It's Alive Page #3

He won't be coming back.

Mr. Davis,

what did it look like?

Leave me alone.

I got nothing to say.

Get those cameras

out of my face, please.

I got no comment, I had

nothing to do with this.

Will you get that goddamn

thing out of my face?

Get out of the way!

I don't know

what it looked like.

Never mind my baby.

Leave my wife out of

it, you understand me?

Aren't we almost home?

We'll be there in a few minutes.

Oh...

I feel better already getting

out of that terrible place.

I don't have to take any more

of those shots, do I?

I don't like taking shots.

I don't... I don't like

being made to go to sleep.

I engaged nurses

in three shifts.

Lenore:
I'm surprised anybody

would even want to work for us.

Well, Doctor Norton

took care of it.

Oh, good.

And I'm going to be there

all the time.

- What about--

- Yeah, I told the office

that I just have to have

those three weeks' vacation

they owe me.

What about that, uh,

that Marcus account?

That was... that was

very important to you.

You're more important.

What about Chris,

have you told him?

Does he know anything?

I spoke to Charley.

He kept him home from school.

He hasn't told him anything.

Good.

Sooner or later, he'll

switch on the television.

There's only so long you

can keep a secret like that.

Dad, why can't I go

to school, or go out,

or have any of my friends over?

Chris, I can't

tell you now, son.

You'll just have to trust me.

You trust me, don't you, son?

Sure, Dad.

You have to spend all your

time with Charley this week.

You wouldn't mind that.

Chris, hey Chris, hey buddy,

you don't

want to hurt his feelings.

I like Charley, but I want

to see Mom and the baby.

Frank:

The baby's not home yet.

ls it sick?

Yeah, that's right son,

the, uh, the baby's sick.

And everything here is a mess.

So, uh, it'd be much better if

you stay where you are.

Will you tell Charley to

let me watch television?

Frank:

Okay, put him on.

Oh, okay.

Okay, Frank, look we'll

take care of everything.

Hey, I had an idea.

What if I take Chris up to

the lake, do some fishing?

Okay Charley, thank you.

Oh, and, uh,

give my love to Lenore.

Thanks, Charley.

Hunting and killing babies

doesn't seem to be my specialty.

So what do you want, a transfer?

My wife's in her

eighth month and,

ever since I started on this,

she hasn't been

getting any rest.

Me being so involved

really brings it home.

Besides, I guess you know

we lost our last baby.

Look, you're lucky you don't

have grown kids nowadays.

People without children don't

realize how lucky they are.

It'll make you feel much better.

Did you see it, Mrs. Davis?

Surely you must have

gotten one glimpse.

They say it has teeth and

claws, did you know that?

How should I know that?

Were you aware that

it killed another person

just last night?

A musician over on

Santa Monica Boulevard.

He was on his way home from

work about two in the morning,

and, uh, that was the last

anybody saw of him.

They found him in an alley.

Well, they... they

can't be sure that it was--

There's no doubt about it.

The wounds are the same as the

doctor and nurses suffered.

Well, what do you

want me to say?

Just say anything you feel.

What's under that napkin?

There's nothing there.

A recorder! A tape recorder!

I'm a nurse,

you can tell me anything.

Who are you working for?

I really am a registered nurse,

and I--

I write a little on the side.

Lenore:
She's taking

interviews on a tape recorder.

Get out.

Frank...

We just... we just have

to get rid of everybody.

Let's not have

any more nurses, honey.

All right.

We'll let them all go.

Should have known better,

than to trust anybody.

Man". Actually, already

in excess of $100,000

has been allocated

by the university

for examination

of this phenomenon.

We have some of the

leading men in the field.

And it is hoped that this

might lead to a breakthrough,

to a better understanding

of why mutations occur.

You want to experiment

on it, is that it?

As a matter of fact,

my department

has already cautioned the

police about excessive violence.

If it could be dispatched

with a bullet,

or better still,

some kind of a gas.

Undoubtedly, it is very small

and any kind of bodily harm,

especially from

gunshots or explosives--

In other words, you want me

to sign away the body,

is that it?

Well, it's your right,

after all,

you are the child's father.

It's not my child.

That's very wise,

to disassociate yourself

emotionally.

Just sign each copy, please.

- Pen?

- Give him a pen.

You know it seems that

out of every tragedy,

out of every evil,

some good can come, if

we only apply ourselves.

Frank:
I suppose that's gonna

be in all the medical journals,

the history books? Huh?

The Davis child.

The Davis monster.

It's like Frankenstein.

In my opinion,

this will be remembered

long after each

of us is forgotten.

When I was a kid,

I always thought

the monster was Frankenstein.

You know, Karloff walking around

in these big shoes, grunting.

I thought he was Frankenstein.

Then I went to high school

and I read the book,

and I realized that

Frankenstein was the...

...doctor who created him.

Somehow, the identities...

...get all mixed up,

don't they?

One must not allow oneself

to be impressed

by escapist fiction.

You forgot one.

Pen.

Lenore:
Frank, darling?

Hi, darling.

Mrs. Davis, I don't suppose

you took the pills I gave you?

You really should, you know.

Maybe it's all the

pills I've been taking

over the years

that brought this on.

You really shouldn't

be downstairs.

Maybe you'd both

like to have dinner with us?

I have some wonderful lamb

chops in the refrigerator.

No, I'm afraid not.

Honey, why don't you

go down to the basement

and-- and get a bottle of that,

uh, that nice Beaujolais?

Won't that go nicely

with the lamb chops?

We have quite

an extensive wine cellar.

It's one of Frank's

many hobbies.

My husband's a many-faceted man.

I'll show these gentlemen

to the door.

I'll get that wine.

Oh, great, great,

good,good.

That basement's filthy.

Man:

How long has she been

taking birth control pills

before this pregnancy?

Thirty-one months.

You realize of course

that I came from the East

specifically for this matter?

I realize that

it is a police problem,

but once the thing is killed,

it becomes a medical problem.

Now, you are in charge of

that department, no doubt?

Yes, I suppose so.

Nobody knows how

this thing happened.

It-- it's really

a matter of speculation,

and I think perhaps

that's for the best.

After all, if we find out

that the cause is medication

that we manufacture,

and it was administered

over a long period of time,

it'd be bad for you

and even worse for us.

We're susceptible, you know,

to lawsuits.

People will think

the government hadn't

tested and approved

of those products

that we put out on the market.

What do

your interests recommend?

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