Horror Express Page #3

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(Dr Jones) Dr Wells...

Professor Saxton...

and that pretty Countess.

Wells, Saxton and the Countess.

Wells, Saxton and the Countess

Wells, Saxton and the Countess...

Wells, is this creature dead or not?

If it is, who killed Miss Jones?

- Do you have any idea?

- No, Inspector, I haven't.

I've asked the conductor to wire ahead

to stop at the next station.

What's the idea?

Tell me who you are.

Tell me. I will serve you.

I want to help you.

It's like some contagious disease.

Well, if there's a disease,

there must be symptoms.

- Fever?

- You could take everyone's temperature.

The eyes, why do their eyes go white?

Do you think it's true what they say

about those horrible white eyes?

- Ah, Inspector, there's only you now.

- What about me?

Your eyes. We must examine your eyes, too.

Certainly.

Perhaps you should test for radiation

or other invisible rays.

X-rays? Well it's a thought,

but on this train how would we go about it?

- Are you a scientist?

- An engineer, but I try to keep up with things.

That's to be admired.

Inspector, I suggest you tell all these people

to stay together, in groups or in pairs,

so that if anything does happen to anybody,

then somebody can raise the alarm.

(Engine whistle)

(Ringing)

(Ringing)

News of the train.

The train will be here in exactly...

um... 14 minutes.

(Man) 14 minutes?

Yes, Your Honour, that's what it says here.

Doesn't say it in words, Your Honour,

but in code. It's like another language.

I know about telegraph, Little Papa.

I know about trains,

I know about electrical currents.

in God, I don't like to be made a fool of!

No, Your Honour.

I wouldn't do that.

Tell me, Little Father...

do you believe in the devil?

Yes.

Ah, good, send a telegram.

Tell them that Captain Kazan,

he knows that a horses has four legs,

he knows that a murderer has two arms,

but still the devil...

must be afraid of one honest Cossack, hm?

Earth's gravity, you know how to measure it?

How to measure gravity?

What I would like to know is

can gravity be overcome?

If you mean, can man get beyond

the gravitational field of the earth into space,

not yet, but any day now.

Someday?

There is a mathematics professor,

his name is Chelkovsky.

He has ideas about rockets, machines

that can fly free of the earth's gravity.

You know him?

Chelkovsky was one of my teachers,

he was like a father to me.

But why would a man like you be interest...

What do you think is behind all this, Excellency?

Look at this.

That's what we saw under the microscope.

- Shows the Earth as it might look from space.

- What does it mean?

It means that millions of years ago something,

some form of intelligence,

came to the Earth from another planet.

The atmosphere of the earth was new to it,

different.

- But it learnt how to survive.

- How?

By entering into the body and brain

of an Earth creature.

The fossil that I found and brought with me.

And this thing from another planet

survived in the fossil?

- Then came to life again?

- Exactly.

Go on, Professor.

The animal that you shot was only the host

and, when that animal died,

the alien intelligence

transferred somehow to another host.

It's alive... in someone on this train.

You're a very good detective.

You've discovered everything

except who is now the host.

- That's our next step.

- Thought this might come in handy.

- 0h, good idea.

- Two of you together, that's fine.

- But what if one of you is the monster?

- Monster? We're British, you know.

But you must have seen something.

I told you, I was asleep.

He knew about the white eyes, he told me.

When you fell asleep, the lights were on?

And when you woke up?

- They were off.

- Are you sure?

Positive. It was dark. I put the lights on.

And that's when I found him... beside me.

When we did the test, the lights were on.

Master!

Inspector.

This steel at high temperatures,

what happens to it?

It gets stronger.

What temperatures, for example?

Ten or twelve thousand degrees.

Where on earth

would you get such temperatures?

Nowhere on Earth.

(Brakes screeching)

The Tsar will hear of this!

I'll have you sent to Siberia!

I am in Siberia.

This is Countess Irina Petrovska

and I am Count Maryan Petrovski.

are exempt from our orders.

Please, escort them to their car.

Peasants. Peasants!

Are you a Countess?

I'm an American and I'm not accustomed

to being bullied by foreigners.

That man, he's the one who wouldn't

let us get off the train, he's responsible.

- Your Excellency, I am a Police Inspector.

- Everybody is under arrest!

Including you.

Who are the killers?

Who? Who are the trouble-makers?

Who are the foreign influences, huh?

Who?!

Don't worry, I'll smoke them out.

What's he raving about?

- You English believe in free speech, huh?

- Certainly.

If instead of babbling nonsense,

you'd investigate this properly...

This is outrageous!

So... you are a police inspector, huh?

Yes, Captain. Mirov is my name.

Mirov? 0h, Mirov!

That's a good Russian name, Mirov.

Tell me, Mirov, what do you know about

all the filth that's going on here, huh?

- Filth?

- Certainly you know what I'm doing here.

You just point out the suspects

and I promise you I'll get the truth out of them.

You're mistaken, sir.

- Mistaken?

- Fool!

Get back, get back!

Back! 0r I will put a curse on your heads!

He has the evil eye!

Beware of the wrath of Satan!

Fool, huh?

We must stop this.

- He was trying to protect you, why?

- He's mad.

- Who are you?

- I told you, a policeman.

No!

No!

You saw his eyes!

Come into me, Satan!

Thine is the kingdom and the power

and the glory!

Thy will be done on earth as it is in hell.

Now, anything!

Anything that moves near that door, kill it!

- But what if the monk is innocent?

- Ah, we got lots of innocent monks!

All right, let's move these peasants out of here!

Quickly!

Everybody back to the baggage car. Hurry!

There!

He always kills in the dark,

he can't play his tricks in a strong light.

- Take care of the others.

- What about you?

- I'll be all right, go on.

- Well, you take this.

(Train whistle)

You know, in spite of everything,

Pujardov had a certain affection for you.

Yet you humiliated often,

even in front of the Countess.

(Sobbing) He's dead.

You killed him!

If you want to kill Pujardov, it's too late.

- I'll see you hanged!

- Ah, poor monk.

He loved you

more than he loved the promise of heaven.

Irina, behind me.

It would be a mistake to kill me.

- Who are you?

- In words, it's difficult.

I am a form of energy occupying this shell.

- Where do you come from?

- Another galaxy.

I came with others like myself.

I was left behind. An accident.

I survived in protozoans, fish, vertebrates.

The history of your planet is part of me.

Pull the trigger and you will end it.

What am I to do with you?

- Let me go.

- That's not possible.

It is possible.

I will teach you to end disease, pain, hunger.

Wait!

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