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One, two, three.

Come, little baby.

Don't let me hear you say life is taking you nowhere.

Angel.

Come, little baby.

Run for the shadows.

Run for the shadows.

Run for the shadows in these golden years.

I'll stick with you, baby, for a thousand years.

Please, Dr.

Ackerman, just stay calm.

I am Paul the Cucumber.

I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. I'm only suggesting... What you're

suggesting is that there's someone getting rid of witnesses who know

all about Redding, Harlan Williams, or the goat series explosives.

You're being paranoid.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Thank you, boy.

Never mind. Look, I want protection, and I want it right away.

You knew Dr. Eakins, didn't you? Of course I knew him.

We've got eight consulting positions in the county. I know all of them.

But Eakins examined the janitor's eyes, and as far as I know, he's the only one

who's been murdered.

Had you spoken to Dr. Eakins about Harlan Williams recently, within, let's

48 hours of Eakins' murder?

No. You sure about that?

Of course I'm sure.

But then you're perfectly safe. The murder probably hasn't got anything to

with the gold series.

And even if it did, you're in the clear. You haven't spoken to the guy.

I'll be landing in about 40 minutes. We can discuss things further then.

If there's anything to discuss.

Want protection now, damn it! Get control of yourself, man.

Just stay put until... Go to hell.

Just take care of myself.

Thank you very much.

Can you push this thing any faster?

Dr. Ackerman.

Yes?

What is it? We've been looking all over for you. There's a Mr.

Andrews who called. He wants to see you this afternoon.

Not today.

Just tell him I'll call him tomorrow.

What do you think?

I think if a man looked at it too long, he'd boil his eyeballs.

What was he saying about driving the Chrysler building to Chicago?

I didn't think he'd take me seriously.

Actually, it was a damn good idea, Harlan.

Hey, Gina!

Want to see something that'll boil your eyeballs?

Hey, sweetheart!

Maybe she didn't hear you.

She's not dead.

Gina?

You okay now?

I'm fine.

Just leave me alone for a while, Harl.

What's wrong? Please leave me alone.

Can't you understand English?

Gina, tell me what's wrong.

Can't you see what's wrong?

I'm old.

I don't want you looking at me because I'm old.

Honey, Gina.

I've never felt old before because we've always been together.

And now I'm old.

I am old.

Shush.

I'm old, too. I'll be 71 next fall.

No.

You've got it wrong, Harl.

Today is your birthday.

No, it's not. It's not.

It's today.

And I'd say you were 65.

Gina. Don't you think I know?

Don't you think I've lived with you long enough to have a pretty good idea of

how old my husband is?

Today, you're 65.

You'll have a birthday again in another week and you'll be 60.

And then in a few days after that, you'll be 55.

Because it's not slowing down. Gina. It's not. Gina, it's just a bit of man

-made freakishness. That's all.

It could be a lot worse.

I could be changing into a human alligator or something like in the

movies.

But I'm just an old man.

With a younger man's face.

You really believe that, don't you?

Of course I believe that.

Well, why not?

Don't old people all over the world say they still feel 16 inside, even when

they can't stand up straight?

Or walk a mile without having to stop and sit down to catch their breath?

So why shouldn't you feel old while you're getting younger?

You don't even know that you feel young, do you, Harl?

It's kind of funny when you think about it.

You just need some sleep.

You'll feel better tomorrow.

Yes, I'll feel better tomorrow.

I'll also be older and you'll be younger. You keep saying that.

Yes.

Because I see the way you walk.

I see the way you smile.

You say I need sleep. You're right. I am beat.

But you're not beat.

You've been up as long as I have.

You're not even breathing hard.

No, but I beat her, I tell.

Part of you is enjoying this.

Tina, that's not true at all.

You really believe that, too?

I see the way your head... when you smell something in the woods or suddenly

hear something that I can't hear anymore.

You don't see the light in your eyes, Harl.

But I do.

I do.

Dr. Todd Hunter.

I need your signature.

What time do you have?

Half past the hour.

Are we ready?

