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Adam! Adam!

Adam!

Excuse me.

Do you know when the next stop is?

Yeah, it should be Jack's Service Station.

I'm dying of thirst. It's hot.

You've been around here?

Yeah.

I'm going to Seattle. I'm just passing through.

I'm going to see my boyfriend in two more days. I can't wait.

I thought you were from the city because you don't look like you've been around

here.

I've been gone for a long time.

Do you have a boyfriend?

No. Sounds like a yes to me. I'm Susan.

New Jersey.

He left without me.

Excuse me, sir. When's the next bus?

Thursday. What?

You can catch the bus in town, and if you miss that, Lambertsville is only a

couple of hours on down the road.

But how am I supposed to get there?

Somebody's bound to pass here sooner or later.

Hi, Mom.

Thanks for meeting me at the bus stop.

Oh, honey, you're early. The bus wasn't due for 40 minutes.

Davy and me were going to meet you.

It's okay.

Mom, I've missed you.

Josie! Davy!

I hardly recognize you.

I brought you a present.

Really?

I hope you're still into plants.

Thought you'd like it.

Josie, baby, we've missed you too.

Will you, for God's sake, stop fidgeting?

How's that?

Give her time, Matt. She just got back today.

Dad. Shh.

Play.

I've seen a lot of Matt lately.

Actually, I told him to pitch a tent on the doorstep.

He's practically been camping here since he heard you were coming home.

He'll be thrilled to know you've actually made it.

Are you gonna marry Matt now that you're back?

Just shut up and play with your carnivorous plant.

I'll pass you to Matt.

Hi. Hey, fella, what's your name?

Well, his name is Chester, but I call him Wolfie because he's always chasing

girls.

Don't worry, somebody's bound to come along soon enough.

I just don't want to miss the bus in Lambertsville.

Well, just wait a few minutes, and if no one comes by... I'll call

Bob, and either he or Matt can give you a ride on down the road. Thanks.

Yep.

You like him, huh?

He's a good dog.

A lover boy.

See? I told you so.

Come on, Justin.

Come on, Justin.

Hi.

Hi. Hi.

God, last time I saw you, you were 16.

Yeah.

We were engaged.

Yeah.

Well, welcome back.

Thanks.

Good to see you, Matt.

You like living in the city?

Yeah, I guess.

Yeah?

You staying here long?

I don't know, maybe.

I like your new car.

Yeah, thanks. It's a DeSoto.

Want to go for a ride?

Maybe we could just go for a walk.

Okay, whatever.

You look the same.

You still got that tooth.

Half these trees are dried out.

Tomorrow morning we'll load up as many as we can.

Yep.

That rain should have pumped them full of life.

They're dying off.

Talk about your acid rain.

Excuse me.

Dr. Kruger, I need to speak to you in private.

Why, certainly.

I've taken the liberty of conducting some research on the possible areas of

radioactivity outside the perimeter of this plant.

Dr. Taylor.

I don't want there to be any confusion about the duties for which you were

hired to work here at the plant. Please let me finish, Dr. Kruger. These results

were alarming. They were shocking.

I found very high levels of radioactivity.

The strange thing is it didn't seem to have any connection at all with the

power plant.

I don't understand.

Very good, Dr.

Taylor. You did well by coming to me with this. We wouldn't want to take any

risks. No, absolutely.

Dr. Pritzy.

I'd like you to personally look into this matter.

Dr. Taylor will give you all the information he's collected.

And I want you to get to the bottom of this problem immediately.

I want answers by the end of the week.

I suggest that we... Thank you, Dr. Taylor.

You may go now. From now on, Dr. Pritzy will be responsible for this matter.

Ah!

One more thing, Dr.

Taylor.

I would like to remind you that it is absolutely forbidden to even possess any

alcoholic beverages on the premises of the plant.

I... I don't... I believe this is yours, Dr. Taylor.

At least it was found in your office.

Really, I... In the name of friendship.

But I hope you realize this could cost you your position if somehow this slips

out.

You may go now. Thanks.

This one's going in the right direction.

Excuse me, sir.

