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[grand music]

[booming]

[eerie music]

- [Narrator] And the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

The earth's ozone and the works that are therein

shall be burned up.

- [Narrator] This is TD day.

Total destruction by nuclear weapons.

And from this hour forward,

the world as we know it no longer exists.

And over all the lands and walkers of the earth,

hangs the atomic haze of death.

[light music]

Man has done his best to destroy himself.

But there is a force more powerful than man,

and in his infinite wisdom he has spared a few.

- Down there, let's go.

- Kill me.

Kill me!

- Over there.

Come on.

[radio whirring]

- It's no use, Louise.

I'm afraid you'll never see him again.

No sign of life.

New York, London, Rome, Moscow...

Honey, check the Geiger counter.

- 47 range.

- It's down another one.

We might live.

Just might live.

Told them this day would come.

I begged them to get ready for it.

- Dad, someone's coming.

- I can't let 'em in.

- You've got to!

- I only planned this for three,

you, me, and Tommy.

I've only got provisions for three, no more.

Go to your room, Louise.

[knocking]

- I won't let you do it.

- There's always one way to get into a place.

[gun banging]

- It's our lives or theirs, girl.

- I'm letting 'em in.

- That was much of a welcome, mister.

- No, you're not welcome.

Put that gun down.

- Come on, Tony, put it away.

- Better give it to me.

- Haha.

Where I go, this goes.

- I'll look after you later.

Louise, take the girl in,

give her a fresh change of clothes.

Have a wash.

Put some of the water in the seal jars.

Now you.

Go in there, through to my room,

change your clothes and wash yourself,

you want to stay alive.

- You sound like you're used to giving orders.

That makes two of us.

[soft music]

- Yeah, it won't have to be this good, that one's done for.

- I couldn't just let him lie there.

- 740 rems.

Don't touch him, Louise.

You better go to my room and change your clothes.

It's not too late already.

- My brother is dead out there.

He was only 30 feet from me.

He died and I didn't.

I can't understand it.

- You'd better go and wash now.

- 22 years old.

It doesn't make sense.

- [Jim] Didn't you hear me?

Go change your clothes.

- Go on, please, do what Dad says.

- You know the irony of it, of what happened?

He was studying for the ministry.

He was going to be a man of God.

- Come on, son.

[knocking]

- Come on in the house, quickly.

- I wonder ma'am, if you could make

a place for me and Diablo over here.

Of course, the woodshed will do.

- Well, I'm afraid not.

Tie him outside some place and come on in the house.

- You hear that, Diablo?

He's not minding us.

- Another one, eh?

That makes seven of us.

Now none of us will make it.

You should have let me stop them.

- I couldn't have lived with that on my conscience

and neither could you.

- You got a pretty good taste in sports shirts, mister.

- Say, honey, quite a snazzy-looking cotton dress.

- Stand clear of him, miss.

He's lit up like an atomic fire.

- Can you pass it on?

- I'm not sure, but there's no use taking chances.

- Why take chances?

What do we need him for?

I'll just put him out of his misery.

- No you don't, give me that gun.

- Once and for all, mister, no one takes my gun.

- Tony, look out!

[dramatic music]

- I ain't gonna like you, mister.

- I can stand it.

Get up.

- If I used my best judgment, I'd kill you right now.

- He'll be alright, captain.

He steps out of line once in a while,

but push him back hard and he's alright.

- Really?

Shut up.

- You know, ma'am?

I was thinking that he could sleep

out in the kitchen with me.

- Who? - Diablo.

- He's always used to having me around him.

Why, he was watching me when I uncovered that gold there.

Gorgeous, just about that wide, and maybe a mile high.

- Well no, I'm afraid not.

- No?

- Come over here, all of you, I want to talk to you.

This is a Geiger counter

reporting 46 roentgens of radioactivity in the house now.

50 is considered dangerous.

500 fatal.

- It all depends on the individual.

Different people have different absorption capacities.

- When I want an opinion, I'll ask for it.

Now, we may live, we may not.

