Monster ep. 1
Herr Dr. Tenma
The year is 1986, the setting is somewhere at Dusseldorf, Germany. Dr. Kenzou Tenma is the genius chief neurosurgeon at Eisler Memorial. He has just finished a 6-hour operation on a famous opera singer (Mr. Rosenbach). On his way out, he sees a woman, crying, with her little boy.
Back at Dr. Tenma’s place, he is woken up by his fiancee, Eva Heinemann, the daughter of the hospital director at Eisler. The TV is on and they see Dr. Heinemann, Eva’s father, on the news, taking credit for Dr. Tenma’s successful operation. The news also briefly mentioned something about a Mr. Liebert, a political refugee from East Germany.
Back at the hospital, Dr. Tenma successfully completes another operation. Dr. Becker stops to chat and hints at how the director is using Dr. Tenma and how the hospital is a big political arena.
Dr. Tenma is stopped by the same crying woman earlier. She accuses him that he was responsible for the death of her husband, a Turkish man involved in a construction accident he was supposed to operate on the previous day. The Turkish man arrived at the hospital earlier than Mr. Rosenbach but the Director reassigned Dr. Tenma to work on the opera singer’s case. The incompetent Dr. Becker was assigned to operate on the Turkish man instead.
Dr. Tenma and Eva are eating dinner at a posh restaurant. Dr. Tenma relays to Eva what happened at the hospital but Eva (that bitch!) says that "people’s lives aren’t equal."
The police storm Mr. Liebert’s house and find him lying on the floor, dead with his wife. Their twin children were alive but the boy was shot in the head and is in critical condition. The twin girl was speechless and in shock.
Dr. Tenma is called to the hospital. While driving, he recalls how the Director cancelled Dr. Tenma’s research so he could work on the director’s manuscripts for a symposium. Lost in his thoughts, Dr. Tenma almost gets hit by a truck.
Back at the hospital, Dr. Tenma sees the twin girl and he was told that she is in a state of mental shock. Dr. Tenma and his team decide that the operation on the little boy will be difficult since the bullet grazed the brain. Dr. Becker arrives late.
As Dr. Tenma is about to begin operation, he is told that he’s reassigned to operate on the Mayor instead. According to the Director, the Mayor has promised to increase subsidy to the hospital, hence, Dr. Tenma must save him at all costs. Dr. Tenma insists that he’s the only one who can operate on the little boy and tells them to ask Dr. Boyer to operate on the Mayor instead.
Dr. Tenma operates on the little boy against the Director’s wishes. The little girl is in her hospital bed and keeps on saying "kill him" over and over again.