Biohazard (1985) Movie Script
- Okay, it was supposed to be so damn obvious.
- Yeah, the only obvious thing is just how lost we are.
- I guess it's supposed to be right about here.
- No, we've been there.
- Then we missed it.
- Hodgson, I thought you knew this area.
- Come on, give me a break.
Nobody comes out here. It's like Death Valley.
- Yeah, what better kind of place to do this kinda shit.
- Yeah, uh, just exactly what kind of shit am I driving to?
- Well, I don't know exactly,
but I do know they got a lotta brass up there.
Uh, they've got a General Randolph
and there are a couple senators,
a Mayfield and a uh, Chambers.
- Oh, well, they uh, got my vote.
- Yeah, that's why you've got the pedal to the metal
in this heap out here.
- Oh uh, I guess that's why guys like you
get demoted to uh, transportation detail.
- I wonder if there's anybody who doesn't know that story.
- Yeah. My mother.
Let's try that road we saw about three miles back.
- All right, anything to get outta here.
- That's it, there.
- Hello, Cliff. What kept ya?
- Jesus, man, they're gonna have your hides.
- Well, we got delayed.
- Is that Carter?
- It's him all right.
- Well you guys better get your butts up there
while you still got 'em.
- Keep the faith, Cliff, and uh, keep away from the rocks.
Rattlesnakes, you know.
Why do they build a research laboratory
way the hell out here?
- Gee, I don't know, Hodge.
Why do they detonate atomic bombs
out in the middle of nowhere?
The world is full mysteries. Keep driving.
- Lisa?
- Next card please.
- All right.
Well, Miss Martyn?
- Yellow.
- I beg your pardon?
- Yellow.
The sun, the card is the sun.
- You're right. You're right again.
- This is ridiculous.
- That will be fine, Lisa.
- I didn't come 500 miles
to see this kind of freak show nonsense.
- Well, you must admit, she does have something going here.
- While I'm sure Miss Martyn does not view herself
as any sort of freak,
she does possess keen psychic impulses
of an extraordinary manner.
You will note that the incidence of correct prediction
was 100%.
- How long have you had this ability?
- Since I was 18.
- Does that age have any bearing on all this?
- Well, at 18, I was involved in a very bad accident.
They gave me Genatron, an experimental drug
to aid in the healing process.
- How Lisa achieved her present consciousness
is not so important, as to what this new level
of psychic phenomena is going to be channeled into.
I mean, I didn't bring you gentlemen here
just to see a simple little card trick.
- Get to the point. Why are we here, Dr. Williams?
- This simple diversion merely illustrates
the level of awareness with which we are working.
- So what's the bottom line, doctor?
- I understood that it dealt with de-materialization.
- No, not so much de-materialization
as it is matter transfer.
- I think we lost 'em.
- With the help of Miss Martyn,
and the equipment you see here,
I am able to reassemble matter,
physical material from an unknown dimension.
- You mean you can reach into another world,
grasp an object, and bring it back here, to this lab?
- Well, in a roundabout way,
that's exactly what we're doing.
- This is preposterous, a clear waste of government money.
- I'll admit it does sound rather far-fetched.
I don't suppose you'd care to demonstrate this, this claim?
- I am prepared to do that at this time.
- Well then by all means, let's get on with it.
- That is exactly what I had in mind.
My assistant is in the field now,
locating a break in our antenna cable.
- How long will that take?
- Well, I'm going to check into that now.
It should only take a couple minutes. If you'd excuse me.
Oh Richard, this is Dr. Williams, do you read me?
- Loud and clear, doctor.
- Have you located the trouble?
- I think so.
- How long before it's in working order?
- Give me five minutes and you can hit the power.
- Excellent. Good work, Richard.
- I'll see you when I get back. Over.
- Over and out.
- Afternoon, general.
- Connor, where the hell have you been?
- Sorry, sir, we got lost.
- Hodgson, I asked for you because I was told
you had Indian in you and you knew this area very well.
- Sir, there haven't been Indians in this area
for hundreds of years.
- Sounds like somebody's been doing their job.
- Damn straight, private.
- I hope we are not interrupting anything here.
- Who is this man?
- No, you're just in time for the show.
- General Randolph, I want to know who these men are.
- These men are here as escorts for any material
that might culminate from these proceedings.
- I'd like that clarified, if you don't mind.
- Well, papers, equipment, documents,
and even yourself if I feel it's important.
- The government wants to know what's going on up here?
- Yeah. - And we're gonna show them.
That is, if there's anything to see.
- Since you came in on the end of our discussion,
Mr. Carter, I think it would be simpler if you just
observed our experiment.
- Thank you.
- Surprised to see me, Carter?
- No, I thought I smelled something
when I came in the room.
- Yeah, watch your mouth, sonny,
they don't bust 'em any lower than where you're headed.
- You wanna know something, Reiger?
- What?
- Your deodorant ain't gettin' the job done.
- That's your finger, Connor. I know your girlfriend.
- This device makes it possible to amplify Lisa's brainwaves
as she attempts to channel them.
- A meeting of man and machine.
- Woman and machine.
- In as simple jargon as I can put it,
her mental energy will receive and transmit
to this location, anything her mind can attract.
- This, I've got to see.
- Well, this will all seem easier to grasp
after you've witnessed this demonstration.
Ready?
- Ready.
- I must ask for silence during this experiment.
Miss Martyn's ability to concentrate
is of the utmost importance.
- Dr. Williams? Dr. Williams, come in?
There's a delay. I need more time.
Is anybody there?
- I think she's had enough.
You all right?
- Lisa?
- I'm okay. Just, give me a minute.
- That's the most incredible thing I've ever seen
in my life.
- Yes. I think we've seen history here today.
- Almost a spiritual experience.
- Shit.
- This is what we brought in last night.
- I wonder what this is?
- It looks like a container of some sort.
- Almost like a trunk or something.
- Yeah, I wonder what's inside.
- Maybe we could get it open.
- No, no, nobody's opening this.
It's going into the van, untampered with.
- Surely you don't mean that?
- This is going back for examination with me.
- Maybe there's another one of these inside.
- Yeah, alive.
- This should tell you one thing.
- What's that?
- We're definitely dealing with some form
of intelligent life.
- One thing else is probably true too,
and that is, whatever made that little statue,
did not make that high-tech piece of luggage.
- Are you all, are you all right, Miss Martyn?
- Uh, I'm much better.
- That's quite a demonstration, Dr. Williams.
I feel sure we can reassure you of any future funding needs.
- Shh. There's something here.
I can almost hear it.
I can almost feel it. I, but it's so vague, nebulous.
- You're tired, Lisa. You must rest.
- No, I want to stay with it.
There's a force here. I just can't reach it.
- Reiger and Carter, get this thing into the van.
Come on, let's get rolling.
- You're making a big mistake here.
- That's for you to think.
- General.
Let me go with it. Please, there is something here.
I just can't put my finger on it.
- Well, when you do put your finger on it, you just call me.
Williams, I'll be in touch.
You make sure that this equipment is all closed down.
- You know, Mitchell, for a minute there,
I had a million bucks in my hand, a million bucks.
- Hodge, it's just an ugly piece of rock.
- Yeah, but it's one of a kind.
- I can almost feel it.
Come on, get this thing outta here.
- Grab the end, Hodge. You heard the man.
- By the way, I'll be riding with the senators.
- Naturally.
- Just follow my car, you won't get lost.
- Reiger, I'm thrilled, endlessly.
- Let's roll.
- Yeah, let 'em eat dust.
- Hop in back.
- What's in there anyways?
