Mort Stein
Background
Mort Stein teaches Biology.
During the events of Octaman (1971) played by Norman Fields
Mort Stein walks up to Dr. Rick Torres with a water sample and shows him a baby Octaman in a bucket. Susan Lowry notes that the way the baby Octaman stares back denotes intelligence and Rick mentions the octopus is supposed to be one of the most intelligent species in the ocean. He then suggests they go back to the area Mort found it. They go to the river and Mort lets it go. The baby Octaman starts crawling towards the water and Rick tells Mort to grab it to take back with them to take to the research station in Vallejo to show to Dr. John Willard. When Rick returns, Mort tells him he had gone into town while Carlos went to visit his parents. At night, the Octaman watches as everyone sits around and talks. Rick tells Mort that the water in the lake exhibits the same radiation as the village and Johnny Caruso asks if drinking it will turn a person into a mutant. Davido tells them that there are some baby's in his village born with mutations. They take the RV on a path along the lake. The next day, Davido tells Rick and Mort he has found another baby Octaman and they follow him out of camp. Susan runs off and Steve Dodd follows her. The rest of the group return and find Johnny injured. The Octaman attacks the camp and Rick, Mort and Steve chase after the Octaman and take their boat out onto the lake. The Octaman attacks the boat and then drags Mort into the water. Rick and Steve rescue him from the water. Davido runs and helps Mort off of the boat. After the Octaman is captured, at night Mort brings up the story of the Beauty and Beast to Susan. The Octaman gets loose and Susan tells the Octaman to get back and it listens to her and leaves. Johnny again suggests they leave and Davido tells them of a place it might hide. They break camp and as they are trying to remove a fallen tree across the road, Davido goes searching for the Octaman. He calls to the others when he sees it go inside of a cave. They encounter the Octaman in the cave and as they are chasing it, they are trapped in a rockslide caused by the Octaman. Davido finds a small shaft and he follows it outside. He then crawls back to the others and tells them the shaft leads outside and the others crawl out of the shaft. They make it outside and see they are right at the RV. As Mort opens the door, he is attacked by the Octaman. Steve, Johnny and Davido are also knocked to the ground. Susan calls to the Octaman and it walks to her and picks her up. Steve checks on Johnny and sees that he is dead. As it is taking her towards the water, she pulls out a gun and shoots it in the chest and it drops her. The others then shoot at the Octaman and it walks mortally wounded into the water.
