• 9 years ago
The Cremators (1972)
PG | 1h 15min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An alien life form that is a huge ball of living matter invades earth, and replenishes itself by absorbing people.

Director: Harry Essex

Writers: Harry Essex (screenplay), Julian C. May (story) (as Judy Ditky)

Stars: Maria De Aragon, Marvin Howard, Eric Allison
Transcript
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00:00:27There were only two who saw the meteor fall into the lake long ago.
00:00:43One was an Indian brave, hunting for food.
00:00:47He saw the fire streak arc down over the water and was afraid, because it was an omen of
00:00:55ill-favor when the stars left the heaven and drowned themselves in the water.
00:01:48The other witness was a fish, who snapped greedily at the meteor as it fell.
00:02:07Quite reduced in size now, the fish swam away, and presently he died.
00:03:42The water hasn't changed much.
00:03:58The shoreline was altered by the erosion of time.
00:04:02The sand dunes, like vast creeping monsters, kept traveling around, sweeping over the forests.
00:04:10Everything moved in, polluting the waters and spoiling the land.
00:04:16The word ecology became a warning note, as it left dead, lifeless things in its wake.
00:04:24Some, like Ian Thorne, sought the loneliness of the lake country and a last chance to help
00:04:31turn the tide against the creeping death.
00:04:35Active action in the lake, diminishing, winds, light variable, an absence of driftwood specimen
00:04:48in the pool, algae and tents.
00:05:08Each new day brings more fascinating change, insects sunning themselves on the thermometer,
00:05:17something I just found in my pool, rock crystal, you name it.
00:05:24Could be someone's drowned jewelry.
00:05:28This is the second droplet.
00:06:58Come on, Aisha, get out of here, come on, get out of here, come on, give me this thing,
00:07:19I want to do my job.
00:07:20Hello, Bill.
00:07:27Hi, Mr. Thorne.
00:07:35Hi, Doc.
00:07:36Hi, Pete.
00:07:37Hello, Millie.
00:07:38Raced all the way to get here on time.
00:07:43Just about ready to leave, too.
00:07:45I see.
00:07:46Got your stamps on?
00:07:47Uh-huh.
00:07:48Mr. Willie Seppel, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
00:07:50Special delivery, huh?
00:07:51Okay, I'll carry it for you.
00:07:53Got any paper, either?
00:07:54Yeah.
00:07:55New bug magazine come for you.
00:07:57Here it is.
00:08:01Now, you ain't going to run all the way over to Port Graham with them few pieces of mail,
00:08:05are you, Phil?
00:08:07One thing's for sure, Mark, you ain't never going to run out of gas the way your mouth
00:08:10keeps going all the time.
00:08:16That mail's got to go through.
00:08:20Why is that?
00:08:21Why?
00:08:22It says so in the United States Postal Regulation, that's why.
00:08:26Did you say something, Millie?
00:08:44Don't blame you.
00:08:45Them fellas upset anyone.
00:09:14Did you see that, Millie?
00:09:15Now, what do you suppose...
00:09:43Huh?
00:09:44Aah!
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00:10:33You didn't move anything after you found us, did you, Murph?
00:10:55Not me.
00:10:56Barreled right over to my place and phoned you.
00:10:58What happened to his dog, Millie?
00:11:01There was no dog when I came up.
00:11:03Well, she must have gotten out somehow.
00:11:06Maybe Phil got out.
00:11:08Not from the looks of that.
00:11:10How you setting it down, Dr. Braddock?
00:11:14Cremation.
00:11:15Seems like it.
00:11:18The boys were kidding him about driving into town last night.
00:11:21Well, that's how it goes.
00:11:23I guess I'd better get this mail over to the main post office.
00:11:25Most of it's just singed.
00:11:27Except for your package, Mr. Thorne.
00:11:29Anything valuable in it?
00:11:31No.
00:11:32Just some mineral specimens.
00:11:34Well, must be plenty more where they came from.
00:11:38Phil never did have good eyes.
