In the English countryside, a rocket crashes on a farm and Professor Bernard Quatermass and Scotland Yard Inspector Lomax arrive in the spot. The rocket was launched by Prof. Quatermass with the astronauts Victor Carroon, Greene and Reichebheim; however only Carroon is found very sick in the cabin. He is transported to a private clinic to stay under observation despite the protests of his wife Mrs. Judith Carroon. She bribes a nurse to bring Carroon to her and she finds that he is transforming into a monster. Carroon escapes, killing people and animals during his metamorphosis while the Scotland Yard is hunting him down and Dr. Quatermass discovers that his process is an alien invasion.
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00:19:15I think I can save you a lot of time, Inspector,
00:19:17with your so-called investigation.
00:19:19I have here the particulars on all three members of the crew.
00:19:22Charles Green, Ludwig Reichenheim, Victor Caroon.
00:19:26You'll find everything there, Inspector.
00:19:28Medical histories, personal description,
00:19:30academic achievements, professional activities,
00:19:32politics, and even fingerprints.
00:19:34That's very thoughtful of you.
00:19:36There's only one investigation likely to serve any good purpose
00:19:38in this situation, Inspector.
00:19:41That's a scientific one.
00:19:46I'm sure even you will agree that between us,
00:19:48I'm the best qualified for that assignment.
00:19:50Good day, Inspector.
00:19:54Well, they might almost say we've been given a rocket.
00:19:57Yes, sir.
00:20:09It's absolutely unbelievable.
00:20:10It just isn't clinically possible
00:20:12that his heart should respond like this.
00:20:14Pulse, blood pressure, the same.
00:20:16Impossibly low.
00:20:18He shouldn't be alive, but he is.
00:20:20Can't you do something to increase the metabolic rate?
00:20:22Tried everything. No effect.
00:20:24I never knew pressure effects to last this long.
00:20:26These aren't just pressure effects.
00:20:28It isn't only his face. Take a look at his skin.
00:20:31Anyway, here, on the shoulder.
00:20:33Feel it.
00:20:36Swollen. Coarsened.
00:20:38Yes, and that's not all, either.
00:20:40Look at the contour of the face.
00:20:42You mean the bone structure?
00:20:44Yes, I could be wrong about a limb,
00:20:46but not about the shape of the bones.
00:20:48There's been a change. I'm convinced of that.
00:20:52Is he any better?
00:20:54He's coming along fine.
00:20:56If only he'd say something.
00:20:58Give us a sign that he's thinking,
00:21:00that he knows we're here.
00:21:02He knows, Judith. He knows we're trying to help him.
00:21:04What is happening to him?
00:21:06That's what we're trying to find out.
00:21:08Shouldn't he be in a hospital?
00:21:10That's exactly where he should be.
00:21:12Frisco, I can't take this responsibility any longer.
00:21:15I haven't got the proper equipment here to do the right tests.
00:21:17He belongs in a hospital.
00:21:21I suppose you're right.
00:21:24I suppose you're both right.
00:21:26He does belong in a hospital.
00:21:30But can a hospital do more than you can do?
00:21:32Would a hospital know what goes on out there in space,
00:21:35on the other side of the air?
00:21:37There's a whole new world out there, a wilderness, uncharted.
00:21:40And he's been there and come back.
00:21:42He's got the map.
00:21:44Unlock his mind for me, Briscoe, and find it.
00:21:46I know you can do it.
00:21:48It isn't just a question of...
00:21:50I know the strain and tension you've been under,
00:21:52but to stop now when we're so close,
00:21:54on the brink of something tremendous,
00:21:56the very fringe of some great discovery,
00:21:58we can't stop now, Briscoe.
00:22:00Besides, it's our only chance to learn what happened to the others.
00:22:02At a hospital, you'd have all the most modern...
00:22:04Would a hospital know how to deal with a man
00:22:06who's been exposed to rocket radiation...
00:22:08With a mass of pressure at 1,500 miles up...
00:22:10During flight training, he took seven times the force of gravity
00:22:12without even a headache to show for it.
00:22:14We know that, but would a hospital know it?
00:22:26Well, I'll try another transfusion, see if that'll help.
00:22:33Thanks.
00:22:35You'll stay with him, won't you, Judy?
00:22:38He needs you.
00:22:48Victor.
00:23:09I think we're moving him to the office.
00:23:11We can make him more comfortable in there.
00:23:13Would you help me, please?
00:23:15Of course.
00:23:17Thank you for all you're doing, Gordon.
00:23:19I only wish I could do more.
00:23:29The solution is elementary, my dear inspector.
00:23:31Victor Carone killed the two men, removed their precious suits,
00:23:34pushed their bodies out into space,
00:23:36and then linked the suits together again.
00:23:38Now, what do you want?
00:23:40Two things. Number one, I want to return these files.
00:23:42Green, Reichenheim, Carone.
00:23:44Very interesting. Carone...
00:23:46Number two?
00:23:48Well, I want you to give me your solemn word...
00:23:50Well, inspector, I'm a very busy man.
00:23:52Now, look, sir, nobody ever wins a Cold War.
00:23:54One of us had better come over to the other side.
00:23:56If you don't want to come over to mine, I'm not proud,
00:23:58I'll come over to yours.
00:24:00Solemn word about what?
00:24:02That these were Carone's fingerprints.
