1 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,540 Hey, hold it. Whoa. Whoa! 2 00:01:50,362 --> 00:01:51,820 Here, look at this. 3 00:01:52,864 --> 00:01:55,449 - Why, it's a skull. - You mean off some dead fella? 4 00:01:55,533 --> 00:01:58,035 - It looks like stone to me. - Hey! 5 00:01:58,119 --> 00:02:00,079 Look at those dead eyes. 6 00:02:00,580 --> 00:02:02,706 - Get a load of those gnashers. - Eh! 7 00:02:02,791 --> 00:02:04,662 Hey! Careful with it. It's a fossil. 8 00:02:05,057 --> 00:02:06,934 It may be worth money, you know that. 9 00:02:07,123 --> 00:02:09,386 I've known things dug out that have fetched a fortune. 10 00:02:09,629 --> 00:02:12,007 Ah, nix. Right! 11 00:02:27,924 --> 00:02:30,502 (NEWSPAPERMAN SHOUTING) 12 00:02:49,340 --> 00:02:51,508 POLICEMAN: Come along now, please. 13 00:02:51,592 --> 00:02:53,551 Unless you're passengers or press, keep the entrance clear. 14 00:02:53,636 --> 00:02:54,678 Come along now, please. 15 00:03:08,911 --> 00:03:11,762 (INDISTINCT) 16 00:03:11,954 --> 00:03:16,313 RONEY: The London Transport people very sensibly ordered all work on the site to cease. 17 00:03:16,343 --> 00:03:20,295 And, at that point, the Nicklin Institute was called in and we started digging. 18 00:03:20,718 --> 00:03:23,515 We made our first dig about there, you see, 19 00:03:23,722 --> 00:03:27,312 and that's where Square Five is now. 20 00:03:27,479 --> 00:03:30,611 (REPORTERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 21 00:03:40,943 --> 00:03:43,455 - We think that's another scapula. - WOMAN: Huh? 22 00:03:44,044 --> 00:03:47,282 A shoulder blade. How is it, Miss Judd? 23 00:03:47,367 --> 00:03:48,950 It seems to be better than the others. 24 00:03:49,035 --> 00:03:51,620 There appear to be six bodies here at least. 25 00:03:51,662 --> 00:03:53,731 Now, if you'd all just step up this way. 26 00:03:53,761 --> 00:03:56,555 (TRAIN RUMBLING IN DISTANCE) 27 00:03:56,690 --> 00:03:57,624 What's that? 28 00:03:57,732 --> 00:03:59,870 Don't worry, gentlemen, the train won't come through here. 29 00:04:00,005 --> 00:04:01,334 No rails. 30 00:04:12,757 --> 00:04:16,716 Now, gentlemen, this little press conference hasn't entirely met with official approval. 31 00:04:17,274 --> 00:04:18,699 Uh, may I say that? 32 00:04:19,790 --> 00:04:21,347 The fact is I need your help. 33 00:04:21,930 --> 00:04:24,411 In the last two days, my assistants here have done wonderful work 34 00:04:24,441 --> 00:04:26,017 and we've unearthed a lot of valuable stuff. 35 00:04:26,047 --> 00:04:27,692 - Valuable? - How valuable, Dr Roney? 36 00:04:27,866 --> 00:04:29,599 To science? I can't tell yet, 37 00:04:29,713 --> 00:04:32,907 but I do know this is one of the most remarkable finds ever made. 38 00:04:35,065 --> 00:04:37,243 Now, what I want to say to you is this... 39 00:04:37,956 --> 00:04:39,636 (TRAIN RUMBLING LOUDLY) 40 00:04:45,980 --> 00:04:48,449 The London Transport people have halted their extension work 41 00:04:48,572 --> 00:04:49,619 for the next few days. 42 00:04:49,795 --> 00:04:52,407 But it isn't days we need here, it's weeks. 43 00:04:52,847 --> 00:04:54,166 I know, and you all know, 44 00:04:54,422 --> 00:04:57,258 they'll soon be under pressure to start again, to stop wasting public money. 45 00:04:57,399 --> 00:04:58,798 That's where I need your help. 46 00:04:58,921 --> 00:05:00,759 Tell the public why we should be allowed to stay. 47 00:05:00,923 --> 00:05:03,421 Dr Roney, what actually makes this find so remarkable? 48 00:05:03,894 --> 00:05:06,093 These fossils prove, I firmly believe, 49 00:05:06,270 --> 00:05:08,285 that creatures essentially resembling mankind 50 00:05:08,394 --> 00:05:10,805 walked this earth as long ago as five million years. 51 00:05:10,963 --> 00:05:13,676 Isn't that much further back than has been supposed? 52 00:05:13,826 --> 00:05:15,740 - Yes. A good deal. - That's tremendous. 53 00:05:15,770 --> 00:05:17,002 Can you actually prove it? 54 00:05:17,125 --> 00:05:20,354 No, not until I've got every scrap of evidence out of here and made full tests. 55 00:05:20,772 --> 00:05:23,377 It's just my personal conviction based on what we've found so far. 56 00:05:23,576 --> 00:05:25,157 And what actually have you found so far? 57 00:05:25,465 --> 00:05:28,157 Parts of two skulls, fragments of upper and lower limbs. 58 00:05:28,351 --> 00:05:32,891 Gosh! And can you actually tell what these, what, ape men looked like? 59 00:05:33,084 --> 00:05:34,561 Hardly, at this stage. 60 00:05:34,980 --> 00:05:38,023 Yes, I think I can. At least I'm prepared to take a chance. 61 00:05:38,066 --> 00:05:40,109 Uh, Bert. Excuse me. 62 00:05:45,891 --> 00:05:48,059 This is my attempt at a reconstruction. 63 00:05:48,144 --> 00:05:50,561 The modelled parts show what we've found up to now, 64 00:05:50,646 --> 00:05:52,981 filled out with imaginary flesh. 65 00:05:53,398 --> 00:05:56,401 He wasn't very big. He had the face of an ape. 66 00:05:56,443 --> 00:05:59,279 He had a big brain and he stood like a man. 67 00:05:59,363 --> 00:06:02,198 - Miss Judd. - Miss Dobson, what is it? 68 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,784 I've struck what seems to be a buried pipe. 69 00:06:04,868 --> 00:06:07,119 RONEY: What we must have now is time. 70 00:06:07,204 --> 00:06:08,746 We've got to get public support 71 00:06:08,830 --> 00:06:10,275 or there'll be tube trains running over this site, 72 00:06:10,305 --> 00:06:12,205 bones and all, before we can get everything out. 73 00:06:12,536 --> 00:06:15,114 Whatever it is, it's big. 74 00:06:15,413 --> 00:06:18,415 - A main water pipe perhaps. - LT INSPECTOR: Not here. 75 00:06:18,458 --> 00:06:21,294 A sewer then? That would be awkward, wouldn’t it? 76 00:06:21,336 --> 00:06:23,503 Good thing I wasn't using a pickaxe. 77 00:06:23,589 --> 00:06:24,963 There shouldn't be anything. 78 00:06:25,007 --> 00:06:26,214 (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) 79 00:06:26,423 --> 00:06:27,609 BARBARA: Dr Roney. 80 00:06:29,620 --> 00:06:33,179 - Anything wrong? - You'd better have a look. 81 00:06:34,266 --> 00:06:36,937 There is just one possibility. 82 00:07:02,152 --> 00:07:05,514 - Good morning. This way please, Captain. - Good morning. 83 00:07:11,333 --> 00:07:13,056 - This is Dr Roney. - Where's the bomb? 84 00:07:13,488 --> 00:07:14,095 Here. 85 00:07:21,479 --> 00:07:23,317 That's right, tear it all up! 86 00:07:39,367 --> 00:07:41,035 What would you say it was, sir? 87 00:07:41,119 --> 00:07:43,329 Uh, looks like a big one. 88 00:07:43,997 --> 00:07:45,790 Maybe a Satan. 89 00:07:45,833 --> 00:07:49,460 Yes, sir, except I've never seen a Satan with bumps. 90 00:07:50,128 --> 00:07:51,504 POTTER: Mmm. 91 00:07:57,052 --> 00:07:58,135 POTTER: Strange. 92 00:07:58,712 --> 00:07:59,733 Won't hold. 93 00:08:06,639 --> 00:08:08,037 No ticking. 94 00:08:08,530 --> 00:08:09,225 Odd though. 95 00:08:09,885 --> 00:08:14,900 The mike doesn't stick, so it can't be steel, and there's no corrosion of the surface. 96 00:08:14,930 --> 00:08:16,547 Feel it. 97 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:22,627 We'll dig down a bit. Let the dog see the rabbit, mmm? 98 00:08:22,670 --> 00:08:24,680 Corporal Gibson, two men with shovels. 99 00:08:24,710 --> 00:08:28,133 Right, Sergeant. All right. Webster, Jenkins. 100 00:08:33,682 --> 00:08:35,183 Right, Sergeant, five minutes. 101 00:08:35,225 --> 00:08:36,684 Five minutes. 102 00:08:39,646 --> 00:08:42,857 You know, I don't think this is any kind of metal. 103 00:08:43,358 --> 00:08:44,693 Then what, sir? 104 00:08:44,736 --> 00:08:47,904 Captain Potter, can you tell me yet how long this is going to take? 105 00:08:47,988 --> 00:08:49,113 I realise it must be difficult. 106 00:08:49,198 --> 00:08:51,283 Look, sir, I advised you to leave. 107 00:08:51,366 --> 00:08:54,090 Yes, I know. But you'll appreciate I have a special interest. 108 00:08:54,213 --> 00:08:56,871 - How long would you say? - I don't know, yet. 109 00:08:57,231 --> 00:09:01,084 You're a young man. You can't possibly have had the wartime experience that would... 110 00:09:01,198 --> 00:09:03,852 I should call in a second opinion. Is that it? 111 00:09:03,975 --> 00:09:06,227 - Well, yes. - Well, don't worry. I intend to. 112 00:09:09,430 --> 00:09:10,688 (RINGING) 113 00:09:10,796 --> 00:09:11,963 GM2. 114 00:09:13,508 --> 00:09:15,091 Just a moment, sir. 115 00:09:15,134 --> 00:09:16,635 It's for Colonel Breen. 116 00:09:16,719 --> 00:09:19,151 Oh, I'll take It. Scrambler? 117 00:09:19,555 --> 00:09:21,597 No, it's blue. It's clear. 118 00:09:24,936 --> 00:09:27,479 Hello? I'm afraid Colonel Breen is not available. 119 00:09:27,563 --> 00:09:29,148 What's it about? 120 00:09:29,296 --> 00:09:30,281 A bomb? 121 00:09:30,589 --> 00:09:32,942 But surely you realise he's no longer connected with... 122 00:09:34,210 --> 00:09:34,914 How big? 123 00:09:35,847 --> 00:09:37,097 Good God. 124 00:09:38,468 --> 00:09:39,541 Give me the details. 125 00:09:39,717 --> 00:09:41,519 I'll get the message to him as soon as he's free. 126 00:09:41,561 --> 00:09:43,772 What is there to argue about? 127 00:09:44,314 --> 00:09:45,815 The purpose is quite clear. 128 00:09:45,857 --> 00:09:47,358 Colonel Breen, my Rocket Group 129 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,362 has been intended all along for peaceful scientific research. 130 00:09:50,445 --> 00:09:52,529 Professor Quatermass, your Rocket Group? 131 00:09:52,864 --> 00:09:55,574 Yes, mine. I brought the whole thing into being. 132 00:09:55,659 --> 00:09:58,036 But it is, after all, a government project. 133 00:09:58,411 --> 00:10:00,372 And now the government has had a change of policy. 134 00:10:00,455 --> 00:10:02,082 Change of policy! 135 00:10:02,499 --> 00:10:06,293 You're going to take it over and pervert it to this... This... 136 00:10:06,379 --> 00:10:09,156 Listen. Within 10 years, there will be permanent bases on the moon, 137 00:10:09,290 --> 00:10:10,692 perhaps even on Mars. 138 00:10:11,033 --> 00:10:14,144 - Military bases. - BREEN: Of course. 139 00:10:14,278 --> 00:10:16,003 The present world situation makes that quite clear. 140 00:10:16,129 --> 00:10:19,470 Whoever plants them first will be able to police the Earth with ballistic missiles. 141 00:10:19,641 --> 00:10:21,455 So, we must be in the race. 142 00:10:22,019 --> 00:10:23,311 Well, of course. 143 00:10:23,939 --> 00:10:26,774 The ultimate weapon. It always is. 144 00:10:27,067 --> 00:10:29,068 Gentlemen, don't you see? 145 00:10:29,571 --> 00:10:32,780 We're on the edge of a new dimension of discovery. 146 00:10:33,241 --> 00:10:37,118 It's a great chance to leave our vices behind, war first of all. 147 00:10:37,161 --> 00:10:40,414 Not to go out there dragging our hatreds and our frontiers along with us. 148 00:10:40,497 --> 00:10:42,165 Frankly, I'm surprised and disturbed 149 00:10:42,249 --> 00:10:44,084 to hear such naive views still being put forward... 