The Puppet Masters Page #5

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Come on.

You gotta get up on the roof. Go.

This'll keep them busy.

Code eight. All units to South Plaza.

Main power supply.

- Can you stand up?

- Yeah.

Do you think you can walk?

They'll pick us up on the roof.

They're coming.

Go!

Come on!

- Take the kid.

- OK. I got him.

You weren't planning on leaving

without me, were you, buddy?

Go. Get him to the roof.

Let's talk about it, Alex.

Here, kitty-kitty.

I'll talk to you, Sam.

I know you're in here.

If I have to look for you too long,

it's gonna really piss me off.

Where are you,

you lousy son of a b*tch?

You said you'd help me.

You're no better than your father.

Help me!

God!

Come on!

- Alex, man, fight it!

- Yaaagh!

Fight it, man! Fight it!

How could he, Sam? You couldn't.

Don't leave me!

- Please, Sam, get it off!

- Alex?

- Alex!

- Get it off!

Not very smart, are you, Sam?

Pick him up. Bring him here.

It's safe. Come on!

Where are the others?

You never did have a right hand.

Come here.

We gotta go. Where's Holland?

He didn't make it.

- You all right?

- Yeah.

Get Nivens on the radio.

The boy has encephalitis, which

causes inflammation of the brain.

It's not fatal to humans

if it's treated in a few days,

but the aliens are 60% brain matter,

so it should kill them first,

allowing us to save the host.

- How long has it been?

- 33 minutes.

There's still the question of disease

vectors. How it would spread.

Mosquitoes.

Yes.

Mosquitoes.

We could release infected batches

over the areas controlled by aliens.

Wait.

Jesus.

It's disgusting.

33 minutes, 18 seconds.

That's it. We've done it.

Yes, but how do we get to them all?

They've spread so far.

We don't need to.

There's only one alien.

We've been thinking of millions. It's

one creature with a million parts.

The same way

they transmit information,

they'll transmit the disease.

A chain reaction. We can infect

the colony as if it were one body.

Perfect.

We've got General Morgan

coming in from Fort Riley.

Bring the camera over here, please.

Well, we're all clean, sir.

It seems to be working.

The medics are administering

the antitoxin throughout the area.

Most of my men are sick as hell,

but the aliens are dying.

O1 to P3. All clear.

Anything?

Yes.

Yeah. They're on their way down?

Good.

All clear down here.

What were they trying to do here?

Rebuild their home.

Careful, sir.

My God!

Everybody OK down there?

Soldier, down here.

You OK?

I'm fine. Sorry. It was silly of me.

I should have been more careful.

Check him out, please.

He's clean.

- Sorry, sir...

- No, please don't apologise.

We'll need to take samples

of the structure.

It's a pity we couldn't save it.

What we might have learned...

Well, I've seen enough.

Thank you.

I don't think I would have believed

it was really over.

How you doing?

I can't believe

I slept for two days.

Excuse me, sir.

Dr Nivens forgot his cane.

Give me a hand up.

- There you go.

- Thanks very much.

Thank you.

Come on, soldier. On the double.

Move!

Call in emergency services now.

Hello, Sam.

I can fly a helicopter.

Perfectly.

You never told me how good it felt.

I had no idea man could feel

such a sense of freedom.

- My God!

- When did you take him?

- Back in the ship.

- We checked.

I explained we had to lower

my body temperature, so we did.

- We learn from our mistakes.

- I want you to land this helicopter.

Or what?

A gun.

Automatic pilot.

What are you going to do?

Do you think that you are capable

of killing your father?

He'd want me to.

Possibly.

But the question is, can you?

Give me...

But you can't win.

Give it up.

Stand back.

You guys come with me.

Dad?

Come on, man. Don't do this to me.

Don't do this to me! Dad!

Stop shouting, Sam, for God's sake.

You know how much I hate it.

I got it. I got it.

I can't believe you actually shot me.

What would you have done?

I would have shot you, of course,

but...

I never dreamed

you were that kind of man.

Get outta here, Sam. I'm fine.

- It's OK, I'm going with you.

- No. Take her for a cup of coffee.

Exercise a fantasy.

OK, Dad.

That was the last one.

You don't know that.

- Yes, I do.

- Excuse me.

Have a good time.

I guess you exobiologists

finally earned your keep.

Yeah, I guess.

When I was inside that thing,

it was like hearing a thousand voices

inside my head.

Yeah, I know.

You were there.

Your memories, your thoughts,

feelings.

Everything you try to hide

from yourself.

Yeah.

I guess you know how I feel

about you, then.

Down to the last gory detaiI.

- Gives you an unfair advantage.

- Why's that?

It would take me forever

to learn that much about you.

No, I think actually it helps us.

If you look at it

from a sociological point of view,

you could argue that men take a lot

longer to open up than women do.

So you should be right on track

in about 40 or 50 years.

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