Long before the Communists were turning Laurence Harvey into a controlled killing machine in The Manchurian Candidate Doctor Will Kulava slips Reese Bennett a Mickey Finn that turns him into a most agreeable and easily suggestible individual, a complete change from the irascible Neville Brand we all know.
This episode truly turns on Neville Brand and the reactions from all around him as he undergoes a complete personality change. It's all being done at the behest of outlaw Warren Kemerling who has hired Kulava so that Brand might kill Philip Carey whom Kemerling feels he has a score to settle with. In The Manchurian Candidate it was the Queen Of Hearts that did the trick for Laurence Harvey. For Brand it's a five dollar gold piece. His control mechanism keeps going off at the wrong time.
Fans of The Manchurian Candidate might want to check this Laredo story out.
This episode truly turns on Neville Brand and the reactions from all around him as he undergoes a complete personality change. It's all being done at the behest of outlaw Warren Kemerling who has hired Kulava so that Brand might kill Philip Carey whom Kemerling feels he has a score to settle with. In The Manchurian Candidate it was the Queen Of Hearts that did the trick for Laurence Harvey. For Brand it's a five dollar gold piece. His control mechanism keeps going off at the wrong time.
Fans of The Manchurian Candidate might want to check this Laredo story out.