150 00:10:44,168 --> 00:10:47,044 - Naive? You've lost touch with humanity. - There is nothing to be gained... 151 00:10:47,129 --> 00:10:49,422 You've been shut away too long in this ivory fortress of yours. 152 00:10:49,507 --> 00:10:50,632 That's your trouble. 153 00:10:50,675 --> 00:10:52,175 HOWELL: Well, he'll be out of it soon. 154 00:10:52,259 --> 00:10:54,010 Colonel Breen is joining you at the Rocket Group. 155 00:10:54,283 --> 00:10:56,054 - What? - HOWELL: At the end of the week. 156 00:10:56,139 --> 00:10:59,663 I think you'll agree that someone with experience of military rockets, missiles, 157 00:10:59,798 --> 00:11:01,330 will be of considerable value. 158 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:02,881 I'll fight this right at top-level! 159 00:11:03,365 --> 00:11:06,473 HOWELL: I shouldn't. It came from there. 160 00:11:06,684 --> 00:11:09,585 It'll work out. For the good of the Group. 161 00:11:10,605 --> 00:11:14,858 And now, gentlemen, if you'll both excuse me, I have another meeting. 162 00:11:15,735 --> 00:11:17,610 Nose to the grindstone. 163 00:11:30,705 --> 00:11:33,241 I won't resign, if that's what you want. 164 00:11:33,443 --> 00:11:36,839 Of course not. I'm sure we'll get along quite well. 165 00:11:36,958 --> 00:11:38,620 Why not have dinner with me? My club? 166 00:11:39,250 --> 00:11:40,050 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 167 00:11:40,393 --> 00:11:41,089 Come. 168 00:11:45,832 --> 00:11:48,585 Oh, I can't possibly... Who's this from? 169 00:11:49,462 --> 00:11:50,794 Oh, I see. 170 00:11:53,008 --> 00:11:55,885 Do you ever find your early career catching up with you? 171 00:11:55,926 --> 00:11:58,519 I never had a career. Only work. 172 00:11:58,972 --> 00:12:00,305 What was yours? 173 00:12:00,390 --> 00:12:01,931 Enemy missiles. 174 00:12:02,016 --> 00:12:05,101 Do you mind stopping off on the way for a couple of minutes? 175 00:12:24,940 --> 00:12:26,525 Lead on, please. 176 00:12:38,078 --> 00:12:39,329 Captain Potter, sir. 177 00:12:39,413 --> 00:12:41,290 - I hope you didn't mind my... - Any sign of the mechanism yet? 178 00:12:41,332 --> 00:12:42,915 None, sir. We've found this cavity, 179 00:12:42,958 --> 00:12:45,627 but there's only impacted clay inside. 180 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,463 - Stand down for a moment, Briggs. - Yes, sir. 181 00:12:59,783 --> 00:13:00,821 Any guesses? 182 00:13:01,138 --> 00:13:04,534 - Possibly a German V weapon. - Why? 183 00:13:04,701 --> 00:13:06,812 A flying bomb? A V-2 Rocket? 184 00:13:06,971 --> 00:13:08,994 - It's not either of them. - Obviously. 185 00:13:09,522 --> 00:13:11,930 But they weren't the only surprises they cooked up in the war. 186 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:13,690 There were more than anyone knew. 187 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,124 - Sir! - What is it? 188 00:13:15,282 --> 00:13:17,288 I don't know. It may just be a stone. 189 00:13:26,921 --> 00:13:28,588 CLEGHORN: It's another one of them skulls. 190 00:13:29,507 --> 00:13:30,800 - Corporal. - CORPORAL: Sir. 191 00:13:30,883 --> 00:13:33,259 - Is Dr Roney still here? - Yes, sir, I'll fetch him. 192 00:13:34,553 --> 00:13:36,764 - POTTER: It's a skull. - Let me see. 193 00:13:38,908 --> 00:13:40,452 - Thanks. - Who is this man? 194 00:13:40,535 --> 00:13:42,120 - Potter, is he attached to you? - No, sir, that is... 195 00:13:42,203 --> 00:13:45,330 Let me go! Thank you. 196 00:13:45,415 --> 00:13:48,460 Don't you know? Dr Roney's the man of the moment. 197 00:13:48,501 --> 00:13:50,252 This place is news. 198 00:13:50,671 --> 00:13:51,600 He has no business here now. 199 00:13:52,238 --> 00:13:53,100 Hasn't he? 200 00:13:54,925 --> 00:13:56,926 (RONEY BREATHING HEAVILY) 201 00:14:06,930 --> 00:14:08,654 Thank you. It's absolutely marvellous. 202 00:14:17,023 --> 00:14:18,816 Oh, it's magnificent! 203 00:14:19,234 --> 00:14:22,945 Better than anything we've got so far. It's almost intact. 204 00:14:22,987 --> 00:14:24,655 - Intact? - Yes, yes. 205 00:14:26,587 --> 00:14:28,193 This proves everything. It's all I needed. 206 00:14:28,223 --> 00:14:30,049 - No, no, leave it to me. - You might drop it. It's slippery. 207 00:14:30,079 --> 00:14:31,743 - Drop it? Not on your nelly! - Here. 208 00:14:31,956 --> 00:14:34,208 How do you think it got inside there? 209 00:14:35,352 --> 00:14:36,769 Oh, it was here in the clay, 210 00:14:37,006 --> 00:14:38,898 when the missile struck, it got rammed through. 211 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,968 (SCOFFING) Unbroken? A fragile fossil? 212 00:14:48,055 --> 00:14:50,557 Dr Roney, my name's Quatermass. 213 00:14:50,599 --> 00:14:51,975 Are you one of these bomb experts? 214 00:14:52,059 --> 00:14:54,311 - Not exactly. - Miss Judd here will look after you. 215 00:14:54,396 --> 00:14:55,793 - QUATERMASS: How do you do? - Hello. 216 00:14:55,823 --> 00:14:57,439 RONEY: I've got to get this skull under treatment. 217 00:14:57,816 --> 00:14:59,822 That skull seems remarkably well-preserved. 218 00:14:59,928 --> 00:15:03,111 Yes, isn't it? Far better than the first. 219 00:15:03,195 --> 00:15:04,863 What do you think protected it? 220 00:15:04,905 --> 00:15:08,325 Huh? Oh, it was inside the... Inside that... 221 00:15:09,716 --> 00:15:10,455 Good Lord! 222 00:15:11,484 --> 00:15:14,080 I was so concerned just now, I didn't realise. 223 00:15:14,110 --> 00:15:16,681 It was inside. That's no bomb. 224 00:15:17,749 --> 00:15:18,770 Whatever is it? 225 00:15:19,913 --> 00:15:21,822 How old is this fossil skull? 226 00:15:22,236 --> 00:15:24,374 About five million years. It could be more. 227 00:15:25,012 --> 00:15:26,261 Excuse me. 228 00:15:27,638 --> 00:15:30,849 And these are all the Civil Defence records of the area? 229 00:15:30,954 --> 00:15:31,975 - That's right, sir. - Yes, sir. 230 00:15:32,061 --> 00:15:33,977 - Breen, I'd like a word with you. - Just a moment. 231 00:15:34,063 --> 00:15:35,273 Now, you're quite certain? 232 00:15:35,396 --> 00:15:38,023 There were no HE bombs on the street above here, sir. 233 00:15:38,108 --> 00:15:39,941 Just a few incendiaries, 234 00:15:40,026 --> 00:15:42,445 and they only did damage because the houses were empty. 235 00:15:42,954 --> 00:15:44,027 Empty? 236 00:15:44,238 --> 00:15:46,823 Evacuated. Thank you, Sergeant. 237 00:15:46,909 --> 00:15:49,786 Come on, Potter. Let's have another look at this thing. 238 00:15:54,792 --> 00:15:56,877 Excuse me, sir, but that's not quite right. 239 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,128 Oh? Why? 240 00:15:58,212 --> 00:16:00,463 Those houses were all abandoned years before the war. 241 00:16:00,549 --> 00:16:02,757 - What on earth for? - Well, people just wouldn't live there. 242 00:16:02,843 --> 00:16:04,175 Some kind of scare. 243 00:16:04,218 --> 00:16:06,262 - Scare? - Superstition. 244 00:16:06,346 --> 00:16:08,138 A lot of nonsense, I dare say. 245 00:16:09,849 --> 00:16:13,477 There, that's done. Now, I do think you ought to get a breather. 246 00:16:13,561 --> 00:16:14,836 The air's terrible down here. 247 00:16:15,007 --> 00:16:17,442 All right, but just for a minute. 248 00:16:27,833 --> 00:16:30,536 ELLIS: These are the houses, sir. Or what's left of them. 249 00:16:31,163 --> 00:16:33,372 - They really are derelict. - Mmm. 250 00:16:33,415 --> 00:16:35,666 Give me that torch, will you? Thank you. 251 00:16:36,837 --> 00:16:39,620 I must warn you, these buildings aren't safe. 252 00:16:39,822 --> 00:16:40,590 Nevertheless... 253 00:16:46,387 --> 00:16:50,016 I've been reckoning it up. They must have been empty 40 years now. 254 00:16:50,099 --> 00:16:52,518 - Are you a local man? - Yes, sir. 255 00:16:52,603 --> 00:16:55,270 - Do you remember what happened? - Yes, I do. 256 00:16:55,355 --> 00:16:57,148 Oh, it was in all the papers. 257 00:16:57,607 --> 00:17:00,276 Of course, I was only a nipper at the time, 258 00:17:00,319 --> 00:17:02,593 but I knew a kid that lived in one of these houses. 259 00:17:04,281 --> 00:17:06,782 Things got so bad they had to clear out. 260 00:17:06,867 --> 00:17:07,866 What got bad? 261 00:17:10,371 --> 00:17:14,790 Noises, bumps, and even things being seen. 262 00:17:15,702 --> 00:17:16,933 You mean ghosts? 263 00:17:17,888 --> 00:17:20,430 (STAMMERING) I said it was a lot of nonsense, sir. 264 00:17:20,515 --> 00:17:24,310 But, you know how these tales run wild once they get started. 265 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:27,979 (CREAKING) 266 00:17:53,149 --> 00:17:54,899 Those marks. What could have made them? 267 00:17:55,693 --> 00:17:57,402 (PANTING NERVOUSLY) 268 00:17:57,778 --> 00:17:59,112 Kids, sir. 269 00:18:00,783 --> 00:18:03,199 Kids playing around made 'em. 270 00:18:15,063 --> 00:18:18,565 Sorry about that, sir. Must've been a bit warm inside there. 271 00:18:18,679 --> 00:18:20,500 Yes. Thank you. 272 00:18:28,144 --> 00:18:30,228 BREEN: Everything in order? POTTER: Yes, sir. 273 00:18:30,270 --> 00:18:33,607 Ah, Quatermass, I've decided to stay on this case for a day or so, 274 00:18:33,649 --> 00:18:35,567 - if you're agreeable. - Of course. 275 00:18:35,610 --> 00:18:36,943 You go back to the Rocket Group. 276 00:18:37,549 --> 00:18:38,728 I'll join you there later. 277 00:18:39,089 --> 00:18:42,086 As a matter of a fact, I'd like to hang on, too. 278 00:18:42,116 --> 00:18:43,989 - If you're agreeable. - As you wish. 279 00:18:44,341 --> 00:18:46,577 I've arranged for an extra squad to work all night. 280 00:18:46,739 --> 00:18:48,788 The entire missile should be exposed by the morning. 281 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,875 - Can I? - Oh, no, thanks. I'll find my own way. 282 00:18:51,992 --> 00:18:54,015 Sorry about the dinner. Some other time. 283 00:18:59,443 --> 00:19:00,985 (ENGINE STARTING) 284 00:19:01,496 --> 00:19:02,537 Miss Judd! 285 00:19:03,081 --> 00:19:04,955 We'd better get down and give your boss a hand. 286 00:19:05,041 --> 00:19:07,291 He'll be expected to get his gear away. 287 00:19:07,686 --> 00:19:09,311 BARBARA: Hob's Lane. 288 00:19:12,057 --> 00:19:13,544 QUATERMASS: They've changed the spelling. 289 00:19:13,887 --> 00:19:16,110 New one's like Hobbs the cricketer. 290 00:19:16,153 --> 00:19:17,653 But the old one... 291 00:19:18,904 --> 00:19:21,814 Hob was once a sort of nickname for the Devil. 292 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:40,718 Oh, Quatermass, come in. Come in. 293 00:19:42,304 --> 00:19:43,638 - Well... - QUATERMASS: Hmm. 294 00:19:43,723 --> 00:19:44,764 (ELECTRONIC PULSING) 295 00:19:44,807 --> 00:19:47,517 Our daily work. Business as usual, 296 00:19:47,810 --> 00:19:49,769 no matter what happens at Hobbs End. 297 00:19:49,811 --> 00:19:52,522 - Electronics? - We don't just dig with trowels, you know. 298 00:19:52,606 --> 00:19:54,566 Not all the time. Would you like some coffee? 