00:24:04What are you getting at?
00:24:06To be quite honest, I don't quite know, sir.
00:24:08Nothing unusual about these.
00:24:10These are the fingerprints we took off Carone last night.
00:24:12What about them?
00:24:14Compare them.
00:24:25Is this a joke?
00:24:27This is no joke, sir.
00:24:29The man who took those had his training in the fingerprint section,
00:24:31which is second nature to him.
00:24:33The prints aren't even...
00:24:35Human.
00:24:37Yes?
00:24:39You found what?
00:24:41I'll be right there.
00:24:43Well, wherever you go, you might as well keep your company, mightn't I?
00:24:47Very nice of you.
00:24:51Check the safety casing on the wiring.
00:24:53Behind there.
00:25:03Can you get at it?
00:25:05No.
00:25:07It's right in the crevice.
00:25:09Hand-me-made sample spoon from my box.
00:25:34Any more of this?
00:25:36Yes, sir, lots.
00:25:38On the left.
00:25:40By the rivet there.
00:25:42Mind if I have a sample for that, people?
00:25:44Sure, we'll give you a sample.
00:25:50Frisco.
00:25:52What do you think it is?
00:25:54I don't think. I want to be sure.
00:25:57I've been in this thing all night.
00:25:59I just know that stuff's been around all night.
00:26:01I just know that stuff's been around the whole time.
00:26:03Get out of there, lad.
00:26:06You got the same bright thoughts that I have?
00:26:11Something happened in here.
00:26:13Something beyond our understanding at the moment.
00:26:17If I only knew where to begin.
00:26:19Maybe the film will help.
00:26:20Film?
00:26:22Yes, the lab should have developed it by now.
00:26:24I thought you told me the camera was smashed.
00:26:26It was badly damaged, but I managed to get the film out.
00:26:28Why didn't you tell me?
00:26:30To develop it or not?
00:26:31They've got to develop it.
00:26:33You get right down to that laboratory and tell them they've got to develop that film.
00:26:35Yes, sir.
00:26:36And I'll have no delays or excuses.
00:26:38Tell them to get the best process man in the country.
00:26:40Tell them to get anybody they want, but I've got to have that film.
00:26:42Right, sir.
00:26:44This is one premiere I don't want to miss.
00:27:00Come on.
00:27:30Come on.
00:27:58Well?
00:27:59It's harmless, it's organic, it's jelly.
00:28:01End of analysis.
00:28:02No definite identification?
00:28:04It might conceivably represent the dead remnants of cell tissue.
00:28:07What sort of cell tissue?
00:28:08Could be animal, could be human.
00:28:11Human?
00:28:12Could be.
00:28:16Do you know what you're saying?
00:28:18I know what I'm thinking.
00:28:20Are you sure it's not some sort of plant cell?
00:28:23Positive.
00:28:24Positive.
00:28:26You mean to say that you're asking me to believe that that is the remains of two human beings?
00:28:30I'm not asking you to believe anything.
00:28:31You asked a question, I answered it.
00:28:36Does she know?
00:28:37No, this is the first sleep she's had in nights.
00:28:39What about the police analysts?
00:28:40What do they say?
00:28:42No report through yet.
00:28:43But I don't doubt it'll be the same.
00:28:45It's almost beyond human understanding.
00:28:48Some fantastic invisible force converted two men into jelly?
00:28:56Is that the slide?
00:28:57That's the slide.
00:28:59I'm about to call it a day, Equator Mass.
00:29:01Beyond this, I'm a babe in a...
00:29:03Gordon!
00:29:08All right, get him up.
00:29:10No, wait a minute.
00:29:12His hand.
00:29:14Another change.
00:29:16Get him back to bed.
00:29:19Come on.
00:29:27Look what's happening to his skin.
00:29:28In just the last few moments, I'll go and get him a sedative.
00:29:35You've done this to him.
00:29:36He'd have been better off if he'd been killed or stayed out there.
00:29:38Judith!
00:29:39You've destroyed him like you've destroyed everything else you've touched.
00:29:41Destroyed him? I've brought him back. I've saved him.
00:29:43Saved him? For what? For further experiments?
00:29:45I can help him more than you or anyone else can.
00:29:47There's no room for personal feelings in science, Judith.
00:29:50Some of us have a mission.
00:29:51You should be very proud to have a husband who's willing to risk his life for the betterment of the whole world.
00:29:55What world? Your world? The world of Equator Mass?
00:29:59I've sent for an ambulance.
00:30:01He's going to the central clinic.
00:30:05All right, Frisco.
00:30:07Send him to the clinic.
00:30:09But I want him to have complete isolation, you understand? Complete isolation.
00:30:14No one is to see him.
00:30:15No one.
00:30:16Until I say so.
00:30:29We've tried three different grades of stock.
00:30:31Developed each one to as high a gamma as possible and still it's made no difference.
00:30:35Look at this. It's grainy and dull.
00:30:37All I want is a print.
00:30:38Well, we don't like any print that isn't up to standard.
00:30:40Is there a picture on it?
00:30:41Oh, there's a picture, all right, but you can see how dull and grainy it is.
00:30:44I don't care how dull and grainy it is. I must have this now.
00:30:46It could be altitude or an extreme change of temperature or penetration of cosmic rays.
00:30:50Fine, fine, I'll tell him that.
