Day of the Dead Page #3

The fact is...

the fact is...

either we are

the only ones left...

or there's nobody within range of my

puny little second world war signals.

We used to talk to Washington all

the time. They could hear us then.

We were on relays then.

We weren't over the air.

You know, the power's off on the

mainland now, in case you haven't heard.

All the shopping malls are closed.

We don't appreciate your jokes.

Keep it up, and Ill shove that

bottle of yours right up your wise ass.

I've got better things to do than listen

to this kindergarten. Are we finished?

No, we ain't

finished here, lady. Sit down.

What else do you want? We've given

you the reports for this week.

We've given you everything you've

asked for. You've given us greek salad.

Formulas, equations, a lot of

fancy terms that don't mean a thing.

I wanna know if you're doin' something that's

gonna help us out of this deep sh*t we're in,

or if you're all in there

just jerkin' each other off.

She doesn't have to jerk off like the rest of

us, Captain. She got an honest-to-god dick...

to get off on, huh?

It may be yellow,

but it's still a dick!

I said we ain't

finished here, lady.

Sit down.

Sit down, or so help me,

god, Ill have you shot.

- You'll what?

- I said,

"Ill have you shot. "

Have you lost your mind?

No, ma'am.

Have you? I just told you I was willing to

kill you if you didn't get back in your chair.

You didn't get back

in your chair.

Goddamn it! You can't

shove us around like this.

Since when did this

become a military operation?

Since I took over.

Steel, shoot that woman.

Bang! You're dead.

Shoot that woman

or you're dead.

You think

Im f***in' around, Steel?

You're wrong.

Now, you got till a count of

five, and that's two you wasted.

That's three.

- Four.

- Sit down, Sarah.

What is this?

Shut up and sit down.

That's five, Steel.

All right.

All right.

No!

Anybody else have any questions about the way

things are gonna run around here from now on?

This ain't

a goddamn field trip, people.

This is a f***in' war!

I'm not down in this cave for my

health. I'm down here on orders.

Your orders are to facilitate

the job of this scientific team.

This is a civilian team, and we don't

have to be subjected to your tyranny.

Who's being subjected

to what, Fisher?

You've lost one man.

Yeah. Right.

We've lost five.

Where does it say we gotta keep those

dumb fucks next door to where we sleep?

Where does it say we should do any one

thing but shoot the mothers in the head?

We don't have enough ammunition

to shoot them all in the head.

The time to have done that

would've been at the beginning.

No. We let them overrun us.

They have overrun us, you know.

We're in the minority now.

Something like 400,000

to one, by my calculations.

I haven't eaten.

Is there food?

You were supposed to be

here at 7:
00 sharp, mister.

I know. Sarah told me. I'm sorry. I

couldn't break away. Is there food?

Listen, egghead, let me bring you

up to date on what's... excuse me.

Let me...

excuse me!

- Is there food?

- I'm runnin' this monkey farm now, Frankenstein,

and I wanna know what the f***

you're doin' with my time!

'Cause if we're just

jerkin' off here,

Im gonna have my men

blow the piss...

out of those precious specimens

of yours,

And we're gonna get the hell out of here and

leave you and your highfalutin a**hole friends...

to rot

in this stinkin' sewer!

Is that food enough for ya?

Where will you go, Captain?

You can destroy my specimens,

but what about the millions more

that are waiting to greet you outside?

Do you really think you can

"blow the piss" out of them?

All of them? They have you in a

hopeless situation, strategically.

You're lost. Well,

you're lost unless...

unless what? Unless what, Frankenstein?

- Unless you can

make them behave.

This is a f***in' loony bin! I ain't bein'

paid enough to work in a f***in' loony bin!

- I ain't bein' paid at all!

- Paid? What the hell are they payin' him for?

All right. Shut up!

Just shut up!

What the hell are you

talkin' about, Frankenstein?

I'll be able to show you

soon enough. Sarah knows.

She's seen the progress Ive been

making. Isn't that right, Sarah?

Yes. There's been some progress.

What kind of progress?

What are you talkin' about, "make

them behave"? What does that mean?

It means keeping them from

wanting to eat us, for one thing.

It means keeping them in

check, controlling them.

- Controlling them.

- When are you gonna show us something we can understand?

Very close. Very close.

I think in a matter of weeks...

I don't think there's any way you can

tell how long anything is going to take.

It could be months; it could be years before

we know exactly what we're dealing with.

Sarah's research...

Sarah's research

is more esoteric than mine.

She's looking for a way to reverse the

process, a way to eradicate the problem.

That could take a long time,

a very long time.

She may never find

what she's looking for.

We have a limited supply

of chemical agents.

Our equipment

is hopelessly inadequate.

McDermott doesn't

have decent radio gear.

Now you're tellin' me that you

don't have the sh*t you need?

We're runnin' low on ammunition. We're

runnin' low on men, for chrissakes!

It was very rushed. This operation

was put together in a matter of days.

Yeah, well, it can all be taken

apart in a matter of minutes, lady,

and Im here to tell you that

Im ready to do that little thing.

I'm ready to

take the next train outta here!

I ask you again, Captain:

Where will you go?

You have no choices. You'll have to

give us the weeks that we've asked for.

You have to give us

however long it takes. Look.

There have to be survivors

in Washington. My ass.

They have more sophisticated

shelters than this one. Bullshit.

There have to be people in those shelters

who know about us, who know where we are.

With no radio contact,

they'll come looking for us.

I said shut up!

You got

a little more time.

A little more.

I ain't sayin' how much.

But you'd better start showin' me some

results, and you'd better not piss me off.

You understand? Nothin' happens around

here without my knowin' about it!

And anybody fucks

with my command,

they get court-martialed,

they get executed.

You'd better know

I mean it, too, people.

He wouldn't have done it.

I can't believe he would've.

No, he wouldn't

have done it.

- He would've had Steel do it.

- He can't be that inhuman.

No. He's human. That's

what scares me, you know.

He won't shoot Billy 'cause he doesn't

have anybody else who knows electronics.

He won't shoot me,

'cause Im his ride.

He probably won't shoot old Frankenstein,

'cause the old doc can talk him silly.

But the rest of you...

better start worrying,

you know.

Maybe if we tried working together,

we could ease some of the tensions.

- We're all pulling in different directions.

- That's the trouble, Sarah.

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