- That's Randolph's steamer trunk.
- What is going on?
- I think they're getting the sentry into the truck.
- Good, maybe he can keep an eye on that thing.
- Don't look like no trunk to me.
- Jesus, Cliff, you got a gun.
How's it going back there, Cliff?
- Well uh, well, well, it ain't moving.
- Hell, it's just a box.
- Keep your gun trained on it, Cliffy.
If it moves, shoot it.
- No, I'm uh, I'll just watch it.
- Is that you, Cliff?
- Cut it out, Hodgson.
- Man, these roads are killing the shocks.
What're you doing back there, Cliff,
polishing your bayonet?
- What're those idiots doing? Hit the horn.
You civilians better stay in the car.
Now I wanna know exactly what's happening here.
- Hodge, did you see where the thing went?
- Just a blur. Give it up, Carter.
That thing's so fast, it's miles away by now.
- Ah, we might as well put him in the truck. Come on.
- General, we've got that thing on the loose.
- And dangerous.
I want you to hightail it back to the lab and put a call in.
- Okay, what about him?
- You'll get your orders on the horn.
Come on, son, I got a plane to catch.
- Get him there in one piece, Hodge.
- Hey, let's go. It's getting rank back here.
- Look, I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I'm going to have to
take you back to the lab to report this.
- I understand your concern, Mr. Carter,
but uh, we're important people too,
and we're expected somewhere else.
- Listen, you can ride in the back of the truck
if you'd like to,
but I would suggest you wait till you get to the lab
and make a phone call, maybe they'll fly you out.
- You've made your point.
- I tried to tell that overstuffed balloon
he was making a serious error in transporting
that container outta here, but he ignored me completely.
Now it's gone. Escaped.
The greatest scientific discovery in history
has merrily run into the countryside.
- This scientific discovery of yours, Dr. Williams,
just killed a man within a matter of seconds.
- Perhaps it has a sophisticated laser weapon of some sort.
- If so, it didn't make a very clean job of it.
- Uh, excuse me. I think I'll wait in the car.
- Uh, perhaps that case was a vehicle of some sort,
and we interrupted its flight.
- If so, it's very upset about it.
- I sense fear. It's terribly afraid of us.
- From the size of that container,
I'd say we're quite a bit larger than it is.
- Yeah, well he makes up for it.
- What did they say?
- Well, Randolph and Reiger have already gone back.
Now, I am to stay here and quietly locate
and destroy the thing.
- You can't do that.
- I think that's a wise move, all things considered.
- No. No!
- Look, doctor, you can always beam something else down,
but I wouldn't be too eager if I were you.
You know, after all we could've left that container
here with you.
- This sort of thing never would have happened
under my supervision.
- Listen, doctor, give me a break, huh?
- What else did they say?
- Read my mind.
- I can find that thing for you
if you will just give me the chance.
- Well, against my better judgment, I recommended it.
- Why against your better judgment?
- You have a pretty smile.
I wanna keep it on your face.
- It may be of little consequence,
but last night I discovered a noticeable amount
of radioactivity in that statuette.
- Well, that might be helpful in tracking this thing.
Could I borrow your meter?
- Anything to assist our government in its hour of need.
- Listen, doctor, if it wasn't for you
and your handy dandy teleporter,
we wouldn't be in need of anything,
and Cliff would still be alive.
- I can see you'll never grasp the magnitude
of what has occurred here today.
- I have a chopper coming for you at 18:00 hours.
Have a safe trip.
- Thank you.
- And uh, don't breathe a word of this to anybody.
- I understand.
- Now, all I need is someplace to set up camp.
Thank you.
- Might not be very good.
- Well, if it doesn't taste like dust, you've got a winner.
- Well, what do you think?
- Read my mind?
- You're starved, and you'll eat anything
that doesn't eat you first.
- What a gift.
- So, what's the game plan?
- You know, for somebody who reads minds,
you sure ask a lotta questions.
- I don't read minds.
I receive feelings, emotions,
and then only sometimes.
- Okay, sorry.
We'll wait till about 11.
That way we won't alarm any of the locals.
And then I take you and that Geiger counter outside
and hope to hell we find something worth shooting.
- Seems so senseless to kill it.
An alien being, here, on earth.
- I'm sorry, it's just that there's this creature out there
that can kill an able-bodied man
in just a matter of seconds.
And that is really more than we can handle.
- I think it strikes out in fear.
- Well, you are still just as dead.
Listen uh, I'll try to take it alive.
I'm sure it's more valuable that way anyway,
but no promises, all right?
- All right. Had enough?
- Oh, feel much better now.
- Okay, I'll take that then.
- So, how did you get hooked up with Mueller anyway?
- I just answered an ad in the newspaper.
- Let's see, a woman, woman with psychic abilities
to assist in matter transfer experiments.
Previous experience, helpful.
- No. Originally it was an assistant's job.
Then he found out about me.
- Now that contraption won't work without you, right?
- I don't suppose so.
Do you think the meter will work?
- Unless there's a nuclear reactor in town,
I think it ought to.
- So, what would you like to do until 11 o'clock?
- Mm, read my mind.
- I'll get rid of 'em.
Hello?
Yes.
It's for you.
- Hello?
Yeah, Mike, what's happening?
- Mitchell, uh, I've got this thing from the van.
I'm not sure. It came out of that big box.
- Yeah, like a million bucks.
Like what?
Do you wanna give me that again?
- I measured it when I got off duty, it was 13 inches.
Well, I just checked it and it's 14.
- Look uh, don't touch that thing.
Just uh, give me your address.
Okay.
- I know where that is.
- All right, look Mike, we're gonna be right over.
Now don't bother it. It may be radioactive.
Right. Okay.
- I know. We have to leave.
- Afraid so.
Why in the world did he take it?
- Well, he thinks it's his ticket out of here.
- Well, I don't care. I'm afraid.
I hope he's all right.
Mitchell.
- What?
- It's here, somewhere.
I can, feel it. Listen to the dogs.
- Well is it close by?
I can't tell, I just, sense its presence somewhere.
- Well, he's just gonna have to wait.
- Jenny?
Jenny?
Hello?
Damn.
Jenny?
Jenny?
For god sakes.
- Roger, what the hell
do you think you're doing?
- I'm sorry, honey.
I kept calling and calling, and when you didn't answer,
I was worried.
- So you rip open the shower curtain
and scare me half to death?
- I thought someone had done away with you,
and they were still waiting for me in here.
- That's it, no more late night television for you.
Those horror movies give you weird ideas.
- Well how about this for a weird idea?
I'll climb in the tub with you and we can go skin diving.
- It's only a movie. It's only a movie.
- And I'm gonna eat you up.
- Promises, promises.
How's the water?
- Hot.
Oh no.
- What's the matter?
- I ran in and left the soldering iron plugged in.
I'll just be a minute.
- Hurry back.
- Roger?
Roger?
If you jump out and scare me, I'll cut you off for a month.
Come on, honey, cut it out.
- Come on in. - Thank you.
- I'm sorry about calling you like that,
but, well after what happened today,
I'm playing this real safe.
- It's all right. Where is it?
- Um, over there.
- No, wait a minute. Let me check it first.
Well, it's hot, but it's not that hot.
This came from the larger container.
- That's right.
- Is it a part of it?
- Yes.
- Mike, you said it was growing.
- Yeah, look.
I mean, it's at least an inch larger than when I called you.
- It's not growing.
- Hm?
- It's opening itself.
- Have you got a hammer?
- Yeah, I'll get it.
- You're not going to try and open it?
