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DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SCENE START

August 25, 2026. Near New York

INT. LECTURE HALL – DAY

Sixty-five elite, bleary-eyed medical candidates sit in tiered mahogany pews. High-voltage copper conduits and glass vacuum tubes snake across centuries-old stone arches, humming with low-frequency power. Modern surgical monitors glow alongside brass-bound anatomical charts.

At the center of the pit stands DR. VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN V. Impeccably tailored, cold-eyed, holding a piece of chalk like a scalpel.

He slams a heavy ledger onto the lectern. The dust clears. The room falls dead silent.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN Let us establish the primary directive before we proceed to advanced tissue graft assembly. I will state this once, and only once: If I hear a single whisper, one cheap joke, or a single muttered reference to my great-grandfather, a pitchfork, or a stormy night in Bavaria, you will be summary-dismissed from this institution.

He turns to the blackboard, writing in sharp, jagged cursive: NO LIMITS.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) Those were regional fables exaggerated by illiterate peasants who panicked at the sight of basic electrical physics. Here at Dr. Frankenstein’s School of Medicine, we do not perform “monstrous experiments.” We execute precision biological engineering. Old world theory meets absolute, cutting-edge execution. There is no surgical procedure too difficult for this facility. None. And unlike the charlatans in traditional academia, we guarantee our results.

A student in the second row, STUDENT MARKHAM, raises a hand—not waiting to be called on.

MARKHAM Guarantee results? With all due respect, Doctor, half the clinical floor smells like a butcher shop! My lab team was assigned a quad-amputee case yesterday, and the requisition department handed us a pair of porcine tendons and a synthetic canine valve! Animal parts? We’re supposed to be practicing high-level human reconstruction, not stitching together farm animals and praying they don’t reject!

A murmur ripples through the 65 candidates.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (Eyes narrowing) Mr. Markham. You sound like a man who lacks imagination—and more importantly, a man who failed his comparative physiology practical.

MARKHAM I didn’t fail, Doctor! The porcine graft rejected within three hours! The tensile strength of animal tissue under high-voltage cellular stimulation is wildly unstable. It’s poor performance across the board! We are using patched-together scraps while you preach perfection!

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (Walking slowly toward the pews) The tissue didn’t fail, Markham. You failed to correctly adjust the osmotic balance prior to charge delivery! A swine’s cardiac tendon, when properly soaked in our proprietary cellular bath, possesses three times the shock-load resistance of a standard human cadaver unit. You blame the material because you lack the skill to weave the thread!

Another student, STUDENT HELENA, stands up, pushing her glasses up her nose.

HELENA It’s not just the materials, Dr. Frankenstein. It’s the core claim of this entire curriculum. The surgical menu on the front lobby wall is insane. A million dollars for “Resurrection Protocol”? You’re running a medical school, not a church. You cannot bring the dead back to life! Death is a permanent biological boundary. Once clinical brain death passes forty-five minutes, cellular necrosis is irreversible. You’re selling ghost stories to rich investors!

The lecture hall goes dead quiet. Nobody speaks that way to the Doctor.

Frankenstein stops at the base of the pews. He slowly unbuttons his cuffs, rolling them up with terrifying composure.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN Permanent? Irreversible? What a comfortably mediocre set of words, Miss Helena. You sound like every committee member who ever denied my family a research grant. You stand in my hall, surrounded by state-of-the-art biological infrastructure, and you quote text-book definitions written by men who faint at the sight of a lightning rod!

HELENA I quote scientific reality! You can patch a limb, you can swap an optic nerve with a bionic lens, fine! But bringing back a cold, lifeless corpse? Reversing true death? It’s medically impossible!

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (Voice booming, echoing off the stone walls) Nothing is impossible in this room! “Impossible” is simply a term used by lazy physicians to cover up their own lack of nerve! You want proof? You want clinical documentation of the dead walking out of my doors?