There's a lot we don't know yet.

Some of us may be dying now.

- How long before we can leave this rural paradise?

- [Jim] I wish you'd never found your way through a place.

- I got things working for me in Frisco.

Big things.

How long before we can get out of here?

- Tell him, Louise.

- There is no San Fransisco.

There are no radio signals,

long or short waves from any city in the world.

- You're kidding!

No Frisco?

I don't believe it.

- Alright, that's enough.

Listen to me, now.

The seven of us, in this room,

may be the beginning of a new era.

A new civilization.

I knew this day would come.

I spent 10 years getting ready for it.

Now, if you'll follow me here,

I'll show you why we're still alive.

This is my house

with its own generating equipment

and its own food supplies.

This hills surrounding are full of lead-bearing ore.

They act as a barrier against radioactivity.

Through these gorges, these canyons,

blows a strong, steady wind with enough velocity

to keep the radioactive contamination out of here.

By some chance, each of you was in a sheltered area.

Except the man on the couch.

He got to it too late.

You can see the result.

I don't think he'll live through the night.

As long as the wind blows,

and the rains don't come too soon,

we may live.

That is if we're not destroyed by other forces.

- What other forces?

- Nevermind that now.

Make no mistake about it,

you're not welcome here.

This was planned for three people.

That's how much food we've got.

Divide that among seven of us,

we'll find ourselves walking around with aching bellies.

I have the key to the storeroom.

I, and only I, will decide when and how much we eat.

Any argument about that I settle it with this.

- Oh, you're a tough man, alright, packing that gun.

Just don't let go of it.

- I don't intend to.

You men will sleep in my room, I'll bunk out here.

- You think he's got it, too?

- Maybe, maybe not.

We'll know by tomorrow.

- Cute guy like that...

That'd be a pity.

- I'm not gonna die.

I thought I was, but I'm not.

- You'll be alright.

- You're my friend.

I won't forget it.

I'm hungry.

I need food.

Meat, red meat.

Nearly raw.

I don't know why, but it'll do me good.

- I'll leave your order to the chef.

Meantime, better wash up, get in some clean clothes.

[light music]

[device crackling]

- If this Geiger counter is accurate,

I wouldn't spend too much time out here.

- You're no stranger to all of this, are you?

- I'm a geologist.

My field is uranium exploration.

- And you'd know that the real force of the atom

has never been truly calculated.

- I think it reached its fulfillment today.

- But only it affects of our form of life.

- You think any other form of life could have survived that?

- I'm only saying that its true force

has never been really truly understood.

You remember the H-bomb test

that was two or some years ago?

I captained one of the ships.

Five days after the blast,

I told the animal ship I'd target zero.

The world never had a true account of that test.

- What are you trying to tell me?

[howling]

- Coyote.

Lots of game in here now.

- Contaminated game, fighting for life, just like we are.

- They started coming in a week ago.

It's like this valley was Noah's Ark.

[light music]

- What's the matter, Radek?

- There's game out there.

I can tell.

I can feel it.

Man needs meat.

- But it's contaminated.

You'd die if you ate that.

[laughing]

- You would, not me.

I can't live on this.

- That's all your going to get for a long time.

- That's what you think.

- It's doing nicely, your plant of the future.

- Celebrates a birthday tomorrow.

Three weeks.

- Three weeks.

I thought we'd all be dead by now.

- We're not.

Even Radek got out of bed today.

Gives me the creeps.

- Logically, he should have been dead by now.

- There's no such thing as logic anymore.

He hasn't touched food or water for three weeks.

What does he live on?

- He says he doesn't need food.

- Last night he slipped out of the house.

He didn't get back until dawn.

- I'm afraid he's going out of his mind.

He seems to live in a world all on his own.

- He's a mutation, Rick.

Freak of this new atomic world of ours.

- I'm going out for a walk.

- Don't go too far, stay inside the house.

- Why?

- Because I tell you to.

- I'm not afraid.

I like it out there.

Will you go with me?

- No!

- He's dangerous, Rick.

