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New York City.
It is several months later.
:05:05
Police are investigating
the disappearance of a clerk...
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named Leonard Zelig.
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Both his landlady
and his employer...
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have reported him missing.
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They tell police he was an odd
little man who kept to himself.
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Two clues are found in
Zelig's Greenwich Village flat.
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One, a photograph of Zelig
with Eugene O'Neill...
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and one of him as Pagliacci.
:05:34
Acting on a tip, they trace
his whereabouts to Chinatown...
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where, in the rear
of a Chinese establishment...
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a strange-looking Oriental...
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who fits the description
of Leonard Zelig is discovered.
:05:48
Suspicious, the detectives
try to pull off his disguise...
:05:51
but it is not a disguise,
and a fight breaks out.
:05:56
He is removed by force
and taken to Manhattan Hospital.
:05:59
In the ambulance,
he rants and curses...
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in what sounds
like authentic Chinese.
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He is restrained
with a straitjacket.
:06:08
When he emerges from the car
twenty minutes later...
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incredibly, he is no longer
Chinese, but Caucasian.
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Bewildered interns place him
in the emergency room...
:06:20
for observation.
:06:22
At 7 a.m., Dr. Eudora Fletcher,
a psychiatrist...
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makes her usual rounds.
:06:29
When I first heard
about this emergency case...
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I didn't think
anything peculiar...
:06:34
and when I first
laid eyes on him...
:06:37
it was a bit strange because
I mistook him for a doctor.
:06:43
He had a very professional
demeanor about him.
:06:46
As a young psychiatrist...
:06:48
Eudora Fletcher is fascinated
by Leonard Zelig.
:06:51
She convinces the conservative
staff at the hospital...
:06:55
to allow her to pursue
a study of the new admission.
:06:57
So, what do you do?