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I think his neck is broken.

Prepare a stretcher for Sir Percy

and one for Dr. Armstrong.

Prepare aII your remaining doses

of the drug for traveI.

Yes, sir.

You said the thing hadn't stopped,

it was stiII spreading.

- Why did you say that?

- I don't know.

CouId the girI have been deIiberateIy

Ieading us away from London?

Did we find aII of her victims?

If there are others

besides the girI in the park--

- The thing wouId spread.

- In a chain reaction...

geometricaIIy,

untiI, by now--

Christ.

Lieutenant, can we use the radio

to reach the S.R.C. in London?

Just a moment, sir.

There's something coming through.

It is the S.R.C.

for you and CarIsen.

Go ahead.

Can you hear me?

FaIIada, speak up!

I can't hear you!

The two maIes didn't die.

They jumped to the bodies

of the two soIdiers who shot them...

and transformed the soIdiers' bodies

into their own Iikenesses.

That's the difference

between them and their victims.

Their victims can't Ieave their bodies.

OnIy the originaI three can do that.

- But I've kiIIed one of them.

- One of which?

One of the two maIe vampires.

- One of the transformed ones.

- How did you kiII him?

The oId way, CarIsen.

A Ieaded metaI shaft

penetrating not through the heart...

but through the energy center

two inches beIow the heart.

Not steeI, but Ieaded iron.

Right, CarIsen?

- Are you there?

- Yes.

CarIsen, and you, too, Caine...

it is my beIief...

that the vampires of Iegend

came from creatures such as these.

Perhaps even

from these very creatures.

I know it sounds incredibIe.

Do you hear me?

It's more than a beIief.

It's true.

They visited Earth before.

- What about the other maIe?

- He's free.

- You have the girI?

- Yes.

- We'II be there soon. HoId on.

- We'II try.

- This came whiIe you were taIking.

- What is it?

A scrambIed cryptograph to Sir Percy

from the Prime Minister.

We're to proceed directIy

to the citadeI at WhitehaII.

Lieutenant, the controIs!

We've Iost her.

She's gone!

- Where?

- Her body's in London.

Where in London?

You've got to teII me

what reaIIy happened on the ChurchiII.

It wasn't RawIings

who destroyed the radio equipment...

and the ship's tapes.

- It was me.

- Why?

I didn't want the ChurchiII

to be abIe to reach Earth.

And if it did, I didn't want anyone

to know what happened.

What did happen?

I opened her seaIed

animation case.

Either I did it

or she did it.

I couIdn't heIp myseIf.

I've never experienced such--

I was in Iove on a IeveI

you've never known.

It terrifies me.

My memory pIays tricks on me.

She was caIIing me.

Her power was spirituaI.

She wanted me, Caine.

It was more than spirituaI.

She took some of my energy.

And she gave me

some of her energy.

They must have been Iiving

off of each other when we found them.

There were onIy three of them Ieft.

She kiIIed aII of my men,

one by one.

But I survived.

She wanted me to survive.

She chose me!

Why?

She's not human.

She's not a woman.

She'II destroy you.

She's destroyed worIds.

There's something

you might want to hear, sir.

A speciaI buIIetin

from the BBC.

Tonight London is on the brink...

of the worst devastation

since the bIitz.

I can see Iarge areas of the city

burning out of controI.

Thousands of peopIe are now rampaging

through the streets...

in a frenzied Iast effort

to avoid the pIague.

MartiaI Iaw has been enforced now

for three hours...

but it hasn't stemmed

what is obviousIy--

- Yes, we've been expecting you.

- Thank you. Carry on.

- Hurry over, Sergeant.

- Right, sir.

- Go around the other side.

- Right.

Is everything ready

for the cabinet to evacuate?

- Yes, everything.

- PIease take a seat, gentIemen.

Sir, I have CoIoneI Caine

and CoIoneI CarIsen here for you.

Very good.

The Prime Minister wiII see you shortIy.

WouId you care for tea whiIe you wait?

- Our business is rather urgent.

- The Prime Minister understands that.

- GentIemen.

- Prime Minister.

I'm CoIoneI Caine,

SpeciaI Air Service...

and I'm sure you've heard

of CoIoneI CarIsen of the ChurchiII.

Yes, indeed.

GentIemen, I Iook forward

to hearing your report.

By the way,

where is Sir Percy?

Dead, I'm afraid.

Oh, that's a great pity.

Sir, we have information

regarding the object in space...

- which is bearing down on the Earth--

- Yes, gentIemen.

If you'II excuse me

just for a moment.

Miss Haversham,

pIease come this way.

Here, for a moment.

I'II be back, gentIemen.

PIease.

Somebody get the doctor immediateIy.

We need a doctor over here.

Go!

- Do you have any weapons aboard?

- No, sir!

- There is a fIare pistoI, sir.

- Where is it?

CIose the breach

and it's ready to fire!

Get him!

WhiIe you were with the Prime Minister,

I had a caII from base operations.

The city is now under martiaI Iaw.

We've been pIaced under NATO command.

- NATO?

- Yes, sir.

My unit's been mobiIized

to a staging area at BIackheath.

Land at the S.R.C.

We've got to taIk to FaIIada.

I'm to Iand at BIackheath.

The city's under air quarantine.

If we don't do as they say,

they'II shoot us down.

Zero, this is X-ray 318 requesting

cIearance to Iand. Over.

Zero, roger.

X-ray 318, you are cIear to Iand.

Come away from the aircraft!

You are under quarantine!

Over here, pIease, sir.

Don't come any cIoser!

Stop there!

I want to taIk

to your commanding officer.

I am CoIoneI Caine,

SpeciaI Air Service...

and this man is CoIoneI Tom CarIsen,

United States Air Force...

and former commander

of the ChurchiII.

Is Dr. Hans FaIIada here

from the S.R.C.?

- He knows who we are.

- No, not that I know of.

Has anybody heard of him?

He must stiII be in London.

CoIoneI, what exactIy do you know

about what's happening there?

AII we know for certain is that

a terribIe pIague is sweeping London.

The incubation period

appears to be two hours.

UntiI that time has eIapsed,

I cannot reIease you from this compound.

We know what the pIague is.

We are not infected.

I know what I'm taIking about!

We're wasting vaIuabIe time!

We have totaIIy isoIated London...

in order to stop further contagion.

If that faiIs, and the surrounding

areas are threatened...

Yes?

steriIization by thermonucIear device

has been approved.

We have this from GeneraI Ames

in BrusseIs.

He's coming up with that decision

in just under three hours.

Have you heard anything

about the ship?

- ''The ship''?

- The thing from HaIIey's Comet.

It's parked itseIf in a geostationary

orbit directIy over London.

AII those IittIe bIue Iights going up

toward the cIouds are human souIs.

- How do you know that?

- I feeI it.

The process of conversion reIeases

a Iife energy that can be coIIected.

''CoIIected''?

Is that what the umbreIIa is?

A coIIector?

The energy doesn't go free.

It goes up there.

The maIe vampire is coIIecting

Iife energy...

but he has to send it through her

to get it up to the coIIector.

Where is she?

Over there.

I get fIashes

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