Bob Curry (Michael Kitchen) works for the RSPCA or the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. After inspecting and mildly berating an animal importer/exporter, Duggie Jeb (Bill Dean), for the condition of a crate bearing a cheetah he asks to see the dealer’s books. Bob notes that there were several deliveries of Timberwolves in the last eighteen months to a pet shop on Westbury Road. Believing there may be an illicit trade going on he decides to visit the pet shop to investigate.
The shop proprietor is Florence Raymount (Madge Ryan). She is a mousey woman and a bit scatterbrained. After talking with her for a few moments he believes that the pet shop address was used as a diversion for where the wolves actually went. Florence admits that they did take delivery of the wolves, or at least her father did. Bob asks to speak to Florence’s father, Leo Raymount (Patrick Magee). Leo admits to buying the wolves but refuses to tell Bob why or what happened to them.
Bob talks to his boss, Inspector Nash (Gerald James) to muddle over the conversation he had with Leo. More confused than ever, and still with many questions unanswered he returns to the Westbury Road pet shop. At first Florence refuses to give him admittance because he upset her father, but Leo overhears the conversation and allows Bob to enter the adjacent apartment.
Bob’s second conversation with Leo provides a lot of information, most of it frightening. Bob learns that Leo believes that man is related to wolves and not apes. He is convinced that he can create a serum that will bring out the latent wolf qualities in humans. In essence, he is trying to turn a human into a werewolf. Leo has extracted tissue and fluids from the Timberwolves to create his serum. His human subject is himself. He has been giving himself a series of injections of his serum. Leo is preparing himself to be a werewolf.
Other than the fact that you could see McGee’s heavy breathing when he was supposed to be dead, the story was fascinating. As Leo, Magee is domineering and verbally abusive to his devoted daughter. Once again, we have a bully as the main focus of the story. It seems that the beasts of these stories are the bullies. Still Magee’s long winded and dramatic soliloquies are some of the best parts of the story, and some of the creepiest.