It Came from Outer Space Page #2

You stay here.

Come on,

let's get back.

What is it ?.

Thought I heard

something.

It's just a Joshua tree.

Let's get out of here !

Did you get

any good shots ?.

Pretty good.

The crater's about

One of the biggest things

that ever happened !

Look how far down it goes !

Sure covers

a wide area.

Hey ! Here comes

our stargazer now ! Come on !

Snell's here.

So are the reporters.

Uh-oh, and here

they come.

I'll try

and steer 'em off.

Morning,John, Ellen.

Missed ya at the house.

Morning.

Dugan, American Press.

Lober, Press Dispatch.

Gentlemen,

this is Miss Fields.

How do you do ?.

Quite a show you started.

Any statement ?.

Why repeat it ?.

It's all right here.

"Star Gazer Sees Martians."

Stick around.

I may really have something

forya in a few minutes.

Look, uh, this is private.

Do ya mind ?.

Not at all.

How about it, Miss Fields ?.

You add anything to this ?.

No !

Hiya, Bob.

Hi !

Well, well,John.

Hello, Dr. Snell.

Glad you could get away.

I wouldn't have

missed it for anything.

How long you been here ?.

Oh, about an hour.

Oh, you've just

gotten started then.

Hardly, I've seen enough.

You do believe me ?.

Look,John, last night you

saw a meteor fall to Earth.

That much has been

substantiated by witnesses.

The presence of the crater

itself, its formation

and characteristics,

all support the theory

that it was a meteor.

But I tell you I was ship !

You saw something

that looked like a ship.

You can't prove it,John.

I can prove it

if I can get you to help me

dig it out of there.

I can't in good faith ask

the university to do it.

We'd dig for months

and spend thousands,

and maybe all we'd find

would be these.

Look, note the black

coloring, characteristic

of the meteor,

the fusion from heat,

the nickel and iron.

Facts,John, facts.

Even the angle of contact

with the earth.

Everything points toward

it being a meteor.

All right, all right.

I'll admit I don't have

all the answers.

One more point,John.

Come on.

Find anything, Bob ?.

No, Doctor,

not a thing.

There you are. There's

no sign of any excessive

radioactivity anywhere.

Odd, wouldn't you say,

for something coming in

from outer space ?.

I don't know what's odd

and what isn't anymore.

But I do know I expected you

to be more open to the idea

than the others.

You're a man of science !

Therefore, less inclined

to witchcraft,John.

Not witchcraft, Dr. Snell.

Imagination !

Willingness to believe

there are lots of things that

we don't know anything about.

Look, there was a time when

people thought the earth

was a level plane...

between two mountains

that were set there

to hold up the sky...

and that the stars

were lamps hung from that sky.

Then a better idea

came along and people

were willing to listen.

Be realistic,John. We've

worked together before.

In the meantime, you can

do an article for us.

Yeah. Here.

I already have.

An intense young man.

Yeah, and an odd one too.

More than odd, Bob.

Individual and lonely, a

man who thinks for himself.

"Report on the

Arrival of Strangers

from Outer Space."

Been hopin' I'd run

into you, Putnam.

What's the matter, Matt ?.

Did I break a law ?.

You might call it that.

Ellen's supposed to be

teachin' school today.

I told her to stay out of this.

You know Ellen.

Yeah, I know Ellen, also knew

her father. I was his deputy.

I mean to keep an eye on her.

Trouble is, she keeps trailin' afteryou.

See this town doesn't

understand you pokin' around

out here in the desert,

squintin' up

at the stars, and now

you come up with this story.

This town !

The reason I came out

here to the desert...

was to try and get away

from that kind of thinking.

Putnam,

you frighten 'em.

And what frightens 'em

they're against,

one way or another.

Look, Matt,

I'm frightened too.

You want to

destroy yourself,

that's your lookout.

But leave Ellen alone.

She needs her job.

Come on, Miss Fields,

give us a story.

Smile, please, Miss Fields.

Joe, get it, will ya ?.

What about this monster

you ran into last night ?.

Come on, fellows, stop

bothering her, will ya ?.

We're just checkin'

your story.

What are ya tryin' to prove ?.

That's what I was gonna askyou.

Maybe getting publicity

for a new bookyou're writing ?.

John !

Don't get sore, Putnam.

You're news now.

Okay, Putnam, just

tryin' to get a story.

Snell agrees with the

sheriff and the sheriff

agrees with the others.

I'm crazy.

Oh, I know. Matt was at me

before he found you.

A teacher has responsibilities

to the community.

I just wish we had found one

of them, that's all.

Just one little monster to toss

into the principal's bedroom.

An occasion to make

the soul tremble.

Thankyou, sir. This is

your local announcer again.

Here's Major Benson

ofthe United States Army

to give us his view.

Major, will the Army attempt

to dig underneath the crater ?

Uh, probably not.

Major, how do you feel

about the report...

that a spaceship

is buried there ?

Ifthere is, it'll have to wait

until we can get around to it.

Then the army isn 't

afraid of any invaders ?

Not ifthey're buried under

hundreds oftons of--

Look !

- Seems like it'll reach out.

- Hmm.

It's alive.

And yet it looks

so dead out there.

Oh, no, it's alive

and waiting for you.

Ready to kill you

ifyou go too far.

The sun will get you,

or the cold at night.

A thousand ways

the desert can kill.

Where are you ?.

What do you look like ?

What am I supposed to be

looking for ?

I know you're out there,

hiding in the desert.

Maybe I'm looking right at you

and don't even see you.

Come on out !

Why, John !

Hiya, Frank, George.

Well, where'd

you two come from ?.

Why aren't you

at the crater ?.

I don't like

the show they're puttin' on.

Hear they got you goin',

John. Ridin' you, boy ?.

They're tryin' to.

I read the morning papers.

Don't let 'em ride you too much.

Have you two seen anything

unusual this morning ?.

You mean like

another meteor ?.

No, I don't mean like a meteor.

No, we ain't seen nothin',

have we, Frank ?.

Have we, Frank ?

What ?.

I said, we haven't seen

nothin', have we ?

No, I haven't seen anything.

But I'm sure

hearin' things.

Yeah ?.

What kind of things ?.

Well, I don't know.

Darnedest noise ever.

Never heard it on

the wires before.

You've been out in the sun

all morning.

No, it's not the sun !

Mind if I give a listen ?.

Sure ! Put him

on the ladder, George.

You're the boss.

Here, listen.

Ya hear it ?.

Yeah.

Any idea what it is ?.

I don't know.

Might be somebody up that way

tapping the wires or...

back that way

listening to us like

we're listening to him.

I wonder who it is.

I don't know.

Afteryou've been

working out on the desert

hear a lot of things,

see a lot of things too.

Sun in the sky and the heat.

All that sand out there

with the rivers and lakes

that aren't real at all.

And sometimes you think that

the wind gets in the wires

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