299 00:19:54,608 --> 00:19:57,944 - Thanks. - Have you had a cup, Mr Johnson? 300 00:19:58,029 --> 00:20:00,446 - Yes, I have, thanks. - Don't nod. 301 00:20:00,865 --> 00:20:03,909 Mr Johnson's kindly obliging us for some tests. 302 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,578 You see, some of his skull dimensions happen to match 303 00:20:06,663 --> 00:20:09,540 those of our friend here who died in the second ice age. 304 00:20:09,582 --> 00:20:13,168 - I'm real primitive. - (LAUGHING) We all are, Mr Johnson. 305 00:20:13,211 --> 00:20:14,897 - Now, are you ready for another run? - Yes, sir. 306 00:20:15,038 --> 00:20:18,840 Right. Recorder on. 307 00:20:20,051 --> 00:20:21,885 (MACHINE CONTINUES PULSING) 308 00:20:21,969 --> 00:20:25,459 Oh, Mr Johnson, proceed with this puzzle, will you? 309 00:20:25,635 --> 00:20:26,911 That hook up, something special? 310 00:20:26,941 --> 00:20:29,322 RONEY: It can locate the minutest areas of the brain. 311 00:20:29,541 --> 00:20:32,973 We take readings and analyse them in the computer here. 312 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:35,453 We're gradually building up a picture 313 00:20:35,483 --> 00:20:37,987 of what that ice age man might have been able to think and do. 314 00:20:38,198 --> 00:20:40,143 The Roney Analysis. I like it. 315 00:20:40,670 --> 00:20:43,936 I'm hoping to apply it next to the Hobbs End skulls. 316 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,303 Of course, they're so much older. 317 00:20:46,453 --> 00:20:48,388 They'll have even fewer points of resemblance to... 318 00:20:48,696 --> 00:20:51,555 Well, to Mr Johnson, but we hope enough to... 319 00:20:51,585 --> 00:20:54,265 Roney, were they of this Earth? 320 00:20:54,671 --> 00:20:57,130 Ah, I see. That's what brought you here. 321 00:20:57,590 --> 00:20:58,409 Were they? 322 00:20:58,698 --> 00:21:03,970 I'm sorry to disappoint but the answer's only, "Yes, they were". 323 00:21:04,432 --> 00:21:06,850 They were earthly creatures as much as you or I. 324 00:21:06,934 --> 00:21:08,435 They were our remote ancestors 325 00:21:08,519 --> 00:21:12,147 but they themselves had ancestors going back as far as 30 million years. 326 00:21:12,189 --> 00:21:13,315 Well, how can you be sure? 327 00:21:14,191 --> 00:21:16,609 They fit into the known pattern of evolution. 328 00:21:16,694 --> 00:21:19,696 The only odd thing about them is the great size of the skull. 329 00:21:19,779 --> 00:21:24,409 I've got it all charted somewhere. Where the devil does she keep everything? 330 00:21:24,493 --> 00:21:25,535 QUATERMASS: Your Miss Judd? 331 00:21:25,620 --> 00:21:27,905 Yes. I told her to take the day off and get some rest. 332 00:21:28,037 --> 00:21:29,066 Well, I must be getting along. 333 00:21:29,172 --> 00:21:30,606 - To Hobbs End? - Yes. 334 00:21:31,257 --> 00:21:33,771 Look, I can't seem to lay my hands on it at the moment. 335 00:21:33,966 --> 00:21:36,052 I'll show you next time, for what it's worth. 336 00:21:36,157 --> 00:21:37,961 Next time, I'll have a lot more questions. 337 00:21:38,084 --> 00:21:39,888 Yes. They're piling up, aren't they? 338 00:21:41,395 --> 00:21:43,437 - Are you coming? - RONEY: I've been told to keep out of it. 339 00:21:43,522 --> 00:21:45,273 Your colleague doesn't like my face. 340 00:21:45,732 --> 00:21:48,025 - Colleague? - Your Colonel Breen. 341 00:21:48,527 --> 00:21:50,027 - Oh. - Anyway, it's mutual. 342 00:21:50,112 --> 00:21:52,721 I'm sorry, Quatermass, he's a type I loathe on sight. 343 00:21:53,062 --> 00:21:56,218 Full marks, Dr Roney. Well, it's a long story. 344 00:21:56,324 --> 00:21:58,703 I'll tell you sometime. 345 00:22:01,227 --> 00:22:03,740 Ah, Professor Quatermass. I've something to show you. 346 00:22:03,770 --> 00:22:05,248 I thought you were taking the day off. 347 00:22:05,397 --> 00:22:06,432 No, I was having these made. 348 00:22:06,462 --> 00:22:07,976 I'm sorry, I'm due at the excavation. 349 00:22:08,006 --> 00:22:09,383 Please read these first. 350 00:22:14,011 --> 00:22:16,606 - Photocopies. - From old newspaper files. 351 00:22:17,494 --> 00:22:19,333 "May 19th, 1927. 352 00:22:20,103 --> 00:22:23,729 "Hob's Lane spook. Figure that walked through a bedroom wall. " 353 00:22:25,233 --> 00:22:27,025 Why did you do this? 354 00:22:28,486 --> 00:22:31,238 Well, you seemed curious, too, last night. 355 00:22:31,738 --> 00:22:33,739 I've slept on it since. 356 00:22:33,783 --> 00:22:36,076 Look, read this one. 357 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,352 "The figure was small, " said Mr Parker. “Like a hideous dwarf. " 358 00:22:49,917 --> 00:22:54,128 No, my dear, we're both scientists. We simply can't pay regard to stuff like this. 359 00:22:54,171 --> 00:22:57,215 - The supernatural! - Professor Quatermass! 360 00:22:59,135 --> 00:23:00,677 "August, 1927. 361 00:23:01,679 --> 00:23:04,556 "Curious crowds at Hob's Lane became so large 362 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,642 "that work was held up on the new underground railway station. " 363 00:23:09,896 --> 00:23:11,336 Station. That's when they built it? 364 00:23:11,442 --> 00:23:14,441 They were digging near the same spot. 365 00:23:14,776 --> 00:23:16,110 (SPRAYING) 366 00:24:35,427 --> 00:24:37,345 - BREEN: Ah, good morning. - Good morning. 367 00:24:37,429 --> 00:24:41,015 You've been busy. You've cleaned out the inside. 368 00:24:41,099 --> 00:24:42,886 - Yes. - Find anything? 369 00:24:43,101 --> 00:24:45,019 - Only impacted clay. - Nothing else? 370 00:24:45,979 --> 00:24:49,523 No, it's been cleared inch by inch and finally hosed out with water. 371 00:24:49,983 --> 00:24:53,611 - So far, it seems to be just an empty shell. - Hmm, let me see. 372 00:24:53,654 --> 00:24:56,197 - Now, just a minute. - What's going on? 373 00:24:56,281 --> 00:24:57,281 A test. 374 00:24:59,419 --> 00:25:02,212 All right, Potter, that's got to be enough. 375 00:25:03,423 --> 00:25:05,924 - No effect, sir. - There's got to be. 376 00:25:09,595 --> 00:25:11,722 I don't understand that at all. 377 00:25:11,764 --> 00:25:14,391 The heat's been on that for a full five minutes and it's not even warm. 378 00:25:15,077 --> 00:25:17,078 POTTER: Do you want to try again, sir? 379 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:20,414 No. There's no chance of cutting a hole through that. 380 00:25:22,918 --> 00:25:24,835 We've found what seems to be a sealed compartment. 381 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,003 What? 382 00:25:29,341 --> 00:25:30,925 You'd better put some gloves on, sir. 383 00:25:30,967 --> 00:25:32,051 Why? 384 00:25:34,432 --> 00:25:39,517 The sergeant's got a touch of it, too. Like frostbite, mild though. 385 00:25:40,111 --> 00:25:41,904 Thank you, Sergeant. 386 00:25:41,988 --> 00:25:44,823 - From touching this? - I don't see how, sir. 387 00:25:45,658 --> 00:25:48,285 It's not cold, but... 388 00:26:01,608 --> 00:26:02,804 What's this? 389 00:26:02,910 --> 00:26:03,992 Oh, it's only our pump. 390 00:26:04,022 --> 00:26:05,936 We had a bit of a flood when we washed it down. 391 00:26:06,086 --> 00:26:09,431 Careful! It's like glass in here. 392 00:26:16,558 --> 00:26:19,192 I see. Blocked right across. 393 00:26:19,298 --> 00:26:19,966 Yes, sir. 394 00:26:20,116 --> 00:26:23,459 So, unless it's solid, there's something on the other side of that. 395 00:26:24,260 --> 00:26:26,609 It could be a warhead. 396 00:26:27,201 --> 00:26:28,785 (SCOFFING) Says Colonel Breen. 397 00:26:30,622 --> 00:26:33,853 - Hello, what made these marks? - Marks? 398 00:26:34,167 --> 00:26:36,961 Not us. This stuff's harder than diamond. We've tested. 399 00:26:37,003 --> 00:26:38,963 Well, there seem to be... 400 00:26:39,047 --> 00:26:42,424 Have you got a cloth? Something to wipe it down with. 401 00:26:53,411 --> 00:26:55,371 - Good grief! - They form a pattern. 402 00:26:56,756 --> 00:26:59,181 More exactly, they form a pentacle. 403 00:27:00,073 --> 00:27:02,966 One of the cabalistic signs used in ancient magic. 404 00:27:04,482 --> 00:27:07,829 I suppose I'd better mention this to the colonel? 405 00:27:09,070 --> 00:27:11,697 No. It wouldn't fit in with warheads. 406 00:27:19,857 --> 00:27:22,108 Sergeant, get this pump out of the way, will you? 407 00:27:22,191 --> 00:27:25,027 Sir. Right. Two men to shift the pump. 408 00:27:25,487 --> 00:27:27,613 West, inside and clear the hose. 409 00:27:34,263 --> 00:27:35,931 Look sharp, West. 410 00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:42,979 Resistant to heat of 3,000 degrees. Harder than diamond. 411 00:27:43,064 --> 00:27:46,316 Why, it's the material every rocket engineer's been looking for. 412 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:47,400 What are you trying to say? 413 00:27:47,485 --> 00:27:49,861 That the Germans didn't make this and then lose the secret. 414 00:27:49,904 --> 00:27:51,404 You ask Von Braun. 415 00:27:51,489 --> 00:27:53,240 If I can get through that bulkhead, I won't need... 416 00:27:53,324 --> 00:27:54,783 Try Borazon. 417 00:27:54,867 --> 00:27:57,714 It's a lot harder than diamond. Can you get hold of a Borazon drill? 418 00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:59,834 It would mean getting hold of a civilian operator. 419 00:27:59,864 --> 00:28:01,623 (WEST SCREAMING) 420 00:28:04,011 --> 00:28:05,386 POTTER: West! 421 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:12,068 (STAMMERING) It was... It was a figure. 422 00:28:13,979 --> 00:28:16,898 It went through. It went straight through the wall! 423 00:28:22,738 --> 00:28:25,156 I saw it! I saw it. 424 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,824 Horrible. Horrible. 425 00:28:26,909 --> 00:28:27,909 BREEN: Is he ill? QUATERMASS: He may be. 426 00:28:27,993 --> 00:28:29,369 CLEGHORN: All right, West. Take it easy, lad. 427 00:28:29,411 --> 00:28:32,705 I thought it was the wall shining and then it came straight at me. 428 00:28:32,748 --> 00:28:34,749 - Horrible! - Come on. 429 00:28:36,661 --> 00:28:38,662 Westie's got the horrors. 430 00:28:38,955 --> 00:28:42,792 - What did he see, sir? - Nothing. The confined space affected him. 431 00:28:42,876 --> 00:28:44,627 A man like that should never have been on this job. 432 00:28:44,711 --> 00:28:47,755 - Now pull yourself together, West. - Sergeant, that's not the way. 433 00:28:51,395 --> 00:28:54,620 - What did you see? - I don't know. 434 00:28:54,856 --> 00:28:56,910 You... You said a figure. 435 00:28:57,233 --> 00:28:59,234 Yes, sort of crooked. 436 00:28:59,318 --> 00:29:01,413 It went straight through. 437 00:29:01,529 --> 00:29:02,612 Here. 438 00:29:06,784 --> 00:29:09,161 It was horrible. Horrible! 439 00:29:09,203 --> 00:29:10,912 With its head tucked underneath its arm? 440 00:29:10,997 --> 00:29:12,038 Oh, shut up! 441 00:29:12,081 --> 00:29:16,668 I did see something, sir. I did, honest. It was little. 