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The First (Part 2)
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Episode
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13 of season 4
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Director
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Frank Orsatti
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Writer
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Andrew Schneider
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Original airdate
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March 13, 1981
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Alias
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David Barr
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Followed by
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The First (Part 1) is episode seventy of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on March 13, 1981, on CBS.
Synopsis[]
David's attempt to cure himself is hindered when Dell Frye exposes himself to gamma radiation to reawaken his own Hulk. Dell’s creature walks through the woods and spots a deer. He picks up a rock and throws it, scaring the deer and nearly killing it, which shows that this Hulk-like creature is malicious. Then the creature reverts to human form. He was so happy because he realizes that his arthritis is gone and was happy to feel strong again. But, David scolds him, saying that this creature is incredibly dangerous because of his personality. Dell warns him and wanders off to Earl’s General Store.
There two bullies have been drinking. One of the men, Brad Wheeler, has bullied Dell quite often. Dell walks in and sees them sitting there. The men start making fun of him. He tells Brad to leave him alone. When Brad refuses, Dell puts a cup of beer in his face. Then Brad gets up and starts to punch him, but Sheriff Decker comes in and Brad stops.
Then Dell goes to see Elizabeth Collins to tell her that his arthritis is gone. He wants to win her heart, but she refuses, saying that she would rather be with Clive than anybody else. He tells her she is just like everybody else and then leaves.
At the general store, the same men are sitting and eating snacks and drinking. When Dell asks for a beer, the other guy refuses because of what he did. Then he asks for a soda and he refuses, too. He takes Brad’s beer, takes a sip, and pours the beer on his shoe. Brad gets mad and punches him. Dell gets up and Brad punches him again and knocks him into a supply closet. Then they hear a loud roar. The Hulk-like creature breaks open the closet door and attacks Brad and the customers. He throws Brad through the front window, killing him. The Hulk-like creature then escapes.
Later, Dell is asked a couple questions by Sheriff Carl Decker about the creature, but he does not know what happened. Then Jack McGee comes in and wants to ask a few questions about the creature, but Decker said that if he is not gone in five seconds, he would be arrested for interfering with the investigation. Jack leaves and Earl comes over and tells him what happened when Dell’s creature killed Brad.
McGee then talks to Frye, thinking that he is David because he is calling him John Doe. Dell knocks McGee out, takes his stuff and leaves with McGee lying on the floor. David injects Dell with the serum and he gets very angry and Elizabeth hits Dell with a stick, knocking him unconscious. At the Clive house, David and Elizabeth strap Dell down to reverse the effects, but Dell transforms into the Hulk-like creature. He destroys the last of the serum, making David turn into the Hulk out of rage and devastation – and they go at each other, destroying the gamma chamber and the table in the process. When McGee and Decker arrive at the Clive House, Frye's creature tries to throw debris at them, but Sheriff Decker shoots the creature three times killing him. Before Decker can shoot the Hulk though, Elizabeth defends him, saying he hasn't hurt anyone, allowing the Hulk to escape. Later at Elizabeth's house, she tells the sheriff and McGee the truth about Dell's creature, and also mentions that she wants Frye to be "buried in a nice grave" and that she will pay for it. Elizabeth tells McGee that David is a very kind and gentle man and that McGee should leave him alone because Banner wants to cure himself. McGee unfortunately disagrees, saying that his option is the only way to save both David and the people around him.
Having lost one of the best chances he has at ending his pain, a somber David once again walks the highways, hoping to find some way to cure himself.
Cast[]
- Bill Bixby as David Banner
- Jack Colvin as Jack McGee
- Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
- Harry Townes as Dell Frye
- Lola Albright as Elizabeth Collins
- Edward Walsh as Brad Wheeler
- Cliff Emmich as Earl
- Billy Green Bush as Sheriff Carl Decker
- Dick Durock as Frye's Creature
- Carl Ciarfalio as Brad's friend (uncredited)
Highlights[]
Ending sequence (same as in "Long Run Home" and "The Psychic")
- A powerful performance from Bixby when Frye's Hulk destroys the last remaining sample of the serum that would have cured both Banner and Frye.
- The memorable final battle between the two Hulks in the laboratory.
- Hulk-out 1: For Dell Frye: Going to a bar and deliberately picking a fight so that he can get mad, turn into the creature and kill someone.
- Hulk-out 2: For Dell Frye: Having David rudely inject him with a cure so that he won't be able to turn into the monster anymore. The "First" Hulk then pushes David across the lab and then breaks the vial with the cure, sending David into a rage. For David: Having his cure destroyed. And then, the Hulks fight!