He should be destroyed.

- Now, Jim.

It's important to us that he live.

- But why?

- I'm not sure yet.

When I am, I'll tell you.

[upbeat music]

- At this spot, I'll do a few simple dance steps.

Boy, the country will kill 'em.

Did you hear what I said?

- No.

Turn off that crummy record.

- You only got eyes and ears for Louise, huh?

- Shut up!

- You don't like it when she goes

out walking with Rick, do you?

- I said shut up!

- You know...

I think I am beginning to want to live.

It's taken seven weeks.

With you.

Louise...

[ringing]

What's the matter?

- Didn't you hear that?

- Hear what?

- Let's go into the house, quick!

[eerie music]

- Jim.

His bones are still moist.

Look.

Footprints.

Radek's.

- You think he ate that rabbit?

[device crackling]

49 roentgen.

Think a man could eat that poison meat and live?

- Yeah.

He spent most of his nights right out here in the woods.

- No human could eat it and live.

He defied all the laws of man and God.

- There may be an entirely new set of laws, Jim,

that we know nothing about.

- Come out and say what you mean.

- I'm only guessing.

We know that even small amounts of radiation produce change.

But if, for some reason,

a man could live through complete saturation,

a thousand generation changes could have taken place.

It's only a theory.

- Matsuo tests.

- [Rick] Hmm?

What about them?

- Nothing.

Go on with your theory.

- There may be more Radeks.

Worse than him.

All of us who have survived more cumulative exposure

than we ever dreamed possible.

- You were trying to say we might all become like Radek?

Stalking the woods at night?

Eating raw meat?

- It's possible.

[howling]

- What can we do, Rick?

- My brother believed the bible gave strength

and revealed a plan for everything.

- And I hope I find it, before I lose my mind.

Hello.

Listen to this.

"For I am with thee, to save thee,

"and deliver thee, says the Lord.

"I will deliver thee out of the hands of the wicked.

"I will redeem thee out of the hands of the terrible."

- I had enough of the bible when I was a kid.

- Easy to see it had no effect on you, Tony.

[thunder rumbling]

- I think you ought to tell them about the rain.

- Yes, Rick, you're right.

We're heading for rain.

It will be coming down

with clouds saturated with nuclear death.

I'm afraid there'll be no escaping it.

In case the weather clears and we do escape,

starting tomorrow, we will have to go on half rations.

- Ha!

What's half of nothing?

- If we're still here when the weather clears,

we start planting.

I've stored seed and grain.

Also, I've got books and materials

on every craft needed by man to sustain life.

We can all start reading them.

- Tony Lamont, farmer.

- We're just about out of water, too.

There's a waterfall, not far from the house,

coming out of the mountain.

I tested it today and it's safe.

Starting tomorrow, we bathe there.

- I have used more water in the last two months

than I have in 64 years.

- Maybe that's why you're still alive, Pete.

- Hmm.

[thunder rumbling]

[eerie music]

- Oh, this place looks spooky even in the sunlight.

Boy, what I'd give to be standing back on Broadway

listening to that traffic.

- I didn't realize how isolated it was here.

- You're good lookin', country-style clean.

Probably that's why Tony goes for you.

You're something new to him.

- Tony?

- Hey, don't take his eyes off you, can't see me anymore.

But just don't you encourage him.

Otherwise he'll make a play for that guy of yours

and that would be unfair competition for you, baby.

- I'll remember that.

[creepy music]

- Tony will come back to mama.

He always does.

What's the matter, kid?

- We're being watched.

- [Ruby] Where?

I can't see anything.

- There's something moving in the bushes.

- Oh, it's probably one of the men.

The boys will be boys!

- Come on, let's get out of here.

We'll go along the stream, it's quicker that way.

- Oh I need a break!

Will you hold it a minute?

- I felt eyes staring at me.

I heard it, too.

- Hey, cut that out.

[dramatic music]

- Come on.

- Radek's not the only one eating this game, Jim.

- When they finish off the game, we'll be next.