- No, I'm gonna try to keep it closed.
- Why?
- Well, it may have poisonous gas in it or something.
I don't know. I just don't wanna risk another disaster.
- Here.
- Okay, now I'm going to try to hammer it back to size.
Step back.
Cover your faces.
Well?
- I don't see anything.
- Get an ambulance!
Hey, here, here. Come on, take it easy now.
We got some help on the way.
- We need an ambulance right away. 439 Arkham Lane.
Severe throat wound. Animal attack, I, I think.
Just hurry.
- Easy, easy. Just lie still.
Hey you got your million bucks, buddy. Huh?
You can sell this story to all the scandal mags.
Come on, you're a hero.
- This is great barbecue sauce, Elbert.
It's an honor to have you join me here tonight for dinner.
- Well you're the best cook in these parts.
- You know, the real trick to this culinary ability
I've acquired is to marinate.
- You uh, you got any of that marinade left?
- Can't be a chef without the marinade.
- I will drink no wine before its time.
- Well, the bottle said June '83,
that was a damn good month.
- Mm-Hmm.
- Hey, don't hog it. Its time ain't up yet.
- Something sure smells good over here.
- Well, stranger, come on in and grab yourself a log
and sit down.
- Sit, Ranger, sit.
Looks like you got some real good fixings going on here.
- What'd you say your name was, stranger?
My name is Elbert, and this here is Fred.
- Good to meet ya. My name's Jimmy.
And this is my dog, Ranger.
- Got a good-looking dog there, Jimmy.
- Yeah, well-fed too.
- Listen, I don't have any money,
but I got some wine left here,
and I sure could use a bite to eat.
- Well, I think we can accommodate you
and your little pup there, Jimmy.
Go on, help yourself.
- This is real good.
- Well, we like it.
- Y'all eat like this often?
- Every chance we get.
- Where'd you get meat like this?
- Down at the pond. Where do you get yours?
- The kid doesn't have any table manners, Fred, does he?
- Well, at least he left his dog.
Ain't got no sense of humor either.
- Listen, it says here, "Bigfoot abducts ranger's daughter.
Hairy beast ravages teenage boy."
I know just how she feels, I lived with you for 20 years.
Slow down.
How many times have I told you? Speed kills.
And it kills little animals, and it kills little kids,
and it kills people with little brains.
People with little brains, they never got any ambition,
they never go anywhere.
You've got a little brain, Jack.
Yes, people with little brains should be run over.
You should be run over.
- Yes, Rula.
- And don't say yes to me. I hate yes.
Yes, yes, yes, people are always saying yes.
But people with little brains,
they kill little animals and they kill little kids.
Slow down.
- Yes, Rula.
- Didn't you hear me tell ya to slow down?
After all, did your little brain kinda pickle up
in your little ear, so you can't hear nothing?
Oh, I feel sorry for you, Jack.
I feel sorry for anybody who can't take care of himself.
I tell ya, that's the only reason I stayed with ya
all these years.
I wouldn't wanna see a critter like you suffer.
Now, that's another thing that's gotta stop, this drinking.
You've got your brains all so pickled up
that it keeps you liquored up so that you don't even know
how stupid ya are and--
- Oh my, my god.
- Oh. - I didn't see it happen.
I couldn't stop the truck.
- Oh, Jack, you ignoramus. Ya, ya hit a little animal.
Get out and see if he's still alive.
If you hadn't had your nose stuck in that bottle,
you'd have seen the little critter.
Is it dead?
- We're gonna be rich.
We're gonna be rich.
Is it dead you stupid picklehead?
Yes, it's dead. We're gonna be rich.
First thing you said to me all night
and it don't even make sense.
What'd you expect from a senile picklehead like you?
Look in the back, Rula, look.
- Here we go.
- They stopped the bleeding.
- Oh, good.
- He's gonna be okay, but it's still kinda touch and go.
Look, are you all right?
- I feel like I've been hit with a hammer.
My head is killing me.
- I'm sorry.
- I'll be all right.
I just, just hit me so sudden, that's all.
- Look, I called in and they're sending some people over
to take care of that thing in there.
Do you think you're up to travel?
- I feel a little better.
- Excuse me. I'm Decker, the government liaison.
I understand there's been a problem. Who's in charge?
- I am. Go on inside.
- Hey, don't touch that thing, biohazard.
- Carter, the only reason they approved putting a lab here
was because they understood there'd be no problems.
- What do I look like, Professor Honeydew or something?
I have nothing to do with that lab.
I'm only here to clean up.
- You gonna go out looking for it,
or you gonna sit here all night?
- Listen, Decker, I'm still in charge here,
and until that changes, you stay off my back.
- Carter, you better do something about this problem
and fast, or I'll get in touch with somebody who can.
- What, is Reiger back in town?
Amy, this is Jack. That's right.
Is uh, Sheriff Miller in?
- 'Fraid not, Jack.
- Well, now you ain't gonna guess what I got out here.
- A still?
- I got me a monster, a dead one.
- No, you got an empty still.
- Well, now you get Cory on the phone
and you have him come on out here.
- All right Jack, but he's just gonna throw you in the tank.
- Now you get him on the phone, and I mean, and I mean it.
- RJ-30 calling Sheriff Miller. Come in, sheriff.
- Yeah, this is Cory. What's up?
- Jack Murphy's over at his place,
says he's got a dead monster in his shed.
- You know, I told his wife to keep him out of trouble
when he gets tanked up.
- He's very insistent.
- All right, listen, why don't you get
the guest room ready in case I have to bring him in.
- With pleasure.
- Of all the hick towns to get sent to.
Well, least it'll give me a chance to run the lights.
- Do you know where that is?
- Oh yeah. You have to turn around and head down the hill.
- Okay.
- Hey Cory. - Evening, Jack.
- I'm sorry to bring you out on a night like this.
- Well, what'd you want?
- Well, I got something to show you.
And I got it stashed down in the cellar.
- Jack, it looks like you've been drinking again.
- Hey, I've got myself all dressed up
for the newspaper people.
They're coming down to take our pictures.
- News people, what're you talking about?
Where's Rula?
- Oh, she's in there getting prettied up,
but she'll be out in just a minute.
- You really got anything down there?
- I sure do.
Why don't you to go down and take a look.
- Okay, but this better be good.
- Well, what do you think?
Maybe there's a reward for it or something.
- Jack, there ain't a damn thing down there.
- What?
- Listen, you better just get in the house
before I haul ya downtown.
- Huh?
- You ain't nothing but a pain in the ass.
- Help! Help!
Help!
- Ah, knock it off, Jack. Who do you think you're fooling?
Come help me, sheriff!
- Jack?
Get back in the house.
- Did it get away?
- Yeah. Who are you?
- I'm Mitchell Carter, Army.
- What was that thing?
- Well, you tell me. Nobody I know has seen it.
Uh, except maybe you.
- Listen, that thing's small. It's about that high.
But I'll tell ya, it's fast.
- Which way did it go?
- That way.
- Yeah, it did, it went that way.
- We have got to find this thing.
- Listen, you go that way.
I'm gonna go radio in and then I'm gonna circle back
around the neighborhood.
This is Sheriff Miller to RJ-30. Do you read?
- I read you sheriff. I got the guestroom ready.
- Forget about that.
Jack's dead, and there's
some kind of dangerous animal
on the loose out here.
Listen, send a coroner and a doctor for Mrs. Murphy.
I think she may be in shock. Over.
- Over and out.
- It's very near.
- Well, I would tend to agree with that.
- Listen. Sounds like it's coming from over there.
- Okay, let's check it out.