00:30:51Well, I don't know what the old man will say.
00:30:53Listen, you tell your old man that our old man, if he didn't get this print, he'd dynamite the building.
00:31:00I can't tell the ministry this. They'll think I've lost my senses.
00:31:02That's exactly why you must tell them nothing.
00:31:04Now you see why I must have absolute authority to isolate Caroon.
00:31:07But every newspaper in town has got a story on him being admitted into the clinic.
00:31:10They'll want to know why and what's happened to him and what's happened to the others.
00:31:13All right, do you want to tell them?
00:31:14Well, not telling them won't stop the panic.
00:31:16What they don't know won't start a panic.
00:31:17Inspector, what about the police analysis?
00:31:19The same, Mr. Blake.
00:31:21What's the next move?
00:31:22Well, we've agreed to isolation. It's the only thing we can do until we know more.
00:31:29Yes?
00:31:35The film is ready.
00:32:14See that, Marge? It works.
00:32:16Yes, sir. What works?
00:32:17Automatic prism. It cuts in the panel readings.
00:32:43The film is ready.
00:33:14Is that all?
00:33:15Once in the observation zone, the camera's geared to cut out at regular intervals.
00:33:18This will be the 0.16.
00:33:25That must be why we lost them.
00:33:44Oh, no, it could have happened.
00:33:46Look at that fantastic temperature drop.
00:34:13The film is ready.
00:34:15See that, Marge? It works.
00:34:16Automatic prism. It cuts in the panel readings.
00:34:18The film is ready.
00:34:20Is that all?
00:34:21Yes, sir.
00:34:22Is that all?
00:34:23Yes, sir.
00:34:24Is that all?
00:34:25Yes, sir.
00:34:26Is that all?
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00:35:32Is that all?
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00:35:34Is that all?
00:35:35Yes, sir.
00:35:36Is that all?
00:35:37Yes, sir.
00:35:38Is that all?
00:35:39Yes, sir.
00:35:40I'll talk to him as soon as possible.
00:35:41Yes.
00:35:42What's your name, please?
00:35:43Oh.
00:35:44Has two Ts?
00:35:45Uh-huh.
00:35:46Uh-huh.
00:35:47Uh-huh.
00:35:48Yes.
00:35:49I'll see if he gets it.
00:35:50Yes.
00:35:51Sorry, miss, the visiting hour is over.
00:35:52I just wanted to know how my husband is.
00:35:53Oh, I'll try and find out for you, miss.
00:35:54What will the name be?
00:35:55Caroon.
00:35:56Victor Caroon.
00:35:57Oh.
00:35:58He's all right, isn't he?
00:35:59He's all right.
00:36:00He's all right.
00:36:01He's all right.
00:36:02He's all right.
00:36:03He's all right.
00:36:04He's all right.
00:36:05He's all right.
00:36:06He's all right.
00:36:07He's all right.
00:36:08He's all right.
00:36:09He's all right, isn't he?
00:36:10Mrs. Caroon, I wish I could let you go up, but we've strict orders about your husband.
00:36:14All I want to know is how is he.
00:36:15Is there any change?
00:36:17Just a minute.
00:36:21Hello, Mabel.
00:36:23Alf here.
00:36:24Listen.
00:36:25How is 4B?
00:36:26I know all about the orders, but I only want you to speak out loud.
00:36:31Thank you, Mabel.
00:36:34He's going on about the same, Mrs. Caroon.
00:36:37No change, but no worse.
00:36:38If I could see him just for a few minutes.
00:36:40I should be shot at dawn.
00:36:42But don't you worry.
00:36:43He's in good hands.
00:36:44They don't leave him alone, do they?
00:36:46Oh, not for a moment.
00:36:47Tucker, his night nurse, is with him now.
00:36:49And Perkins comes on in about half an hour.
00:36:52Both as good as any doctor.
00:36:53Could I wait for the night nurse when he comes off duty?
00:36:55If only to talk to someone who's been with him.
00:36:58Please.
00:36:59Tucker comes off in about half an hour.
00:37:01He usually dips out through the staff entrance.
00:37:03Turn left through the doors, and he's on the right.
00:37:06Wait for him outside.
00:37:07And if they ask me, I never told you nothing.
00:37:33There's only the nurse with him.
00:37:34His name's Tucker.
00:37:35His name?
00:37:36You mean I've got to flirt with a he-nurse?
00:37:37Sleep, Harry.
00:37:38You've only got half an hour before the relief nurse
00:37:39comes on duty.
00:37:40Another one in pants?
00:37:41His name's Perkins.
00:37:42It's money, money, money.
00:37:44Cash before delivery.
00:37:45It always gives me more confidence.
00:37:46Especially when my investigating is this private.
00:37:48Room 4B.
00:37:494B.
00:37:56Give me 15 minutes.
00:37:57I'll put him in the lift and send him down.
00:37:59Then he's all yours.
00:38:00I never saw you in my life.
00:38:01Please, Harry.
00:38:02And he's very sick.
00:38:03Don't worry.
00:38:04I'll love him like a baby.
00:38:25You've got to get him.
00:38:26Relax, lady.
00:38:27You're shaking the bed.
00:38:54Evening.
00:38:55Hello.
00:39:01Evening.
00:39:02I'm from casualty.
00:39:03Perkins is sick.
00:39:04He asked me to take over his night shift.