Could you give me a ride to Lambertsville?

Sure. I'll give you a ride to Lambertsville. Hop in.

Sure is hot, isn't it?

Yeah.

I bet you're hot as well.

You like music?

Yeah.

I bet you like something else, don't you?

Hey, get up, jerk.

Oh, I like that.

I ain't going to hurt you. Get off me, you pig! I'm going to stick it to you.

Get off me, you pig!

I'm going to stick it to you.

Oh, jeez.

Hey, come on out now!

Or I'm going to leave you here!

Why the hell were you trumped anyway?

What kind is this?

Oh, it's yellow oak, and I found it in the Wasatch Forest on October 5th.

Are they always yellow?

No, only in October.

And then I found those in the Wasatch Forest.

What are these?

I couldn't find out what this is, but I just called it a spear elm, because

that's what it looks like.

I found that in the Wasatch Forest on August 6th.

This is a maple.

I found that in September.

And I call this a banana leaf.

And I found that in Vember.

Ah, no drink, Creed.

Don't you think you had enough?

A man may drink too much.

There are circumstances in which he cannot get enough to drink.

What do you say we, uh, go on over to my place for a nightcap?

Come on.

I'll do it. Just around the corner.

Cat.

Cat, let's me and you go someplace and talk.

Uh-uh, cutie pie. You and me, we're going somewhere.

Nice chair.

The only customers Paula's been taking around back lately are the ones that

have been too drunk to see what they're getting into.

Have another drink and forget about it.

Happens to lots of guys.

Even sober.

I mean, what the hell? It can't hurt.

I got the feeling something awful is going to happen here.

Something terrible.

Why? Because you can't get it up?

Believe me, mister, it ain't that big of a deal.

20 here.

25 here.

30 here.

It's as though the source of the radioactivity isn't coming from the

power plant.

It's from the forest around here.

It doesn't make any sense.

It just doesn't make any sense.

Sometimes I don't understand you guys.

Here you are talking nonsense on my bed.

Worrying about your job instead of... Instead of relaxing and enjoying

yourself.

Nonsense to me.

Yeah, maybe you're right.

It doesn't matter to me.

Quiet, Chester.

Stop barking.

Something out there, fella?

Come on, Chester. There's nothing out there. Come back here and lay down.

Chester.

Chester, you hear me? Come back here.

Come on.

Lay down.

There's nothing out there, boy.

Hey, come on. Down.

Lay down.

Stay there.

Stay. You hear?

Hey, just remember this they used to be closer

This is paradise.

I like it here. It feels good.

That was romantic, but damn it was cold.

I don't remember my way out of here.

Still as bitchy as you were at 16, huh?

Can you give me my shoe?

I'll go out there with you kids, but I don't believe you.

Frankly, Josie, I think you two kids went up into the woods, snorted

something that you brought back from the big city.

You got no call, Sheriff.

We saw that body.

We can go to the state police.

All right, all right.

We'll fill out the report.

You kids seem so anxious to do it. We already told you everything, Sheriff.

Yeah, look, why don't we just go there, okay?

There's no hurry.

If you really saw a corpse, it's not going anywhere.

It won't run away.

Now, what was the purpose of this trip to the woods?

Here. It was right here.

Maybe it was over here, Matt.

No, it was here.

Somebody moved it.

Or, uh, maybe it moseyed down to the soda shop.

Or a spot of Coke. Eh, kids?

Ah, you kids.

You get my goat.

I remember you from high school.

Both of you.

Troublemakers. We're not in high school anymore, Sheriff.

Maybe you ought to be.

Nah. Pray.

Come on.

When the Sheriff called me, saying,

Somebody found that body near to the side.

I thought it was safer to have it brought in here, and I was right. What

do you mean?

The corpse is highly contaminated.

You mean she died because of radioactivity?

No, Dr. Kruger.

But what concerns me... She must have died for some other reason.

But her body...

is soaked with radioactivity, as if she swam in... in a pool of, uh,

uranium. You know we're going to have to keep this quiet.

I know.

You can count on me, Kruger, and you know it.