- Who's there?
- Jesus. I almost shot you.
- Wouldn't be the first time.
- What are you doing in there?
- I like to shop at night. Beats the rush.
And I hate long lines.
- You know, this isn't a very good night for that.
- Don't I know it.
It's always like this in the middle of the month.
Holidays are coming on, things'll pick up.
- Where do you live?
- Well, I got this little place my daughter pays for,
and I don't hang out there much though.
- Well, you'd better stay there tonight.
- Hey, you guys think I'm nuts, don't ya?
I know what you want. You ain't got me fooled.
These are my dumpsters and I've had 'em for a long time.
So don't get no ideas.
- Listen, just take my advice and stay inside.
- Hey, that's nice. Where'd you find that?
- Come on, Lisa, let's go.
- Hey, before you folks go, give me a hand down outta here.
Evening, folks.
Bye.
- Well, well what do we got here?
A little ad.
Boy, he sure is cute.
I wonder who threw him away?
Well, we'll just hang him up here so folks can see him.
- Help!
- Mitchell, wait.
- What is it, Lisa?
- I, I think it's headed toward the Hershville building.
- What?
- It's uh, an abandoned old building where bums go
to crash out.
- Must be dinner time, huh?
Where is it?
- Just down there a couple of blocks.
- Okay.
Come on, if get down there in a hurry we can beat Reiger.
- Hey, what is it with you two anyway?
- Listen, it's a complicated story, but it's longstanding.
Come on.
- It's definitely inside. I can sense it.
- All right.
- Wait, shouldn't we wait for the others?
- No, we don't-- - Carter.
What took you so long? We're running late.
- Dammit.
You're the second joker that snuck up on me, Reiger.
- And you say I got no sense of humor.
- Yeah, you're a laugh a minute.
- Yeah? Well get your ass up there.
See anything?
- Down that way.
- What makes you so sure?
- Well, this slime, it leads all the way down the wall.
- These are bottles of sulfuric acid,
might slow the thing down a bit.
- Yeah, but be very careful.
That stuff is extremely dangerous.
- Yeah, well I won't be needing any of that.
This thing'll cut anything in two.
- Just like in 'Nam, right?
- Yeah. Used to level entire villages with one of these.
- Mm-hmm, women and children first.
- Shut up, Carter.
- What's the matter, Reiger? Still can't sleep at night?
- Let's move out.
Kill the son of a bitch.
- It feels much stronger now. I, I think it's moving again.
- Yeah, will you stay in here? We don't need you.
- Carter?
- Look, maybe he's right.
It's safer here, stay here. I think we can manage.
- Listen, don't be a hero. Destroy the thing.
- No problem with that.
Let's move out.
- Mitchell.
- Look now, don't worry. We'll get him this time.
You just stay here with uh, ole J. Edgar Hoover.
He'll take care of you.
- All right. See ya.
- Walker, Hench, take the south side of the building.
Carter and I'll go north.
- Oh good, I got John Wayne on my side.
What's the plan, Duke?
- Well, you go down on him, and when I hear your moans,
I'll come running.
- Okay, increasing.
- It smells down here.
- Yeah well, we're not here
to judge the housekeeping.
- Well, it's not the housekeeping, Reiger.
- Yeah, what you smell is chicken shit.
Follows you wherever you go.
- You know, you have got a big problem, my friend.
Come on.
Let's see where that smell's coming from.
- Showtime.
Looks like they got a little ahead of us.
That bastard's having babies.
- Yeah, Reiger, you better kill it.
- Hey, shut up, Carter. I'm in charge here.
Better kill it.
Son of a bitch, you made me miss.
- Damn you, Reiger, you almost hit me with your toy.
- Yeah, let me, Carter.
It took off with your brain.
- Lisa?
- Yes, Mitchell.
- It's over. We got him.
- Yes, I know.
- What happened to him?
- His neck is broken.
- How the hell did that happen?
- I'm sorry, Mitchell, but we had to know
how our combat unit would fare under stress and aggression.
- What?
- The creature was our soldier designed to fight our wars,
and it is a success, at least in most areas.
- No.
This can't be real.
- Cut. - I think that's it.
- I didn't travel 500 miles just to,
to watch this freak show nonsense.
- Marker.
- Action.
- Surprised to see me, Carter?
- No, I thought I smelled something
when I came in the room.
- Start again, louder.
- Surprised to see me, Carter?
- No, I thought I smelled something
when I came in the room.
- Well then, watch your mouth, sonny.
They don't bust 'em any lower than where you're headed.
- You wanna know something, Carter?
- What?
- Your name is Reiger.
- Okay, start again.
Start again. Shut up.
- 30 apple dog, take two.
- Action.
- Well, you're the best cook around here
in these parts.
- You know, the real trick to my culinary activity
is to, that I've acquired.
You know, the real activity, you know the real trick
- Pause. And start again.
- You know, the real trick to my culinary ability to
- Pause. Try it again. - That I've acquired.
You know, the real act, trick.
You the real trick to my, oh shit.
- A meeting of man and machine.
- Woman and machine.
- In as simple jargon as I can put it,
her mental energy will receive and transmit
to this location, anything her mind can, can, can
- Attract.
- Attract.
- Do it again.
- Shit.
- Just do it again.
- Don't shadow her face with your hand.
- In as simple jargon.
- In as simple jargon as, as uh I can,
what is it again, please?
- Cut it, cut it.
- Okay, action.
- I wonder what this is?
- It looks like a container of some sort.
- Like a trunk or something.
- Line. - I wonder what's inside.
- I wonder what's inside.
- Maybe we could get it open.
- Nobody's opening this.
It goes back in the van. It goes into the van untampered.
- Do it again.
- Nobody opens, nobody's opening--
- Do it again.
- Nobody is opening anything.
This goes in the van untampered with.
- Surely you don't mean that.
- Line.
- Geiger, Carter, get this thing in the van.
We're moving out.
- You're making a big mistake here.
- Cut, cut. God.
- Okay, mark it.
Action.
- Cut.
- She's losing all her hair.
- This is going in the van untampered with.
- Surely you don't mean that.
- Line.
- That thing goes back with me.
- That thing goes back with me for examination.
- Maybe there's another one of these inside.
- Yeah, and maybe alive.
- This should tell you one thing.
- What's that?
- We're definitely dealing with some form
of intelligent life.
- And one thing else, line.
- Is probably true too.
- One thing else is probably true too.
And that is, whatever made that little
statue did not-- - Do that again.
Move to your right so you're not blocked there.
Right there.
- One thing else is probably true too, and that is what.
Hodge, did you see where the thing went?
- No, just a blur.
Give it up, Carter, that thing was so fast
it's mile away, miles of
- Cut.
- Oh. I'll get rid of 'em.
Boy, if I had known you were so well hung,
I would've contacted you earlier.
- Cut.
- Okay, mark. 55-A-D-1.
- Action.
- Excuse me, I'm Decker.
Cut. - Start again.
Just start again.
- Excuse me. I'm Decker, government liaison--
- Start again.
- Excuse me. I'm Decker, government liaison.
- What was that thing?
- Well, you tell me.
Nobody I know has seen it long enough to live.
- Cut it.
- Look at that.
- Shut up, Carter.
- What's the matter, Reiger?
Still can't sleep at night?
- I can when the lights.
- 30 apple dog, take one.
- Action.
- Well, you're the best cook around here
in these parts.
- You know, the real trick to,
you know, the real trick to my culinary activity.
- Start again.
- You know, the real trick to my culinary ability
is to marinate.
- Cut it.
Skin diving.