00:39:05Fine.
00:39:06I know I'm too honest, but you're not due for another half hour.
00:39:08Who cares?
00:39:09Night shift is night shift.
00:39:10What's a half an hour here or there?
00:39:11You know you're good to heaven for this?
00:39:12At our rate of pay, we should get some fun out of life.
00:39:15What's his trouble?
00:39:16He doesn't seem to know.
00:39:17He's the star patient.
00:39:18He just lies and stares.
00:39:20Never opens his mouth.
00:39:21But if he does, press that bell and quick.
00:39:23Well, happy nightmare.
00:39:25Any special instructions?
00:39:26They're all under the chart.
00:39:27Good night.
00:39:28Good night.
00:39:30News, my friend.
00:39:32Your wife is waiting for you downstairs.
00:39:34I'm the man who's going to get you out of here.
00:39:36Does that make you happy?
00:39:38It does?
00:39:39Good.
00:39:40Look, we don't have too much time, so up we get.
00:39:53Hello.
00:39:54Hello.
00:39:55What time are you off?
00:39:56Ask him whether he's going to live with me.
00:39:58Ask him whether he's going to live or not.
00:39:59Operating?
00:40:00For about three and a half hours at least.
00:40:02You too?
00:40:03Me too.
00:40:04Chinese restaurant, open till midnight.
00:40:05I'll take you both.
00:40:06Beautiful sweet and sour pork.
00:40:08Roast duck, fried shrimp.
00:40:09You've talked us into it.
00:40:11There we are.
00:40:13Now the jacket.
00:40:21That's a good boy.
00:40:23Can't beat the lady looking sloppy.
00:40:25You know, it's funny.
00:40:27Guys usually employ me to get them away from their husbands.
00:40:30Oh, you're a sad one.
00:40:32Well, to each his own.
00:40:34Hey, steady, steady.
00:40:37Now you stay here while Christy goes and gets the lift.
00:40:39Won't be a minute.
00:40:58All clear.
00:41:00Hey, come on, hurry.
00:41:02That's the boy.
00:41:03Christy's got you.
00:41:27What have you got there?
00:41:41What are you hiding?
00:41:45What is it?
00:41:58Victor.
00:42:01Oh, Victor, darling.
00:42:03I've got the car outside.
00:42:05Please try and be quick.
00:42:07You can make it, dear.
00:42:21Everything's going to be all right, Victor.
00:42:23I'll get you the car.
00:42:24Everything's going to be all right, Victor.
00:42:26I'll get you the best treatment.
00:42:28The finest doctors.
00:42:31I'll get you well and strong.
00:42:33We'll make a new life for ourselves.
00:42:35Away from all this.
00:42:37Away from him.
00:42:39Our life will be our own.
00:42:49Would you like one?
00:42:56Victor, I...
00:43:05Victor.
00:43:14You're home.
00:43:16You're home.
00:43:35Well, this is one case I don't think we'll find listed in forensic medicine.
00:43:39Looks as though the knife was drawn right out of him.
00:43:41Have the body examined by a head pathologist.
00:43:43I'd like a report as soon as possible.
00:43:45The home office pathologist also took a little peep.
00:43:47I don't care if he dunks his head into a rainbow.
00:43:49The other side of town.
00:43:50Car full of luggage.
00:43:51And Caroon?
00:43:52No sign of him.
00:43:53Stupid idiot.
00:43:54Trying to take the whole thing in her own hand.
00:43:55Where did he go?
00:43:56What did she say?
00:43:57She didn't say anything.
00:43:58Anything about him.
00:43:59She's in a pretty bad state of shock.
00:44:00If not about him, then about what?
00:44:01The doctor said she may even go out of her mind.
00:44:02Out of her mind about what?
00:44:03What did she say?
00:44:04Come on, talk, man.
00:44:05Well, when they found her, she was just sitting at the wheel of a car and moaning.
00:44:10Something about a hand being all grey.
00:44:14With thorns, like a...
00:44:16Like a cactus.
00:44:31I remember there was a cactus in this room, in this pot.
00:44:33Can I get a direct line through this?
00:44:34Yes.
00:44:37Hello?
00:44:39Hello?
00:44:41Get me Scotland Yard.
00:44:44Car 3-9. Car 3-9.
00:44:47Proceed immediately to 34 Baynham Street and investigate the board of Prowler by residence.
00:44:53May be Caroon. Proceed with caution.
00:44:56Car 3-9.
00:44:57Roger that.
00:44:58Cars 2-1 and 2-2.
00:45:00Join River Police at Hayes Wharf to search area bounded by...
00:45:05...Hayes Lane and Tooley Street.
00:45:10River Patrol 4. River Patrol 4.
00:45:13Join Mobile Police at Hayes Wharf to search area bounded by Tooley Street, Hayes Lane and Strat Thames.
00:45:20River Patrol 4. Roger. Out.
00:45:34River Patrol 4. River Patrol 4.
00:45:55This growth on the face. Half plant, half...
00:45:59Look at this.
00:46:01If it's done, the whole tissue structure is eaten away. The bones powder.
00:46:07Well, it takes care of my supper tonight.
00:46:10Frisco.
00:46:12What if there is a form of life in space?
00:46:14Not on some planet, but just drifting.
00:46:17Bad news.
00:46:22Not life as we know it. With intelligence, yes.