00:11:40Should have listened to us.
00:11:41Kidding and no kidding.
00:11:59Hey, Mac!
00:12:30Ian?
00:12:31Brought you a visitor this time.
00:12:33Real company.
00:12:35Jeannie, the gent in the striped shirts, writes books about bugs
00:12:38and means to keep us all from poisoning ourselves.
00:12:41Ian Thorne.
00:12:42Ian, this is my niece, Jeannie.
00:12:44You haven't changed much.
00:12:45Even back in high school, you'd sooner chase butterfly than play ball.
00:12:49You knew me then?
00:12:51I was nine.
00:12:52I'm just beginning to wise up.
00:12:55Obviously, I wasn't too smart.
00:12:57That's why I went away to college.
00:12:59This is my first trip back.
00:13:01Yeah, you're both back, and I brought something to celebrate with, too.
00:13:05A brace of sirloin.
00:13:06Jeannie will deal them up for us.
00:13:08I've tasted your filth.
00:13:09Well, what are we waiting for?
00:13:12You can see out there for miles.
00:13:19You sure have grown up.
00:13:21Must get lonely out here.
00:13:24With all my insects to keep me company,
00:13:27it's busier than Main Street in Muskegon.
00:13:32Uncle Max is your hermit.
00:13:37Well, there is something primitive about it all,
00:13:40as if it were the beginning of things.
00:13:48Well, thanks for showing me your station.
00:13:51Like nothing of it.
00:13:52Like nothing of it.
00:13:53If you're in a jam, just howl for W-A-Dog-Z-Victor on ten meters.
00:14:01What's this?
00:14:03I don't know. Something I found in my lake pool.
00:14:06It's pretty.
00:14:08Like a piece of glass.
00:14:10Keep it if you like.
00:14:12I'm mailing another one off to a friend of mine for analysis.
00:14:23You hurt?
00:14:24No, ma'am. It's my cat.
00:14:38Where'd you find him?
00:14:39Under a pile of driftwood.
00:14:41I was kicking around the lake when I saw it was all short on him.
00:14:45Hell.
00:14:47I was kicking around the lake when I saw it was all short on him.
00:14:51Hell.
00:14:53Looked like he was dead.
00:14:56Then I felt a muscle twitch in his legs, so I scooped him up in my beach towel.
00:15:02As good as dead, huh, Doc?
00:15:04I'm afraid so.
00:15:08What did it?
00:15:09That's what I'm trying to find out now.
00:15:18I can't do any more tonight.
00:15:20Want to wait till I wash up? I'll give you a ride back.
00:15:23I'll make it.
00:15:25Thanks.
00:15:30Hey, Doc, you dig reincarnation?
00:15:33Coming back again.
00:15:36I don't know. I take it you do.
00:15:39Maybe I was the cat once.
00:15:41Maybe next time old short arm will do the running on two legs.
00:15:45Well, if I get him out of here and bury him, I'll do that for you if you don't mind.
00:15:52Old short arm would sure appreciate that, Doc. Thanks.
00:15:56Hey, Doc?
00:16:02Ciao.
00:17:15Ciao.
00:17:46Hey, Millie.
00:17:48Hello, girl.
00:17:50What happened to you?
00:17:55Easy, girl. Easy, Millie.
00:17:58There you go.
00:18:15Hey, Millie.
00:18:17Hey, Millie.
00:18:19Hey, Millie.
00:18:21Hey, Millie.
00:18:23Hey, Millie.
00:18:25Hey, Millie.
00:18:27Hey, Millie.
00:18:29Hey, Millie.
00:18:31Hey, Millie.
00:18:33Hey, Millie.
00:18:35Hey, Millie.
00:18:37Hey, Millie.
00:18:39Hey, Millie.
00:18:41Hey, Millie.
00:18:43Hey, Millie.
00:18:45Hey, Millie.
00:18:47Hey, Millie.
00:18:49Hey, Millie.
00:18:51Hey, Millie.
00:18:53Hey, Millie.
00:18:55Hey, Millie.