He steps back to his desk, grabbing a thick, black-bound register and slamming it open.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) Just last winter! February 14th! Twelve students from the local academy went recreational ice skating on Lake Blackwood. The ice gave way. Twelve young men and women were trapped under solid ice for over four hours. By the time the recovery teams hauled them out, they weren’t just hypothermic—they were blue. Rigid. Flatlined on every diagnostic board available. No pulse. No neurological discharge. Dead. Cold dead!

He steps toward Helena, pointing a finger directly at her chest.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) Their families wept. The city coroner was ready to tag their toes and shove them into steel drawers. And do you know what I did, Miss Helena? I bought the entire ambulance transport. I had all twelve corpses wheeled directly down that center aisle!

He gestures dramatically to the floor of the room.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) While the world declared them gone, my team purged their frozen circulatory systems, routed synthetic thermal fluids through their arteries, hooked their brainstems up to our bio-electric grid, and delivered a targeted thirty-thousand-volt jump directly to the sinus nodes!

He leans over Helena’s desk, eyes ablaze.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) Do you know where those twelve “impossible” dead students are right now?

MARKHAM (Muttering under his breath) Probably in a cemetery…

DR. FRANKENSTEIN They are taking midterms at the state university! Three of them are on the track team! All twelve were revived, fully restored, fully operational, with zero neurological deficit! I pulled them back from the abyss because I refuse to bow to the superstition that death has the final say!

Helena swallows hard, trying to hold her ground, though her voice trembles slightly.

HELENA That… that was extreme hypothermia. Cold preserves brain function. That’s a medical anomaly, not true resurrection!

DR. FRANKENSTEIN Call it an anomaly, call it a miracle, call it whatever helps you sleep at night! The fact remains: they were dead, and now they breathe! That is what we do here. We do not negotiate with mortality. We overrule it.

He walks back to the center of the pit, turning to face all 65 students, his posture tall, dominating the room.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) If you are here to learn how to pronounce a patient dead and comfort their relatives, the exit is behind you. Go join a general practice and prescribe bed rest. But if you are here to master the absolute threshold of life, medicine, and mechanical dominance over biology… grab your scalpels, prep the cadavers, and clear your mind of limitations. Class has just begun.

Silence hangs heavy in the hall. Nobody moves toward the door.

SCENE END

DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

SCENE TWO

INT. MAIN SURGICAL AMPHITHEATER – NIGHT

A towering glass dome caps the room, framing a midnight sky thick with churning storm clouds. At the center of the pit lies SERGEANT MILLER, a hardened veteran whose sleeves are pinned empty at the shoulders—sacrificed to a localized mortar detonation in the Ziran conflict.

Dr. Frankenstein stands over the table under blazing surgical lamps. Hovering above the torso are two pristine, heavy-duty arms—a hybrid blend of dense cadaver muscle, carbon-fiber skeletal struts, and glowing silver neuro-conduits.

Sixty-five students lean over the bronze railing of the upper gallery, notebooks open, eyes glued to the procedure.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (Adjusting a micro-laser scalpel) Observe the brachial plexus junction. Standard military trauma centers would have sealed this off with skin flaps and handed this man a hook. We, on the other hand, build upgraded soldiers.

He aligns the right arm’s titanium hinge with Miller’s exposed shoulder socket. A soft click echoes through the quiet room.

STUDENT VANCE (A transfer from Johns Hopkins, adjusting his wire-rim glasses) Doctor! At Johns Hopkins, we were taught that cross-splicing synthetic neuro-transmitters with organic motor pathways triggers catastrophic immune rejection within forty-eight hours. The peripheral nerves simply refuse to recognize the artificial signal. How are you bypassing the autoimmune shock?

DR. FRANKENSTEIN By ignoring Johns Hopkins’ archaic fear of bio-electricity, Mr. Vance.

He clamps a gold-plated shunt into the main artery.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) We don’t wait for the body to gracefully accept the graft. We bathe the nerve ends in an electrolyte solution saturated with micro-conductive copper salts. We force the brain to communicate with the tissue before the immune system even realizes a foreign limb has been introduced. Next question.