00:46:25But pure energy with no organic structure. Invisible.
00:46:28Invisible?
00:46:29Now, the rocket passed through its path. It entered the rocket.
00:46:32It found living specimens of our form of life.
00:46:34Cell organisms. Humans.
00:46:37Green and Russian.
00:46:39And Caroon. Exactly.
00:46:40Now, if even by accident it could enter one of those structures...
00:46:45...what a way to invade the Earth.
00:46:47Now, look, sir. I'm not over-intelligent, but when you...
00:46:49You saw the film. You know what happened.
00:46:52Only God knows where and how far that rocket traveled.
00:46:55But only two of them died.
00:46:56Something got into that rocket.
00:46:58Took the blood out of the other two, and now it's using Caroon.
00:47:01And it's found other forms of life.
00:47:04The cactus.
00:47:05Good grief. You mean Caroon's a carrier.
00:47:09He's now in the shell of a man being transformed.
00:47:12If one of these cactus plants were subject to the same mutation...
00:47:15...there could be an affinity, a union between plant and animal.
00:47:18With the ability to destroy.
00:47:20And possess.
00:47:22And multiply.
00:47:25At will.
00:47:26Multiply?
00:47:28Yes, but to multiply, first it has to live.
00:47:31And like any living thing, to live...
00:47:34To live, it must have food.
00:47:57I'm sorry, we're closed.
00:48:00All right, just a minute.
00:48:02Oh, dear.
00:48:04Look, we only open till...
00:48:06Hey, wait a minute!
00:48:08You can't come into a place like this!
00:48:10Leave those things alone!
00:48:15What do you think you're doing?
00:48:17I'm not doing anything!
00:48:19I'm not doing anything!
00:48:21I'm not doing anything!
00:48:23I'm not doing anything!
00:48:24What do you think you're doing?
00:48:29Are you in pain?
00:48:34Is it something to do with your arm?
00:48:37Look, I'll just take a look. I won't hurt it, I promise.
00:48:55No!
00:49:00All right, love, I'll get it.
00:49:05Hello?
00:49:06Yes, Bess?
00:49:08What?
00:49:09When?
00:49:11Right, cordon off the whole area.
00:49:13Tell Quatermas and Briscoe to meet us there.
00:49:15Ma?
00:49:18Now what?
00:49:19I've got to go back.
00:49:20But you've only just come in.
00:49:21You just can't do without me, love.
00:49:23I don't know why you don't move into the office.
00:49:25You'd never believe I was there.
00:49:27What makes you think I do now?
00:49:29Have your tea at least.
00:49:30I haven't got time, love.
00:49:32The things you do to that poor stomach of yours.
00:49:35I ought to get you a picnic basket.
00:49:37What I'm going on is no picnic.
00:49:39What about dinner?
00:49:41Cooking, keep your fingers crossed.
00:49:43Bye, love.
00:49:50What do you think he was trying to do?
00:49:52He was trying to think, kill himself.
00:49:54If his were mixed, the normal result would be death in five minutes.
00:49:56What?
00:49:57What is it?
00:49:59I've a pretty sick feeling it was something to speed up the change going on inside him.
00:50:02But Caroon was an engineer.
00:50:03He didn't know anything about chemistry.
00:50:05Caroon didn't know.
00:50:07There's a kettle still on, but there's no sign of the chemist anywhere.
00:50:09What do you think he was doing here?
00:50:11Well, one thing he was doing, he was...
00:50:12We're not certain.
00:50:13Not certain about anything with this customer.
00:50:15Well, nobody in the street heard anything.
00:50:17They're all at church or in the local.
00:50:19He must have...
00:50:23Evans, come in quick.
00:50:25And quiet.
00:50:52Quiet.
00:51:22Quiet.
00:51:52Quiet.
00:52:23There we are.
00:52:29And there's just the two of us today.
00:52:31We'll have our own tea party.
00:52:33I don't like those other girls anyway.
00:52:35All they do is talk about their new clothes and dolls.
00:52:38You don't care about those things, do you?
00:52:40You don't care about new clothes or anything.
00:52:42We're friends.
00:52:47Now you sit there and be a good girl while I make the tea.
00:52:49There's the teapot.
00:52:51There's the cups.
00:52:59And I brought the most delicious cakes and biscuits.
00:53:02The others never serve anything.
00:53:04But we do.
00:53:06Look, aren't they lovely?
00:53:09Don't be frightened.
00:53:11That's only the old rats that live in this old boat.
00:53:14Now, you sit there and be a good girl while I make the tea.
00:53:16That's only the old rats that live in this old boat.
00:53:19Now, tea is ready.
00:53:23Sugar? One, two. All right.
00:53:27Now you may have a cake.
00:53:29This one. It's filled with cherries.
00:53:31But anyway, I like the other one because it's full of chocolate.
00:53:36Oh, we thought you were rats.
00:53:40Won't you stay and have tea with us?
00:53:44We'd very much like you to stay.
00:53:46You look so tired.
00:53:49There's plenty if that's what you're worried about.
00:53:51And cakes, too.
00:53:54Go on, Dolly. You ask him.
00:53:56Please, won't you have tea and cakes with us?
00:54:00Don't be frightened.
00:54:02We would like you to stay very much.
00:54:04And you may have the cake that has all the chocolate inside.
