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This is where he was found.
Ted Barker, resident of Lower Stormington for 42 years.
Snare setter, pheasant fancier, partridge pincher. You mean the local
How did he die?
Inhalation of fluid resulting in asphyxia. He was drowned right here. In
middle of a field? That's impossible.
All the same, that's what happened.
Strange, isn't it?
Suppose this.
There's a chap called Jonah Barnard and he keeps writing to the Times.
It's the tenth time this month.
Have all the letters been like this?
I... Here we are. We should all start building our arcs because the great
flood is coming.
Ted Barker lived there.
His brother Eli is still there.
Chance for me to weed my homespun charm, eh? That's the idea.
I'm going to Jonah Barnard. Meet me there.
Treat Eli wearily. He's a weirdo bird.
The power of evil, that's what Ted had in him.
The power of evil.
I warned him, but he paid me no heed.
He turned a sinner's deaf ear to my words.
And so he fell.
Into the pit of iniquity.
Do you take milk, Mrs. Peel?
Milk. Oh, yes, thank you.
My own brother with a mark of sin upon him.
He wasn't always like that, Pimple.
No, at heart, he wasn't really bad.
Did a bit of poaching now and again, but poaching isn't like stealing, is it?
Did he do much fishing?
I said, did he do much fishing?
Fishing?
Oh, there were blue skies this morning, too.
No, it'd be a hard place to go fishing. There isn't a river for miles, and Ted
wasn't one for traveling far. Well, then how do you account for his death?
The demon drink.
Oh. Did he drink much?
I wouldn't sit there, Mrs. Beale. Not there.
It'll spoil your fine city clothes.
Oh.
Thank you.
It's been like this for months now.
This rain, this torrential rain. But the people, they don't understand, see?
They don't realize.
And they've been told.
They've been warned.
But they don't realize.
It's a sign.
All the signs around them, yet still they do not heed.
Oh, you mean about the warnings of the flood?
Ah, you've heard. Well, I've heard about Jonah Barnard.
Great man.
A fine man.
And you really believe the flood is coming?
Believe?
I know.
It's my seaweed, see?
It's always wet.
Oh. Well, I can't be sat here gossiping. Time's running out.
I must be helping Jonah.
Helping him to spread the word.
Mr. Barker, you were telling me about your brother. You say he drank too much.
Stolen?
Aye. He thought he was unobserved. But I saw him sneaking into Granny Gregson's.
Granny Gregson's? Granny Gregson's Glorious Crogs Incorporated. Just beyond
village. A factory engaged in the fermentation of intoxicating liquors.
And you actually saw him going in there?
Late at night.
Creeping in to steal liquors. To gorge on Glorious Crogs.
And that was his undoing, you see.
When he slipped and fell.
Into the pit of iniquity.
No, into Granny's sparkling spring water.
Well, now you make yourself at home, Mrs. Peel, and finish your cup of tea.
Spring water?
Yes. They got tanks of it at the factory.
Tanks big enough for a man to drown in.
You see?
And the Lord said to Noah, the end of all flesh is before me. For the earth is
filled with violence. And behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
That's what the Lord said.
Now, my friends, within the humble walls of this barn, my salvation is growing.
And your salvation, too, if you will grasp it. Here, my friends, is my ark.
it.
I have seen the signs in nature, my friends, and they do not lie.
It is a forewarning, a hint of the impending doom of nemesis.
Friends, the flood is coming.
I'll choose Christmas.
My friends, please, please heed me.
For behold, it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were
upon the earth. Friends!
The flood is coming. You'll have to learn how to swim then.
Act and act now. Take on to your families and build your acts as I am
building mine now.
Yeah, the animals came in two by two.
No, no.
Listen to him. He speaks the truth.
Brothers, I implore you, listen to me. I have seen the signs in the sky.
My friends, please act.
Act!
Ah, it's no use.
No use.
You were marvelous, Jonah.
Fire and brimstone, that speech was. Fire and brimstone. I have failed.
But you did your best, Jonah. You did your best.
Not good enough.
Most interesting address.
This ark of yours, it will really stand up to all weather.
It will resist storm and tempest. First class timber throughout of the finest
British oak.
You did not close your ears to me. You believe?
I certainly think it's a theory worth investigating.
Steve, John Steve.
Delighted to meet you, sir. Delighted to meet you. I am John O 'Bernard and this
is Eli.