Well... I will use the best resources of the lab to find out what

happened to her. And keep me informed.

Only me.

Whatever the autopsy shows, don't tell anyone.

Yes, I will.

As soon as I know anything.

Dr. Cougar.

Ah, Dr. Taylor.

Seems clear you didn't quite understand the necessity of giving Dr. Pritzy all

the results of your personal research.

I was just going to speak to you about that.

Be finished, Dr. Taylor.

That wasn't just a suggestion.

It was an order.

I understand perfectly.

I have just received some very important information about the possible cause of

the radioactive pollution in the forest. What are you talking about, Dr. Taylor?

I've been working with the computer a lot. I have been monitoring the outgoing

movements of the trucks assigned to handle the disposal of the radioactive

waste. Now, I've amazingly found that... What have you found so amazing, Dr.

Taylor? I can't be 100% sure, but I have... good reason to believe that the

majority of those trucks have never reached their official destination.

Now, that could mean... I'm sorry, Dr.

Taylor, but I have other things to do now. I would appreciate if, in the

future, you would limit your concerns to what's going on inside the power plant

instead of snooping around.

Is that understood?

Yes, sir, but I... You may go now.

Keep an eye on him, will you? He seems a little unstable.

She must have gotten out there.

May as well fill her up while we're at it, if you ain't too drunk to find the

hose.

I'm in mourning.

I'm in mourning, Sheriff.

What'd you lose, old fellow?

Your teeth?

Where's old Chester?

He's dead.

I'm all alone here now.

That's too bad.

Jack, did a girl come by here, young, blonde hair, real short shorts?

Came by the other day, and she was a pretty little thing.

Said she was going to Seattle, and she said her name was Susan.

Her name was Susan, and she was on her way to Seattle to meet her boyfriend.

Now, do you believe this, Sheriff?

Oh, for God's sake, drop it, Matt. Who cares anyway? There's nothing that we

can do about it. She's dead.

Ever since I've been back, nothing's been going right.

Well, it's not my fault.

I didn't want to go to the waterfall.

If we hadn't gone there, we wouldn't have been mixed up in all this mess.

Shit, I even got poison ivy.

Oh, come on. If you want to fight, at least be straight about it. You act like

you don't even like me anymore.

Maybe I don't stack up against your big city buddies.

Don't be an idiot.

Now you're gonna tell me you like mature men.

Come on.

Maybe you'd prefer rolling around in the poison ivy with one of your

sophisticated city boyfriends.

You filthy critter!

Come out of there or I'll shoot you!

He's heading for the village.

Catch him before he gets there.

Subject is not cooperating.

Just shut up and step on it.

Rum and coke.

Easy on the coke.

You want to buy me anything?

No.

How's the music tonight?

I don't know.

What do you have, buddy?

Give me a tequila, Ruth.

Hi, Matt.

Mind if I sit down?

I hate to drink alone.

Have you ever hunted possum?

Over there.

There's this girl, Josie.

You may have seen her in town. She grew up here.

I sort of promised myself I'd be faithful.

That is, ever since I heard she was getting back.

We grew up together right here in Littleton.

Thought we'd be married one day.

She left town before she even finished high school.

Couldn't wait to get away.

She was a real rebel.

Honey, me too.

I don't blame her. A girl could starve to death in this town.

One day I get this kook from the plant in here babbling about radioactivity.

Now you, gorgeous kid, you want to talk about dead bodies and your girlfriend.

I'd go to the city too.

If this is life in the country, I'll take my chances with muggers.

What was it this guy from the plant said?

Something strange?

Yeah.

A lot of stuff.

See, he told me I should beat it the hell out of here or I was going to wind

up dead.

Maybe I will.

What exactly did he say?

Tell me.

You really care?

Sheriff! Sheriff!

Listen to me carefully.

There's been a nuclear accident. We're all in danger. We've got to evacuate the

town and the whole area quickly.

Now calm down.

And maybe you ought to sober up. I am stone cold

sober. And if you don't do something immediately, I am going to the Capitol.

Okay, Doctor.

We'll just evacuate the entire country before you can say Jack Robinson.