Yes, sir. I have a schedule for this afternoon.

Do it now.

Now, doctor? Do it now.

Yes, sir, but you see... Do it now!

Do it now!

Now, you listen to me, you overpriced, overpaid simpleton.

Chime marches to the beat of a very different drummer.

You don't see that?

You just open your ears and listen. You can hear it. I hear it. I hear it all

the time.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tappy, tappy, tap. In my brain, like a little drum, it

says, don't wait, don't wait, don't wait, don't wait.

Do it now.

Do it now.

Yes, sir. Do it now.

Harlan?

What?

Are you coming?

In a minute.

I'm sorry, Mother, but I'm not going to be able to sleep a wink until I take a

look in here.

Oh, he's about 60. He's skinny as a chicken leg. He looks like my cousin

You peed?

Of course I peed.

I told him we'd get him back to his people as soon as we could.

Now come on to bed.

I don't know. I've sure been to enough funerals, but dead bodies still give me

the willies.

You remember that mummy we saw at Coney Island?

King Ramsey's 2 ,000 years old.

How can you remember his name?

You dared me to touch it. How could I not remember?

I remember all those things we did in those days.

I remember all of them.

Remember how we'd go down the water, pretending we were leaving on a grand

voyage? The Queen Elizabeth, first -class starboard sign.

Boats would pull away from the pier with balloons tied to their rails.

All the people waving and cheering.

People on the boats.

People on the pier.

Harlan?

Hmm?

You're one of the people on the boat now.

And I'm one of the people on the pier.

I'm waving to you.

And the water between us is getting wider.

And the boat's getting smaller.

And smaller.

And pretty soon it'll be too small to see.

And you'll be gone.

You'll be gone.

Take care of myself, thank you very much.

I didn't know this was happy hour.

You got any beer?

I want you off this base, mister.

Domestic's fine. I'm not picky.

And pork rind.

I know they're hell for the old cholesterol, but nobody lives forever,

I'll give you exactly one hour, or I will throw me in the brig.

No, mister. In the infirmary. In restraints. And so doped up, you'll

you're on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.

No, you won't.

What did you say?

This is my investigation now.

Oh, is it?

And who may I ask has made it your investigation?

The Defense Secretary of the United States of America, sir.

The orders were telexed at 3 .09 this afternoon.

I've also been placed in charge of the investigation of the poor doctor's

cowardly murder.

You... Bastard.

Looks like the work of terrorists, you know.

Car bomb, pretty standard stuff.

Yeah.

Typical slime ball tactics.

I've also been charged with the recovery of one Harlan Williams who seems to

have been affected by this incursion.

It also seems likely that it's had an adverse, dangerously adverse effect on

mental state. What are you talking about?

He wanted to keep his job.

In fact, he was obsessed with his job.

When he failed his eye examination, the doctor who failed him was murdered.

He passed the retest.

Did he?

That's hard to tell. William's file is missing from Eakin's office.

Well, isn't that interesting?

Because a few hours ago, his medical records were stolen from Falco Plains.

I know.

By Dr. Ackerman.

We found part of William's file in his car.

Photocopies. Somebody broke into the medical records file. Took the

Ackerman.

Ackerman had a key.

He wouldn't need to break in.

Maybe he wanted to make it look like somebody else did it.

You better start moving, mister. I don't know anything about a telex from

Washington. And by my count...

You've got 55 minutes.

Yeah, well, I'm in charge.

And I drive one big bulldozer, my friend.

And I'm going to have Williams and his wife and your pet poodle by noon

tomorrow.

And if you get in my way, you're going to be a bloody rag in one of the tracks.

Maybe.

And maybe you thought you'd have him before the sun went down today.

If you want to keep your pension and those ten stars, you stay the hell out

my way.

I'm surprised at you, General.

Removing evidence from the scene of a federal crime?

You can get 15 years.

Thanks for the drink, mister.

Evening, Harlan.

How'd you know it was me?

Got your own way of walking?

I'm here to believe you.

I'm fine.

No, you're not.

Your plum tuckered out. He needs some sleep.