00:54:07Tell him, Dolly.
00:54:16Yes?
00:54:34Yes?
00:54:36What time was this?
00:54:38Was it an eyewitness?
00:54:40I see.
00:54:42Well, they're doing fine.
00:54:44Yes?
00:54:46Yes. Deptford area.
00:54:48What?
00:54:50A kid told her mother.
00:54:52Yes? About two hours ago.
00:54:54Hold it, please.
00:54:56A kid got a dog run by a man down by some derelict boats near Deptford.
00:54:59So it had to be Caroon.
00:55:01No, the mother's complaining about molesting kids.
00:55:03Deptford said the description could fit Caroon.
00:55:05All right. Well, that's why there's a police station at Deptford.
00:55:07Thank you, Deptford. Keep us informed.
00:55:09Mobile.
00:55:11There's a Deptford alert on Caroon.
00:55:13It is so your boys can have another little drive.
00:55:15Oh.
00:55:17Club of derelict boats, warehouses and bomb shelters.
00:55:19All right. So do it again.
00:55:22Where's he getting food? That's what I'd like to know.
00:55:25Now, now, shut up, Zimba.
00:55:27You've had your dinner. It's time to go to bed.
00:55:29Go on. Off you go.
00:55:31Go on. Don't stand there gaping at me. Off you go to bed.
00:55:44Good night, fellas.
00:55:46Sleep well?
00:55:48Hello, Joey. You know something?
00:55:50Could have sworn I saw you having tea in a cafe this afternoon.
00:55:53Turned out to be a customer, though.
00:56:13Good night.
00:56:43Good night.
00:57:13What?
00:57:43Oh!
00:58:13Oh!
00:58:44Oh!
00:58:46Oh!
00:59:14This is exactly as the keeper found them when he came on duty.
00:59:17Are there others, you say?
00:59:19Yes. Over here.
00:59:44We found three more soon outside the interloop house.
00:59:46Well, what was left of them?
00:59:48Look.
00:59:55Look at that.
00:59:57Complete absorption this time.
00:59:59That's what I've been afraid of.
01:00:01Inspector, get this place closed. Get everybody out of here.
01:00:03Right. As quickly and quietly as possible.
01:00:05No panic, no excitement.
01:00:07We closed the whole place up, but we already roped the Ares off.
01:00:09Listen, sir, you've got to take it from us. We know what we're doing.
01:00:11Just tell your men to cooperate, please.
01:00:13What killed these animals?
01:00:15You'd better say natural causes for now.
01:00:20Sorry, ma'am. We're closed this morning.
01:00:22Closed? But we've come all the way for Matthew.
01:00:24Sorry, ma'am. We're not open to the public this morning.
01:00:26Will it be open this afternoon?
01:00:28I wish I could tell you, sir.
01:00:30Sorry, folks. It's too closed.
01:00:32I'm very sorry now, but we're closed this afternoon.
01:00:33What's happened?
01:00:34I'm very sorry, sir.
01:00:44Wait a minute.
01:00:46Inspector.
01:01:13What is it?
01:01:15He was here.
01:01:19Look at this.
01:01:22It's alive.
01:01:24Looks pretty horrible, doesn't it?
01:01:26Quick, the sample box.
01:01:32Well, what manner or shape of thing do we look for now?
01:01:36You'll know it when you see it.
01:01:38Just send your men out with a printout.
01:01:39What manner or shape of thing do we look for now?
01:01:41You'll know it when you see it.
01:01:43Just send your men out with a prayer that we find it in time.
01:01:49It's almost too terrifying to think about.
01:01:51In less than 12 minutes, every animal completely absorbed.
01:01:54Except one.
01:01:56Gone like quicksand.
01:01:59But this quicksand knows what it's doing.
01:02:01It's troubled at size in an hour.
01:02:03Do you know what this means?
01:02:05This is only a fragment of the main organism.
01:02:07If the same thing is happening to him
01:02:09at the same speed,
01:02:11if absorbing those mice could do this,
01:02:13there is no living thing on earth
01:02:15that stands a chance against it.
01:02:17How do we fight it? How do we stop it?
01:02:19Hands off me, young man.
01:02:21Please remember that I've come here of my own accord.
01:02:23Yes, yes.
01:02:25I've come here to complain about something, what I saw.
01:02:27Okay, Rosie, you keep saying that.
01:02:29I refuse to divulge it to any common constable
01:02:31who has nothing else to do all day
01:02:33but sit on his big, flat fleet.
01:02:35On his big, fat fleet.
01:02:36Now, now, come on, Rosie, old girl.
01:02:38Don't you want to call me?
01:02:40I'm young enough to be your mother.
01:02:42So what respectable woman would you want to be?
01:02:44I don't know.
01:02:46All right, Constable.
01:02:48But here, I come in here in my own free will.
01:02:50I come here in my own violation.
01:02:52I'm very glad we are to see you, Rosie.
01:02:54What can we do for you this time?
01:02:56I wish to make a report.
01:02:58Miss Rosemary Elizabeth Wrigley.
01:03:00What address this week?
01:03:02Well, I'm temporarily visiting.
01:03:04Bow Street?
01:03:06The embankment.
01:03:08What did you see this time, Rosie?
01:03:10Oh, it was terrible, shocking.
01:03:12It always is, Rosie.
01:03:14Just tell me what you saw.