I'll get you authority from the Capitol.

Take a seat, Dr.

Taylor.

You've been working too hard.

Just relax.

Maybe you need a rest.

That guy.

He was so plastered, he stumbled out of here and forgot.

Forgot?

What is it?

He was walking around with this?

Yeah.

Shit.

Wish I knew what these damn numbers meant.

Sheriff! Sheriff, you've got to listen!

There were two men after me out there. They're dead!

The entire force is radioactive.

The trees are... Good

evening, Sheriff.

Ha-ha, Dr. Kruger.

Your man's here, as you expected.

Thank you, Sheriff.

Now the important thing is that he doesn't talk to anyone, if he didn't

already. Don't worry.

Billy's a good kid.

I trust him.

What could all these signs and numbers mean?

That's all.

Not Jack.

Oh, no.

He was attacked by some kind of a wild animal.

My guess would be a bear wandered too close to civilization.

Matter of fact, I found Jack's body myself round about sunup a couple of

days ago. Sheriff, I've had a long trip, and I'm very tired. I just want to see

my grandpa's body and sign the autopsy order.

I'm his only kin.

Well, now, son, that's a pretty tall order.

The coroner ordered the body buried immediately.

We tried to get in touch with you in time for the funeral, but it wasn't

easy. You understand.

I don't know, Sheriff.

All I do know is that something very strange is going on around here.

Do you have any forms or anything I need to sign?

No, no, that's okay.

You're free to go.

You know, that was real shitty of you to say those things to me yesterday.

Can we just drop it?

I don't know.

Hi.

Hi.

Um, I'm looking for Bob Knight. Do you know him?

Yeah, he's my father.

He's inside.

Oh.

Okay, thank you.

We got ourselves some nosy jerk.

I did some checking.

You know what the son of a bitch does?

He's an investigative reporter for some big city newspaper.

Oh, Christ.

And I don't think he believed any of the shit I told him. We don't want him

making a connection to the power plant. We have to be very careful.

You bet.

Keep an eye on him. Got it.

I just talked to the sheriff, and he didn't seem to know anything.

Thank you, ma'am.

I wish I'd looked in on old Jack more often lately.

I just kept putting it off.

My busiest time of year, you know.

I saw Grandpa last when I was 10 years old.

You'd think I could get myself up here in the past 20 years.

Oh, but we wrote.

Oh, in his letters, he always mentioned you and your mother.

He was very fond of you.

We sure were fond of old Jack ourselves.

I wish I could help you.

I just don't know anything.

Oh.

Well, uh, thank you for your time. It was very nice to meet you.

Thank you.

I hope you'll come to dinner before you go back to town. Thanks, I'd like to.

Talk to him.

What am I gonna say to him?

Okay, I will. Okay.

Hey, mister.

I think we should talk.

I'm Josie. This is Matt. Oh.

Hi, I'm, uh, Brian.

We heard you've been asking about some strange things that have been happening

around here lately. We found a body in the woods yesterday.

A young woman.

You want to hear about it? A body?

The strangest aspects are the fragments of vegetation.

Roots, actually.

Yeah, what we found inside the body of the girl.

They're highly radioactive, and there are cellular oddities.

Apparent genetic mutation, which are utterly inexplicable.

I'll be right there.

Okay.

I don't want you coming alone.

I don't care what you want, honey. I'm coming.

Good luck.

Ten o'clock.

Anything new?

Yes, but you won't believe it.

Please look.

A most unusual genetic mutation.

An appropriate word would be monstrous.

What are you talking about?

The cells of the fragments of these roots are growing out of all proportion.

Not only that.

They're feeding on plasma residue.

Animal cells.

Kruger, these plants are carnivorous.

I knew we shouldn't have gotten her involved in this. She's always late.

She seems smart enough. Something's held her up.

There she is.

I told you she'd have a good excuse.

Are you crazy?

What did you bring him for?

Sorry.

I hope you remembered to pack a picnic basket. I'm sorry. What could I do?

Great. I don't want you to marry him anymore. Don't worry, baby.

What did you want to show me?

What is it?

