PART ONE (May 19th, 1997):
[VOICE-OVER]
"'Deranged' ... that's the word most often used to describe Mankind. The path of carnage he has carved through the World Wrestling Federation has made Mankind one of the most feared and hated Superstars in the WWF. What makes a man love pain so much that he willingly mutilates his own body? Over the next few weeks, I'm going to take you on a different kind of odyssey ... a twenty-six year journey of a young boy named 'Mick Foley' ... boyhood dreams turned to a living hell!"

(Clips of Mankind are shown, then old photos of him as a child, teenager, then just starting out as 'Cactus Jack').

[JIM ROSS]
"What do you think the biggest misconceptions are that the WWF fans have as it relates to Mankind?"

[MANKIND]
"That I'm a ... bad person. Jimmy, there's plenty of good reasons to hate me ... I just don't want people to hate me for untruths and partial truths and rumors. You see I-when I was a kid I played 'cowboys and Indians'. Now who were the good guys-the cowboys coming over the hill to rape ... pillage innocent women and children. I was always the Indian Jimmy, I always stood for the underdog. If that makes me a bad person- for standing up for what I believe in-then I guess you've got me dead to rights. I'm a bad man!"

(Infamous clip of Cactus Jack jumping of the roof of his house onto a mattress in his yard, followed by more childhood photos).

[VOICE-OVER]
"Mick Foley wasn't like other boys. He embraced physical pain as friend and companion."

[MANKIND]
"I was eight years old ... at Minasaki Elementary School ... playing a game of 'Kill the Guy with the Ball'-which may even be an Olympic sport these days. And in chasing one of the other students I, uh, I made a leap for his legs and the back of his foot kicked me in the lip. And I didn't know what happened-I knew it hurt, Jimmy, I knew it hurt bad, but all of a sudden people started to look at me in a different way, like there was something wrong with me. I looked down at my Chicago Bears-back in the days when they were two and twelve-in the waning days of Dick Butkus-my Chicago Bears white sweatshirt suddenly turned red. And children were running from me ... scared ... I was bleeding ... I was in pain ... a-and I was loving it! Because I felt like I'd finally found something in my life that I could do better than everybody else: handle pain! Someone said 'ah, that's just vampire blood!' and then saw the open wound from which the blood was flowing. I've still got that shirt, Jimmy, and I remember thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if I could do something in my life where I could do this all the time?' Get that attention every night. Stockbrokers can't do it ... teachers can't do it ... the President of the United States can't bleed for a living ... but pro wrestlers can! It's the first time that I realized that I had a calling in my life, and I followed it right down the line!"

(Clips of classic wrestling stars as Mankind mentions them).

"That's all my brother and I wanted to do. We watched them all: Chief Jay Strongbow, Bruno Sammartino, the Valiant Brothers-that's what we wanted to be. Then I broke his nose by backdropping him into his bedroom wall and mom said 'no more wrestling!' But she didn't say no more dreaming."

(Clip of teenage Foley wrestling in his backyard).

[VOICE-OVER]
"Mick Foley continued to pursue his dream, but he paid a heavy price. The emotional scars of a strange childhood are still evident.

[MANKIND]
"You know I wanna tell my son ... when he gets to be fifteen ... not to be the guy who eats strange things. I never exactly brought it upon myself. Other people and their 'cliques'-for lack of a better word, they would gang up on me because I was different-because I acted different- looked different. They were throwing worms at me, Jimmy. Little wiggly worms they were throwing at me. Bending down in athletic class doing my hurdler's stretch and there was a bombardment of worms being thrown at me. So what do you do to retaliate, d'you throw the worm back?! At seven or eight people? It's not the fact that they were hurting me, they were wounding my pride! They were looking at me like I was garbage. So I picked up the largest specimen, Jimmy, and I SUCKED IT DOWN! To show them their attempts to hurt my pride would not be successful. I thought, Jimmy, that I'd shown them. But then, sure enough, the story became exaggerated, as everything in life does, and it no longer became 'well Mickey Foley ate one worm because some kids were picking on him', it became 'Mickey Foley eats a plate full of worms every day!' Do you think I got many dates after that, Jimmy?"