This place is cursed.

Rick, we've got to kill Radek.

- He's our only chance to find out what we're up against.

We can't kill him.

- The animals at Matsuo.

They predicted something like this.

- Don't you think it's time you told me about Matsuo?

- Yes it is.

Tonight.

After the others have gone to sleep.

You'll think I'm crazy, just like the rest of them did.

- I sneaked some more sugar out for you, Pete.

- Well, thank you, Ruby.

You know...

He's been trembling ever since he got here.

He's scared.

Things are going on around here that he don't like.

You know?

One of these days we're going to high-tail it outta here.

- Where will you go?

- We've got a gold strike on the other side of the hill.

- Not much use of that stuff now, Pete.

- No use for it?

Huh, you aint' got it right, Ruby.

All my life I've been hunting for gold

and now that I've found it,

it's up there and I'm down here.

- You're crazy.

But don't feel bad.

I think we all are.

- Thanks for the sugar, Ruby.

You know?

Diablo is just crazy about sugar.

Cut that out you old conniver.

I know what you've been doing with that sugar.

When the next batch of moonshine's ready, I want some.

[chuckling]

[upbeat music]

- Not a thing out there.

How you feeling, honey?

- Fine.

Where's Rick?

- He's out snooping, he'll be back soon.

- I'll go outside and wait for him.

- Don't go too far from the house, honey.

- I just want to talk to you.

I haven't said a dozen words to you since we got here.

Look, what's so bad about me?

Tell me.

I'm not bad looking.

I don't smoke, I don't drink.

I used to give money to my mother.

- Let me go!

Please, you belong to Ruby!

- I belong to myself.

- I got some perfume in my bag.

Smell nice?

- It stinks.

What are you smoking?

Some concoction of Pete's.

He makes the brew, too.

Don't I kill ya?

- Throw it away.

- You really go for her don't you?

Nothing like a country girl who plays hard to get.

- She makes me sick.

Sorority clubs, country clubs.

- Ready to come home to Ruby?

Still got her on your mind, haven't you?

Jealous this time.

- Oh, forget her.

There are bigger things to worry about.

According to Jim, there's only enough food for a month.

- Oh, I wouldn't worry about that.

I've got an idea we're not going to live that long, anyway.

- Four weeks for six people.

How long can two people live on that?

Twelve weeks, get it?

- Yeah.

Ah, you and me, Ruby.

Three months.

After that it should be alright.

- Well, how are you going to get rid of four people?

Five, counting Radek.

- Gotta get my hands on that gun.

The main thing is...

Are you with me, baby?

[eerie music]

- Radek walked into that murderous vapor

like it was just plain fog.

- Rick, how much do you know about the Matsuo bomb test?

- Only some rumors nobody could actually pin down.

- It's time I showed you something.

As I told you, it was my job

to tow the animal ship out of target zero.

I got the first look at them.

A thousand different species.

- Remember, the newspapers said

that they'd all been completely destroyed.

- Papers lied, Rick.

Three of them lived through it.

- Lived through the H-Bomb?

- There was a law against taking photographs.

None against sketching what you'd seen.

They were placed in cages.

Male and female of each species.

That was a chipmunk.

- That was alive?

- It lived for three days.

The third survivor was a monkey.

Its skin looked like rubber, but had the feel of metal.

- Armor plated.

Nature's answer to complete nuclear radiation.

Million years of evolution with one bomb.

- They lived for three days.

By the time we got back to the inspection ship,

they were dead.

- If we could find out why they died it might help us.

- I couldn't figure it out.

Except they wouldn't touch food or water.

- A new species.

The ancestors of whatever we have out there.

- Sometimes, I have a feeling of doom.

- All I know is there are two forms of life

fighting for survival in this valley.

And only one of them can win.

It's got to be us.

- You're right, Rick.

Surprising how much strength I've drawn from you.

I planned this whole thing just to stay alive.

But you've given me a feeling of responsibility

towards the future of our kind.

- Thanks, Jim.

I think I'll turn in now.

