The Crazies Page #3

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They're meeting with more resistance, and

they've run into a few more cases of infection.

Major Ryder's requesting more men.

L'll wait for

colonel peclem's evaluation.

- Sir, if- - peckem'll be in there by 2:00.

They can hold out till then.

- We have a man in there telling us that

maybe they can't. - Oh, come on, frank!

This is highly organized,

riot-trained army.

You can't tell me that they're

unable to hold the perimeter...

On a small town

through early morning.

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Please!

Listen up! Listen up!

Town is under quarantine.

We have you all under martial law.

We'll take you all over to the high school.

We'll explain it to you over there.

Everybody out! Everybody out!

- What is this?

- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

Hey! Hey!

- The place is under emergency-

- get out!

Wait! Wait! I want a lawyer!

Mommy, mommy, what's happening?

Come with us, ma'am.

Now, hold on, fellas.

Just what's going on here?

- - I/i/e 're not

going n0 place t/i/ we kno w more about this!

Lt's the lights!

Where's mommy?

My mother! Get out!

Lt's my mother!

Tell me what this is all about,

and maybe I'll cooperate with you!

What's going on? Let go! Please tell me

what y0u're doing! Wait! Wait! Wait!

No! I'm not going!

Larry!

- Hey! What's going on here?

- For g00; Sake-

- where are we going?

- I want my doll.

Here, sweetie.

What's going on? Let me go!

Come on!

Come here, little fella.

Sir, come with us!

What's going on?

Hey, Lea ve her alone!

Hold it!

Leave her alone!

- Don't give me that sh*t, boy.

- That's all right, soldier.

That's right. 0900. Check.

Now, you listen to me, Ryder. Bucl's been

telling me what's going on here tonight.

I don 't mind telling you we 7e mighty

tired 0f being push e0' around like this.

Yes, sir, I know. We've just had no way of

preparing anybody for this kind of thing.

Ltjust kinda snowballed on us

and we were forced to take action.

You said it would never come to this!

Look, we've cooperated with you. We've attempted to

keep this thing quiet in order not to create a panic.

But, Christ,

we never expected this!

Neither did we... sir.

We're trying to get everyone into the high

school. We're setting up an infirmary there.

- Are we under martial law?

- Yes, sir.

Well, let me tell you something. You just can't walk

all over the people of Evans city that easy, major.

And as mayor of this town,

I'm protesting your action.

In fact, I'd like to speak

to somebody higher up.

Yes, sir. I'm colonel peclem.

Good evening. Major Ryder?

Yes, sir. I assume we don't need

the masks in the ultraviolet.

That's correct, sir.

I'll be with you gentlemen

in just a minute.

I want to speak with major Ryder

and find out exactly what's been happening.

Major?

Yes, sir. Right this way.

I'll be a son of a b*tch.

You don't smoke,

you bastard.

Where am I gonna

get me some smokes?

- Hey, clanker, that'sjudy.

- Sure it's her?

Yes, I 'm sure.

She's heading out to the fire.

You sure?

Yes, I'm sure, damn it!

Hey, be cool, buddy.

We'll get her.

Rainy and 65 outside the big k studios.

- She's giving it more gas.

- She doesn't know it's us.

Lt's 10 minutes before midnight.

Almost time for headlines with

Bob Brewster. This is Bob Lee.

Judy!

What? What?

Come over to the Van.

Move it back. Move out.

- What? Al/ this about? - We're rounding

everybody up and taking them to the high school.

What about my car? Don't worry.

We'll take care of it.

David, I feel stupid. Stupid!

Shh.

You didn't know it was us.

- Come 0n. Get up.

- Will you tell us what's going on?

- Let's see it!

- Look, I'm a nurse.

- What is it?

- I'm a nurse, I work for Dr. brookmyre.

L'm supposed to inoculate- no,

it's for him. Get in the truck.

Come on. Come on!

Hey, wait.

You're clean.

Let's go. Come on.

Hey, no problem.

Okay, in the truck. In the truck.

No problem, man.

Look, I'm not causing any problems.

In the truck. In the truck.

Yet. Mothers.

- Who's all here?

- Artie fulton. My daughtefs with me.

- I heard you said you were Dr.

broolmyre's nurse. - Yes.

I'm the appendectomy. The emergency

appendectomy at christmastime?

' Kathy?

You okay?

Yes. Okay.

- Who else is in here?

- That's frank Winston.

- I don't know what's wrong with him. He seems to

be sick. - Know anything about what's going on?

We were asleep and they

dragged us right out of the house.

It's a quarantine.

What?

It's a quarantine on the town.

Some kind ofvirus.

- What about the soldiers?

- I don't know.

- Said he '0' send a med/cal team.

- We heard some shooting.

- What kind of virus? Do you know what it is?

- Broolmyrejust said it was highly contagious.

- And it's dangerous.

- Maybe that's what he's got. Winston!

Oh, daddy, I'm all r-

- we heard there were roadblocks up.

- The military's involved.

This must really be big.

David, I'm scared.

It's all right.

Lt's all right, honey.

Man, ain't this some sh*t.

Grab this one.

I got it.

Did you get this one over here?

Yeah, i'ii get it.

I want to set up

a second perimeter.

The inside line will continue to m0

ve in to ward the 0'0 wn to wn area,

bringing everything they find

with them.

I want the second perimeter

two miles inside the first.

This two-mile stretch'ii be called,

uh, a no-man's land.

Nothing can stay on it.

No one can cross it.

- Y0u're talking about an awful lot of men,

sir. - We'll just have to get them in here.

What do we have now?

Five companies.

Why did this get down to the last minute?

These deployments should have been ready!

Well, the initial information

was that the vaccine was harmless.

You mean they didn't take

any precautionary action?

Routine procedure.

I got here the day of the crash.

Plane went down in these hills

above the town.

Investigators reported that the

casings wound up in the river.

Apparently the water flows

through an underground reservoir...

And Evans city is supplied

with artesian systems out of that.

So I stayed in town, notified the police

and the town doctor...

To be on the alert for any

high-fever symptoms or delirium.

Sir, the report was that the trixie team

had deactivated the vaccine.

Major, trixie wasn't

developed as a vaccine.

Trixie was developed

as a bacteriological weapon.

Comm central calling colonel

peckem. Comm central, colonel peclem.

- this is peckem. - Sir, we have

completed your voiceprint check.

That's why the blackout.

I knew the blackout was to avoid embarrassment,

but a bioweapon never occurred to me.

I fell for that story

hook, line and sinker.

That was the idea. Uh, colonel peclem-

no, no, no, his first name.

Uh, Christopher. Chris. Chris.

This is brubaker, Chris.

Glad you're there.

Major ryderk a competent man

and a good officer,

but I get the feeling he's hitting

the panic button too prematurely.

- Mr. brubaker-

- you want a real evaluat-

m r. Bru Baker.

What it '$ rea/a/ like out th ere-

Mr. brubaker,

we're running out of time!

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