How are you? You see, Eli, my words did not fall entirely on barren soil.
Oh, sir, you give me fresh heart, new hopes.
Eli, it's a sign.
Our work must go on. Yes.
I go to spread the word, Jonah.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Mr. Steed. As you see, I am a simple man.
But you are more than welcome to my table. Thank you.
What turn of fate set your footsteps to my door, Mr. Steed? I read your letters
in the tile.
You did?
You've had warning of the flood?
Oh, indeed I have.
Something more positive than this, I hope.
Butterflies. In the stomach. In the district.
The March Fritillary.
Oh, a rare little creature usually found in watery districts.
But lately, the village has been swarming with them.
And then there's the birds.
The birds, the bearded tits. In from the marshland.
Suddenly, every tree is alive and bristling with their twitterings.
I tell you, Mr. Steve, this part of the country is renowned for its dryness.
Yet we are invaded by creatures known to inhabit watery places.
The balance of nature is disturbed.
Doom is in the air.
It's odd, I'll grant you, but not conclusive.
Then how do you account for the weather we've been having lately?
You can't convince me with that. Not in this country.
Mr. Steve?
Suppose you saw the same cloud in the same position in the sky every day.
Impossible, you say?
But I have seen such a thing.
The same cloud in the same position in the sky, unchanging.
Save that each day it gets a little larger.
Is it there today?
It's there every day.
Come, I'll show you.
On the chair, if you please.
There. Over the wine factory.
Sorry I'm late, Doctor.
The weather, you know.
Yes, most inclement.
Try this. What do you think of it?
A little bit too dry.
Here.
Yes? Excuse me, Dr. Stern. There's a Mrs. Peel to see you.
What does she want?
It's something to do with a man named Barker.
Ted Barker.
I'm coming.
He'll be with you in a moment.
Thank you.
Oh,
Mrs. Peel.
Dr. Stern?
I'm afraid I'm very busy.
Then I'll come right to the point. It's about Ted Barker. Oh, yes, I remember.
Very tragic.
Well? He was found in a field nearby.
As a matter of fact, that field over there.
And the extraordinary thing about it is, he was drowned.
I am familiar with the facts.
I understand you have a number of water tanks in the area.
Tell me, Mrs. Peel, what is your interest?
Are you a relative of the dead men, trying to extort compensation?
No, I'm a journalist. A freelance journalist.
And when I heard about Barker's death, I thought there might be a story in it.
Our water tanks are within the compound of the factory.
Our security arrangements are very strict.
No outsider could enter here without our knowledge.
We need feel no responsibility.
Then you have no objection to my looking round the area?
I'm afraid I have the strongest objections. Good day, Mrs. Beale.
Dr. Stern?
Good day to you, Mrs. Beale.
Mrs. Peel, it's you again.
You should be preparing.
The flood cometh.
Yes, well, I put a down payment on a canoe.
Eli, I want to know more about your brother.
He's gone.
There's no more to be said. You say you actually saw him going into the factory?
Several times.
Late at night. Could you show me the place?
Eli.
We have a responsibility now, don't we?
We've got to remove temptation from the path of potential sinners. Now, if there
is a way into the factory... Oh, there's a way in, all right.
Well, I could take steps to have it blocked off. We don't want Granny's grog
claim another victim, now, do we?
There's a way in through one of the storage huts on the north side.
Meet me there at nine o 'clock.
Good evening.
Good evening, Mr. Steele.
You haven't by any chance seen a young lady?
Mrs. Peel? Yes, I told her to meet me here. But she was in some time ago.
Tell me, is she a very sinful woman?
I beg your pardon?
This Mrs. Peel, she looks so charming.
But then you can never tell by appearances.
Are you sure we're talking about the same person? Yes, Mrs. Peel, tall, slim,
very attractive.
She's pretty.
Great pity.
Because she doesn't seem a sinful woman.
Then why should you think she is? Is it what she said?
She came in, left a message for you.
But you're not to worry.
But she was going into the pit of iniquity.
Is that all she said?
That's all.
Eli?
Eli?
Drowned, you say?
Yes. Poor Eli.
And I promised him salvation from the flood.
But it was not to be.
Poor Eli.
It could have been an accident.
He decided to slip surreptitious up and slip.
Splash. Impossible. Eli was a teetotaler.
Ah, when the finger of temptation beckons. Also, it was a water tank.
There seems to be a surfeit of H2O in this vicinity.
