Invasion of the Body Snatchers Page #2

crazy. I've been looking all over for you.

What's the matter with you?

You all right?

Talk to me, Elizabeth.

I keep seeing these people

all recognising each other.

Something was passing between them all.

Some secret.

It's a conspiracy. I know it.

There can't be a conspiracy.

Matthew, I'm telling you,

something's going on here.

Something that scares me.

I tried to see Geoffrey today,

to talk to him.

He's always in his office in the morning.

It really was weird.

Geoffrey was meeting

all sorts ofstrange people.

Things were being passed between them.

- None were people you knew?

- I didn't know any of them.

Maybe they were patients of Geoffrey's.

Oh, no, no, Matthew. I know they weren't.

I followed him

from one end oftown to the other,

and everywhere he went he had

these meetings with strange people.

I felt so stupid

sneaking around spying on him,

but I can't talk to him. What can I do?

OK. Well, Kibner will be able

to explain something.

I don't need a psychiatrist.

Just forget that he's a psychiatrist.

Just think of him as an intelligent man,

which is what he is.

It's a book party. He's a celebrity.

He's very famous.

And you will like him,

if you forget that he's a psychiatrist.

I don't know... I don't know.

Matthew, I've lived in this city all my life,

but somehow today

I felt everything had changed.

People were different.

Notjust Geoffrey, but everybody.

Yesterday it all seemed normal.

Today everything seemed the same,

but it wasn't.

It was a nightmare.

It really became frightening.

It was like the whole city

had changed overnight.

Did I ever tell you the one

about the English Camel Corps? Did l?

They're trapped in the desert,

in the Sahara desert.

They've been surrounded by Rommel

for 40 days and they've run out of food.

And the captain comes

and makes an announcement to the men.

He says,

"Men, I have some good news

and some bad news for you."

- One of the men says...

- Wait. You have told me this.

Can I tell it to you again?

Look out!

Oh, my God! Lock the door!

- They're coming!

- We should help.

Help! Help! They're coming.

They're coming. Listen!

- He's smashed out of his skull.

- He's terrified.

You're next. Please! Please!

You're next. We're in danger!

Listen to me... Something terrible!

Please. You're next!

Here they are. They're already here!

Help! You're next!

- They're coming. They're coming...

- He must have done something.

The policeman'll help.

Oh, my God.

That poor man.

What was he talking about?

I'll phone a witness report in

from the bookstore.

Matthew, thank God you're here!

These people are driving me nuts.

- Are we gonna have dinner?

- No, I can't.

- Is there a phone?

- Around the corner.

- Elizabeth Driscoll, Jack Bellicec.

- This is the Elizabeth?

The book is awful. Kibner's book is awful.

His ideas are garbage. Pure garbage.

How can you say that

about a man like Kibner?

Not a man like Kibner.

I'm saying it about Kibner.

He dashes a book off every six months.

Takes me six months to write one line.

- Why?

- Cos I pick each word individually.

- What's so hot about that?

- I wasn't even talking to you, was l?

On the corner of Leavenworth and...

- Turk.

- Turk? Turk.

Is that him?

Yes.

Yes!

"What's so hot about that?

What's so hot about that?" I don't know...

You must have a report on it

cos there was a motorcycle officer there

- and an ambulance on the way.

- They follow me.

- They don't understand me.

- You don't have to prove yourself to them.

- That's easy for you to say.

- Of course I saw it.

- The man was running down the street.

- It's romantic, sentimental,

- He landed on my car.

- post-industrial nonsense.

Just a second. I'm talking to the police.

- No, he was bleeding on the road.

- What seems to be the trouble?

Hello? Yeah.

Don't ever give your name to cops.

Leavenworth and Turk. I'll hold.

But he isn't my husband!

It's someone who looks like him.

He's an impostor!

Now, Katherine, he's your husband.

You know him and I know him.

I had to wait until today cos he has

a scar on the back of his neck

and when his hair is long

you can't see it.

- He went to have a haircut today...

- And the scar was gone.

No! It's still there!

Of course it's still there.

What did you expect? He's still Ted.

- Excuse me, can I say one thing?

- Please! He's still your husband Ted.

- I know something...

- Katherine?

- Could I say one thing?

- Katherine!

Just a minute.

- Katherine.

- Just give me a minute, will you?

Will you trust me?

Will you please trust me? Will you?

I work for the county.

This is a public-spirited gesture.

- I will give you my name...

- Kibner wants people to fit the world.

- I wanna report this.

- I want the world to fit people.

- We'll talk about this later.

- Where's Homer? Or Kazantzakis?

- Where's Jack London?

- Where's Elizabeth?

- I'm afraid!

- I understand, I know.

I understand. Let me have your hand.

- Katherine, just trust me.

- Isn't he wonderful?

Come on.

There. That's not so bad, is it?

Who's this behind me?

- It's Ted.

- That's right.

Hold on. Come on, just hold on.

Hold on. Just relax now.

- You gonna be all right? You feel better?

- Yeah. Yes.

- You wanna go home now?

- Yes.

- Will you come and see me tomorrow?

- Please... tomorrow.

Tomorrow we'll all talk.

OK? The three of us?

OK, but I better take her home.

Yes. It's OK.

- I'll see you tomorrow.

- OK.

- All right?

- OK.

Thank you.

They don't wanna hear

about the accident.

It's a big conspiracy.

- What's a conspiracy?

- Everything.

Excuse me.

I understand what you're trying to say.

My name is Elizabeth Driscoll,

the Public Health Department. Call me.

Katherine! Come on, Katherine.

That woman's husband

is not her husband.

I saw him with Geoffrey. He's one of them.

She knows about it

- and nobody's helping her.

- No. Somebody's helping her.

I'm glad you heard that. David, Elizabeth.

I've heard it all week. It's popular.

- What is?

- I was trying to tell you

- that I also know somebody...

- Who's changed.

- Yes.

- Can we go outside and talk about it?

Listen, there's a lady up top - red hair,

blue dress. She's interested in your work.

I've heard the same damn story

this week from six patients.

People are changing,

becoming less human.

It's happening all around us.

That's not what we're talking about.

This has nothing to do with

the man I live with.

It has everything to do with it.

Don't you see?

People step in and out of relationships

because they don't want responsibility.

That's why marriages are going to hell.

The family unit is shot to hell.

- David, you're not listening to her.

- Stay out of this!

You see, that's the point.

I'm listening,

but he doesn't think I am. Why?

Because he doesn't expect me

to bother enough, or to care.

- Bellicec, for the last time, stop!

- Stop what?!

- Stand still, be quiet, and shut up!

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