingly, he has no choice but to do it.
Everything is now all set to go. Unconscious Jack is in the surgery room and Doc gets to work and does the surgery in front of a live audience. By that I mean media peoples who wanted to see WTF if up with him. In walks the distressed mother. Uh oh. Micki and Ryan are still in the waiting room, though.
One of the staff moves the cloth that was covering Jack's face and Doc's eyes widen when he realizes it. Of course, there is nothing he can do but continue with the procedure. However, once he is done, he tells the nurse that he doesn't want anyone near the patient and that he and only he will be the one to administer any post op care his own damn self.
Head of surgery informs Ryan and Micki this and their faces drop.
Still in scrubs, Doc tries to sneak in the room Jack was placed in so he can be like Shang Tsung and FINISH HIM. However, before he can make a stab when in walks the distressed mother with a gun drawn. Doc is somehow able to get closer and uses his scalpel to slice the gun in half before STABBING HER!!!
Then in runs in Ryan and Micki and he dashes off. The lady didn't die so when Ryan tries to some to her aid she goes all hard and says to him "Don't mind me GET THE DOC-TAH!!!" They both ensue in a chase.
They enter into abandoned area like the boiler room or some shit. He corners the both of them and while he is giving his corny cartooney villain speech, the injured mother comes behind him and wacks him, allowing both to slip away once more. They end up hiding in a room in an attempt to lure him in. Ryan and Doc get in a really bad scuffle while Micki tries to fire up an old ass fibulator thingy.
Ryan gets knocked out, but didn't kill him but he lunges at Micki and she was able to use to defibulator to zap him silly which in turn he inadvertedly stabs himself dedzzzz.
Some time later, Jack returns from the hospital and all three are back at Curious Goods where Ryan gives the good news that the mother is recovering and is back on the plane back to her home state. Good for her.
Jack wants to get back to work but Ryan is like "Yo, you know what the doctor said, rest TF up!" Jack snarks back "Do you think I will listen to another doctor again??!?!?!" Har har, funny end to the episode. Fuck off now.
Episode 8 is next.
Guest Star: Cliff Gorman