[ROSS]
"Probably not."

[MANKIND]
"Do you think girls wanted to kiss a boy that had worms on his breath? I'm a GOOD kisser ... but I never got the chance to show it! What am I gonna do, practice on myself, Jimmy? I never had the chance to show the world that I could love and be loved, because they ruled me out because I had a strange appetite for strange things. I'm not gonna say I didn't accept money to eat other strange things, but the fact is the damage had been done and I went through my entire high school without date number one! You don't think that scarred my soul, then maybe you're not looking deep enough!"

[VOICE-OVER]
"Next week we'll look deep into Mankind's scarred soul. He'll share his unfulfilled boyhood dream of becoming 'Dude Love', a wrestler not unlike Shawn Michaels. Also, Mick Foley's disturbing psychological evolution, including his years as 'Cactus Jack'."

(Clips of Foley wrestling in someone's backyard, a gimmicked magazine cover with Foley's picture on it saying "What do women really think of the DUDE?" and a shot of Cactus Jack with a barbed-wire baseball bat in Japan-either in the IWA or FMW).

[MANKIND]
"I was a 'Deathmatch Champion' and I had the ability to make people sick!"

PART TWO (May 26th, 1997):
(Clips of Mankind mixed with photos from Mick Foley's childhood),

[VOICE-OVER]
"Later tonight, we'll look into the deranged psyche of Mankind. Last week we told you about the strange childhood of Mickey Foley: a young man with an affinity for pain ... and an appetite for worms!"

[MANKIND]
"I picked up the largest specimen Jimmy, and I SUCKED IT DOWN!"

[VOICE-OVER]
"On the surface young Mickey Foley was just like the other boys. He even played high school lacrosse, but Mickey played goalie without the benefit of pads."

(More high school photos).

[MANKIND]
"Losing the chest protector was not enough, and I began to tempt fate ... tempt a certain pain even more, and I removed my protective cup. And Jimmy, I'm not going to say I didn't pay the price one May morning, because I did and I went down like I'd been shot! And I remember the girls field hockey team watching me as they strapped ice packs onto my affected area, and shipped me off in an ambulance. And the doctor said it would be at least three weeks before the swelling went down and I could go back to school. But even though my testicle was the size of a grapefruit, I made it back to school the next day! And it was the only time in my high school years that I remember girls ... looking at my genital region! And I considered that ... the greatest day of my high school days!"

(Clip of Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka in a cage at Madison Square Garden).

[VOICE-OVER]
"In the next hour we'll take you back to October 17th, 1983, Madison Square Garden. It was a defining moment in a young man's life."

[MANKIND]
"It took just about all the money I had in the world, but I got a front row seat ... and I saw the move that would change my life."

(Later in the show. More childhood photos).

[VOICE-OVER]
"There is no simple explanation for why a man becomes deranged. From childhood, Mickey Foley's affection for pain made him different. Despite coming from a loving and caring household, he was not at home: Mickey Foley was searching for a place to belong."

[MANKIND]
"It was 1983, and upstate New York, with it's endless rolling fields, might be a nice place for a lot of boys, but not when Jimmy Snuka and Don Muraco were in a cage, in October in, Madison Square Garden. THAT'S WHERE I WANTED TO BE! I didn't want to ride horses along a field; I didn't want to fish for trout in a stream. I wanted to be where the blood and guts were, Jimmy! So I put out my thumb, Jimmy, and it took sixteen or seventeen hours, but I made my way to the Garden. It took just about all the money I had in the world, but I got a front row seat ... and I saw the move that would change my life."

(Clips from the Snuka/Muraco match, including a shot of what looks to be Foley near ringside, and Snuka's famous dive off the top of the cage).

"When Jimmy Snuka came off the top of the cage, and I saw people stand up, and I saw people cheer, and I knew I wasn't the only person who's life was changed in that arena. And I realized Jimmy that I wanted to do the same thing. I wanted to hear people cheer for me because of some act of bravery that I'd committed. I wanted to hear-see peoples emotions. I wanted to see children cry out of love for me, for the things I could do inside a ring. That's my first time in Madison Square Garden-my parents weren't there. I did it like I've done just about everything else in my life: all by myself!"