It's a map. What's so special about it? You see these signs?

A guy from the nuclear power plant drew up.

God only knows what they mean, but it must be something.

Some kind of measurement.

G degrees.

You don't know what that means?

I know what it means. It measures nuclear radioactivity. You're damn

right, kid.

Okay. Some guy from the power plant goes around taking all these measurements and

marking them on this map.

And then the... The corpse from the force disappears, and then old Jack

dies.

I think there's good enough reason to go look at his grave.

Where'd you get that thing?

Paula. Who's Paula? I know who Paula is. She's the hooker.

Davey?

Matt? It's not what you think.

Yeah? Well, what do I think, Matt?

Just glad to know you have some new buddies.

Josie, you and Davey stay here.

Keep watch, okay?

I thought you said this would be fun. I wanna go home. Well, you can't. It's too

late.

We're there.

Oh, shit.

Oh, my God.

I'm scared. I want to go home.

Me too.

Hey, Sheriff.

This is one reporter you don't stonewall.

He knew something about my grandfather's death, all right.

His body's gone, just like the girl in the woods.

Shh.

Looks like someone's coming.

The tall.

Who told you to get out of the car? We saw a headlight. There's someone coming

up the hill in this direction.

All right, let's get the hell out of here.

I should have thought of it earlier.

Damn nosy jerk!

Fill up the grave.

We don't want anyone seeing it come daylight I'm gonna find that

troublemaker

Thank you.

Your grandfather was burying the dog over here somewhere, but I wasn't paying

attention.

There's the marker right there.

Hopefully the dog's body will tell us something.

I wouldn't trouble myself, boys.

In the house.

Well?

What happened?

Well, looks like a family reunion.

Let's see if I can find out what to do with you.

Call somebody for help.

Doesn't matter anyway. The lines are out.

Great. What are we going to do now?

Josie, I'll take you and Davey home so you can tell your mother what's going

on.

Brian, you can use my other car.

We've got to warn everybody. Come on.

Listen, we'll meet at Echo Cafe.

Now hurry.

Okay, come on.

Listen, you get a flashlight and meet me back here, okay? Okay. I'll get Mom.

Mom.

Mom, wake up.

Wake up.

Josie. What's the matter?

Come on, we've got to get out of here.

What's happened?

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Where's Davey? He's waiting outside. Here, put this on. I'll explain on the

way. We have to hurry.

We have to warn the others. What others?

Who? Come on.

He's so slow. I'll get him.

Josie's back in town.

What are you doing, Davey? I told you to wait outside.

I'm looking for my space shooter.

We don't need it. Come on.

Thank you.

Come on. You gotta reach for it. Come on.

Look here. Look at what I got.

Come on. Come on.

Come on. Yeah.

Oh, come on.

Good boy.

Emergency!

Come out!

You all okay? Where's Brian? I thought he was with you.

No, we split up. He was going to warn people on the edge of town.

I went home. It's terrible.

My house was attacked.

My house was attacked, too.

He got my grandma.

Looks like Brian.

Someone else can go give the alarm.

I give up.

Son of a bitch. They shot at me.

They can just die in their houses.

I think we should call the National Guard. This is a national emergency.

Whoa, whoa, let's not panic.

Whatever's going on around here seems related to the nuclear plant.

That's right. The numbers on the map were written by a guy from the power

plant. We better call him and tell him what's going on. They'll know how to

handle the situation.

The phone lines are out.

I guess the roots took the wires down.

And my radio's broken. I took it into Jeff just the other day.

Well, I guess we just have to go there and tell them it's an emergency.

She's right. We better move.

Somebody should warn the people.

Don't look at me.

I'll take care of it. Now go!

You meet us back here, Mom.

Be careful.

It's Taylor. He works at the plant.

Please. It's a waste of life in there. I need to get to the nuclear plant. Can

you give me a ride?

Jump in. Hurry.

You know what's happening here. Explain.

I discovered that the radioactive waste from the nuclear power plant had never

been removed to its official destination.

What do you mean? What's happened to it? They dumped it somewhere in the forest.

But how could they do that?