442 00:29:17,336 --> 00:29:19,963 "The figure was small, like a hideous dwarf. " 443 00:29:20,048 --> 00:29:21,631 Yeah, that's it. 444 00:29:22,534 --> 00:29:24,785 Here, what made you say that, miss? 445 00:29:24,870 --> 00:29:26,495 How did you know? 446 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:28,873 It's all right. Here. 447 00:29:31,877 --> 00:29:33,836 Get him away from here. He'd better go sick. 448 00:29:33,879 --> 00:29:35,379 Yes, I'll write a note to the MO. 449 00:29:35,465 --> 00:29:38,841 Captain Potter, he'd better not talk to the other men. 450 00:29:41,362 --> 00:29:42,696 POTTER: Come on. 451 00:29:43,715 --> 00:29:45,090 Do you mind? 452 00:29:45,133 --> 00:29:47,760 Normally, I don't before noon, but... 453 00:29:50,597 --> 00:29:51,638 Thanks. 454 00:29:55,810 --> 00:29:57,728 BREEN: Is that pump clear yet? GIBSON: Yes, sir. 455 00:29:57,771 --> 00:30:00,272 - Get rid of the oxyacetylene cutter. - Sir. 456 00:30:00,357 --> 00:30:02,691 Don't make any attempt to drill that bulkhead until I get back. 457 00:30:02,776 --> 00:30:05,110 - Where are you going? - To find something out. 458 00:30:10,033 --> 00:30:12,785 May I? I think we should follow this up. 459 00:30:25,293 --> 00:30:28,678 "Alarming noises and spectral appearances. September, 1 763. " 460 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,722 Listen. "Our informant further states 461 00:30:31,765 --> 00:30:35,593 "that grievous sounds emanating from the very earth 462 00:30:36,728 --> 00:30:40,982 "have so affrighted certain fellows employed in the digging of a well 463 00:30:41,066 --> 00:30:43,276 "that one is like to die mad. " 464 00:30:43,819 --> 00:30:46,738 Digging a well? Do any of the others mention that? 465 00:30:46,780 --> 00:30:48,156 Not so far. 466 00:30:49,575 --> 00:30:54,203 Stories, wild rumours. They believed in those days. 467 00:30:58,318 --> 00:31:00,194 I suppose it's possible for... 468 00:31:01,030 --> 00:31:02,904 For ghosts, let's use the word, 469 00:31:02,989 --> 00:31:06,908 to be phenomena that were badly observed and wrongly explained. 470 00:31:07,660 --> 00:31:08,869 Listen. 471 00:31:09,662 --> 00:31:11,955 "One inhabitant of Hob's Lane doth assert 472 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,125 "he hath oft espied the apparition of a hideous goblin. 473 00:31:15,419 --> 00:31:16,836 "And once, several. " 474 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,254 "Several"? 475 00:31:19,423 --> 00:31:22,925 "And that this place is long notorious for weird happenings. " 476 00:31:27,514 --> 00:31:28,891 Where next? 477 00:31:29,266 --> 00:31:32,810 (SIGHING) The archives of Westminster Abbey, I think. 478 00:31:35,064 --> 00:31:40,319 Uh, "In the winter of the year 1341, 479 00:31:40,651 --> 00:31:43,516 "the religious of that region 480 00:31:44,046 --> 00:31:47,451 "did strive against 481 00:31:47,493 --> 00:31:51,621 "an outbreak of evil at Hob's Lane. " 482 00:31:51,748 --> 00:31:54,166 Oh, please go on. My Latin's not up to it. 483 00:31:54,210 --> 00:31:56,293 Yeah. (CLEARING THROAT) 484 00:31:57,046 --> 00:32:00,923 "Imps and demons did appear. 485 00:32:02,801 --> 00:32:05,386 "Foul noises 486 00:32:06,764 --> 00:32:09,473 "sent by the Devil 487 00:32:10,725 --> 00:32:13,394 "did sorely afflict 488 00:32:13,436 --> 00:32:16,818 "the charcoal burners that had lately come there. " 489 00:32:16,926 --> 00:32:18,722 - Charcoal burners? - Yes. 490 00:32:19,694 --> 00:32:21,278 Yes, yes, that's right. 491 00:32:21,321 --> 00:32:23,322 They'd be felling trees. 492 00:32:23,823 --> 00:32:25,449 Big, heavy ones. 493 00:32:26,534 --> 00:32:28,953 In 1763, a well was being dug. 494 00:32:28,995 --> 00:32:31,455 In 1927, the underground station. 495 00:32:31,498 --> 00:32:33,582 And now the extension. 496 00:32:33,666 --> 00:32:36,001 All disturbances of the ground. 497 00:32:36,086 --> 00:32:40,505 "This has well been known as a troubled place. 498 00:32:41,024 --> 00:32:43,694 "It is said that, in the time of the Romans... " 499 00:32:43,735 --> 00:32:44,735 I'd better go. 500 00:32:44,821 --> 00:32:47,071 - I beg your pardon? - Oh, I have to leave now, 501 00:32:47,155 --> 00:32:48,865 but Miss Judd will stay on. 502 00:32:48,949 --> 00:32:51,367 Find out everything you can. Then collect Dr Roney. 503 00:32:51,411 --> 00:32:52,828 I think he should be in on this. 504 00:32:52,869 --> 00:32:54,370 Uh, many thanks. 505 00:33:06,301 --> 00:33:08,343 (GENERATOR ENGINE RUNNING) 506 00:33:13,224 --> 00:33:15,809 Hang it on the grille there, Sergeant. 507 00:33:16,936 --> 00:33:19,314 Ah, Professor, I've orders to let no one down there. 508 00:33:19,397 --> 00:33:21,815 - What's he doing? - He's got that drill set up, sir. 509 00:33:21,859 --> 00:33:22,984 The one you suggested. 510 00:33:23,068 --> 00:33:24,818 I asked him to wait. 511 00:33:25,653 --> 00:33:27,030 Powered from this, I suppose. 512 00:33:27,113 --> 00:33:29,823 Yes, sir. Better than the public supply, just in case. 513 00:33:29,908 --> 00:33:31,241 In case it blows up? 514 00:33:31,326 --> 00:33:33,077 That's why he won't let anyone down there, sir. 515 00:33:33,161 --> 00:33:35,288 Oh, very considerate of him. 516 00:33:36,423 --> 00:33:38,758 Oh, I reckon this little beauty would cut through anything. 517 00:33:38,843 --> 00:33:41,220 (REVVING DRILL) 518 00:33:41,679 --> 00:33:43,373 I did steel armour plate with it. Six inches thick. 519 00:33:43,499 --> 00:33:44,838 (WHISTLING) Just like that. 520 00:33:45,091 --> 00:33:47,426 Oh, it was legal. The bloke got shut in a strong room. 521 00:33:47,511 --> 00:33:49,011 (REVVING DRILL) 522 00:33:49,980 --> 00:33:51,397 But I got him out. 523 00:33:51,481 --> 00:33:53,983 It was a secret job, like this one. 524 00:33:54,359 --> 00:33:56,986 Then I'm glad you don't talk about it. 525 00:34:01,325 --> 00:34:02,325 Ah, Quatermass. 526 00:34:02,409 --> 00:34:04,536 Breen, I think we should hold everything for a time at least. 527 00:34:04,620 --> 00:34:06,037 I can explain. 528 00:34:06,121 --> 00:34:07,747 We're going ahead now. 529 00:34:09,083 --> 00:34:10,082 Hello, Potter? 530 00:34:10,167 --> 00:34:12,168 (GENERATOR ENGINE RUNNING) 531 00:34:12,211 --> 00:34:13,586 Right, sir. 532 00:34:21,771 --> 00:34:23,438 All clear! -Right. 533 00:34:24,565 --> 00:34:27,901 You can get clear if you want to. There's still time. 534 00:34:34,701 --> 00:34:35,826 Welcome aboard, mate. 535 00:34:37,704 --> 00:34:39,163 Have they started? 536 00:34:41,250 --> 00:34:42,291 That's it. 537 00:34:43,362 --> 00:34:45,695 Do you know what's inside there? 538 00:34:46,906 --> 00:34:49,699 Are you insured? I'm insured. 539 00:34:50,368 --> 00:34:52,077 It's a good thing to be insured. 540 00:34:52,162 --> 00:34:54,205 At least, it cheers you up. 541 00:34:55,456 --> 00:34:56,791 Okay, sir? 542 00:34:57,750 --> 00:35:00,585 Right, here we go. 543 00:35:20,941 --> 00:35:22,247 Try again. 544 00:35:41,127 --> 00:35:42,088 (DRILL POWERING DOWN) 545 00:35:49,195 --> 00:35:50,362 Try once more. 546 00:35:55,744 --> 00:35:56,994 (RUMBLING) 547 00:36:13,662 --> 00:36:14,704 Get back! 548 00:36:23,613 --> 00:36:25,409 The generator, knock it off! 549 00:36:36,352 --> 00:36:39,188 It wouldn't... It wouldn't... (COLONEL RETCHING) 550 00:36:40,859 --> 00:36:42,526 QUATERMASS: The best thing. 551 00:36:43,235 --> 00:36:45,696 You're shaken up. We all are. 552 00:36:45,780 --> 00:36:47,565 It was the vibration in there. 553 00:36:52,328 --> 00:36:56,372 Some sort of freak vibration. Must have been. 554 00:36:56,999 --> 00:36:59,000 - All right, Sladden? - Hmm. 555 00:37:02,381 --> 00:37:05,208 The drill, it wouldn't work. 556 00:37:07,385 --> 00:37:12,014 Roney, this sound, everything here, just like the old accounts. 557 00:37:12,057 --> 00:37:13,349 - Did she tell you? - Yes. 558 00:37:13,391 --> 00:37:15,476 - And there's a pentacle drawn inside there. - What? 559 00:37:15,561 --> 00:37:17,186 See for yourself. 560 00:37:17,646 --> 00:37:19,688 BREEN: As soon as you can. 561 00:37:20,007 --> 00:37:21,758 Thank you, Sergeant. 562 00:37:21,968 --> 00:37:25,221 I'm all right now, sir, if you want to have another bash. 563 00:37:25,263 --> 00:37:27,223 - Good man. - Breen, wait. 564 00:37:27,682 --> 00:37:29,308 We ought to have time to consider this. 565 00:37:29,392 --> 00:37:34,479 I have. We'll blanket down the sound with sandbags. 566 00:37:34,563 --> 00:37:38,775 I've ordered them down. I will cover up the polished surface. 567 00:37:38,859 --> 00:37:40,444 But it isn't as simple as that. 568 00:37:40,528 --> 00:37:41,570 RONEY: Quatermass. 569 00:37:47,285 --> 00:37:50,203 I thought you said the drill had no effect? 570 00:37:54,668 --> 00:37:56,121 Well, I never made that. 571 00:37:56,254 --> 00:37:58,505 What? But you must have. 572 00:37:58,589 --> 00:37:59,630 SLADDEN: I can't have done. 573 00:38:00,090 --> 00:38:02,675 That's much bigger than my drill bit. 574 00:38:03,552 --> 00:38:05,177 It doesn't look as if it was drilled at all. 575 00:38:05,746 --> 00:38:07,887 Looks more like melted. 576 00:38:08,082 --> 00:38:10,083 All right, Sladden, get out of here. 577 00:38:28,962 --> 00:38:30,255 Look out! 578 00:38:37,846 --> 00:38:38,929 The demons. 579 00:38:39,598 --> 00:38:40,723 QUATERMASS: Wait! 580 00:38:41,142 --> 00:38:43,352 It's all right. They're dead. 581 00:38:44,436 --> 00:38:46,312 They've been dead for a long time. 582 00:38:46,590 --> 00:38:48,131 RONEY: What are they? 583 00:38:48,217 --> 00:38:52,595 Whatever they are, they're decomposing fast. This is a job for you, I think. 584 00:38:52,678 --> 00:38:54,805 Yes. Barbara! 585 00:38:55,556 --> 00:38:57,015 Phone the Institute. 586 00:38:57,100 --> 00:38:59,267 Tell Klein... No, there isn't time. 587 00:38:59,353 --> 00:39:03,940 Just tell him to keep everybody standing by for the biggest job they've ever had. 588 00:39:04,024 --> 00:39:06,691 Phew! The stench! It is like rotting fish! 589 00:39:06,939 --> 00:39:08,062 Or locusts. 590 00:39:09,531 --> 00:39:12,366 I don't think I dare wait. They're corrupting so fast. Potter! 591 00:39:12,450 --> 00:39:13,616 Catching up on lost time. 592 00:39:15,118 --> 00:39:17,161 What do you mean by that? 593 00:39:17,247 --> 00:39:21,833 They were sealed in there till our atmosphere got in a few moments ago. 594 00:39:21,917 --> 00:39:23,585 Filthy London air. 595 00:39:24,294 --> 00:39:27,214 They might have stayed unchanged for a year, 596 00:39:27,757 --> 00:39:29,466 or a million years. 597 00:39:30,051 --> 00:39:31,510 And as quickly as you possibly can. 598 00:39:31,593 --> 00:39:32,928 Yes, Doctor. 599 00:39:32,971 --> 00:39:34,804 - CLEGHORN: What is it, sir? - Explanations later, Sergeant. 600 00:39:34,888 --> 00:39:36,264 They want planks and empty sandbags. 601 00:39:36,306 --> 00:39:37,723 - As many as you can find. - Right, sir. 602 00:39:38,643 --> 00:39:40,018 (CRACKLING) 603 00:39:41,397 --> 00:39:42,938 Give me a hand. 604 00:39:45,817 --> 00:39:48,570 - I can't guarantee my stomach. - Steady. 