How's your meteorological time?
Bright and patchy.
There's a load of equipment waiting at the station to be picked up. Now,
ordinarily, I'd collect it, but... Extraordinarily, you would collect it.
We'll meet here in an hour.
I've got to buy some wine.
Can I help you?
Any time.
Indeed. John Steed of Steed, Steed, Steed, Steed, Steed and Jacques Limited.
Wine merchants extraordinary.
How did Jacques get in?
He didn't. He doesn't exist.
But in the wine trade, you must have that French touch.
So I invented Jacques.
Do your relatives approve?
Eh? Steed, Steed, Steed. Oh, as a matter of fact, I invented them too. Looks
better on the car.
So you are the real Steed.
I am he. And I have the pleasure of... Joyce Chase.
Delighted. I have an appointment.
Dr. Sturm told me to look after you. Even more delighted.
You want to buy some of our wines?
Oh, yes, that was my intention.
Surely your method of fermentation is a little primitive. It's more like
chutney, that mighty cucumber.
Oh, that was 60 years ago.
Things have changed since then, especially since Dr. Sturm took over.
When was that?
Two years ago.
He's introduced modern equipment, scientific apparatus. Well, I hope I
privileged to meet him.
Well, I don't know that... Oh, come now. If I like what I see, I shall make a
very substantial order. You want to sell your wine, don't you? Of course, of
course we do. It's just that Dr. Sturm, he doesn't like people prying.
Appraising, Miss Jason. I shall be appraising his ingenuity.
One doesn't buy the tree without sampling the fruit.
But our catalogue is very comprehensive.
Catalogue?
Honeyed blabbery wine.
That means nothing to me, Miss Jason. Where is the tang of blue blackberries
gathered in the early morning dew by barefoot peasant girls?
The rich nectar taste of honey syrup. Not here, but here. The sun glinting
on amber liquid. And here, the nostrils assaulted by the heady aromatics of a
perfect bouquet. And here, most of all here, rolling smooth syrup.
Sweet liquid around the mouth.
Alerting the taste buds.
Savouring the sheer sensuality of a unique experience.
I have a very acute palate. That's Jason.
I'm very sorry, but I really cannot find any help in this catalogue.
I'll talk to Dr. Stern.
But we know nothing about this man.
In my opinion, you shouldn't have agreed.
Don't be silly.
I told you I checked on him when you made his appointment.
He's a bona fide wine merchant. But letting him wander around loose.
Suppose he sees something. What can he see?
Our secret process is our secret.
Mr. Steed.
This way.
Good morning, Mr. Steed.
Dr. Stern? Yes.
And this is my assistant, Martin Smythe. How do you do?
It's extremely kind of you to let me look around.
Oh, not at all. If you go to sell our wine, I think you should have a look
around. Now, this is our main distillation area.
Distillation of wine?
Oh, I see what you mean. We ferment our wine, of course.
The final distillation is merely to ensure the perfect quality.
Over there, we have the plant which cleans and prepares our raw material.
And this is one of our pulping presses.
You see, the old method of treading won't do for us.
Oh? Then we make vegetable wine, Mr. Steed. Have you ever tried to tread
potatoes? Oh, point taken. It was my own design, by the way.
On this penner, I can control the drop of the press accurately to ten
thousandths of an inch, so we can pulp, yet not bruise. Now watch this, Mr.
Steed.
This is a solid piece of brass.
There.
All I do is lift this lever.
Remarkable.
Forty tons per square inch, Mr. Steed. Quite a giant.
Yet a gentle giant.
You designed it yourself?
Every inch of it. A long way from winemaking. Oh, I wouldn't say that.
After all, it's an improvement on the old method, isn't it?
But then a devil in many things makes... Come now, you're being too modest.
That's a fine engineering feat. Thank you very much indeed, Mr. Steed. Well,
won't bore you much longer. I'm sure you would like to see our wine store,
wouldn't you? The main purpose of my visit. Thank you very much indeed.
Scientific.
Very scientific.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Martin, you worry too much.
I think you'll find this a rather surprising wine.
Not unlike a dry hock.
What is it?
Oh, bark.
Must have put the dog in it, too.
This, then.
A sparkling buttercup.
Buttercup, eh?
Now, that's more my cup of tea.
Filthy day.
Must have been a great year for buttercups.
You've decided, then.
Well, I'll be pleased to take your order.
Delicious. I always wondered why cows had that contented look. Thought it must
have something to do with fools.