01:03:16Well, it's a bit of a thing if a young woman
01:03:18can't walk the streets of London
01:03:20with that creepy crawly being able to rumble about
01:03:22as the police.
01:03:24What's the police force for
01:03:26if they're not in protection from the likes of that?
01:03:28Come on, tell me.
01:03:30Tell me, what's the police force for?
01:03:32Rosie.
01:03:34Rosie, just tell me what you saw
01:03:36when your voice went so dry
01:03:38that I couldn't even yell for a copper.
01:03:40I still got this awful thirst.
01:03:42Makes it hard to remember.
01:03:44And water makes me as sick as a baby.
01:03:46That better be worthwhile, Rosie.
01:03:48After you, tell me.
01:03:50Now,
01:03:52I was sitting in a doorway, see,
01:03:54because I wasn't feeling so well.
01:03:56And the doctor says that too much walking's bad for me legs.
01:03:59My legs, you see.
01:04:01You were sitting in a doorway?
01:04:03Just for a minute or two,
01:04:04with a kind of rustling, it was.
01:04:06Rustling?
01:04:08So I looked,
01:04:10and there at the end of the street,
01:04:12I saw something move.
01:04:14Something enormous.
01:04:16What moved, Rosie?
01:04:18I couldn't make out the shape properly.
01:04:20I usually make out the shape of these things.
01:04:22Think carefully, Rosie.
01:04:24Was it
01:04:26this something?
01:04:28Was it walking quickly or slowly?
01:04:30Walking?
01:04:32It was kind of crawly.
01:04:34Crawly?
01:04:36What about any of the things that I'll see on Saturday nights?
01:04:39No, Rosie, I think this time you really saw it.
01:04:41Get me the yard.
01:04:43Or cancel it, that's a priority.
01:04:45Really saw it?
01:04:47You mean that this time it's not a...
01:04:49It's not a gin goblin?
01:04:51No, Rosie, this time it was real.
01:04:53Real?
01:04:55It's my legs!
01:04:57Hello, Scotland Yard?
01:04:59Yes, Inspector Lomax, please.
01:05:01Lomax here.
01:05:03Say that again?
01:05:05Get the commissioner right away.
01:05:12Hello? Yes.
01:05:14Yes.
01:05:16We'll be right there.
01:05:18Lomax.
01:05:22He says it climbed a brick wall 30 feet high.
01:05:3230 feet high.
01:06:03Yes, no doubt at all.
01:06:05He was here quite recently, too.
01:06:07The trail ends on the wall.
01:06:09Let me have that case up here.
01:06:11Get him his case, Sergeant.
01:06:13Send the car, please.
01:06:15Use the car radio.
01:06:17I want a cordon around the entire area.
01:06:19Evacuate all public.
01:06:21Get information to check up every movement
01:06:23that's likely to take place inside this radius tonight.
01:06:25Yes, sir.
01:06:27Warn everyone not to touch anything unusual
01:06:29they may find in the streets or their gardens.
01:06:30Yes, sir.
01:07:01Get out.
01:07:04Look at the size of it now.
01:07:06It was our school.
01:07:08It's mine, sir.
01:07:10It's mine.
01:07:12It's mine.
01:07:14It's mine.
01:07:16It's mine.
01:07:18It's mine.
01:07:20It's mine.
01:07:22It's mine.
01:07:24It's mine.
01:07:26It's mine.
01:07:28It's mine.
01:07:30It's mine.
01:07:34Yes.
01:07:36Don't touch it.
01:07:38Look at those spore-producing patches.
01:07:40If it had lived to complete this reproductive cycle,
01:07:42this room would have been a jungle of living tendrils.
01:07:44How many more of these things are there around London?
01:07:46I ain't got a fair limit.
01:07:48It's not a question of how many, but where are they.
01:07:50If it can reproduce at this rate,
01:07:52another 24 hours, a few days...
01:07:54Get me Scott on the yard quickly.
01:07:56Suppose it had reached the mice.
01:07:58Yes.
01:08:00I want him to get out an anti-panic statement.
01:08:02I want it broadcast, televised,
01:08:04and printed in all the nationals.
01:08:06Yes, sir.
01:08:08I want every available man in the metropolitan area.
01:08:10Immediate search of parks, fields,
01:08:12undergrounds, and subways.
01:08:14Yes, sir.
01:08:16It's the greatest experiment.
01:08:18I'm afraid you'll have to take it right to top level, sir.
01:08:20I need troops and the civil defense.
01:08:22Yes, sir. I'll be right up.
01:08:30Come on.
01:09:01This is all we need to start the program with a swing.
01:09:03What's he talking about?
01:09:05Oh, no one must touch anything unusual
01:09:07they find in the streets.
01:09:09Don't panic.
01:09:11Just inform the nearest police station.
01:09:13They've been putting that out all day on the radio.
01:09:15Westminster Abbey.
01:09:17Yes?
01:09:19Standing by.
01:09:21Opening announcement coming up.
01:09:23Okay, stay on the radio.
01:09:25Yes, sir.
01:09:26Standing by.
01:09:28Opening announcement coming up.
01:09:30Okay, stand by, cameras.
01:09:38All right, camera one, titles are in.
01:09:40We'll be on you in five seconds.
01:09:42Four, three, two, one.
01:09:52On you, camera one, where are you?