00:18:57Hey, Millie.
00:18:59Hey, Millie.
00:19:01Hey, Millie.
00:19:03Hey, Millie.
00:19:05Hey, Millie.
00:19:07Hey, Millie.
00:19:09Hey, Millie.
00:19:12Come here.
00:19:24I don't know what they are, Mac...
00:19:26...but until I am sure they are not dangerous to human tissue...
00:19:28...I want you to take the one I gave to Genie and get rid of it.
00:19:31Are you sure you haven't been living alone too long, Ian?
00:19:34Millie could have cut herself on something, couldn't she?
00:19:37Over.
00:19:38She didn't cut herself, Mac.
00:19:39They burned through her stomach.
00:19:41Well, I'm sure the genie isn't going to eat the one
00:19:43that you gave her.
00:19:44Over.
00:19:45Just the same, Mac.
00:19:46Take it away from her and get rid of it.
00:19:49Good night, Mac.
00:19:50W-A-D-V-Z, out and clear.
00:19:55You see me like I'm some kind of bug, right?
00:20:22Ladybug.
00:20:24Ladybug.
00:20:25Fly away home.
00:20:26Your pad's on fire and your kid will burn.
00:20:28More or less.
00:20:30How come you're so into bugs?
00:20:34It's what I want.
00:20:36That's not the way I heard it.
00:20:40I came back here because I wanted to be haunted
00:20:42by my personal memories.
00:20:46What was she like, your MC?
00:20:52Like a dream, mostly.
00:20:55Like something you make up.
00:20:57I was buried in it up to my neck.
00:20:59I know.
00:21:00And sometimes getting up at night to stare into darkness.
00:21:07And you curse at the pillow that's wet.
00:21:12And you beat it out, trying to go back to sleep again.
00:21:17There's an old biblical saying, this, too, shall pass.
00:21:24We now offer you the miniature piano concerto
00:21:26with our lighthouse.
00:21:54Well?
00:22:22What was that?
00:22:24It looked like it was out there sitting on the windshield.
00:22:28Need lightning, maybe?
00:22:39Stay in the truck.
00:22:40Stay in the truck.
00:23:10Stay in the truck.
00:23:21It was lightning.
00:23:22Stay in the truck.
00:23:38Anything important?
00:23:39Come on.
00:23:52in the morning, and what I saw was true.
00:23:57The ice upon the rigging froze, and the cold wind
00:24:01fiercely blew, and miles and miles
00:24:05the antelope lined the shores of Michigan.
00:24:22Before it seemed a dream,
00:24:25I shuddered Nowation into her arms
00:24:30But never did I recognize
00:24:36Her large beloved hands
00:24:41I saw the combine sometimes
00:24:46Yes, the combine
00:24:51Let's go.
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00:29:08Member of Siemens International Union.
00:29:10Name of it...
00:29:13A little after midnight.
00:29:15I just came back from dropping Curt McInnes' knee saw.
00:29:18Nothing else worth mentioning?
00:29:19No, just the way you see it.
00:29:22Funny, both them accidents happening right around here.
00:29:24Yes, it is funny.
00:29:26Judging from the heat it took to fuse this stone,
00:29:29I'd say it'd sear any human flesh right to the bone.
00:29:31I need a copy of your report to the coroner.
00:29:34First thing in the morning.
00:29:35You know, I've seen men hit with flamethrowers,
00:29:37and what was under them didn't look this wicked.
00:29:40Why, it's pretty odd stuff.
00:29:42It could boil the souls right off of a man's shoes
00:29:44without even scratching it.
00:29:46Or it can generate enough heat to melt metal.
00:29:50How do you know it was lightning?
00:29:53What else could it be?
00:29:54Now, if it'd been a shot of something like that,
00:29:56then I'd start wondering.
00:29:57But Phil's car turned inside out and melted together
00:30:00like butter.
00:30:01And this poor guy, why, he was hit by lightning.
00:30:05You got any other ideas, Mr. Thorne?
00:30:09No, I can't say I have.
