Black and White
The Brood — "I Disgust You"
Canadian Police Pathologist :
Our friend has very strange eyes.
They have irises, but no retinas.
I should think his
vision of the world
is very distorted.
I'm pretty certain he sees things
only in black-and-white.
No colours.
The upper lip is cleft.
Real harelip, but the palate is not.
And the tongue is too thick and
inflexible for proper speech.
It has no teeth,
but you can get a pretty nasty bite...
from these strange, beak-like gums.
Canadian Homicide Detective :
Why did it die?
Canadian Police Pathologist :
I found some sort of collapsed, fleshy sac
between the little fellow's shoulder blades.
It contains traces of a solid nutrient material...
A bit like the yolk sac of certain fish, or a camel's hump.
Basically, it's a gas tank that was full at birth.
Once the hump material is completely assimilated,
I think the creature simply starves to death.
Runs out of gas, so to speak.
And that brings us to the last point of interest.
There's an external deformity.
I mean, apart from the lack of sexual organs.
It's extremely subtle and extremely provocative.
I wonder if either of you have noticed it.
David Cronenberg's FictionSuit :
It has no navel.
Canadian Homicide Detective :
No what?
David Cronenberg's FictionSuit :
No bellybutton.
The thing has no bellybutton.
Canadian Police Pathologist :
That's right.
And that means this creature
has never really been born.
At least, not the way
human beings are born.
Canadian Homicide Detective :
Jesus.
