From Beyond Page #2

We can start in the morning, Crawford.

I've started.

All right.

All this talk about eating

is making me hungry.

How about we have some dinner?

The real danger here is starving.

Pretty, isn't she?

She is beautiful.

So how's it going, doc?

Need some help?

He used to bring beautiful women here.

They'd eat fine meals, drink fine wine,

listen to music.

But it always ended with screaming.

And I would just lie there

and listen to them.

Screaming.

Your boss had some screws loose.

He was a genius.

It's just that the five senses weren't

enough for him. He wanted more.

Is it finished? Are we ready?

Yes.

I...

had to bypass the computer

because the magnetic field

erased the program.

And of course the monitor's

completely useless

so the entire system has to be

manually operated.

And unfortunately the resonator was

so severely damaged

that I had to convert it to

just an on-off system.

When we reach 20,000 MHz,

we throw this switch

and a powerful magnetic field vibrates

these forks at a precise frequency.

Stimulating the pineal gland,

allowing us to see with it.

Listen to me.

Don't move when we're in

the field of the vibrations.

- Why?

- You move and they may see you. It...

will see you.

What is this "it" anyway?

Pray you don't see for yourself.

Now, I'm staying right by this switch.

If it appears, I'm shutting down.

Are you sure we're ready for this?

- Yes.

- Please...

Remember... Stay still.

This looks real great, people.

Oh, man.

What the hell is that?

- What?

- I don't know what.

No, don't move!

Holy sh*t!

Is this what you saw?

Yes. These things are

around us all the time.

It's coming.

- Bubba, are you all right?

- No!

Lost a little piece, but I'll be fine.

When you move in the field

it can sense you.

How far does the field extend?

I'm turning it off.

Crawford!

No.

Who is it?

Show yourself.

Welcome home, Crawford.

I'm glad you came back.

Who's the lovely woman?

It can't be you.

Dr Pretorious?

You have me at a disadvantage, my dear.

Crawford, where are your manners?

Bring your friend to me.

- I saw you die.

- No.

Not die. Just pass beyond.

It was horrible.

A necessary rite of passage.

Quite wonderful, in fact.

Where have you been hiding?

Move toward me, my dear.

I want to see you.

- How?

- Did I survive?

I am the master here.

Is it...

Is it really you, Edward?

Touch me.

If it pleases you.

If it helps you understand.

It's just a body, but my mind

is indivisible.

Bodies change.

That will be quite enough of that.

I feel exhilarated.

We almost died.

Incredible creature. It must have total

bodily control on a molecular level.

Yes, and Edward's mind.

He's become the thing that ate him.

Crawford, we saw the same things.

We've proved you're not insane.

I'm not so sure.

No. You faced your fear

and you overcame it.

You saved our lives.

Yeah. I owe you one.

Want some breakfast?

How can you eat after that?

Can't work without eating.

What work?

I've got to record the results.

The pineal gland was stimulated.

It gave me one hell of a headache.

Expansion of the pineal.

I'll have to do a study of the CAT scans

of schizophrenics.

If there's a statistical correlation

between schizophrenia and

an enlarged pineal, why...

they may be seeing or feeling

what we saw.

Their minds may be influenced

by those creatures.

Well, how about the hard-on I got?

Is there a statistical correlation

for that too?

Well... We know that the pineal gland

helps to regulate the sex drive.

Perhaps pineal stimulation causes a...

an accompanying sexual stimulation.

There's so much to learn.

Well, we learned what we came for.

He ain't crazy and that...

"it" ate Pretorious's head.

They're gonna think we're crazy

but that's their problem.

Well, we just have to try

the experiment again.

Did you say "we"?

Katherine, you can't.

You don't mean go back up there

now, do you?

You always run an experiment

twice to check the results.

Wait.

I saw it get to him, Katherine.

Just exactly what you're feeling

and it ruined him.

Pretorious.

Yes, I'd like to know more about him.

That resonator is a work of genius.

Were we in the same nightmare?

I mean didn't we just almost

all get eaten by an "it"?

All it takes is a hand on the switch.

If it appears you make it disappear.

I got a better idea. How about if

we disappear out the door?

Don't you understand?

This is the greatest discovery

since Van Leeuwenhoek first looked through

a microscope and saw an amoeba.

Yeah, but he wasn't down there

with the amoebas.

I have to find out if the pineal gland

is really the key.

OK fine. Fine, but not here. Not now.

Under controlled conditions.

But we have control. No one knows

that resonator better than you do.

You're right, and that's why

no one is touching it.

Crawford!

This could be the first step

in curing schizophrenia.

Crawford.

My father spent 15 years in

an institution - he died in one.

They called his condition incurable.

They tried everything.

Drugs, shock therapy, even surgery.

But they turned him into a vegetable.

I'm sorry.

We can save so many others.

Please, Crawford.

We can do it.

Help me.

Help you.

Help you to take your mind and shatter it?

I can't.

And I won't let you.

I'm the law here. You turn on that

machine, and it's reckless endangerment.

Look, we all need some rest.

Why don't we just get some sleep

and then we'll think about it.

Yeah, we'll get some rest

and then we're going.

Turn it off.

No.

I have to see more.

Feel more.

Turn it off.

No.

No. No.

We've got to stop it.

Don't stop.

I'm impressed, Crawford.

Do you realize now what I was creating?

Edward, my God, what have you become?

Myself.

Get the switch. I'll distract him.

Yes! I do find you distracting.

Don't! Crawford.

Listen to me.

Whatever you are, you're still Edward

Pretorious. You're still human.

More than human.

Join me, for ever.

Everyone must join me.

We'll be waiting for you, Crawford.

Where the hell are you going to now?

The circuit breaker.

I've got to turn it off.

Damn!

Smell.

Taste.

In another life I would have enjoyed you

in another way.

Messing with that damn machine again.

What the hell is that?

The vibrations must reach down here.

I'll be right back.

What are you gonna do to me?

I'm going to kiss you.

I'm sorry.

I really thought that I could control it.

It's changing us, doc.

All of us.

And not for the better.

I was wrong to turn on the resonator

with other subjects present.

It's clear now that only one person

should run the experiment.

This ain't an experiment.

It's suicide!

The presence of other subjects causes

dangerous distractions.

Now, I can stand right at

the master switch

and maintain control of that resonator

but I must do it myself.

I know this behaviour.

I've seen it in the streets.

You may be a scientist, lady, but

right now you're acting like a junkie.

Oh, just take him and leave.

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