00:30:11But it seems strange to me that his sea bag was found
00:30:14so far from where the road was scorched.
00:30:17What of it?
00:30:19He could have been thrown when he was hit.
00:30:21Yeah?
00:30:22Could have been running, too.
00:30:24Running from what?
00:30:25His money and things are all here.
00:30:28Why did I ever want to be county medical examiner for?
00:30:31Same reason I wanted to be sheriff.
00:30:33Folks respect you.
00:30:42They generate heat, as you probably know.
00:30:45I found out the hard way.
00:30:47Sure you didn't try to do your own cooking?
00:30:50Well, where did you find those little mouths?
00:30:52The two I sent you came out of a dog's stomach.
00:30:55Observe my findings.
00:30:56And you were almost right when you said it generates heat.
00:30:59It gives off long infrared, mostly stacked up
00:31:02around 200,000 angstroms.
00:31:06But it doesn't generate enough heat to melt metal.
00:31:09Here are 1000 angstroms.
00:31:12But its energy is way out of proportion
00:31:14to what you'd expect of the equation.
00:31:17Also, it's an individualist.
00:31:19Sometimes a slight nudge will set it off like a rocket.
00:31:23And then again, you can hit it with a sledgehammer
00:31:26and it won't perform at all.
00:31:28Even sucks.
00:31:29You mean that piece of whatever it is can think?
00:31:39You were right about this place, Ian.
00:31:47A person could feel she was starting all over again.
00:31:51Happy birthday, Judy.
00:31:53Happy birthday, Judy.
00:32:11Are you saying this is what killed that seaman?
00:32:22That's the container that I mailed those two droplets to you in.
00:32:26Only when I found this, the two droplets were missing.
00:32:32Anything that can do that to a piece of metal can do a pretty good job on a human body, wouldn't you say so?
00:32:40Ian, I'm a physicist. Ezra, a biologist.
00:32:44And we both deal in scientific facts.
00:32:47What you're saying...
00:32:50Two men were burned to death.
00:32:54Why?
00:32:57Well, it could be what the medical examiner thinks.
00:33:01A car overturned.
00:33:03Or lightning.
00:33:08You're not really that skeptical, are you, Will?
00:33:11No.
00:33:14I'm just baffled.
00:33:18Well, let's hit the sack.
00:33:19I'm beat.
00:33:20We can worry about that some more tomorrow.
00:33:49Maybe we should pack it in a pail of ice.
00:33:51What for?
00:33:53If it decided to radiate, it'd probably melt the pail before it melted the ice.
00:33:57Besides, it never radiates unless it's disturbed.
00:35:38Come on.
00:36:08Come on.
00:36:38Come on.
00:37:08Come on.
00:37:38Come on.
00:38:09Willie.
00:38:13Those stones.
00:38:14They burned when they threw that drawer.
00:38:16I know.
00:38:18I can see what they did.
00:38:21Not only can it radiate it well, it can focus its own radiation.
00:38:27And limit its energy output.
00:38:32Those men, Willie.
00:38:36They didn't die by lightning or an accident.
00:38:40They...
00:38:57Sheriff, you remember those stories you used to hear told in these parts when you were a kid?
00:39:02There were sand dunes?
00:39:03Yeah.
00:39:04Some of them, I guess.
00:39:05Why?
00:39:06Remember the one about there being a dune roller, larger than a schooner,
00:39:11lived in a cave in the bottom of the lake?
00:39:14Yeah.
00:39:15I recollect I do.
00:39:17My grandmother favored that one.
00:39:19Wasn't there something about it came out every hundred years or so
00:39:22and rolled through the dune forest,
00:39:24leaving a strip of bare sand behind it where it'd eaten the vegetation?
00:39:27Is that right?
00:39:29It's the one.
00:39:30What would you say, Sheriff, if I told you that there was more to that than just a legend,
00:39:35and old Phil Masters and that seaman didn't meet with any accident,
00:39:39that they were burned to death by a dune roller?
