The Crazies Page #2

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will you listen to me? They're not going to want me

to let you go, so you're going to have to sneak out.

Okay, try this one! I want you to

take a syringe and some antibiotic for David.

You have to stay in town, so find David

and the two of you stay away from people.

Get this one over here!

Dr. brookmyre, I think we should

discuss larger facilities.

If this thing gets any worse, we're gonna

need someplace to set up an infirmary.

Nurse, I'd like you to work

with my doctor there.

The men that haven't been inoculated are

gonna need their shots when they report in.

Nurse, we need more needles!

These men with the ultraviolet need shots!

Follow doctor's orders.

What's all this; Stuff for?

So we can get in and out of here.

Over here. Over here!

Aii right. Got it.

Burn a little?

Yes, ma' am.

You're okay.

Thank you, ma'am.

Get out of the way!

I 've got things to do!

- Come on, move your legs!

- A ll right, all right.

Spend all day and night

around here.

Start moving your ass and unpack this

stuff. This is headquarters now.

Major Ryder, you said you wanted

to discuss larger facilities.

Maybe we could set something up

at the high school.

How do you intend to

let the people know about all this?

How? Well, we've been promised

bullhorns and loudspeakers.

No telling when

they're gonna arrive!

Hey! Wait!

Hey'. Hey'. Stop'.!

You can't-

hey, hey, hey:

Twenty-five minutes before the hour of 10:00.

This is Bob Lee till 12:00.

News and sports is in 25.

The weather forecast

for the western Pennsylvania area-

cloudy and cool tonight

with a 60% chance of rain.

Come on! Let me see them asses move.

We ain't clone yet.

Move it! Move it!

Somebody can't find nothin' to do!

- It's about time you got here.

- Sheriff, they're setting up roadblocks.

- What? - Out on the interstate ramps.

They got one up over on i-80 too.

What the hell gives here? / I don't know. They're

making an announcement at church services tonight.

All hell's broke loose in town.

Nobody knows what's going on.

We're up to our asses in soldiers.

What are you talking about?

Where is that major?

At the docto's office.

They're setting up their gear there.

They'll be headquartering over there.

- Brookmyre's office? - Yeah. They're

giving the soldiers some kind of injection.

- They say there's not enough for the town.

- Injections? What the hell is this about?

I don't know. Stoney said he'd seen

a truckful of'em going through town.

Truckful, hell.

Must be a couple hundred.

- Couple of hundred?

-Just get your butts back after that fire.

What the hell's going on, sheriff?

You'll know when I do, boy.

Let's go.

What do you think, old buddy?

Judy's at brookmyre's.

I got the wheels ifyou want to

bust in and find out what's up.

Let's go.

Saturday night service

is a high mass.

Yes, father. We'll try not to

disturb it any more than necessary.

- Perhaps after the mass I could ask the people

to wait. - No, father, I have to insist.

We need to inform the people.

I've got to make this announcement.

Excuse me, father, but we have the authority

to do this with or without your approval.

You're aware of the plane

crash last week. Yes.

That plane contained

an experimental vaccine.

We are afraid that crash may have caused

the spread of an infectious virus...

Through this area.

We can't give a story to the press yet.

We've got to see what develops.

We need some medium

for reaching the people in that town.

It's bad enough we didn't have

adequate supplies ready.

It'll all be under control

within a few more hours.

A few more hours?

That can be disastrous.

You put martial law on a town, drive a sneak perimeter around

'em like that, and you'rejust polarizing the situation.

That army becomes an invasionary force.

Those people are gonna resist.

We're all concerned

with Evans city, Mr. hawks,

but our primary consideration

at this point is national security.

A ll the citizens are being rounded up.

We've got to get them together

in a central area.

That'll solve the communications problem

and check any possible spread of the virus.

Telephone and telegraph are cut off

except inside the Evans city limits.

They've jammed the air to prevent

any ham stuff from going out.

You've got to get the president on the phone. We've got

to get a nuclear weapon in the air above that town.

- Isn't that a little drastic?

- None of us wants to resort to that.

But we've got to be ready.

If trixie jumps that perimeter, this thing

could spread over the entire continent.

All right.

Get me the president.

We'll recommend that he-

instruct sa c to send a plan e. . .

On a training mission over Evans city.

Find out what size weapon

it should carry to...

Burn out the infected area.

- A n y repo/t fivm tr/x/e? - They haven't

rounded up the entire team yet, sir.

But several of the ones they reached

are already airborne.

They're on their way

to fort Dietrich.

- We need somebody from that team in Evans city, damn

it! - Well, trixie was going to recommend a man.

Oh, the hell with that!

Get the first trixie man that arrives!

- It's a mistake. - Have a plane

at Dietrich and get him on it!

- One of the biggest goddamn boners of all

time! - The first man. You understand?

- Dietrich?

- Don't even bother to check him in.

We're not to even check you in, sir,

just get you on that plane.

What's going on?

Look, I'm a key man on the trixie team.

A key man! I'm one of the developers

of the goddamn thing!

I gotta have access to a lab.

Gotta have access to my computers.

- Our orders are to get the first man on the team in

the field, sir. -Jesus Christ, this is so random!

A lousy technician

is what you need out there!

Fly me out to Evans city and you're

tying my hands! Don't you see that?

I don't have access to that equipment, I'm

useless! You'll have to clear this with command.

- Don't you realize the consequences? Soldier, stop

the car. - I'm sorry, sir. Those are the orders.

Orders, my ass!

Stop the car!

You're gonna have a hell of a time

getting me on that plane, soldier.

Maybe so, sir, but we'll do it.

It's the last we have.

Aw, come on!

Can I have a hand over here?

Goddamn voiceprint check is a waste of

valuable time. We gotta make snap decisions.

Lf I can't get through to you

without a five-minute delay-

I gotta authorize all these decisions on my

own. I don't like the position it puts me in.

I know, I know. I know peckem will be here,

but until then I'm in charge.

I don't like being a brass a**hole.

I'm not an infantry man.

I'm chem corp. Remember that? Huh?

You don't know

what it's like out there.

How can I hold the perimeter and fight a small-scale

war at the same time? I need those additional men!

Many of the people in the outlying area

are farmers, and they've got weapons.

You expect us

to lock up our end, huh?

Well, what about your end, damn it?

Aii right.

I'ii see what we can do.

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