In the Year 2889 Page #3

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How much is half of nothing?

I've stored some seeds and grain. And I have books and materials

on every craft necessary to sustain life.

Mickey Brown:
farmer and craftsman.

Oh, another thing...

We're about out of fresh water. But

there's a spring-fed pool not so far from the cliffs.

Hey, Joanna, maybe we could take a swim in the pool.

Well, if Dad says it's all right.

Oh, it's safe. I checked it today.

And starting tomorrow, we can all take turns bathing there.

Well, I'm telling you one thing.

I've taken more baths in the past two months

than I have in all my born days together.

Maybe that's why you're still alive, Tim.

- Grange?

- Don't let it touch me!

- Don't let the rain touch me!

- It's OK, Grange, the clouds aren't gonna come in the valley!

You're lying to me! It's gonna rain!

Come on. Come on. Come on back to the house.

Gonna touch me!

Grange, come on back to the house!

- This place is spooky even in sunshine.

- It feels great, though.

So quiet.

I'd give anything to hear that downtown traffic again.

I didn't realize how isolated it would be from the house.

You are good looking.

Clean-cut, and that bit.

That's something new for Mickey.

Mickey?

Oh, he's all eyes for you.

He isn't even giving me the time of day anymore.

I'm not interested in Mickey.

Well, you'd better not be.

Otherwise, well...

I'd have to make a play for Steve!

That would be unfair competition for you.

Yes, I... I see what you mean.

Mickey always comes back to mama.

Hey, what's the matter, kid?

Somebody's watching us, I can feel it!

I didn't hear anything!

Something's moving over there in the bushes!

It's probably one of the fellas. It's probably old Timothy.

Hey, Timothy!

Hurry up. Let's get out of here!

Granger's not the only one hunting game.

And, after they've finished off the game, we'll be next!

This place is cursed.

Steve, we've got to get rid of your brother.

John! He's the only way to find out what we're up against! Don't you see that?

The animals on the ship. The Matsuo test.

They forewarned of something like this.

- You know, you keep mentioning that. You gonna keep up the mystery, or you gonna tell me about it?

- Tonight.

Back at the house, I'll show you, after the others have gone to bed. I have the evidence.

What you looking at?

You said I didn't see anything at the pool. You said it was just my imagination.

That's right. You just became upset.

Steve, somebody was looking at me, tried to talk to me.

What'd he say?

Nothing you'd understand.

Nothing I'd understand, for that matter.

Well, you won't go swimming alone in the pool anymore. I'll stand guard.

My skin was tingling, my pulse was pounding...

You're still upset. Come on, let's go back to the house.

Do you believe in mental telepathy?

I'm afraid I'm reading your thoughts, if that's what you mean.

What am I thinking?

It's not the same way you were thinking about me a few days ago.

I'm sorry, Steve.

I just feel like I'd like to be alone right now.

I'm sorry too, Joanna.

Mickey! Don't scare me like that.

I just wanna talk to you, that's all. You know, I bet I haven't said a dozen words to you since I got here.

Hey, look, what's so bad about me? I don't drink, I don't smoke...

And once I even gave some money to a drunken bum. My old man!

Come on. Don't give me that hard-to-get stuff, come on!

Don't! You belong to Jada.

I belong to me! Get it?

Me!

Hey buddy!

Oh, it's you, Miss Jada. Care for a taste of some of the best whiskey in these mountains?

It is whiskey! Hey, where'd you get it?

Made it myself, that's where. I make it by the barrels back at my place.

That is awful, Tim!

The first taste is never good, Miss Jada.

It's that long, second one that puts hair on your chest!

Better?

Grange!

You won't believe this, but I just saw Granger walk up the mountain trail through that fog, and it didn't faze him.

Do you remember anything about the Matsuo bomb test?

Yeah, there were some vague rumors right after that, weren't there?

There's something I have to show you.

As I told you, my job was to tow the animal ship out of Target Zero.

I got the first look at those animals.

- The newspapers said they were all destroyed.

- The newspapers lied.

Three of those animals lived through it.

Lived through an H-bomb?

There was a law against taking photographs.

But no law against sketching what we'd seen.

There were over a thousand animals on that ship.

- That was a chipmunk.

- This was alive?

Yes. It lived for three days.

Our third survivor was a monkey.

Its skin looked like rubber,

but it felt more like metal.

Armor-plated.

Nature's answer to complete nuclear radiation.

Why, that's a million years of evolution with one bomb!

- You say they lived for three days?

- When we got back to the inspection ship, they were dead.

- Well, if we could figure out what killed them, it may help us.

- We never knew.

After we washed them down, we went down to inspect.

They were normal, except for their appearance.

But they refused food and water.

- New species.

- Yes.

They were the forerunners of whatever it is we have out there.

Sometimes I have a feeling of doom.

Well, I know this much:

There are two forms of life fighting for survival in this valley, and only one can win.

John, it's got to be us.

You know, I started this thing

just to stay alive.

But you've given me a deep feeling of responsibility toward the welfare of mankind.

Our kind.

I think I'll turn in now. Goodnight, John.

Yes. I'll tell the girls the first thing in the morning.

- The girls?

- Yes.

They should bear children as soon as possible.

Steve!

That's enough!

Now, Mickey, we've had enough of you.

Get your things and get out of this house!

You wouldn't do that to an animal, Dad.

- He stays.

- Are you all right, love?

Get out of my life!

Mickey!

A sea captain can perform the marriage ceremony in case of an emergency.

Joanna, I want you to marry Steve. I want you to have... children.

There'll be no wedding, Dad, and no children.

You have a responsibility to the future.

- What would Mother say? - Your mother?

- And Larry, what would he say?

They're both dead.

I'm the only one who knows.

Knows? Knows what?

- Have you been listening to me?

- Yes, Dad.

I'll marry Steve in a week.

If he's still alive. And I am.

What are you doing, love?

This little gadget's

gonna open that storeroom for me.

Can you imagine us having a kid?

'Course, we won't tell him his mother was a...

exotic dancer.

I wonder what's wrong with Joanna?

She goes around in her own little world now.

She slipped off her rocker.

- Maybe we all are.

- Not me, baby.

You still go for her, don't you?

You're just plain dirt to her, but you still want her!

All I want is a key to open that storeroom!

All this time you've been saying it was you and me!

But you meant her! You liar!

OK, OK. So I lied a little.

A little!

The only friend you ever had in this world was me!

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