- It's only a movie. It's only a movie.
- Yeah, the only obvious thing is just how lost we are.
- I guess it's supposed to be right about here.
- No, we've been there.
- Then we missed it.
- Hodgson, I thought you knew this area.
- Come on, give me a break.
Nobody comes out here. It's like Death Valley.
- Yeah, what better kind of place to do this kinda shit.
- Yeah, uh, just exactly what kind of shit am I driving to?
- Well, I don't know exactly,
but I do know they got a lotta brass up there.
Uh, they've got a General Randolph
and there are a couple senators,
a Mayfield and a uh, Chambers.
- Oh, well, they uh, got my vote.
- Yeah, that's why you've got the pedal to the metal
in this heap out here.
- Oh uh, I guess that's why guys like you
get demoted to uh, transportation detail.
- I wonder if there's anybody who doesn't know that story.
- Yeah. My mother.
Let's try that road we saw about three miles back.
- All right, anything to get outta here.
- That's it, there.
- Hello, Cliff. What kept ya?
- Jesus, man, they're gonna have your hides.
- Well, we got delayed.
- Is that Carter?
- It's him all right.
- Well you guys better get your butts up there
while you still got 'em.
- Keep the faith, Cliff, and uh, keep away from the rocks.
Rattlesnakes, you know.
Why do they build a research laboratory
way the hell out here?
- Gee, I don't know, Hodge.
Why do they detonate atomic bombs
out in the middle of nowhere?
The world is full mysteries. Keep driving.
- Lisa?
- Next card please.
- All right.
Well, Miss Martyn?
- Yellow.
- I beg your pardon?
- Yellow.
The sun, the card is the sun.
- You're right. You're right again.
- This is ridiculous.
- That will be fine, Lisa.
- I didn't come 500 miles
to see this kind of freak show nonsense.
- Well, you must admit, she does have something going here.
- While I'm sure Miss Martyn does not view herself
as any sort of freak,
she does possess keen psychic impulses
of an extraordinary manner.
You will note that the incidence of correct prediction
was 100%.
- How long have you had this ability?
- Since I was 18.
- Does that age have any bearing on all this?
- Well, at 18, I was involved in a very bad accident.
They gave me Genatron, an experimental drug
to aid in the healing process.
- How Lisa achieved her present consciousness
is not so important, as to what this new level
of psychic phenomena is going to be channeled into.
I mean, I didn't bring you gentlemen here
just to see a simple little card trick.
- Get to the point. Why are we here, Dr. Williams?
- This simple diversion merely illustrates
the level of awareness with which we are working.
- So what's the bottom line, doctor?
- I understood that it dealt with de-materialization.
- No, not so much de-materialization
as it is matter transfer.
- I think we lost 'em.
- With the help of Miss Martyn,
and the equipment you see here,
I am able to reassemble matter,
physical material from an unknown dimension.
- You mean you can reach into another world,
grasp an object, and bring it back here, to this lab?
- Well, in a roundabout way,
that's exactly what we're doing.
- This is preposterous, a clear waste of government money.
- I'll admit it does sound rather far-fetched.
I don't suppose you'd care to demonstrate this, this claim?
- I am prepared to do that at this time.
- Well then by all means, let's get on with it.
- That is exactly what I had in mind.
My assistant is in the field now,
locating a break in our antenna cable.
- How long will that take?
- Well, I'm going to check into that now.
It should only take a couple minutes. If you'd excuse me.
Oh Richard, this is Dr. Williams, do you read me?
- Loud and clear, doctor.
- Have you located the trouble?
- I think so.
- How long before it's in working order?
- Give me five minutes and you can hit the power.
- Excellent. Good work, Richard.
- I'll see you when I get back. Over.
- Over and out.
- Afternoon, general.
- Connor, where the hell have you been?
- Sorry, sir, we got lost.
- Hodgson, I asked for you because I was told
you had Indian in you and you knew this area very well.
- Sir, there haven't been Indians in this area
for hundreds of years.
- Sounds like somebody's been doing their job.
- Damn straight, private.
- I hope we are not interrupting anything here.
- Who is this man?
- No, you're just in time for the show.
- General Randolph, I want to know who these men are.
- These men are here as escorts for any material
that might culminate from these proceedings.
- I'd like that clarified, if you don't mind.
- Well, papers, equipment, documents,
and even yourself if I feel it's important.
- The government wants to know what's going on up here?
- Yeah. - And we're gonna show them.
That is, if there's anything to see.
- Since you came in on the end of our discussion,
Mr. Carter, I think it would be simpler if you just
observed our experiment.
- Thank you.
- Surprised to see me, Carter?
- No, I thought I smelled something
when I came in the room.
- Yeah, watch your mouth, sonny,
they don't bust 'em any lower than where you're headed.
- You wanna know something, Reiger?
- What?
- Your deodorant ain't gettin' the job done.
- That's your finger, Connor. I know your girlfriend.
- This device makes it possible to amplify Lisa's brainwaves
as she attempts to channel them.
- A meeting of man and machine.
- Woman and machine.
- In as simple jargon as I can put it,
her mental energy will receive and transmit
to this location, anything her mind can attract.
- This, I've got to see.
- Well, this will all seem easier to grasp
after you've witnessed this demonstration.
Ready?
- Ready.
- I must ask for silence during this experiment.
Miss Martyn's ability to concentrate
is of the utmost importance.
- Dr. Williams? Dr. Williams, come in?
There's a delay. I need more time.
Is anybody there?
- I think she's had enough.
You all right?
- Lisa?
- I'm okay. Just, give me a minute.
- That's the most incredible thing I've ever seen
in my life.
- Yes. I think we've seen history here today.
- Almost a spiritual experience.
- Shit.
- This is what we brought in last night.
- I wonder what this is?
- It looks like a container of some sort.
- Almost like a trunk or something.
- Yeah, I wonder what's inside.
- Maybe we could get it open.
- No, no, nobody's opening this.
It's going into the van, untampered with.
- Surely you don't mean that?
- This is going back for examination with me.
- Maybe there's another one of these inside.
- Yeah, alive.
- This should tell you one thing.
- What's that?
- We're definitely dealing with some form
of intelligent life.
- One thing else is probably true too,
and that is, whatever made that little statue,
did not make that high-tech piece of luggage.
- Are you all, are you all right, Miss Martyn?
- Uh, I'm much better.
- That's quite a demonstration, Dr. Williams.
I feel sure we can reassure you of any future funding needs.
- Shh. There's something here.
I can almost hear it.
I can almost feel it. I, but it's so vague, nebulous.
- You're tired, Lisa. You must rest.
- No, I want to stay with it.
There's a force here. I just can't reach it.
- Reiger and Carter, get this thing into the van.
Come on, let's get rolling.
- You're making a big mistake here.
- That's for you to think.
- General.
Let me go with it. Please, there is something here.
I just can't put my finger on it.
- Well, when you do put your finger on it, you just call me.
Williams, I'll be in touch.
You make sure that this equipment is all closed down.
- You know, Mitchell, for a minute there,
I had a million bucks in my hand, a million bucks.
- Hodge, it's just an ugly piece of rock.
- Yeah, but it's one of a kind.
- I can almost feel it.
Come on, get this thing outta here.
- Grab the end, Hodge. You heard the man.
- By the way, I'll be riding with the senators.
- Naturally.
- Just follow my car, you won't get lost.
- Reiger, I'm thrilled, endlessly.
- Let's roll.
- Yeah, let 'em eat dust.
- Hop in back.
- What's in there anyways?
- That's Randolph's steamer trunk.