605 00:39:52,933 --> 00:39:55,017 Easy now. Got him. 606 00:40:28,492 --> 00:40:29,489 Oh, my God. 607 00:40:29,597 --> 00:40:31,340 Throw down something to put this on. 608 00:40:35,311 --> 00:40:36,519 And a sandbag. 609 00:40:51,494 --> 00:40:52,619 Easy. 610 00:40:59,002 --> 00:41:02,047 Take it up to the platform, will you? I'll fix it there. 611 00:41:03,965 --> 00:41:06,509 Don't just stand there. Give a hand! 612 00:41:09,555 --> 00:41:11,556 Hold it level. It's leaking. 613 00:41:26,514 --> 00:41:27,556 God. 614 00:41:30,810 --> 00:41:33,019 - What is it? - They don't know. 615 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,063 Where can it go? 616 00:41:35,774 --> 00:41:37,107 Oh, there. 617 00:41:41,546 --> 00:41:43,010 I'd better take a photograph of it. 618 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,797 - What are you using? - Number Four sealer. 619 00:42:06,881 --> 00:42:09,507 - Is it safe? - I'll have to risk that. 620 00:42:10,050 --> 00:42:13,929 If I can just save the shells and some body fluids for analysis. 621 00:42:14,339 --> 00:42:16,715 These shapes suggest some kind of 622 00:42:17,593 --> 00:42:19,636 apparatus, instruments. 623 00:42:21,013 --> 00:42:24,557 - Your imagination is running wild. - Isn't yours? 624 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:25,344 What? 625 00:42:26,419 --> 00:42:29,253 They don't seem to lead through anywhere. 626 00:42:30,173 --> 00:42:32,424 If there were once any external propulsion units, 627 00:42:32,467 --> 00:42:35,093 I don't see how they were controlled. 628 00:42:35,636 --> 00:42:36,927 Unless... 629 00:42:37,130 --> 00:42:40,381 Unless the missile itself did some of the thinking. 630 00:42:41,593 --> 00:42:42,869 You're mad! 631 00:42:43,021 --> 00:42:45,470 This substance isn't inert. Far from it. We know that. 632 00:42:45,554 --> 00:42:47,848 Don't tell me what I know! 633 00:42:47,891 --> 00:42:51,393 There's been enough nonsense talked about this... this thing. 634 00:42:51,435 --> 00:42:52,644 Dead for millions of years! 635 00:42:52,729 --> 00:42:55,772 I know the smell of death, believe me, and how short a time it lasts. 636 00:42:55,857 --> 00:42:57,752 - Have you got an explanation for all this? - Yes, I have. 637 00:42:57,782 --> 00:42:59,099 Then why not share it? 638 00:42:59,752 --> 00:43:01,254 When I choose. 639 00:43:01,754 --> 00:43:03,256 Gauze, quick! 640 00:43:12,809 --> 00:43:15,661 I want you to get some photographs of the compartment they were in. 641 00:43:15,859 --> 00:43:17,354 - Of course. - It's all dropping to powder. 642 00:43:17,397 --> 00:43:20,106 Soon, there'll be nothing to prove we ever saw it. 643 00:44:40,458 --> 00:44:42,459 Do you classify them as insects? 644 00:44:42,544 --> 00:44:43,710 Arthropods. 645 00:44:44,670 --> 00:44:48,298 Nice, general term, covers all the crabs and spiders, too. 646 00:44:48,882 --> 00:44:51,551 Except that no Earthly ones ever had that tripod leg arrangement. 647 00:44:53,304 --> 00:44:55,931 The horned demons in those old prints. 648 00:44:56,724 --> 00:44:59,351 - Roney, this image... - Rather pretty. 649 00:44:59,394 --> 00:45:01,477 It's like a gargoyle. I mean, in fact. 650 00:45:01,563 --> 00:45:04,633 Haven't you seen it carved in walls in a dozen countries? 651 00:45:04,786 --> 00:45:06,510 Hidden in the depths of all our minds, 652 00:45:07,058 --> 00:45:08,522 a race memory. 653 00:45:09,306 --> 00:45:10,141 RONEY: Got it! 654 00:45:10,698 --> 00:45:11,830 Look at this. 655 00:45:12,764 --> 00:45:16,177 A cave painting of 30,000 years ago. A man in a ritual mask. 656 00:45:17,028 --> 00:45:20,031 I wonder where he dreamed up the idea of that. 657 00:45:21,659 --> 00:45:22,405 Thanks. 658 00:45:25,540 --> 00:45:26,195 Hmm. 659 00:45:28,541 --> 00:45:32,252 You know, I think these are old friends we haven't seen for a time. 660 00:45:32,336 --> 00:45:34,767 Weight and structure point to low gravity environment. 661 00:45:35,674 --> 00:45:36,887 A thin atmosphere. 662 00:45:37,354 --> 00:45:39,465 Perhaps a world that's dead now, 663 00:45:39,938 --> 00:45:42,597 but a few million years ago could have been teeming with life. 664 00:45:44,097 --> 00:45:45,183 I wonder. 665 00:45:45,888 --> 00:45:49,139 A name that's been nearly worn out before anything turned up to claim it. 666 00:45:50,415 --> 00:45:52,211 Was this really a Martian? 667 00:45:55,319 --> 00:45:56,485 (REPORTERS CLAMOURING) 668 00:45:56,528 --> 00:45:59,655 ATTENDANT: I'm sorry. The Institute's closed. 669 00:46:06,172 --> 00:46:08,969 It's the same round the main door. They got us in a state of siege. 670 00:46:09,301 --> 00:46:10,064 (DOOR OPENING) 671 00:46:11,027 --> 00:46:13,446 Miss Judd, can you do something about this? 672 00:46:13,529 --> 00:46:16,866 Get Dr Roney to call 'em off, or we'll be needing the police. 673 00:46:16,908 --> 00:46:18,075 I'll see what I can do. 674 00:46:18,159 --> 00:46:20,286 And there were how many of these ape creatures? 675 00:46:20,370 --> 00:46:23,372 Seven. Well, six at least we found. 676 00:46:23,415 --> 00:46:25,624 Apes with oversized craniums. 677 00:46:26,209 --> 00:46:28,112 Some faculties had developed in them, 678 00:46:28,310 --> 00:46:29,550 or had been developed. 679 00:46:29,980 --> 00:46:31,106 What? 680 00:46:31,691 --> 00:46:34,608 The will to survive. It's an odd phenomenon. 681 00:46:35,528 --> 00:46:38,612 Roney, if we found that our Earth was doomed, 682 00:46:38,698 --> 00:46:41,543 say by climatic changes, what would we do about it? 683 00:46:41,926 --> 00:46:44,595 Nothing. Just go on squabbling, as usual. 684 00:46:44,637 --> 00:46:46,512 Yes, but if we weren't men? 685 00:46:47,476 --> 00:46:48,518 I'm sorry to interrupt. 686 00:46:48,767 --> 00:46:50,726 Is it possible to give out a statement of some kind? 687 00:46:50,809 --> 00:46:52,492 The crowd outside's getting huge and a bit ugly. 688 00:46:52,955 --> 00:46:54,129 Are those the photographs you took? 689 00:46:54,159 --> 00:46:54,981 Yes. 690 00:46:55,481 --> 00:46:57,774 Right. Let's show them. 691 00:46:57,818 --> 00:46:59,150 Good idea. 692 00:47:01,405 --> 00:47:03,823 NEWSREADER ON RADIO: "The discovery might have some astounding implications, " 693 00:47:03,865 --> 00:47:05,324 added Professor Quatermass. 694 00:47:05,409 --> 00:47:08,868 But, for the moment, he could not say what these were. 695 00:47:09,663 --> 00:47:11,705 (HORN BLARING) 696 00:47:13,701 --> 00:47:17,287 You can't go down there, sir, but you can read all about it. 697 00:47:17,371 --> 00:47:18,871 (HORN HONKING) 698 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,507 Professor Quatermass, sir. 699 00:47:36,550 --> 00:47:38,235 The Minister's waiting. 700 00:47:39,070 --> 00:47:40,438 He's not pleased. 701 00:47:43,789 --> 00:47:46,349 (PHONE RINGING) 702 00:47:48,307 --> 00:47:50,013 HOWELL: Hello, Minister's Office. 703 00:47:51,253 --> 00:47:52,241 Good afternoon, sir. 704 00:47:52,537 --> 00:47:54,643 Professor, what you've done appals me. 705 00:47:54,726 --> 00:47:57,019 It's the PM's private secretary. 706 00:47:57,730 --> 00:48:00,065 Sorry, still not available. Try again in 20 minutes. 707 00:48:00,148 --> 00:48:02,651 Now, it's the PM and the Home Office 708 00:48:02,734 --> 00:48:04,861 badgering about cordons and special police action. 709 00:48:04,946 --> 00:48:06,153 - (PHONE RINGING) - Kill that thing! 710 00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:07,989 HOWELL: Sorry, the Minister is not available. 711 00:48:08,032 --> 00:48:10,449 Now, before they pull a special cabinet meeting on me, 712 00:48:10,492 --> 00:48:12,577 I should like to have just a few answers ready. 713 00:48:14,022 --> 00:48:15,231 How much do you know? 714 00:48:16,942 --> 00:48:18,775 Something from Colonel Breen and 715 00:48:19,820 --> 00:48:20,903 what I've read in these. 716 00:48:22,382 --> 00:48:24,663 - Why did you do it? - People wanted to know. 717 00:48:24,780 --> 00:48:27,636 So you talked. Without authority or consultation. 718 00:48:27,745 --> 00:48:29,050 Whose authority? 719 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:30,914 This department's. 720 00:48:30,998 --> 00:48:33,458 It didn't seem to me to concern the Ministry of Defence. 721 00:48:33,542 --> 00:48:34,583 We'll see about that. 722 00:48:35,737 --> 00:48:36,698 Now, 723 00:48:38,468 --> 00:48:40,129 "Astounding implications. " 724 00:48:40,300 --> 00:48:42,166 - (PHONE RINGING) - Cut that off! 725 00:48:42,277 --> 00:48:44,528 HOWELL: No more calls till further notice. 726 00:48:44,612 --> 00:48:46,280 What did you mean by that? 727 00:48:46,364 --> 00:48:50,996 Dr Roney and I are satisfied that these arthropods are not of this Earth. 728 00:48:52,437 --> 00:48:53,938 So I gathered. 729 00:48:56,525 --> 00:48:59,110 You've been busy hinting at Mars. 730 00:49:01,405 --> 00:49:03,781 Mars is dead. 731 00:49:04,283 --> 00:49:07,076 Nothing there but a few scraps of lichen. 732 00:49:07,369 --> 00:49:10,007 Five million years ago it may have been very different. 733 00:49:10,373 --> 00:49:13,208 Suppose, at that time, there were living beings on it 734 00:49:13,292 --> 00:49:15,543 with techniques that enabled them to visit the Earth. 735 00:49:15,628 --> 00:49:19,088 At a time when the most highly-evolved creatures here, 736 00:49:19,173 --> 00:49:20,022 our own ancestors, 737 00:49:20,258 --> 00:49:22,783 were only a type of Pliocene ape. 738 00:49:24,053 --> 00:49:25,136 Go on. 739 00:49:25,221 --> 00:49:27,181 They may have wanted to found another colony 740 00:49:27,223 --> 00:49:29,391 when their own world was doomed, 741 00:49:29,476 --> 00:49:31,059 but couldn't endure our atmosphere. 742 00:49:31,519 --> 00:49:33,728 - So they experimented. - Experimented? 743 00:49:34,189 --> 00:49:37,608 The man apes found beside the missile were abnormal. 744 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,861 Oh, and the insects were responsible. 745 00:49:42,104 --> 00:49:43,940 QUATERMASS: There's clearly some connection. 746 00:49:44,266 --> 00:49:48,812 My guess is that those were ape mutations being brought back for release on Earth. 747 00:49:49,355 --> 00:49:51,480 BREEN: And you really believe that this was possible? 748 00:49:51,524 --> 00:49:56,945 That apes were systematically taken from this planet to another and... 749 00:49:56,987 --> 00:49:59,612 Altered by selective breeding, 750 00:50:00,091 --> 00:50:02,800 atomic surgery, methods we can't guess. 751 00:50:03,219 --> 00:50:07,055 And returned with new faculties instilled in them. 752 00:50:07,681 --> 00:50:09,349 High intelligence. 753 00:50:10,809 --> 00:50:11,852 Perhaps something else. 754 00:50:12,971 --> 00:50:15,783 In effect, a colonisation. 755 00:50:16,391 --> 00:50:18,976 It'd be a way of possessing the Earth. 756 00:50:19,019 --> 00:50:22,398 Only a colony by proxy, but better than leaving nothing at all behind. 