Obviously, the buscars.
Mr. Seed, I don't want to rush. Rainy and cats and dogs. What terrible weather
we're having. But I am rather busy.
I'm terribly sorry. I'll take a couple of gross of these, confirm with you
later.
This way.
Lovely weather we're not having.
You can leave this way. You've been a very great help.
Well, I'll be paddling along.
Dear, oh, dear.
Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.
Ah, Mrs. Peel, science cannot avert the approaching doom.
Perhaps not, but science will at least prepare us for it. Oh, I can see you do
not believe in the flood.
You think I'm just a crazy old man.
No, Jonah, I don't.
But I'm not prepared to believe anything until I've made a thorough
investigation. What, with a portable weather machine?
I wish I could make you see.
Help you to believe.
Have you shown her the cloud?
All set, Mrs. Peel? Yeah, what's all this about a cloud?
It's a kind of permanent fixture, isn't it, Jonah? Same cloud, same place, every
day. It's a sign.
It's a cloud.
You can see it from over there. I suggest you have a look. We can go out
and find out what your box of trips makes of it all.
You get a better view from the chair.
Oh, yes.
Near the wine factory.
As a matter of fact, it's just over the field where Ted Barker was found.
In the field.
It's impossible, Steve.
Quite impossible.
A humidity reading as high as this.
Is that bad?
Well, to get a reading as high, you'd have to be in the jungles of Brazil or
parts of equatorial Africa. But here in England, it's unheard of.
Yet here it is.
I know.
Couldn't have been that cloud brought it about.
No. A normal cloudy day only produces a reading of... It must be the machine.
It's giving me a faulty reading.
Perhaps. Well, we'll check up on it. Oh?
How?
Heard of Sir Arnold Kelly?
Of course. He's the best meteorological man in the country.
I've sent for him. He should be waiting for us at Barnard's now.
Your flowers.
Please. Whoa!
Over here.
Sorry, sorry.
These spectacles of mine keep missing out. Can't understand it.
Well, now, Mr... Oh.
Mrs. Peel, Sir Arnold Kelly.
Oh, very pleased to meet you, though. How anyone could mistake you for a man.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Oh, not at all, not at all. I've been having a discussion with Mr.
Barnard about the weather.
Very true.
Well, then, what have we? Well, I've made a preliminary reading.
Really? With what result?
These.
I'm sorry. I thought for a moment that read 67 .8 % humidity.
It does.
Eh?
A little joke, eh, Steve?
I'm afraid it's no joke, Sir Arnold. What? Oh, calm down. 67 .8%. Ridiculous.
That was the reading I got.
Well, equipment must be 40 then. No other explanation?
Well, perhaps you'd like to see for yourself.
Right away, I think.
67 .8%. Luckily, I brought my own equipment down.
Now then, let's see.
No wonder you got a false reading.
Well, never mind.
Use my own equipment. We'll see you later, Sir Arnold. Oh, yes, yes.
That equipment was all right when we left. I know.
What do you think?
I think I'm going to sample another bottle of buttercup brew.
Goodbye.
Terribly sorry to burst in on you like this. Knew you wouldn't mind.
Decided to take home with me a couple of bottles of best buttercup.
Taken at random just to test their overall quality.
This way.
Mr. Steve. Don't let me drag you away from your work. I can find my own way.
All set for a wet winter. I like that. Think ahead.
This way.
Don't let me disturb you, gentlemen.
I'd like to stop him. A bottle or two of buttercup brew. Mr. Steed. I'm going to
pass it around my friends, give them a little taste, and it's all good for
business. Please, Mr. Steed. Be my guest, my dear.
I hope you don't mind.
Of course we don't mind, Mr. Steed. As you say, it's good for business. Thank
you, young fellow.
After you, my dear.
I hope you don't mind my sapling a little of your brew while I'm in there.
My goodness me, what have we here?
Pulverized dry ice.
Aha, I've caught you out.
Part of a secret process, eh?
That's what puts the sharp, tangy flavor into buttercup brew.
You're quite right, Mr. Steed. You caught us out. Aha.
Excuse me, my dear.
See, he gets what he wants. Then get the idiot out of here.
Huh?
One bottle of buttercup and one of dad's weed.
Will that be all, Mr. Dean?
Aye, thank you very much.
Very kind of you to let me impose like this.
Not at all.
Splendid place you have here.
I'm glad you improved.
