:06:13
It's Eric, all right.
:06:17
He was my friend for 30 years.
:06:20
You better come outside,
Professor.
:06:23
Yes.
:06:33
- You all through in there?
- Yeah.
:06:34
Leave us alone for a minute,
will you, Barney?
:06:36
Yeah, sure.
:06:40
Professor, I have to know all about it.
:06:43
Why he looks that way, why he was missing.
:06:46
Sheriff, have you ever watched...
:06:48
a friend dying before your eyes
and not been able to help?
:06:51
That's the worst of it.
:06:54
Being helpless.
:06:58
It's particularly tough
when you're a physician...
:07:01
and you know what's wrong with him.
:07:02
And there isn't a single solitary thing you
or anyone else can do.
:07:06
When I saw the body,
I though it was acromegalia.
:07:09
But that's not possible.
:07:10
Acromegalia?
:07:12
The pituitary gland goes haywire, Jack.
:07:14
It distorts the face, neck, hands, and feet.
:07:18
I met Jacobs a couple of years ago
at your place.
:07:21
The sheriff saw him about a month ago.
He looked normal then.
:07:25
It is acromegalia.
:07:29
But in every case I've ever heard of...
:07:32
it's taken years to produce the deformity.
:07:35
I know.
:07:36
The history of medicine
is the history of the unusual.
:07:40
Perhaps Eric had been ill for years.
Who knows?
:07:43
But it was only four days ago that
he began to complain of muscular pains.
:07:47
Neither of us thought too much about it.
:07:50
These things happen as you grow older.
:07:54
And the next morning he began to...
:07:57
To change.
:07:59
Maybe we'd better do an autopsy
just to make sure.