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I followed you.

Everyone gets followed once in a while.

It's a security procedure.

We don't always strike gold, though.

Those papers.

I see the red stripes, and we both know what red stripes mean, don't we?

Under no circumstances to be removed.

Come on.

You're armed, of course.

Not necessary.

I'm ex -army.

They train us well.

Army, eh?

Good regiment?

The best.

The guards.

The guards.

I was a Marine myself.

Hit by an expert.

One blow.

He was on surveillance security at the ministry, wasn't he?

Yes, hardly.

I knew him slightly.

Good man.

One of us better get over there, don't you think?

No.

It's too risky. If we are to proceed, it has to be done.

I would do it myself, but I would be suspected immediately.

I must have a cast -iron alibi.

Therefore, it has to be you, Carter.

But to break into a ministry office, steal top -secret papers is the only

Bringing them out piecemeal is no good.

No. We must acquire them all at one fell swoop.

Or rather, you must acquire them.

I... You know how.

Why not?

It'll be very, very easy for you.

At precisely 6 .30, the office will be vacated.

It will be arranged that the window will be left unlocked.

The material we want is placed in the safe each night. The combination of that

safe I shall give you.

But you got what we wanted.

You weren't recognised.

Carter?

Did he see your face?

No.

No, I'm sure of that.

I hit him from behind.

You didn't see who it was?

No chance.

Hit me from behind. One blow.

But no expert.

Eh? You're still alive.

Now, what's Mr Thornton keeping this safe? Whatever he's working on, I

Aha.

Radioactive. What?

Look.

This could be dangerous.

No more dangerous than the dial on a luminous watch.

Good morning, Mr Thornton. This is Ferdie. Yes, I know. They told me at the

door. Good morning.

Taken everything.

Taken what?

Ten years' hard work. Yes, but what?

In the wrong hands. Could it be dangerous? Destructive?

Destructive? I don't destroy.

I grow things.

You're late, Carter.

I know. I'm sorry.

Delayed at the ministry, I'm afraid. Last -minute work.

You've no idea how they pile it on.

Well, of course you do. Oh, you did?

The days at the ministry are far behind me.

Oh, come on, now.

It can't be more than what?

Six months since you resigned?

I'll tell you.

Today, I nearly followed your example.

I nearly handed in my resignation.

You can't do that.

Well, I was only thinking about it.

But it would make sense, you know, Thornton. Then I could work here with

full time. I need you to remain at the Ministry, Carter.

There may be valuable information that we will want.

We're getting very close to our final objective.

Perhaps tonight we may achieve it.

Now, come on.

Be prepared.

That's a stupid remark.

It is not.

It most certainly is.

Well, well, it doesn't mean anything.

If you'd let me continue, I was going to say, well, well.

And what is old unsentimental Gambit doing here with flowers?

Well.

Well. You're right, of course. The way you say it does sound rather stupid.

Well, well, and what is steel -hearted Purdy doing here?

I'm a woman.

Women are allowed their idiosyncrasies.

And nobody knows that better than I.

I couldn't let the old chap...

Go on, remember.

Could we?

Exactly a year ago.

To the day.

Did we come here out of sentiment, Gambit?

Or guilt?

We never did discover who killed him.

No, we didn't.

Perhaps one day... Your inquiry at the ministry never came to anything?

Nothing. It's a dead trail now.

Thornton resigned six months ago.

Thornton? You know, the man who grows things.

Know what that is?

Of course.

It's a squiggly line.

That is something strange in the sewers.

Security had seismographs for measuring vibrations that sprinkled all around the

sewers. For the past few days, that's what they've been picking up.

Something big moving around.

Men with equipment?

Bugging equipment?

It wouldn't be the first time they tried to listen in from below.

Now, George Radcliffe, he's checking the embassy area and he'd like your help.

And you'll need a map.

It won't be easy.

It won't be pleasant.

Don't worry.

I usually come up roses.

Major, this is... Do you mind if I see your ID?

You're as much a stickler for procedure as the other fella.

Other fella?

George, I think he said his name was.

Oh, George. Yes, George Ratcliffe.

Up ahead, that way.

Oh, thanks.

OK? Yes, OK.

Do you know what that sound was just now?

Sound? Rumbling like a train.

Oh, it was a train.

Underground.

Subway runs parallel from time to time. Nothing unusual in that.

But this, no.

This is unusual.

Brain. Now, who would dump that down here?

And how? It was way more than two men.

Mind you, the rats will like it. I'm surprised they're not flocking to it

You must keep a tight sewer.

I've hardly seen a rat since I've been down here. Nor I.

But that isn't right.

Wherever there's a sewer,

Lots of rats.

Thanks a lot, Patrick.

You're getting slow, Joel.

