Explorers

Hey, you! You better get

out of here!

I'm looking for some

Pacific Tech professors.

There's nobody else

around here now!

- Hurry up, jump in!

- There was a girl with them.

- If I could find her!

- Come on, jump in, will you?

- She's kind of lost.

- You look kind of lost yourself.

I think I know where she'll be.

Come on! Come on! It's your last

chance to get out of here!

Wolfgang.

Wake up, Wolfgang, come on.

Wake up!

Wolfgang!

Wolfgang!

Jesus Christ.

Ben, it's 3:
00 in the morning.

This had better be good.

I just had one of those

dreams again.

I was flying. It was so real. It was over

this giant circuit board or something.

You know, I had a dream

that I was naked at school.

I had to hide in the bathroom.

- It was terrible.

- So anyway,

I drew as much

as I could remember,

and I'd like you to take a look

at it tomorrow, OK?

Sure.

Can I go back to bed, please?

My mom's coming anyway.

Over and out.

The Martians had no resistance

to the bacteria in our atmosphere

that we have long since

become immune to.

Once they had breathed our air,

the germs which no longer affect us

began to kill them.

The end came swiftly.

All over the world,

their machines began to...

- Yeah!

- Come on!

Get up. Get up.

Kick his ass, man!

Come on, Jackie, kill him!

Go!

- Get him!

- Heard you called me

something funny, Crandall.

- Come on, get him. Let's go!

- What's so funny?

I said you had elephantitis.

Crandall, why can't you talk

like everybody else?

- Kill him, Steve.

- Get off me.

I mean, I don't like people

calling me stuff

when I don't know what it is.

Get...

Elephantitis is when something gets

bloated and ugly, like your ass!

- Come on, you don't learn, do you?

- Cut it out, Jackson.

- Who's gonna make me? You?

- Sure, elephantitis head!

Kick his ass!

Kick his ass.

Let's go, come on!

You can't get away from us now,

buddy!

Go! Go! Go!

Hey.

Everything OK?

This damn carburetor.

Must have rebuilt this thing

I just wanted to say thanks for

with Jackson and everything today.

Steve Jackson's a jerk.

He tries it again, I'll kick his butt.

You wanna come over to my house?

I just got this new tape

of This Island Earth.

- It's got this great saucer landing...

- Sounds great.

And it's got, no, it's got this big mutant,

with this, like, two brains.

It's really cool. You'd like it.

Darren! Darren, wait up!

How come you didn't stop?

Look, why don't you

just take off, OK?

I did you a favor, but I didn't know

you're gonna bug me about it

- the rest of my life.

- It's OK. Here, forget it.

Oh, no. My dad's home.

Guess he didn't get that job.

What does he do?

Hauls junk.

Is that your mom?

No.

That's my dad's girlfriend.

She's OK.

Think I will go over to your house.

OK. Well, leave your bike here,

and we'll take the creek.

- Your folks fight a lot?

- My mom died when I was a kid.

My dad's OK.

Just isn't very lucky.

He always breaks things,

or loses them.

Anyway, he taught me how to run.

He can't catch me anymore.

- Your mom and dad still together?

- Yeah. I guess they get along OK.

They just talk about

the stupidest junk all the time.

Where are we going?

Oh, I just wanna see

my friend Wolfgang.

Wolfgang?

Oh, it's not his fault.

His parents won't let him change it.

You'll probably think

he's weird anyway.

Probably.

He's been playing sick,

working on a project.

I wanna see how it's going.

If I had a name like Wolfgang,

I think I'd kill myself.

- Benjamin! Come in. And this is?

- Darren.

Darren.

You only have to tell me once.

I never forget anything.

Look, Mommy. This looks

like Uncle Fred.

So it does.

Ludwig, stop that right now.

Have a seat, boys.

Wolfgang is down in his lab.

I'll ring him.

He's feeling much better now.

- Wolfgang.

- Yes, Mother?

Benjamin is here

with his friend Derek.

- Have you seen the bug bomb?

- I think it's in the bedroom.

Well, can I offer you anything?

Some baklava?

- Oh, yeah, sure.

- What?

It's Greek pastry. Try some.

Geek pastry?

No, Greek. It's pretty good.

- Ben?

- Is the bug bomb in the basement?

- I don't know.

- Where is the bug bomb?

Oh, Ben.

- Who's he?

- Oh, he saved my life today.

Darren.

- From Steve Jackson.

- OK.

- Finished it.

- You did?

- I sure did.

- Come on.

Oh, could you please shut the door?

- Thank you.

- Frieda! Frieda! Here's more.

It's crazy, but your diagram

actually translates

- into some kind of circuit board.

- It does?

- Help. Help.

- Down, Erhart, down!

- Thank you. Thank you.

- This is Heinlein.

- Hello, Heinlein.

- Hello. Hello.

I would like...

... cheese.

- There you go.

See, I put these sentences

into his voice synthesizer.

Sometimes they make sense.

- I would like...

- It smells down here.

- Not right now, Heinlein.

- Go to hell.

I'm busy, Heinlein. Don't bother me,

or I'll turn your voice down.

Oh, that's a good one.

All these are mine.

My dad thinks I threw them away.

It's weird. Never could get

into this stuff.

Oh, but don't you wonder

what's out there?

I mean, up in the universe.

On other planets.

You believe everything you see

in the movies?

Not everything.

There's nobody out there.

- Here it is.

- Oh, great.

I tied into my father's computer

on the modem

and filled in some details

on your drawing.

It's mostly guesswork.

This is our circuit board,

which called for a terminal.

So I used my computer,

which is only a 128K,

but that should be enough

to find out what it...

What it does, if it does

anything at all, which it...

Which it probably doesn't.

So you got it?

- Makes sense to me.

- Good.

There's no sense in waiting.

Are you ready?

Sure, I guess.

It'll probably just burn out

or something.

Oh, well.

This kind of stuff usually takes

years and years to develop

and work out the bugs.

What's? What's it doing?

I don't get it.

It's programming itself.

I don't believe this.

It's asking for coordinates

on x-, y- and z-axes

to locate a point in space

relative to its terminal.

How did you dream this?

Guess I'm just that kind of guy.

Well, let's see what happens.

"Confirm. "

What was that?

I have no idea.

There's holes in all these!

I can see through there!

- This is from my dream?

- Calm down, Ben.

There has got to be a logical

explanation for this, a scientific reason.

This is a trick, right, you guys?

Listen, we have got

to swear to secrecy.

If someone finds out about this,

they're gonna try to take it away,

and they can't do that,

because you dreamt it,

I built it, and it's our secret.

- Right?

- Right.

You pull this on every other sucker

that comes in here?

Wolfgang!

Oh, it's my father.

Wolfgang...

...I was sure the bug bomb

was down here somewhere.

Insect byproducts...

Hello. Oh, so this is the new

experiment.

- Yeah. Yeah.

- How's it going?

Oh, it's fine, fine.

Well, with all this equipment...

Is that my video sync generator?

- No, I seriously doubt it, Father.

- Hello.

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