757 00:50:22,641 --> 00:50:26,826 Surely, it would have had to be carried out on a huge scale? 758 00:50:27,293 --> 00:50:28,311 Yes, if I'm right... 759 00:50:28,938 --> 00:50:32,440 If I'm right, we've just come on a single instance. 760 00:50:32,942 --> 00:50:36,111 Probably an accident, a landing that went wrong and they all died. 761 00:50:37,196 --> 00:50:39,280 The Thames Valley was swamp then. 762 00:50:39,323 --> 00:50:40,802 You realise what you're implying? 763 00:50:41,673 --> 00:50:47,872 That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects! 764 00:50:49,847 --> 00:50:51,060 I suppose I am. 765 00:50:51,500 --> 00:50:53,584 So that's your great theory? 766 00:50:53,930 --> 00:50:57,517 And for that we've had all this splutter and alarm and... 767 00:50:57,893 --> 00:50:59,143 (SIGHING) 768 00:51:00,395 --> 00:51:03,317 Well, at least we can let the Home Secretary off his beat now. 769 00:51:03,443 --> 00:51:04,479 - Get him? - Yes. 770 00:51:07,712 --> 00:51:10,088 I wanted to hear you first. 771 00:51:10,130 --> 00:51:11,839 Ministry of Defence here. Howell speaking. 772 00:51:11,924 --> 00:51:14,926 - Give me the Home Secretary. - Breen, tell him. 773 00:51:15,887 --> 00:51:16,875 Tell him! 774 00:51:17,305 --> 00:51:19,473 I told you I had an explanation. 775 00:51:19,557 --> 00:51:20,808 The Germans in 1944. 776 00:51:20,850 --> 00:51:22,893 Breen, you can't be still hanging on to that. 777 00:51:22,977 --> 00:51:24,532 Professor Quatermass. 778 00:51:24,813 --> 00:51:27,940 You are an expert in certain fields, I in others. 779 00:51:27,982 --> 00:51:31,819 One of my specialisations is weapons, and another, military propaganda. 780 00:51:31,861 --> 00:51:33,862 So, kindly allow me my opinion without interrupting. 781 00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,983 I think that when the Germans were losing the war, 782 00:51:37,066 --> 00:51:38,985 they tried a propaganda scare. 783 00:51:39,068 --> 00:51:41,342 They sent over an experimental V weapon 784 00:51:41,576 --> 00:51:45,555 in order to produce exactly the effect it has produced, 785 00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,111 thanks to your help. 786 00:51:48,529 --> 00:51:51,148 Though, a little late for their purpose. 787 00:51:51,282 --> 00:51:53,241 - And what about the arthropods? - Fakes. 788 00:51:53,658 --> 00:51:56,012 Put there as a circumstantial touch. 789 00:51:56,398 --> 00:51:59,416 Like fairground mermaids, made up of old scraps of skin and bone. 790 00:51:59,641 --> 00:52:00,945 It's the oldest trick in the business. 791 00:52:01,251 --> 00:52:03,128 - MINISTER: Hello, John. - No, sir, wait. 792 00:52:03,411 --> 00:52:04,870 You must hear expert testimony. 793 00:52:04,913 --> 00:52:07,371 I have. Is that missile safe? 794 00:52:07,457 --> 00:52:08,582 Thoroughly checked. 795 00:52:08,666 --> 00:52:10,667 - MINISTER: No danger to the public? - None, I'm certain. 796 00:52:12,079 --> 00:52:14,497 Hello, John? I'm sorry you've been led such a dance. 797 00:52:14,581 --> 00:52:16,248 It's all over now. 798 00:52:18,502 --> 00:52:21,170 Well, it was nothing but a gigantic false alarm. 799 00:52:21,588 --> 00:52:24,632 LOUDSPEAKER: Move along. Move along. 800 00:52:26,001 --> 00:52:28,378 This is an official statement. 801 00:52:29,046 --> 00:52:33,049 In spite of incorrect news stories published earlier, 802 00:52:33,801 --> 00:52:40,640 the missile found here is believed to be a German propaganda weapon of the last war. 803 00:52:41,923 --> 00:52:45,126 It has now been dealt with and is not dangerous. 804 00:52:45,855 --> 00:52:48,565 Repeat, there is no danger. 805 00:52:48,984 --> 00:52:51,735 A full statement will be issued shortly. 806 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:53,483 Now move along please. 807 00:52:53,726 --> 00:52:56,240 REPORTER: Inspector, can we go down there and take a look? 808 00:52:56,325 --> 00:52:59,410 Tomorrow. It'll be wide open to all you boys then. 809 00:52:59,453 --> 00:53:01,245 Press, TV, the lot. 810 00:53:02,873 --> 00:53:06,083 These bloody sacks. Couldn't we have forgotten them, Sarge? 811 00:53:06,126 --> 00:53:08,586 No, Army property, very precious. 812 00:53:12,959 --> 00:53:15,043 Well, you might have let me know you were packing up. 813 00:53:15,086 --> 00:53:16,670 I told you, I was only round the caff. 814 00:53:16,712 --> 00:53:19,381 Very sorry, sir. I didn't want to interrupt your tea break. 815 00:53:19,465 --> 00:53:21,729 Oh, that's all right, my man. I'll overlook it this time. 816 00:53:22,051 --> 00:53:24,219 Well, I'd better get my stuff out then. 817 00:53:25,513 --> 00:53:28,932 Hey, come off it. My tool box. 818 00:53:29,642 --> 00:53:32,186 - Bloody Army! - Right, let's go home. 819 00:53:36,107 --> 00:53:38,066 (HUMMING) 820 00:53:44,060 --> 00:53:48,243 Uh-oh, where was Moses when the lights went out? 821 00:53:50,088 --> 00:53:51,591 In the flippin' dark. 822 00:53:57,237 --> 00:53:58,863 (RESUMES HUMMING) 823 00:54:15,422 --> 00:54:16,798 (WHISTLING) 824 00:54:19,261 --> 00:54:20,386 Excuse me. 825 00:54:20,429 --> 00:54:22,763 Uh, sorry, miss. The station's closed till tomorrow. 826 00:54:22,806 --> 00:54:25,600 But I must go in. I left a microscope and a box of slides down there. 827 00:54:25,934 --> 00:54:27,602 There's only the emergency lights left on now. 828 00:54:28,145 --> 00:54:31,272 I won't be a moment. Please, I must have them. 829 00:54:31,774 --> 00:54:33,566 All right, miss. I'll wait for you. 830 00:54:33,609 --> 00:54:34,693 Thank you. 831 00:54:59,468 --> 00:55:01,469 (RUMBLING) 832 00:55:33,419 --> 00:55:34,919 (WIND HOWLING) 833 00:57:00,299 --> 00:57:02,759 Hey, what's going on here? 834 00:57:03,303 --> 00:57:05,428 Hey! What's going on? 835 00:57:15,566 --> 00:57:17,482 (CHOIR SINGING RELIGIOUS MUSIC) 836 00:57:34,126 --> 00:57:36,251 (LOUD RHYTHMIC RUMBLING) 837 00:58:00,826 --> 00:58:03,327 Professor Quatermass? He's in here. 838 00:58:14,381 --> 00:58:16,174 SLADDEN: Hello, miss. 839 00:58:17,426 --> 00:58:18,593 Hello. 840 00:58:22,848 --> 00:58:24,933 - Have you called a doctor? - No. 841 00:58:25,017 --> 00:58:26,142 When I heard those sounds, 842 00:58:26,185 --> 00:58:30,521 I asked Mr Edwards, the choirmaster, to go and to dismiss the choir. 843 00:58:31,190 --> 00:58:33,858 I knew I must stay alone with this man. 844 00:58:34,986 --> 00:58:38,361 I felt sure he had been in contact with spiritual evil. 845 00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:40,857 I'll have to question him. 846 00:58:40,942 --> 00:58:41,983 Perhaps tomorrow. 847 00:58:42,026 --> 00:58:45,112 No, there may be danger, in waiting, to others. 848 00:58:50,010 --> 00:58:51,260 Sladden? 849 00:58:52,639 --> 00:58:54,680 Can you say what happened 850 00:58:55,808 --> 00:58:57,850 tonight in the excavation? 851 00:58:59,102 --> 00:59:01,103 You remember being there? 852 00:59:01,563 --> 00:59:03,254 Well, you stayed to dismantle some equipment. 853 00:59:04,141 --> 00:59:06,585 You were hurt by something flying through the air. 854 00:59:08,105 --> 00:59:11,690 Do you remember objects doing that? Moving by themselves? 855 00:59:11,941 --> 00:59:13,066 (SCREAMING) 856 00:59:14,902 --> 00:59:18,279 I had to run, to get away. They were coming. 857 00:59:18,657 --> 00:59:19,739 Who? What were? 858 00:59:19,783 --> 00:59:21,282 Them. Them! 859 00:59:21,367 --> 00:59:22,952 No more, please! 860 00:59:23,661 --> 00:59:27,330 I remember it started and then I could only see them 861 00:59:27,665 --> 00:59:31,710 like you found down there. With the eyes and horns and... 862 00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,053 He saw the creatures. 863 00:59:34,215 --> 00:59:36,832 SLADDEN: (WAILING) And they were alive! 864 00:59:36,875 --> 00:59:38,167 Alive? 865 00:59:38,209 --> 00:59:41,587 Hopping, like very fast, 866 00:59:41,671 --> 00:59:43,714 and hundreds and hundreds! 867 00:59:43,799 --> 00:59:46,058 And I knew I was one. 868 00:59:46,525 --> 00:59:47,432 How did they move? 869 00:59:47,703 --> 00:59:50,622 Jumping, leaping. 870 00:59:50,665 --> 00:59:52,290 - Let him alone! - Where? 871 00:59:52,333 --> 00:59:56,295 In and out. Them big places. In and out of them. 872 00:59:56,325 --> 01:00:00,025 Oh, huge! Right up in the sky! 873 01:00:00,456 --> 01:00:04,135 The sky? What colour is it? Blue? 874 01:00:05,639 --> 01:00:06,638 No. 875 01:00:08,131 --> 01:00:10,350 Dark. 876 01:00:14,598 --> 01:00:15,806 Purple. 877 01:00:23,690 --> 01:00:24,775 (WIND HOWLING) 878 01:00:40,191 --> 01:00:43,203 VICAR: You should have left him alone. He isn't free of it yet. 879 01:00:43,930 --> 01:00:46,400 - Perhaps it was always in him. - What do you mean? 880 01:00:47,884 --> 01:00:49,341 In all of us. 881 01:00:50,844 --> 01:00:53,387 An inheritance of dormant faculties. 882 01:00:53,805 --> 01:00:56,297 Clairvoyance, telekinesis. 883 01:00:56,809 --> 01:01:00,853 Scientific terms to explain it all away. 884 01:01:01,430 --> 01:01:05,433 On the contrary, I agree with you. What's been uncovered is evil. 885 01:01:05,852 --> 01:01:08,770 As anciently diabolic as anything on record. 886 01:01:08,931 --> 01:01:10,916 I think what he gave us just now 887 01:01:12,058 --> 01:01:15,353 was a vision of life on Mars five million years ago. 888 01:01:17,146 --> 01:01:20,398 That and the unconscious ability to cause movement. 889 01:01:21,234 --> 01:01:25,237 They're old powers that can be awakened somehow by the thing in the pit. 890 01:01:26,097 --> 01:01:29,055 Shouldn't we tell the Ministry? Warn them? 891 01:01:30,810 --> 01:01:32,645 They wouldn't listen. 892 01:01:33,648 --> 01:01:35,690 We're going to need proof. 893 01:01:37,192 --> 01:01:39,653 - Have you the keys to the Institute? - Yes. 894 01:01:39,737 --> 01:01:41,863 Good. We'll work from there. 895 01:01:42,948 --> 01:01:44,991 QUATERMASS: Is that the Rocket Group? 896 01:01:45,034 --> 01:01:47,160 Right. It's Quatermass here. 897 01:01:48,279 --> 01:01:51,365 No, no, no. This is Professor Quatermass speaking. 898 01:01:51,449 --> 01:01:53,533 Now put me on to Mr Watson. 899 01:01:54,828 --> 01:01:57,704 I know he's in bed. Just stir him up. 900 01:01:57,788 --> 01:01:59,040 What's all this about? 901 01:01:59,123 --> 01:02:00,208 Oh, thanks for coming. 902 01:02:00,291 --> 01:02:02,210 I'm afraid I've been grubbing about in your workshop already. 903 01:02:02,293 --> 01:02:04,085 There's something we can do. 904 01:02:04,128 --> 01:02:06,671 Oh, Jerry? Well, wake up. 905 01:02:06,757 --> 01:02:09,752 Now, listen, I want you to bring some gear to London right away. 906 01:02:09,860 --> 01:02:11,387 The special video signal stuff. 907 01:02:11,602 --> 01:02:14,406 As follows. Yes. Now, better take notes. 908 01:02:14,489 --> 01:02:16,198 - (MACHINE HUMMING) - QUATERMASS: Well, Jerry? 909 01:02:16,283 --> 01:02:17,992 Not a sausage. 910 01:02:18,076 --> 01:02:20,954 No wonder, after bumping the stuff over half the roads in the country. 