OK, follow this now.
Dr. Ernest Sovac, Ernst to his friends apparently, is an experimental brain surgeon who's in search of success and credibility in the United States. On Friday the 13th, Sovac's close friend, English Professor George Kingsley, suffers a grievous head injury when a car driven by big city gangster Red Cannon—on the run from his own crew—slams into Kingsley on the streets of the collage town Sovac and the professor call home. Kingsley's head and brain are virtually destroyed. Cannon's spine is broken, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
One guy's your buddy, the other is a criminal and you've successfully experimented with brain transplants in animals.
Hmmm...