- I've thought a lot about it.

I'll talk to the girls in the morning.

- The girls?

- Yes.

They should bear children as soon as possible.

[eerie music]

[dramatic music]

[fists thudding]

- Stop 'em Dad!

- No, let them go, Rick will teach him a lesson.

- I'm gonna kill you!

- Are you alright, honey?

- Get out of my life!

- Wind's good.

No sign of rain.

Well, that's it, girl.

I speak my peace.

I'm a blunt man.

- I'm listening.

- Are you alright?

Do you like Rick?

- Yes.

- Honey, could you love him?

A sea captain can perform marriages in an emergency.

I want you to marry Rick.

I want you to have children.

- There will be no wedding and no children.

- [Jim] Honey, you've got to think of the future.

- There's to be no future.

- Yes there is, for you.

You have a week to get used to the idea, huh?

Aren't you listening to me?

- Yes, Dad, I'll marry Rick in a week.

If he's still here, if I am...

- What's the matter, baby?

- I'm alright.

- You tell Ruby.

I'll speak to Tony and Rick.

- This is going to open that storeroom door for me.

- Can you imagine us with a kid?

We won't tell, an old lady with a strip-tease artist.

- I wonder what's wrong with Louise.

She's been in her room of of the day.

- Uh, I guess she's going off her rocker.

Maybe we all are.

You still go for her, don't you?

She wants no part of you, but you still go for her.

- All I want is his key to open that storeroom door.

- You and me you said.

But it's her you're thinking of, you rotten liar.

- So I'm a liar.

- Any friend you had in the world was me.

Anyone who loved you was me!

You cheap hodge.

[dramatic music]

- That's for you, lover.

Now leave me alone.

[sobbing]

- Must have lost some of its density.

- Not enough, Rick.

We won't be able to go up there for two months.

We're running out of supplies.

A couple of weeks all we got left.

[growling]

Don't touch it.

- His feet.

Look at his feet.

- [Jim] The footprints by the water.

- Food!

They wouldn't give me any!

- Are there more of you up there?

- Stronger than me.

Much stronger.

- How many more?

- Not many, but strong.

Food!

- Won't be needing any food now, poor devil.

- Look at his head, the bone structure.

- The sketches you made at Matsuo.

- Look.

The same mutated skin the animals had.

He said there were stronger ones up there.

- Stage two, this one.

Stage three stronger.

Stage four, maybe invulnerable.

- What about stage one?

You didn't mention it.

- Radek is stage one.

[upbeat music]

- Looked like rain.

[donkey braying]

- Something's happened to Diablo!

- Come in!

- Hi.

Your father told me you weren't feeling too well.

Sorry.

- I'm feeling much better now.

- Good.

- Rick?

There's something out there.

You know that, don't you?

- We're just guessing.

We don't know.

- I do. - Hmm?

- He tries to talk to me.

Remember I told you at the lake I had a tingling sensation?

Like I was being charged with electricity.

My pulse was pounding and skipping beats

and then pounding again.

- You were just frightened, that's all.

It's been coming back ever so often.

Stronger and stronger.

You don't believe me, do you?

- I'm beginning to believe a lot of things

I never believed before.

- I'm glad you're here with me.

- You know, he's getting so fidgety, Ruby,

I can't do a thing for him.

You know, I'm getting out of here.

And soon, too.

- Pete, I need a drink.

- Well you've come to the right place.

There you are. - Thanks.

- Ruby, you're my friend

and half of that gold is yours.

This is a terrible place.

- Thanks for the poison, Pete.

- Won't hurt your mind.

You'd like a little of that snork, too, wouldn't you?

[radio whirring]

- Tony.

- You've been drinking Pete's Shellac again.

I can't stand a boozer.

We've had fights before, but we straightened them out.

Tony, you and me belong together.

We're poured out of the same mold.

- I wouldn't make book on that baby.

I'm turning in.

- You followed me the other night.

I saw you.

- You went over the ridge.

- [Radek] If you went up there, you'd die.

- I know.

