In the Year 2889 Page #4

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The only one who ever loved you was me! Me, me!

Now listen, you cheap hood!

A present from the hood... lover!

Now beat it!

I wanna finish this key.

We can't go up there for at least two more months.

And we're running out of supplies.

Only enough for about two more weeks.

Don't touch him, he's hot.

Food.

They wouldn't give me any.

"They?" There's more of you up there?

Stronger...

- Much... stronger.

- How many? How many more?

Uhh... stronger... uuhh...

Food!

He won't be needing food now, poor devil.

Look at the head. The strange bone structure.

It's like those animals at Matsuo.

And the same mutated skin the animals had.

And... there's more like him up there! Stronger!

Stage 2, this one. Stage 3, stronger. Stage 4, maybe invulnerable.

How about Stage 1? Who's that?

That's Granger. My brother is Stage 1.

There's no doubt about it.

They're coming closer to the house every night.

We'll have to take turns standing guard, Steve.

I'd use Mickey, but we can't trust him with a gun in his hand. I know his kind...

spawned in bilgewater.

Timothy, sometimes you're a lifesaver.

Jada, we're like two peas in a pod.

Sometimes, we're feelin' low as a have-no-well,

- but give us a whack of this stuff...

- Yeah! Give us a whack of this!

...and we're high as a silk hat on Sunday!

Come on, ya big lug!

Hey... quit it! Quit pouring so fast!

Come with Jada, Timothy baby!

I wanna pay you back for

all that ever-lovin' kindness!

Request permission to come aboard, Captain!

Permission granted, sailor.

And when I come out, they start to whistle and shout "Take it off!"

And once I got my motor running,

all you could hear was their breathing!

That near scared me to death!

One time,

I, like, ran off stage!

But Mickey baby,

he just kicked my little backside and...! On I went!

Now wasn't that sweet of Mickey baby?

One of these days I'm gonna return that favor.

Now, here it comes!

This is where I start to peel!

Kick me under that blue spot, daddy, 'cause I'm comin' on for the clincher!

N-no! Don't break my jug, please!

That was the last drop I had!

Good! Then we'll have no more of this disgusting behavior.

Right?

"Sailor"?

There's one like you in every crowd!

Now I'll never make it!

But I, uh...

Well? What have you got to say about it?

Personally, I hate the stuff.

Have a nice nap?

Caught me. I must have dozed off.

Say, have you seen Tim? He's not in the house anyplace.

He's probably sleeping it off in the woods somewhere.

You know, I'm really worried about that old coot. You shouldn't have broken his jug.

You're right. I had no idea he was an alcoholic.

Well, if he doesn't show up by daybreak, I'll go out and find him.

I'll go with you. It was my mistake.

You don't suppose he tried to get back up over those cliffs, do you?

Well, he better not. If he does, it'll be the end of him.

Goodnight.

Easy, Timothy...

It's... just a little rabbit.

My god!

Tim!

Tim, don't! Don't go into that fog!

Don't go into that fog! You'll be killed sure!

John!

Steve!

- What happened?

- Oh, I've sprained my ankle.

- Where's Tim?

- Back up over the cliff.

He went back to his whiskey still.

Did you go after him?

Through that vapor?

How long were you up there?

A minute. Hour. What difference does it make?

Steve, I've had the course.

Well, come on. We'll get you washed up.

Don't tell Joanna. I've just got a sprained ankle, understand?

Sure, John. Come on. Let's get back to the house.

He's dead.

Believe me, Steve, it's better this way.

Poor Granger.

Now my whole family's gone.

No, Steve. You and Joanna are the new family now.

Perhaps for the whole human race.

Look at those punctures!

It's like... like three steel claws!

Steel claws...

It's like the hand of the monkey in your drawings!

Matsuo.

- Steve!

- What is it, Joanna?

- In there! In the bushes!

- Where? What is it?

Someone was calling to me!

It's just your imagination! I wasn't 40 feet away from you and I didn't hear a thing!

Oh, please, Steve, take me home! Please!

Joanna insists this thing tried to talk to her.

How about the way it looked?

She said it looked like an ape.

The sketches of Matsuo. The monkey!

But this thing is man-sized.

That means it's a man, not an ape.

How do we fight it? How do we kill it?

You're the one who said we'd come up with an answer.

But how? It eats contaminated flesh, breathes contaminated air...

The things that kill a man, it thrives on.

What's the point? You're driving at something.

Just that in order to kill it, we must first understand it.

Now, we know it has fears. It was close enough to Joanna to attack her, but it wouldn't follow her into the pool.

Don't scream. I mean it!

What do you want?

I never had time for your kind of woman. You're something new in my life.

No... No!

Girl, you won't hate me when there's just the two of us, there'd be no point to it, get what I mean?

Mickey! Let the kid alone!

Joanna, go back to the house.

I have a few words for this child molester here!

You don't know when you're through, do ya?

You said the two of us,

- but all along, you meant her!

- Yeah, that's right. Now you know.

You and your dimestore stuff.

You're cheap! A cheapie!

I didn't know how cheap you are 'til I met her!

She hates your guts!

You're cheap to her! She'd rather kill herself first!

Come on.

Let's not fight like a couple of kids.

- Let's go take a moonlight swim, huh?

- Beat it!

I don't want any part of you.

Well.

You decided to come back to Jada.

What's the gun for, Cap'n?

Where's Jada?

Well, we had a little beef. She didn't come back.

Stayed outside to cool off, I guess.

OK, Mickey. I got something to settle with you.

Tomorrow, maybe. I'm beat right now.

- You go next to Joanna again and I'm gonna kill you.

- Kill me!

I haven't had a laugh all day.

Why he was spared by the bombs, I'll never know.

He'll kill you, Steve.

Get him first. Now!

Here, take this!

Just sneak up on Mickey and empty it into him, huh?

John, you know me better than that.

It's the same feeling that made you go up that mountain for Tim.

But there's so much at stake.

At least carry a gun. Here,

get one. Out of the storeroom.

Get it now. And be ready to use it.

Hey, how long before a guy can get out of here?

As far as I'm concerned, you can leave now.

You know, this reminds me of that kids' song. Ten Little Indians.

...That got knocked off one at a time.

Same way with us. First there were seven.

Now there's... Now there's...

"3 little 2 little 1 little Indians..."

And then there was none.

Try that again.

Please. Try that again.

Not me, Cap'n.

I know when to cool it. Like right now.

Joanna!

Joanna!

- I heard her screaming, but she's not in her room!

- I have a strange feeling. She's in danger, Steve.

That thing...

- The thing out there has got my baby!

- I'm going after her. - Wait!

There's a special Luger. In the storeroom.

With a 30-round magazine. Get it.

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