Invasion of the Body Snatchers Page #4

- Where is she?

- She's at Matthew's.

- Don't tell him that!

- Then there is no missing body.

- That's right.

- There is and he's taken it!

- No, he took Elizabeth.

- You took Elizabeth away?

- Yes!

- You broke in here.

- I had to because she was not safe here.

So you took her out of here.

No! I took her from there.

Her other body was in here...

Please stop.

Matthew, that's enough! Please stop!

- Lieutenant, I'm Dr David Kibner.

- Ah, the psychiatrist.

My wife reads your books.

- I'm glad. It sounds complicated,...

- David...

..but my friend has had some difficult

emotional experiences recently.

But I think this is something

we can work out amongst ourselves.

- All right, I'll leave this part of it with you.

- I appreciate it.

You can't accomplish anything here.

We gotta get outside.

I think you might wanna consider filing

an unlawful entry against Mr Bennell.

I know what you're saying, but outside...

No, I'll take Dr Kibner's word

that Elizabeth is all right.

- Fine, then let's go.

- OK.

Will Elizabeth be coming home?

No.

I have to pick up some of her clothes.

All right.

All right, let's back up

and go through it once more,

step by step.

You all thought you saw a body

at the baths.

You thought it was dead.

You didn't know what it was.

You touched it. All of you touched it.

- Nancy, you saw it open its eyes.

- It looked right at me.

- And, Bellicec, you saw its eyes open.

- No, I saw its nose bleed.

If you saw its nose bleed,

and Nancy saw its eyes open,

he must have been alive.

No, David. You're looking at it

as if it was human. It was not human.

- Matthew, what else would it be?

- It was something, but not human.

- It had white hair on it.

- It was growing.

The one at Jack's was...

It was like Jack, but not as developed

as the one at Elizabeth's place.

It had tendrils on it.

The one at her place was duplicating her.

If Matthew hadn't taken me away,

the same thing that's happened

to Geoffrey would have happened to me.

Elizabeth, would you please tell me, in

your opinion, exactly what is happening?

People are being duplicated.

And once it's happened to you,

you're part of this thing.

It almost happened to me!

Look,

the reason you don't believe Elizabeth

is because the other body disappeared.

It disappeared because Geoffrey took it.

Well, then what happened

to my other body, then?

Oh, people,

will you please listen to yourselves?

Will you listen to what you are saying?

I can deal with a body being moved and

even with a body getting up and leaving,

but when you start talking about

his other body, being duplicated...

Listen to how that sounds.

We know how insane this sounds!

But what do you think we're doing?

Do you think we're making it up?

Do you believe that my body looked like

me and that her body looked like her?

D'you think we're crazy?

You are trying to make us believe

that we are seeing things. Why?

All I'm trying to do is help.

You call me in the middle of the night and

ask me to help. That's all I'm trying to do.

Well, I'm sorry if we woke you up!

If we inconvenienced you,

I guess we owe you an apology.

I mean, I mean...

I guess that's a rotten thing to do!

You've upset my wife, too.

David, I don't know what it is

or where it comes from,

but I saw it and I'm gonna fight it.

Matthew, my friend,... I believe you.

I've known you too long

not to believe you.

What do you wanna do?

Well, if I could get official support,

I'd institute the emergency procedures

that we use for cholera

or legionnaires' disease.

- What do you want me to do?

- I can handle the Health Department.

But if panic breaks out,

we'll need the police and the Guard,

and that means the Mayor and...

The Mayor's a patient of yours, isn't he?

How did you know that?

What do you want me to do?

Would you ask him

to accept my telephone call?

I'll call him in a hour. I'll be at my office.

If you have any other ideas, get in touch.

Call me.

Thank you.

The sooner the better.

This smells lovely.

- I want you to listen to me.

- I am listening to you, Nancy.

I am not seeing things.

I know I saw what I saw

and I know it was turning into you, Jack.

Now, that body we found...

That flower. Where did you get that?

- In the vase with the others.

- Just stuck in there?

- Yeah. Why?

- Geoffrey gave me one last night.

So what?

A customer, Mr Gianni,

brought one of those to the baths.

So what?

- Put it down, Jack.

- It's a pod with a flower on it.

- I could not find that flower in any book.

- Jack, put it down.

- It's a pink flower, honey.

- It could be toxic.

I have seen these flowers all over.

They grow like parasites on other plants.

- Where are they coming from?

- Outer space.

- They're not from outer space.

- Why not?

- They're not.

- Why?!

What are you talking about?

A space flower?

Why not a space flower?

Why do we always expect metal ships?

I've never expected metal ships.

There must be other ways

they get in our systems.

Right. They could be getting into us

through touch or fragrance.

We would never even notice it,

not from the impurities we have.

I mean, we eat junk and we breathe junk.

I don't know where they're coming from,

but I feel as though I've been poisoned.

We've gotta take those flowers in

and have them analysed.

- There's something here.

- They could get into us

and screw up our genes like DNA,

recombine us, change us.

Oh, of course!

This is the same way

those rockets landed years ago,

so those spacemen could mate with

monkeys and create the human race.

It's happening now!

- Who do you wish to speak to?

- David Kibner.

He's not in right now.

He'll be back this afternoon.

Could you leave a message for him?

Matthew Bennell. B-E-N-N-E-L-L.

- And your number, please?

- No, he's got my number. Thank you.

James Grala, Deputy City Attorney.

Can I help you?

My name is Matthew Bennell.

B-E-N-N-E-L-L.

I'm a deputy public health inspector.

- Is this another call about impostors?

- Yes.

- We're the first agency you called?

- Yes.

Good. Listen, Mr Bennell,

we don't wanna create a panic.

No-one here knows.

I'd like you to stay by yourphone

for a while.

I'll have somebody call you back

and take down all you know.

All right, thank you.

This is a busy lab, Elizabeth.

We don't test flowers.

- They go to the Depart of Agriculture.

- I know where they go!

I think this is our problem.

I think it is affecting people.

How?

Look, Allen, I have already said

that I'll do all the testing.

You don't have to lift a finger. Can l?

You've been consistently late, Elizabeth,

and you're behind in your work,

so I'll do the tests for you.

Thank you.

- It'll take 48 hours.

- Allen, 24.

I can't understand why you've become

so emotional about a little flower.

Hello.

- Mr Bennell?

- Yes.

- From the Health Department?

- Yes.

- It's Ted Jessop, the Mayor's assistant.

- Yes.

- You've come across something strange?

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