00:39:44Well, I'd say that sure as hell beat the one my granny favored.
00:39:48That's what I'm afraid of.
00:39:50Let me assure you, Sheriff, that this is no joke.
00:39:53Those tracks down there were made by this thing, whatever you call it.
00:39:59Those tracks are right there.
00:40:00They came down out of the house and into the lake.
00:40:03The highway patrol calls to report that some jokers set fire to the asphalt at the highway intersection.
00:40:10And then just before I come up here, Mrs. Lacey and them lights.
00:40:13What lights were those?
00:40:15The ones she saw all night from her shop running in and out of the woods.
00:40:18And then you and your damn dune roller.
00:40:20Ian, I'd like to talk to this Mrs. Lacey.
00:40:23Now look, Doc, I'm a patient man.
00:40:26When you plant yourself a bug garden out here,
00:40:28I go along with you.
00:40:31But when you start talking foolishness,
00:40:33then I gotta call you on it.
00:40:36We're scientists, Sheriff, with some standing in our profession.
00:40:41And doesn't it sound reasonable to you that we might know what the hell we're talking about?
00:40:47All right, let's go talk to Mrs. Lacey about them lights.
00:40:52Don't go telling me that I've got bats in my belfry, Pete Dixon.
00:40:57I know what I see, and I see what I know.
00:41:01They were up there all night long.
00:41:04Who was Mrs. Lacey?
00:41:06Some vacationers.
00:41:08Come for a picnic.
00:41:09Or some of those long-haired hippies who plan to put up an art bazaar.
00:41:15You see them, Maggie?
00:41:17Just the lights.
00:41:19Well, is that all you saw, Mrs. Lacey?
00:41:21Just the lights?
00:41:24Well, that's enough, isn't it?
00:41:26Someone had to be carrying them.
00:41:29But you didn't actually see anyone, did you, Mrs. Lacey?
00:41:35Why would it kill?
00:41:38How do we know that it's even the same intelligence as ours?
00:41:42It may be as indifferent to us as we are, say, to insects.
00:41:48Some things we can accept, right?
00:41:50There's life under the sea.
00:41:51Uh-huh.
00:41:52And there are things growing on at least one planet in outer space.
00:41:56Fact is, we're indifferent to each other right here on Earth.
00:42:08Radioactive.
00:42:11Well, your June roller may have taken to the lake,
00:42:14but chances are he fell from outer space originally.
00:42:17Wrong sex, Willie.
00:42:19Well, I really wasn't aware of its having any sex.
00:42:23The reaction to this creature
00:42:26would seem to be those of a mother for her children.
00:42:33A long time ago, Willie,
00:42:36whatever it is came smashing to Earth.
00:42:42And since that time,
00:42:44the core of it has been going around
00:42:47and collecting a drop of itself here and a drop of itself there,
00:42:52in barnyards and road beds and in sand dunes.
00:42:58And it's been responding with the only defense it knew.
00:43:02Then your theory makes it vulnerable to some force.
00:43:06The question is, why has it been so inactive for so long?
00:43:12Well, some fault in the Earth, maybe.
00:43:15Recent earthquakes could have caused some shifting
00:43:18and brought some pieces up to the surface.
00:43:20Maybe.
00:43:22And as you guessed,
00:43:24it sets no pattern for the way it thinks.
00:43:27It's an individualist.
00:43:30Sometimes it forgives, just threatens.
00:43:35Other times it goes all the way.
00:43:39Try to keep it from getting away,
00:43:41and it finds its own means of escape.
00:43:43Hit it?
00:43:45Gets mad or sucks, depending upon its mood.
00:43:49Obviously, then, they have a way of communicating.
00:43:53The more pressing fact is that the possession of any fragment
00:43:58is an invitation for our doom rover
00:44:00to come and retrieve it eventually.
00:44:02Would you mind if we start in your beach pool
00:44:06instead of the house?
00:44:37I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine from Ann Arbor, Mac.
00:44:41Name of Willie Sepp.
00:44:43He's a biophysicist.