911 01:02:20,997 --> 01:02:22,496 It's delicate. 912 01:02:22,581 --> 01:02:25,145 Miss, are you sure we're still locked on to those settings? 913 01:02:25,827 --> 01:02:29,288 BARBARA: Quite sure. The signals are still coming through here all right. 914 01:02:29,330 --> 01:02:30,998 I'll check the positive feedback. 915 01:02:31,081 --> 01:02:32,290 Maybe it's Roney. 916 01:02:32,332 --> 01:02:33,542 What do you want me to do? 917 01:02:33,625 --> 01:02:36,544 Ah, just go to sleep. You've been saying for hours how tired you are. 918 01:02:36,628 --> 01:02:38,130 You should have got our friend Johnson. 919 01:02:38,173 --> 01:02:40,594 You can practically read his mind without gadgets. 920 01:02:43,111 --> 01:02:44,904 Are you still hopeful? 921 01:02:45,197 --> 01:02:46,322 He thinks it might work. 922 01:02:47,241 --> 01:02:49,658 Your apparatus to locate the brain centres, 923 01:02:49,743 --> 01:02:50,849 ours to translate signals. 924 01:02:51,738 --> 01:02:52,780 If it does, you're... 925 01:02:54,307 --> 01:02:56,640 You're going to try and repeat what Sladden went through? 926 01:02:57,601 --> 01:02:58,642 Experimentally. 927 01:03:01,478 --> 01:03:03,373 You said these faculties may be in all of us. 928 01:03:04,350 --> 01:03:06,476 Poltergeist outbreaks. Second sight. 929 01:03:06,936 --> 01:03:10,146 They've been recorded the world over, throughout the ages. 930 01:03:10,189 --> 01:03:13,650 Myths, magic, even witchcraft. 931 01:03:14,269 --> 01:03:16,645 Perhaps they all came from there. 932 01:03:17,814 --> 01:03:19,440 So as far as anybody is, 933 01:03:20,483 --> 01:03:21,984 we're the Martians now? 934 01:03:34,572 --> 01:03:36,270 The unconscious vision centres. 935 01:03:46,051 --> 01:03:49,346 Better shut the grille. Keep any nosy parkers out. 936 01:04:03,653 --> 01:04:05,445 (MACHINE POWERING UP) 937 01:04:08,158 --> 01:04:10,077 When the light flickers, switch off. 938 01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:11,161 Right. 939 01:04:12,798 --> 01:04:14,957 It seems to draw energy from any source. 940 01:04:14,998 --> 01:04:17,333 But more so from that generator. 941 01:04:17,794 --> 01:04:19,377 Perhaps by induction. 942 01:04:19,462 --> 01:04:21,546 RONEY: Hold still a minute. 943 01:04:24,533 --> 01:04:25,509 Right. 944 01:04:25,802 --> 01:04:27,260 Now you'll do exactly what Sladden did. 945 01:04:28,353 --> 01:04:31,223 - Once the generator goes off, I use this. - Yes. 946 01:04:36,478 --> 01:04:38,105 (MACHINE HUMMING) 947 01:04:38,456 --> 01:04:40,040 Now, back here for you, my dear. 948 01:04:40,124 --> 01:04:42,667 But if there's anything to photograph... 949 01:04:42,710 --> 01:04:44,711 It'll keep. Right. 950 01:04:45,038 --> 01:04:47,957 Now then, let's get a true reading. 951 01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:49,583 All signals spot on. 952 01:04:49,668 --> 01:04:52,753 - Hmm. When the generator cuts... - We run on the batteries. 953 01:04:52,838 --> 01:04:55,368 No, I mean, when it cuts, there may not be much time. 954 01:04:55,664 --> 01:04:56,527 I see. 955 01:04:56,661 --> 01:04:57,452 Ready? 956 01:05:01,888 --> 01:05:03,639 (GENERATOR RUNNING) 957 01:05:19,531 --> 01:05:21,407 (DISTANT RUMBLING) 958 01:05:35,424 --> 01:05:37,634 Not a thing showing, not a damned thing. 959 01:05:37,718 --> 01:05:39,510 But it's started. Listen to it down there. 960 01:05:39,553 --> 01:05:41,554 - Shh! - QUATERMASS: Roney! 961 01:05:41,639 --> 01:05:44,266 I'm getting no visual impression. 962 01:05:44,349 --> 01:05:47,105 I'll try a bit longer but I don't think it's operating through me. 963 01:05:47,135 --> 01:05:49,467 Quatermass, try... 964 01:05:50,779 --> 01:05:52,171 Did you get that? 965 01:05:52,279 --> 01:05:53,752 - Yes, yes. - Wait. 966 01:05:54,666 --> 01:05:55,968 - Now. - Yes, Quatermass. 967 01:06:18,933 --> 01:06:20,182 It's getting too much for me. 968 01:06:20,379 --> 01:06:22,088 We're not getting you. Shout louder. 969 01:06:22,131 --> 01:06:25,780 I'll have to come out of here. It's getting too much for me. 970 01:06:26,511 --> 01:06:27,552 I'm coming out! 971 01:06:30,139 --> 01:06:31,348 Let me. 972 01:06:33,393 --> 01:06:35,311 - I can see. - Barbara! 973 01:06:35,853 --> 01:06:37,062 Quatermass, what's happening? 974 01:06:37,321 --> 01:06:39,364 Roney, it's Barbara. She's the one! 975 01:06:39,407 --> 01:06:41,200 Get down here, quick. 976 01:06:41,909 --> 01:06:42,952 I can see. 977 01:06:44,037 --> 01:06:45,328 Try this. 978 01:06:52,087 --> 01:06:53,879 I can see. I can see! 979 01:06:58,010 --> 01:06:59,427 (CLANGING) 980 01:07:02,498 --> 01:07:04,290 I can... I can... 981 01:07:05,251 --> 01:07:06,335 I can see. 982 01:07:18,390 --> 01:07:19,848 She's getting something! 983 01:07:33,404 --> 01:07:34,655 (EXCLAIMING) 984 01:07:46,018 --> 01:07:47,853 (SCREAMING HYSTERICALLY) 985 01:07:48,980 --> 01:07:51,315 Hold me! 986 01:07:53,150 --> 01:07:55,569 Hold me! Hold me! 987 01:07:56,362 --> 01:07:57,613 (WAILING) 988 01:08:01,622 --> 01:08:03,760 You're all right. You're all right. Well done. 989 01:08:22,110 --> 01:08:26,026 Well, did you manage to get it? 990 01:08:26,056 --> 01:08:30,397 Yes. I saw them too, on the monitor. 991 01:08:34,453 --> 01:08:38,413 Good. I think now we may have something to show Colonel Breen. 992 01:08:39,785 --> 01:08:42,959 What you're about to see is a memory. 993 01:08:43,094 --> 01:08:47,223 Stored for millions of years in the very substance of that hull, 994 01:08:47,307 --> 01:08:51,519 and now picked up by the susceptible brain of this young woman here. 995 01:08:51,603 --> 01:08:54,314 Highly receptive, like the man Sladden. 996 01:08:54,357 --> 01:08:56,212 - More than most of us. - And what do you claim this will show? 997 01:08:56,526 --> 01:08:59,904 A race purge. A cleansing of the Martian hives. 998 01:08:59,988 --> 01:09:01,364 Tape ready? 999 01:09:04,701 --> 01:10:11,516 (PROJECTOR CLICKING) 1000 01:10:16,209 --> 01:10:17,626 (SIGHING) 1001 01:10:25,294 --> 01:10:27,086 Yes. (CLEARING THROAT) 1002 01:10:28,599 --> 01:10:29,470 Most curious. 1003 01:10:29,590 --> 01:10:33,175 Those were like the creatures you found? 1004 01:10:33,260 --> 01:10:34,301 The same. 1005 01:10:34,844 --> 01:10:37,804 You saw that they were killing and being killed. 1006 01:10:37,890 --> 01:10:40,932 I think we may have witnessed ritual slaughter, 1007 01:10:40,976 --> 01:10:44,936 to preserve a fixed society, to rid it of mutations. 1008 01:10:45,022 --> 01:10:46,147 Good heavens! 1009 01:10:46,231 --> 01:10:47,607 That's the way they lived. 1010 01:10:47,691 --> 01:10:50,609 And it's the way they intended their substitutes on Earth to live. 1011 01:10:50,694 --> 01:10:51,861 Not again! 1012 01:10:52,514 --> 01:10:55,390 My concern is, sir, that this stored memory of killing 1013 01:10:55,432 --> 01:10:59,102 should be coupled with another power that thing in the pit seems to possess. 1014 01:10:59,144 --> 01:11:01,021 The power to redirect human energy. 1015 01:11:01,105 --> 01:11:03,315 MINISTER: A power to... QUATERMASS: Into force beyond control. 1016 01:11:03,399 --> 01:11:05,191 - Nonsense! - Well, we've all felt it. 1017 01:11:05,276 --> 01:11:07,443 - You have yourself. A few vibration effects. 1018 01:11:07,529 --> 01:11:10,405 Now, now, gentlemen. There's no need for this. 1019 01:11:10,448 --> 01:11:14,117 We're looking for rational explanations, and there is one. 1020 01:11:14,978 --> 01:11:18,815 This truly remarkable apparatus of yours 1021 01:11:18,898 --> 01:11:21,775 was surely set to detect, was it not, hallucinations? 1022 01:11:21,860 --> 01:11:22,901 BREEN: Hallucinations. Exactly, sir. 1023 01:11:22,945 --> 01:11:25,696 All right, then, call it a mental image. 1024 01:11:26,030 --> 01:11:28,950 Now this young lady certainly has an imagination 1025 01:11:29,034 --> 01:11:30,118 and she's overwrought. 1026 01:11:30,202 --> 01:11:33,287 She's seen the creatures that Colonel Breen insists are fakes. 1027 01:11:33,372 --> 01:11:34,831 So, what could be more natural than... 1028 01:11:34,914 --> 01:11:36,457 No, sir. You mustn't dismiss it like that. 1029 01:11:36,500 --> 01:11:38,501 You prefer that I dismiss Colonel Breen's theory? 1030 01:11:38,584 --> 01:11:40,461 But if you'd been there, if you'd witnessed it all! 1031 01:11:40,504 --> 01:11:42,271 Professor Quatermass, I don't believe that you're right in this matter. 1032 01:11:42,582 --> 01:11:44,594 You are ridiculously wrong. 1033 01:11:44,868 --> 01:11:46,744 You're going to admit people to the excavation? 1034 01:11:46,828 --> 01:11:47,870 Yes, tonight. 1035 01:11:48,288 --> 01:11:49,692 The press, radio and television. 1036 01:11:49,854 --> 01:11:51,393 No, sir. You must not! 1037 01:11:52,208 --> 01:11:55,670 My duty now is to quieten public alarm. 1038 01:11:55,754 --> 01:11:59,363 And you, up to now a government officer with the same duty, 1039 01:12:00,342 --> 01:12:02,927 you'll keep your damned paws out of things! 1040 01:12:09,058 --> 01:12:10,726 (ALARM RINGING) 1041 01:12:36,755 --> 01:12:38,298 There's a heck of a lot of stuff down there. 1042 01:12:38,383 --> 01:12:40,926 Far more than I expected. All those lamps and TV cameras. 1043 01:12:41,009 --> 01:12:43,594 Our generator will take all the load they can put on it, don't worry. 1044 01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:45,596 The cameraman want to take some shots inside the thing. 1045 01:12:45,682 --> 01:12:46,932 Can you fix them up? 1046 01:12:46,974 --> 01:12:48,642 Light the inside? Why not? 1047 01:12:48,725 --> 01:12:50,434 I'll get them to run out a further extension. 1048 01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:51,687 Right. 1049 01:13:02,949 --> 01:13:06,284 And the West German Federal Government has kindly agreed to make a further search 1050 01:13:06,328 --> 01:13:10,987 of existing wartime records with a view to finally identifying this missile. 1051 01:13:11,104 --> 01:13:12,875 HOWELL: Copies of Colonel Breen's statement 1052 01:13:12,959 --> 01:13:14,849 are available for those who haven't one. 1053 01:13:15,496 --> 01:13:18,748 Now, before we take you down to see for yourselves, 1054 01:13:18,791 --> 01:13:19,832 any questions? 1055 01:13:19,917 --> 01:13:22,168 Yes. Are you sure it's safe? 1056 01:13:22,711 --> 01:13:24,921 (CHUCKLING) Quite safe. 1057 01:13:25,248 --> 01:13:26,872 Any more questions? Otherwise... 1058 01:13:26,958 --> 01:13:29,166 Yes. I've got a question. 1059 01:13:29,585 --> 01:13:32,586 Is Colonel Breen just a fool or a coward? 1060 01:13:32,672 --> 01:13:34,839 What do you mean by... 1061 01:13:34,881 --> 01:13:36,383 - How... - Just one second. 1062 01:13:36,425 --> 01:13:37,634 Professor, I thought it was clearly understood... 1063 01:13:37,717 --> 01:13:39,010 Is the Colonel afraid? 1064 01:13:39,345 --> 01:13:41,888 So afraid that he resorts to the thinnest rationalisation? 1065 01:13:41,972 --> 01:13:43,932 I say what I know to be the truth! 