When $2 million is involved, there is no why.

Okay, but a radioactive leak causes predictable results. We know them.

Yeah, that doesn't explain the killer roots.

I don't know how to explain the killer roots. I'm not a microbiologist.

We do know that radioactivity influences DNA, the gene code.

Mutations. The radioactivity penetrated only into the woods.

It penetrated the root system of the trees, which is like a nervous system.

That's why the trees dried out.

The roots assimilating all of the nutrients let the rest of the trees die.

I've lived among the woods all my life. I can't believe that's possible.

You better believe it because it's happening.

We've got to convince this madman before someone else dies.

Lucy Bell!

Bill! It's Denise!

Come out!

Bill better have a darn good reason for not listening to Jack's grandson.

There has been a radioactive leak, and I am sure it has something to do with

what's going on.

Dr. Taylor, I've had enough of you. You're fired.

Good. Then I won't have to go to prison when all this is out.

And rest assured, you're not going to get off easy.

Depends on how you look at it, Taylor.

I have no doubts as to what is happening.

The fact is, it's too late.

Nothing can be done about it now.

It's not too late.

Let us use your radio. We can call the National Guard.

We shouldn't have let them try it.

Now they've acquired a taste for it.

They like it.

They're hungry for more.

You're crazy.

We know that you embezzled funds intended for the toxic waste disposal.

And you took the radioactive waste and dumped it somewhere in the forest.

We're gonna find it. You better tell us where the waste site is before it's too

late. So you haven't found the site yet.

Maybe there is no waste site.

Tell us where the site is, for Christ's sake. I've got you now, Kruger. You

might as well cooperate.

You want me to cooperate?

You can kill us, but you're never going to get away with it.

Oh, no.

They're never going to get me.

We've got to find the source of the radioactivity so we can stop the spread

of the contamination.

But how? The force is so enormous, we'll never find the site. We've got to do

something before it's too late.

Maybe we can call some people for help.

Yeah. Listen, maybe we can call the Environmental Protection Agency.

Look, they're the only ones who are even remotely qualified for this kind of

situation.

No, no, we don't have enough time.

If we get involved with people from Washington, no telling how long it'll

take. He's right.

Look, it is the only way.

No, it's your way, but it's not the only way.

All right.

Then go ahead.

And good luck.

I'm not going.

If only somebody would come and help us.

They are coming.

Yeah, thank you.

Paula, thanks for coming to help us out.

I think we're touching the best thing over there.

Jesus, there must be hundreds of them. We better go back and tell the others.

Yeah, yeah, it'll take forever to dig them up.

Look, what's that?

It's a flare rocket. They must have found the site.

Maybe they're in trouble.

What are we going to do?

Matt?

It's coming from the canyon, but I don't see them coming back.

Maybe we better go there.

We'll have to find them. Let's go to the canyon.

Come on, let's go.

Hurry.

This is it. We better start digging.

We should find my father first.

He's got to be nearby.

Yeah.

I found him! I found the rat! Don't go. There's nothing you can do.

Careful!

Careful! Careful!

Careful!

Ready? Ready?

Just like the others What's that?

Who is he?

I don't know, but his timing is perfect.

Is everyone all right?

Ryan!

What made you change your mind?

Well, remember when you said we had to do it ourselves?

I finally realized I am one of you.

Well, listen, Brian, good luck with your article.

Huh, I wish. I've been given a gag order.

Josie, where's your luggage?

I'm not coming.

I just came to say goodbye.

In fact, maybe you could send my stuff from the city for me.

Yeah, no problem.

Oh, I'm sorry you're not going to be able to meet Annette.

Annette? Yeah, my wife.

You two would really get along.

I didn't know you were married.

Yeah.

What? Is that so funny?

Not at all.

I think it's a great idea.

Don't forget to send me an invitation.

Okay.

Hey, keep in touch. We better.

Bye. Bye.

Hello?

Yeah,

he's fine.

He went to bring a present to my mother.

How's Annette?

Yeah?

Are you gonna be in the city this winter?

How's the weather there?

Snowing as usual. It's beautiful.

Did you get our present?