01:09:53All right, quick, take over camera two.
01:09:55On you instead.
01:10:00What's that?
01:10:02What's happened?
01:10:04Looks like a body.
01:10:06Kill transmission.
01:10:08Lime Grove, fill in, will you?
01:10:10I'll get back as soon as possible.
01:10:12Tell presentation.
01:10:24What goes on here?
01:10:26He fell from the scaffolding.
01:10:28He slipped.
01:10:30Dead before he fell.
01:10:32Dead before he fell.
01:10:34I shouldn't have let him go to his fun stomach.
01:10:36It's practical.
01:10:38Better get the police.
01:10:40Yes, get the police.
01:10:42Well, will we go on with the program?
01:10:44It's up to you, sir, if you...
01:10:46I'm all right.
01:10:48I think we'd better carry on on the other part of the abbey.
01:10:50Right.
01:10:51Pull that lot in over here, will you?
01:10:53Get a blanket or something and cover him up.
01:10:55Come on, quick.
01:11:02Yes, wait a minute.
01:11:04Right.
01:11:14All right, I want the whole abbey cleared.
01:11:16Public, clergy, everyone, and quick.
01:11:18Please, inspector, not so loud.
01:11:19There's a transmission going on.
01:11:21There's a transmission coming off.
01:11:23They want you all out of this place.
01:11:25Every second they count.
01:11:29Inspector, not in front of the cameras.
01:11:31This is going all over England.
01:11:33It's an emergency.
01:11:35Get this stopped.
01:11:37Stopped? I can't stop it.
01:11:39Where's your producer?
01:11:41He's on the truck.
01:11:50Radio for reinforcements.
01:11:54Stay open, camera two.
01:11:56Stand behind the stained glass window.
01:11:59Camera three and scaffolding, hold it.
01:12:01I'm inspector Long.
01:12:03I've got to get two people out of the abbey.
01:12:05Please, coming onto you, camera three.
01:12:07Everybody in that building may be in deadly danger.
01:12:09We're on transmission.
01:12:11I've got you, camera one.
01:12:13Turn up as high as you can.
01:12:15What in the name of...
01:12:17It must be 20 feet across.
01:12:20Fuel transmission.
01:12:22Camera one, hold that shot and lock off,
01:12:24and everybody out.
01:12:27Hello, hello, presentation.
01:12:29Yes, you'll just have to carry on, inspector.
01:12:31You can't, we can't go on here.
01:12:33Yes, yes, fill in, will you?
01:12:37Three of us, quick, in the truck.
01:12:39We'll never let Abbey Jack distract us.
01:12:44At the abbey, there's an emergency.
01:12:46You saw it?
01:12:47We don't know what it is.
01:12:49Same pattern as the one in the lab.
01:12:51Only it was 20 times the power of reproduction.
01:12:53Those nodules, if they get to spore this time,
01:12:55nothing will stop them.
01:12:57They'll break out, they'll spread by the million
01:12:59wherever there's air and wind.
01:13:01How long before it starts reproducing again?
01:13:03Based on the last cycle, 80 or 90 minutes,
01:13:05and then within the hours, for every one,
01:13:07there'll be a million.
01:13:09It's coming lower.
01:13:11We've got to stop it.
01:13:13We'll need a miracle to stop it now.
01:13:15We'll get flamethrowers.
01:13:17It's very pulsating now.
01:13:19My timing was out.
01:13:21It's in its last dormant state just before it reproduces.
01:13:23It's changing again.
01:13:25The beginning of new spore producing zones, it doesn't.
01:13:27The way it's hanging there,
01:13:29wrapped around the scaffolding.
01:13:31Frisco, I think we can stop it.
01:13:37Now, Professor, that scaffolding inside,
01:13:39I want to run cables to it,
01:13:41then tap the main power line.
01:13:43I want to send enough current into that steel
01:13:45to burn it up.
01:13:47It's our only chance.
01:13:49I want every bit of current in London diverted to here.
01:13:51You'll bring the city to a standstill.
01:13:53If that thing spores before we kill it,
01:13:55you won't have any city.
01:13:57I just hope you're right, that's all.
01:13:59I just hope you're right.
01:14:18Attention, everybody.
01:14:20Attention, everybody.
01:14:22There is no cause for alarm.
01:14:24I repeat, there is no cause for alarm.
01:14:27Please do not crowd.
01:14:30Unless you have official business in this vicinity,
01:14:32please disperse.
01:14:34Go back to your homes.
01:14:36There is nothing to see.
01:14:38Go back to your homes.
01:14:47Go back to your homes.
01:15:17Go back to your homes.
01:15:48Hello, battle seat.
01:15:50Stand by.
01:15:56Switch on.
01:16:17Switch on.
01:16:47Switch on.
01:16:48Switch on.
01:17:16Well, this time you won.
01:17:18In my simple Bible way, I did a lot of pray.
01:17:20One world at a time is good enough for me.
01:17:31Can we ease it all up now, sir?
01:17:40Is it all right, sir?
01:17:49Wait a minute.
01:17:50Why wasn't I informed about all this?
01:17:55I've only just heard, sir.
01:17:56I'd have been here sooner.
01:17:58Is there anything I can do?
01:18:00Yes, Marsh.
01:18:01I'm going to need some help.
01:18:02Help, sir?
01:18:03What are you going to do?
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