- What is going on?
- I think they're getting the sentry into the truck.
- Good, maybe he can keep an eye on that thing.
- Don't look like no trunk to me.
- Jesus, Cliff, you got a gun.
How's it going back there, Cliff?
- Well uh, well, well, it ain't moving.
- Hell, it's just a box.
- Keep your gun trained on it, Cliffy.
If it moves, shoot it.
- No, I'm uh, I'll just watch it.
- Is that you, Cliff?
- Cut it out, Hodgson.
- Man, these roads are killing the shocks.
What're you doing back there, Cliff,
polishing your bayonet?
- What're those idiots doing? Hit the horn.
You civilians better stay in the car.
Now I wanna know exactly what's happening here.
- Hodge, did you see where the thing went?
- Just a blur. Give it up, Carter.
That thing's so fast, it's miles away by now.
- Ah, we might as well put him in the truck. Come on.
- General, we've got that thing on the loose.
- And dangerous.
I want you to hightail it back to the lab and put a call in.
- Okay, what about him?
- You'll get your orders on the horn.
Come on, son, I got a plane to catch.
- Get him there in one piece, Hodge.
- Hey, let's go. It's getting rank back here.
- Look, I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I'm going to have to
take you back to the lab to report this.
- I understand your concern, Mr. Carter,
but uh, we're important people too,
and we're expected somewhere else.
- Listen, you can ride in the back of the truck
if you'd like to,
but I would suggest you wait till you get to the lab
and make a phone call, maybe they'll fly you out.
- You've made your point.
- I tried to tell that overstuffed balloon
he was making a serious error in transporting
that container outta here, but he ignored me completely.
Now it's gone. Escaped.
The greatest scientific discovery in history
has merrily run into the countryside.
- This scientific discovery of yours, Dr. Williams,
just killed a man within a matter of seconds.
- Perhaps it has a sophisticated laser weapon of some sort.
- If so, it didn't make a very clean job of it.
- Uh, excuse me. I think I'll wait in the car.
- Uh, perhaps that case was a vehicle of some sort,
and we interrupted its flight.
- If so, it's very upset about it.
- I sense fear. It's terribly afraid of us.
- From the size of that container,
I'd say we're quite a bit larger than it is.
- Yeah, well he makes up for it.
- What did they say?
- Well, Randolph and Reiger have already gone back.
Now, I am to stay here and quietly locate
and destroy the thing.
- You can't do that.
- I think that's a wise move, all things considered.
- No. No!
- Look, doctor, you can always beam something else down,
but I wouldn't be too eager if I were you.
You know, after all we could've left that container
here with you.
- This sort of thing never would have happened
under my supervision.
- Listen, doctor, give me a break, huh?
- What else did they say?
- Read my mind.
- I can find that thing for you
if you will just give me the chance.
- Well, against my better judgment, I recommended it.
- Why against your better judgment?
- You have a pretty smile.
I wanna keep it on your face.
- It may be of little consequence,
but last night I discovered a noticeable amount
of radioactivity in that statuette.
- Well, that might be helpful in tracking this thing.
Could I borrow your meter?
- Anything to assist our government in its hour of need.
- Listen, doctor, if it wasn't for you
and your handy dandy teleporter,
we wouldn't be in need of anything,
and Cliff would still be alive.
- I can see you'll never grasp the magnitude
of what has occurred here today.
- I have a chopper coming for you at 18:00 hours.
Have a safe trip.
- Thank you.
- And uh, don't breathe a word of this to anybody.
- I understand.
- Now, all I need is someplace to set up camp.
Thank you.
- Might not be very good.
- Well, if it doesn't taste like dust, you've got a winner.
- Well, what do you think?
- Read my mind?
- You're starved, and you'll eat anything
that doesn't eat you first.
- What a gift.
- So, what's the game plan?
- You know, for somebody who reads minds,
you sure ask a lotta questions.
- I don't read minds.
I receive feelings, emotions,
and then only sometimes.
- Okay, sorry.
We'll wait till about 11.
That way we won't alarm any of the locals.
And then I take you and that Geiger counter outside
and hope to hell we find something worth shooting.
- Seems so senseless to kill it.
An alien being, here, on earth.
- I'm sorry, it's just that there's this creature out there
that can kill an able-bodied man
in just a matter of seconds.
And that is really more than we can handle.
- I think it strikes out in fear.
- Well, you are still just as dead.
Listen uh, I'll try to take it alive.
I'm sure it's more valuable that way anyway,
but no promises, all right?
- All right. Had enough?
- Oh, feel much better now.
- Okay, I'll take that then.
- So, how did you get hooked up with Mueller anyway?
- I just answered an ad in the newspaper.
- Let's see, a woman, woman with psychic abilities
to assist in matter transfer experiments.
Previous experience, helpful.
- No. Originally it was an assistant's job.
Then he found out about me.
- Now that contraption won't work without you, right?
- I don't suppose so.
Do you think the meter will work?
- Unless there's a nuclear reactor in town,
I think it ought to.
- So, what would you like to do until 11 o'clock?
- Mm, read my mind.
- I'll get rid of 'em.
Hello?
Yes.
It's for you.
- Hello?
Yeah, Mike, what's happening?
- Mitchell, uh, I've got this thing from the van.
I'm not sure. It came out of that big box.
- Yeah, like a million bucks.
Like what?
Do you wanna give me that again?
- I measured it when I got off duty, it was 13 inches.
Well, I just checked it and it's 14.
- Look uh, don't touch that thing.
Just uh, give me your address.
Okay.
- I know where that is.
- All right, look Mike, we're gonna be right over.
Now don't bother it. It may be radioactive.
Right. Okay.
- I know. We have to leave.
- Afraid so.
Why in the world did he take it?
- Well, he thinks it's his ticket out of here.
- Well, I don't care. I'm afraid.
I hope he's all right.
Mitchell.
- What?
- It's here, somewhere.
I can, feel it. Listen to the dogs.
- Well is it close by?
I can't tell, I just, sense its presence somewhere.
- Well, he's just gonna have to wait.
- Jenny?
Jenny?
Hello?
Damn.
Jenny?
Jenny?
For god sakes.
- Roger, what the hell
do you think you're doing?
- I'm sorry, honey.
I kept calling and calling, and when you didn't answer,
I was worried.
- So you rip open the shower curtain
and scare me half to death?
- I thought someone had done away with you,
and they were still waiting for me in here.
- That's it, no more late night television for you.
Those horror movies give you weird ideas.
- Well how about this for a weird idea?
I'll climb in the tub with you and we can go skin diving.
- It's only a movie. It's only a movie.
- And I'm gonna eat you up.
- Promises, promises.
How's the water?
- Hot.
Oh no.
- What's the matter?
- I ran in and left the soldering iron plugged in.
I'll just be a minute.
- Hurry back.
- Roger?
Roger?
If you jump out and scare me, I'll cut you off for a month.
Come on, honey, cut it out.
- Come on in. - Thank you.
- I'm sorry about calling you like that,
but, well after what happened today,
I'm playing this real safe.
- It's all right. Where is it?
- Um, over there.
- No, wait a minute. Let me check it first.
Well, it's hot, but it's not that hot.
This came from the larger container.
- That's right.
- Is it a part of it?
- Yes.
- Mike, you said it was growing.
- Yeah, look.
I mean, it's at least an inch larger than when I called you.
- It's not growing.
- Hm?
- It's opening itself.
- Have you got a hammer?
- Yeah, I'll get it.
- You're not going to try and open it?
- No, I'm gonna try to keep it closed.
- Why?