What do you do up there?

- There's wonderful things happening.

- [Rick] What kind of things?

- Maybe I'll tell you sometime.

- Why not tell me now?

- I like it out there.

I don't like this house.

- Why do you come back here to sleep?

- I have an enemy.

He wants to kill me.

So I come here when I'm tired.

I will tell you something.

- What?

- In a little while all of you will be dead.

[chuckling]

You think I'm crazy don't you?

- I don't know.

[light music]

[dramatic music]

There's no doubt of it.

They're starting to come closer to the house.

- We'll stand night guard.

Both of us.

I'd use Tony, too, but I wouldn't put a gun in his hand.

I know his kind.

Spawn and builds water.

[radio whirring]

- You keep hoping, don't you?

- Well, we have to keep trying.

Who knows, somewhere, somehow, we might get something.

[upbeat music]

- Hey, Pete, the boat's rockin'.

Why don't I go on it?

When I come on, they'd start shouting and whistling.

And after a while, all you could hear was their breathing.

It used to scare me the way they breathe.

What's my roentgen count?

Read me daddy!

I was working the follies when I met Tony.

Remember?

At about here, I'd start peeling.

As I get near the wings,

they'd give me a blue spot.

And then I'd start to give them the clincher.

[clapping]

[sobbing]

- Excuse me, Rick.

I must have been dozing.

- I guess everything's alright.

Here, I'll take over, now.

[tense music]

Jim!

- What's the matter, Rick? - Diablo's gone.

- Gone?

Maybe he broke loose.

- No, he was untied from the tree.

- Was Radek in his bed when you came out?

- No.

Come on, let's go after him before it's too late.

- I don't think he'd come up here.

- Look, the body's gone.

- I wonder what happened to it.

- He was dragged down there.

Here!

Over here, quick!

- Radek ate him!

The scavenging ghoul.

- Might not have been Radek.

- It was him, alright.

We've got to find him, Rick.

When we do, I'm gonna kill him.

[howling]

- Diablo!

He's gone!

- What's the matter, Pete?

- My burro.

He's gone.

- Alright, pop.

I'll help you find him.

- I know he's dead.

There ain't no use of looking for him no more.

- We've come this far, Pop.

There's no sense of turning back now.

Come on this way.

[tense music]

[grunting]

- Come on, let's go. - There's no use.

- It ain't no use. - Oh, come on.

- Radek.

Look at his arm, Jim.

- Yeah.

What killed him, Rick?

- Three punctures.

Like steel daggers.

Must be in there somewhere.

I'm going after him.

- No, you'll be fighting on his ground.

- This thing has to be settled one way or another.

- Like three steel claws.

Defies understanding!

- Steel claws, Jim.

Like the surviving monkey on your animal boat.

- I knew.

I knew he was gone.

We should have stayed on the top of the mountain.

Where we belong.

- Come on, Pete.

Come on home.

We'll take care of it.

- Who killed Radek?

You?

Well, he had it comin' to him, he was crazy.

Look at his skin.

- I saw it.

- What happened to it?

- Let's call it atomic skin.

That's what radiation did to him.

- How about our skins?

Will that happen to us?

- It might.

We don't know yet.

- Tony.

Come on, take Pete home.

- What's the matter, kid?

- Didn't you hear it?

- Hear what?

I can't hear anything.

- I must have been dreaming.

- Yeah, go back to sleep, kid.

[tense music]

[radio whirring]

[eerie music]

- Hold it, Pete.

I'm coming after you.

- Go ahead, captain, if that's what you gotta do.

- Come back here.

You'll die in there.

You old fool!

[coughing]

- Jim.

What happened?

- Pete.

He went up on the ridge

after his fool's gold and I went after him.

- Into the vapor?

- Help me to the couch.

Louise is not to know, Rick.

- Right.

How long were you up there?

- Long enough.

I'm going to tell the others I hurt myself.

It'll explain my being in bed.

- Don't worry.

Maybe you've developed an immunity to it.

- Save your bedside manner, Rick.

