The Quatermass Xperiment Page #5

and multiply...

at will.

Multiply?

Yes, but to multiply,

first it has to live.

And like any living thing,

to live, it must have food.

I'm sorry, we're closed.

Alright, just a minute.

We only open until...

Hey, wait a minute!

You can't come into a place like this!

Leave those things alone!

What do you think you're doing?

Are you in pain?

Is it something to do with your arm?

Look, I'll just take a look.

I won't hurt it, I promise.

No!

Alright love, I'll get it.

Hello?

Yes, Best.

What?

When?

Right. Cordon off the whole area.

Tell Quatermass and

Briscoe to meet us there.

Love!

- Now what?

- I've got to go back.

- But you just come in.

- They just can't do without me, love.

I don't know why you

don't move into the office.

You'd never believe I was there.

What makes you think I do now?

- Have your tea at least.

- Haven't got time, love.

The thing that you do to

that poor stomach of yours.

I ought to get you a picnic basket.

What I'm going on is no picnic.

- What about dinner?

- Cook and keep your fingers crossed.

Bye love.

- What do you think he was trying to do?

- I'd like to think, kill himself.

You see if mix the normal of that,

it will be death in 5 minutes.

What? What is it?

I have a bit of sick

feeling it was something

to speed up the change

going on inside him.

But Carroon was an engineer, he

doesn't know anything about chemistry.

Carroon didn't know.

There is a kettle still on and there's

no sign of the chemist anywhere.

What do you think he was doing here?

- Well, one thing he was doing...

- We're not certain.

Not certain about

anything with this customer.

Well?

Nobody in the street heard anything.

They're all in church or in the local.

He must have...

Evans, come in quick,

and quiet.

Here we are.

And it's just the two of us today.

We'll have our own tea-party.

I don't like those other girls anyway.

All they do is talk about

their new clothes and dolls.

You don't care about

those things, do you?

You don't care about

new clothes or anything.

We're friends.

Now you sit down and be a

good girl while I make the tea.

There's a teapot,

there's a cup.

And I brought the most

delicious cakes and biscuits.

The others never serve

anything, but we do.

Look, I'm pretty yummy.

Don't be frightened,

that's only the old rats

living in this old boat.

Now, tea is ready.

Sugar? One?

Two, alright.

Now you may have a cake.

This one is filled with cherries.

But anyway, I like that one

cause it's full of chocolate.

Ooh, we thought you were a rat.

Won't you stay and

have tea with us?

We'd very much like you to stay.

You look so tired.

There's plenty, if that's

what you're worried about.

And cakes too.

Go on dolly, you ask him.

Please, won't you have

tea and cakes with us?

Don't be frightened,

we would like you to stay very much.

And you may have the cake

that has all the chocolate inside.

Tell him, dolly.

Yes.

What time was this?

Was it an eye-witness?

I see.

Well, he's been doing fine.

He's been positively seen in Liverpool,

Margate, Ostend and the Orkneys.

Yes.

- Yes. Deptford area.

- What?

A kid told her mother...

Yes?

About two hours ago?

Hold it please.

The kid got a doll broken by a man down

by some derelict boat near Deptford.

Oh, so it had to be Carroon?

No, the mother's complaining

about molesting kids.

Deptford said the

description could fit Carroon.

All right. Well, that's why

there's a police station at Deptford.

Thank you Deptford.

Keep us informed.

Bye bye.

A Deptford alert on Carroon.

Yes, I know it is, so your boys

can have another little drive.

Cover derelict boats,

warehouses and bomb shelters.

Alright, so do it again.

Where is he getting food,

that's what I'd like to know?

Now, now shut up, Simba!

Time to go to bed.

Go on. Off you go. Go on.

Don't stand there gaping at me.

Off you go to bed!

Goodnight fellas.

Sleep well.

Hello, Joey.

You know something?

Could have sworn I saw you having

tea in a cafe this afternoon.

Turns out to be a customer though.

TO LION HOUSE:

This is exactly as the keeper

found him when he came on duty.

- Are the others the same?

- Yes, over here.

They found three more still

outside the antelope house,

or what was left of them.

Look.

Look at that.

- Complete absorption this time.

- That's what I've been afraid of.

Inspector, get this place closed,

get everybody out of here.

- Right.

- Quickly and quietly as possible.

No panic, no charging.

Close the whole place up?

As we already...

Listen, sir, you've got to take it

from us. We know what we are doing.

Just tell your men

to cooperate, please.

Well, I don't understand

what's happening, anyway.

What killed these animals?

- You better say natural causes for now.

- What?

Sorry, ma'am we're

closed this morning.

Closed, but we've come

all the way from Epping.

Sorry ma'am. We're not to

open to the public this morning.

- Will it be opened this afternoon?

- Oh, I wish I could tell you, sir.

Sorry folks, still closed.

I'm very sorry now, but

we're closed this morning.

I'm very sorry, sir.

Quatermass!

Inspector!

What is it?

He was here.

Look at this.

It's alive.

- Looks pretty horrible doesn't it?

- Quick, the sample box!

Well, what manner or a shape

of thing do we look for now?

You'll know it when you see it.

Just send your men out with

a prayer that we find it in time.

It's almost too

terrifying to think about it.

In less than 12 minutes every

animal completely absorbed

pray except one.

Gone like quicksand.

But this quicksand

knows what it's doing.

It's trebled it's size in an hour.

Do you know what this means?

This is only a fragment

of the main organism.

If the same thing is happening to

him at the same rate or speed,

if absorbing those

mice could do this...

I know.

There is no living thing on earth

that stands a chance against it.

How do we fight it, how do we stop it?

Hands off, you young man!

Fix him and then I come

here on my own accord.

Yes, yes.

I come here to complain

about something which I saw.

Okay Rosie, you keep saying now...

I refuse to talk about it

to any common constable...

who has nothing comes to do all

day but show me big flat fleet.

Only big fat fleet.

Now, come on, Rosie old girl.

Don't you... call me!

I mean I'm enough to be your mother.

What respectable woman in

London would be... now?

I come in here of my own free will.

I come come here on

my own volich... volition.

Very glad we all to see you, Rosie.

- What can we do for you this time?

- I wish to make a report.

Miss Rosemary...

Elizabeth Wrigley.

- What address this week?

- I'm temporarily visiting.

- Bow Street?

- With friends.

Salvation Army.

The embankment.

What did you see this time, Rosie?

Oh, it was terrible.

Shocking.

It always is, Rosie.

Just tell me what you saw?

Of course it's been of a thing of a young

woman can't walk the streets in London

with that creepy crawly

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