The Damned Page #4

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Now go to bed, children.

- Off to bed now.

I don't sit up nights asking questions

about your private affairs now, do I?

I mean, your fence is

your fence all right.

But we didn't ask the

yank to go jumping over it.

Look, you don't want to know about

a private quarrel, now do you, Major?

Let him go.

Ah. Well er, much obliged to you, Major.

All that that bloke needs is a good trashing.

- Yes, but I don't think he's lying. - No.

Come over here, Joanie.

Do what I say!

- She's staying where she is.

King, as much as I dislike you,

you're still Joan's brother.

- Yes, that's right.

Come over here, Joanie.

- Suppose we fight over Joan,

after we get out of here.

- Allright, let's get out of here.

- You have to wait...

...I promised the children that we'd

stay here at least for the night.

Well I didn't promise

the zombies anything.

And I'm nog gonna stay in

here and watch the two of you.

- What d'you think we're going to do?

- Don't talk dirty, Joanie.

It's you, King, it's

you who thinks dirty.

You tried to lock me up and you tried anything

you can think of, to stop me from being a woman...

...because you never

had a girl yourself.

- It's not true, Joanie.

- Yes it is!

- I only want you out of

the hands of men like that.

- Men like what? Any

man, any man at all.

Would you let me go with

Ted or Sid or any of them?

No man, no man at all, that's true, King.

- Leave me alone.

Leave me alone.

Just don't you put your

hands on them, that's all.

Or I'll kill you both.

And I'm gonna sit here and watch.

- What d'you think I am?

Come on... dry yourself.

Watch you head.

- Two intruders, you said.

- No no, three.

Romeo and Juliet, and er... and

the boy who broke my statue,...

...a dangerous boy, I think.

- Have you told the police?

- No. Should I?

- There is nothing they can do.

That's what I thought.

This place seems to have a

fatal attraction for lovers.

Now why fatal?

- It's just a frase.

Well,... You can't blame the

place for everything, darling.

Times change, people with them.

Sometimes it brings you closer

together, sometimes it doesn't.

Did I change so much, other

than becoming old and ugly?

What would that matter then?

It's just that you have

become a man with a purpose.

You have a purpose too.

Yes, but I tell mine to anyone who care

to listen. Yours is a secret purpose.

I'm a public servant.

You didn't have to become one.

I felt I had no choice.

It's too late to do

anything in private life.

- Too late, why?

I live with one fact. A power has been

released that will melt those stones.

We must be ready when the time comes.

You really believe it's

going to happen, don't you?

Certainly, there's

absolutely no question.

And there is nothing

we can do to prevent it?

- Nothing

Well. ... Back to work.

I don't believe that.

Excuse me sir, may I have a word

with you. We've found nothing, sir.

We're looking for three people.

Haha. A pulic servant is the only

servant who has secrets from his master.

I'm very sorry to leave

you at the last quarter.

- Duty calls?

- Duty calls!

# My hair is gray, but not

with years, Nor grew it white...

# ...In a single night, As men's

have grown from sudden fears: ...

# ...My limbs are bow'd, though not

with toil, But rusted with a vile repose,

# ...For they have been a dungeon's spoil,

And mine has been the fate of those...

# ...To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd

- forbidden fare?... #

What's the matter, Joan?

- My head hurts. I must get some air.

I brought you something to eat.

What is it?

- Lunch!

Is this what you eat all the time?

Yes. It has all the minerals and

vitamins. We make it ourselves in the lab.

Were you ever a child, Holland?

I'm sure you don't expect

me to answer that one, sir.

There's always one child missing.

It's been like that for two days.

Going to the

hide-out. - Yes.

And I should like

permission to investigate it.

Have you never had a secret hiding place? You know, in all this time,

Holland, you had nothing more to worry you than one stray rabbit.

How many times have I told you that the mental health of

the children is more important than your ideas of security.

That will be all, Holland.

Thank you very much.

Well, do try to confine yourself to the practical side of

it and don't try to explain the scientific details to me.

You know that I'm against the present arrangement.

- That's not your province, Talbot.

And we must be ready when the time comes.

- It makes observation more difficult, ...

...and we still don't know anything

about maintaining ther immunity.

- Well?

- You remember sir, how we lost the other two?

- What is it, Talbot?

- Mary is developing the same symptoms.

Mary, Mary, You're going

to have an injection.

It comes in spells, Joanie. A

chill doesn't come in spells.

It's being locked up that does it.

I'll be alright.

We think we were being punished for our sins

in a dungeon, like the prisoner of Chillon.

When the time comes our parents are going

to come and open the magic doors for us.

There's no such thing as magic. Your

aren't aking account of the facts.

What are the facts, William?

- We're on a huge spaceship...

...We're going to a star. They're teaching us the history of

earth so that we can build a civilization when we get there.

It's going to be a long long trip. By the

time we get there our teachers will be dead.

That doesn't take account of the rabbit.

- The rabbit was on board all the time.

- Tell me about the rabbit.

We found it one day in here.

- And we used to play with it.

But it grew sleepy and its hair fell out.

And the Black Death came and took it away.

We can't tell you everything now.

We got to get you out of here.

Will you show me the doors?

There's the cave door, and there's the lift where the Black Death comes down.

- And?

But there's another door.

- You take me there.

No he can't, the eyes will see him.

- That doesn't matter, I worked out all the blind spots.

Come on, we may not have much time. - #@#,

Simon! - Don't worry, just wait for me!

Good morning.

- I thought you'd better see this for yourself, sir.

I wish you had let me

investigate that hide-out, sir.

- Sir!

What's he doing? He's following one

of the children. The young William.

Very ingenious of young William But

he forgot that Wells is six feet tall.

Turn them off. I hate those things!

But they are necessary!

- It is not necessary of you to tell me so.

The others may be dead

or they may be with him.

If he went over the cliff when the tide

was right, he could have reached the cave.

Well then there must be something

wrong with the cave door.

Or else he didn't go over the cliff at all.

- Check the birdhouse door first,...

...make sure that Miss Nielssen doesn't see you.

Then take the boat out and check the cave entrance

When we find out how he got in, we

can worry how we can get him out.

He's been there too long already. I do

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