00:44:46He thinks that the drops are a great scientific discovery.
00:44:49Really? What do they do?
00:44:51They give off a hot light like this,
00:44:53and it's a great discovery.
00:44:55It's a great discovery.
00:44:57It's a great discovery.
00:44:59It's a great discovery.
00:45:01It's a great discovery.
00:45:03It's a great discovery.
00:45:05Really? What do they do?
00:45:07They give off a hot light when they're disturbed.
00:45:09You don't say. Them little things?
00:45:11And the larger they are, the more energy they grind out.
00:45:14We have reason to believe that there are some bigger drops around.
00:45:17Much, much larger.
00:45:19Say, and I got me a new pan adapter for the rig.
00:45:22You finally did it after all, eh?
00:45:25How'd you get the Mississippi for itself?
00:45:27Incidentally, how's that cute niece of yours?
00:45:30I'd like to say hello to her.
00:45:32Took the boat in the port grind
00:45:34to buy herself a new dress or something.
00:45:36Surprise for you.
00:45:38What's the matter with you?
00:45:40Nothing.
00:45:42What's the matter with you?
00:45:44Nothing.
00:45:47Surprise for you.
00:45:49She ought to be back any time now.
00:45:51Beats me why she'd want a brand new dress
00:45:53with all those she brought up here.
00:45:55Oh, Mac, you're not going to deny her a new dress
00:45:57after you just got yourself a new pan adapter, now, are you?
00:46:00Everybody to his own level.
00:46:02Hey, let me know if you need any help with that pan adapter.
00:46:05You might want to rig it up as a frequency monitor.
00:46:11Aah!
00:46:16Aah!
00:46:30Of course, if it's too much for you to handle, Mac,
00:46:33I'd be glad to take it off your hands at a bargain price, of course.
00:46:41Aah!
00:46:43Aah!
00:46:46Aah!
00:46:56Ian! Ian!
00:46:58What's a VFO?
00:47:00The max gain very frequently on that.
00:47:17Ian, can you hear me?
00:47:24Ian, help me!
00:47:26Is that you?
00:47:28Ian, that thing is chasing me!
00:47:30It's after me! It's after me!
00:47:32It'll fall on fire!
00:47:34Jeanie, Jeanie, what's wrong?
00:47:36Jeanie, listen to me.
00:47:38That droplet I gave you for a souvenir the other day,
00:47:40did you get rid of it?
00:47:42I gave it all to Mac!
00:47:44Mac, what did you do with it?
00:47:46I can't remember.
00:47:51Quick, Mac, what did you do with it?
00:48:00Aah!
00:48:03I-I took it away from her, like you said.
00:48:06No, I remember.
00:48:08I left it on the boat.
00:48:10Here.
00:48:12Where?
00:48:14It's in a box just behind the radio.
00:48:16It's in a pail.
00:48:18Jeanie, listen to me.
00:48:20You must do exactly as I say.
00:48:22Can you hear me?
00:48:24Yes, I can hear you.
00:48:26Hurry up, Ian, hurry up!
00:48:28It's after me! This thing is chasing me!
00:48:30Quickly, Ian! It's almost here!
00:48:32That little amber drop that's in the boat.
00:48:34It'll fall!
00:48:36Get it!
00:48:42I can't find it!
00:48:44It's in a pile.
00:48:46Let's throw it overboard.
00:48:50Here it is!
00:48:52Throw it overboard, quickly!
00:48:58Now, now, hurry, it's over!
00:49:00Help!
00:49:02Help!
00:49:04Help!
00:49:06Help!
00:49:08Help!
00:49:10Help!
00:49:12Dr. Thompson?
00:49:14Dr. Richard Thompson?
00:49:20You won't do her much good in that shape.
00:49:26I keep thinking what might have happened
00:49:28if she hadn't gotten to us.
00:49:30But she did.
00:49:32Look.
00:49:34I'll go see what I can find out.
00:49:40Dr. Donald Woodbridge,
00:49:42please call your service.
00:49:52Hi.
