Devil's Gate Page #5

I wonder how long it

can survive without it.

If we're gonna have

any chance of trading it

for your son,

we need to make sure --

well, this thing

can't f***ing die

until I say it can.

Now come on! Get up!

Come on!

Come on!

They threw me away.

What?

They made this body..

And then they

destroyed Jackson.

What does that

even mean?

It means..

...my husband is dead.

I suspected that

he was different

for a long time that..

That the man I fell

in love with isn't

the one I married, but..

...those are crazy

thoughts, right?

Not so crazy now.

The worst part is

he had me believing

it was my fault.

It was you!

It was you all along

you goddamn monster!

What did he do?

What did he do?

I'll show you.

Go ahead, agent.

Have a look.

Oh, my god.

All those years

of shame of..

...of trying to hide it.

He wouldn't

even let me give them

a proper burial.

He said that they were

abominations

before the lord.

They're replacing us.

You're saying pritchard's

one of them?

I've had you

over to my house

and you fooled us all!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

How is this possible?

How could you not know?

It wanted me to know

why I was here.

They gotta change..

...to adapt

to life here.

The new ones,

they can't be mules.

They gotta be able

to breed true.

You see,

their world is dying.

They're just

running out of time

to get it right.

What about Jonah?

Jonah's so important.

He's the first

natural-born.

He's the future.

- He's their future.

- What about

our future, huh?

- Hey.

- What about our future?

Colt! Colt!

Back off!

I need you to go

upstairs right now

and make sure that

the house is secure.

Why?

If those things

wanna get in here

there's nothing

we can do about it.

You've seen

what they can do.

It is not easy for them,

or they would have

done it already.

We just need to be able

to hang on until morning.

For what? For Jonah?

The kid is

one of those things!

It's them.

They're coming.

Focus.

We need to

hold it together.

There is every

possibility

that Jonah is

completely normal.

We don't have

all the evidence yet.

Evidence?

Who cares

about evidence?

We're done.

Don't you see that?

We are at

the little bighorn

and the Indians

are circling

and they are gonna

do more than scalp us.

I just know that I can't

go out like that.

Then don't.

We have to hold

the line here.

You and me.

There's nobody else

left to do it.

And nobody who would

believe it.

To protect and serve.

To protect and serve.

Okay.

We're gonna

get your son back.

It's time to negotiate.

Give them what

they want

and we might all

get out of this alive.

You call this,

this being alive?

I'm a goddamn lie.

I don't even know

what the f*** I am!

Well you call it a soul

or whatever you like

but there is more

Jackson pritchard

left inside there

than they counted on.

Maybe that was the case

with your father.

Maybe that's why

he took his own life.

They've been using us

lab rats

my whole family,

for generations.

From where I stand,

you're human

and you have been

fighting like hell

this whole time

to protect your family.

That counts

for something.

Don't stop now.

Your son needs you.

You been listening

to anything I said?

My son is one of them!

We won't know for sure

until we get him back safe

and that is

the only way.

Please.

If my Jackson is still

in there somewhere

the man I fell in love

with, I'm begging you.

Jonah is all

that I got left.

Mr. pritchard,

we need your help.

You have to decide.

Colt can't hold

them off forever.

You know, this, this thing

is so sick and fragile.

I -- I want

to wrap it up.

Agent, give me

that tarp.

It's right there

on my drill press

right there.

Maria, come on

inside here, come here.

Come on! Hurry up, now.

Come on, put these on.

Put those on.

Come on over here.

Come on.

Agent!

- What are you doing?

- Not a word!

I'm gonna

end this tonight.

You'll see.

Oh, my god.

Yes!

Jackson took it.

My babies

they're all gone.

I'm scared of what

he's gonna do.

I'll get Jonah back.

Colt.

I'm sorry.

Stop!

Put down the gun,

Mr. pritchard!

No! This ends here.

The bloodline ends here.

You can't be certain

that he's one of them.

I am certain!

Daddy! Daddy!

Daddy, daddy,

please, please..

He's still your son,

Mr. pritchard!

Whatever they've

done to you,

whatever they've done

to your family, you,

you can't do this.

Please! Let go!

You're hurting me.

This is for the best,

boy.

Don't make me shoot,

Mr. pritchard.

Please.

God help us all.

Jonah! Get over here!

Drop it!

Come here, baby.

What're you gonna do now,

Mrs. pritchard?

I'm gonna make sure

nobody takes my boy

away from me again.

I don't want to take

him away from you.

You government types

talk out of both sides

of your mouth!

You'll take him

and you'll lock him up

in a lab somewhere!

- Don't you even

want to know what he is?

- No!

He's my son,

and he's perfect!

I'm not gonna let you

destroy that.

Mommy!

Hush now, baby.

Oh, it's okay.

You're back with mama.

Nobody is gonna

hurt you.

Sometimes god alone

just isn't enough.

You'll do whatever

you have to

to protect your child.

You can't stop

what's happening.

Just like you can't

stop a mother's love.

My boy is home.

That's all

that matters.

So, Maria pritchard

confirms a lot of

what's in your report..

About how she

shot her husband

when he tried to

kill the boy.

And I'm inclined

to believe the both of you

that it was

justifiable homicide.

You see what he did

to that house and,

and Colt.

And the crater is

a manmade bomb

left out there.

Not enough left of him

to fill a thimble.

What bomb?

And I never said

that he killed Colt.

Come on.

She also gives you

quite a bit of credit

for launching

the assault

that got them free

from that lunatic.

What? No.

I didn't launch

an assault

and he wasn't

holding them hostage.

Agent Francis,

if you insist on

holding on

to this fairy tale

about men from Mars..

I never

called them that.

It's gonna cost you

your career.

And I shouldn't have to

remind you that

in our line of work

we are limited to only

telling those stories

which we can

actually prove.

Right? Now, I've laid out

the facts as I see them

as any rational person

could see them

and there's absolutely

no evidence

to the contrary.

Well, did you check

the basement?

- There's nothing there.

- The cage.

There has to be DNA

in there. If you conduct

a sweep --

I don't have the manpower

or the resources

for that nonsense.

It's over.

The case is closed.

Pritchard was clearly

a psycho.

Who became completely

unhinged in the last

couple of days.

He had us all fooled.

Look at this place!

And I'm saying that your

initial suspicions

were right, by the way.

I don't care about

being right.

We can't just sit back and

ignore the implications.

Is this normal to you,

the temperature dropping

30 degrees

in five minutes?

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