A bit.

Seen anything?

No. I heard something a while back. A rumbling.

Yeah, I heard it too.

Subway train.

There's another one.

These belong to the menchants, man.

Yes, I know.

I've heard of going barefoot in the park.

Yes.

You want some?

Look. I told you we'd make progress.

And we have.

You'll be able to leave the ministry very soon now, Carter.

Anything wrong?

Well, I was thinking about when you first proposed this deal.

Continue our work at the ministry undercover for ourselves and then market

commercially.

Well, it made sense then.

Then?

Thornton, I didn't think we could do it.

But we have.

A means of making any living thing grow to enormous proportions. I mean, we

could grow a single ear of wheat six feet across.

Now, do we have the right? The right?

It's the right to withhold this from the Ministry.

But they would know how to apply this discovery.

Overnight they could abolish starvation. You're a fool, Carter.

We made the discovery by cutting corners, taking risks.

If it wasn't for us, it would still be theory bound up in red tape.

Yes, but we should inform the Ministry. Give it back to them.

What will they do?

File it?

Sit on it? Form committees to discuss it?

No, Carter.

We can benefit mankind now.

And if that benefits us too, then why not?

Well, I suppose you're right.

No, I'm right.

Me?

No.

Let's get back to work.

Take a Maria Peretina.

A common house spider.

Average size, about three -eighths of an inch.

I do not attend it.

Don't you?

to radiation reading to the normal level.

This thing has been in contact with a concentrated fluid.

Any living thing.

But there was no way that it could come into contact.

All right, Carter, what happened?

I spilt some, filling the hypodermic when we injected the tomato plant. Spilt

some where?

Down the sink. It wasn't very much. It doesn't need much.

It was the concentrate.

I washed it away. I thought it unimportant.

Yes, well, at least it will have gone down the sewers.

It will have dissipated quite quickly.

Spider must have been in the waist pipe. Came in here, into the cupboard... and

grew.

He died with his boots off.

Or he was snatched, along with George.

Oh? Gambit has a theory.

I saw a big shadow. Heard a sound, like a train.

I think they've got a machine down there.

A fast means of transport.

A sewer buggy? But how do they get it down there? In pieces.

A light alloy construction.

So light, they have to add ballast. What?

Gambit found a grain sack down there.

You have been a busy boy.

Just popped up some air?

No.

For some heavier artillery.

Now, George fired a full clip at it.

And they still got him.

I'm betting that machine is armour -plated, too.

And this little baby...

Or stop a tank at 30 pages.

Ferdy, when you take your bath tonight, call down the plughole.

Who knows, I might be near.

Give him your help, do you think?

Would he admit it if he did?

I think I'll get another pair of these more my size.

If there was an underground machine, could it be nuclear -powered?

Eh? Turn the lights off.

Now, I'm somewhere between Hyde Park

and Buckingham Palace.

If I hit your little finger with this thing, friend, it'll take your whole arm

off.

Assume the position.

I assume you know how to assume.

Why do you not just go ahead and kill me now? No, I might just do that then.

But I would like to know who I'm killing first.

Juslinko, one of the security.

So, now you know.

I'm afraid I don't.

Give me the gun back, Paddy.

That's just to show that we are not pressing this underground wall.

Now, why don't you be a good chiselanker and give us George back, eh? And we'll

call the whole thing quits.

George? George Ratcliffe.

You disappeared him a few hours ago.

Disappeared? I came down here to look for Ivan.

Ivan?

Ivan Borovitch. You disappeared him two days ago. Now, wait a minute. You deny

it. The same way you deny that machine of yours.

Look, we picked up this seismowave a few days ago.

And obviously you intend bugging our embassy.

Snap.

Well, Gambit, Trump is ace or something.

It would appear we are suddenly united in a common cause.

You've lost a man?

Yes, two.

George Radcliffe and a maintenance man.

A van went missing on Wednesday.

Right here.

I was in the next tunnel.

Hear the sound.

A rushing sound.

Like a train.

Torzo, you have Russian blood.

No matter.

You fight good for a woman.

We split up. No.

This time we go together as a team.

Cross it, whatever it is.

Have someone up here.

Not unless they can drive.

That way leads to a garage.

A bystander, now in a state of shock, saw the garage mechanic carried off by

what he described as a monster from outer space.

The authorities, however, say there is no cause for alarm and are

And now we return to our outside unit for further on -the -spot news of

today's... Carter Thornton, get over here right away.

This is where I bid you goodbye.

But perhaps we shall meet again.

Who knows?

Tomorrow.

I shall continue the search when we're probably made.

Because we'll be here.

No rats.

Strange, you not think?

We have been down here some hours and not seen a single rat.

You thinking what I'm thinking?

