The Quatermass Xperiment Page #6

thing up in around that place.

What is the police for, if not for

protect us from the likes of that?

Go on. Tell me. Tell me

what's the police force for?

- Rosie!

- Yes?

Rosie, just tell me what you saw,

and we at the London Metropolitan

Police will do all in our power

to see that it doesn't occur again.

You were with voice wreck so drunk,

that I couldn't

even yell for a copper.

I still got this sore of this.

Why is it aren't to remember.

And water makes me as sick as a baby.

It better be worthwhile, Rosie.

After you tell me.

I was sitting in a door right here.

I wasn't feeling too well.

And the doctor says that too

much walking is bad for my legs.

- It's my legs you see.

- You were sitting in the door way.

Yeah, just for a minute or two.

When suddenly I heard a...

kind of rustling it was.

Rustling?

So I looked.

And there, at the end of the

street, I saw something moved.

Something enormous!

What moved Rosie?

Well, I couldn't make

out the shape properly.

I usually might get the

shapes of these things.

Think carefully, Rosie.

Was it...?

This something, was it

walking quickly or slowly?

Walking?

It was kind of

crawling, up on the wall.

Not like any of the things that

I'll see on a Saturday nights.

No Rosie, I think this

time you really saw it.

Get me the Yard.

Well cancel it. This is priority.

Really saw it? You mean

this time it's not hallu...?

- It's not a gin goblin?

- No, Rosie. This time it was real.

Real?

It's my legs!

Hello, Scotland Yard.

Yes. Inspector Lomax, please.

Lomax here.

Yes.

Say that again.

Contact the Commissioner right away.

Hello?

Yes.

Yes.

We'll be right there.

Lomax.

Said it climbed a

brick wall 30 feet high.

Yes, no doubt at all he was here.

Quite recently too.

The trail ends on the wall.

Let me have that case up here!

Get him his case, Sergeant.

Send the car in please.

Use the car radio.

I want to cordon off the entire

area and evacuate all public.

Tell Evan and Mason to

check on every movement

that is likely to take place

inside this radius tonight.

Yes sir.

Warn everyone not to

touch anything unusual

they may find in the

streets or their gardens.

Warn the children, especially.

It got out?

Look at the size of it now!

Without food except mice.

Is it dead?

Yes, but don't touch it.

Look at these phalanges,

spore producing patches.

If the limbs complete

this reproductive cycle,

this would have been

a jungle of living tendrils.

How many more of these things

are there around London?

I think you better call Lomax.

It's not a question of how

many but where are they?

If they can reproduce at this rate,

another 24 hours, a few days...

Get me Scotland Yard quickly.

What's project...

Project had reached the mice.

Yes

Yes, of course.

The Commissioner.

- They're getting him, sir.

- Right.

Get hold of Evans.

I want him to get out

an anti-panic statement.

I want it broadcast, televised

and fill in all the nationals.

Yes, sir.

I want every available man

on search of the area.

Immediate search of parks,

fields, undergrounds and subways.

Yes sir, it's the

Quatermass Experiment.

I am please enough to

take advance top level sir.

I need troops and the civil defense.

Yes sir, I'll be right out.

Now this is all we need to start

the program with a swing.

What's he talking about?

Oh, no one must touch anything

unusual we find on the streets.

Don't panic. Just inform

the nearest police station.

They've been putting that

out all day on the radio.

Westminster Abbey.

Yes

Standing by.

Opening announcement coming up.

Okay, standby cameras.

Alright Camera 1, titles are in.

We will be on you in five seconds.

four, three,

two, one.

Oh, you Camera 1, where are you?

Alright quick, take over Camera 2.

On you instead.

What is that?

- What's happened?

- Looks like a body.

Kill transmission.

Landrow, fill in will you?

I'll get back as soon as possible.

Tell presentations.

Hello?

What's going on here?

- He fell from the scaffold.

- Slipped?

- Dead before he fell.

- Dead before he fell?

Sir, I should believe you

have a strong stomach.

- He is... practically a skull.

- I think we better get the police.

Yes, get the police.

Well, do we go on with the program?

- It's up to you sir.

- I'm alright.

I think we better carry on

in another part of the abbey.

Pull that dolly over here, will you?

Get a blanket or

something to cover him up.

Come on. Quickly.

- Mr Quatermass.

- Right.

Alright, I want the whole abbey cleared.

Public, clergy, everyone and quick.

Please, not so loud.

There's a transmission going on.

Well, the transmission's coming off.

I want you all out of this place.

Every second may count.

...spend time for the cameras only.

This is highly out of range.

Well, son, it's is an emergency.

Get this stopped.

Stop? I can't stop it!

- Where's your producers?

- They're in the truck.

These murals were hidden under layers of

painting and aged by the dust of time.

Where the other reinforcements!

Steve on Camera 2 standby

on stained glass window.

Camera 3 on scaffolding hold it.

I'm Inspector Lomax. You got to

get your people out of the abbey!

Please.

Coming on to you Camera 3.

Everyone in that building

maybe in deadly danger!

We're on transmission!

Back on to you Camera 1.

Pan up as high as you can and...

What's in the name of it?

It must be 20 feet across.

Kill transmission.

Camera 1, hold that shot and

log off and everybody out!

Hello, hello, listen.

Jessica, you'll just have to

carry on as best you can,

we can't go on here.

Yes, just fill in will you?

Quatermass, quick, in the front.

It's now in the abbey.

We have to strike it now, uh?

At the abbey.

There is an emergency.

You saw it?

We don't know what it is.

Same pattern as the one in the lab.

And it was 20 times

the power of reproduction.

Its nodules if it get to spore

this time, nothing will stop them.

It'll break up, they'll spread by the

million wherever there's having wind.

How long before

it starts reproducing?

It's on the last cycle,

80 or 90 minutes.

And within the hours,

everyone will be a million.

He's coming lower!

- We've got to stop him!

- You need a miracle to stop it now.

- We've got flame throwers.

- Well, it managed to escape, the whole of it is to kill.

- Dynamite.

- That would only spread it further.

Stopped moving!

It's barely pulsating now.

That time it was out,

it's its last dormant stage

just before it reproduces.

It's changing again.

The beginning of new

spore producing hands, dusting.

Well, it's hanging there,

grabbed on the scaffolding.

Briscoe, I think we can stop it.

What now, Professor?

That scaffold inside,

I want to run cables to it.

Then tap the main power line.

I want to send enough current

into that steel to burn it up.

We've got to keep

pouring current into it.

We have to melt it right

down to the ground.

It's our only chance. I want every set

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