Strange Invaders Page #3

Anyway, you published that photograph.

I wonder what they want.

You know, several times during the last

few days, I thought I was going mad.

Nobody wants to hear this.

But I'm a scientist.

I know what I saw.

I just want somebody to believe me.

I believe you, Charlie, I really do.

Although let's not tell anybody,

you know what I mean?

Let's just forget it.

I mean, I don't want to walk...

Walk around saying

there was an alien in my apartment

who gobbled up my supe.

It sounds ridiculous.

I want to forget it.

I want to go away

for a long vacation and...

Oh, God, I want some dinner.

MAN:
All right! That's nice.

Look at this!

Incredible. He's great!

SECOND MAN:
I don't believe it.

He's not even looking at it!

FIRST MAN:
Aw, sure.

CHARLES:
Riverside Drive, please.

THIRD MAN:
Hey, I'm going to play.

(ONLOOKERS TALKING AT ONCE)

(EERIE HUMMING)

Hmm?

I don't dance.

What do you mean, you don't dance?

Everybody dances.

This is quaint, too.

Who's your decorator?

Well, you want a beer

or some water or something?

No. A nice, soft chair would be fine.

(GASPS) Oh.

My God, what was that?

It's not a pet, is it?

I hope it doesn't have a coy name.

No, uh, it belongs

in that jar right there.

I just haven't been able

to catch it yet.

Please, I can't take any more.

No more surprises,

nothing unexpected, please.

(DOORBELL BUZZING)

I'll be right back.

Who is it?

Charles, it's Margaret. Open up.

Margaret?

What happened to you?

I tried to find you.

Oh, God, I'm so sorry.

Where have you been

for the last week and a half?

I've got to talk to you.

Uh, you'll never guess what happened.

My wife just returned.

You never told me you were married.

You told me other things,

but not that you were married.

I'm not.

Why don't you check the dictionary

under W-I-F-E?

We're divorced.

Uh-huh, sure.

Where you going?

Home.

You don't understand.

You're right, I don't.

I'll call you tomorrow... Maybe.

Fine!

Charlie, where is Elizabeth?

She's at my mother's.

Charlie, there's something

we have to talk about.

(THUNDER)

I was supposed to find out

how things work here.

But instead I found a way...

The way I wanted to live.

And when it didn't work out

with you and me,

there was still Elizabeth.

Now, Charles, now,

now is the important time.

Now they want Elizabeth, too.

You've got to get to her.

You've got to hide her

for the next couple of days,

until 9:
00 on Sunday night.

(ELECTRONIC NOISE)

(DOG BARKS)

(THUNDER)

(PULSING ELECTRONIC HUM)

(RINGING BUZZER AND KNOCKING)

I shot one.

And it had green blood, and I think

they're on their way up here.

Is there any other way out of here?

Just the fire escape.

Well, you hurry. I'll stop them.

Go.

(LASER FIRING)

(EXPLOSION)

(HORN BLOWING)

Get in!

Get in, for God's sake!

Now tell me I didn't see

anybody in Centerville.

- Tell me nobody's living there!

- Mr. Bigelow...

Come on, tell me! Come on.

Well, I can't do that.

You know I can't do that.

Come on, tell me.

I wanna hear you say it!

You've intruded

on a very delicate situation.

Come on, Benjamin.

All right, I will tell you one thing.

We have an agreement with them.

We've known about them for a long time.

They provide us with certain advantages,

and we provide them

with a place to live.

But it hasn't been easy!

We haven't had much choice at all.

Don't give us that. They're after us!

Charlie, who is this?

This is the government woman

I told you about.

Hello. I'm Betty Walker.

I know who you are, Miss Walker.

Your article has caused us

a lot of agony.

You know, these people don't know

what a rag your newspaper is.

They actually take it seriously!

I don't know what they'll do next.

Well!

Driver, go to East 63rd Street.

(DOOR UNLOCKS)

They took her.

- BENJAMIN:
Bigelow, wait!

- Let's go.

Get 'em.

BENJAMIN:
Put out an A.P.B.

for the bridges and the airports.

What about the trains?

Nobody takes the train anymore.

Gate 27...

His name is Willie Collins.

CHARLES:
What?

The guy who sent the photograph.

Oh, oh.

Look, he's in Illinois.

Let's go and see him.

Charlie, listen to me.

He knows about them.

This is where he is.

I'm sure he can help us.

I hope you're right.

Well, she said the deadline

was 9:
00 p.m. Sunday.

It's 11:
00 now.

Whatever it is, we have 34 hours.

They took the train.

I was on a train once.

It wasn't anything like this, of course.

Was that before you met Margaret?

Mmm-hmm.

Where'd you meet her, Charlie?

Cape Canaveral?

No. Uh, I met her in a bookstore...

Scribner's Bookstore.

Charlie?

Hmm?

Can I ask you the obvious question?

What?

Didn't you know she was...

Well, a little strange?

Well, she was difficult to live with,

but so am I, and, uh... (CHUCKLES)

She was a good mother. Is a good mother.

And she doesn't have

to strike a match to light a stove.

Yeah, well, it was a talent

she kept to herself.

BETTY:
This is it, Charlie.

Looks like some kind of hospital.

CHARLES:
It's an asylum.

WOMAN OVER P.A.:
Dr. Milch,

Dr. Anthony Milch, please call 261.

Dr. Stayman, Dr. Wally Stayman,

please call 46.

He's a permanent patient, east wing.

Permanent?

(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

Willie, you have some visitors.

Say hello.

Mr. Collins, I'm Betty Walker

from The National Informer:

Do you remember you wrote us a letter?

Thank you, Nurse.

We just need to talk to you.

Come to see what kind of lunatic

writes things like this, huh?

Interview the madman?

No.

I've had a lot of visitors like you

through the years.

It stops being amusing after a while.

It might be better if...

Look, they took my daughter.

Come with me.

WILLIE:
They killed my family.

Sit down, please.

I was a young man then,

had just set myself up in business.

I had a family, just like most folks.

Oh, you can smoke here.

We were on vacation.

First one we took

since the kids were born.

We drove across the country.

Wanted to see America.

Then one day, driving along,

must have been in the car

since 6:
00 in the morning,

my wife's complaining.

She wants me to stop.

The kids were driving her crazy,

like kids will do, making her mad.

Then she sees a town.

It was one of those perfect

summer nights.

It was still light out.

There wasn't a soul around.

We saw a rooming house, decided to stop.

I must have gone over this

a million times in my mind.

Why didn't I just go to sleep?

I don't know.

It's probably all that driving.

Anyway, I felt jittery.

Went for a walk.

I came to a church.

There was this sound,

very high-pitched.

It was like it was drawing me in.

The sound was coming

from behind the altar.

There was an open door

that led underground,

so I went down.

(THUMPING)

(VOICES SOBBING)

(SOBBING CONTINUES)

Alice!

CHILD:
Daddy!

(SCREAMING)

Aah!

Aah!

CHILDREN:
Daddy?

Daddy?

(SOBBING)

Daddy?

(GASPS)

ALICE:
Willie.

CHILDREN:
Daddy.

(SOBBING)

ALICE:
Willie.

CHILDREN:
Daddy?

I never saw them again.

I went home, tried to get some help.

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