00:49:56What are you doing here?
00:49:58You ever found out what my cat ate, Doc?
00:50:00No.
00:50:04I think I know what happened.
00:50:06I hadn't mind dropping off to your place,
00:50:08but I saw you go in here.
00:50:10Am I following you?
00:50:12Yes, get to the point.
00:50:16Anything almost happened to your chick?
00:50:22What do you know about it, Doc?
00:50:24I've seen those lights on the lake.
00:50:26Sometimes coming from under the water.
00:50:28Sometimes by the forest.
00:50:30And near that pile of brick wood
00:50:32where I found old Short Arm.
00:50:34You told him about your stories.
00:50:36Well, I thought to tell the sheriff about it
00:50:38the other day, but...
00:50:40Well, he'd probably just tell me I'm on pills or something.
00:50:44What makes you think I won't tell you the same thing?
00:50:48You won't.
00:51:06That's right, Doc.
00:51:08It's been that way ever since the night I found Short Arm
00:51:10and brought him to you.
00:51:18Right this way, Commander.
00:51:28My name is Cunningham, local group commander.
00:51:30Are you Dr. Thorne?
00:51:32Yes.
00:51:34This is a private report.
00:52:04At nine this evening,
00:52:06you reported to the local group office
00:52:08that a small craft was in trouble
00:52:10off of the mainland.
00:52:12It wasn't me. It was Curt McInnes.
00:52:14Well, we found the craft drifting
00:52:16off of the Per Grand Lake.
00:52:18That young lady was very lucky
00:52:20when she ran out of gas.
00:52:22She was headed straight out into the middle of the lake.
00:52:24There was nothing else near her?
00:52:26Why, was there something you noticed?
00:52:28No, I didn't see anything.
00:52:30There was nothing else near her?
00:52:32Why, was there something you expected to find?
00:52:36Well, we have reason to believe
00:52:38that a highly unusual occurrence
00:52:40was responsible for tonight's unpleasantness.
00:52:44You may come in now, if you like, Mr. Thorne.
00:52:50Commander, have you ever read any science fiction?
00:52:52All night long.
00:52:54Like something was out there.
00:52:56Couldn't sleep,
00:52:58didn't sleep, didn't...
00:53:00Rest.
00:53:04All you have to do is get lots of rest.
00:53:12I'll see you tomorrow.
00:53:14What in the devil are you doing out here, Ian?
00:53:16We should be asleep.
00:53:22Turn the light out, will you?
00:53:26Look.
00:53:32What's that?
00:53:34I don't know.
00:53:36I don't know.
00:53:38I don't know.
00:53:40I don't know.
00:53:42I don't know.
00:53:54Now you slap your hands together.
00:53:56Go on. Slap them together.
00:54:00Go on.
00:54:12See, Willie?
00:54:14Whatever it is, those droplets rub off,
00:54:16and when you spank them, they get mad.
00:54:18Won't do any good, Willie.
00:54:20I've tried everything.
00:54:22But it's a way for a mom
00:54:24to trace her babies.
00:54:26And anyone else who touches them.
00:54:30I've been standing out here
00:54:32trying everything.
00:54:34Nothing checks out all the way.
00:54:36How long before this thing disappears?
00:54:38Will it disappear?
00:54:40And if it doesn't, how do I know
00:54:42that it won't move on Jeannie again?
00:54:44Don't you see?
00:54:46I involved her in this,
00:54:48and I involved you in this.
00:54:50And I don't know how far I can go.
00:54:52I don't know how to protect anyone.
00:54:54You're all in, my boy.
00:54:56You need some sleep.
00:54:58I don't need any sleep.
00:55:00I need answers, Willie, and I need them soon.
00:55:02I wonder what our colleagues
00:55:04would say about all this.
00:55:08It's just not like him at all.
00:55:10His whole attitude's changed.
00:55:12I tried to get some information out of him,
00:55:14and he looked at me as though I were pride.
00:55:16Which I was.
00:55:18I thought the reason you came up was to help him.
