“The President of the United States can’t bleed for a living!”

(Jim Ross' comments are in the form of voiceover commentary as various video clips play).

[ROSS]

"'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).

[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).

[ROSS]

"Mick Foley wasn't like other boys. He embraced physical pain as friend and companion."

[MANKIND]

"I was eight years old ... at Minnesauke 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).

[ROSS]

"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!"

[ROSS]

"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 at what looks to be a beach party, 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).

[MANKIND]

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