At any given time, there are thousands of rats down here.

None of them.

You're all thinking what I'm thinking.

What's big enough and strong enough to drag all the rats away?

It can't possibly be that big. You heard the radio report. A monster from outer

space. A monster.

Yes, but in so short a time.

Well, you know how long this took.

That thing carried off a fully grown man.

Yes, and soon we'll be large enough to demolish whole buildings, which is why

must destroy it, Carter.

Our creation lives down there, somewhere in the sewers.

Its discovery could threaten our entire scheme, which is why we must find it,

must destroy it.

But that won't be any use. Not a buckshot, Carter.

Each contains a solid lead ball.

Powerful enough to stop a charging rhino.

Zizlenko reporting.

The English couple, they have gone.

They think that I will not be returning until tomorrow.

But I shall continue the search now.

If there is any honor.

In solving this mystery, it should come to me.

And our glorious motherland, of course.

No water.

You forgot to fill it with water.

Now we can't have any coffee.

There's some through there.

A stream or something coming out of the great big pond.

Ah, that's a sewer outlet.

Well, it'll be all right when we've boiled it, won't it?

Well, go on, do you want any coffee or don't you?

Oh, fuck.

There's a way you can't do it yourself.

You

were

quick.

I stole some milk. It's over there.

We're going to eat well tonight after.

We'll eat like a couple.

Joe?

John?

They're more dangerous than the figures on a luminous watch.

They're more dangerous than the figures on a luminous watch.

Steed?

That water over there, it's an outlet.

A sewer outlet.

That was where you went to fill your bottle?

Yeah.

I left him.

When you went to fetch the water, did you see anything?

It took Joe.

I saw it, big and dark, its sides all wet and slimy.

What was it? What took Joe? It was a huge fish.

A killer shark.

What?

I saw it. I saw his jaws and his teeth.

Like razors.

A killer shark?

This far inland.

Mr. Thornton?

Why, he left us more than six months ago.

Yes, I know, but what I don't know is where he is now.

Oh, I think he's set up on his own, a private laboratory.

Where?

It would have to be recorded. I mean, that's the procedure.

But it might take me half the night to find it.

I won't.

That's it, Steve.

I'll be around the whole area. Twice. Nothing.

I think just one more time.

Amen, sir.

Here, I think so.

You saw it?

I felt it.

Well, what was it?

Killer shark.

Killer shark, no.

What was it?

Carter, you are coming with me.

Hopeless. Do you know how many miles of sewers there are?

I know that we can't stop it until we've found it and destroyed it.

One more hour.

One more hour, Thornton. And then we have to tell the authorities.

And lose everything we stand to gain?

Have you considered it might be female?

What if it is? What if it breeds?

We have a responsibility, Thornton.

One more hour.

All right, that's enough.

I'm getting out of here.

I said just one more hour.

The juice is carrying on like this. We'll never find it by ourselves.

What about foraging for food?

Haven't you noticed we haven't seen a single rat?

Because it has eaten them all.

Now it has to range further afield.

But it will be light soon, and then it will have to return here.

If its jaws are big enough to carry off a man, it must be six to ten feet tall.

I don't actually intend eating that, whatever it is.

No.

But I've every intention, as soon as it's properly cooked, of smearing it

the walls. Do you mind?

Anticlockwise.

About 30 stirs a minute.

Is this your best silver?

Actually.

I've been thinking. I've been doing some research.

Which you want to, uh... No, hold on a sec. I've arrived at a theory.

Oh. And you want to test it on me.

Right. Identify this.

Um... A snake?

A giant snake.

This?

Killer shark?

Right. But what you're actually seeing, blown up to more than life's size, is...

A giant rat.

Now, this mixture that you sniffed at... Literally.

Literally. This mixture is guaranteed to attract all rats, even the very

biggest. And that is what we're up against.

Yes.

Then let's go.

Don't worry.

I'll lead.

Go after him.

He went that way.

To the track, Mike, to... That's to a track?

That way?

Well, it's not Yorick.

What?

It's his laser.

That's not a bite.

It's a gunshot wound.

What else?

I saw him.

Him? A man who has been killing us off.

Getting us at each other's throat.

He ran off.

Don't worry.

The girl is after him.

She fights good.

Girl? What girl? He means Purdy.

She's Lincoln. It's Purdy down here.

She is after him.

Purdy. All she thinks she's up against is a man.

Just perfect.

Mr Thornton, I've been looking for you.

The perfect bait to lure it out into the open.

Your water.

Let's split up, right?

Well, I can stop it.

Bank of 30 paces.

Well, there's one good thing to come out of all this.

Tomato salad.

And, uh, wait, not want not, what we don't eat today, we can always eat the

day.

And the next.

And the next.