Fire in the Sky Page #2

- Hey.

- Hey, bud.

What do you say we do a little fishing

when the contract's over?

When this contract's over, huh?

Come on, it's what we need.

One of our camping trips.

Some hunting, some fishing,

chasing bears.

Oh, yeah, I remember.

You ran that bear up that tree.

I was just trying to make friends.

So how come you can't

make friends with Dallis?

He's just jealous

I can do something he can't.

- Oh, yeah? What's that?

- Read and write.

So, what do you say, man?

A little R and R, and then MT Motors.

You think I'm gonna let

a flake like you marry my little sister?

A flake from Snowflake. How poetic.

I like that.

Yeah, that's just my point.

What's your point?

You're a dreamer.

And you're not ready for marriage.

Not if I gotta turn into you...

...Mike.

We went back to work,

and we finished up

along about dusk.

The day's work was done,

and the five of you left the work site.

Six. There was six of us.

- Travis Walton left with you?

- Of course.

The rest of you boys

go along with that?

Yes.

How about you, Mr. Dallis?

You go along with that?

Oh, yeah, I go along with that.

You don't sound too sure.

Well, I'm sure.

- What's it to you?

- Oh, it just seems like that you had

the biggest ax to grind with Travis.

What was that whole thing

with that chain saw?

I was just having some fun.

That's all.

You gonna arrest me for that?

What happened to your hand?

I did it to myself earlier today.

Just having a little fun?

Yeah, that's right,

I was just having a little fun.

You ought to be more careful, son.

Yeah, well, I'll do my best, Daddy.

I'll bet you will.

Why don't you fellas

tell Lieutenant Watters what you saw.

Or what you think you saw.

It was Dallis that saw it first.

What about it?

Tell us about it. What did you see?

What did it look like?

It looked like...

Like a fire.

- You awake?

- I'm awake.

What in the hell is that?

That is strange.

What is?

What are you guys looking at?

Looks like the sunset to me.

No, Greg, that's east. The sun set

behind us 20 minutes ago.

Well, what do you think it is, then?

Maybe a fire or maybe

a plane crash in the woods.

Yeah. Yeah, a plane crash.

It could be.

Christ, man.

Hey, what the hell is that?

Maybe we should just

turn back, huh?

That's gotta be a fire.

Look, it's moving.

I saw it.

- It isn't moving, Bobby. It isn't--

- Look, man.

Is it?

That's one monster forest fire there.

Fire, my ass.

That ain't no fire, man.

What else could it be?

The heck is going on here, Mike?

- You screwing around?

- No.

Mike, maybe we ought to do

like Greg says

and just pull over for a minute.

No, Mike. I wanna see what it is.

There's only one road out of here,

and we're on it.

If that's a fire

and we can't get around it,

we're gonna be

spending the night out here.

Mike?

Stop, Mike! Stop the truck!

- That's wild.

- Holy Christ.

- Travis!

- Travis!

- You son of a b*tch!

- The hell you doing?

Get back in the truck, a**hole!

What is that?

- What is that thing?

- Oh, my God!

Travis!

The hell's he doing out there?

- Get back to the truck!

- The hell is that?

- Travis!

- Get back in the truck!

- Get out of there.

- What is that?

I don't know what that is.

Hey, Mike!

Travis, get out of there!

Leave the son of a b*tch here

if he's gonna be an a**hole!

Travis, get back here! Travis!

Run, Travis, run!

- What the hell is that?

- Do you feel that?

- Crazy...

- Travis!

- Travis!

- Get the hell out of here!

- Get back in here! Travis!

- What the hell is that?

Travis!

He's...

- He's...

- Go! Go!

Go! Go!

Mike, he's dead! He's dead!

- Oh, Mike, he's gone!

- Go!

- I'm not leaving him.

- He's dead!

I'm not leaving him here!

- Go! Get out of here! Go!

- Get the hell out of here, Mike!

He's dead.

What the hell you doing?

He's dead!

- He's dead. He's dead.

- Come on!

- Get the hell out of here!

- Let's go!

Go! Go!

- He's dead?

- Oh, my God!

It's moving! It's coming after us, man!

It's gonna kill us.

Stay down! Stay down!

Everybody stay down!

Slow down, Mike!

- What is that thing?

- I don't know.

- What the heck was that thing?!

- I don't know!

I don't know, Mike!

I don't know what it is.

- What was it?

- Oh, my God!

What was that?

Slow down, Mike!

Sh*t!

Come on, man, you're gonna kill us.

- Is it following us?

- I don't know.

I can't see it. Is it following us?

- I don't know!

- Shut up!

- Come on!

- Look out!

- Come on, man!

- Get off of me!

What in the hell you stopping for?

We left him there.

- He's dead, jackass!

- We gotta go back.

- No!

- No way. What are you talking about?

No, maybe we do gotta go back.

Maybe we gotta go back!

- No way! No!

- No way, man! No!

We don't know that he's dead yet.

- Get out of here! Let's get...!

- What are you talking about?

I'm going back! I'm going back!

If you don't wanna go,

get out of the car now.

I'll come pick you up later.

- You can't do this to us, man.

- What if you don't come back, Mike?

Get out.

Go, man. You gotta go. Get out.

It'll be all right. You stay by the road.

Son of a b*tch.

I...

I searched the woods and...

But he wasn't...

There was nothing...

They took him.

You expect me to believe

that a flying saucer came down

and took your friend away

to outer space?

That's the truth, mister.

That's exactly what happened.

Is it?

Is it? According to your story,

you never even went back

to the clearing,

so you don't know, do you?

I didn't have to go back.

Mike Rogers says he wasn't there,

you can take it to the bank.

And you know that, Blake.

Why the heck aren't you

speaking up for us?

Why you letting this man

talk to us like this?

- David, l...

- It seems like you're not even trying

to believe us.

We all saw the thing.

We all saw the guy get zapped.

You saw something.

At least, you thought you did.

- And what about you, son?

- Me?

Yeah. What did you see?

I saw the same...

Same as they saw.

Well, that's quite a story.

Yeah, well,

I think it's about time to get out of here.

What do you boys think?

You're real broken up about

your missing buddy, aren't you?

Oh, that's very perceptive.

- That's because he's not my friend.

- I got that.

- Clearly.

- Did you?

Good. Now, are you done?

We'll tell you when.

I don't want anybody to leave

till I get

everybody's phone number

and address.

- Shouldn't we try to find him?

- This is a...

He's not on the mountain,

remember?

They took him.

Well, what do you think?

Think we ought to head up there?

Too late. Not enough men.

We'll head out in the morning.

Well, Dallis, you sure can talk.

See, I told you he wasn't

gonna believe your damn story.

Not a goddamn word of it.

Looks like they were

working on it there.

Boy, that truck looks like

it's been to hell and back.

Well, the sun comes up

at 6 in the morning.

We got 50 men, jeeps, horses, dogs.

I wanna call Flagstaff

and get two helicopters.

- That be enough?

- That's plenty.

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