[thunder rumbling]

- I should have gone with Pete.

At least he got somewhere.

- Well, if it rains now, we'll all be joining him.

- Rick, you've been on the level with me.

I want to know the truth.

- About what?

- Look at it, look at that skin!

- What's the matter with it?

- It's getting like Radek's.

- Oh, no, it isn't.

- You're lying, Rick.

It's happening.

- Feeling better, Dad?

- Much better, honey.

You okay?

- I'm fine.

I'm just worried about you, that's all.

- I'll be alright, baby.

- Where's Rick?

- Outside looking around.

- I think I'll go outside and look for him.

- Someone took one of the knives out of the kitchen.

- You don't say.

I think I'll go out for some air.

- Let me go with you.

- You stay here.

I'll see you later.

- Oh, I hate this place.

I wish we'd never found it.

Look.

Look what's happening to my skin!

- I looked at it 10 times already.

There's nothing wrong with it.

- Scream and I'll cut.

I mean it.

Now move that way.

[tense music]

Sit down, Louise.

Nothing ever comes easy to me.

All my life I had the claw for things.

- What do you want?

- You mean you don't know?

There's something new in my life.

I haven't had time for your kind of woman.

- Don't touch me, I can't stand you!

- Ah, you won't hate me when it's just the two of us.

Be no point to it.

Get what I mean?

Come here. - Leave me alone!

- Tony!

Let the little girl go.

- Get out of here!

- Run along honey.

I've got a few private words with Mr. Heel.

- You don't know when you're through, do you?

- The two of us, you said.

But you meant her!

- Yeah, that's right.

Now you know!

You're dime store stuff!

You're cheap!

Didn't know what that meant till just now.

- I hate your guts, Tony.

You're dirt!

Should wish yourself dead, first.

Oh, Tony.

What are we fighting about?

We're like a couple of kids!

- I want no part of you.

Face it!

[dramatic music]

- Happy landing, sweetheart.

Ruby wouldn't come back with me.

We had this little beef, so she stayed outside to cool off.

She'll be back when she's good and ready.

- I have a little something to settle with you myself.

- Tomorrow maybe, I'm tired right now.

Okay, so you can beat me up!

What does that solve?

- You go near Louise again and I'll...

- Kill me.

You? [laughs]

I haven't had a good laugh all day.

I think I'll turn in now.

- He'll kill you, Rick.

Get him first now.

Take my gun.

- Just sneak up on Tony and empty your gun into him.

I thought you knew me better than that.

- There's a lot at stake.

At least carry a gun on you.

Here, get one out of the storeroom.

Be ready to use it.

[radio whirring]

- Nothing, huh?

Reminds me of a song.

10 Little Indians.

Gonna get knocked off one at a time.

That's the way it is with us.

Four of us left.

Then...

⪠Three little, two little, no little Indians âª

How long do you think before a guy can go up there?

- I don't know.

- Something to see what's left of New York or Chicago.

Just thought I'd be a good idea.

- Try that again and I'll kill you.

- Sure, captain.

I know when I've had it.

[dramatic music]

- Rick!

Rick!

- What's the matter?

- In there. - What is it?

- It called to me.

- Oh, now, stop that.

- Don't leave me alone!

Take me home!

- Any idea what it looked like?

- I didn't see it clearly, but I heard it.

- It was only 20 feet from me.

I didn't hear anything.

- Take me home!

Just take me home!

- All right.

- [Jim] How is she, Rick?

- She's still pretty badly shaken.

I gave her a sedative.

Hope it works.

- Did you find out anything else?

- She insists that it called to her.

- What about its appearance?

- Only that its skin was like Radek's and--

- Yeah, go on.

- It had more than two eyes.

- Sketches of the monkey at Matsuo.

- Jim, did that monkey grow any in size?

- [Jim] No, it didn't.

- Louise says that this thing is man-size.

That it's man, not animal.

How can we fight it Jim?

How can we kill it?

- You're the one who said we'd find an answer.

- It lives on contaminated flesh.