You promise to wake me in an hour?

Two hours.

Deal?

Deal.

Terry.

They gonna catch us?

I don't know.

You know, people in the shop used to say John Rainbird was the best field

operative that ever lived.

Me?

I always thought Andrews was better.

They could catch us.

Yeah.

What happens then?

Well... I'm history.

That's number one.

That's the big immutable.

And Gina?

I think the odds are good your wife will offer for you to exist.

You ever thought of maybe turning yourself in?

Turn myself in?

They might find a way to reverse it.

They don't even know what they did in the first place. How can you expect them

to be able to reverse it?

Well, Todd Hunter's crazy, but he does know what he did.

Or he will.

Do you really think he would?

Do you?

No.

I think he'd do tests.

I think he'd watch you.

Wait for it to be over.

One way or the other.

What if it goes all the way to the end?

Harlan Williams then?

Do I turn back into a child again?

Do I get to be one month old?

Dale?

Do I get to be a preemie in an incubator somewhere?

And then die?

I'm never going back, Tara.

Not unless someone gets lucky and throws a halter over me.

And if they don't get lucky?

Then I get lucky.

And they take me back on a cooling board.

I go, well, get some sleep.

We'll have the old man by tomorrow night.

I'll believe it when I see it. You will.

In any case, here are his medical records.

They're for your eyes only.

Where did you get these?

Doesn't matter.

You wanted them, you got them.

What's happening with the mouse?

Nothing.

Good night.

Time's growing short, my friend.

You're not safe here.

You understand that, don't you?

You're all I have right now.

My only living record until we find the janitor.

You'll be comfortable in my house.

We'll even bring along a couple of your girlfriends.

Thought you'd like that.

What the hell is going on?

My deputy told me you're moving out of here, lock, stock, and barrel.

We're relocating the command center back to the base.

Excuse me, Mr. Andrews. These are civil crimes. They've all taken place in my

jurisdiction. We've got a murder of Falco Plains, one of our doctors that

him. And you think they're connected? Maybe.

In what way?

Sorry, that's classified.

Classified?

This has become a matter of national security.

I've been ordered by Washington to take over the investigation of these murders.

Sheriff Mayo, I'm ordering you to turn over any evidence you may have in your

possession.

Say, within the hour.

Is that a problem?

No.

Naturally, we'd like to have you working with us.

Doing what?

I'll let you know.

I think you just did.

Stop, Father.

After a while.

You were the one who told me because you were the one who let me in on the

secret.

The time is short.

The time is very, very, very,

very short.

But it's all we have.

Isn't that true, Father?

Time is all we have.

I love you, Father.

But it was a great relief to me.

All the same, you know.

Good night, Father.

Okay, that's fine.

What's going on, Rick?

I'm sorry, sir. I can't let you out. I've been given orders, and I can't...

out of the way!

Sorry, sir, I can't. You're restricted space.

Get the hell out of the way. Please, sir. I have my orders.

I'm coming through.

Do you understand, sir?

I will carry them out.

When I say three, we all lift.

Watch your back, Harlan. No, my back's just fine.

One, two, three.

Well, let's hit the road.

You okay, darling?

Yes, I'm just tired.

Wait a minute.

There's something we have to talk about. I want to suggest something to you.

It's hard to explain because the lines are so thin.

What lines?

The lines between civil law and national law, between state and local

jurisdiction, and I guess what you'd call eminent domain.

Maybe you just better explain your idea.

We beat them out of Falco Plains.

We beat them out of New York State.

I don't know how close it was, and I don't want to know.

But today they're going to be after us in full force.

Police, FBI, shop agents, DSA operatives, maybe even the National

You're saying we don't have a chance now.

I'm saying Harrisburg is 40 miles away. We can make it that far. No sweat. How

much farther?

I'm not sure.

Well, what do we do then?

We find a shopping mall.

We go into the biggest department store there.

And you two start to shoplift.

We do what?

You shoplift.

But no two -buck items. You get the stuff expensive enough to lift you out

the misdemeanor category.

Oh, yes, I see.

