The Crazies Page #5

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What is this, another piece of information

they forgot to pass on to you guys?

Oh, gentlemen,

we're not dealing with a flu virus here.

We're dealing with

an often lethal,

always debilitating

encephalitic mutation.

It leaves its victims

either dead or incurably mad.

You got that?

What are you doing?

Nitwit.

Somebody's gonna

see you out there.

Christ.

I didn't mean to hurt you.

I know.

It's not you. Lt's not what you did.

You're nice.

I lile you very much.

- Man-

- I'm sorry for being such a little girl.

It's okay. I understand.

I mean,

i- I knew that people die.

Yeah? You know, i

knew people died.

My father-

your father?

You understand?

It's like, uh, all- all these people...

Dying and, uh, my father...

Can't feel that.

You can.

I know you can. I-

I have it, don't I?

I have the disease.

Man, you'd better take care ofyour daughter,

'cause she's in pretty bad shape.

Hey, reveille, buddy.

We gonna move?

We'll be right up.

Hey, I found some cigarettes, man.

I had to break a machine open.

There's all kinds of goodies

around this place.

- Any food?

- Yeah, food and drink.

- Just don't get yourself tanked.

- No, i'mjust warming up.

Hey, you still figure

we should try to get out?

I don't know, man.

These new two are gonna slow us up, buddy.

That chicl's got the bug.

I gotta think about it.

- Hey, I came up with a radio.

- What'd it say? Anything about what's going on?

No,just, uh, music. Lt's

really weird. Yeah.

We'll be up in a minute.

Hey, if that chicl's got the bug,

we could catch it from her, right?

It depends on what it is.

Well, it's a bug.

We could catch it, can't we?

We'll be up in a minute.

Yeah, okay.

I mean, it'sjust... a little 0l' bug, right?

Can't be much-

clank, would you leave us alone

for a minute?

Okay.

Okay, buddy.

You know, the whole time I was in 'nam

i figured you were old clank's girl.

I never could figure that out.

I hardly even knew him.

Well, I didn't know that. I

saw you with him. Vvhen?

At one of the games.

Good god, David.

I mean, big clank?

How could you even think that?

Well, I didn't know.

I figured, big football hero.

And I didn't really know you.

I didn't know what you were like.

It wasn't my fault.

Action and adventure.

Evans city's only green beret.

Oh, hear! Hear!

Christ.

I can't believe that was me.

We're gonna be all right.

L'll work on natural immunity.

A million to one against developing

any foreign antidote in time.

Sergeant, you get your ass

out from behind your desk,

quit calling me on the telephone and telling me what

you can't do and get that equipment on the double!

You understand me?

We're working off the census.

Inside the white perimeter- 3,613.

We've got about-

wait a minute. Say that again, Chris.

Threefiinvone-three.

Three-six...

We've got about two-thirds of the

population accounted for. One-three.

We've got an open revolt.

Lt's turning into a war zone.

Wait a minute. We gotta

get them into that high school.

Chris, make that your main objective

at this point. Understand?

Lust don't let

those perimeters break.

The perimeters are holding, but we've got about 5o square

miles ofwoods and hills that we've still gotta cover.

What's your estimates, Chris?

How much time?

I can't tell you how long it's gonna tale.

We talking about hours, days, or what?

give me a ballpark.

I just can't.

Aii right, all right,

keep it locked up,

and let us know as soon as you do.

Standing order, Chuck.

Get this out.

Anyone obviously infected or resisting

is to be treated as an enemy,

with the ultimate objective

to bring them in at any cost.

Yes, sir.

Chuck.

- Yes, sir?

- We've gotta burn the bodies.

- Sir- - I'll listen to any alternatives, soldier,

but until I hear a good one you burn them.

A company reports

two men possibly infected.

Sir, the men are getting panicky. Some of the

men haven't even been told why they're here.

Of course not, major.

That would just constitute a security leak.

One of the objectives

is to keep this thing quiet, yes.

But the main objective

is to keep the virus contained.

If those men know the truth, they'll

be breaking the perimeter themselves.

- How can you tell?

- What?

Don't you see?

The whole things insane. How can you

tell who's infected and who isn't?

- They can't get the helicopters in here

for another 15 or 20 hours. - Goddamn it!

- There '5 a police bird and two city-o wneo' choppers

out at the commun/qv fie/o'. - Get them in the air!

- What sort of authorization will I need?

- Anything! Use your rifle if necessary.

I want them in the air, inside the

perimeter, radio-linked with the ground.

Report anything they spot, and keep

circling the no-man's-land day and night.

Anyone in that area

gets one warning shot.

- Sir-

- ls that clear?

One warning shot.

What's going on at trixie?

Take 'em upwards of days

just to reprogram all that data, colonel.

Until then, we won't even be able

to re-create the virus itself.

And afterwards,

with the incubation period,

my guess is a good week

to infect a new set of monkeys.

We have got to start

taking blood samples,

and we've got to start flying them out to Dietrich so

they can at least have a sample of the active virus.

We can't send anything out. L/i/e

've got human Guinea pigs here.

Over 3,000 shots at finding an immune,

but we've go to start taking blood

and we've got to start flying it out.

- We can't send anything out yet.

- Can't you see-

what do you want to do,

send 'em out in empty pop bottles?

We need airtight canisters.

L've requested them along with

the other decontamination gear.

Hmm.

I don't mean tojump on you, colonel.

Itjust amazes me

at how shoddy this operation is.

Nothing amazes me anymore, doctor.

Nothing in this goddamn army

amazes me.

L'm a combat man.

I shouldn't even be here.

Just happened to be available.

Maybe expendable.

L'll get your samples out to Dietrich.

In the meantime, why don't you

get offyour ass and start collecting them?

- Well, does that high school

have a chem lab? - Yes, sir.

- L'm gonna need some things.

- Medical will set you up.

- Can I have a radio put in over there?

- Man needs a radio, soldier.

Man needs a radio.

I need a-

man needs a radio.

Will be tested and treated for the virus.

Do not resist. They are preventive measures to

ensure your survival of the epidemic. Repeat-

twenty. Twenty. Very good.

Whoa, whoa.

L'm gettin' out of here!

L'm gettin' out of here-

outta here! Get outta here!

I'm getting out of here!

Maybe we're doing the wrong thing. Maybe we should

go back to the Van and try to get back into town.

- The army mayjust be here to help.

- The man thinks the army is our friend.

I just don't know

that we're doing the right thing.

- Yeah, well, ask sheriff Cooper. - Whatever

they/re here for; It 's turn e0' into a riot.

Maybe they are just here for control. If they

can turn a campus protest into a shooting war.

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