- Well, it may have poisonous gas in it or something.
I don't know. I just don't wanna risk another disaster.
- Here.
- Okay, now I'm going to try to hammer it back to size.
Step back.
Cover your faces.
Well?
- I don't see anything.
- Get an ambulance!
Hey, here, here. Come on, take it easy now.
We got some help on the way.
- We need an ambulance right away. 439 Arkham Lane.
Severe throat wound. Animal attack, I, I think.
Just hurry.
- Easy, easy. Just lie still.
Hey you got your million bucks, buddy. Huh?
You can sell this story to all the scandal mags.
Come on, you're a hero.
- This is great barbecue sauce, Elbert.
It's an honor to have you join me here tonight for dinner.
- Well you're the best cook in these parts.
- You know, the real trick to this culinary ability
I've acquired is to marinate.
- You uh, you got any of that marinade left?
- Can't be a chef without the marinade.
- I will drink no wine before its time.
- Well, the bottle said June '83,
that was a damn good month.
- Mm-Hmm.
- Hey, don't hog it. Its time ain't up yet.
- Something sure smells good over here.
- Well, stranger, come on in and grab yourself a log
and sit down.
- Sit, Ranger, sit.
Looks like you got some real good fixings going on here.
- What'd you say your name was, stranger?
My name is Elbert, and this here is Fred.
- Good to meet ya. My name's Jimmy.
And this is my dog, Ranger.
- Got a good-looking dog there, Jimmy.
- Yeah, well-fed too.
- Listen, I don't have any money,
but I got some wine left here,
and I sure could use a bite to eat.
- Well, I think we can accommodate you
and your little pup there, Jimmy.
Go on, help yourself.
- This is real good.
- Well, we like it.
- Y'all eat like this often?
- Every chance we get.
- Where'd you get meat like this?
- Down at the pond. Where do you get yours?
- The kid doesn't have any table manners, Fred, does he?
- Well, at least he left his dog.
Ain't got no sense of humor either.
- Listen, it says here, "Bigfoot abducts ranger's daughter.
Hairy beast ravages teenage boy."
I know just how she feels, I lived with you for 20 years.
Slow down.
How many times have I told you? Speed kills.
And it kills little animals, and it kills little kids,
and it kills people with little brains.
People with little brains, they never got any ambition,
they never go anywhere.
You've got a little brain, Jack.
Yes, people with little brains should be run over.
You should be run over.
- Yes, Rula.
- And don't say yes to me. I hate yes.
Yes, yes, yes, people are always saying yes.
But people with little brains,
they kill little animals and they kill little kids.
Slow down.
- Yes, Rula.
- Didn't you hear me tell ya to slow down?
After all, did your little brain kinda pickle up
in your little ear, so you can't hear nothing?
Oh, I feel sorry for you, Jack.
I feel sorry for anybody who can't take care of himself.
I tell ya, that's the only reason I stayed with ya
all these years.
I wouldn't wanna see a critter like you suffer.
Now, that's another thing that's gotta stop, this drinking.
You've got your brains all so pickled up
that it keeps you liquored up so that you don't even know
how stupid ya are and--
- Oh my, my god.
- Oh. - I didn't see it happen.
I couldn't stop the truck.
- Oh, Jack, you ignoramus. Ya, ya hit a little animal.
Get out and see if he's still alive.
If you hadn't had your nose stuck in that bottle,
you'd have seen the little critter.
Is it dead?
- We're gonna be rich.
We're gonna be rich.
Is it dead you stupid picklehead?
Yes, it's dead. We're gonna be rich.
First thing you said to me all night
and it don't even make sense.
What'd you expect from a senile picklehead like you?
Look in the back, Rula, look.
- Here we go.
- They stopped the bleeding.
- Oh, good.
- He's gonna be okay, but it's still kinda touch and go.
Look, are you all right?
- I feel like I've been hit with a hammer.
My head is killing me.
- I'm sorry.
- I'll be all right.
I just, just hit me so sudden, that's all.
- Look, I called in and they're sending some people over
to take care of that thing in there.
Do you think you're up to travel?
- I feel a little better.
- Excuse me. I'm Decker, the government liaison.
I understand there's been a problem. Who's in charge?
- I am. Go on inside.
- Hey, don't touch that thing, biohazard.
- Carter, the only reason they approved putting a lab here
was because they understood there'd be no problems.
- What do I look like, Professor Honeydew or something?
I have nothing to do with that lab.
I'm only here to clean up.
- You gonna go out looking for it,
or you gonna sit here all night?
- Listen, Decker, I'm still in charge here,
and until that changes, you stay off my back.
- Carter, you better do something about this problem
and fast, or I'll get in touch with somebody who can.
- What, is Reiger back in town?
Amy, this is Jack. That's right.
Is uh, Sheriff Miller in?
- 'Fraid not, Jack.
- Well, now you ain't gonna guess what I got out here.
- A still?
- I got me a monster, a dead one.
- No, you got an empty still.
- Well, now you get Cory on the phone
and you have him come on out here.
- All right Jack, but he's just gonna throw you in the tank.
- Now you get him on the phone, and I mean, and I mean it.
- RJ-30 calling Sheriff Miller. Come in, sheriff.
- Yeah, this is Cory. What's up?
- Jack Murphy's over at his place,
says he's got a dead monster in his shed.
- You know, I told his wife to keep him out of trouble
when he gets tanked up.
- He's very insistent.
- All right, listen, why don't you get
the guest room ready in case I have to bring him in.
- With pleasure.
- Of all the hick towns to get sent to.
Well, least it'll give me a chance to run the lights.
- Do you know where that is?
- Oh yeah. You have to turn around and head down the hill.
- Okay.
- Hey Cory. - Evening, Jack.
- I'm sorry to bring you out on a night like this.
- Well, what'd you want?
- Well, I got something to show you.
And I got it stashed down in the cellar.
- Jack, it looks like you've been drinking again.
- Hey, I've got myself all dressed up
for the newspaper people.
They're coming down to take our pictures.
- News people, what're you talking about?
Where's Rula?
- Oh, she's in there getting prettied up,
but she'll be out in just a minute.
- You really got anything down there?
- I sure do.
Why don't you to go down and take a look.
- Okay, but this better be good.
- Well, what do you think?
Maybe there's a reward for it or something.
- Jack, there ain't a damn thing down there.
- What?
- Listen, you better just get in the house
before I haul ya downtown.
- Huh?
- You ain't nothing but a pain in the ass.
- Help! Help!
Help!
- Ah, knock it off, Jack. Who do you think you're fooling?
Come help me, sheriff!
- Jack?
Get back in the house.
- Did it get away?
- Yeah. Who are you?
- I'm Mitchell Carter, Army.
- What was that thing?
- Well, you tell me. Nobody I know has seen it.
Uh, except maybe you.
- Listen, that thing's small. It's about that high.
But I'll tell ya, it's fast.
- Which way did it go?
- That way.
- Yeah, it did, it went that way.
- We have got to find this thing.
- Listen, you go that way.
I'm gonna go radio in and then I'm gonna circle back
around the neighborhood.
This is Sheriff Miller to RJ-30. Do you read?
- I read you sheriff. I got the guestroom ready.
- Forget about that.
Jack's dead, and there's
some kind of dangerous animal
on the loose out here.
Listen, send a coroner and a doctor for Mrs. Murphy.
I think she may be in shock. Over.
- Over and out.
- It's very near.
- Well, I would tend to agree with that.
- Listen. Sounds like it's coming from over there.
- Okay, let's check it out.
- Who's there?