[VOICE-OVER]
"That's when Mickey Foley developed an 'alter ego': a superstar with the athleticism of Jimmy Snuka, and the sex appeal that he so desperately wanted in high school."

[MANKIND]
"I made a movie ... when I was 18 ... about myself, maybe as a type of escape, where I was a wrestler. And it's strange: the first time I met Shawn Michaels ... you know him?"

[ROSS]
"Oh yeah, very well."

(Clips of Shawn Michaels).

[MANKIND]
"He looked at my scarred and battered body. He didn't know me, but he knew the legend of who I was before, and he said 'Is this the way you've always envisioned yourself?' looking somewhat down on me. And I said 'No. You know the strange thing is I always imagined myself being you!' And he said to me 'The champ?' And I said 'no, the girls ... jewelry ... the tattoos ... the love.' So in my movie, I wasn't Mick Foley. I sure as hell wasn't Mankind! I was 'Dude Love'."

(Footage from Foley's teen movie, featuring him as an earring wearing, slick talking pretty boy with a manager at his side).

[DUDE LOVE]
"We are ... going to tear this rotten apple down to it's stinking, New York core. We're here for only one reason-one reason only! Fame ... honor ... fortune ... glory ... to destruct ... to destroy ... and to take that WWF championship belt-that World Wre-Wrestling Federation belt ... "

(Footage of Foley wrestling with his friends in their backyard, as well as the dive from the roof of the house onto a mattress).

[MANKIND]
"And during the course of the movie, dating back to my experience at Madison Square Garden, I decided I was going to do something heroic. I was going to do something that would make people cheer for me. So I ascended up onto my friend's roof, and I dove off."

(Foley dives off, and is covered by one friend as another with a striped referee's shirt makes a three count. Foley's leap is intercut with Snuka's dive off the cage).

[UNKNOWN]
" ... must be 50, 60, 70 feet in the air, Dude Love! Un-be-lievable!"

[VOICE-OVER]
"Ironically, Dude Love gave Mick Foley his first break. It became an underground hit, and somehow ended up in the hands of wrestling great Dominic DeNucci. DeNucci admired Mick's guts more than his skill, and took him under his wing. Every weekend, for the next two years, Mick traveled 800 miles round trip. Eating and sleeping in the backseat of his 1979 Ford Fairmont: still hoping to realize his dream."

(Clip of Foley training as Dominic DeNucci looks on. His opponent looks an awful lot like Shane Douglas-who was trained by DeNucci as well).

[MANKIND]
"I knew I wasn't ready to be 'Dude Love' yet. I never wanted to be 'Cactus Jack'. I figured 'Here is a horrible name for a horrible wrestler and, by golly, as soon as I get the ability, then I'll get that hear shaped tattoo on my chest, I'll put those earrings in, and I'm gonna get the girls!' And it never really worked out that way, did it Jimmy?"

(Shot of Dude Love with a heart shaped tattoo on his chest).

[ROSS]
"Not quite."

[MANKIND]
"I guess nature didn't cooperate with me. 'Cactus Jack' was supposed to be around for three months ... he stayed for eleven YEARS!"

(Clips of Cactus Jack in Japan, fighting in bed-of-nails, barbed-wire and exploding ring Death Matches, with the likes of Terry Funk. Footage courtesy "Baseball Magazine-SHA").

[VOICE-OVER]
"Next week, Mickey Foley becomes 'Cactus Jack': eleven years in a sadistic subculture of nails, barbed-wire, and bombs. A lost soul ... still searching for place to belong."

[MANKIND]
"The first time I saw barbed-wire strung up in place of ring ropes, and I said ... 'I'M FINALLY HOME! Mrs. Foley's little boy is FINALLY HOME!!!'"

PART THREE (June 2nd, 1997):
[VOICE-OVER]
"The evolution of Mankind ... what fuels the insanity? So far we've explored the tormented youth of Mick Foley, and we've seen his bizarre underground home video. Tonight we'll explore the formative years of his wrestling career, one that began with a brief stint in the WWF as the unheralded Jack Foley in 1986."