Well, good for you, dear, because I haven't the foggiest.

Explain it. Okay.

The best thing for you to take, Harlan, is some piece of electronic equipment,

something small but fairly expensive, one of those CD players.

You, Gina... I asked to try on a couple of high -priced dresses, and when I come

out of the changing booth...

I only have one because I've hidden the other one under my clothes. That's good.

But make sure you do it clumsily enough to be noticed. They'll wait.

And as soon as you get out the door, the mall security guys will hit you. And we

hit back.

That's right. You mess them up, Gina.

Well, I don't see what you two are so excited about. Yesterday you were saying

we had to get away. Now you're saying we have to get caught?

Explain. But you'd be taken in by the civil authorities, Harlan. Don't you

You and Gina both. You'd be behind bars, but not behind shop bars.

And then?

You use your one phone call. You get a lawyer. You tell him everything.

Everything.

Nobody's going to believe us. Not at first. But you can convince him of one

thing. No bail. No bail under any circumstances.

And then you get him to postpone the hearing.

Until he can see what's happening.

Until everyone can see what's happening.

But what about you?

I think if I hang around, it could be hazardous to my health.

Extremely hazardous.

Mom, we should go.

You're late.

What happens when I'm bushed? Get under it. Do it in a hurry.

An hour's sleep is all I got. Forget about it. You can sleep later.

You're here because this situation is not under control. I thought you knew

that. You online yet?

Yes, sir. Two minutes ago.

They've gone to ground. That's all. Don't worry about it. We've got 150

in the field, all the way from Pennsylvania to upstate New York. We'll

another 150 by noon.

There will not be a problem, I assure you.

Your assurance has cut no ice with me, Fredericks.

We have one hell of a problem here.

You don't know how bad this could be.

I don't understand what you're so upset about.

You ought to get down on your knees and thank whatever gods you believe in.

They're not somewhere right now spilling their guts.

Who the hell would believe that? Who?

Anyone who saw it happening, that's who.

Terry's not stupid.

What if she decides to have this janitor locked up by some podunk sheriff?

Why would she do that? To keep him out of our hands long enough to make this

look like something else besides a flying saucer story.

At first, nobody would believe what's happening to him. But if it should take

some time to get him back, Todd Hunter says he could change.

And then Harlan Williams finds himself in one great big lively media circus.

The guy who got an accidental drink at the Fountain of Youth.

And now the big bad feds are chasing him, wanting to lock him up.

Some nice old folks with gray hair and bad arthritis.

Might find that a little annoying, don't you think?

Yeah. It has to be us.

We have to get him back.

And do what with him?

Put him in Todd Hunter's hands.

He's the only one that really understands what Harlan Williams means.

Yeah, but you know what you want, right?

And you want Terry.

That's right.

I want Terry.

More than anything I've ever wanted in my whole life, I wanted her.

All right.

Let's say we get arrested and taken into custody.

What's the downside?

I can see by your face that there is one.

Lee Harvey Oswald, that's the downside.

I don't understand.

If they decide they can't get Harlan back before what's happening leaks out,

They may decide to stop it from happening.

Oswald was no Dillinger shot while he was running down an alley. He was shot

while he was in a police garage.

While he was in police custody.

But the man that shot Oswald, that Jack Ruby, he was crazy.

Plenty of people thought he was sent to do a job.

Hey, mister.

You're a quart low on oil.

All right.

Sometimes it's easier to believe in a conspiracy than plain outright

But that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Not every guy who ever hanged himself in a jail cell committed suicide.

I'm just saying it could happen.

You're saying that Harlan could get killed.

But they'd leave you alone, Gina.

I'd be dead, but they'd leave you alone.

Oh, stop that.

We're in this together. Like everything else, we're in this together.

Ease off, darling. Don't tell me to ease off. Gina, please.

Look, we might make it to your daughter's place in Chicago.

What happens after that, I don't know.

We also might get you two picked up by a police department that would lock you

up tight and keep you safe.

The point is, we have to choose.

That'll be 1140.