1066 01:13:44,015 --> 01:13:45,162 Well, tell them what you've seen down there. 1067 01:13:45,910 --> 01:13:47,953 Potter, you were a witness. You tell them. 1068 01:13:48,038 --> 01:13:49,078 Sir, we found... 1069 01:13:49,122 --> 01:13:50,581 (ELECTRICITY CRACKLING) 1070 01:13:50,624 --> 01:13:51,915 (MAN SCREAMING) 1071 01:13:53,418 --> 01:13:55,084 (CROWD MUTTERING) 1072 01:13:57,464 --> 01:13:58,755 My mate, he's in there! 1073 01:13:58,840 --> 01:13:59,881 Potter, be careful. 1074 01:13:59,924 --> 01:14:01,717 It's safe. The power's been cut. 1075 01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:02,759 I didn't mean that. 1076 01:14:02,844 --> 01:14:04,367 - What happened? - He had the live cable. 1077 01:14:04,483 --> 01:14:05,669 He must have slipped! 1078 01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:26,072 Right, stand back, please. 1079 01:14:26,102 --> 01:14:28,204 Keep clear! Stand back! 1080 01:14:34,147 --> 01:14:35,279 He's dead. 1081 01:14:35,513 --> 01:14:36,977 (CROWD MUTTERING) 1082 01:14:45,014 --> 01:14:46,347 It was an accident. 1083 01:14:46,432 --> 01:14:48,641 I couldn't help him. There was nothing I could do. 1084 01:14:48,726 --> 01:14:50,643 - I know. - He was fixing the junction box. 1085 01:14:50,728 --> 01:14:51,977 All right, all right! 1086 01:14:52,063 --> 01:14:53,897 - It was an accident. - It may not have been. 1087 01:14:53,980 --> 01:14:55,315 What did you say? 1088 01:14:55,356 --> 01:14:57,357 Are you trying to make out it was my fault? 1089 01:14:57,443 --> 01:14:58,610 Get those lights on! 1090 01:15:01,198 --> 01:15:04,880 Hey, put the breakers back in. Yeah, all except the line to the hull. 1091 01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:17,780 What's she doing there? 1092 01:15:23,329 --> 01:15:24,496 What is it? 1093 01:15:24,538 --> 01:15:26,331 It's coming alive. 1094 01:15:26,415 --> 01:15:27,874 It's glowing. 1095 01:15:28,417 --> 01:15:30,126 I don't see anything. 1096 01:15:30,169 --> 01:15:33,046 I did. Before the lights came on. 1097 01:15:37,469 --> 01:15:39,594 Breen, you've got to send everyone out of this place. 1098 01:15:39,679 --> 01:15:41,346 What, just because there's been an accident? 1099 01:15:41,431 --> 01:15:44,808 No, there's some new activity starting in that thing! 1100 01:15:45,393 --> 01:15:48,353 Listen, I'm advising you all to leave. There may be grave danger. 1101 01:15:48,396 --> 01:15:49,396 What's the matter? What's wrong? 1102 01:15:49,481 --> 01:15:51,564 Well, you've seen what's happened to the electrician, haven't you? 1103 01:15:51,649 --> 01:15:53,650 (CROWD CLAMOURING) 1104 01:15:59,491 --> 01:16:00,742 Gentlemen, gentlemen, 1105 01:16:00,784 --> 01:16:03,870 the official arrangements will proceed as planned, 1106 01:16:03,953 --> 01:16:05,204 whenever you are ready. 1107 01:16:06,823 --> 01:16:10,785 And now we're taking you over to Hobbs End Underground Station. 1108 01:16:13,664 --> 01:16:17,918 Three streets away and we got to see it on the telly. 1109 01:16:18,432 --> 01:16:19,743 I tell you, 1110 01:16:19,860 --> 01:16:23,714 people don't believe nothing nowadays unless they've seen it on the telly. 1111 01:16:23,758 --> 01:16:25,842 Edgar, do you believe in these Martians? 1112 01:16:25,927 --> 01:16:27,384 Be your age, Kitty. 1113 01:16:27,427 --> 01:16:30,430 Good evening. I'm standing just a few yards 1114 01:16:30,515 --> 01:16:33,682 from where the mysterious missile was dug... 1115 01:16:35,053 --> 01:16:37,179 Colonel Breen, perhaps you should... 1116 01:16:39,891 --> 01:16:41,850 I'm sorry. Something's wrong here. 1117 01:16:43,746 --> 01:16:45,620 MAN: Now they've gone and mucked it up. 1118 01:16:45,706 --> 01:16:46,956 KITTY: Funny noises. 1119 01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:50,043 EDGAR: Vision on sound that's all. Have another drink. 1120 01:16:50,085 --> 01:16:51,085 KITTY: Yes, I will. 1121 01:16:51,170 --> 01:16:53,087 I'm sorry, something seems to have gone wrong with our vision. 1122 01:16:53,130 --> 01:16:54,255 (PHONE RINGING) 1123 01:16:56,011 --> 01:16:57,639 You must get away from here. 1124 01:16:57,762 --> 01:17:00,678 I tell you, this could be dangerous. Get back! 1125 01:17:00,762 --> 01:17:03,291 Get back! Constable, get these men back from here. 1126 01:17:03,405 --> 01:17:05,767 Get back! Get back! 1127 01:17:07,137 --> 01:17:09,513 What's he doing there? Constable, get that man out of here! 1128 01:17:09,598 --> 01:17:10,639 (EXPLOSION) 1129 01:17:10,682 --> 01:17:11,891 (SCREAMING) 1130 01:17:28,075 --> 01:17:31,202 Stop panicking! Pull yourselves together! 1131 01:17:31,286 --> 01:17:33,412 For God's sake, don't panic! 1132 01:17:34,038 --> 01:17:35,998 (SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY) 1133 01:17:48,345 --> 01:17:49,845 (PEOPLE SCREAMING) 1134 01:18:01,650 --> 01:18:03,192 (ALARM RINGING) 1135 01:18:04,860 --> 01:18:07,530 (ALL CLAMOURING) 1136 01:18:50,902 --> 01:18:52,890 Got to make a report. 1137 01:20:05,782 --> 01:20:09,305 Sir! You must get away from here. Sir! 1138 01:20:42,360 --> 01:20:43,860 (ALL CLAMOURING) 1139 01:21:01,018 --> 01:21:05,633 Quatermass! Quatermass! Don't you know me? 1140 01:21:19,609 --> 01:21:20,776 Roney. 1141 01:21:21,569 --> 01:21:22,611 That's better. 1142 01:21:23,446 --> 01:21:24,905 Go on, sit down. 1143 01:21:25,615 --> 01:21:27,491 (DISTANT SCREAMING) 1144 01:21:28,910 --> 01:21:33,330 Here. It's no way to serve decent whisky, but we're a bit low on glasses. 1145 01:21:35,083 --> 01:21:36,333 (PANTING) 1146 01:21:37,185 --> 01:21:38,978 Now get that inside you. 1147 01:21:44,526 --> 01:21:46,360 You stopped me? 1148 01:21:46,445 --> 01:21:47,820 That's right. I stopped you. 1149 01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:49,864 You were being carried along, so I thought I'd better. 1150 01:21:51,601 --> 01:21:54,619 Were they... people? 1151 01:21:55,346 --> 01:21:56,429 What? 1152 01:21:58,432 --> 01:21:59,557 Of course they were. 1153 01:22:00,601 --> 01:22:02,727 - Don't you feel it? - Feel what? 1154 01:22:04,349 --> 01:22:06,981 - Here. Anything? - No. 1155 01:22:08,526 --> 01:22:10,862 Perhaps some are immune. Some few. 1156 01:22:11,538 --> 01:22:12,579 I... 1157 01:22:13,081 --> 01:22:16,667 I was just leaving the Institute, I heard shouting in the distance. 1158 01:22:16,709 --> 01:22:20,838 It was what I was afraid of. The thing got a huge intake of energy. 1159 01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:22,881 The very substance of it seemed to be coming alive. 1160 01:22:24,124 --> 01:22:26,301 And then... 1161 01:22:26,653 --> 01:22:28,989 Then you can't see this world any longer! 1162 01:22:30,449 --> 01:22:31,532 It's like that now? 1163 01:22:34,224 --> 01:22:36,454 No, not so bad now. 1164 01:22:39,250 --> 01:22:40,458 Quieter. 1165 01:22:43,386 --> 01:22:45,032 Was there anybody left there? 1166 01:22:47,091 --> 01:22:48,174 Breen. 1167 01:22:58,479 --> 01:22:59,770 (BOTH SCREAMING) 1168 01:23:13,827 --> 01:23:15,989 It's changing. I can feel it. 1169 01:23:16,573 --> 01:23:18,789 It's getting stronger. 1170 01:23:21,613 --> 01:23:24,666 Quatermass! No! 1171 01:23:25,256 --> 01:23:26,799 Quatermass, no! 1172 01:23:35,850 --> 01:23:37,726 It's taking possession of you. 1173 01:23:37,811 --> 01:23:39,061 Fight it. 1174 01:23:40,380 --> 01:23:41,682 Fight it! 1175 01:23:42,708 --> 01:23:44,250 Can you hear what I'm saying? 1176 01:23:44,294 --> 01:23:47,753 Think, man, think. Use your brain. Your memory. 1177 01:23:48,130 --> 01:23:49,255 Keep hold. 1178 01:23:50,966 --> 01:23:52,049 Yes. 1179 01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:56,555 My name is Bernard Quatermass, 1180 01:23:56,930 --> 01:23:58,931 professor of physics, 1181 01:23:59,016 --> 01:24:00,640 controller, British Experimental Group. 1182 01:24:00,852 --> 01:24:02,519 At present, engaged in... 1183 01:24:02,603 --> 01:24:04,062 Engaged in... 1184 01:24:11,404 --> 01:24:13,196 I wanted to kill you. 1185 01:24:14,402 --> 01:24:16,387 I could have done without moving. 1186 01:24:17,652 --> 01:24:19,194 Without trying. 1187 01:24:20,030 --> 01:24:22,943 I knew that. And I would have done. 1188 01:24:23,096 --> 01:24:26,493 Why? Did you know why? 1189 01:24:28,155 --> 01:24:30,865 Because you are different. 1190 01:24:33,327 --> 01:24:36,245 I could feel that. You had to be destroyed. 1191 01:24:37,198 --> 01:24:38,615 Destroyed. 1192 01:24:41,286 --> 01:24:43,411 (CAT YOWLING) 1193 01:24:43,496 --> 01:24:45,914 (SCREAMING) 1194 01:24:46,833 --> 01:24:48,041 Listen! 1195 01:24:49,494 --> 01:24:53,311 Animals! They're killing the animals. 1196 01:24:54,082 --> 01:24:55,583 No, not only animals. 1197 01:25:28,343 --> 01:25:30,886 This is the image that was buried in the hull. 1198 01:25:30,929 --> 01:25:33,097 The compulsion to preserve their colony. 1199 01:25:33,181 --> 01:25:35,557 Destroy all that didn't belong to it. 1200 01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:38,894 Draining the whole energy of London to turn it into a Martian colony. 1201 01:25:38,937 --> 01:25:40,772 They can't possibly, after so long. 1202 01:25:40,855 --> 01:25:44,776 They can. I can feel it. See it. See them. 1203 01:25:44,818 --> 01:25:47,277 Resist it. You must! 1204 01:25:47,796 --> 01:25:51,299 Come on. We've things to do that maybe nobody else can. 1205 01:26:39,722 --> 01:26:42,519 It's the Devil. The horned Devil. 1206 01:26:43,771 --> 01:26:45,272 Don't look at it! 1207 01:26:49,360 --> 01:26:50,402 Over there. 1208 01:27:03,858 --> 01:27:04,900 RONEY: Mass into energy. 1209 01:27:05,860 --> 01:27:09,113 The focus of all that's happening. The cause. Oh, God! 1210 01:27:09,197 --> 01:27:10,657 God! 1211 01:27:13,314 --> 01:27:16,121 What can we do? Roney, what can we do? 1212 01:27:17,331 --> 01:27:20,835 Mass into energy. The fundamental law. It must be. 1213 01:27:20,918 --> 01:27:23,671 - What? - The Devil’s enemy was iron. 1214 01:27:23,755 --> 01:27:28,800 It might make sense if it were possible to project a mass of metal into it, 1215 01:27:28,885 --> 01:27:29,926 connected to the ground. 1216 01:27:29,970 --> 01:27:31,734 Discharge it to the Earth? 1217 01:27:31,851 --> 01:27:33,836 - Yes. - No, it's too simple. 1218 01:27:34,033 --> 01:27:36,308 But it's what they'd never allow for, 1219 01:27:36,350 --> 01:27:40,271 even that scrap of knowledge in minds that were free to use it. 1220 01:27:47,212 --> 01:27:48,587 That crane. 1221 01:27:51,745 --> 01:27:52,562 I'll try. 1222 01:27:52,787 --> 01:27:54,219 - No. - Yes! 1223 01:27:59,182 --> 01:28:00,933 (BRICKS CLATTERING) 1224 01:28:38,517 --> 01:28:40,308 You'll have to go round and stop her. 1225 01:28:40,393 --> 01:28:41,394 Huh? 1226 01:28:41,477 --> 01:28:44,062 You'll have to go round and stop her. 1227 01:29:27,159 --> 01:29:28,277 Barbara! 1228 01:30:49,568 --> 01:30:50,861 (CREAKING) 1229 01:31:05,738 --> 01:31:06,978 Roney! 1230 01:31:20,376 --> 01:31:21,543 Roney.