- Jesus. I almost shot you.
- Wouldn't be the first time.
- What are you doing in there?
- I like to shop at night. Beats the rush.
And I hate long lines.
- You know, this isn't a very good night for that.
- Don't I know it.
It's always like this in the middle of the month.
Holidays are coming on, things'll pick up.
- Where do you live?
- Well, I got this little place my daughter pays for,
and I don't hang out there much though.
- Well, you'd better stay there tonight.
- Hey, you guys think I'm nuts, don't ya?
I know what you want. You ain't got me fooled.
These are my dumpsters and I've had 'em for a long time.
So don't get no ideas.
- Listen, just take my advice and stay inside.
- Hey, that's nice. Where'd you find that?
- Come on, Lisa, let's go.
- Hey, before you folks go, give me a hand down outta here.
Evening, folks.
Bye.
- Well, well what do we got here?
A little ad.
Boy, he sure is cute.
I wonder who threw him away?
Well, we'll just hang him up here so folks can see him.
- Help!
- Mitchell, wait.
- What is it, Lisa?
- I, I think it's headed toward the Hershville building.
- What?
- It's uh, an abandoned old building where bums go
to crash out.
- Must be dinner time, huh?
Where is it?
- Just down there a couple of blocks.
- Okay.
Come on, if get down there in a hurry we can beat Reiger.
- Hey, what is it with you two anyway?
- Listen, it's a complicated story, but it's longstanding.
Come on.
- It's definitely inside. I can sense it.
- All right.
- Wait, shouldn't we wait for the others?
- No, we don't-- - Carter.
What took you so long? We're running late.
- Dammit.
You're the second joker that snuck up on me, Reiger.
- And you say I got no sense of humor.
- Yeah, you're a laugh a minute.
- Yeah? Well get your ass up there.
See anything?
- Down that way.
- What makes you so sure?
- Well, this slime, it leads all the way down the wall.
- These are bottles of sulfuric acid,
might slow the thing down a bit.
- Yeah, but be very careful.
That stuff is extremely dangerous.
- Yeah, well I won't be needing any of that.
This thing'll cut anything in two.
- Just like in 'Nam, right?
- Yeah. Used to level entire villages with one of these.
- Mm-hmm, women and children first.
- Shut up, Carter.
- What's the matter, Reiger? Still can't sleep at night?
- Let's move out.
Kill the son of a bitch.
- It feels much stronger now. I, I think it's moving again.
- Yeah, will you stay in here? We don't need you.
- Carter?
- Look, maybe he's right.
It's safer here, stay here. I think we can manage.
- Listen, don't be a hero. Destroy the thing.
- No problem with that.
Let's move out.
- Mitchell.
- Look now, don't worry. We'll get him this time.
You just stay here with uh, ole J. Edgar Hoover.
He'll take care of you.
- All right. See ya.
- Walker, Hench, take the south side of the building.
Carter and I'll go north.
- Oh good, I got John Wayne on my side.
What's the plan, Duke?
- Well, you go down on him, and when I hear your moans,
I'll come running.
- Okay, increasing.
- It smells down here.
- Yeah well, we're not here
to judge the housekeeping.
- Well, it's not the housekeeping, Reiger.
- Yeah, what you smell is chicken shit.
Follows you wherever you go.
- You know, you have got a big problem, my friend.
Come on.
Let's see where that smell's coming from.
- Showtime.
Looks like they got a little ahead of us.
That bastard's having babies.
- Yeah, Reiger, you better kill it.
- Hey, shut up, Carter. I'm in charge here.
Better kill it.
Son of a bitch, you made me miss.
- Damn you, Reiger, you almost hit me with your toy.
- Yeah, let me, Carter.
It took off with your brain.
- Lisa?
- Yes, Mitchell.
- It's over. We got him.
- Yes, I know.
- What happened to him?
- His neck is broken.
- How the hell did that happen?
- I'm sorry, Mitchell, but we had to know
how our combat unit would fare under stress and aggression.
- What?
- The creature was our soldier designed to fight our wars,
and it is a success, at least in most areas.
- No.
This can't be real.
- Cut. - I think that's it.
- I didn't travel 500 miles just to,
to watch this freak show nonsense.
- Marker.
- Action.
- Surprised to see me, Carter?
- No, I thought I smelled something
when I came in the room.
- Start again, louder.
- Surprised to see me, Carter?
- No, I thought I smelled something
when I came in the room.
- Well then, watch your mouth, sonny.
They don't bust 'em any lower than where you're headed.
- You wanna know something, Carter?
- What?
- Your name is Reiger.
- Okay, start again.
Start again. Shut up.
- 30 apple dog, take two.
- Action.
- Well, you're the best cook around here
in these parts.
- You know, the real trick to my culinary activity
is to, that I've acquired.
You know, the real activity, you know the real trick
- Pause. And start again.
- You know, the real trick to my culinary ability to
- Pause. Try it again. - That I've acquired.
You know, the real act, trick.
You the real trick to my, oh shit.
- A meeting of man and machine.
- Woman and machine.
- In as simple jargon as I can put it,
her mental energy will receive and transmit
to this location, anything her mind can, can, can
- Attract.
- Attract.
- Do it again.
- Shit.
- Just do it again.
- Don't shadow her face with your hand.
- In as simple jargon.
- In as simple jargon as, as uh I can,
what is it again, please?
- Cut it, cut it.
- Okay, action.
- I wonder what this is?
- It looks like a container of some sort.
- Like a trunk or something.
- Line. - I wonder what's inside.
- I wonder what's inside.
- Maybe we could get it open.
- Nobody's opening this.
It goes back in the van. It goes into the van untampered.
- Do it again.
- Nobody opens, nobody's opening--
- Do it again.
- Nobody is opening anything.
This goes in the van untampered with.
- Surely you don't mean that.
- Line.
- Geiger, Carter, get this thing in the van.
We're moving out.
- You're making a big mistake here.
- Cut, cut. God.
- Okay, mark it.
Action.
- Cut.
- She's losing all her hair.
- This is going in the van untampered with.
- Surely you don't mean that.
- Line.
- That thing goes back with me.
- That thing goes back with me for examination.
- Maybe there's another one of these inside.
- Yeah, and maybe alive.
- This should tell you one thing.
- What's that?
- We're definitely dealing with some form
of intelligent life.
- And one thing else, line.
- Is probably true too.
- One thing else is probably true too.
And that is, whatever made that little
statue did not-- - Do that again.
Move to your right so you're not blocked there.
Right there.
- One thing else is probably true too, and that is what.
Hodge, did you see where the thing went?
- No, just a blur.
Give it up, Carter, that thing was so fast
it's mile away, miles of
- Cut.
- Oh. I'll get rid of 'em.
Boy, if I had known you were so well hung,
I would've contacted you earlier.
- Cut.
- Okay, mark. 55-A-D-1.
- Action.
- Excuse me, I'm Decker.
Cut. - Start again.
Just start again.
- Excuse me. I'm Decker, government liaison--
- Start again.
- Excuse me. I'm Decker, government liaison.
- What was that thing?
- Well, you tell me.
Nobody I know has seen it long enough to live.
- Cut it.
- Look at that.
- Shut up, Carter.
- What's the matter, Reiger?
Still can't sleep at night?
- I can when the lights.
- 30 apple dog, take one.
- Action.
- Well, you're the best cook around here
in these parts.
- You know, the real trick to,
you know, the real trick to my culinary activity.
- Start again.
- You know, the real trick to my culinary ability
is to marinate.
- Cut it.
Skin diving.
- It's only a movie. It's only a movie.