Return of the Killer Shrews Page #5

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back to hell.

I came to this island about,

uh, fifty years ago.

I was bringing some supplies

to the scientists.

I'm Doctor Craigis.

Thorne Sherman.

I have your supplies aboard.

And they were messing around

with some sort of

crazy idea about

fixing the population explosion.

And this one scientist, Jery,

he was injecting gromh hormones

or something into these little critters.

They were shrews.

I don't know, and he must have

miscalculated or something, and they,

and these shrews started to grow,

and they got bigger

and bigger and bigger.

And they got big as dogs.

I lost...

my first mate then.

Rook.

He was a good man.

You always called me Rook.

Yes, I did.

You don't look nothing like him.

Well, then why do you call me that?

I don't know.

He was my best friend.

Like you.

I just don't know why

I ever put him in harm's way.

Now I have to wake up evey day

thinking maybe

I got my best friend killed.

Bad news. The generator

has no gas. We're out.

Well, there's plenty more on the boat.

Thorne, you and I could go...

What did you just say?

Thorne and you? No, no, no.

We wouldn't get fifty yards

before those things

started tearing us apart.

Somebody's got to go,

or we're all going to end up shrew bait.

Well, ah, only a blithering idiot

would go out there.

I'll do it.

And Lenora's going with me.

Lenora? I, I...

There's no way I'm taking

a chance with those things.

Life... is a gamble, my dear.

That's why your scripts are so good.

- Oh, thanks.

- You've got to live it,

to write it. Right?

- Right.

- Willard,

those things will kill you

before you get fifty yards.

I don't think so.

They don't hunt when they're feeding.

We put Stella's body out there

and now it's gone.

I figure somebody called lunch.

If you two get to the boat,

which you won't, don't you take it.

Evey boat needs a captain.

You're the captain.

Get that door closed.

You get the footage?

We have eveything

we need right here.

What are we going to do about

the boat? We don't have a driver.

We don't. I do.

But you told Thorne you didn't.

I lied.

Okay, you two are up to something.

I have no idea

what you're talking about.

Why don't you go back

where it's safe?

Wha... I heard you talk

to Mr. Sherman.

You're going to ty to make it

to the beach

before the shrews come back.

You're going to steal the boat

and you're going to leave the island.

I confess.

- What about the others?

- What about them?

Nobody's getting off this island alive

except me and Lenora.

Well, and me. I'm coming with you.

Willard!

All right.

Super!

There she is.

Well, there's nothing stopping us now.

Open the gate!

Help! Open the gate!

Go ahead honey.

You're safe now. You're safe.

For a little while anmay.

The lights are still on.

Why don't we turn on the fence?

Well, we got enough power

to run a few lights.

We don't have enough juice to

fire up the fence.

- Maybe they'll give up.

- They won't give up. They never give up.

But they stop

for some reason or another. Now, I...

I, somehow I have a feeling

that it's the sound of that weird whistle.

You think they'll be back?

Oh, are you crazy?

Of course they're coming back.

They... they always come back.

That whistle works like an on/off switch

for those little monsters.

You know, what's funny is it...

These shrews act exactly

like the shrews did

when I came on this island

fifty years ago.

What happened?

The shrews started to attack

this building.

One of the scientists, he, he got it.

They were all drinking,

but Jery really could put it down.

He was mad because

he had a thing for this girl, Ann.

You know, she was a

Iovely young thing.

You know,

I really started to dig her chili,

if you know what I mean.

Jery, that man was a mean drunk.

He tried to kill me even!

Once we were,

were running from the shrews.

He got to the compound

before I did.

Well, the lunatic closed

and locked the door!

All the shrews

were chompin' on my tail.

I jumped over the fence just in time,

and I beat the crap out of Jery.

The shrews were all over

the compound by then.

We finally escaped the island

by duck walking under these barrels.

Swam out to the boat,

and I got to clinch under the blanket

with my beauty queen.

Help! Help! Help!

Help! Help! Help!

- Sam!

- I'll get you out of here.

We'll stick by the river.

We might be okay.

- The shrews hate water.

- Okay, hury up before he's back.

That guy!

You can stick by the river

as long as you like.

They do what I want.

Hungy boys?

Just kidding.

Hey, you know Thorne,

nobody's gonna blame you

if you make a run for the boat.

You mean run for the boat

for help by myself?

Yeah.

That ain't gonna happen.

I left my best friend on this island

about fifty years ago.

Ain't gonna happen again.

So why are we here?

He could have let those creatures

eat us alive.

- I think we're here as bait.

- Bait?

- Maybe to lure someone else here.

- Who?

Not so much who as why.

You know, my whole life

was stolen from me.

My career, tho woman I loved,

the future.

Hold that thought. It's feeding time.

Ah... I know who you are.

All right, your ass is grass now.

And I'm the weed whacker!

Can't be eaten.

- Quiet now, quiet. It's okay.

- You don't understand now.

We can't be eaten.

Nobody's gonna eat you.

Just ty to calm down, okay?

What do you got there Jery?

I knew you'd come.

Then why didn't you have

those shrews eat me?

Oh. That would have been too easy.

I'm gonna kill you myself.

Yeah?

How do you figure on doing that?

I'm gonna do it with this!

That pig sticker doesn't scare me.

I'll take it away from you

and cut you off too short to hang.

Yeah? Well I don't need it.

I'll kill you with my bare hands.

- Whoah, yeah?

- Yeah!

That hurt me.

Listen, I wasn't ready.

You ready?

I wasn't read...

Okay, okay. No more rules.

Wait, one rule, no rules.

Thorne! You're too old for this.

Stop fighting.

Jery, why are you so angy at me?

Annie.

You seduced her.

You dazzled her.

- Dazzled her?

- Yeah.

All I did was buy her a cheeseburger

and a beer at the Dallas drive-in.

She hated you.

Didn't you know that?

- She loved me.

- I was going to mary her.

Oh, she wouldn't have married you,

you drunken bum.

I can see why you're so angy, maybe

fifty years on this crazy island

without a woman.

I did all right.

You, you did all right?

- With what?

- Oh, that is way too much information.

You left me here to die Thorne.

I didn't leave you here

to die you fool.

You got up on the top

of that building.

- Wouldn't come down.

- Well, they almost got me.

I mean, they were chasing me

when I found this cave.

It was a storage site for the Naybi

during World War Two.

And then I,

I ate some of their C rations.

And then I, I started to do

the experiments again.

I mutated some the, ah,

the elder shrews, the meaner ones.

I got a whole new species Thorne.

How did you learn

how to control them?

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