Mosquito Page #4

See, that's the point.

The road's always gonna be there.

I, however, am not always gonna be there.

But if I got back to the main road,

that increases my chances

of being there a little longer.

Fine then,

why don't you and Attila the Hun here...

- Hey, hey look over there.

- All right.

Signal is getting stronger up this way.

Hey, doc we got a farmhouse over there.

They might have a phone or something.

Great idea.

Fine then, why don't you two

go check that out,

and Parks and I

will keep searching this way.

Earl, what are you gonna do?

I'll go with you.

Hey, wait a minute, a**hole,

you think I'm gonna trust you

alone in the woods with my girlfriend,

you can forget it.

Look, pretty boy,

I've lost my loot, my escape,

and my brother all because of those

God damned mosquitoes.

So, if these guys have some scheme to save

the world, I might as well help them.

Fine. You wanna help? You come with me.

Look, pal...

if I wasn't having such a shitty day,

I'd kill you right now.

You know, men a lot better than you

have said that to me before many times.

I wonder if they got a shower.

Hey, Ray, we'll meet you back

at the farmhouse in about an hour.

Hello?

Anybody home?

Hendricks, check the basement.

Check the basement?

Why do I have to check the basement?

- I think we should all stick...

- Check the basement.

Fine. I'll check the basement.

Stupid.

Fine down here.

So, what'd you guys find?

Nothing, like, we...

We're right over

whatever there is out there.

What about you?

Looks like we're gonna be

stuck here for the night.

- No phone, no transportation.

- And nobody's home.

- Any luck with that thing?

- No, no, not yet.

Found this in the work shed,

thought it might come in handy.

Man, I haven't handled

one of these babies in 20 years.

Feels good.

I can't believe we lost track

of that thing this afternoon.

This damn thing must be broken.

Either that or we're sitting on top

of an atom bomb.

We got five shells left.

I got a stinger up my ass.

My leg's killing me.

And I've been crawling around

in a stinking sewer pipe.

And this is all I get? Two crummy shells?

Thanks.

Hey, this is wet.

It's got bug goop all over it.

Hendricks, shut the hell up.

Oh, man. Always on my case.

I just try to help out,

and all you do is yell at me.

Hassle, pick on me all the time, man.

I'm about damn sick of it.

All that trouble,

all the crap I've been through, man.

All I hear from you,

"Hendricks, do this. Hendricks, shut up.

Man, get out of here, man..."

Bunch of bull, man, I'm sick of it.

Damn sick of it.

Piece of sh*t.

Hey, relax, it's been a long day.

It's been a long two days.

I'm sorry, Meg.

It's all right, man,

it's been a long weekend for all of us.

I hear that.

Jesus, man.

You always think you're gonna be

tough in these kind of situations.

You mean you actually imagined

yourself in a situation like this?

Giant mosquitoes and all?

No, no, I mean any kind of situation.

You know, I... I used to be...

Used to be real tough

on the streets of Detroit.

Back there, you had to be

or at least act like you were

or pretended you were

so you didn't have to prove it.

Yeah, don't worry, man, you're tough.

Nobody else could've gotten us this far.

I used to be, Ray. I used to be.

You want a test tough?

Get your ass in a situation like this

and see who comes out alive.

Now... Now that's tough.

Get yourself through a war, that's tough.

Nam?

Yeah.

Three tours.

Me too.

Hey, I was in Cub Scouts.

Try to become a Webelo. Now that's tough.

They're everywhere!

Get out of the way, get out of the way.

Get it off of me! Help! Ray!

Get it off, man. Help.

Get this thing off me.

Help.

Help. Someone help. Get it off.

Help. Somebody help me.

Get off of me.

Get off of me.

Get it off. Help.

Help me get this thing off, damn it.

Aah. Aah, get it off.

Help me!

Get it off. Get it off me, Ray. Help me.

Get it off, damn it!

Give me a hand. Hand me a board.

It's all boarded up in there,

but I don't know how long

that's gonna keep them out.

- What the hell was that?

- Sounds like one broke into the basement.

- Come on, Hendricks, let's go check it out.

- Me? How come I gotta go?

You boarded it up, now come on.

Let's go check out your work.

Holy mother of mercy.

Come on. Come on, man.

You're not gonna believe it.

What? What did you find?

They're down there. Thousands of them.

What's down there?

In the basement, eggs, mosquito eggs.

Hundreds of them, thousands of them.

Oh, man.

So, they weren't there

when you checked the basement before?

Hey, man, it was dark.

That's it then.

That's why there are so many bugs outside.

This is their breeding ground.

Your counter was right.

Your meteor's gotta be right here.

You mean, we're on the epicenter

of those things?

Great.

No, Ray it is great.

All we have to do is blow this house

to kingdom come,

- and, man, we are out of here.

- One problem.

Where are we gonna go

when we blow this place, out there?

We'll have to draw them in.

Inside the house?

You mean after all this work, you just

wanna draw them back in the house?

Yes, Ray, it's the only way.

Oh, great, they're mad as hell

they can't get in.

Now we're just gonna open the door

and let them in.

Then what?

We've gotta set the house to blow.

Yeah? How?

Gas. Gas.

We'll break all the gas lines,

and then each one of us will...

will get by the window.

And at the count of three,

we'll whip this sh*t off and let them in.

What about us?

We'll have to make it to the roof.

The dumbwaiter.

There's a dumbwaiter in the kitchen.

We can take that up one at a time.

We can take that up,

and we'll climb out from there.

Uh, we're only forgetting one thing, doc.

What's that?

Who's gonna stay here and light

the match to set the house off?

I haven't figured that out yet.

Is it gonna work?

Give me a moment, just a moment.

Windows are rigged.

Now, all we need to do

is rig the gas line,

the ones up here

and the ones in the basement.

Let's go.

In here.

In here, come on. Come on, this is it.

Yeah, that's it. Stick it right there.

Let's go. Go, go, get out of here.

This is the last damn time

I'm coming down here.

I'm set!

All right, I'm gonna set it

for three minutes.

Hold on, doc,

you mean we got three minutes

to get up on the roof and away

from this house before it blows?

Once we open those windows,

this place is gonna fill up

in ten seconds, so if you don't

have your ass out of here

in three minutes, you'll be dead.

Is everybody ready?

Ready.

Let's do it.

One! Two! Three!

Go, Ray, go!

Come on, only got one shot.

Let's go. Go, go, go.

Come on, Parks, we ain't got much time.

Hurry, hurry. Go.

Go, go, go, go.

See you on the outside, doc.

Hurry, hurry.

- Come on, come on.

- Go, go.

Go, man, go. Go, Hendricks, go.

No! No!

Sh*t, no! Sh*t, no!

Hendricks! Hendricks!

Earl, what are you doing?

I'm gonna save your friend.

Forget it, man.

You'll just get yourself killed.

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