Absolutely first class. Strange about the rain, though.
Rain? Yes, back there. Sound of rain all the time. Very odd.
Oh, that's just an illusion, Mr. Steele. What do you hear, sir?
Liquid pouring into the vest.
Many people make the same mistake.
Really?
Trouble with your washer?
You mean to say it was that all the time? Oh, I can't believe it.
I'll tell you what. You turn it off. I'll go back and listen.
I'm afraid, Mr. Thede, I must ask you to leave now.
You're interrupting important work.
I'm most terribly sorry. It's very foolish of me. Well, goodbye to you.
to you.
Well, Miss Jason, I think I'll have a cup of the growth of the wheat and
Two dozen of the growth juice.
Now, perhaps now I can get back to my job. Your troubles aren't over.
There's somebody down in the field again.
Can't you see who it is?
No. Might be the same one as before. It's hard to say from here.
He's alone this time, anyway.
Freddie, give me my glasses, please.
Thank you.
He's obviously got some new equipment.
Here.
He's not wearing a Macintosh.
Pity. Looks like rain.
You know who he was?
No. Sir Arnold Kelly.
A meteorologist?
Yes. One of the nation's top weathermen.
You got rid of him? He's safely out of sight.
Good, good.
But what was he doing here?
And that woman who came to see him? Mrs. Peel.
Yes, where is she?
She's down at Jonah's place, waiting for Kelly to come back.
Sir Arnold Kelly and Mrs. Peel.
They didn't arrive there by accident.
The interest was aroused by something.
And I have an idea just what that something was.
Jonah Barnard and his letters to the Times.
Yes, I think he lowers the tone of the neighborhood.
Don't you think so?
Something should be done about it.
Naturally.
Oh, by the way, Mrs. Peel was very anxious to see over the plant, wasn't
I think we should extend that courtesy to her.
Mrs. Peel, we haven't met before.
Smiles, Martin Smiles. I work with Dr. Stern.
Oh? Yes.
Fact is, Mrs. Peel, the doctor rather regrets turning you away the other day.
Can't antagonize the press, can we?
He'd like you to come over now.
Right at this minute?
Please.
Well, I'm afraid it's simply not convenient.
Please.
What are you doing, brother?
I want to help you build your ark. But you're from the wine factory.
You believe?
Yeah, I believe.
I want to be saved.
You do? Yeah.
Oh, boy, have I misjudged you.
Well, Mrs. Peel, I don't think you've told us all you know.
But you will, I assure you, you will.
It may take a little time, of course.
Intervals of one thousandth of an inch.
Not an excessive pressure at the moment, huh?
No, I think another half inch before breathing becomes difficult.
Well, we'll give you a little time to think about it, Mrs. P, until you're
Then a fraction more pressure and your ribs will bend.
Another fraction and your ribs will crack.
Well, think about it.
And be ready with your answers by the time we return, won't you?
Evil vipers over the land.
Man has destroyed mountains with his science.
Has caused his fellows to suffer.
His sins need to be expiated.
Cleansed. And for this, the flood will come.
Mountains will disappear.
Buildings will crumble.
And not a tree will be seen over the entire land.
Well, thank you. Thank you, friends.
Act on it.
Act. Act soon.
Thank you.
I think you won over the dog.
Oh, not just the dog, Mr. Steed. Oh, another convert?
From the pit of iniquity itself.
Good. Where's Mrs. Peel? She was here some time ago.
I tell you, all is not lost when I reclaim a soul from that evil place of
intoxicating liquors. The wine factory? The very place. And there are four men.
A young fellow named Frederick.
He was here?
It was about a half hour ago.
I tell you, I was inspired.
He came unbidden. You haven't seen Mrs. Peel since he arrived?
Why, no.
What are you driving at?
What did he do while he was here?
He listened to me. No, I mean, where did he go? Where did he stand? Well, he was
interested in VR.
Where was he then?
Well, he was working there.
And he was most anxious to help.
These timbers, how are they secured?
Oh, wooden pegs and waterproof glue.
As secure as they can be?
Sure. I made them myself.
They will last a thousand years. Stand back.
It was meant to kill you.
You mean that man from the wine factory?
Why should anyone want to kill me?
Why should anyone want to kill Ted Barker or Eli?
And Sir Arnold Kelly, he ought to be back by now.
Mr. Seed, I am not a violent man by nature, but when faced with the problem
survival...