STUDENT CHEN (Transfer from Harvard Medical, leaning over the rail) What about tissue atrophy during the integration phase, Dr. Frankenstein? The muscular density on those donor arms came from a powerlifter, but the sergeant’s vascular system has been depleted for six months. Won’t the sheer volume of biological demand cause systemic cardiac failure the moment circulation hits?

DR. FRANKENSTEIN A fair question, Miss Chen. Harvard training shows through.

Frankenstein reaches for a heavy glass syringe filled with a thick, luminescent blue fluid, injecting it directly into the newly stitched brachial artery.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) This is synthetic, oxygen-dense plasma—our own formula. It reduces cardiac strain by three hundred percent while quadrupling cellular hydration. The sergeant’s heart won’t struggle to pump blood into these massive arms; the fluid carries its own kinetic pressure. The muscle won’t atrophy. It will feed.

STUDENT ALVAREZ (Transfer from Oxford, frowning) Doctor, look at the stitch density on the left deltoid! You’re using reinforced steel-thread suture. That’s non-absorbable. Won’t that cause severe scar tissue build-up and limit his rotational flexibility?

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (Chuckling coldly) Rotational flexibility? Mr. Alvarez, when I am finished with Sergeant Miller, he will be able to lift the front end of an armored transport. The steel-thread isn’t just holding skin together; it’s anchoring the kinetic harness directly to his ribcage. We are not aiming for “graceful recovery.” We are aiming for absolute structural superiority.

Frankenstein ties off the final micro-suture on the left wrist. He steps back, pulling off his blood-stained rubber gloves with a sharp snap.

The two new arms lay motionless against the stainless-steel table, pale, heavy, and sewn seamless into the soldier’s shoulders. Miller remains under deep anesthesia, his breathing slow and rhythmic.

The amphitheater is silent except for the low hum of the ceiling monitors.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) (Looking up at the gallery) The physical assembly is complete. Bone fused, vascular lines routed, tissue locked. But as your former professors so fond of reminding you… a corpse or a graft without a spark is just meat.

He points a long silver forceps toward the high glass ceiling, where lightning flickers across the heavy clouds outside.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) The actual miracle doesn’t happen down here in the pit. The nerve activation—the moment these dead limbs drink the fire and wake up—will take place at the absolute top of the school, in the High Atmospheric Laboratory.

He checks a pocket watch, snapping the brass lid shut.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) It will happen precisely after midnight, when the peak of the storm strikes the main spire. I am inviting you all to witness the final activation.

He looks around the gallery, his sharp eyes locking onto Vance, Chen, and Alvarez.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) (Voice dropping low and dangerous) However… be warned. Up there, the voltage will turn the air to ozone. The thunder will rattle the marrow in your bones, and the sight of a dead man’s fingers twitching to life for the first time is not a spectacle for the faint-hearted. If you have soft stomachs, go back to your dorms and read your textbooks. Do not come if you are afraid.

Frankenstein turns on his heel and sweeps out of the operating theater, leaving sixty-five elite medical students staring silently down at the still, stitched body on the table—and up at the dark glass tower above.

SCENE END

DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SCENE THREE

EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD – NIGHT

A blinding flash of lightning tears through the black sky. Rain lashes down in violent, horizontal sheets over the cobblestones.

Suddenly, a deafening, heavy mechanical thudding cuts through the thunder.

Twin searchlights sweep across the stone battlements. Slicing through the storm cloud canopy, a massive, matte-black military helicopter with a gleaming white top descends toward the central courtyard—the unmistakable silhouette of Marine One.

Sixty-five medical students press themselves against the covered stone archways, squinting through the gale-force rotor wash.

MARKHAM (Screaming over the engine roar) Is that a executive transport?! What is the Secret Service doing at a private facility?!

CHEN (Holding her coat tight, hair whipping wild) Look at those escort operatives! Those aren’t standard guards! Those are high-level tactical contractors!