It thrives on contaminated air.

- And killed men nourish it.

- Things that kill men nourish it.

- [Jim] Keep driving it.

- Jim, to kill it we've got to understand it.

And we know it has fears.

It was close enough to Louise to attack her, but didn't.

It wouldn't follow her into the lake.

Why?

[thunder rumbling]

- Sounds like rain out there.

[eerie music]

[creepy music]

[intense music]

- Louise?

Louise!

Rick!

Rick!

- What's the matter, Jim? - See if Louise is alright.

[knocking]

- She's not in there.

- It's got her.

You know how to use an M1 rifle?

Get one out of the storeroom, it's all set to use.

- What's all the noise?

- It's got her.

Go with Rick, Tony.

Have her between the two of you.

- Oh, no,

She's Rick's, remember?

You gave her to him.

Now there's your chance to be Mr. all-American hero.

- Rick!

Come close.

You won't need the pistol, slip it under my pillow.

Rick!

If there's no other way out,

use that gun on Louise.

- Louise!

[creepy music]

- It's dawn already.

Well, captain.

Looks like you're ship's falling apart, don't it?

- You've been no help.

You didn't look for Ruby.

You didn't help Rick find Louise.

You're a low scum.

- I'm a coward.

I only fight when I have to, and on my conditions.

One of them is that I know what I'm fighting.

That's better, captain.

There are two men and one gun.

I'd like to have it.

[dramatic music]

- Rick!

[radio whirring]

[speaking in foreign language]

- A voice came over.

- No it's nothing. - You're a liar.

- Dying man shouldn't lie.

You think I don't know you went after Pete?

- That's why you're so brave.

That's why you're moving in.

- Moving in?

I'm taking over.

The works.

The house, Louise, if she gets back.

I'd make a better father for her kids than Rick would.

They'll be tough!

Looks like rain.

Still think we'll polish this off?

- You'll know soon enough.

[dramatic music]

- Rick!

Rick!

[gun banging]

The water!

He's afraid of the water!

[thunder rumbling]

- Get back to the house, Louise.

I'm going after him.

- Rick!

- There's your rain, but good.

How long do you think we've got to live, captain?

- Give me a sample and I'll test it.

- All that action out there,

and a lousy rain's gotta finish us off.

- Get me my Geiger counter.

It's clear.

It's just rain water.

- Well, what do you know?

- It's always two digits.

The lake.

It was afraid of the lake.

- What was afraid of the lake?

[dramatic music]

[thunder crashing]

- I can't hear it anymore.

- Hear what?

- The noise.

I'm free of him.

He tried to speak to me before.

He called me by name.

- Come on, let's go.

You're soaking wet.

- Rick, what killed him?

- We'll talk about him later.

- I feel so sorry for him.

Strange I feel that way.

- Come on, let's go.

I'll let your father know we're okay.

[gun banging]

- They must be signaling they're okay.

- Go out and see.

- I can see them from the window when they come.

That's it, alright.

They're getting closer.

- [Jim] What are you doing with that gun?

- I'm gonna kill Rick.

- In God's name, why?

- Thought you knew why.

I want Louise.

I think I see them now.

Yeah, it's going to be a tough shot.

And she's hanging all over him.

- Get away from that window!

- Shut up!

Pretty soon now.

[gun banging]

- He was gonna kill Rick.

I had to stop him.

- That thing out there is dead, Jim.

The rain killed it.

- I took a test of the rain.

Found it free from contamination.

Kept praying but I stopped worrying.

I remember the animals on my ship.

How they wouldn't touch food or water.

I knew why.

That thing was created to live in a poisoned world.

The rain came and it was pure.

- Man created it, but God destroyed it.

He brought the rain and fresh air.

If he couldn't live

then neither could the others of his kind.

- There was a voice on the radio, while you were gone.

There are others out there.

There's a future out there.

For you two.

You've got to go and find it.

[sobbing]

[dramatic music]

- [Rick] Are you about ready, Louise?

- Coming.

[bright music]