If Jack Ruby killed the man who killed the president and the police couldn't

stop it, what chance does Harlan have if he gets arrested for shoplifting and

they decide to come after him, if they send that man Andrews after him?

If they send Jude Andrews, I wouldn't give him a snowball's chance in hell, no

matter where he was locked up.

What are we standing here for?

We're wasting daylight.

Let's not waste daylight and when we get to Harrisburg, let's just keep going

I'll explain it on the way

Okay. Have a nice day.

What's going on?

Roll down the window. I'll be right there in a minute.

Shut the door. What?

Shut the door.

Bill, get out.

Shut the door.

What are you talking about?

What happened?

Get up. Catch him. Catch him.

Get him. Get him.

No, no.

I

don't

think you have to worry about them, Dr. Todd.

That's quite perceptive.

For someone who's obviously had major chromosome damage.

Hickory barky barky children of the Lord Lord said to

Noah There's gonna be a bloody bloody Lord said to Noah There's gonna be a

bloody bloody Get your feet out of the muddy muddy children of the Lord

Animals, they came on, they came on by twosies, twosies. Animals, they came on,

they came on by twosies, twosies.

Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies, children of the Lord.

Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory.

Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory. Rise and shine and give God your

glory, glory, children.

Let me get this straight.

There are two lab animals in this.

That appears to be the case, sir.

And you don't know where they are?

No, sir.

Were they taken?

It's possible, sir.

Possible?

I like that answer.

It's also possible I could dislocate your shoulder so you can kiss your

I don't know where they are, sir.

Could they have gotten loose in here?

Yes, that could have happened.

But even if they did...

They'd still be in this room.

They couldn't have gotten through the walls. They're metal, as you can see.

Hey.

Do you see any loose animals running around in here?

In here?

Yeah. No.

Just the two out by the fence this morning.

You did?

Yeah.

Can you show me where?

Yeah, I could do better than that. I got them in my locker. You do?

I was going to make bookends out of them.

I'm not going to get in trouble for this, am I?

No, not at all.

Harlan didn't think anyone would mind if I was picking up dead animals.

See, I'm studying this home taxidermy course, and I'm learning to stuff

Harlan?

Harlan Williams?

Yeah.

We work together.

Can you show me these mice, Billy?

Like now?

Like now would be fine.

Sure.

Give God your glory, glory, children of the Lord.

Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory. Rise and shine and give God your

glory, glory.

Rise and shine. Oh, my God.

Aren't you going to stop, Terry?

How bad is he hurt?

I think he broke his leg.

What happened?

I'll stay here with them. You two go for help.

My brother, he's already gone. Thank you.

Well, then we can be on our way.

We can't leave them.

Well, there's nothing we can do for him now. I'm not going to leave them here.

Broke his leg.

I've got a first aid kit in the car.

Ambulance is on the way.

He's going to be just fine, son.

Did you, uh, witness the accident? No, we just stopped to see if we could help.

But everything seems to be under control, so... No wonder, officer, if

move your car, because we have to get going, we're late, and... I brought some

water for the boy.

Thank you, ma 'am.

Mother, why'd you get out of the car? We have to get going. The officer's going

to move his car so we can get going.

Brian, Bethany, did you get out of the car?

I just thought. No, you didn't think. You didn't think anything.

I'm sorry.

Done is done. Get in.

You're right. I didn't think. Never mind.

But if you've got a rosary, now would be a good time to kick it into Overdrive.

How the hell did you do that?

Magic.

You're not going to hurt him.

Not if I don't have to.

And I hope next time, if we're lucky enough to have a next time, you'll

staying put when I ask you to.

Where'd you get the facelift, Grant?

You wouldn't want one.

What the hell is this?

What happened?

Some fugitive stole my cruiser.

Stole your cruiser? They handcuffed me to this hearse.

They handcuffed you to the hearse?

Will you stop repeating everything I say and take off my shoe?

You hurt your foot?

I've got a spare key in my shoe.

You got a spare key in your shoe.

Tyler, do you mind?

Stole your cruiser.

Damn.