Living Hell Page #3

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- Kinoshita.

- Sir.

Put spotters on the roofs.

I want one there... There and there.

Yes, sir.

Sir,

the civilian, Frank Sears,

is connected to the organism.

His past might help us understand

the nature of the organism.

Specialist Freeborn,

I'm deeply sorry for your loss.

We need cooperation at the highest level.

All classified records from Washington

related to programs at Fort Lambert

in 1958.

- Teegarden.

- Sir.

That civilian is still a prisoner.

Set up a brig inside.

Sir.

Specialist, this is no longer a...

It is now a contain and destroy operation.

Those are my orders.

You'll report to Sergeant Kinoshita

for supply duty until further notice.

Is that understood?

Gates, Franklin, Zaremba!

All right, let's get these tables cleared off.

Put the maps over there, radio here.

Supply staff, set up over there.

I need every civilian out of here, right now.

Quickly, quickly. Secure the back door...

This morning...

The old Indian across the street,

he looked at me like... Like he knew me.

The man in the tank was your father, Frank.

Your biological father.

He knew my face.

He knew your father.

Sergeant Kinoshita's asking for you now, sir.

Army dude says it's a drill.

They brought in toxic waste

and dumped it.

'Cause the Feds don't wanna

give the land to our people.

- Your people? Miss 11 %.

- Screw you!

Like you're even half.

Stay clear of them Army soldiers, hear?

They're jumpy today.

All right.

- Can I help you folks?

- You recognized my face.

Sir, did you live here in 1959?

Grandpa, you know you've always

lived here, since you were born.

Kaz, go to the stockroom

and finish sweeping.

Look at my face.

A man worked at Fort Lambert in 1959.

He looked a lot like me.

I don't know anything about the base.

You used to work at Fort Lambert.

He's got a little forgetfulness issues.

But he's on meds and I help him.

This is my mother. She worked here, too.

Grandpa, what's the matter?

Why is the Army in town?

Sir...

Virgil, that disease killed people today.

We need to find out what it is right now,

before anyone else dies.

What happened in 1959 at Fort Lambert?

- The government swore me to secrecy.

- Well, the secret's out.

We opened Vault 12.

The man in the tank is

Yevgeni Tarasov, a scientist.

Defected here from Russia.

The government set him up at Lambert.

Your mother worked in his lab.

My job was feeding the monkeys,

cleaning up after them.

Toward the end, Yevgeni got sick.

Two days before he died,

he gave me a package.

He said never open it...

Unless a day like this would come.

The bridge is washed out.

We have to walk up this way.

Get the shovel out of the back of the truck.

Kaz, stay here.

Can you watch her?

Yes.

The package

Tarasov gave me is buried under here.

Where are your mommy and daddy?

My mommy left. But I talk to her sometimes.

My daddy's gone a lot

because he owns casinos.

I lost my doll.

We'll find it on the way back.

- What's the matter?

- Nothing.

You stay there, okay?

You didn't know Dr. Tarasov

was your father, did you?

There's a lot of things I didn't know.

He was a genius, but then he

would forget to tie his shoes.

You know the type?

Kaz?

That's it.

Kaz?

Don't! Kaz!

Frank! It's here!

We've gotta get out of here, now!

- Grandpa!

- Go out the back door!

Come on!

Get out! Go! Go!

It's coming from that way.

- We need to head south, toward town.

- Take Kaz. I'm gonna get the truck.

I'll meet you on the main road.

Sir. I've got captures off the M-28 bird.

Circumference exceeds 1,700 meters.

Play the time progression again.

Here's the last hour.

The growth rate has slowed.

Kinoshita.

Yes, sir. For you, sir. Pentagon.

Yes, sir.

Is there a satellite image

that could show us infrared?

- That's for the Colonel to order.

- He's got bigger matters to attend to.

It's my job to get him the best information.

Switching to real-time infrared.

Oh, my God!

- Colonel Maitland, sir.

- Yes, one moment, sir.

- What?

- It's growing underground.

Frank!

Frank! Come on!

Get in.

It's grown this much in an hour.

I don't know any plant or animal

that grows that fast, do you?

No, except on a microscopic scale.

Bacteria, viruses...

The Army will stop it, won't they?

Won't you?

Yes. We will.

But first we need to understand

what Dr. Tarasov was doing.

This is... That's what we found.

- How do we watch this?

- With a projector.

I know we need a projector.

Where do we find one?

My school has one.

Excuse me. Can you tell us anything, please?

Did something happen at the base?

Well, what happened?

Daddy!

Kazzy!

I was so worried about you.

They blocked the roads.

I couldn't get home.

These snakes are taking over

like nothing I've ever seen before.

You don't believe me, take a look.

Chopped the tail off with my ax,

but the bastard just kept growing at me.

Brother, I got out of there, quick.

Hell, Ruby, that's just an old lizard tail.

Been drinking bug killer again?

She ran out of Jim Beam.

Where did you find that?

Out on the other side, where the

power lines cross old Route 17,

you know, back side of Lambert?

- Grandpa didn't get away.

- Grandpa?

What are you talking about, Kazzy?

Giant weeds growing out of the ground up

at the old church, they got Grandpa.

She's talking about a root.

Okay.

- Okay.

- What's come up from the ground?

What the hell have you Army people

been doing out there at Lambert?

Calm down. The situation is under control.

Calm down. Everything is being

taken care of. Will you calm down?

At the rate it's growing,

how long before it gets here?

About two hours if the growth rate is linear.

And what if it's exponential?

Good thing about public schools is

they never throw anything away.

I was the AV guy in high school.

I've gotta get this analyzed.

I better fly this back to Washington.

I have to go back to my command post,

try to convince Colonel Maitland that this...

You're AWOL. They'll arrest you.

We don't have time for that.

You need a lab, I'll get you a lab.

August 12, 1958.

Yevgeni Tarasov.

Fort Lambert, New Mexico,

United States of America.

To whomever may be watching this,

I want to say one thing.

I do not envy your predicament.

If my wishes have been met,

you will see this only upon the

dawn of a global catastrophe.

Because they refused

to continue funding my experiments

in cellular regeneration.

They declared my work

hopeless and impractical.

The United States government

sees merit in my work

and takes me in like an orphan.

My new father is the United States Army.

I endeavored to create a biological weapon

which can eliminate all

enemies at minimum cost.

An infectious organism

that cannot be destroyed

by any means, conventional, chemical, or nuclear.

I systematically exposed

many varieties of cells

to radiation, extreme acidity, high heat,

toxic compounds, extreme voltage.

Tissue resembles animal muscle,

with nucleus structure similar to plant cells.

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