I had an auntie who used to make biscuits like this.
Rain contains silver iodide.
Excessive amount indicates it was introduced by man. What's silver iodide?
They used it two or three years ago in Arizona.
Arizona, America?
There was a big drought there.
They were trying to find ways of making rain.
Doesn't it strike you as odd?
Odd? Making rain?
It's flying in the face of nature. No, by all accounts, this field has a fairly
high degree of rainfall.
And yet it never seems to stay very wet.
What does that suggest to you?
Good drainage.
This field's absolutely flat. There's no natural drainage.
But you see, Mr. Steele, around here, this part...
Come on, wiggle.
Now what?
Looks like being a damp journey.
Now moint yourself.
Moint yourself down there.
Well, Mrs. Peel, are you ready to tell me who sent you here? No one sent me.
I heard about Ted Barker's death and... Oh, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no. That won't do. That won't do at all.
How about Sir Arnold Kelly?
I suppose his presence here was merely accidental, was it?
Well?
Well, I'd just have to squeeze the information out of you.
This way.
Uncomfortable, Mrs. Peel.
But no pain, I trust?
No, you're still one -eighth of an inch from real pain.
Believe me, Mrs. Peel, I don't enjoy this any more than you do.
But I have to protect my interests.
My colleague and I have just reached the end of a long, hard road.
We don't want to have that jeopardized.
Not now that we have finally succeeded.
Succeeded? In what?
Succeeded in making rain, Mrs. Peel.
Rain such as the world has never seen before.
Torrential driving rain, to order.
It contains the power now in my hands.
A machine, a system of convection, chemicals and electronics, geared to one
process. What's that? The manufacture of rain. As you may know, there's moisture
in the air, which we breathe at all times.
And my machine makes use of that moisture.
Excellent use.
To what end?
Well, originally to a very selfish end. I wanted to water my garden.
But now I suppose I will grow fat on my discovery.
Because Martin wants to sell to the highest bidder.
One of the big military nations.
He's already put out feelers in certain parts of the globe.
A military nation with a rain -making device?
But it's much more than that, Mrs. Peel. Don't you see?
It has the biggest military weapon since the nuclear bomb.
Relentless, never ceasing rain.
Rocket and planes grounded.
Full armies bogged down or washed away.
Centuries of agricultural wealth.
Destroyed in a couple of minutes.
A great flood to order.
Dr. Stern?
We're waiting for you.
Yes, yes, yes, I'm coming.
Forgive me, Mrs. Peel.
It can pain to plan, but I'll be back. It may depend on that.
Dear diabolical mastermind, you.
Gentlemen should knock before entering.
What are you, a sparkle in a seaweed soda?
No, I'm the kick in the nettle noggin.
Oh, my, I'll have you out of here.
Two shakes of a swizzle stick.
That's what Stern told me how to operate this. To one thousandth of an inch.
Twiddle this little knob here.
Turn this switch here.
I pressed the sleeper up.
Or was it down?
I think it was up.
Well, let's make a change. Press it down.
Hallelujah!
You were looking at it upside down, Mr. Steele.
Come on, chicken.
You must have had a terrible experience.
Come on, you're all right now. You're dead safe. Terrible experience.
The circulation going.
Oh, did you know what you were doing, or am I just lucky?
Of course I knew.
I'll show you.
Take one ordinary common garden bowler hat.
One turns this knob here, pushes up this lever, and the gentle giant crashes
down to stop within one thousandth of an inch of my bowler hat.
It was over very quickly. I don't think it suffered.
You heard what Storm said.
The coming flood is not the work of nature.
Some kind of machinery.
Let's try through there.
Thank you, Mr. Steele.
Lovely for the complexion.
Dr. Skarn.
There's all these charts. It's been raining here for about a year.
There it is.
They're about in for a dry spell.
Glory! The flood is here!
The flood is here!
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
I told you. I told you the blood is coming. Get out of here. Get out of
The blood is coming.
The blood is coming.
One, two, three.
Where's Dr. Stern?
Oh, I don't know. I thought you. I thought you.
The machine's burned out.
Oh, I think I'm getting a cold.
Get your feet wet? Hmm.
This'll do you good. Granny Gregson's marrow rum.
What's that?
I got a ticket for Jonah's Ark.
I like to be on the safe side. Bon voyage. I see you're sharing a cabin
Jersey cow.
I've got a weakness for big brown eyes.
Bless you.
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