The helicopter’s heavy hydraulic landing gear slams onto the courtyard stone. The side door flies open. A squad of heavily armed tactical personnel in unbadged black armor leaps out, securing a perimeter with submachine guns raised.

Four burly agents haul a heavy, vacuum-sealed titanium gurney out of the side hatch. Draped over the body on the gurney is a thick, black velvet restraint sheet, strapped down tight with heavy leather belts.

Dr. Frankenstein steps out into the pouring rain, completely unbothered by the downpour, his dark coat billowing around his ankles. He waves the gurney crew forward.

INT. HIGH ATMOSPHERIC LABORATORY – MINUTES LATER

The top tower of the castle is a nightmare of raw electrical power. Massive glass Leyden jars, eight feet tall, sizzle with blue static. Lightning rods extend out through the open stone rose-window directly into the storm above.

The gurney is locked into the central steel lift platform. The heavy velvet sheet still covers the figure from head to toe, completely hiding its identity.

The sixty-five candidates crowd into the lower observation gallery, breathing heavily. The air in the room is so thick with static that the hairs on the back of their necks stand completely on end, tingling with charge.

The students explode into a frantic wall of questions.

VANCE Doctor! Is that a head of state?! Who is under that sheet?!

ALVAREZ The tissue signatures on the monitors—the EKG is completely flat! Cellular death occurred at least seventy-two hours ago! The rigor mortis must be absolute! How can you bypass systemic decomposition on a body that old?!

CHEN Look at the voltage meters! You’re pulling over forty-five thousand volts directly from the cloud ceiling! If the ground-wire fails, the feedback will cook every single one of us in this tower! Is this even legal under international law?!

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (Standing at the massive bronze lever, voice cutting through the noise like a blade) Silence!

The room drops to a absolute halt. Only the crackle of electricity and the pounding rain remain.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) International law? Legalities? You still think in terms of borders and governments. Governments come to me when their doctors throw up their hands and declare defeat!

He grabs the heavy iron handle of the main power grid.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) Watch the terminal connections! This is pure, unadulterated bio-electric resurrection!

Frankenstein slams the lever forward.

BOOM!

A blinding bolt of natural lightning strikes the main spire outside. A solid pillar of white-hot energy shoots down the copper conduits, slamming directly into the steel platform! Blue arcs of power dance across the metal frame. The gurney violently jolts upward against its heavy leather straps!

A high-pitched hum echoes through the stone walls, making everyone’s teeth ache.

Then… total darkness. The lightning subsides. The copper coils cool down to a dull red glow.

Silence.

On the platform, a raspy, deep breath suddenly tears through the quiet. A chest heaves violently under the dark sheet.

Frankenstein steps up to the platform. He grabs the edge of the velvet cover.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) (Looking down at the gallery, eyes gleaming with absolute triumph) Behold… the future of medicine.

With one quick yank, Frankenstein pulls the sheet away.

Lying on the table, gasping for air, squinting at the harsh overhead lights, is DONALD J. TRUMP. He blinks hard, his signature golden hair slightly disheveled from the current, sitting up slowly and adjusting his posture.

The student gallery goes completely hysterical. Gasps, dropped notebooks, candidates clutching their chests in utter shock.

MARKHAM (Stumbling back, face pale as a ghost) My… my God… That’s… that’s the President! He died three days ago! It was on every news network on the planet!

HELENA (Hyperventilating) This is insane! You can’t just bring back a former Commander-in-Chief! The global political fallout—the chaos—

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (Stepping forward, holding up a single finger, voice chillingly calm) Do not freak out, candidates! Control yourselves!

He looks around the room, a slow, dark smirk spreading across his face.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) This is a private medical procedure. We do not judge the politics of our clientele; we merely collect the fee. And if you think this is a shock to your fragile sensibilities… you should have seen the high-security transport we cleared through this very courtyard last month for Vladimir Putin.

Frankenstein turns back to the table, handing the newly revived President a glass of water.

DR. FRANKENSTEIN (CONT’D) Welcome back to the living, sir. Your bill is one million dollars.

SCENE END