(Clip of Foley in a tag match against the British Bulldogs).

"But despite performing before several organizations, success wasn't achieved until Mick Foley unveiled his dark alter ego: the sadistic Cactus Jack."

[MANKIND]
"What made Cactus Jack different was he just wanted it a little bit more. He was willing to go the extra length. He was willing to sleep in a filthy car. In order to achieve his dream, he was willing to forego bonds and romantic relationships to be the best. He was somebody in an era of bodybuilder physiques who carved out his own niche-said 'I'm going to make it on my own style.' He said 'no one else is going to tell me what to do. I'm not going to dye my hair. I'm going to be exactly who I am, and I'm going to do it my way!'"

(Numerous stills and clips of Cactus Jack).

[VOICE-OVER]
"As the legend of Cactus Jack grew, so too did his affinity for pain. Concerned independent promoters soon asked him to tame his increasingly brutal behavior, but Mick Foley always did things his way. Instead of compromise, he left the United States to seek satisfaction in a bizarre, sadistic wrestling subculture in Japan."

[MANKIND]
"And I'd heard rumors about these horrible matches that took place ... and I didn't care! As far as I was concerned, this was my destiny. And I walked out the first time I saw barbed-wire strung up in place of ring ropes, and I said ... 'I'M FINALLY HOME! Mrs. Foley's little boy is FINALLY HOME!!!' And Jimmy I kid you not when I say it didn't matter the match: I wrestled on beds of nails ... I've wrestled on ten thousand thumbtacks ... I've wrestled on C-4 explosives ... and the funny thing was it didn't matter how mutilated I was ... physically, I healed myself spiritually. Because for the first time I was respected, I'll go so far as say I was loved, people lined up and chanted my name: 'Cactus Jack! Cactus Jack!' They sure as hell didn't line up, as they do here, to spit on me! To pee in paper cup and pour it on me! I had my dignity, and I'm not sure I got it anymore!"

(Clips of Cactus Jack in violent gimmick matches, including brief footage from ECW).

[ROSS]
"Obviously, uh, these matches in Japan are-were bizarre, they were dangerous, uh, career threatening ... if I'm not mistaken you-I see you've been rubbing your arm there a lot while we've been talking, very significant scars there. Those occur, uh, in one of those matches in Japan?"

[MANKIND]
"'He shall strip his sleeves and show his scars and say these wounds I had at St. Crispin's Day. And the good story shall be told from, father to his son, for we shall be remembered. We few ... we happy few. We brothers, for he who sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother!' It's kind of touching, isn't it?"

[ROSS]
"Well, it's a little Shakespeare. You're very well read, aren't you?"

[MANKIND]
"You see Jimmy, it shows me that I'm not alone. There's nothing freaky about being proud. When I look in the mirror, you know what I see?"

[ROSS]
"I'd be afraid to guess, I don't really know."

[MANKIND]
"I see a life fulfilled! I see a road map of everywhere I've been. I just have to look and say:"

(Points to various scars on his body).

"Tokyo, Japan ... Munich, Germany ... Louisville, Kentucky ... and everywhere in between."

[VOICE-OVER]
"The nomadic reign of Cactus Jack lasted nearly eleven years, but his fondest memory occurred aboard a commercial airline, where his battle-ravaged body made an indelible impression on a fellow passenger."

[MANKIND]
"I'm a 'coach class' person, but they took one look at my wounded face ... my scarred, battered arm ... my stitched head, my stitched hand, my stitched ear, and they bumped me up. The woman sitting next to me didn't quite understand that. She spent double her money, and ended up moving back to coach, to get away from me. She felt that much of me that she couldn't stand to be around me! Not a day goes by when I don't think of her face, drifting to the back, and I stretched out in her seat ... and I had the ride of my life! I was a 'Deathmatch Champion', and I had the ability to make people sick!"

[VOICE-OVER]
"Next week the metamorphosis is complete, as Mankind impacts the WWF."

(Clip of Mankind vs. Bart Gunn).

[MANKIND]
"Every time I put on the Mandible Claw, in my mind that's Vince McMahon, and I'm saying 'why didn't you take me when I was any good?! Why didn't you take me when I was young?!'"