00:55:20Well, that was before we knew
00:55:22what we were up against.
00:55:24The fact is, you make sense
00:55:26about everything but that fireball.
00:55:28Well, thanks.
00:55:30But what do we do about Thorne?
00:55:32He sees things.
00:55:34Well, he sees things.
00:55:36He sees things.
00:55:38Well, if he does, so do I.
00:55:40There's no doubt about it, he has something up his sleeve.
00:55:42What?
00:55:44When I left him, he was digging around those marshes
00:55:46looking for more of those devil eyes.
00:55:48And what if he did see this red-hot coal?
00:55:50What then?
00:55:52Well, he can hide and pretend he didn't see it.
00:55:54Or he can try to inform
00:55:56the proper authorities.
00:55:58And we both know how the proper authorities
00:56:00feel about it, don't we?
00:56:02So he doesn't waste his time.
00:56:04Which leaves only one thing he can do.
00:56:08He can try to take care of this thing himself.
00:56:14Which is where you come in.
00:56:16You can give him adequate protection.
00:56:18It's your job.
00:56:20My job is to keep from getting a Section 8.
00:56:22Look, this is not pure imagination.
00:56:24We have proof.
00:56:26What proof?
00:56:28The girl's statement that a light was following her.
00:56:30That it was a beacon.
00:56:32The whole thing has been one big hoax.
00:56:34That's his problem, not mine.
00:56:36I'm a Coast Guardsman,
00:56:38not a personal bodyguard.
00:56:44Anything short of a reported mermaid
00:56:46or a dune roller on the lake.
00:56:50Thank you, Commander.
00:57:02You're welcome.
00:57:24Set a little demo on it.
00:57:26Going into business?
00:57:28How about a party?
00:57:30Have a lab coat, we'll travel.
00:57:34Willie,
00:57:36it's time you went home.
00:57:38Your family's going to be worried.
00:57:40I don't know this business you're going into,
00:57:42Monaghan.
00:57:44You must have some angle for success.
00:57:54I'm going to the hospital to pick up Jeannie.
00:57:56Want me to give you a ride to the depot?
00:57:58No, tomorrow's time enough.
00:58:00Okay.
00:58:02But tomorrow.
00:58:26I'm going to the hospital.
00:58:56♪♪♪
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01:00:12I'm sorry about it, Frank.
01:00:38I'm sure you are.
01:00:43So is the sheriff.
01:00:47All of us.
01:00:50The deputy is running a volunteer to comb the woods around the lake.
01:00:55The commander is planning to keep a 48-hour watch around the clock.
01:00:58The transmitter is sent to your uncle Kirk.
01:01:08He's going to be in touch with me.
01:01:18If you want to come with us, we're meeting outside Mort William's store.
01:01:28Okay.
01:01:49It wasn't your fault, Dan.
01:01:52It wasn't anyone's fault.
01:01:54What are you going to do?
01:01:55I should have done it sooner.
01:01:56I'm coming with you.
01:01:57No. No one else.
01:02:02If you really want to help me, then trust me.
01:02:05I've got to finish what we started.
01:02:07Please.
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01:08:38Ian!
01:08:39Ian!
01:08:40Ian!
01:08:41Ian!
01:08:42Ian!
01:08:43Ian!
01:08:44Ian!
01:08:45Ian!
01:08:46Ian!
01:08:48Bring her to me.
01:08:52Bring her to me.
01:09:17Oh!
01:09:18Oh!
01:09:19Oh!
01:09:20Oh!
01:09:21Oh!
01:09:22Oh!
01:09:23Oh!
01:09:24Oh!
01:09:25Oh!
01:09:41Ian?
01:09:43Ian?
01:09:45Ginny, why did you do it?
01:09:48I was afraid.
01:09:49I didn't know what you were going to do.
01:09:54Look out, Ginny.
01:09:55Quick, over there.
01:09:56Go on.
01:09:57Cover up.
01:09:58Ginny, quickly.
01:09:59Let's go, Ginny.
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